Stanley Parable, Wolf Among Us and Paper's Please are all great choices from what I have played so far of those.
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Stanley Parable, Wolf Among Us and Paper's Please are all great choices from what I have played so far of those.
Thanks for the replies guys - I think the ones I'm leaning towards most are Wolf Among Us and The Stanley Parable. I don't want to be that guy that misses out on two, potentially excellent, narrative games (again)
More_Badass
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I think in times of overall bang for your buck, I'd go with Wolf Among Us. Granted, I haven't played the game but after TWD, Telltale have proven themselves IMO. And the art style looks absolutely wonderful.
For uniqueness, I'd have a tough time choosing between Stanley Parable and Papers Please
Not sure about the others. But my advice would be to resist temptation and wait for the next big Sale. Trust me, my funds are just as limited as yours and it sucks to buy a game only to see that you could have waited a bit and gotten that game and like three others for same amount
Papers is 40% off atm for 5, whereas Wolf among us is 22 at 0% off. Given that I fully expect at least 33% off for WAU, that would be a 7 saving if you wait until the winter sale compared to about 1 saving for an additional 10% off for Papers please, your logic doesnt make much sense
Deputy Dangle
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Papers is 40% off atm for 5€, whereas Wolf among us is 22€ at 0% off. Given that I fully expect at least 33% off for WAU, that would be a 7€ saving if you wait until the winter sale compared to about 1€ saving for an additional 10% off for Papers please, your logic doesnt make much sense
Yeah, I realize now that I didn't fully think that through. My thought process went something like, "Buy TWAU now to join in on the discussion and anticipation of more good episodes, then consider Paper's Please when it goes on sale later on in the year again". I was trying to consider the money issue along with that. A shame it didn't turn out that way.
More_Badass
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Anyone know how much Stanley Parable will cost? I tried to ask on Steam but only got "8" memes
So against better judgement, I bought Godus.
Has some potential, but core stuff (landscaping/ resource gathering) is terribly implemented right now. Takes forever to 'shape' your world and it feels really inaccurate. Sadly the 'shaping' of your world is pretty core to moving the game forward, so I found myself trying to create layers of land to expand my people on .... which takes way too long.
The game also demands too much from the player. Every action almost requires you to be there and click on something. It's like being the god of puppets!
Oh well, hope they improve on the game. From what I read they seem to 'fix' bad design decisions voiced by the community, so maybe It'll end up being a decent product.
I actually liked it quite a bit! My games ended up becoming a spam fest once mystics showed up. But still enjoyed the idea. Resource management is just a damn pain near the mid to late game. Felt the CPU could pump out like 4 times my limit even when he only had like one town!
Might play some more later, Not completely sure why I stopped
Lol, actually played it more than 2 hours
Lovely game, but not quite the game I wanted when I got it. Too much puzzle elements and not enough titan roar :/
Still enjoyed it and the Art style alone is worth every cent! (Even if the Swamp Giant freaked me out)
I almost completed From Dust! Not a bad idea to get it done. Loved the art in the game.
Has some potential, but core stuff (landscaping/ resource gathering) is terribly implemented right now. Takes forever to 'shape' your world and it feels really inaccurate. Sadly the 'shaping' of your world is pretty core to moving the game forward, so I found myself trying to create layers of land to expand my people on .... which takes way too long.
The game also demands too much from the player. Every action almost requires you to be there and click on something. It's like being the god of puppets!
Oh well, hope they improve on the game. From what I read they seem to 'fix' bad design decisions voiced by the community, so maybe It'll end up being a decent product.
I actually liked it quite a bit! My games ended up becoming a spam fest once mystics showed up. But still enjoyed the idea. Resource management is just a damn pain near the mid to late game. Felt the CPU could pump out like 4 times my limit even when he only had like one town!
Might play some more later, Not completely sure why I stopped
If you are fine with some puzzle elements in a light strategy game with lots and lots of charme - play some more Reus! You probably already bought it anyway and played it less than 2 hours, so go play that
Lol, actually played it more than 2 hours
Lovely game, but not quite the game I wanted when I got it. Too much puzzle elements and not enough titan roar :/
Still enjoyed it and the Art style alone is worth every cent! (Even if the Swamp Giant freaked me out)
I almost completed From Dust! Not a bad idea to get it done. Loved the art in the game.
Alex Connolly
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Twinduct, then it looks like Godus is the one.
Apparently godus was a bad decision for him
Too bad though.Aahhhhhhhhhhh, I just remembered a good one! Twinduct, did you play Reprisal? We featured it back in the april thread.
Reprisal - $3,99 (PC, Mac, Linux)
http://www.desura.com/games/reprisal
Closest thing you get to the god-style games from the 90s. You need to guide a tribe, terraform the land and help them growing to obliterate any enemies in the way of your tribe. At the time of writing 50% off, and highly recommended. Music, gameplay and graphics are all top notch.
There is also a free version out there, highly recommended, but its wonder is a bit on a ... smaller scale than what the 90s god games tried to achieve.
More_Badass
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Ugh...
(From my RogueGAF thread)
(From my RogueGAF thread)
What do you think?
Apparently godus was a bad decision for him
Aahhhhhhhhhhh, I just remembered a good one! Twinduct, did you play Reprisal? We featured it back in the april thread.
Reprisal - $3,99 (PC, Mac, Linux)
There is also a free version out there, highly recommended, but its wonder is a bit on a ... smaller scale than what the 90s god games tried to achieve.
Bought it on Desura the day it was released and yeah it would have been the better options have I not bought both now!
I don't think Godus is bad ... it's just that the core concept doesn't feel fun enough in it's current state. It's cookie clicker without the actual sense of progression.
However I do think that with enough care, the game itself can actually be pretty fun and considering the changes made from release to now, it's save to assume their on it
(Would not buy at current price point though, if it was 50% less though)
Purest will always be annoying as they demand evolution but refuse to accept it when it shows up.
Personally I don't think it's fair to force criteria on an already niche topic. Some of the better roguelike experiences I've had comes from evolved elements in the genre.
Would tell him to get off his high horse. There is enough purest boards/ threads if he wants that restriction.
Name wise or concept wise?
Doesn't matter though, when confused, just ask which one is named by Pieter M
Alex Connolly
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I love different takes on the traditional roguelike, be they twists on the tileset or cribbing that punitive style that makes the genre so enjoyable...we get enough traditional roguelikes that don't fall far from the original tree that there's room aplenty for experimentation.
What's not to like about trying something new? Good heavens. Roguelikes. Serious business.
More_Badass
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Woo hoo, Coilworks got back to me. I'll have my Q&A article up tomorrow.
More_Badass
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Oh snap, we got a shout out! Nice
I am not wholly against "stretching" of the genre, but as soon as I read Demon's Souls, I dismissed that thread as one I would not be interested in frequenting.
I don't mean to be mean, but I honestly have no idea what could be considered "roguelite" or "roguelike-esque" about Demon's Souls. It's a methodical action game with a foreboding atmosphere...
Alex Connolly
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I think it's just the punitive 'death' aspect that people liken FROM to have cribbed from the old games. To be fair, death in Dark/Demon's Souls is quite a distance from stricter roguelikes and fairly overblown on GAF.
Can see two sides, but I think the discussions are far more interesting than the demarcation.
Messofanego
Banned
Either I suck, or the controls are really lacking in the Interference demo. The cyberpunk presentation and art style is great, along with the music.
But man for a 2D stealth platforming game, there are issues. I don't know if it's going for a cinematic platformer vibe with the animation priority, but either way it's frustrating and these are just tutorial stages.
If you're going to make the game hard by not allowing any weapons (at least not ever told about them) or stealth attacks, you should have some tight controls to work with that. Dropping down on a platform to do a ledge grab is more awkward than it should be. Rather than just pressing B to drop down to grab the edge automatically, you have to be on the very tip and quickly press in the opposite direction to grab on or then you're met with enemy fire/lasers.
There are many areas in the Stealth level that are just dead ends.
I'm not even sure where to go because I either end up on a dead end or just jumping down on a previous area. I don't even know what my objective is. There's a lower section of getting into the district that is impossible and you don't get even a reward for the harder platforming challenge by going down this alternative route into the district.
Why are the roofs so low where you can't normally just run and jump off a platform? There is not much vertical area for many of the jumps. If you're doing that where doing a big jump is much harder, why make it even more difficult by having two enemies with huge cones of vision patrol below?
The character is so slow in climbing ladders. He looks like a parkour dude so I would have expected a little more speed and agility in the platforming.
The Glitcher (device that lets you move around platforms) level fares much better, but I'm not sure if I can get past this obstacle.
I tried moving one platform near to the top right (see above), but you can't just run past the enemy or you'll get blasted. You can't move the platform you're on. It would work if I could move my platform to the right, so I can jump onto the ledge of the top right platform and then jump from there to the next area.
Someone else who has actually finished the Interference demo (maybe More_Badass?), please enlighten me.
But man for a 2D stealth platforming game, there are issues. I don't know if it's going for a cinematic platformer vibe with the animation priority, but either way it's frustrating and these are just tutorial stages.
If you're going to make the game hard by not allowing any weapons (at least not ever told about them) or stealth attacks, you should have some tight controls to work with that. Dropping down on a platform to do a ledge grab is more awkward than it should be. Rather than just pressing B to drop down to grab the edge automatically, you have to be on the very tip and quickly press in the opposite direction to grab on or then you're met with enemy fire/lasers.
There are many areas in the Stealth level that are just dead ends.
I'm not even sure where to go because I either end up on a dead end or just jumping down on a previous area. I don't even know what my objective is. There's a lower section of getting into the district that is impossible and you don't get even a reward for the harder platforming challenge by going down this alternative route into the district.
Why are the roofs so low where you can't normally just run and jump off a platform? There is not much vertical area for many of the jumps. If you're doing that where doing a big jump is much harder, why make it even more difficult by having two enemies with huge cones of vision patrol below?
The character is so slow in climbing ladders. He looks like a parkour dude so I would have expected a little more speed and agility in the platforming.
The Glitcher (device that lets you move around platforms) level fares much better, but I'm not sure if I can get past this obstacle.
I tried moving one platform near to the top right (see above), but you can't just run past the enemy or you'll get blasted. You can't move the platform you're on. It would work if I could move my platform to the right, so I can jump onto the ledge of the top right platform and then jump from there to the next area.
Someone else who has actually finished the Interference demo (maybe More_Badass?), please enlighten me.
PandaPedinte
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Juliet looks beautiful and is made by Brazilian developers. I still need to play Luxuria Superbia and see for myself what this game is about.
One Foul Note
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I'm downloading now, giving it a go in a bit. Although it does sound like it has a few issues. This is just me being weird and superficial, but something about the game rubs me up the wrong way due to the stealth dude wearing a high visibility jacket.
More_Badass
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About Interference, I also found the controls clunky and in need of a lot of work, but I felt that the foundation is set for a fantastic experience. The visuals and effects (love the rain), the potential of the level glitching mechanic, the sci-fi noir story and environments, I feel outweigh the lacking controls at the moment. I left some feedback on IndieDB (like I also couldn't figure out how to use the taser), so hopefully this elements will be refined and improved
Messofanego
Banned
It's a looker of a game for sure, but man playing and retrying 20 times since there are no checkpoints in the stealth level is an exercise in frustration. At least I know others are having issues with the controls so I didn't come off as a debbie downer.
More_Badass
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Oh yeah and the lack of checkpoints....
But still, in alpha, in development, it's excusable for now.
Mikado
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Very nice and better than last time
Thanks Indiestatik! I wonder who the Indiestatik mole is among us or whether they are just professional lurkers Messofanego
Banned
Oh snap indeed!
Wait, there are dancing moves in this game? Double sold!
Dancing moves ruin any game, didnt you hear?
I am of the same mind here. I haven't read the thread but purists of anything can be super annoying so I tend to avoid "rogue-like" threads even though it is my favorite kind of game. If you talk about a game that has MANY rogue-like features (but not all) and refer to it as a rogue-like (or rogue-lite or rogue-like-like or whatever), people will understand the core of the game and that is what really matters. Throwing a game in that is just "hard" and punishes death, as a rogue-like, serves no one in determining their interest in a game.
Wok
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Name wise or concept wise?
Doesn't matter though, when confused, just ask which one is named by Pieter M
Name wise. Then I think there is "god" in godus, so it is the game made by Peter M.
More_Badass
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Personally I see the Souls games as "gateway" games. They introduce the most basic foundations and mindset that gamers need to succeed in a roguelike, such as playing defensively and cautiously, dealing with losing hard-earned progress, fearing the unknown, etc. Thats why I think they have a place in a discussion about roguelikes, "lites", and every permutation in between
More_Badass
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What kind of game is Thirty Flights of Loving? Never heard of it, but it looks interesting.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
It's an explosive short form game combining elements of spy flicks and fiction while using the strengths of the gaming medium to tell you a book's worth of info in about 15-20 minutes. Buying TFOL gives you two games - Gravity Bone is the prequel to TFOL and is freely available but you can access it via the main menu after starting TFOL for the first time. It has a bit more game-y elements like jump puzzles but still extremely short.
TFOL is closer to wander-games (Proteus, Dear Esther) than anything else, which bothers a lot of people but I think they miss the point of the two. It's all about teaching you about the world, the mission, the people and what went wrong without any dialog whatsoever. It utilizes some film techniques not often used in gaming like the Jump Cut (which the Stanley Parable Demonstration used, much to my pleasure) to deliver rapid information in a compressed timeframe. So in an essence, its the exact opposite of Dear Esther.
I didn't get the point while I played, but it wasn't til after I finished that I realized how much the game told me without anyone speaking. Highly recommended, though I know your budget is a bit tight right now.
More_Badass
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Thanks for the impressions. Now that I think about it, I remember playing Gravity Bone a while back. Think I'll pass on this one, rather save for Quadrilateral. Now hopefully that game isn't as short as Thirty Flights or Gravity
More_Badass
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OMG! Telelgitch DLC!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/240820/
The Guns and Tunes DLC for Teleglitch: Die More Edition will grant players access to eight new starter weapons and utilities . A soundtrack of original music created by the Teleglitch developers deliver five haunting tracks that convey the constant tension of T3P’s chilling game world and complements the actual in-game ambient soundtrack.
8 new weapons and utilities to add to your arsenal
5 music tracks that will enhance your Teleglitch experience
A new option to randomize your weaponry at the start of the game
This...this changes everything.
Edit: reading on RPS reveals that the included music doesn't play in-game, it's a separate soundtrack
http://store.steampowered.com/app/240820/
The Guns and Tunes DLC for Teleglitch: Die More Edition will grant players access to eight new starter weapons and utilities . A soundtrack of original music created by the Teleglitch developers deliver five haunting tracks that convey the constant tension of T3P’s chilling game world and complements the actual in-game ambient soundtrack.
8 new weapons and utilities to add to your arsenal
5 music tracks that will enhance your Teleglitch experience
A new option to randomize your weaponry at the start of the game
This...this changes everything.
Edit: reading on RPS reveals that the included music doesn't play in-game, it's a separate soundtrack
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Yeah it's just the preorder DLC finally available to everyone. Glad they finally got around to it though.
Relating to your previous post, Brendon Chung is streaming himself coding Quadrilateral Cowboy right now!
I must admit my love for the genre can't keep me out of the Rogue threads but I do usually end up with gritted teeth as the thread devolves into an intricate discussion of what is/isn't deserving of the "Rogue."
Anyways, point of post was to say I'm thoroughly Enjoying Bionic Dues despite its design oddities/disparities. Basically, you take four Robots into a turn based battlefield but only control one at a time. You swap robots on the fly (taking one turn) and each robot type has a different skillset so you use them as the situation fits.
I can see myself sinking a lot of hours in the game. Its pretty fast moving, funny and I love the soundtrack - odd choice of title theme and all.
I read the RPS wot I think and agree with a lot of it. Although I do find it a lot more amusing than the RPS write up states.
Its £5.24 at 25% off for another 20 hours of so. Here's the link - Bionic Dues.
More_Badass
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Heads up, the next IGS feature is Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages
More_Badass
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The best moment in Fez, that never gets old for me, is when you enter a world that looks like only narrow pillars and then you rotate...and realize that those are only the sides of buildings. That just makes me smile every time.
Also the first you go through a door and into an area in the background. That was a great moment.
And I love the detail of time passing, with the sky changing colors, and how one side of a wall may be sunny but the other side will be shaded.
Can't believe I waited so long to play this
Also the first you go through a door and into an area in the background. That was a great moment.
And I love the detail of time passing, with the sky changing colors, and how one side of a wall may be sunny but the other side will be shaded.
Can't believe I waited so long to play this
BabySlayer
Banned
Anyone know when Samurai Gunn is coming out? Or if there is any demo out there?
please respond
please respond
More_Badass
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"Samurai Gunn is coming to PC this holiday season and coming to PS4 and Vita in 2014."
Bought this awhile ago, only played a few mins though so no impressions to give.
Will play some more later, but seemed solid from what I played, combat seemed pretty fun.
More_Badass
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I just started playing last night myself (actually had the game since August but keep crashing)
For $1, this is a steal. It's fast and fun. I haven't started making my own build, but the base powers and weapons are already fun to use. And if the trailer is any indication, they'll only get better. Nice visual effects, interesting story, multiplayer
I am really looking forward to our thread internal end of the year voting. Friendly reminder, I am thinking of a rule to only allow those to vote who voted at least once in one of the monthly threads, so if you read this and havent voted yet but plan on doing so in the yearly voting, you should start voting
More_Badass
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This would be the first one ever right? Since you started the thread this year?I am really looking forward to our thread internal end of the year voting. Friendly reminder, I am thinking of a rule to only allow those to vote who voted at least once in one of the monthly threads, so if you read this and havent voted yet but plan on doing so in the yearly voting, you should start voting
So many good choices already and we still haven't experienced Stanley Parable, Teslagrad, or Quadrilateral Cowboy. And if the RimWorld public alpha comes out this year, that might be another contender for me
Yeah, I am still pondering over some other rules. 20 votes minimum and such.
PandaPedinte
Member
I am really looking forward to our thread internal end of the year voting. Friendly reminder, I am thinking of a rule to only allow those to vote who voted at least once in one of the monthly threads, so if you read this and havent voted yet but plan on doing so in the yearly voting, you should start voting
It's going to be tough choose the best games of this year, I'm sure the list will be well diversified.