The Forgotten City definitely got it’s due last year. It was on an awful lot of people’s GOTY lists. Which was warranted, because it’s really really solid.
The video is nothing but an unmarked ad. Not worth seeing. No idea why OP shared the video.
The video author is sneaky, though. There is one game in there that isn’t an ad (it’s even the highest in the list), and it’s an ad for GOG, not the games itself.
Seems like you made some LARGE assumptions based on a very small amount of information that you didn’t really pay attention to.
The video is sponsored by Asus, hence the laptop ad break at 4:23.
It sounds like he tried to work out a deal with GOG (which is an excellent company that I don’t mind supporting) where the games he mentioned would go on sale to encourage people to buy them. And then the deal fell through, and only one of these games is on sale.
All games are linked using an affiliate link, which is NOT the same as a paid ad.
You will play Fear&Hunger and feel true horror, you will play the lisa series and the masterfully fan made side stories and it’ll change you forever . You will play off and find sense in it’s nonsense.
Not OP, but for me, it was gameplay. I’ve tried multiple times to get into that game, but the gameplay just detracts so heavily from it (for me personally) that I haven’t been able to get into or enjoy (if ‘enjoy’ is even the right word) the story.
There’s no shame in cheating. While some people enjoy the hardcore gameplay it’s not for everybody.
While i think the devs should always give the player an easy mode to enjoy the story and world, it’s possible to cheat just enough to make the gameplay more bearable while not destroying the gameplay.
Personally it's more the story for me. Not only it deals with some heavy themes, it's such a constant descent of things getting worse and worse and worse, full of pretty much arbitrary misery, that at some point I just don't feel motivated to keep going.
For what is worth I can agree that calling it the Painful RPG is on point.
I can handle turn-based RPGs, even difficult ones. I do like OFF a whole lot. It's surreal setting and mysterious quest was much more compelling for me.
I totally understand. For lisa, The story is heavy, too heavy even. But it’s something we usually shield ourselves from, something we read about on a news article, feel all kinds of emotions but just try to forget later. I think lisa engrain it in our minds and makes us be more understanding of the pain of these people.
You won't regret it. It's one of those games that I still think about even a year after playing it. It has some flaws, and as said isn't for everyone, but it is a top 10 game for me, and anyone with similar taste will probably appreciate it as well.
Warning: all of those games contain stuff that can fuck you up if you’re not expecting them, so check trigger warnings as required. That said, I’d also add OMORI and Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass to the list - IMO they are much better than OFF as both games and stories while playing with similar themes.
Duskers is fun but I feel like it would put it over the top of it was even more scriptable, like Screeps or Bitburner. Whenever I played it I always imagined I might be able to get to a point where I could write code to play the game for me, but I don’t think that was really the design goal of it.
Hey there Lionir. Thanks for the post. Can the Beehaw team please look into copying or getting the creator of this bot to work here? lemmy.world/u/PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
I think the person that created that bot is somehow connected to the piped.video project. I know the whole privacy consciousness thing isn’t for everyone, but this bot’s posts are quite popular elsewhere on Lemmy.
FYI, the main reason to use piped.video links is that it is setup as an alternative front end for YT that automatically routes all users through a bunch of VPNs to help mitigate Alphabet’s privacy abuses and manipulation.
Hey, just wanted to let you know, you might get penalized in the algorithm with that fake release date on your steam page. I just had an in depth talk with a colleague about the steam algorithm in his own experience, and release dates with a fake date far in the future are completely burried. Consider changing it to TBD or something like that, whatever other games are using.
1 is great, loved it.
2 kind of sucked, bad story and collecting treasures wasn’t fun.
3 was great, but felt too short. 1 was also short, but it wasn’t too short.
4 is great, so much content and all of it is fun.
Don't compare your game to another game which is literally a billion times better. Yours is just space invader in a circle but worse. Sorry but that was a very boring trailer, not highlighting very many interesting customisation if any.
Thank you for being honest. But hey, how dare I compare my side project to those mega super hits? I just used them as references since they are really games that inspired mine. It's not and not meant to be VS or Brotato killer. No. But I do hope and am trying my best to make it have values of its own. Give it a chance when the free demo is out, will you?
That person was insanely harsh for no reason. I’m sure lots of people thought similar things about VS before it took off. Don’t sweat it, your game looks cool.
With Survivors-like games, auto-fire becomes a necessity as the screen fills with enemies and you have multiple weapons or abilities. How do you plan to balance this theme of the genre with the need to activate abilities manually?
Oh, sorry for somehow I only see your comment by now. You'll have "passive skills", too. They are called, in the game, Support units. And artifacts to modify the gameplay as you progress through the run. But your skills (you can equip up to 4 simultaneously) are (in most builds) the main damage engine, the main source to trigger cool synergies.
Good luck with your game! However, if I can make a suggestion:
Think of a way to describe your creation without referencing another game. This might be the only time you're going to get it in front of my eyes, and I know nothing because I've never played the two games you used to compare it to (never even heard of one of them in fact), so I'm not going be hyped or follow it. (While it's true there's a trailer, I'm not in a spot where I can watch it.)
Marketing is important to success, use your limited eyeball time well!
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