If by "ahead of its time" you mean "strangled by microtransaction bullshit," then I guess so

Definitely one of the best games ever. My friends and I are still jonesing hard for the Mistlands update. It's made some of my best gaming memories since Minecraft.

Ugh, I'm still regretting the money I spent on the base game. What a mediocre letdown. Now they want $15 more? Pass.

I was psyched until I saw actual gameplay in the video. Looks like molasses. Screams "made with porting to mobile in mind." Also Epic exclusive. Final nail in the coffin? Beamdog. Still bitter at them about the shitshow that was NWN Enhanced Edition.

Pity. Such a good idea squandered.

If I had to guess, it has nothing to do with sex. Probably more the cannibalism and drug use and the sewing corpses into fancy hats and furniture.

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Seems kind of a small selection, and as the last update was over a year ago, I'm guessing this is an abandoned project?

But without Richard Garriott on board, can there really be another Ultima?

OMD 1 was crazy fun, and OMD 2 was a really good co-op game. OMD:Unchained didn't really do it for me, but I'm hoping this is a return to form.

Cards - How the cards work is you build a loadout, which is a selection of cards from your deck, before each game. As each stage of the game begins, a card from your loadout is randomly played, and it affects the game going forward (and played cards persist the entire rest of the game, so over time their effects stack up). The card may be "your party has 10% bonus max health" or "Your character now self-heals by doing melee damage" and so on and so forth. It is supposed to add replayability by making each run through the same map have a random, different element. But by my experience in the closed beta, I didn't actually much care for it.

But yeah. I feel you on the pay 2 win. This sucks. Guess this game is a no-buy for me.

Take all the time you need... what I played in closed beta was not a game I'd buy, but not because of any technical issues. There's a whole lot of "trying something different just to be different" going on in this game (a tone you can feel by their insistence on calling zombies "ridden" instead of zombies or infected or any of the other standard terms) and not all of it works well. I hope they took a few concepts back to formula.

I can understand why they tried to have different types of ammo, but L4D got it right in making ammo ammo, because ammo management in an action game is not very fun for casuals.

I can understand why they wanted more control over the cinematic experience, but L4D got it right by giving everybody an unlimited use flashlight because most of us got over games being too dark to see by the time Doom 3 came out.

I can understand why they wanted to spice things up with progression and replayability, but not every game needs to have a deckbuilding with random card draws mechanic just because Slay the Spire was in vogue last year.

I've got a list like this that goes on a while, but you get the point.

Does DOA6 come with its umpteenhundred dollars worth of DLC?

Can confirm, as a die-hard vermintide fan - this update is crap. Costs twice as much as any previous DLC, only one new map (I was already kind of miffed that the Bogenhafen DLC only had TWO maps), raises the level cap to 35 but instead of adding another set of talents, it just takes away the level 30 talents and puts them back at 35, so it just increases the grind.

Throw in that it's buggy AF and has a whole lot of "rebalancing" that everybody hates, and all in all, this might be what kills the game, and maybe even the series.

Pirate Bay Exclusive, you say? Neat!

Ok, ok, I will work!
Can I have some shoes?
This hammer is heavy.
You change your mind often.

I'm so psyched. I love this game, I loved the first vermintide game, and I played the hell out of L4D and L4D2 - especially in versus mode.

I can't wait.

You hear that? That crumbling, cracking sound? That's kickstarter collapsing after all confidence in it being undermined by this.

RIP Crowdfunding.

I enjoy this greatly, I was in the beta. I just wish it had some of the more popular songs from the 80s and 90s. But it's still fun.

Now, Rami is coming off like a little bitch here, granted, and I'm a staunch anti-exclusives guy (and there's no such thing as a steam exclusive)... but I have to say this is probably the right way to phrase it to try to pressure Valve into the only possible positive outcome of this epic store nonsense - and that is, getting developers a larger share percentage of their sales revenue on Steam.

If that happens, it'll be good for everyone. Devs will get more money and all the me-too platforms like Epic and the Discord store will dry up as the devs flock back to the massive userbase on Steam, and us consumers won't have to keep 3-4 steam-alikes loaded in memory just to play our games.

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