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    Europa Barbarorum 2 alpha allegedly inbound

    OH BABY http://www.europabarbarorum.com/ http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?147889-Europa-Barbarorum-2-0-released%21
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    Europa Barbarorum 2 alpha allegedly inbound

    mark your calendars for thursday, August 2014: http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?147345-EB2-RELEASE-DATE-CONFIRMED-August-2014 Also, somebody posted an EB2 Rome AAR
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    just need to graduate then it'll be all codex all the time insha'allah

    just need to graduate then it'll be all codex all the time insha'allah
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    favorite/memorable quests?

    The Codex gold standard for the RPG Quest seems to be the branching double-double-crossing skillcheck-heavy investigation with a plenitude of ambiguous choices and horrifying consequences. But I can’t actually think of very many particularly interesting small-scale examples of the above. There...
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    Development Info Paradox Development Studios to Announce Two New Projects

    late antiquity and the early middle ages, fuckin yeah.
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    Is post-apocalyptic setting old&busted?

    The pipe gun was the best part of Fallout 2. Primitive firearms could work great in an action point turn-based rpg or tactics game as the slow, rare, unstealthy and expensive but powerful and long range counterpoint to a bow and arrow. A post apocalyptic setting like The Chrysalids or 16th/17th...
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    GOG.com

    Codex do your duty for the motherland and vote for Hammer & Sickle: http://af.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=sickle?as=1649904300
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    Game News Torment Kickstarter Update #26: Turn-Based Combat Wins

    The eye for an eye aspect of this with respect to Fallout 3 is more satisfying than I would have expected. Not even sure how much the battle lines overlap but damn if it doesn't feel good.
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    Europa Barbarorum 2 alpha allegedly inbound

    So after I bad mouthed the EB team in another thread for taking their sweet time on a sequel to their first mod, I made my biannual pilgrimage to the Europa Barbarorum forums to see if there was any news on Sweboz javelineer skin 4b. Lo and behold, they have apparently just announced that the...
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    Rome Total War II

    Well that's a damn shame, I wish CA a pleasant future making trashware. I actually think the developer-modder symbiosis that existed for strategy companies like CA and paradox was an ideal ecosystem for the genre, with developers releasing a fairly incomplete but solid and sellable framework and...
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    Rome Total War II

    How moddable is this game? Like can I expect to have some good total-revamp Europa Barbarorum-quality mods for this in a couple years when I have a computer that can run this? Obviously not from the EB team since they'll still be working on EB2 in a decade but maybe somebody with a little more...
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    Proper train-by-use skill system?

    Prelude to Darkness. Train-by-use can't really stand alone, it needs the equivalent of xp to support it.
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    The Elder Scrolls Online - gone B2P

    Well they've run out of provinces in Tamriel that can be medieval white people provinces, they got to think of something
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    Quest Structure: Proactive vs. Reactive

    The problem is the quest based model of presenting challenges to the player. Even with branching quests, you are never going to get any sort of "emergence", and very little feeling of proactivity. But your goal is not out of the reach of modern AI: I've argued before that strategy games have...
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    cRPG's you want most (that aren't being made)

    Dynamic factions as basis for game world, event-moderated balance between deterministic narrative and emergent narrative.

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