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Ooooof I’m fuckin in.
Ooooof I’m fuckin in.
I recall the dev making a post here on lemmy not too long ago looking for feedback on a video of this game. Absolutely bizarre to see it here now. Best looking game of the entire show if you ask me.
Honestly what I loved about Hyper Light Drifter was the aesthetic and atmosphere, neither of which I see here. Sad for me, but oh well. I’ll live.
Valve famously only works on what excites them. You’re yelling me THIS is that?? How utterly defeatingly disappointing.
I tried playing on the lowest possible settings with a 1070 and averaged around 14fps :/
I still finished the game because it was awesome, but haven’t revisited it ever since.
I believe the word you’re looking for is “moichandising”.
Paimon was a main reason I stopped playing.
Truuuuuuuuue but I feel like it’s not the same emotional investment as leveling up by playing, if that makes sense?
It’s moot now because I’ve decided against it, but technically they haven’t spent any time leveling up - they started the game at 5.
Wouldn’t you know it, these magma mephits are immune to fire!
You’re ripping away all of their agency and punishing them for the sake of your narrative rather than for something they did.
This is everything I needed to hear (read). You’re absolutely right, thanks for the reality check.
I definitely want to nix the gear ( I made a dumb decision to allow everyone one magical item and didn’t vet before the game so someone had a staff of fire which is entirely too OP for level 5 - my fault yes).
The reasoning I had was that it’s basically a new life, but to your point if their minds are still intact then dropping levels may not make the sense that I’d thought it would.
That was kind of my thought, having seen it done in video games amply.
I still have the same Microsoft Intellimouse that I got in 2000 when I went away to college. IIRC it was one of the first that used optical tracking vs ye old ball.
Still waiting for ACG’s review, but this is disappointing. Looks like a few months waiting for patches is in order.
Uhh… today’s AAA studios have THOUSANDS of employees, hundreds of millions of dollars in budgets, and huge IPs on which to draw. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Assassin’s Creed, Diablo, Warcraft, Mass Effect, Dragon Age… these studios have VASTLY larger resources than Larian. Like, an order of magnitude larger. This is gaslighting and whining. I’m not having it. Do better, AAA devs. Do a lot better.
Gah I need this in my fucking veins. I will not pre order but I’ll likely be a day 2 purchase just to ensure there’s no enshittification at work.