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Posted June 01, 2015
Locked in a timeless conflict.

Massive Chalice, a kickstarter-born Double Fine strategy, is available 20% off, on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, DRM-free on GOG.com!

A 300 year war draws near, your people need a leader. Massive Chalice is a turn-based strategy game that spans hundreds of years and outlives generations of fighters. It's a desperate fight where every advantage matters, and a strong bloodline is the greatest one you'll get. No human is perfect, but with careful planning you can breed and design the perfect army which complements itself like sophisticated puzzle. Family matters, so take good care of a young generation and they'll reward you with their lives - through valiant fight their weapons will become Bloodline Relics to be passed on to aid their children in the struggle. Massive Chalice requires you to plan for years and years ahead, as the Immortal Ruler of a nation locked in epic conflict.

As an added bonus, you can pick up the Original Soundtrack for Massive Chalice, also 20% off. Play it on repeat for 300 years!

Forge heroic bloodlines in Massive Chalice, available now, DRM-free on GOG.com.
Posted June 02, 2015
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Xray_StyleZ: Will it be like Space Base DF9?! No, thanks.
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lostwolfe: this.

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the miserable/hilarious failure that was "double fine adventure" [now more commonly known as broken age], the fact that they went /right/ from kickstarting broken age to kickstarting this game, and the fact that they abandoned spacebase df-9, i will /never/ give them full price for any of their games again. they'll have to be incredibly discounted [like 90%+] for me to bother buying in.

sorry, tim shafer, but i've lost all my respect for you and double fine.
what is wrong with broken age?
Personally i liked it, though i wish there was more puzzles.
Posted June 02, 2015
Yeah, gonna pass on this. I don't particularly trust DF with money anymore, especially MY money.
Cool for the people that are excited for this though!
Posted June 02, 2015
Honestly, I am surprised that the launch discount isn't a bit higher considering that XBox One Gold members can get this game for free this month. At 50% off, I might have picked this up. :/
Posted June 02, 2015
See no reason not to support DF, I heard nothing but good things about this game!

Okay, Elephant in the room, get out.
Post edited June 02, 2015 by WesleyB
Posted June 02, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: Sounds exactly like what I was hoping for - thank you for the reply!
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Piranjade: From what I can say by now though, the game isn't really "deep". Maybe it's even a bit casual.
The turn-based combat is light.weight, I haven't found out about many different structures.
Tempers my enthusiasm a bit - not much - from the screenshots it appeared there were enough in the way of mechanics to keep me interested. I don't mind an easier game and would love your (or others!) thoughts on how close to casual it is. I don't need like FF Tactics Job system and EXP grinding, but I might hold off a bit if it's just a bit beyond a browser / phone game (I know there are some amazing phone games, you know the ones I'm talking about here! ;) )
Posted June 02, 2015
why does this need direct x 11 when it looks older than team fortress 2 ???

shitty game engine???? planned as a ps4 port ?????????
Posted June 02, 2015
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MacArthur: I've asked them on KS and that's what I fear too, though I've just realised that I've got a way to redeem a broken age key for GOG on my humble bundle account right now !

All hope is not lost :)
Cheers for the heads up. I had given up on them ever giving out GOG codes for Broken Age.
Posted June 02, 2015
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Lodium: what is wrong with broken age?
It's not so much Broken Age itself, rather the drama surrounding it. Double Fine got eight times the money they wanted, yet somehow managed to squander it all, announcing the fact just a few days after the Massive Chalice Kickstarter concluded (there is no way anyone would have pledged money to a company that goes over budget with 800% funding on a point & click adventure). They had to do scrape money together any way they could, just to release only half the game as Early Access. I have no idea how you could go over budget that hard with an adventure, unless you kept burning cash on on useless crap.

And then there was the whole Space Base 9 disaster, which really put the cherry on the cake for Double Fine.
Posted June 02, 2015
Cool to see it here :). I played a bit of beta and it looked like a fun.

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Lodium: what is wrong with broken age?
Personally i liked it, though i wish there was more puzzles.
Nothing, people just projected their expectations into it during the KS campaign and were surprised it was pixel hunting combined with absurd inventory puzzles when it came out.

I liked it too, Act I to be precise as I have to play II yet. It got the Double Fine vibe I hoped I would have.
Posted June 02, 2015
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Lodium: what is wrong with broken age?
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HiPhish: It's not so much Broken Age itself, rather the drama surrounding it. Double Fine got eight times the money they wanted, yet somehow managed to squander it all, announcing the fact just a few days after the Massive Chalice Kickstarter concluded (there is no way anyone would have pledged money to a company that goes over budget with 800% funding on a point & click adventure). They had to do scrape money together any way they could, just to release only half the game as Early Access. I have no idea how you could go over budget that hard with an adventure, unless you kept burning cash on on useless crap.

And then there was the whole Space Base 9 disaster, which really put the cherry on the cake for Double Fine.
all of the above. thanks. i stepped away and only just got back. but you said pretty much everything i wanted to say.

for me, also, there was the added hilarity of not just going far past the amount they wanted for broken age, they almost literally concluded the broken age funding drive and went right into the massive chalice funding drive, basically sitting there with a begging bowl not quite a couple of months after they'd got /way/ more money than they'd ever needed for broken age.
Posted June 02, 2015
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LiquidOxygen80: Yeah, gonna pass on this. I don't particularly trust DF with money anymore, especially MY money.
Cool for the people that are excited for this though!
Thing is, this isn't a pre-order or kickstarter campaign, but a fully released game. I don't see how trust is much of a factor there, as long as the product is good. ( Which we will know as soon as a reasonable amount of reviews surfaces. )

I don't know or care much about past drama surrounding DF, or whether there was any drama about this particular game. But I figure, as long as this game is good and reasonably priced, why shouldn't people enjoy it?
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Lodium: what is wrong with broken age?
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HiPhish: It's not so much Broken Age itself, rather the drama surrounding it. Double Fine got eight times the money they wanted, yet somehow managed to squander it all, announcing the fact just a few days after the Massive Chalice Kickstarter concluded (there is no way anyone would have pledged money to a company that goes over budget with 800% funding on a point & click adventure). They had to do scrape money together any way they could, just to release only half the game as Early Access. I have no idea how you could go over budget that hard with an adventure, unless you kept burning cash on on useless crap.

And then there was the whole Space Base 9 disaster, which really put the cherry on the cake for Double Fine.
That is pretty ridiculous. Was it their first self-published/"kickstarted" project? At least that would give them some kind of excuse...
Post edited June 02, 2015 by CharlesGrey
Posted June 02, 2015
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MacArthur: I've just realised that I've got a way to redeem a broken age key for GOG on my humble bundle account right now !
Holy crap, thanks a lot for pointing that out! I would have totally missed it otherwise.

Actually I haven't even redeemed the code for my Humble library until today because I never knew there was an option to get a GOG code this way. There was no notification whatsoever I know of. Seems like DF added this secretly without telling anyone. GOG's redeem page told me the code was valid until May 10th 2016. AFAIK GOG keys with expiration dates usually last for exactly one year, so this must have been an option since May 10th.
Posted June 02, 2015
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LiquidOxygen80: Yeah, gonna pass on this. I don't particularly trust DF with money anymore, especially MY money.
Cool for the people that are excited for this though!
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CharlesGrey: Thing is, this isn't a pre-order or kickstarter campaign, but a fully released game. I don't see how trust is much of a factor there, as long as the product is good. ( Which we will know as soon as a reasonable amount of reviews surfaces. )

I don't know or care much about past drama surrounding DF, or whether there was any drama about this particular game. But I figure, as long as this game is good and reasonably priced, why shouldn't people enjoy it?
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HiPhish: It's not so much Broken Age itself, rather the drama surrounding it. Double Fine got eight times the money they wanted, yet somehow managed to squander it all, announcing the fact just a few days after the Massive Chalice Kickstarter concluded (there is no way anyone would have pledged money to a company that goes over budget with 800% funding on a point & click adventure). They had to do scrape money together any way they could, just to release only half the game as Early Access. I have no idea how you could go over budget that hard with an adventure, unless you kept burning cash on on useless crap.

And then there was the whole Space Base 9 disaster, which really put the cherry on the cake for Double Fine.
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CharlesGrey: That is pretty ridiculous. Was it their first self-published/"kickstarted" project? At least that would give them some kind of excuse...
Yea Broen age was doublefines first kickstarter.
About the over funding thing
I dont think a lot of game companys know how manage money properly.
They are programmers, coders, artists and designers, not banking or finance people.
I coud see the argument though.
I mean , i think i read somewhere that Deponia first episode had a much lesser budget but was still a pretty decent adventure game.
I dont know how it did moneywise or how much it costed Daedalic Entertainment to make
but they are still around so i guess they didnt have to use all their savings to get it out the door.
Post edited June 02, 2015 by Lodium
Posted June 02, 2015
Nice release, thanks!
Posted June 02, 2015
Regional price + double fine?

Ugh...
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