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[Akura]

Diplomacy is Not an Option is out of Early Access. An RTS not unlike the Stronghold series, or at least the older ones that were actually good.


Main complaint is that my units prioritize attacking enemy huts over their troops. Apparently there is some kind of target priority setting, I just haven't found it yet.

[Yoink]

Future Breach 64 seems like a classic in the making. Apparently it comes out on Halloween. The graphics are gorgeous and the tutorial made me laugh out loud - I kinda hope the full game has more dialogue in a similar vein.   

[Folly]

Just finished playing Dragon's Dogma 2.

Massive disappointment.
This is not a sequel, it's a remaster. Exact same story points, same locations, same enemies. It's the same game, with overhauled graphics and a bit of class rebalancing, but essentially the same game.

The graphics on low settings look absolutely terrible. Like way worse than the first game, and worse than any game I've played in the last 30 years. Turning up the graphics only barely looks decent, but forces TAA which causes everything to get blurry any time the camera moves, literally hurting my eyes from the strain. Also many people with high-end rigs have reported terrible performance even on medium settings. This game is honestly emblematic of all that can and too frequently does go wrong with modern graphics technology.

Throughout the game, more than half of the large bosses have been cut, greatly reducing the variety. In the endgame the popular Everfall has been cut, replaced with a bullshit time-attack mode that offers far less content. It's just a lot less game than what we got the first time, even before the DLC.

Lots of crashing, quests bugging out and becoming impossible to complete, strict keybinding limitations, sloppy conversion of console GUI to PC. Every part of this game is lacking.

And at the core, the balance just feels off. Like I get new skills and I'm eager to try them out, I go out and find some monsters, line up my attack, only to have a pawn 1-shot the enemy before my attack can land. And then that happens again, and again. I finally find a boss that will stay alive long enough to test my skills on, and the boss chains status attacks that keep me completely disabled for the entire fight. Find another boss and actually use my skills, then the boss flies away before I can finish the job, leaving me with no loot. The whole time playing this game was frustrating, and never fun.

I loved the first game, but this abomination has done nothing but smirch it's legacy.

[nenjin]

Glad I didn't run out to buy it. There were all the warning signs.

Maybe it will get a "remaster" edition.

Although TBH, every time I think about it, I think I didn't put enough time into the 1st game's end game content and should go back and play that instead.

[McTraveller]

Has anyone played The Last Starship? I keep looking for a good starship builder and keep getting disappointed.  I know it's limited to a single deck (I'd love multi-deck...) but otherwise how is it?  How abstract are the build systems?

My "dream game" would be building a multi-deck ship, with air, fluid, and power system mechanics like in Oxygen not Included where you get to route everything...