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Well on later tiers they mention the early version of the game being available on Steam (period, no mention of a DRM free download). As I understand (and may be mistaken) The Cave was a Steam exclusive, so I am holding off until they explicitly explain that they are not going to pull a Shadowrun Returns.

Many people will agrree with you on the Dune books. Honestly, I wouldn't mind only having read the original book and not having read any of the rest. I think I mentioned it before somewhere, his son's books are the reason I have decided that should I ever become a famous author and have kids, in my will I'll forbid them from continuing my legacy "Old Man's War" is enjoyable for people who like that kind of books, but "Agent to the Stars" is by far John Scalzi's best book and very much unlike that series - so you may still like it. Let's face it, we just aren't the target audience for "Hunger Games". We are too old and too male. It's aimed at teenage girls. I didn't really think you'd enjoy Haldeman. From what I understand his political views are very much not aligned with yours. Either way, stay clear from books 2 and 3 in the Forever War trilogy. I think Heinlein may be much more your thing. That collection you ordered you can't realy go wrong with. Do let me know what you think of the books (especially And Now Wait For Last Year, as I really enjoyed that). I have no offline friends at the moment who read this author :/ edit: anyway, anyone want to be friends on Goodreads?

That's why I suggested him to you Though I haven't read that one. What Scifi had you been reading up until now?

Babaganoosh13, do me a favour? Don't put in links that take us directly to a payment option? Clicked the first of your links suddenly I was halfway through the process of backing the project...

Love the video. But as others said, gameplay has me worried.

Finished playing the Skyward Collapse demo. I think I'll probably buy the game. It seems that it can get quite interesting and tricky at later stages.

And now, forever I will read your posts as if they were said by Omar Little. Back on topic: Played some more Skyward Collapse. The greeks had a nigh invincible unit due to magic artifacts which was going through the norse towns like Morrigan through disaproval points. Finally managed to get Ullr to strike the unit down and give the norse some respite, then a rogue chimera came rushing at the norse. No rest for the wicked I guess. I summoned an elf to take out the chimera. Then the Upheaval happened. The earth came alive raising mountains where there were none. The chimera survived, the elf died in the confusion... With the tiny norse village behind vast mountain ranges now, the chimera will have a feast. Still, not all is bad. As I was prepared for it, the Upheaval did more good than damage.

What are you looking for in Sci-Fi? I loved Philip K. ****'s "Now wait for last year" for the human relationship parts, John Scalzi's "Agent to the Stars" for the light hearted humour, Samuel R. Delany's "Babel-17" for his perception of the importance of langauge. I am ambivalent about Kim Stanley Robinson's "Red Mars" series - it could be great, but his compulsion to add random orgies ruins the flow... a bit like a bioware RPG And the short stories "The Martians" break the timeline and story the same way prequel series do for most books/comics/tv Possibly why Ben Bova's "Mars" while less memorable to me, also left me with no hard feelings towards the story... Then again Frank Herbet's "Dune" is always worth a read through for people who haven't read it. Even if it's just to then read "A song of ice and fire" and shake your head at suddenly apparent similarities If it is military sci-fi you are looking for there are always the classics: "Starship Troopers" and its theories on what responisbility means for a society. "The Forever War" aproaching military sci-fi from the opposit political spectrum "Ender's Game" and for newer military sci-fi, less deep and more light reading, John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" is not bad either. But Sci-Fi is a very vast genre, that encompasses very different types of books. Which can make it hard to find the style that suits you. I for example am mostly bored by aliens with lazorz ~pew pew.

If you don't mind a Deirdre cheesing with Green Wave tactics?

To be fair, I did two palythroughs of Civ V. I gave up on XCOM... Its just that with AC I did a playthrough as the Gaians. Then I did one as the Spartans. When I finished htat I did one as the Morganites. After that I returned toa few playthroughs as the Gaians. Then I played as University... See where I am going ?

And all that just so you can then play a game that's boring compared to AC :/

And now for something completly different. I have been trying the demo of Skyward Collapse. I'll post screenshots of the intro below: yes those are ingame screenshots

Ah so we are finally turning silly? Awesome, I have been holding back for too long: A long long time ago I can still remember how PC Gaming used to make me smile And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those pixels dance And maybe I'd be happy for a while...

Meh, I get enough boring fantasy in CO That's why I always return to characters a bit more unique: Like Cowbot, "Moo stranger." But that's it for CO screenshots from me (until I take a good one of Gingerbread) so,*wavies* For the next post I already have something special planned

Why are all those people in the fireworks screenshot looking exactly the same? Or nearly the same (the women wear different boots at least) ?

A small break from the graphically advanced games: Jump Run! Seriously?

Fantastic argument you have there "I could say, but since you wont be able to guess what I would say if I said it, I don't need to say it and will just say that I know something you don't" But maybe there is a reason you don't want to name them? Maybe its something too embarassing to post... *wanders off to search the internet* Didn't find a good candidate. My search-fu failed me because of the language barrier. There seem to be some strange japanese PC only publishers you could be refering to? But I'll bite: Exclusive PC publishers... NCSoft, Paradox, Kalypso, PerfectWorld. I take it Bohemia Interactive is too small? Meridian4 has 89 titles in their catalogue on PC and 5 on mobile. Focus Home Interactive has mostly PC games with only a few that allow for console also getting a consol version. 1C Company has eight upcomming PC titles and one of them will also be released to XBOX360. Does PopCap release on console? But you are basically only interested in AAA titles, so many PC exclusives don't count. Does the Total War series count as AAA even though its not MMOs?

Playing some Defiance. But kinda annoyed at the computer trying to remind em to do PVP and group stuff in big, bold orange letters... during cut-scenes... Other than that working on some achievements in Anno 2070. Started Sleeping Dogs, but the gameplay isn't for me really.

Nowadays the game would be praised for its claustrophobic atmosphere

That brings back memories...

Its the second game I pledged that is comming out. But the first rpg I pledged.

Yeah. That's how I felt. Well they went from base builder RTS to squad control, like a 40k game is supposed to be like. Understandable change imo. It's understandable to make a game like that. What is not 100% understandable is why take a franchise and change it's nature. DoW had had three expansions at that time, creating a very clear image of what DoW was. Then with DoW2 they changed that drastically, to an extent where people who loved the original ran the danger of not just liking it best, but actually hating it. And what a 40k game truly is supposed to be like is turn based, on a tabletop with painted miniatures

Yeah. That's how I felt.

Is that some kind of euphemism? As direct and blunt as it is, I don't think Saints Row 3 is realy into euphemisms. Unless it is to tease Pierce Finlly finished everything in the Saintsbook...

Squad based I prefered Chaos Gate. Didn't really like DoW2. Found it extremly boring. Much prefered the original DoW.