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Routine | Survival Horror First Person Non-Linear Moon Base Exploration With Permadeath
TychoCelchuuu
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9XrsWUO9swWhat is Routine?
Routine is a survival horror first person non-linear exploration game set on the Moon. You're an astronaut. There are robots. It has a cool looking retro aesthetic. There is no HUD, no health bars, no health packs. There is permadeath. We don't really know anything else.
Who's Making Routine?
Lunar Software, a small developer made up of like 4 people.
When's It Coming Out? What Platforms?
Release date: unknown. Platforms: PC and Mac so far.
More Info
- "RoutineGame.com." Try to guess where this link takes you
- Lunar Software page for the game, with slightly more info/screenshots
- [url=Preview at PC Gamer
- Preview at The Verge
- Developer Q&A
- Interview with one of the devs
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I know it says "no hud", but it would be neat to have one integrated into the game, like a pulse monitor on your arm instead of a health bar.
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Will the robot be voiced by Kevin Spacey?
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Why I fear the ocean.
Okay, this could make for a pretty sick-ass setting. Space is already hyper-lethal, and I really dig the idea of being stranded on some lunar base with malfunctioning robots.
Wondering how they're going to explain those old floppies even existing, though.
I can understand games that don't have ironman modes, but the other way around?
It's like the "one slot autosaving" WAY TOO MANY games have this nowadays. Frankly that's worse than only having permadeath, because with permadeath the annoying save system is a feature. One slot autosaving on the other hand is just lazy.
Eh. I don't disagree, but if this ends up having ONLY permadeath settings, I can live with that. Virtually every other game on the market has non-permadeath stuff, and almost nothing has any permadeath settings at all. Roguelikes are about it, plus DayZ.
I'd rather have it both ways, but if its going to be one or the other, I'd much prefer we get this one game with real permadeath.
Not sure if I can handle teh scarries though.
These days, I'm having a harder and harder time getting through horror games just because I'm too scared.
I hope the "perma-death" is something along the lines of you crawling out of a clone pod in your skinnies and having to find your corpse.
Edit; The kicker, it only saves when you die
You're right about the stupid one slot checkpoint/autosaves that a lot of games these days do. If you screw up and get stuck and then the game autosaves into your only slot, you're fucked!
The key to making that work is having it so that the player can die from making stupid mistakes, but not end up dying to arbitrary bullshit.
Dead Space 2 can have this problem if you do the hardcore mode or whatever it is. There are a number of instant death points, plus a number of ways you can get jumped and swamped by enemies without being able to do much about it. Of course, the idea there is that the player has already played the game numerous times and thus knows where the problem spots are going to be already, so the mode is just there to add extra difficulty rather than being the primary method of play.
Even within the permadeath context it probably wouldn't hurt to varying levels of difficulty. One setting where it's actually pretty tough to die for those delicate types, then the regular mode where any sufficiently dumb mistake can get you killed.
Some games aren't like that. Roguelikes and many roguelike-likes, for instance, are fun each time you replay after dying, because they have randomized elements and other design decisions that are made to accommodate restarts after permadeaths. If Routine is like this, then dying a bunch might not be an issue, because it won't be a sort of "fuck, I have to do this all again" feeling but rather an "okay, time to start the next life" kind of feeling.
With a permadeath mechanic, there needs to be some sort of way to recover, gameplay-wise, from that without having to start a whole new game. Otherwise, the game ends up having to be so easy that permadeath is irrelevant because most players can just breeze through it.
Otherwise, the way dying and dangers are handled will need to have some super-premo quality design attached to it.
I dunno, this is sort of the impression I got from the teaser.
But that's not really permadeath - it's just like no death at all, really.
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I will have none of this "optimism" on my video game forum!
Don't get me wrong, I hope it is awesome. I love horror games in general, even some of the not so great ones.
This is true.
Some of my most memorable experiences have been getting stuck and having to figure out a way past this impossible situation through sheer luck and determination and lots of adrenaline and holy shit did I really just do that how the hell did I do that?
But what you said is still true.
Plus in one case of the above I quicksaved my dumb ass into the situation with the nearest save and autosave being beyond some situations I didn't want to have to go through again.
It was half life. I quicksaved. A grenade landed next to me. I had an interesting fifteen minutes or more figuring out how to live through the grenade, which I managed eventually. With 1 health left.
Which according to GiS is a light redish colour.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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Of course I'll invariably bitch out during it. Even the menu audio in these games gets me.