I can only imagine what my young self in 1996 would have thought if I saw this back then.

and the characters/families/events

I actually haven’t heard about this.

I don’t mind the late game micro and giant list of task assignments. I play late game Civ as a management game.

What do you like about Old World compared to other historical 4X games.

Tot his day I still play Civ IV / V (and their extensive library of mods, with my favourite being the Dune total conversion for Civ IV).

Good luck! I am pretty busy right now, so don’t think I will be playing any games, but never say never!

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So back when I first played Majesty as a kid, I actually looked up a guide for the some of the end game scenarios. I was able to clear all the “advanced” scenarios and some of the expert scenarios, but I was making seemingly zero progress on several of the expert campaign maps.

This was with knowing the game mechanics and “OP” approaches relatively well. The game does have a more exploratory approach to balance that isn’t immediately clear and is mandatory for harder maps.

The approach to beating some of the expert maps was extremely convoluted. Basically a fully structured build order and a lot of luck on top. I am not sure how the author of the guide even discovered the solutions. For most of the expert campaign maps that was I stuck with, I wasn’t able to find alternative approaches. Even to this day I am curious if there are viable alternative approaches.

I also agree that there is a lot of variety and fun to the scenarios. They are very different and a spin to the core gameplay formula (much more so than many classical RTSs from that period).

It really does flip the script on the standard RTS formula and allows for a completely different play-style than most RTS games.

But to be fair, many of the mid to late game campaign maps do require extensive micromanagement.

It’s still very playable even today. The HD version has support for modern resolutions and modding (the scene is relatively active for a somewhat niche game from 2000).

While I actually do speak Ukrainian (I live Ukraine), this unfortunately hits rule 3 as most people on this community don’t speak Ukrainian.

Sure, but they tend to be low-end mini PCs with older CPUs, very weak iGPUs, a tiny SSD and something along the line of 8 GB RAM.

I really enjoyed the world building in Cloudpunk!

I am assuming Cloudpunk performed above their expectations and they are using this money to try and build out Nivalis. I do agree that fully interactive lifesim open world (with greatly improved graphics, I personally prefer the blocky voxel style of Cloudpunk) is a massive undertaking.

If they pull it off, I will speculate they’ll have runway success.

I loved Cloudpunk and its world. I would often just spend the time exploring different neighbourhoods and checking out the architecture and design (didn’t finish the DLC though because of the mandatory racing parts).

I am really looking forward to Navalis. The lifesim/management game spin on the world of Cloudpunk is perfect!

I can strongly recommend Majesty, it’s been updated to support modern resolutions and modding. The in-direct control model is still relatively novel and satisfying, even a quarter of as century later (the original Majesty was released in 2000).

I’ve been meaning to give the spiritual successor, Lessaria, a try. It has good reviews and the first impression video that I watched made it seem compelling. It does seem to lack a sandbox mode, this was critical for making the original Majesty a “game for all time”.

That’s not the end of the world.

I am a huge supporter of FOSS, whenever possible I use FOSS applications on both desktop and mobile. But indie games is actually one area where it would make sense to have proprietary engine and art (albeit maybe for a period of say 10 years for the engine and a somewhat longer period for art).

Bloodborne is the only truly great one really

Got to disagree on this.

Call of Cthulhu (2018) is pretty good, both thematically and in terms of gameplay. The Sinking City is also well regarded, but I have yet to play it. Dredge is also clearly inspired by Cosmic Horror and while it has its flaws from both a narrative and gameplay perspective, I really enjoyed it.

By definition, a competitive fee/rate is controlled by the market, not by a single entity that set a rate ~20+ years ago.

This is not matter of punishing anyone, but recognizing reality; massive network effects, immense switching costs and lack of market driven rate setting.

I am honestly a little bit in shock how people are willing to do volunteer PR for Valve.

They are an American technology, they can’t escape the culture of corruption and criminality that dominates their region.

That’s true. I’ve gotten pushback for criticizing Valve and there is a lot to criticize.

They might be better in some way than other US tech companies, but that’s doesn’t mean much.

Not everyone has loyalty to Valve or any company.

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Are you sure about that? Here is Cities in Motion (2011) for comparison: