• ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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    26 days ago

    I bought it the very day it came out for no real reason and fell in love with it. Put about 500 hours in it before any updates happened. Played a little since then but those higher tier biomes are pretty brutal. Gonna wait until it’s 1.0 before jumping in again. Best $20 ever

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      26 days ago

      Same boat here my friend.

      1000+ hours, lots of intricate builds. Post Ashlands has been miserable.

      With all that, still the best $20 I’ve ever spent in 43 years of gaming.

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          26 days ago

          Or I could just play some sweet Master of Magic (DOS version)… a game so beloved it’s still getting actively modded some 30 years later!

          I have such a ridiculous backlog to play. Such guilt.

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            24 days ago

            I remember that game with the purple box. When I was 13 I worked in a computer store and remember thinking the box was pretty cool.

            I played it finally around 2010 but kind of bounced off since I had no idea what I was doing lol. I can see why it still has a following like HOMM

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              24 days ago

              It defined a genre. And had some pretty advanced concepts for the time (the first game I played with right-click help pop-ups).

              It’s still being worked on, mostly via Caster of Magic. The ‘reboot’ is OK, but a bit too slavish in copying the UI issues.