Pixel art probably came back due to nostalgia but it's established itself as a distinct art style and is obviously liked enough to continue its existence. Just look how insanely popular Minecraft is and I wouldn't even consider that game to have particularly good looking pixel art.

"Slain!" is an example of a great looking pixel game, imo, for example.

It's not all the same. Of course I don't think this looks good nor would I want to go back to it:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5Vr4DOcqdls/maxresdefault.jpg

This on the other hand, yes please: http://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/1406/14063904/3040633-slain!+004.png

New technology can give an old look a fresh spin.

Just been playing this for the last 3 hours... it's pretty great.

Combat is a tad repetitive (but I'm still using early ships and only one fleet) but that's not really surprising as all JRPG style combat is. At least is does have some depth (use one attack to cause a status effect and then other attacks do more damage against certain status' so you plan out how to make your attacks for optimal damage)

I've only played the X-Com remake and not the original, but it definitely reminds me of that (base building and upgrading and constant attacks on outlying bases that you have to prevent)

I would say it's well worth the price they are asking for (particularly with the launch discount) and if you are at all interested in it to go for it :)

I agree.
But what if a game would only be bought by a minority of members, i assume the game will not be continued?
At steam there are games that seem to have 1 or 3 reviews and maybe a few sales, yet the games are still available to buy.
I dont think if a game would get too little sales , it be here at GoG.
I bought many casual games at steam that only sell very little, the good thing is they still offer it for the ones that do like it.
If i had to choose nelly cootalot fowl fleet (or nay game like that) or paperplanes(or similar low rate games) i'd choose nelly cootalot.

Anyway this game does look old, but it looks fun, the sad part is it has to many motions and flashing effects just like all the old games i had in the past but stopped playing because of sore eyes, thats why i switched to relaxing point and click and 2d games.


Ofcourse its not garbage ... but it is rather expensive, 19.99 is a price i would fork out for a decent point and click game, but not for an action or shooter game.
I forked out 25 euros (twice) for the dlx version of Lords Of Xulima only absed on a screenhsot i had seen in a pc gameplay magazine.

Once at steam cause i had to have the game and i did not know when the game might arrive at gog, lateron i bought another copy at gog (i dont use the steam version (drm client shits) but only use the gog drm free version cause i hate DRM.

So if a game is a game i really like and can run on recommended then i am preparded to fork out up to 24,99 for a game.
Tomorrow avadon 3 should be released if i'm correct so i can add it to Avadon 1 and 2 :D

So after 23 votes the game's rating has climbed to 4 stars including a 5 star review. Still a little pricey for me so wishlisted.

Most probably the latter.

I dare to bet that most Linux systems nowadays are 64-bit, so we'll wait :)
Another reason to wait: I am not using one of the officially supported distributions, so I hope that someone can confirm that it works on Arch Linux.

The game could also use some voice acting, alá Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2), but then again, that is a lot of work. They could probably do it for the diplomatic dialogues at least. In a 'let's play' I watched they guy playing did the voice acting himself, it wasn't too bad, I think it could work.

Captain Cyboff reporting for duty! KS crew can find their GOG keys in backerkit!

Seems VERY interesting, either will instabuy or wishlist, I have yet to see.

That's great!
So far I have got every game I own that has a native Linux version to work on Arch Linux. Some needed a bit of tweaking while others work out of the box.

I am not surprised that people use Antergos, Arch Bang and the likes, installing Arch has become more difficult in the last five years. And there is all the configuration fun :)
I understand that you do not support Arch, but on the other hand it provides a glimpse of what will be in the mainstream distros in a year or two.

I must say that I am tempted to buy it right away, even though it is a 1.0 version.
If you need some help testing the x86_64 version, let me know :)

Too bad :)

The stuff I had to do ranged from installing dependencies over circumventing libraries that are shipped with the game to more involved stuff with flash and unity games. Flash games are the worst. Wasteland 2 DC is quite bad too, crashing because it runs out of file descriptors or somesuch... (Unity bug).

Well, I keep watching Let's Plays for now :)

Thanks for the heads-up!

Is only act 1 included at the moment? Are further acts part of the 'goals' they've set out?

All 3 acts of the story are live now. So there is a complete game, but they are still working on some of the kickstart goals to put in as well though. I played early access, but I wasn't a KS backer, so I don't even know what the KS extra stuff will be.