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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZf6khoZQsc
Still not super keen on the Bioshock-esque art deco of the station, but goddamn the enemies look cool. ...it's getting marked as spam. No-one wants to sit through 10 mins of random r-drawflat UT FFA just to hear someone waffle on about a hypothetical game they're making without actually seeing or reading any useful information at all.
https://youtu.be/ln_plWALAoI?t=2m13s
Pillars Of Eternity 2. Very little gameplay shown but it has the best water I've seen in an isometric game! PoE is an isometric RPG like Baldur's gate and Ice Wind Dale...etc.
I only created my character in PoE, I really owe it to myself to continue! agreed on the Art-Deco space station. Really not working for me. Draws really obvious comparisons to Bioshock, which was good because it was original and executed really well, and this is neither.
The enemies look good though, and it looks like there's a range of approaches you can take, with some excellent physical gameplay. This game called Immortal Redneck could turn out to be not bad. It's doing well on Greenlight.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=834223670 <Shambler> i have been playing too much grim dawn
<Shambler> best looking semi-iso arpg around i reckon <Shambler> 10000% pure fantasy rpg cliche but it plays fun and the details are great <Shambler> it's grittier than diablo3, but not random generated tile maps like path of exile, it's a good in between Dark Souls clone in a blandly industrial sci-fi setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbZ6NrXJUu0 - style of one for Friction maybe??
If you don't believe me that grim Dawn looks really nice:
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197971710064/screenshots/?appid=219990 Very coherent graphics and particularly nice foliage, water, and fog. Best of D3 + POE styles together imo. Kickstarter starts on 21st February! Stay tuned!!!
Is there anyway to ANTI-Kickstart something, like donate lots of cash to stop it getting made?? Thats a confusing bag of emotions. Superbly executed aesthetic, some of the environment art, and the glitchy effects are wonderful. Hope a language barrier is responsible for some of the words though, that floopy disk shit for example, strong facepalm levels of cringe.
Wanted to have a cool futuristic vibe to immerse myself in. Hmmm. Doesn't help that it's not very immersive so far. All the cyber-aspects and conspiracy-doodahs are so generic, cliched and try-hard it makes me cringe rather than be captivated. And once again Jensen is the dullest, most wooden, tedious and utterly unengaging protagonist ever to spoil a PC game. I wouldn't mind if he was a personality-free blank slate so you could imagine him being more like you.....but he has anti-personality, an embarrassingly obviously designed-by-committee cut-and-paste "edgy" "gruff" "slick but gritty" collection of utter dullness that sucks all life out of any interactions like a grey hole.
Also it has the worst ambient occlusion since Far Cry 3, the black fudge around objects is so bad it looks inadvertantly cel-shaded, then again it looks bland and flat with the AO off. Why not have a bloody setting for it?? http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874467266 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874466963 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874466927 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=874466833 Ugh. The stuff in strong lighting looks okay although people's faces are more HL2 era than DX4. It's also rather clunky in the way it plays. Mantling recentres the camera so abruptly you get whiplash, and the game loves throwing you into 3rd person for anything it damn well wants, or into a hudless lock screen - completely with screen blacking out before and after - for any relevant chit chat. Smoothly in control it is NOT. Still....will keep trying. The Prague city seems okay so far. The AO makes me think the developers were nostalgic for the late 2000s/early 2010s.
I've never been able to get that far into a deus ex game. Furthest I managed was getting up to the Missing Link content in HR, which pissed me off and made me quit by taking all my gear. I should probably try that again someday... I remember getting pretty far in The Nameless Mod back in the day though. Which is pretty weird, since I never visited PDX while it was a thing and the mod was one giant in-joke... ...really did what it promised. One of the best of it's era.
DX2 I skipped. DX3 was good. This one I'm not getting on with so much. The weapon and mod menus seem extra clunky too - can't use the same key to enter and exit them?? Still I'm sure it will be fun enough in the end....but despite a lot of flaws maybe. "All the cyber-aspects and conspiracy-doodahs are so generic, cliched... the dullest, most wooden, tedious and utterly unengaging protagonist..."
Sounds like the first Deus Ex tbh. I mean it's a great game, obviously, but having grown up reading cyberpunk novels and staying up late to listen to Art Bell, by the time I got around to playing it it was hard for me to be impressed with the story in particular. had no idea the AO was that intense though. Agree it looks very cartoony which i didn't think was the look they were going for in a game like this.
And even from the trailers, the protagonist is a fucking design-by-committee plank and it completely puts me off the game |
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