It’s not a bad game, but as many people say - it’s wasting its potential. The dark atmosphere is great, very nice music and a lot of non-trivial aspects (along with standard human/efl/dwarf races you can build your party with five more races that are not from a typical fantasy world: Faerkin, Ferran, Goreaux, Jurak, Rapacian + several more races that you’ll meet during your journey). Combat is phase-based: you plan action for each character and then execute them. There are a lot of possibilities including bribing your enemies to let you go so you can try different approaches. The problem is the game is long and very combat-heavy. Even with aforementioned possibilities it gets repetitive ralatively fast. The good thing is you can change the difficulty any time you wish so you may spice things up or make it easier and what’s also important - faster. Sadly, there is little more than fighting countless enemies. If you prefer more story oriented RPGs then it’s not for you but if dungeon crawling with a lot of encounters is ok for you then you should give it a try. Believe me, it’s a decent game. See above :)

Just for the record, I have the them all ;)
For just 2 Euros more you could get EU III which is definitely more open.
FTG is a better choice for a lot of things then EU 2.
Warning: The EU3 is just a basic package, or better to say it does not include all add-ons.
I did/do enjoy EU 3 the most.
EDIT: If you could describe a bit more precisely I could fire them up and tell you the differences ;)

Is the Master of Orion reboot worth it?

It has been years since I played them.
IIRC AS2 en ZS2 have autosave at certain points on the map and you can manually save.
Maps are bigger and take more time, but they're doable within an hour IIRC.

Is it possible to mod EU2 with the same mods used in FTG? Are you more bound in FTG than in EU1 (EU1 is fine for me, as a novice player).

EU3 + datadisks seem like excellent choice, however I have Linux and EU3 don't seem to work with Wine very well according to reports from other users. I fear that when I will buy it, then it just won't work.

The best solution would be to bite the bullet and buy the paradox bundle with everything and then see, but it's a lot of money for me and games that I don't want/maybe can't run.

EU2 with the same mods: Not anymore, decision by devs/publishers, checked a while ago and the downloads were not longer available.

As I only have (in the moment) a Win machine, anything I can do do try to do in a quick way to check for EU(3) working on Wine? (don't want to mess around with setting up dual boot and and and ;) )

For not working, I have seen that GOG is normally fairly fair with giving money back in case it does not work. You could open a ticket prior and ask for clarification if they would return the money for the non working games.

For the other part, I'll have a quick play and let you know a bit later or tomorrow ;)

Thanks!

Clever writing, okay combat system, massively annoying campaign design, artificial difficulty, spiral of death, item durability and associated ratfuckery. $5 if you like the writing.

I have not finished it but I'd say is longer than either.

The puzzles are an evolution of both: While there's clearly a similarity with Samorost 2, there are some musical elements (like in Botanicula).

I'd recommend it.

Huuuuum....
Maybe I'll wait a better discount...
Thanks for the opinion :)

I've bought it, thanks!

I'm thinking of buying Postal Classic & Uncut... Is this only "dark humor" in the same vein as Carmageddon (which I like a lot), or is it more "serious" ?
Edit : Clarified title of the game :)

The modding thing of EU2 is understandable, but a bit sad.

With Windows machine I think not, but thank you. Maybe Judas can test it in the special "does it run in Wine" thread. There will be other sales soon and I have plenty of games to play in the meantime.

I guess you speak about Postal 2 ? It's the more refreshing FPS I ever played, full of dark humor and stupid situations. You can play it as a mass-murderer or as a normal guy who is trying to survive to the inhabitants of a crazy town, but the first choice is more fun. I found Carmageddon boring because I never knew if I have to kill people or win the races (and the controls were awful) but you always have something to do in Postal 2.
Be aware that the Paradise Lost expansion is still unavailable on GOG and I doubt it will be one day, sadly...

Was only trying to help you make some good educated buying decisions ;)
And EU -series are lovely games.