Weregamer's Game Musings

The Steam Summer Sale is an evil plot an excellent opportunity to try the games you were curious about or didn't want to pay full price for. It's been my chance to pick up some of the 4X space games that have come out recently. First up is Galactic Inheritors. This is a cool and innovative little game. Some of the traditional mechanics are bare-bones, and the overall turn-by-turn flow is a bit clumsy, but the new stuff is interesting. In particular, your military ships are built by contract with private companies, and each company "levels up" on a skill tree; you can thus specialize each company in one area, though they only gain "XP" from building ships and ships are a big investment. All in all, this game felt like something that I could get involved with and dig into, except for two factors. One is that the main screen color scheme is hard on the eyes - the grainy white background, like that of Distant Worlds when zoomed out only more so, is a short...

With the announcement of the launch date (and price point for non-upgraders), I looked into the reports on Windows 10 with an eye toward my primary use: gaming. There are a lot of articles out there on this topic that boil down to "new games get improved DirectX 12". Ho hum. I want to know if trying to use my PC will make me tear out my hair and scream out of the room, and I could give a flying fart about new hardware I'm not likely to buy in the next year or two. I found a couple articles, like this one , on the UI changes, and I'm encouraged. I'll certainly try it on the Windows 8 convertible that I don't use because Windows 8.1 still sucks. I'll probably even replace Win7 on my main rig.