Quoting: ExpalphalogInteresting. Thank you.

Not sure if this is a game for me or not. I love pen and paper RPGs, and I love in-depth character creation. But, on the other hand, I prefer games like Baldur's Gate or Arcanum, over games like the old Might & Magic series and it sounds like this might be closer to the latter.

I can't really speak for the remake, but the originals are definitely more Baldur's Gate or Arcanum level than Might & Magic. I remember playing either 2 or 3 of M&M on the Sega Genesis and it got absolutely ridiculous. Like a fountain where you could exchange gold for XP, and instantly level up to insane power levels.

I have found through my many years of playing RPGs (both computer and pen and paper) that there are two main styles of players/game masters. 1) the people who love a challenge and try to go for a bit more realism and don't really like over powered play. 2) the ones who insist on being over powered so they never get a real challenge, and can brute force their way through everything.

My play style has always been the first, and am rather annoyed by the min/maxer people and their tendency to want overpowered items etc, so that Might & Magic game completely got ruined for me after that. Kind of like the one D&D session I played with a group where they had long time characters that'd hit 40th level (even though in 2nd edition D&D that was almost impossible, especially for non-human races) and they said they'd crushed Strahd in Ravenloft, and defeated several gods, etc... Whereas I'm the type of DM that would have made the characters retire at 20th, and just turned them into NPCs. There isn't any challenge once you hit about that level....

Good times! Actually one of the reasons I switched over to GURPS and refuse to play D&D anymore, that and the later editions are sort of terrible...

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Wasn't it called that because the campaign setting is called Arkania? http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/dark-eye-das-schwarze-auge-universe

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I wonder if the delay is at the behest of Paradox wanting the game to be more stable? They definitely have a reputation for awesome strategy games. To be fair this is the first TRUE (commercial) Battletech game. There was a very basic one that was free if I recall, but all the other games were Mechwarrior ones (same universe, but the RPG version basically). As far as I know this is the first one that is a fully tactical version of the board game.

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Quoting: ExpalphalogNever played, or even heard of, the original series. What is a "hardcore rpg?" What sort of games would you compare it to? The trailer doesn't give much indication of what the game really is.

Well, it is based on a pen and paper RPG. Dungeons and Dragons for wxample has a lot of various rules and rule books. I am not sure idlf the Survulival guide is still a thing in the newer editions, but in the first AD&D, it covered rules like freezing to death, starving, dehydration, etc. This all happens in these games.

Probably the only other game I have seen as vicious is Deus (the sequel to Robinson's Requiem, not to be confused with Deus Ex). You would fall down a little pit in that game and break your ankle or leg, then as you were trying to limp away, a native would stab you with a spear and you would bleed to death.

Any other RPG can have huge amounts of skills and classes, but I wouldn't call them hardcore until you can catch a disease and die, or the elements are as big an enemy as monsters hiding in caves.

I once tried such a campaign (in GURPS) with all the ration tracking, and terrible fighting conditions. It made an already brutal game even more amazing!

This makes me happy they finally released the sequel. I bought a bundle of Drakensang games in a box a while back, though they are all Windows and I still haven't tried them yet. The Dark Eye is the Pen and Paper RPG that it is based upon.

Weird fact. The game Sacred was supposed to be Realms of Arkania 4, but by the time they were able to get far enough along into development, they lost the license to release it as such.

Much like Sacred, the first release of the remake of this game was apparently very buggy, but from what I read in the forums they patched the hell out of it so it is playable now.

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Quoting: operaTDP of 345 Watts is just insane.

Good god, isn't the idea of new tech to take less power, but be more powerful?

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Quoting: GuestI'm really liking it (no surprise, I played the beta too completion, and liked it too). No issue with hordes. Note that you don't have to fight them, fleeing is sometimes the best option, and is in fact required in a few places where the hordes will keep on spawning. I also love the sound of the Eschaton language they created specifically for this game: http://steamcommunity.com/app/535480/discussions/0/1471966894883586979/

Finally, I run into some issues with my mouse, so if you have troubles with the map or the camera behavior feels weird, take a look at this thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/535480/discussions/0/1471966894871340918/?tscn=1501488822

Yeah, the two issues I have with the game is my Roccat Tyon likes to make the map move because the game detects it as a game controller, so I end up unplugging it when I play the game. And in the game pad mappings, they missed the Heavy Attack button to be mapped to the right bumper. On both accounts, having a Steam controller certainly helped.

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My only complaint about it is that it feels like a grind. Now that probably is due to me being not so great at it, or the fact that it is free roam and you can collect and die to purchase upgrades. But when it gets to the point that you get killed in one hit by a boss, you have no choice but to grind to upgrade your health/armor/shield.

Something like Bloodbourne gets to the point where you can't buy anymore upgrades if you are unable to get past a boss. This sort of does, but it is a really high barrier.

I do keep dying with the yellow bat dude, hate that thing, but I am pretty sure once I geind enough that I can get the ability to attack their shots, I will be able to live through it.

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Quoting: MetallinatusOn the subject of Metroidvanias, I recommend Demon Peak to anyone who likes such games. The game had to launch before completion for some reason and was broken on both Linux and Windows, but the devs wasted no time to fix the issues and it is completely playable now. Very fun Metroidvania.

Been on a kick for these games, and since Sundered is kicking my butt, I bought Demon Peak.

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Quoting: kfI'm probably gonna pick up a few copies and gift them to some friends, since the developers were so cool about the whole thing.

So how does that work for 'these were bought for Linux users' if not all of the people you gift it to use Linux? I'm not saying that isn't the case for you, but just in general.

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I can't seem to find it now, but at one point in time I had seen that there was supposedly a law that Microsoft lobbied for that stated a computer could not be sold without an operating system installed. Some companies got around that by installing FreeDOS on the computers they sold.

Can anyone confirm that, it may have just been something I read that was anti-MS at the time, sounded like something they would do, like jacking up the OEM price if companies tried to sell computers with BeOS.

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