bin.pol.social

ZombiFrancis, do games w Pop it in your calendars

I remember Flayra from Natural Selection, a half-life mod twenty years ago. I remember him making appeals for investors/donations to keep Unknown Worlds afloat (or maybe just launch it as a company. I recall a video he posted where he showed us his tiny apartment and the milk in his fridge.)

Then Subnautica came out years later and I thought ‘Well I’ll be damned.’

tjhowse,

Were you on the NS forums? I went by “Scythe” back in those days.

Cheems, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

Nooooooooooooooo I was literally just talking about being excited for this game.

chrislowles, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Set your stopwatches for when Tango gets shafted right before releasing their next game.

viking, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Never heard of it, probably never will once I forget about this post.

Derpenheim, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Yar har fiddle dee dee

Lawnman23,
LovableSidekick, do games w Pop it in your calendars

I will support this by continuing to be apathetic toward (and in fact ignorant of) a game known as Subnautica 2.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I’m not ignorant of it, just uninterested. I’ve watched gameplay footage of the first one, and it didn’t look like my kind of game.

JackbyDev,

First one was a cool premise but really annoying in some ways. The game sort of assumes you get certain fragments of blue prints by certain points but doesn’t actually make them easy to find nor really give you any hints to find them.

For people who’ve played it was for the sea moth and and later the moon well.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I just really don’t like crafting mechanics in games, and the game seemed very collecting and crafting heavy.

zqps,

Yep, it loops between exploration and basebuilding / crafting.

The exploration part is what usually gets people hooked because the alien underwater setting is amazing. The other stuff is more to give you a reason to stick around for longer, and pace your exploration since need to unlock things at certain points.

JackbyDev,

It was weirdly a little light on crafting in some ways. But extremely heavy in others. I tried playing it like Minecraft and stockpiling stuff but that’s not really the way. I found it slightly more enjoyable to gather things only when I needed them.

Also the game has no map and I’m REALLY bad with directions. Like REALLY bad.

Goldmage263,
@Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works avatar
moopet,
@moopet@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yeah, I just had to search for this because I thought, I missed that too!

kaidezee,

That’s the point of the game - it doesn’t tell you where to go and what to do because you’re meant to explore the environment yourself. And the debris you scan, the screenshots you take, and the thrills that you get - are the real reward here, and not some goal that game artificially imposes on you. So I think you were just playing it wrong.

JackbyDev,

So I think you were just playing it wrong.

Look, I genuinely get your point, and I was tracking with you until you said this. Fuck off. Fuck for with this stupid bullshit. I was not playing wrong. I was playing it the same way everyone else does. I was exploring. I was collecting. I was finding new things. It was getting very clear that the distances the game expected me to travel were meant to be done much faster than what I was capable of. I was getting multiple upgrades for things that I couldn’t use because I didn’t have the thing that lets me install them. It’s been ages since I’ve played and I’m not psychic so I’ll never know what the actual devs’ intent was, but something was off. I’d definitely missed something. What’s more annoying is that I was finding multiple blueprints I already had or something? I don’t remember the context. Like you needed 3 fragments or something. And I’d find more like “ah surely this is the third for the thing I need” only to get the 5th of something I already had. It was give years ago when I played, at least, so I’m probably explaining wrong.

But don’t fucking say I was playing wrong. That’s such a condescending, brain dead thing to say to someone who is critiquing a game.

“Hey, based on what’s going on and getting tons of upgrades and not unlocking the thing to install the upgrades, I think I’ve missed something and I have no idea where to find it. It would be nice if there was a way to unlock this without scouring every inch of the ocean I’ve been through multiple times and without looking it up online.” No, you’re just playing wrong! It’s a game about exploration and discovery!

🙄

sommerset, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@sommerset@thelemmy.club avatar

Didn’t even know what it was

merc, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@merc@sh.itjust.works avatar

Pop it in your calendars? Maybe I’m using calendars wrong, but mine aren’t filled with things I should avoid doing. But, I’m willing to learn. What date should I put “Don’t Buy Subnautica 2” on?

KairuByte,
@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yes

Fizz,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Everyday up until it releases

ripcord,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Shat about after it releases? How will I know to keep not buying it?

HugeNerd,

Shat about after it releases?

Sure, but maybe not in public?

echodot,

It’s not coming out until 2026. It’s probably unhealthy to hold it in that long.

SaharaMaleikuhm, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Ok, no problem.

nul9o9, (edited ) do games w Pop it in your calendars

Pirate all Krafton games.

Edit. Apparently there’s more to the story.

Bosht, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Oh fucking god dammit. I was really looking forward to it too.

mechoman444, do games w Pop it in your calendars

O no!!! I didn’t even buy subnautica one!!!

ArchmageAzor, do games w Pop it in your calendars
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

You should get a publisher if:

You want to make one game then get fired

You want your work to be bastardized by the publisher in the future

You want countless hours of overtime/crunch and no compensation

You want to be another disposable cog in the machine

If that doesn’t sound like something you want, self-publish.

Opisek, do games w Pop it in your calendars

Just typical KRAFTON doing KRAFTON things.

Nikls94, do games w Pop it in your calendars

As much as I hate Nintendo, publishing wise they’re good.

  • Wszystkie
  • Subskrybowane
  • Moderowane
  • Ulubione
  • rowery
  • fediversum
  • FromSilesiaToPolesia
  • healthcare
  • test1
  • krakow
  • Gaming
  • Cyfryzacja
  • muzyka
  • Blogi
  • NomadOffgrid
  • esport
  • Technologia
  • ERP
  • shophiajons
  • informasi
  • retro
  • Travel
  • Spoleczenstwo
  • gurgaonproperty
  • Psychologia
  • slask
  • nauka
  • sport
  • niusy
  • antywykop
  • Radiant
  • warnersteve
  • Wszystkie magazyny