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Haydee

Battlechili

Banned
Has anyone been playing this?
Haydee is a game that was voted on and approved via Steam Greenlight. After a few months, it finally got finished and was put on the Steam Store where it came out a few days ago. It has since gotten a decent bit of attention and popularity.

Haydee is a 3rd person shooter that touts itself as a 3D metroidvania, sort of like games like Metroid Prime. Its like this in that the game is spaced out through rooms that create a sort of mazelike structure where you have to solve increasingly difficult puzzles while trying to deal with enemies that are extremely dangerous and could easily kill you. The game in general has a somewhat high difficulty, though this can be mitigated in its lower difficulty settings. The game takes visual design from Portal, however, as is probably the most obvious part of the game, the camera angle takes cues from early Tomb Raider games. The game features much gratuitous fanservice via its camera angles and physics (for example, the usual jiggle physics you might see in some fanservice games like Senran Kagura). Though in this case, you're playing a robot rather than an actual human.

In any case, I recently tried the demo for this, playing it on Hardcore difficulty, and found it to be really fun! (and also extremely difficult). Though I found that I got discouraged pretty quickly once the puzzles in the game started to pick up in difficulty, so I never got very far in the demo. There's also no checkpoints, so you actually have to find save areas or else you have to start back over. One thing I like about it is that the game has a bit more interactivity in some aspects that other games would do automatically. For example, if you jump at a ledge, you'll grab onto the ledge, and when you press the spacebar again, you'll start to climb but not climb all the way up, requiring an extra spacebar press to climb up all the way on a ledge. Its simple, but it makes the game feel as if the player has to do more. Otherwise though, the gameplay reminds me some of what I've played of Uncharted and/or Tomb Raider (general climbing challenges, etc.). I haven't gotten the full game yet, but it appears that its now a full fledged game and has had some improvements since its demo was first shown on its Greenlight page several months ago.

Anyways, has anyone played this? What do you guys think of it?

I'd make an OT for this but since I haven't gotten the full game yet I'm not sure I'm qualified. I'm also not sure if this game is popular enough to where it'd benefit from an OT. I'd also post screenshots but I'm not sure if or what could be posted that would be considered appropriate enough for this site. This game is not a porn game to be sure, but its not exactly lacking some level of sexual pandering.
 
I saw this on the front page of Steam today.

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From the gameplay it looks like a decent game but the character design... why? There is no better example of sexualization just for the sake of sexualization.
 
Saw Jim Sterling play it. Looks dreadfully mediocre in all aspects trying to make up for it with a gimmicky difficulty and sexual appeal.
Was surprised to see it pop up on my Twitter TL quite a bit
 
It looks awful, and the character is basically internet porn bait. Not really sure what the appeal is beyond that, as that part of the game is so in your face it overshadows anything else about it.
 
If the protagonist looked like a normal robot, or hell, the same robot but with regular proportions, I could probably enjoy the game.

But you have to do this every time you climb a ledge.

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BY2K

Membero Americo
I feel like this game was made just so the character model could be used for those sourcefilmaker porn movies.
 

Tagyhag

Member
It's bad to say but I'm glad that the game itself looks to be mediocre.

I'd be pretty conflicted if the game ended up being GOTY-Material. Could only play it when I'm alone lol.
 

Sou Da

Member
Is these like Japanese robot design sensibilities or something?

Because I see a robot grafted onto a sexy woman's lower half in some kind of weird body horror situation.
 

Battlechili

Banned
It looks awful, and the character is basically internet porn bait. Not really sure what the appeal is beyond that, as that part of the game is so in your face it overshadows anything else about it.
I don't really think it gets in the way of the gameplay; the gameplay is still there and the primary focus of the game from what I understand. Its more that the camera angles, physics, and general character design are all eye candy meant to make the game more enjoyable visually for those who like that sort of thing. The gameplay is still what makes the game. That's all just visual stuff.

Though I can see someone who doesn't particularly like such content finding the visual aspect too in their face to enjoy the gameplay. Personally, I like it, and at least one of my friends that has it jokes about it albeit lovingly.
Is these like Japanese robot design sensibilities or something?

Because I see a robot grafted onto a sexy woman's lower half in some kind of weird body horror situation.
I believe the game is Russian
 

Evo X

Member
There is a deep lore story reason for why the character needs to look like that.

Once you find out, you will be ashamed of your words and deeds.
 

Dio

Banned
It's getting shilled to high heaven on 4chan, actually. Threads spammed about it all the time. I get the feeling that the developers are making constant /v/ threads to get people's attention, and it's working because the game's getting a lot of fetish fanart now.


As you can see, it's causing no small amount of irritation to see this game getting spammed there.
 

Raticus79

Seek victory, not fairness
Is these like Japanese robot design sensibilities or something?

Because I see a robot grafted onto a sexy woman's lower half in some kind of weird body horror situation.

Oh... oh no

"You will control Haydee - half-human, half-robot character in search of her way out of strange artificial complex full of traps, pain and depression."
 
I don't really think it gets in the way of the gameplay; the gameplay is still there and the primary focus of the game from what I understand. Its more that the camera angles, physics, and general character design are all eye candy meant to make the game more enjoyable visually for those who like that sort of thing. The gameplay is still what makes the game. That's all just visual stuff.

hey man it's okay to like robot titties if that's your thing, you don't have to dance around it
 

Sou Da

Member
Oh... oh no

"You will control Haydee - half-human, half-robot character in search of her way out of strange artificial complex full of traps, pain and depression."

That's fucking terrifying, that means someone chopped someone else up and attached a robot head to her corpse.

What's the lore here?
 

Sou Da

Member
It's getting shilled to high heaven on 4chan, actually. Threads spammed about it all the time. I get the feeling that the developers are making constant /v/ threads to get people's attention, and it's working because the game's getting a lot of fetish fanart now.

For a place that has a culture up it's own ass about spotting shills, they're never able to tell when they're getting worked.
 

Ferrio

Banned
Saw this when it first came out, almost made a thread about it but honestly the game looks so trashy I didn't wanna see like I was advertising it.

Probably one of the biggest pandering games I've ever seen. It's a literal walking pair of tits and ass. I love the cheesecake, but man this one is just bad all around.
 
If you guys read the prequel visual novel and actually tried to understand why Haydee was the way she was you would not be laughing.
I'm pretty sure I would still be. It's like Kojima's "you'll be ashamed of your words and deeds". They might come up with a reason to put sexualized imagery on the screen after the fact, but it's still an excuse to put sexualized imagery on the screen.
 

Battlechili

Banned
It's getting shilled to high heaven on 4chan, actually. Threads spammed about it all the time. I get the feeling that the developers are making constant /v/ threads to get people's attention, and it's working because the game's getting a lot of fetish fanart now.
4chan just has a lot of people that half-jokingly, half seriously post THICC in any thread they can. Because such art is popular there, I don't think its surprising the game took off there. I don't think its the devs doing it though. People tend to think that for pretty much any indie game that comes out there and I personally think that gets in the way of game discussion. Too many people crying shill every time a new game comes out because some people took interest in it.
hey man it's okay to like robot titties if that's your thing, you don't have to dance around it
I mean, I do haha but I don't think the game would be as hard as it is if the gameplay wasn't the main focus. Hard to enjoy the camera angles and physics if you're dying all the time.

Though speaking of her being a robot, I think the game would've benefited if she didn't have human-looking skin. If you're going to pander and make a character a sexualized robot, why not go all out and actually make the character look more robotic? Currently she looks like a human in a suit.
 

Dio

Banned
For a place that has a culture up it's own ass about spotting shills, they're never able to tell when they're getting worked.
I'm sure they're well aware, they just don't care.

For the record, the thing that disappoints me the most about this game is that it's bad, not that it has a thick robot in it. If the game was good, that'd be a plus, actually. No, it's just a shitty game with a model made for people to rip and make SFM webms with. At least Senran Kagura has the excuse of being a somewhat decent musou where I can look at breasts if I want instead of an awful early-access tier game that tries to distract me with fanservice.
 

Raticus79

Seek victory, not fairness
That's fucking terrifying, that means someone chopped someone else up and attached a robot head to her corpse.

What's the lore here?

I'm guessing there will be a lot of similarities to (2015 horror game - major spoiler)
Soma
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The playable character's boobs are moving around WAY too much for an apparently skin tight suit. Sorry, but that design is enough to ensure I would never even think of touching this game. Just... so tired of it. :|
 

Battlechili

Banned
I'm sure they're well aware, they just don't care.

For the record, the thing that disappoints me the most about this game is that it's bad, not that it has a thick robot in it. If the game was good, that'd be a plus, actually. No, it's just a shitty game with a model made for people to rip and make SFM webms with. At least Senran Kagura has the excuse of being a somewhat decent musou where I can look at breasts if I want instead of an awful early-access tier game that tries to distract me with fanservice.
Actually...I made a lot of comparisons to Senran Kagura due to its fanservice, but ultimately what frustrates me about Senran Kagura is how little there is to the gameplay and how easy it is to become overleveled. Senran Kagura being the action game that it is, its missing the emphasis on parries and dodges and general evolving combos that other action games like MGR and DMC have. SK is too buttonmashy and its too easy to level up a character to such a degree where you can quickly take out most enemies without any trouble. Its a really easy game, and yet it can be BS in its balancing at the same time since enemies can stun-lock you in combos.

While they're not the same kind of games (except for the fanservice), I'd argue that Haydee is a better game from what I've played since its at least more challenging and requires a bit of thought put into solving the puzzles of each room without dying.

Though I've only played the demo like I said; initially when I first played Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus I thought it was really fun and it took a few hours before I became disappointed with it. Maybe Haydee is the same in that aspect.
 
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