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Posted May 15, 2014
Take back the city, pilot, or we drop the bomb!

Bionic Dues, a tactical turn-based roguelike where you command a squad of mechas to liberate a besieged city, has arrived on GOG.com for $4.99 (50% off the full price) until 9:59 AM GMT on 22nd May 2014.

No one expects a buffer overflow in a city's robotic population. For reasons unknown to us meatbags, the robotic populace of Port City has gone absolutely mad. Wrecking buildings while yelling "01010111 01000101 00100000 01000100 01001111 01001110 00100111 01010100 00100000 01000111 01001001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000001 00100000 01000100 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01000001 01001101 01001101 01001101 01001101 01001110 00100001", terrorizing the human populace (even to the point of using individual humans for hopscotch), and drinking up all the diesel. This robotic rabble rousing is costing the Maxitrode Corp. millions of tourism dollars because being in the middle of rioting robotic rampagers dismatling a city is never on the itinerary. Your squad of Exo pilots has been called in to deal with electronic menace once and for all. You'll have to be quick about it as the corporation in charge of the city has set you up the bomb to raze the city to contain the robotic riots. Don't let the nukes drop!

Bionic Dues is a tactical, turn-based (hooray for turn-based!) roguelike where you pilot a squad of Exo pilots to liberate the besieged Port City from a robotic riot. Pilot mechs, gather loot, visit the black market for more equipment, and even discover advanced versions of Exos while taking on more than 100 missions.

Seize your copy of Bionic Dues for $4.99 (50% off the full price) until 9:59 AM GMT on 22nd May 2014, DRM-free, on GOG.com!
Posted May 15, 2014
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Kabus: WE DON'T GIVE A DAAAAAAAAMMMMN!
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JudasIscariot: I knew someone would translate the binary I put in the news post :D
*ahem* http://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_bionic_dues/post8

Just sayin'.
Post edited May 15, 2014 by Pidgeot
Posted May 15, 2014
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Crosmando: Arcen Games again?!
I'm not going to buy it because I know an indie studio which puts out games every second month is not going to put out anything with any depth or complexity. Call me back when Arcen decide to take 2 years to make a real game. EVERY single Arcen game has this exact issue, nice music and pretty gfx (for an indie) yet absolutely shallow gameplay, I mean sheesh I know everyone needs to pay the bills but why don't they go to Kickstarter or something for a real budget.
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JudasIscariot: Did you play The Last Federation? I played it and either I've gone full casual or that game is pretty hardcore. Kind of like Crusader Kings II but you're a space dragon.

Personally, can't wait to get home so I can fire up Bionic Dues myself as the premise is interesting to me :)
I haven't played it, but if it's another game like Skyward Collapse I'm sure I don't want to, seems like another game using the "observer status" of the player excuse for shallow gameplay. Playing a single individual influential civilizations does not sound fun to me.

Then again, OPINIONS, my problem with strategy games nowadays is that nothing comes close to what has been done nearly 20 years ago. It seems that nothing ever is going to be better than Master of Orion II, Master of Magic, Civilization II, UFO Defense in the strategy genre. It's basically the end of history for strategy games, they just go backwards from here and nothing will ever be as good as games made over a decade ago.

You know, at least with Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, etc, they are actually trying to at least make RPG's which are EQUAL in depth to the RPG's of the past, ie the Infinity Engine titles and Fallout 1/2. Strategy games are getting WORSE, the only strategy title which I have hope in is Xenonauts, but I do not think it will be better than Ufo Defense, maybe equal but that's it.
Post edited May 15, 2014 by Crosmando
Posted May 15, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I knew someone would translate the binary I put in the news post :D
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Pidgeot: *ahem* http://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_bionic_dues/post8

Just sayin'.
I know :)

I just wanted to respond to Kabus :)
Posted May 15, 2014
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JudasIscariot: snip
What about some of Arcen's other games ? AI War and A Valley Without Wind 1&2 ? Any chance of those showing up here soon ?
Posted May 15, 2014
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Pidgeot: *ahem* http://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_bionic_dues/post8

Just sayin'.
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JudasIscariot: I know :)

I just wanted to respond to Kabus :)
Very kind of you guys :)
Posted May 15, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Did you play The Last Federation? I played it and either I've gone full casual or that game is pretty hardcore. Kind of like Crusader Kings II but you're a space dragon.

Personally, can't wait to get home so I can fire up Bionic Dues myself as the premise is interesting to me :)
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Crosmando: I haven't played it, but if it's another game like Skyward Collapse I'm sure I don't want to, seems like another game using the "observer status" of the player excuse for shallow gameplay. Playing a single individual influential civilizations does not sound fun to me.

Then again, OPINIONS, my problem with strategy games nowadays is that nothing comes close to what has been done nearly 20 years ago. It seems that nothing ever is going to be better than Master of Orion II, Master of Orion, Civilization II, UFO Defense in the strategy genre. It's basically the end of history for strategy games, they just go backwards from here and nothing will ever be as good as games made over a decade ago.
OK, well, I recently played Master of Magic on Normal and I managed to win the game simply by summoning one Wraith, you know the one that takes FOREVER to summon when you are just starting out, and I managed to win the game that way. Granted, you can put MoM on Impossible and have a challenge but I wonder just what makes it a challenge as the A.I. get mostly more advantages while the human player starts out with disadvantages.

So tell me, what makes MoM more challenging than the games in a similar genre coming out today?
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JudasIscariot: snip
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Licurg: What about some of Arcen's other games ? AI War and A Valley Without Wind 1&2 ? Any chance of those showing up here soon ?
~O~

Mystery wrapped in an enigma, served at room temperature :)
Post edited May 15, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted May 15, 2014
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Crosmando: Arcen Games again?!
I'm not going to buy it because I know an indie studio which puts out games every second month is not going to put out anything with any depth or complexity. Call me back when Arcen decide to take 2 years to make a real game. EVERY single Arcen game has this exact issue, nice music and pretty gfx (for an indie) yet absolutely shallow gameplay, I mean sheesh I know everyone needs to pay the bills but why don't they go to Kickstarter or something for a real budget.
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JudasIscariot: Did you play The Last Federation? I played it and either I've gone full casual or that game is pretty hardcore. Kind of like Crusader Kings II but you're a space dragon.

Personally, can't wait to get home so I can fire up Bionic Dues myself as the premise is interesting to me :)
Im actually wondering why AI War isnt already here? Its been everywhere and back
Posted May 15, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Did you play The Last Federation? I played it and either I've gone full casual or that game is pretty hardcore. Kind of like Crusader Kings II but you're a space dragon.

Personally, can't wait to get home so I can fire up Bionic Dues myself as the premise is interesting to me :)
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Niggles: Im actually wondering why AI War isnt already here? Its been everywhere and back
Well, the guys at Arcen are pretty cool so perhaps one day A.I. War will end up here? Here's hoping :)
Posted May 15, 2014
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JudasIscariot: So tell me, what makes MoM more challenging than the games in a similar genre coming out today?
It's not about challenge as much as actual gameplay features, the depth and complexity of the gameplay systems. Everyone knows MoM has primitive AI and unbalanced elements.

What I'd ask you is what's the point of buying new strategy games when they all have but a fraction of the features of older titles. Heck, even Age of Wonders III has less races, and less overall options than Shadow Magic. I just don't get it, perhaps people WANT simplistic strategy games nowadays (Civ V is a good enough example as anything), because I'm pretty much ready to abandon the genre entirely.
Post edited May 15, 2014 by Crosmando
Posted May 15, 2014
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kroetenschemel: If the soundtrack - that is to say the song from the trailer - had been included, this would have been an instant-buy. Now I'll read reviews.
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JudasIscariot: With indie games, chances are that the artist producing the soundtrack retains the rights to it so it's not that easy to distribute it along with the game :)

You can get it here:

http://arcenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/bionic-dues

Hope that helps :)
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Kabus: WE DON'T GIVE A DAAAAAAAAMMMMN!
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JudasIscariot: I knew someone would translate the binary I put in the news post :D

I had a ummm different version of the binary war cry but it wasn't work safe :D
Thanks.... well, the game is 5$ off and the soundtrack is 5$ ... sneaky you.
I'll buy it this evening, for now, I have to recover a bit from a rather sleepless week and Paypal also seems to have spammed my mailaccount a lot.
Posted May 15, 2014
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Niggles: Im actually wondering why AI War isnt already here? Its been everywhere and back
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JudasIscariot: Well, the guys at Arcen are pretty cool so perhaps one day A.I. War will end up here? Here's hoping :)
Nudge Deep Silver for Sacred 2 while your at it pls :D
Posted May 15, 2014
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JudasIscariot: So tell me, what makes MoM more challenging than the games in a similar genre coming out today?
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Crosmando: It's not about challenge as much as actual gameplay features, the depth and complexity of the gameplay systems. Everyone knows MoM has primitive AI and unbalanced elements.

What I'd ask you is what's the point of buying new strategy games when they all have but a fraction of the features of older titles. Heck, even Age of Wonders III has less races, and less overall options than Shadow Magic. I just don't get it, perhaps people WANT simplistic strategy games nowadays, because I'm pretty much ready to abandon the genre entirely.
Perhaps it has less races due to the fact that some races might've been far too similar?

For example, let's take MoM...again :)

You have how many Elven races? Dark Elves, Wood Elves, and I think High Elves? For me, they're almost cookie cutter. They all have an innate magical attack but the graphic for it may be different, their units until you get to the later parts of their tech tree are almost the same technically (correct me if I am wrong :) ) and, well, they're all Elves :P

I can definitely see your point about losing unique races in a series but I also don't see the necessity of having three races do pretty much the same thing.

(please don't take this as me ragging on MoM, everyone, I still like the game but it helps to step back and try to look at tit critically :) )
Post edited May 15, 2014 by JudasIscariot
Posted May 15, 2014
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JMich: Aha! Clarc was removed from the game tiles. So I guess it's a release for later today.
Where/how do you guys see this pre-release?
Post edited May 15, 2014 by FoxySage
Posted May 15, 2014
just a quick idea... I'll make a proper post and wishlist entry about it,
how about GOG goes music? That is to say, some soundtracks are free others aren't, why don't you become a plattform to sell the game soundtracks that aren't free, too?
You're download-as-often-as-you-wish would be perfect for music purchases!
Posted May 15, 2014
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JMich: Aha! Clarc was removed from the game tiles. So I guess it's a release for later today.
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FoxySage: Where/how do you guys see this pre-release?
JMich has some odd superpowers, is all :D
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kroetenschemel: just a quick idea... I'll make a proper post and wishlist entry about it,
how about GOG goes music? That is to say, some soundtracks are free others aren't, why don't you become a plattform to sell the game soundtracks that aren't free, too?
You're download-as-often-as-you-wish would be perfect for music purchases!
I'll speak for myself here and my experience with the community at large :)

Selling soundtracks is an awesome idea at least for the new games, but I can only imagine the flak we'd get if we started selling soundtracks at all. Our community is used to receiving the soundtrack with most games free of charge and if we started selling the soundtracks to just new or indie games, I am worried that the community will think we are going to do the same with the classics...
Post edited May 15, 2014 by JudasIscariot
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