In the Year of Our Twenty 2020, you are expected to enter a brand-new genre with full knowledge of that genre, because it is assumed that everyone either streams or watches streams for at least 8 hours out of the day, and so are in the front row when a new game type emerges.
Also neckbeards complained about "handholding" enough times that some devs now think that it makes a game more HardxCore (==better) to not explain anything.
"The best story is the one that the player creates for themselves, not the one that the developers tell them. So optimally, developers should tell them as little as possible. Nothing, even!"
aw, I lost synch or something. Game just sat there for a couple of minutes until I exited the program. Now it's trying to rejoin the game, but I don't see that working.
Have played about 2 hours of Journey to the Savage Planet now.
It's neat and fun.
It's an exploration, metroidvania thing. There's crafting but it's for specific upgrades, like the grappling hook or a charge shot for your pistol. Mostly you wander around, scanning flora and fauna, shooting the occasional aggressive fauna, and using your new powers to explore more of the planet, collecting mats to make upgrades. Your super chirpy, mildly condescending AI does all the talking and there are FMV videos from the CEO of the (4th best) corporation that sent you there and FMV commercials for their products, too. It's very silly, there's lots of fart and butthole humor, which might not be for everyone. It seems to know what it is and leans into it, like you get your pistol and the AI comes on says something like, "Great, you got your gun, you're ready to colonize!" It is a supposedly lifeless planet but uh-oh, there seems to have been an advanced civilization here at some point...Lots of solid animations for your actions.
It's good so far, it's $30 and apparently the golden path is like 6 hours or so but if you want to wander and find stuff (like I found a little puzzle are last night and solved a thing and got a rare resource) it can be double that.
I might be into a trusted developer telling me literally nothing like comes up to me from behind real quiet while I'm waiting for a bus like "Psst, hey download this shit"
Broke as fuck and the bills past due, all amounts assist and are kindly received.
The Pedestrian is a 2.5D side scrolling puzzle platformer. You are The Pedestrian! Enter into a dynamic 3D world with stunning graphics and challenging puzzles.
You play by rearranging and reconnecting public signs in order to explore and advance through each engaging environment.
Jan 29 - The Pedestrian (Puzzle-Platformer)
pfft how pedestrian
seriously though this seems kinda neat
I thought that had a really cool and original presentation, but then they started moving the levels around and my jaw dropped.
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Oh I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, I’m just saying I got a really specific self-satisfied vibe off that screen grab in particular
It surprised me how much it reminded me of other things
Well, they did say that they were influenced by David Lynch among others.
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Video games are often so aggressively artless or downright contemptuous of the very idea of art that I think it engenders a lamentable if understandable tendency to oversteer in the other direction and make stuff that's very kind of, confrontational or showy about having different subcultural alliegiances.
It's like if you walked into a bookstore and the four walls were dominated top to bottom with nothing but Star Wars tie-ins, bad fantasy trilogies, Tom Clancy novels, and hentai and then in the corner was a dusty spinner rack holding one copy apiece of Gravity's Rainbow, Naked Lunch, and Beloved.
And then here's me, turning sad circles looking for the John le Carre books.
It's like if you walked into a bookstore and the four walls were dominated top to bottom with nothing but Star Wars tie-ins, bad fantasy trilogies, Tom Clancy novels, and hentai and then in the corner was a dusty spinner rack holding one copy apiece of Gravity's Rainbow, Naked Lunch, and Beloved.
How the fuck did you get into my apartment, I'm calling the cops.
Video games are often so aggressively artless or downright contemptuous of the very idea of art that I think it engenders a lamentable if understandable tendency to oversteer in the other direction and make stuff that's very kind of, confrontational or showy about having different subcultural alliegiances.
It's like if you walked into a bookstore and the four walls were dominated top to bottom with nothing but Star Wars tie-ins, bad fantasy trilogies, Tom Clancy novels, and hentai and then in the corner was a dusty spinner rack holding one copy apiece of Gravity's Rainbow, Naked Lunch, and Beloved.
And then here's me, turning sad circles looking for the John le Carre books.
Many thanks for expressing my sentiments far better and more eloquently than I ever could, Jacob
when I say artless i'm not making any grand claims about something being or not falling into that category of human expression, it just means that I think the thing is clumsy and lacking in grace
I'll give games i love a thumbs down if theres a game breaking bug.
"I love this game but theres a common game breaking bug thats been in it since early access, I'll change my review to a reccommended when its fixed but i can't honestly reccommend a game in this state."
I'll never get the chance to change my review. Sometimes I'll go back and add in more complaints about bugs tho.
Resident Evil 2 stopped being pretty good when I got to a point where there wasn't any ammo for guns I had and there were three giant unavoidable monsters between me and progression. Thanks for the four hundred smg ammo guys. I haven't got an smg nor do I have a usb dongle to unlock it.
I just turned on infinite ammo and stopped caring.
Then at the final boss I turned on infinite health too because fuck that.
Resident Evil 2 stopped being pretty good when I got to a point where there wasn't any ammo for guns I had and there were three giant unavoidable monsters between me and progression. Thanks for the four hundred smg ammo guys. I haven't got an smg nor do I have a usb dongle to unlock it.
I just turned on infinite ammo and stopped caring.
Then at the final boss I turned on infinite health too because fuck that.
It was ok.
The older I've got, the happier I am to play things on easy/cheat.
I used to be one of those fuckwits who cared about gamer cred. WHY YOUNG KARL, THIS SHIT ISN'T IMPORTANT.
I'm always amazed that buggy games make it out of QA.
I've worked QA. You have to document everything. Blizzard absolutely knew there were issues when they launched. At least have a day 1 patch you bunch of fucking amateurs.
I'm always amazed that buggy games make it out of QA.
I've worked QA. You have to document everything. Blizzard absolutely knew there were issues when they launched. At least have a day 1 patch you bunch of fucking amateurs.
Yeah, someone decided to ignore bugs or decided they weren't a priority. Plus the missing features I have to assume were cut for time.
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp, they retroactively killed the old WC3 client, netcode, ladder functionality and oh they added this sweet little cherry on top of that too.
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Also neckbeards complained about "handholding" enough times that some devs now think that it makes a game more HardxCore (==better) to not explain anything.
It's neat and fun.
It's an exploration, metroidvania thing. There's crafting but it's for specific upgrades, like the grappling hook or a charge shot for your pistol. Mostly you wander around, scanning flora and fauna, shooting the occasional aggressive fauna, and using your new powers to explore more of the planet, collecting mats to make upgrades. Your super chirpy, mildly condescending AI does all the talking and there are FMV videos from the CEO of the (4th best) corporation that sent you there and FMV commercials for their products, too. It's very silly, there's lots of fart and butthole humor, which might not be for everyone. It seems to know what it is and leans into it, like you get your pistol and the AI comes on says something like, "Great, you got your gun, you're ready to colonize!" It is a supposedly lifeless planet but uh-oh, there seems to have been an advanced civilization here at some point...Lots of solid animations for your actions.
It's good so far, it's $30 and apparently the golden path is like 6 hours or so but if you want to wander and find stuff (like I found a little puzzle are last night and solved a thing and got a rare resource) it can be double that.
Oh, Epic Store and consoles, BTW.
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I thought that had a really cool and original presentation, but then they started moving the levels around and my jaw dropped.
God this game really is like if you took the arty self-importance of a particularly opaque novel and filtered it through a nerd-ass medium
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Straight into my veins.
It surprised me how much it reminded me of other things
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Well, they did say that they were influenced by David Lynch among others.
It's like if you walked into a bookstore and the four walls were dominated top to bottom with nothing but Star Wars tie-ins, bad fantasy trilogies, Tom Clancy novels, and hentai and then in the corner was a dusty spinner rack holding one copy apiece of Gravity's Rainbow, Naked Lunch, and Beloved.
And then here's me, turning sad circles looking for the John le Carre books.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Not all hentai is art, but all art is hentai
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Many thanks for expressing my sentiments far better and more eloquently than I ever could, Jacob
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Including... you're posts, pip.
Pip is posts.
Hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm, I'm pretty sure Roger Ebert's ghost would disagree.
i agree!
when I say artless i'm not making any grand claims about something being or not falling into that category of human expression, it just means that I think the thing is clumsy and lacking in grace
Flux.
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0/10 game deeply regret the life choices that have led me to this juncture
they need a 3rd option for "yes, but consider the danger"
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"I love this game but theres a common game breaking bug thats been in it since early access, I'll change my review to a reccommended when its fixed but i can't honestly reccommend a game in this state."
I'll never get the chance to change my review. Sometimes I'll go back and add in more complaints about bugs tho.
I just turned on infinite ammo and stopped caring.
Then at the final boss I turned on infinite health too because fuck that.
It was ok.
The older I've got, the happier I am to play things on easy/cheat.
I used to be one of those fuckwits who cared about gamer cred. WHY YOUNG KARL, THIS SHIT ISN'T IMPORTANT.
Current metacritic user score: 1.6
Warcraft III: Reforged is a Bug-Ridden Mess and Gamers are Absolutely Livid
I've worked QA. You have to document everything. Blizzard absolutely knew there were issues when they launched. At least have a day 1 patch you bunch of fucking amateurs.
Yeah, someone decided to ignore bugs or decided they weren't a priority. Plus the missing features I have to assume were cut for time.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp, they retroactively killed the old WC3 client, netcode, ladder functionality and oh they added this sweet little cherry on top of that too.
Basically, any custom maps made on WC3:RM are now owned outright by Blizzard.
I like dan's answer to this honestly.
That's a bold move. I get the whole "we take a slice of the profits because it's our engine/game you're using" argument.
But....full ownership? How is anyone going to agree with that?