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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.

[url=http://www.gog.com/game/bionic_dues][/url]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
Very nice addition, but Arcen should really release AI War on GOG.
Posted May 15, 2014
A tactical turn-based roguelike with an interesting scenario and a solid metascore of 71? Call me interested.
Posted May 15, 2014
Good game, wishlisted for now, as I'm broke after the Insomnia sale .


Also, who's that singing on the trailer ? The voice sounds familiar .
Posted May 15, 2014
An interesting release.. never thought i would ever see this here...
Posted May 15, 2014
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MadalinStroe: Very nice addition, but Arcen should really release AI War on GOG.
And A Valley Without Wind 1&2 too! (I already have them but I would like some gog installers)
Posted May 15, 2014
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Licurg: Also, who's that singing on the trailer ? The voice sounds familiar .
I also liked the music and first thought I forgot to turn off my internet radio before starting the trailer...

Her name is Hunter Vega and she is the wife of the composer according to this forum thread: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php?topic=14760.0
Posted May 15, 2014
Looks interesting. Wish-listed for now, and will re-visit after this Insomnia sale has passed.
Posted May 15, 2014
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.
Posted May 15, 2014
At a glance it looks interesting and promising. I'll love to give this a try in the not-too-distant future.
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.
This game HAS been out for a while: Apparently, several of Arcen's previous releases are appearing here, including this one. If you're making those assertions, though, I assume you haven't seen AI War? Have a look, and THEN come back and tell me that their games have "absolutely shallow gameplay" and move on to a new game "every second month".
Posted May 15, 2014
WE DON'T GIVE A DAAAAAAAAMMMMN!
Posted May 15, 2014
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Licurg: Also, who's that singing on the trailer ? The voice sounds familiar .
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Nordwolf: I also liked the music and first thought I forgot to turn off my internet radio before starting the trailer...

Her name is Hunter Vega and she is the wife of the composer according to this forum thread: http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php?topic=14760.0
Thanks.
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.
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!
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
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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pi4t: This game HAS been out for a while: Apparently, several of Arcen's previous releases are appearing here, including this one. If you're making those assertions, though, I assume you haven't seen AI War? Have a look, and THEN come back and tell me that their games have "absolutely shallow gameplay" and move on to a new game "every second month".
October 8, 2013, not that long ago.

I have played AI War, and although I wouldn't call it "shallow", it's a far cry from many, many other strategy titles out there, I don't see much reason to choose it over them. AND it was their first game, so they obviously took their time with it, this is my point. Everything after that has been a cash-grab every few months, casual strategy-ish titles with absolutely shallow gameplay, like A Valley Without Wind, Shattered Haven, Skyward Collapse. Nah scratch that, Valley Without Wind was just a painful mess of different gameplay elements none of which was any good, it was a game which needed an extended development period. According to wikipedia Arcen have FIVE employees, so I don't understand why they dump out shallow strategy games every few months instead of taking the time for something of larger scope.

Well actually I do... but that's another story.
Post edited May 15, 2014 by Crosmando
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.
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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