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Enter The Gungeon |OT| Praise the gun
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He said on Richard Hammers stream last night that he wants to be awake when it goes live on steam because he can fix it right away. He didn't care about Ps4 because he can't fix it right away anyway. He would have to wait for cert either way. He can push patches to steam right away.
toythatkills
Member
Yep, and the discount has ended immediately.
Will be picking this up in a few months I guess if it reviews well.
That's a lot of ways
It's a well-done tutorial. To the point, with a bit of humor.
Yeah I definitely could have done a better job typing that out. But I'm on my tablet so I just went with it.
Ya, basically feels exactly like you hope it would, the mechanics are tight. I like that it lets you adjust the intensity of the autoaim. Basically feels like someone turned the original Zelda's dungeons (or, ya know, Binding of Isaac) into a twin-stick shooter.
Yup, the overall speed of everything is good. Feels a bit like Diablo 3 as far as the movement goes.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
OK so I just got past the tutorial and defeated the first boss.
First off all the game is hilarious! The first boss I faced was a bird that grabbed a Gatling gun and flexed so hard all its feathers fell off, revealing a perfectly chiseled muscular body underneath.
The gameplay feels very satisfying and there are a lot of smart decisions. There are a generous amount of teleporters spread around the dungeon meaning you won't have to constantly run back and forth and backtrack like Binding of Isaac.
The graphics are a little too pixelated/chunky for my liking, especially when it comes to picking up items and stuff but I'll get used to it.
Can't wait to play more!
First off all the game is hilarious! The first boss I faced was a bird that grabbed a Gatling gun and flexed so hard all its feathers fell off, revealing a perfectly chiseled muscular body underneath.
The gameplay feels very satisfying and there are a lot of smart decisions. There are a generous amount of teleporters spread around the dungeon meaning you won't have to constantly run back and forth and backtrack like Binding of Isaac.
The graphics are a little too pixelated/chunky for my liking, especially when it comes to picking up items and stuff but I'll get used to it.
Can't wait to play more!
FaintColt388301
Member
Tutorial and first boss down. Fucking love this game. Plays so well. It already has a good little challenge to it
Brian_FETO
Banned
How does it compare to Nuclear Throne?
That was my first boss! Hilarious! I took a screenshot
Very similar, the real major difference is that Gungeon is a dungeon crawl while Throne has a more linear progression to its levels.
Like, you don't need a map to play Nuclear Throne. Other than that, the shooting feels pretty much the same. Good feel to the mechanics and the audio/visual feedback is very satisfying.
NT is relentless intensity. EtG is broken up into floors with rooms like Isaac.
More_Badass
Member
Good. Throne was too hectic at times IMO, I think I'll enjoy having a breather between the bullet hell
Throne post-loop was one of the craziest things I've ever seen in a game.
FaintColt388301
Member
Had the 3rd boss down to a pixel and died.
On that floor I came across two section that were really weird they were big doors with huge keys on them. I have no idea how you would get them. I guess the vendor sells them. There are also shrines where I think you can sacrifice something.
Pretty cool little stiff to figure out.
On that floor I came across two section that were really weird they were big doors with huge keys on them. I have no idea how you would get them. I guess the vendor sells them. There are also shrines where I think you can sacrifice something.
Pretty cool little stiff to figure out.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Yeah the vendor sells keys. I bought one for $21 but died before I could use it.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Hmm, alright. I'd like to check it out but I'm not totally sold on it at the moment. The guns and patterns look interesting (and as you said it's not nonstop teeth grinding chaos like NT)
Thanks
Aztechnology
Member
Sonofa... I bought it on GMG thinking it was released because I saw so many people playing it. Should have looked on Neogaf for the OT first.
FaintColt388301
Member
I bought one that I used on a chest but I wonder if it's the same thing for those doors. There was a girl in one of them.
Pestilence11
Member
First run only lasted 5:22 lol - after getting through the tutorial without getting hit.
Definitely going to get my money's worth out of this one.
Definitely going to get my money's worth out of this one.
I thought that was a Vulcan Raven reference.
FaintColt388301
Member
Came across that room again. It has a girl in it with a huge robot. Somebody figure out how to get in!
nikos
Member
Super early impressions:
Gameplay is fun.
It's a roguelike, which I didn't realize before purchasing. Not a fan of the genre at all, as I don't like backtracking, but the cohesive map and teleporting system make it bearable.
I lost to a boss, had to clear a newly generated area, then fought a different boss. Not sure what that was about.
Nothing seemed to carry over after dying, from what I could tell, so it felt like I wasn't making any progress.
Those are my immediate impressions. I'll have to give the game a proper try when I'm not half asleep.
Gameplay is fun.
It's a roguelike, which I didn't realize before purchasing. Not a fan of the genre at all, as I don't like backtracking, but the cohesive map and teleporting system make it bearable.
I lost to a boss, had to clear a newly generated area, then fought a different boss. Not sure what that was about.
Nothing seemed to carry over after dying, from what I could tell, so it felt like I wasn't making any progress.
Those are my immediate impressions. I'll have to give the game a proper try when I'm not half asleep.
I got it -- get the golden key (I think from the boss) and go back there. She opens up the unlocks shop.
So, good news and bad news:
Good news: Well, almost everything, save for the news; It plays beautifully and it's a meaty, fun game with plenty of good feedback. Rolling is blissful.
Bad news: I am in fact seeing some framerate issues in busier rooms with lots of bullets, I think. Need to test it some more, I'll turn the screen shake off to get a better sense of it.
FaintColt388301
Member
Got it right after I posted it. Haha
More_Badass
Member
There is progression. New weapons and such added to the pool, and things you do in early playthroughs having effects on later playthroughs
It looks like there is a certain kind of currency that carries over after your playthrough, it's in the upper-right hand corner of the character select screen, but I'm not sure how to spend it.
Badpsychometry
Member
After beating a boss, does that stage remain unlocked?
PRjumpman124
Member
I accidentally skipped the part in the tutorial that explained how to use active items. What's the button? (PS4 btw)
this month
Is that Steam? What theme are you using?
Does he sing opera like Crypt of the Necrodancer? If not, he can just stay in the Gungeon for all I care.
More_Badass
Member
Early impressions/pseudo-review from Gamesradar
http://www.gamesradar.com/worlds-most-adorable-bullet-hell-you-should-be-playing-enter-gungeon/
http://www.gamesradar.com/worlds-most-adorable-bullet-hell-you-should-be-playing-enter-gungeon/
"There's always something to master, some new weapon to find and exploit - and one of them might just happen to be a banana, which explodes into three additional exploding bananas. If there's any other roguelike with such a potassium-rich weapon of mass destruction, I haven't heard of it."
Sounds like the Banana Bomb from Worms, except for the convenient "roguelike" exception, heh.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Holy shit I didn't even realize that. Amazing!