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... can't it be both?

Saying they're going to arrow the big papa (commander) giants 'cause they've got all of abeig's male population trapped in the capital, presumably under siege.

There were plenty of chapter-based games that didn't do the first free, though, or had the shareware give only limited access to the first chapter (basically a demo). Would say there was a bit of a drought for the things for a while, and that they've now apparently switched genres -- about the most likely ones to work like that were platformers, followed by FPS games, iirc, then other stuff. It actually wasn't common at all for point & click et al, from what I can recall -- but yeah, the whole episodic thing isn't exactly new.

Presumably for similar reasons that floridians haven't burnt this entire fucking swamp straight to the bedrock and started over in a notably less hellish area, maybe on top of the subsequent ashen wasteland. Too much effort, too much inertia saying not to. Cali's big, and there's a lot of folks in it. Getting them all to do something is less like herding cats and more like herding sentient cat tidal waves.

Eh, you can check footage of the combat. It's... not really a card game -- there's no randomness, drawing, etc., so far as I could tell -- it's just using cards to represent characters. Presumably to give a simple visual representation of turn order and whatnot, without having to bother with fancy graphics.

... which is probably the reason why card-based stuff is common nowadays. It's generally a lot easier to make art assets for 'em. Plus you've got built in expectations (booster packs, etc., which thea at least seems to mercifully lack) you can pattern (some of) your monetization options off of. They do tend to be lazily implemented, but that's kinda' true for... whatever, card based or not.

... looking at that LP, it looks pretty neat, if a little clumsy UI wise. Price is more than I can rationalize splashing at th'mo, though.

Eh, I wouldn't call that a very accurate evaluation. Gate does have that going on, but no more than just about any piece of milwank fiction for <insert respective military> -- it's pretty genre normative as that goes. Folks calling it like that are ones I'd say have never actually read any other military-themed fiction in their life :V

... know spellcheck gotcha, but just a minor heads up before it tweaks someone's braincells: Milgram has no repeat letters in it 'cept the ms.