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[MilkBeard]

People whining about Roguelite, but it looks pretty cool.

 

[antispin]

Gameplay looks bad.

 

[More_Badass]

People whining about Roguelite, but it looks pretty cool.

I have feeling people are either tired of seeing "rogue-" used a lot and/or have played a lot of bad roguelikes/roguelites

 

[Adam_Vania]

that screen shot they've been showing around to promote this is entrancing. this looks like a real cool gameworld to play in. also looks a lot like Bioshock gameplay wise. i always felt like the gameplay in B:I was dumbed down for the story itll be cool to see what they do w just focusing on that.

 

[Fonster Mox]

This trailer will appear in youtube videos in a year with titles like "Did you know that City of Brass was meant to look like this?" or "Check out all these things cut from City of Brass"

 

[Ouroboros]

Looks pretty rough for coming out in the Fall, but I'll keep my eye on it. Loved Irrational Games'.....games...

 

[Yeef]

Looks interesting enough, though I'm not really a fan of roguelikes. Can't see the title without thinking of this:

 

[Stealthcobra]

Super depressing. Love Bioshock but there's no quicker way to torpedo my interest than adding rogue____ to it.

My feelings exactly.. Rogue genre seems like a way to just hide how shallow the game really is.. And also usually includes a weak story

 

[ViviOggi]

Looks pretty rough for coming out in the Fall, but I'll keep my eye on it. Loved Irrational Games'.....games...

Console release set for 2018 suggests they're going the early access route

 

[More_Badass]

My feelings exactly.. Rogue genre seems like a way to just hide how shallow the game really is.. And also usually includes a weak story

Actually, traditional roguelikes tend to have more depth and complexity than many other genres. Even lites like Spelunky, Necrodancer, Binding, Gungeon, and others have very skill-based gameplay; that's like the whole foundation of the procedural generation.

Like the only way you can say "roguelikes are just an excuse to hide a shallow game" is if you havent played many roguelikes or you've played a lot of bad ones

 

[Falchion]

Obviously a ton of Bioshock vibes from this, looks cool.

 

[vio]

Permadeath? Ain`t nobody got time for that. Well, i don`t at least. Good luck to them though.

 

[Symbiotx]

Looks awkward and clunky. Meh.

 

[schlynch]

Oversaturation.

Nope, there aren't nearly enough.

Game sounds interesting, look is kinda meh but let's see how it play.

 

[Drain You]

Looks awkward and clunky. Meh.

Absolutely looks clunky, still semi interested in it though. I end up wasting a lot of time on these sorts of games I guess.

 

[bede-x]

The style and setting looks more interesting than the typical FPS, but roguelite is such a turn-off

 

[Mossybrew]

roguelite is such a turn-off

Yeah, it really is. This looked interesting for a brief moment but nah, do not dig that style of gameplay at all.

 

[Tremis]

Turned on by the rogue-like aspect. Will consider checking it out.

However, if Dustforce's "The Spire" ever gets done, my FPS rogue-lite money is on that, all the way.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Hmm...the overall concept is quite interesting to me. I watched the gameplay trailer, and it looks nice in motion as opposed to the screenshot in OP...however, the gameplay looks slow AF :/...hope they tweak it to be a tad faster...watching the same gameplay video at 1.25x speed looks better to me

 

[veloxStrix]

I feel like every few months I see "Ex Bioshock devs announce" somewhere.

 

[Mrbob]

Roguelite I'm in. Roguelike I'm out. Want progression with permanent upgrades I can use for new playthroughs.

Dead Cells basically made roguelites enjoyable again by letting you keep upgrades you bought for example.

If this game doesnt do anything like that its gonna be another Gungeon/Isaac for me.

Check out Rogue Legacy if you haven't already. I think this is the game Dead Cells used as inspiration.

 

[Drain You]

Hmm...the overall concept is quite interesting to me. I watched the gameplay trailer, and it looks nice in motion as opposed to the screenshot in OP...however, the gameplay looks slow AF :/...hope they tweak it to be a tad faster...watching the same gameplay video at 1.25x speed looks better to me

Did the same after your post and I have to agree. At 1.25x speed the game almost looks totally different. Much different feel to it.

 

[TemplaerDude]

Guh these threads are always a page or two of people whining about roguelikes/lites like they're entitled to play every game or something.

I'm excited.

 

[Symbiotx]

Hmm...the overall concept is quite interesting to me. I watched the gameplay trailer, and it looks nice in motion as opposed to the screenshot in OP...however, the gameplay looks slow AF :/...hope they tweak it to be a tad faster...watching the same gameplay video at 1.25x speed looks better to me

It's funny what a difference speeding it up makes. This would be much better.

 

[Glix]

As a MTG player I will only ever be able to call this game City of Ass, just like the card.

 

[Zepp Twofist]

What's wrong with rogue titles?

Gaf only likes single player narrative games that aren't made by ubisoft.

 

[JusDoIt]

I think I'm somebody who liked BioShock combat more than most, but not without the BioShock level story to go with it.

 

[KKRT00]

Gameplay needs a lot of polish, but have really nice ideas.
It seems like to have some of Arkane's game influence.

 

[HazySaiyan]

"Roguelite"

Looks pretty janky as well, especially considering the release date

 

[Stoze]

Dead Cells basically made roguelites enjoyable again by letting you keep upgrades you bought for example.

If this game doesnt do anything like that its gonna be another Gungeon/Isaac for me.

There's quite a few of them that do that, persistence between runs is pretty common at this point.

Seems cool. I think we're still missing an excellent go-to FPS rougelite worth sinking more than a dozen hours into so maybe these guys can finally pull it off. Then again this doesn't really seem to be a shooter.

 

[100%TrophyMaster]

Randomly generated levels and permadeath

Totally not into this. Probably a pass here

 

[Sarcastic Poster]

Looks like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic gameplay-wise.

 

[Booker.DeWitt]

It's ok story gamers, not every game has to be tailor-made for you

Most of people in this thread agrees with me

 

[BRocknRolla]

You got me at bioshock devs but lost me at rogue/generated levels/etc

:/

Why? Those we're the best parts of Bio... Oh, right.

It's part of the problem with using your old name to advertise; it carries weight and expectation.

 

[Jack Scofield]

The only roguelikes I've played are Spelunky and Downwell and both after fantastic games. I don't see the issue here. 🤷

 

[Stoze]

The only roguelikes I've played are Spelunky and Downwell and both after fantastic games. I don't see the issue here. 🤷

I mean looking at the thread, clearly the issue is people are tired of them considering there's a lot of them out there besides Spelunky and Downwell.

 

[Tagyhag]

What is "Roguelite"?

Is this the new Soulsborne Metroidvania?

The general definition is that while Roguelites have permadeath like Roguelikes, they always have some sort of currency that stays with you after death so you can improve yourself for your next runs. So while you're technically starting over, you're getting stronger and stronger every playthrough.

They're great games for people who like roguelikes but don't have the time or patience.

Examples being Rogue Legacy, Dead Cells, EVERSPACE, etc.

Oversaturation.

I disagree, how many FPS roguelites can you name?

 

[KKRT00]

I mean looking at the thread, clearly the issue is people are tired of them considering there's a lot of them out there besides Spelunky and Downwell.

Tired of what exactly? Roguelite is not a genre or even type of experience, its just set of few rules.

 

[jimboton]

I have feeling people are either tired of seeing "rogue-" used a lot and/or have played a lot of bad roguelikes/roguelites

To be honest I can see how that might happen. However spending some time with Dead Cells and Unexplored especially has made me remember how good the genre can be.

 

[Stoze]

Tired of what exactly? Roguelite is not a genre or even type of experience, its just set of few rules.

Tired of the "set of rules". I'm just reading the reaction of the thread and every other thread introducing a rougelite, I personally don't necessarily agree. And I'm well aware of what a rougelite is.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

At least it's not a fucking side scrolling sprite game. Now THOSE are oversaturated.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

This looks ROUGH. I'll keep an eye on it but really not feeling it.

 

[Spoo]

Normally I'm not into rogue-like games (unless it's From Soft), but the environment here along with the mobility of the main character makes me think I can actually sink my teeth into this if the quality of it is pretty high.

 

[Fuchsdh]

Eh while in theory the setting could be really interesting, the cartoony look kills my interest insofar as the successor to atmospheric games like System Shock and BioShock is... this.

 

[tuxfool]

Frankly I see roguelite as an excuse to extend the game time by making you replay the same low level content over and over.

I'm tired of indie roguelites.

At least it's not a fucking side scrolling sprite game. Now THOSE are oversaturated.

There are plenty of first person roguelites, like Ziggurat or Immortal Redneck. I could name a number of other worse ones too.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Pretty much, sadly :/

 

[yananana]

That could use some polish, cause such unsatisfying gameplay as the gameplay footage shows in a roguelite is just DOA.

This thread makes me wonder, what's Ken Levine up to nowadays?

 

[SapphiCine]

Roguelite? Devs must need to eat.

 

[tuxfool]

This thread makes me wonder, what's Ken Levine up to nowadays?

Narrative lego.

 

[yananana]

Narrative lego.

Uh, google'd as I didn't understand what you meant by that, and turns out he gave a GDC talk I wasn't aware to on this subject, I'll give it a listen.