Oh, it’s a fucking great game, that brings a lot of new ideas to the deck builder genre. I just don’t feel that comparing it to X-Com is a very strong comparison.
Just wanted to say that when I played Midnight Suns during its brief free period, I really enjoyed it. Not enough to buy it, but it certainly didn’t suck.
I’m waiting for a major sale, or for it to show up on Game Pass.
I played Midnight Suns in its free period and thought it was kinda meh, but then I got the legendary edition with all the DLCs as a gift for my PS5 and I’m having a real blast with it, the later unlockable stuff like card modding really add to the depth
This one is free all the time, because I got it from an abandon-ware site, but I’m excited to play The Movies once again. I had the whole suite of discs back in the day and I came up with some pretty cool films. I just downloaded it and I haven’t extracted it yet, so I’m not entirely sure if I’ve got myself a working copy, but I thought I’d mention it for the old timers, relatively speaking (I think it came out in like 2005).
4X strategy game Warhammer 40K: Gladius - Relics of War is currently free on Steam
I’ve got Fallout: New vegas on steam, but maybe the ultimate edition offered on Epic will give me a little more…
Now that’s a winner.
Love me some WH40K.
They are both the same. Ultimate Edition on both platforms is Fallout New Vegas (base game), the four main DLC (Honest Hearts, Dead Money, Old World Blues, and Lonesome Road), and the two add-ons (Courier’s Stash and Gun Runner’s Arsenal).
The New Vegas Script Extender (NVSE), which is a mod that adds various scripting functions, does not work with the Epic version of Fallout New Vegas. It only works with the Steam and GOG versions. NVSE isn’t required for the game, and isn’t really a “mod” by itself. It adds extra functions that other mods use, so it is required by many other popular mods. If you don’t plan on modding your game then it doesn’t really matter. But if you do plan on modding your game, the lack of NVSE support could be an issue, depending on which mods you want to use.
did it deliver anything it promised it would/could do? I remember Molyneux and Lionshead hyped it to high heaven only for Activision dump it months after release saying they had been had and I think ended up suing Lionshead over it
I really enjoyed it as a creative tool. The game itself is kind of goofy, but fun, building the studio, dealing with actors, that kind of stuff, but as a sandbox movie maker, it was pretty robust if you had the chops. I really only had half-chops, but back in the day there were some pretty impressive results.
That is bizarre. Why doens’t it work with the Epic version? Mods are a big part of any Bethesda game. It was Morrowind that I think I had my first experience downloading mods from, most likely, that Nexus website.
Note: I’m counting New Vegas as a Bethesda game even though Obsidian made it.
NVSE isn’t a normal mod. Instead it hacks into the game’s scripting engine, so it has to be modified for every different FNV executable. I don’t know why they only support the Steam and GOG versions. Maybe the NVSE authors only have those two versions? Or maybe no one has taken the time to figure out how to hack into the other versions?
FOSE (Fallout Script Extender, for Fallout 3) and SKSE (Skyrim Script Extender) have similar issues in that they only support certain versions of the game. Keep in mind that these are all user-created. FOSE, NVSE, and SKSE were not created by Bethesda.
Free train sim (But not THE Train Simulator) on Steam until June 2nd. Mixed reviews but they’re almost all from today and half of them are meme garbage so who knows. I just post 'em
I just got Railway Empire 2 which released yesterday. NOT free at all. But I have always loved railroad games since Railroad Tycoon.
My issue with the rail sims is the endless DLC and the cost of those. Sure you can get the base game free but all the DLC can cost thousands of dollars (not kidding…literally thousands…Train Simulator 2020 DLC costs over $10,000…kidjanot). And the base game always seems a bit…meh. A game built to run on 15 year old hardware.
You would probably enjoy Transport Fever 2. Same basic “tycoon” style game with trains, planes, trucks, and boats through the past couple hundred years.
It’s not free, but I’ve been playing it on the Gamepass, which I’ve found generally excellent value. But not for this thread.
I’ve got Railway Empire (I) as one of my eternal attempts to fill an addiction hole which was formed by Railway Tycoon 2, which I loved and played for months.
Unfortunately, track laying was an absolute nightmare and I just spent days trying to lay double track between three cities and trying to make it work, and never ever getting it right. I abandoned it. They never seemed to get the easy interface that Railway Tycoon 2 had. I’ve got RC2 as well, even 3, but seem just too old for me now.
GOG has Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40K for free for the next 21 hours or so. Link is to the game page so you can see what it is. Claim via the banner on the main site page with the usual newsletter signup yadda yadda if you’re not signed up already.
thanks i just got it with 2 hours left