Defcon Rocks
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 - 2:19am
Elysium, Gaald, Demiurge and I just finished playing a couple rounds of Defcon thanks to a cluster of review keys sent to GWJ. Wow. We had a ton of fun with it! I can see things getting very fun with a full six players playing on one map.
I'm too tired to get into details, but the variety of decisions made with simple tools and mechanics makes for a very social, very fun experience. So long as you don't take it too seriously, I can see the alliance/machinations aspect bothering some people. Then again, I suppose a "no breaking alliances" house rule would fix that, for those who wouldn't enjoy it.
We did though 
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Really quite fun. A great stab-your-friend in the back kind of game, and there's an odd glee in finally managing to sneak a nuke through and wipe out, say, Moscow and 15 million folks in the fiery blink of God's eye. Great atmosphere, great simplicity of design that leaves just a ton of options open in how you play.
So far, from a few rounds, $15 seems like a sure-thing.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
Again I want to point out that if you preorder on Steam you can get it for $10.
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I can't wait for this one. It is near the top of my wanted list. The "at work" mode sounds pretty cool for all day nuclear exchanges in real-time.
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What are the requirements for this one? Do you think it will run on 256MB or ram?
Nuke's? I'm in. The URL of this game attacts me also very dearly... http://www.everybody-dies.com/
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I've been watching this one with measured enthusiasm. I've fallen prey to the "forum effect" far too many times, but this looks like something I'd really dig getting in some multiplayer on.
Is there any single player component?
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Yeah, but you can only play Poland.
Because, y'see... Polish nukes target Poland... Because, y'know... they're Polish.
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There doesn't seem to be a clear cut Yes/No answer. I read one interview where a developer stated that it had single player and I've seen screenshots & video of CPU opponents going to war. But when you look at the packaging or the site there doesn't appear to be a definitive answer.
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My understanding is single player versus bots.
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Correct, you essentially start a multiplayer game and fill the player slots with CPU players.
Certis beat me to it. - Elysium
Ami I the only one that find it bit alarming that we love the idea of nuking the heck out of everyone?
Yeah I pre-ordered already a while back
Decisions are just decisions, there are neither "good" or "bad"
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Pre-ordered, and I'm loving the look of it. Simple, but deep!
As a side note, anyone ever play the old Nuclear War game on Amiga about 15 years back? Now that was a hilarious and fun way to make people glow.
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So.. THe game is available now, but I can't play it. Even though I've paid $10 (plus tax). And the DEFCON icon is on my desktop. Nice.
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So, who won? Or is the only way to win is not to play?
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The game is indeed freaky. No matter how fun it is, I get these little pings in the back of my conscience once in a while. The fact that there ARE no little mushroon clouds, or screams, or blood, is much more affecting than all the doom3 in the world.
The single most brilliant part:when the first nuke goes off (I think), the soundtrack adds the sound, WAY in the background, of a woman coughing once in a while, one supposes from the fall out. Not sure you'd hear it without headphones.
I can't imagine the came has a problem running on a 10 year old laptop. I mean, it's not dwarf fortress simple, but it ain't no FPS either.
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Seeing as I just got word from my boss that my work laptop will be upgraded to an Intel based Macbook Pro sometime next week, and that they want me to test Parallels and/or dual booting for the company, perhaps I'll get to try this out. It sounds very interesting to me.
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You need to restart Steam after it unlocks.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
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Are you telling me this for future reference? Because Steam won't let me play Defcon it until the 29th.
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The game is not publicly available yet. We are playing press review copies.
"I think Elysium has the right of it" - Certis
My graphics card has been out for some time in my laptop. I don't have $300 for a new outdated one. Do I need one at all?
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Im in...
This will be another game I'll wish my xbox mic worked on my PC, wont it? I have a cheap one lying around somewhere.
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That was one of my most favourite Amiga/DOS games ever. Hilarious sense of humour and great and fast gameplay (nothing funnier than throwing a cow bomb.) This game looks like the closest spiritual successor to that title that I've ever seen which is why I pre-ordered it before even looking at a screenshot. That type fo gameplay with multiplayer will be awesome.
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A quick glance at the website didn't give me any minimum system requirements and I didn't see anything specific listed in the online manual, but I get the impression that this game would run on a Tandy if you could install DirectX 9.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to have to check this game out, which is sad, as I already am crushed for time until October 9th or so. I do love me some thermonuclear war, though.
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Wasn't that based on the card game of the same name? By Flying Buffalo?
"Sometimes I go around saying, 'Kommisar Paulson has seized the commanding heights of the economy!'" - Paul Krugman, asked if recent changes to banking are socialistic.
I doubt the system requirement of this game will be very high. This is not really a game of "showy" graphics or fancy physics.
Decisions are just decisions, there are neither "good" or "bad"
LobsterMobster wrote:
"War, it's gods way of teaching Americans Geography.." -Jon Stewart
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - Howard Philips Lovecraft
And yet, the graphics are amazing. Retro and showy and great. It's a lot like what Introversion did with Darwinia, doing tons more with a lot less.
I can see Introversion winning lots of awards for the audio work in the game, too.
"Even though that place should only be fifteen or twenty minutes away geographically, in actual practice - between the hours of four and seven - Redmond might as well orbit the Earth." - Tycho, Penny Arcade