Awesome! Now just give me Diablo 2, and I will be content for life.
The Original Postal Has Been Made Open Source
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#22This is completely off-topic, but in the vein of talking about old games. Does anyone have any suggestions for games that scratched the same itch as the old school RTS games like Age of Empires and Rise of Nations? I've been searching for years but never found anything that eclipses the classics.
Try Cossacks 3. It can simulate 10 000 units in one battle.
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#23This is completely off-topic, but in the vein of talking about old games. Does anyone have any suggestions for games that scratched the same itch as the old school RTS games like Age of Empires and Rise of Nations? I've been searching for years but never found anything that eclipses the classics.
It may be only tangentially related to the genre, but Factorio has stolen far too many of my hours and is definitely worth the $20. It is engaging and challenging like no other game I've played in the past couple of years.
Factorio is good, but drones are cheat.
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#24looking forward for a linux build!
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
It may be only tangentially related to the genre, but Factorio has stolen far too many of my hours and is definitely worth the $20. It is engaging and challenging like no other game I've played in the past couple of years.
Factorio is good, but drones are cheat.
The drones are only available after a certain tech level and require a lot of power to operate on a large scale. They have pros and cons like all the other tech. You need a balance of drones with well planned conveyer belt layouts to do really well. +1 for factorio, biggest non-baby timesink I've had in years
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#26I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of useful comments in the code.
I remember when the source code for Descent was released; not only was the code somewhat opaque (unless you were experienced with portal-style engines), but there were hardly any kind of comments to help guide you along.
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#27"the CDude class, which is the main, player-controlled character in the game."
"CDoofus is the class for the enemy guys [...] Started this file from from CDude and modified it to do some enemy logic using the same assets as the sample 2D guy."
"COstrich is the object for the ostriches wandering about in the game. class COstrich : public CDoofus"
Hilarious. Reminds me of CBruce in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: "Their code [...] originally written for Apocalypse[...] a Playstation game featuring Bruce Willis, which, we learned, is why in Tony Hawk the code for the classes of skaters is called CBruce."
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131563/postmortem_trey...
"Project: Nostril (aka Postal)"
Any idea what RSPiX Blue, Cyan, Green and Orange layers are?
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#28This is completely off-topic, but in the vein of talking about old games. Does anyone have any suggestions for games that scratched the same itch as the old school RTS games like Age of Empires and Rise of Nations? I've been searching for years but never found anything that eclipses the classics.
I recommend relatively obscure game Magic & Mayhem. Although not 100% strategy, it has controllable units and isometric view and that feel.
Also Majesty and Dungeon Keeper.
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#29This is completely off-topic, but in the vein of talking about old games. Does anyone have any suggestions for games that scratched the same itch as the old school RTS games like Age of Empires and Rise of Nations? I've been searching for years but never found anything that eclipses the classics.
Maybe try Planetary Annihilation: Titans?
The original Planetary Annihilation was developed by the people that made the classic Total Annihilation RTS. After delivering the Kickstarted game, they further revised it into the "Titans" verison, and gifted the upgrade to the initial backers.
Currently on sale for $6 on Steam too!
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#30Does the release include the original game assets, or do assets need to be purchased (like with Doom releases)?