This looks so cool and I love that it is PvE but this water level mechanic kills the whole game for me. I don’t want to play a game that makes me lose my progression when I’m not actively playing it. If they change this I will consider buying it but the developers seem to be pretty hellbent on keeping this mechanic unfortunately. Maybe they will change their tune in a few weeks when they notice that they can’t keep players around.
I’m in the same boat. The water based upkeep mechanic seems punishing, especially for time starved / more casual gamers.
I do think it’s very on theme with the game, I hope that they’ll tweak it over time - something interesting could be adding a way for more active players to contribute surplus water to a shared supply.
If they manage to tidy the game up and fix some of the glaring issues I’d likely still give it a try even with the water “feature”.
Does the mechanic turn you off the game completely?
Yes, I don’t like mechanics that happen while the game is turned off. It’s unnecessary. I keep reading from players who are defending this mechanic that it’s so easy to get several days or almost a month of water supply in just a few hours of gameplay. But if it’s so easy to get the water why not just remove the mechanic? They wouldn’t even notice and everyone else wouldn’t have to play with this FOMO mechanic.
There is absolutely no way that people with kids will ever play this, that includes me. I get the idea, but this isn’t a question of it being good or bad - it’s physically impossible to ask this from parents. Which I guess probably means we’re not the target audience
I’m not even a parent and I don’t want this. It’s just an unnecessary mechanic to punish casual players for no reason at all. It doesn’t add anything to the game.
It also punishes people who go on vacation for a week, have a power outage, get engrossed by a different game, suffer any kind of longer term medical issue, etc. There are dozens of reasons someone could stop playing for a while.
It’s really a bullying mechanic that forces players to keep playing the game for fear of losing their stuff. People should be coming back because the gameplay is fun, not because of the threat of lost progress.
The mechanic would be much more appropriate if it were tied to actual time signed in to the game. I was looking forward to this game and was already going to wait for more polish anyways, but as long as this mechanic exists in its current state I’m completely turned off of it.
Looks interesting. I’m into PvE games, especially sci-fi ones, and I appreciate the fact that the dev is actively avoiding microtx. The aesthetic kind of reminds me of Death Stranding.
I probably won’t buy it very early on, but I would consider it if it was closer to release.
I saw a lot of negative comments in a YouTube thread. I only played the OG once, so perhaps it’s not sacred enough to me, but what I saw looked good.
P.s. when I completed my first playthrough, it was in 2021. My experience is that the original is not as good, now—compared to modern games and storytelling—than rose-colored glasses might suggest.
What have they done to Eddie? He’s nearly unrecognizable. Why do they insist on changing the literal iconic design of the characters? Nobody was asking for that.
I’d disagree. I think the changes they’ve made with Eddie look great. He looks sickly and tired, unhinged and empty as a result of the bullying, lifestyles he’s led and the personal hell he’s experiencing.
That’s fine but he already had a very good design. And it was iconic. There was no reason to change it, other than the sake of changing it (which seems to be a reoccurring theme with this remake).
Facial mocap technology has advanced enough that the character doesnt need to look like the face actor at all, so there is no technical reason his design was changed. His voice acting is probably the best in the whole trailer, but I still much prefer the delivery of the original.
They’re trying to put way more emotion into the acting, which is going to absolutely RUIN when Mary reads her full letter to James at the end of the game. The “bad” voice acting of the original, with the mostly deadpan delivery, was vital to making the beautifully emotional delivery of the letter reading stand out and evoke more emotion from the player. It’s a special and nearly intimate moment the player feels because they just spent the whole game with barely any visible or audible emotion at all. Adding more emotion will only take away from that.
Dzięki, docenione. Tutaj, zgaduję, taki wieczorek kulturalno-inteligencki – połączenie artyzmu z zachwytem naukowym, inspiracją (IMHO pretty pozytywny bodziec; niejedxnx naukowxcx grywa na jakimś instrumencie). Sztuka z kontekstem – bywa też podejście tych tzw. speaking concerts; przybliżanie np. twórczości czy historii pewnym wykładem, komentarzem; e.g.: www.ebilet.pl/klasyka/koncert/strauss . Pozwalam sobie oceniać jako kulturalnie włączające i oświecające.
Mandalore, Hbomberguy, AmbiguousAmphibian, Jwlar, The Dadliest Man, MattKC, Oxhorn, Joseph Anderson, Your Favourite Son, Summoning Salt, Noodle, Avalanche Reviews, Monty Zander, Boulder Punch, The Nth Review, King K
Maybe some others, but those are the ones that jumped out in my Sub list!
2nd for AmbiguousAmphibian. My wife isn’t a gamer, but she loves to watch his videos with me. He always works in some absurd narration and social commentary.
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