I gotta agree that the 100 day limit is improving the game by a lot, especially regarding tension and the player mindset, but still.. I mean there are a few rooms that I probably see 50% of all playthroughs in each area. Its fun, but the game definitely would benefit from more variety/different room setups for every layout.
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I gotta agree that the 100 day limit is improving the game by a lot, especially regarding tension and the player mindset, but still.. I mean there are a few rooms that I probably see 50% of all playthroughs in each area. Its fun, but the game definitely would benefit from more variety/different room setups for every layout.
One Foul Note
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Oddly enough I kept getting frame drops in The Swindle and eventually had to refund it. Between it and Cradle (another refund due to performance drops) steam are gonna start thinking I am abusing the service.
I went PS4 with Swindle, so much nicer to not worry about that stuff.
Phawx
Member
Can you give your specs real quick? Just curious
PandaPedinte
Member
I'm throwing my imaginary money on the screen right now. I was worried this game could never get a release because it didn't get updates the last time I checked it.
One Foul Note
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Ummm....an i3 3.10GHz processor, 4GB RAM and a GT520 graphics card. Not terribly computer literate so if you are interested in any more specific details you will need to tell me how to find them out I'm afraid.
Phawx
Member
That's all I wanted to know. Thanks!
I really need to be quicker with the video making stuff
More_Badass
Member
AniMa - Free (PC, Mac, Linux)
http://mrtedders.itch.io/anima
AniMa is a dark, sinister and very stylish puzzle platforming adventure in which you must possess being and sacrifice them to the gods in order to earn back your life.
Nabs
Member
That's all I wanted to know. Thanks!
I really need to be quicker with the video making stuff
Yeah man, I even went to look for your video before posting that.
More_Badass
Member
Don't forget to vote, guys
Voting
Crest
I didn't play this, but Alex did:
Duck Game
One of only two games I have ever refunded on Steam. It's good, don't get me wrong, frantic and fun but having just changed ISP my internet was awful and crippled any enjoyment I might have had otherwise (plus I couldn't get any of my friends to get it.)
Endless Legend
I want to love this. I love Amplitude, I love the music, the art and the ideas but these kinds of games (be it Civ, Endless Space or, now, Endless Legend) just don't click with me at all. I recognise how good it is though.
Her Story
Game of the month, probably up there in my GOTY reckoning as well. It's a game with an extremely simple interface where you browse through a collection of clips of a woman's questioning in a police department. You search for clips by typing in words that stand out to you while you watch - murder, weapon, suicide - and clips with those words in will crop up. It spawned a pretty hefty spoiler thread on GAF and attracted a lot of mainstream attention.
Into the Light
Pretty janky 3d platforming with some neat ideas - it's early though, so I'm hoping this improves.
The Masterplan
This is good. Top down heist planning shenanigans that demonstrated to me that I have zero capacity to do it successfully. Civilians charging out into the street to phone the police, shop keepers shooting me at the drop of a hat and getting caught non stop by CCTV. It's brilliant nonsense.
Titan Souls
Full disclosure: I only played the demo of this. It's interesting enough, but it didn't grab me sufficiently to make me even consider a full purchase. It looks nice, animates well and has a nice atmosphere to it - but I don't see how you stretch it out to a full game.
Highly Recommended
Her Story
Recommended
Crest
Duck Game
Endless Legend
The Masterplan
Maybe?
Into the Light
Titan Souls
Crest
I didn't play this, but Alex did:
Duck Game
One of only two games I have ever refunded on Steam. It's good, don't get me wrong, frantic and fun but having just changed ISP my internet was awful and crippled any enjoyment I might have had otherwise (plus I couldn't get any of my friends to get it.)
Endless Legend
I want to love this. I love Amplitude, I love the music, the art and the ideas but these kinds of games (be it Civ, Endless Space or, now, Endless Legend) just don't click with me at all. I recognise how good it is though.
Her Story
Game of the month, probably up there in my GOTY reckoning as well. It's a game with an extremely simple interface where you browse through a collection of clips of a woman's questioning in a police department. You search for clips by typing in words that stand out to you while you watch - murder, weapon, suicide - and clips with those words in will crop up. It spawned a pretty hefty spoiler thread on GAF and attracted a lot of mainstream attention.
Into the Light
Pretty janky 3d platforming with some neat ideas - it's early though, so I'm hoping this improves.
The Masterplan
This is good. Top down heist planning shenanigans that demonstrated to me that I have zero capacity to do it successfully. Civilians charging out into the street to phone the police, shop keepers shooting me at the drop of a hat and getting caught non stop by CCTV. It's brilliant nonsense.
Titan Souls
Full disclosure: I only played the demo of this. It's interesting enough, but it didn't grab me sufficiently to make me even consider a full purchase. It looks nice, animates well and has a nice atmosphere to it - but I don't see how you stretch it out to a full game.
Highly Recommended
Her Story
Recommended
Crest
Duck Game
Endless Legend
The Masterplan
Maybe?
Into the Light
Titan Souls
One Foul Note
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Voting
1 Adventures of Pip
2 Big Pharma
3 Endless Legend
4 Infinifactory
5 The Masterplan
6 You Must Build a Boat
1 Adventures of Pip
2 Big Pharma
3 Endless Legend
4 Infinifactory
5 The Masterplan
6 You Must Build a Boat
That F2P magic game on Steam will be my doom. I will grind this game to death to get all cards >_>
Released yesterday night, play time 6 hours so far. ~_~
Edit: And its good too! Finally full deck building, cards buyable ingame without real currency, supposed to replace the Planeswalker game and getting regular card updates.
Released yesterday night, play time 6 hours so far. ~_~
Edit: And its good too! Finally full deck building, cards buyable ingame without real currency, supposed to replace the Planeswalker game and getting regular card updates.
One Foul Note
Member
Hey Phawx, I noticed you are the only friend I have on steam that owns that Victor Vran game. How did that end up? I like my 'hack, kill, loot, repeat' games so I am vaguely interested especially since the devs said something about slapping in local coop when they get the chance.
That's cool. Glad to hear the PC version of that game at least is solid. I put some time into the iOS version of it but eventually bounced off due to it being oddly system hoggy and prone to just freezing on animations for a time. Also didn't help that I am frankly terrible at Magic and I couldn't beat the final boss of the first chapter (a death giant or some creature like that).
That's cool. Glad to hear the PC version of that game at least is solid. I put some time into the iOS version of it but eventually bounced off due to it being oddly system hoggy and prone to just freezing on animations for a time. Also didn't help that I am frankly terrible at Magic and I couldn't beat the final boss of the first chapter (a death giant or some creature like that).
There are some connection issues from time to time and others complain about not enough cards, no chat etcetc, but I actually dont mind any of this
Its the core concept game I wanted for years now. Let me grind a bit every day to buy cards with ingame currency and finish my card collection, perfect.
SerTapTap
Member
Been requesting PS4 review codes over PC lately for this reason, especially since Win 10 seems a bit rocky to start with. And a lot of stuff I review is Japanese which...doesn't always get a great PC port
I hadn't seen him post about it on twitter in months, I was pretty worried it wasn't happening, then this out of no where. I'm so ready
Love that style. I'm awful at racing and even worse at drifting though
Phawx
Member
I haven't played it in a few months, but what I did play was pretty cool. It didn't feel "all" there. Hard to put my finger on it; It has all of the earmarks of isometric looty mcloot games yet it quickly lost steam in the fun-department.
I'll give it another go and see how it turns out.
Voting:
1.) The Swindle
2.) Feist
3.) Antharion
(haven't played that much this month.)
More_Badass
Member
Those games will be up for voting next month (at least Swindle & Feist, not sure about Antharion). Games for this month are listed in the OP
PandaPedinte
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Voting
Not the most engaging month to me, I wasn't interested in many of the games so I just dived in my backlog.
- Antumbra
- Dérive
- Game Over
- There is no Game
- Void Vikings
Not the most engaging month to me, I wasn't interested in many of the games so I just dived in my backlog.
PandaPedinte
Member
Secrets of Grindea - $14.99 (Win)
http://www.secretsofgrindea.com/index.php/pre-order
Secrets of Grindea is an old-school Action RPG with co-op support for up to 4 players. It is a tribute to and sometimes a parody of the old SNES games so many of us grew up with and loved! Journey through fantastical lands and battle tons of different enemies and bosses in your quest for truth, friendship and, above all, finding the world's rarest treasures!
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
You beat me to it! Pumped
phantomspiker
Member
Very excited for this!
Phawx
Member
Oh. Well then. I didn't play much last month.
IN OTHER NEWS!
My Quick Look of Reign of Bullets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQM1w3sikwg
Quick Impressions: Imagine if you took the fun bits of Diablo and shoved them into a SHMUP. That is Reign of Bullets. The twist is that gun modifiers that you receive during the level can't be used until you go back to your hanger. Plus you can affix any gun in any placement you want AND also modify the gun.
For example, let's say you find an EPIC class flamethrower and you want to mount that so that it aims SouthEast. Okay now you are shooting flames diagonally downward towards the ground enemies. But let's say you'd like to also use your flamethrower horizontal with you ship? No problem, weapons have sockets (the better the weapon, the more sockets) so you can just attach the Splitter mod on to the weapon and voila, you have a dual spraying flamethrower.
There are bunch of difficulty levels and they get insanely hard. The reason you'd want to play on harder levels is multifaceted.
I love shmups and this specific take on the genre is extremely refreshing. Additionally, the visuals are chock full of little details and layered parallax goodness.
Highly Recommended.
For example, let's say you find an EPIC class flamethrower and you want to mount that so that it aims SouthEast. Okay now you are shooting flames diagonally downward towards the ground enemies. But let's say you'd like to also use your flamethrower horizontal with you ship? No problem, weapons have sockets (the better the weapon, the more sockets) so you can just attach the Splitter mod on to the weapon and voila, you have a dual spraying flamethrower.
There are bunch of difficulty levels and they get insanely hard. The reason you'd want to play on harder levels is multifaceted.
- You're upgraded weapons completely obliterate current difficulty level stuff, so it needs to be more challenging.
- The higher the difficulty, the greater your luck% increases so that you can get better weapons.
I love shmups and this specific take on the genre is extremely refreshing. Additionally, the visuals are chock full of little details and layered parallax goodness.
Highly Recommended.
Phawx
Member
I think this is understandable. I was tempted to play when I had enough of Hearthstone.
Nabs
Member
It looks like Duck Game is getting Workshop support today
https://twitter.com/adultswimgames/status/627150050527969284
I really need to play DG some more. Rocket League just came in and stopped me from playing anything.
https://twitter.com/adultswimgames/status/627150050527969284
I really need to play DG some more. Rocket League just came in and stopped me from playing anything.
Man some threads full of utter fuckery over the past week or so.
The RPG thread and DA:I vs Witcher 3 thread are messing me up. I'm all for opinions and all but some people just have horrendous taste in games
Makes me even more sad when these people are all "indie games suck" "retro graphics lol "2expensive 4 me" and then proceed to tell me why Bethesda are geniuses at creating RPGs and how DA:I is a staggering achievement.
At least I have you guys!
The RPG thread and DA:I vs Witcher 3 thread are messing me up. I'm all for opinions and all but some people just have horrendous taste in games
Makes me even more sad when these people are all "indie games suck" "retro graphics lol "2expensive 4 me" and then proceed to tell me why Bethesda are geniuses at creating RPGs and how DA:I is a staggering achievement.
At least I have you guys!
More_Badass
Member
I take it no one is mentioning stuff like NEO Scavenger and Serpent in the StaglandsMan some threads full of utter fuckery over the past week or so.
The RPG thread and DA:I vs Witcher 3 thread are messing me up. I'm all for opinions and all but some people just have horrendous taste in games
Makes me even more sad when these people are all "indie games suck" "retro graphics lol "2expensive 4 me" and then proceed to tell me why Bethesda are geniuses at creating RPGs and how DA:I is a staggering achievement.
At least I have you guys!
What do you think?
More_Badass
Member
Oh that was more of a rhetorical question
But yeah, I totally understand the frustration of seeing those kinds of posts
Like I started this thread yesterday
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1087611
And shit drive-by posts like this just make me shake my head
Random thought of the day: One day I'm gonna do a remake of Malebolgia based on The House on the Borderlands. Idea would be for a main hub area as an elegant mansion, while the exteriors are the gigantic and desolate halls of the devil's palace. Just putting this here so that if this crazy idea ever realizes, you can say to yourselves in twenty years "Yeah I read that in Indie Games 2015 [July] thread".
Might as well divulge some more of my thoughts. All terribly ambitious and it's not like Malebolgia set anyone's world on fire. But what the heck. Next game is synthwave action/adventure in a dark city. Afterwards that Die Hard-ish survival horror game I've mentioned before in one of these threads. Then grand scale epic saga action game, cross between my favourite devs Treasure x Yasumi Matsuno. Then Return to Palace Malebolgia. And then I'm done.
Might as well divulge some more of my thoughts. All terribly ambitious and it's not like Malebolgia set anyone's world on fire. But what the heck. Next game is synthwave action/adventure in a dark city. Afterwards that Die Hard-ish survival horror game I've mentioned before in one of these threads. Then grand scale epic saga action game, cross between my favourite devs Treasure x Yasumi Matsuno. Then Return to Palace Malebolgia. And then I'm done.
Oh that was more of a rhetorical question
But yeah, I totally understand the frustration of seeing those kinds of posts
Like I started this thread yesterday
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1087611
And shit drive-by posts like this just make me shake my head
Yeah I just saw it - I don't know - the quality of discussion sometimes is just so poor. Take the RPG renaissance thread for example - I have no problem with people enjoying Skyrim, Oblivion or Fallout 3 - I own and have completed all three and had a really good time. I could also wax lyrical about some of the things they do wrong, some of the areas they lack in etc
So when someone posts a reasonable critique of Bethesda's games and then gets a flurry of
Where does that get us? The same way I don't mind that people don't like indie games - I know these people are just narrow minded - but the constant shit posting is so tiresome.
Phawx
Member
Like.. forever?
More_Badass
Member
What about the SoTC-inspired game?
This is always my answer to any question
Phawx
Member
That's the first one I listed. Working on prototype, might have something to show here in a month or two. Gathering inspirations here for the time being.
More_Badass
Member
On double checking the list i have already played more than 4 games!!!!
Good
Barony - £4.99 (WIN/MAC/STEAM)
Ted by Dawn - £1.59 (WIN)
Tomb of Tyrants - £5.59 (WIN/MAC/STEAM)
You Must Build A Boat - £3.99 (WIN/MAC/STEAM)
Ok
Incandescent
All worth looking into IMO - i was lucky to pick them up in various bundles
Still hoping to get some new indie steam games posted!!!
Good
Barony - £4.99 (WIN/MAC/STEAM)
Ted by Dawn - £1.59 (WIN)
Tomb of Tyrants - £5.59 (WIN/MAC/STEAM)
You Must Build A Boat - £3.99 (WIN/MAC/STEAM)
Ok
Incandescent
All worth looking into IMO - i was lucky to pick them up in various bundles
Still hoping to get some new indie steam games posted!!!
More_Badass
Member
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Wow SuperHOT has really come a ways, loving the
Seems like a perfect shooter for VR what with the incremental movement, thus cutting down on motion sickness. I know Oculus was demoing an earlier build of it a ways back at a trade show. Looking forward to it.
weapon grab midair, dat baseball bat leg shatter too o_o
Seems like a perfect shooter for VR what with the incremental movement, thus cutting down on motion sickness. I know Oculus was demoing an earlier build of it a ways back at a trade show. Looking forward to it.
Nabs
Member
Anyone interested in trying indie fighting game Rising Thunder by Radiant Entertainment (Stone Hearth/GGPO). It's designed to be easy to pick up with all special moves mapped to buttons rather than complicated button combos. I have a key to give away, so either let me know here or PM me and I'll send it your way.
One Foul Note
Member
If that's okay,I would love that key. As someone who finds complex moves in fighting games a bit of a bane sometimes been very interested in rising thunder for a bit.
Nabs
Member
Awesome, I'll send it your way.