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[Frak_the_2nd]

On 2/24/2025 at 5:04 PM, Wormerine said:

Uuuuuuu! Downloading it now. Hopefully it's better than the horrible thing they did a while back.

Gothic Remake makes sense to me - it is a very unique game that had a lot of ideas which stood test of time, but is also dated to the point that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Live with movies not all Remakes are bad, though they can be cashgrabs.

I have a soft spot for Piranha Bytes. They made unique games with progression that I liked, though the stories tended to be ... to weird for me. Elex was a good janky game, and I agree Elex 2 was a mess. Liked Risen, never did Gothic.

So I have hopes for this remake and hope it will get the same remake-acclaim that Resident Evil 4 did.

[Sven_]

Monster Hunter Wilds is the next game to break through the 1,000,000 concurrent player mark on Steam.

Every major publisher currently be like: Nonstop action+monsters is clearly THE way to go. "Guys, please make this project more like Diablo, er, MH Wilds, or else no funds!"


Warhorse+Larian+Owlcat like this.

Edited February 28 by Sven_

[melkathi]

Kotor 1&2 mobile versions are free in the epic mobile app. 

[HoonDing]

Good thing Capcom is not a major publisher.

[Lexx]

Can anyone remember that one cut companion of either PoE1 or PoE2 that Josh posted about a long time ago? It was a female soldier in plate armor with an arquebus. I forgot the name and was wondering if we ever found out more about this character. Always loved the concept art.

[Humanoid]

2 hours ago, Lexx said:

It was a female soldier in plate armor with an arquebus.

*Missing characters 12* Cadegund

Edited March 3 by Humanoid

[Lexx]

Nice. In hindsight now, Cadegund kinda reminds me of Xoti. Especially that hood with the hair sticking out in that concept art. And in my last playthrough, she was wearing a breastplate and I gave her the Thundercrack Pistol while keeping her lantern in the off-hand. I thought that was kinda fitting.

Edited March 3 by Lexx

[Amentep]

Old thread:

 

[Wormerine]

Hey another Styx. Happy to see it, I liked previews two games a lot, though if I remember it correctly the last one felt like it ended short.

 

[uuuhhii]

 

new age of wonder 4 dlc

elemental major transformation will finally be added

[HoonDing]

I like Triumph Studios. They're Dutch version of Larian, except that they never made it big.

[melkathi]

Meaning they also can't write a good story?

 

Seriously, Triumph's writing got worse with each game. It peaked in badness with Planetfall though, so I think they are a bit embarrassed that AoW4 has returned to AoW3 levels of writing.

 

AoW4 is shaping up to becoming a good game. It is a shame it needed so many DLC for it though.

 

 

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The News:

KCD2 releases on GOG on 28th March.

Edited Friday at 06:30 PM by melkathi

[HoonDing]

I never went beyond AoW 2.

[MrBrown]

Is there any reason to play the AoW games if you just auto-resolve the combat? Planetfall is the only one I played and I did that, and it was pretty boring.

[melkathi]

Not really. The combat is the series strong point. So if you don't enjoy it, skip the games entirely.

I mean, obviously you auto-resolve the sure fights that would just waste your time, but you should be playing the "fun" and "challenging" ones for the fun of it.

I find myself auto-resolving more in AoW4.