This game looks vaguely like the old Mac game, Balance of Power, but has more direct military confrontation.
Looks interesting. http://www.thecoldwarera.com/
Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?
Is it out?
It's Twilight Struggle as an RTS vs turn based, card driven game, "Space Race" track included.
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 PM
Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?
I can get you a review copy.
I was quite interested. They linked a review on their facebook page.
It wrote that it is quite rough at the edges and some of the stuff which happened was obscure, in other words it seemed to be suffering from the "small team did it" interface problems, but that is almost like a given in our hobby, so I wouldn't care.
The review also mentioned that a single game is timed to last for... an hour. I am afraid I'll pass.
Clumsey. Can't read the info on-scree. Too fast..
Quote from: LongBlade on May 13, 2013, 01:46:59 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 PM
Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?
I can get you a review copy.
I'll take it. May take some time before I can get to the review though. I'm working on StarDrive presently...
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 04:37:35 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on May 13, 2013, 01:46:59 PM
Quote from: Jarhead0331 on May 13, 2013, 12:31:42 PM
Hmmm...ok, who is going to take the plunge?
I can get you a review copy.
I'll take it. May take some time before I can get to the review though. I'm working on StarDrive presently...
Request sent.
There's no demo, is there?
I will watch this.
Seems like it is a server based game, even for single player. No offense to the company, but I would be afraid of their long term existence if it doesn't sell well...then you wouldn't be able to play your game.
I'm betting that Twilight Struggle is a much more polished, playtested and refined game and I'm anxiously awaiting the PC version of it to be released. I'd faint if the designer's of this game told me that they never heard of Twilight Struggle because from the short video with Ms. Pierced Eyebrow, it appears to be a very blatant rip-off to me.
I checked the vid for it out on Greenlight sometime in the past week.
Looked way too simple for my tastes. Maybe they didn't show everything but all I saw was a handful of the same few resource sliders available for each nation on a world map. Perhaps it's deeper than that but I didn't see it.
I can't wait for computer Twilight Struggle either. I need the practice. The only people I know who play it are super freaking good at it. In recent times I've witnessed two games that ended by turn #3 (I was the victim in one match). Fun game though.
Expect it must be very close to release.
Quote from: Rekim on May 13, 2013, 11:14:44 PM
I can't wait for computer Twilight Struggle either. I need the practice. The only people I know who play it are super freaking good at it. In recent times I've witnessed two games that ended by turn #3 (I was the victim in one match). Fun game though.
Expect it must be very close to release.
Is computer TS gonna have both single- and multi-player? It's not solely a browser-based game or something, is it?
I don't have much info on it. :o
Quote from: Nefaro on May 13, 2013, 11:29:18 PM
Is computer TS gonna have both single- and multi-player? It's not solely a browser-based game or something, is it?
I don't have much info on it. :o
The first digital version of Twilight Struggle will be for the PC, with ai and internet play. Digital download from GMT Games
http://www.gmtgames.com/p-397-twilight-struggle-digital-edition-windows-pc.aspx
I'll be surprised if this doesn't find it's way to other platforms. My first choice would be to have it on the pad.
Quote from: Rekim on May 13, 2013, 11:41:21 PM
The first digital version of Twilight Struggle will be for the PC, with ai and internet play. Digital download from GMT Games
http://www.gmtgames.com/p-397-twilight-struggle-digital-edition-windows-pc.aspx
I'll be surprised if this doesn't find it's way to other platforms. My first choice would be to have it on the pad.
Thanks!
Theyr taking such a long time to release TS.
Twilight Struggle would have been a day-one purchase for me had it made it out by the end of last year as expected. There has been no further word from GMT, and the last thing the development house had to say was that they were getting ready to go into beta. That was back in January.
I suspect there are all sorts of problems, which had turned this into a wait-and-see release.
Quote from: tgb on May 14, 2013, 09:21:23 AM
Twilight Struggle would have been a day-one purchase for me had it made it out by the end of last year as expected. There has been no further word from GMT, and the last thing the development house had to say was that they were getting ready to go into beta. That was back in January.
I suspect there are all sorts of problems, which had turned this into a wait-and-see release.
The last update on the developer website [http://rivermyst.com/] from March says they were starting the final round of beta testing, with only cosmetic tweaks remaining.
Quote from: Grim.Reaper on May 13, 2013, 08:03:18 PM
Seems like it is a server based game, even for single player. No offense to the company, but I would be afraid of their long term existence if it doesn't sell well...then you wouldn't be able to play your game.
My fear realized...looks like server issues already....granted other online providers sometimes have issues too, but small shops like this scare me.
http://www.alinadigital.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=122&sid=c35dc49169cab7f6e5da6fad7030d61b
Quote. New good server is something on our TOP priorities for donation goal
Translation: If we meet our stretch goal you may be able to play the game.
I just lost interest in the game. Haha.
I was able to log in to a game this morning. Once in, I quickly realized I had no idea what the hell was going on. I'm going to take a look at the manual.
Keep us posted because I definitely have my eye on this one.