Need to try this one. I really enjoyed Settlers 2 back in the day.

I tried playing it again recently. Normally, I am decent at dealing with older interfaces, but for some reason something bugged me about Settlers 2 on a high resolution monitor.

I've played the original, but not the DLCs.

It's a great game overall. Clearly reminiscent of Fallout 1/2 and to a lesser extent Arcanum.

Word of warning, this is a really hard game. I would recommend getting a build guide, it is really easy to mess up your build even if you have experience with older RPGs.

The combat is top notch and allows for different play styles that offers significant tactical variety. There is a lot of combat, but it is not a ARPG, far from it.

The world building is great. I was genuinely curious to learn about the world, its backstory and faction dynamics. It's a very atmospheric experience.

The writing is mediocre. A lot of the characters are more like cardboard cutouts and/or quest dispensers. The missions tend to be relatively similar.

You do have to enjoy old-school RPG, with cheesing tactics, min-maxing and brutal combat.

Cloud Emperium Games and Star Citizen.

They constantly lie about all sorts of matters (progress, release dates, financial matters, state of the company).

Many of their senior community managers are openly disrespectful to their backers.

The founder, Chris Roberts, put his unqualified wife as CMO (she openly admitted to not knowing how metrics worked or what is SEO), while coming up with a fake last name for her and warning employees to keep their mouths shut about the fact they were married.

Congrats! It's the small victories that keep us going! :)

Interesting. Yes, that is a bit more specific.

I personally do not support game design patents because that's not how gaming works (and people who file such game design patents know this).

What are the other two patents like if you don't mind me asking? Aiming in particular seems openly malicious (as do mounts to be honest).

From the translation of the claims, they appear to describe Pokémon-style activities, with ‘191 focused on the act of throwing a ball at characters in a field, ‘117 tied to aiming, and ‘390 on riding characters.

If this is indeed the case, the lawsuit is clearly illegitimate (in the real sense, can't speak for legal nuances). Not surprising.

Do you want to conduct an experiment to further our collective knowledge?

I promise to send you letters if you end up in the gulag.

Whatever the topic, it's best to avoid the opinions of videogame streamers/youtubers on matters outside of videogames.

I somehow doubt Hoyt has ever lived in Israel/Palestine, speaks Hebrew or Arabic or has ever read the Talmud, Bible or Quaran (even partially, but in a serious manner; one that provides some context on the "styling" of Abrahamic religious texts).

I haven't seen much of Hoyt's content, but the few clips I've seen seemed very low effort. If you can't even be bothered to make good content around videogames, you should definitely avoid narcissistic outbursts on serious matters.

The difference here is star citizen devs are well compensated and given time in lieu

How did you come to this conclusion? IIRC their salaries are below average.

They are not paying directly. As per the article you can get additional PTO days in the future, albeit only after Squadron 42 is released (whenever that's going to happen) and if you are still with the company.

A pretty sketchy approach.

The graphics from Simcity 4 (even Simcity 3000) hold up very well today.

I think it's the mixture of a high quality creative direction and immense detail.

Bt this point, it is reasonable to assume that Star Citizen is a self-enrichment scheme for the founder's, Chris Roberts, family.