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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1892480689/insomnia-an-rpg-set-in-a-brutal-dieselpunk-univers

 

I excite. You too?

 

Am thinking of backing this at a high tier.

 

Their budget seem bit small for project that has over 18 members on it and is scheduled to take over year. Although they say that they put their own money towards project, but still I am bit skeptical that their budget is enough.

 

Otherwise project looks quite awesome.

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I'm guessing they're looking to engage parts of their team full-time for a period, or something like that, to get some of the heavy grinding done. Or they're doing something else to pay the bills at the same time, I guess.. ..man, their crazy weird updates are creepy. Don't say anything about what they want to use their budget on, though.

 

Meanwhile, Shallow Space seems to be shaping up.

 

Shallow Space is the ..spiritual successor to Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. Unfortunately, it's not based on the "Black Sun" tech engine that Nexus was. HD Interactive doesn't really exist any more. And that tech-demo we've been drooling over for the last 8 years basically is lost forever. So it's taken them some time to get the game up to a level where it actually looks good enough to show any promise at all. And I think it was wise to relaunch it as "Shallow Space". 

 

It still isn't as brilliant as what that nexus 2 trailer demonstrated. They're lacking the light distortion effects from beams and background objects through displacement shields. And light washing over the scene as the sun comes up behind a planet. The rotating objects in far view-distance that don't pop in as they change from static to dynamic objects, that sort of thing. Same with capital ships having their detail generated depending on how close to the viewpoint it was - another very obvious obstacle to making space sim games work.. It is an unreal engine game, and there are certain limitations to it because of that. But it's starting to look impressive by the normal "AAA" standard now. So it will be interesting to see where they'll end up.

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Definitely need a new name for that game, Shallow Space, sheesh.  Also in the vein of oddly named games

 

http://www.wingsofstnazaire.com/  - space shooter like X-Wing/WC/FS

 

Alpha is available to play.

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Definitely need a new name for that game, Shallow Space, sheesh. 

Haha. I think "Shallow Space" is what the nearby space sectors become when they're overpopulated or something. Still - better than Nexus: The Jupiter Incident.

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I don't know that sounded mysterious and was relevant to the story, as it was.

 

EA on Sims 4 not having pools  - http://www.thesims.com/news/whats-out-and-whats-in

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I don't know that sounded mysterious and was relevant to the story, as it was.

 

EA on Sims 4 not having pools  - http://www.thesims.com/news/whats-out-and-whats-in

 

I am not sure if I understand correctly, and I am not Sims fan, but what emotions have to do with pools? That explanation is fishy at best

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They strip down every new Sims game to it's bare bones so they can sell the stuff in expansions/DLC's, nothing new there.

 

Hey, it's the Sims, I doubt there is a greedier series in the industry.

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They strip down every new Sims game to it's bare bones so they can sell the stuff in expansions/DLC's, nothing new there.

 

Hey, it's the Sims, I doubt there is a greedier series in the industry.

 

I would say EA, not to blame SIMs alone

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I don't know that sounded mysterious and was relevant to the story, as it was.

 

EA on Sims 4 not having pools - http://www.thesims.com/news/whats-out-and-whats-in

I am not sure if I understand correctly, and I am not Sims fan, but what emotions have to do with pools? That explanation is fishy at best

People comparing it to EA's explaination on why SimCity had to be always online and couldn't have large cities. Largely bull, with a little bit of misdirection.

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Another good example is Civilisation, in civ 4 after 2 expansions we have espionage, religions etc. Then they introduce Civ5 and another 2 expansions which add religion and espionage. WTF? I was so disappointed when I bought it day 1 :(

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So, remember when during the Sony press conference at E3 they announced a remastered Grim Fandango for Sony platforms?  Well, Double Fine have now announced that it will be coming home to the Master Race (PC/Mac/Linux) also, simultaneously with the Playstation versions.

 

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So, remember when during the Sony press conference at E3 they announced a remastered Grim Fandango for Sony platforms?  Well, Double Fine have now announced that it will be coming home to the Master Race (PC/Mac/Linux) also, simultaneously with the Playstation versions.

 

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Would really have been stupid as hell releasing it only to playstation.

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I wonder what they will do to it to "modernize" it, heh.   Probably nothing more than a built-in hint system ?

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No gaming news, but you should watch this before making just another preorder after you complained about quality of the last game you bought :p

 

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Surprised Sony didn't insist on an exclusivity period, but good on 'em. (Looking at Twitter though, see no mention of release date)

 

Unless they are getting a chunk of it on all platforms?

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Took surprisingly long until someone else tries to jump on the Dark Souls train. At least thats what it looks like.

 

But the track record of the developers isn't very promising.. will still have a look when it comes out. 

 

I'll definitely be interested in how it turns out.  It looks promising, but I'm definitely not sold.  This was brought up in the comments section for a RPS article for this very game yesterday:  We need to come up with a term for the plethora of "Inspired by Dark Souls" and "Like Dark Souls But..." games flooding the market.  I vote for "Soul Less" or "Soulless"

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So, remember when during the Sony press conference at E3 they announced a remastered Grim Fandango for Sony platforms?  Well, Double Fine have now announced that it will be coming home to the Master Race (PC/Mac/Linux) also, simultaneously with the Playstation versions.

 

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So, remember when during the Sony press conference at E3 they announced a remastered Grim Fandango for Sony platforms?  Well, Double Fine have now announced that it will be coming home to the Master Race (PC/Mac/Linux) also, simultaneously with the Playstation versions.

 

Rejoice!

This tweet right after the announcement pretty much hinted at that. https://twitter.com/TimOfLegend/status/476179637987315714   So no surprised there.

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