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What did human head do?

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Human Head made Rune and Prey 2006 and most recently Rune 2, among other crimes like Brink.

I’m being unfair for comedic effect. That Prey 2 demo did look cool and it was a shame nothing came of it.

oh I know what games they made, I just wanted to know why they deserved the punishment of elder scrolls online

after all, their worst games were still better than average bethesda output

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Splash Damage developed Brink, not Human Head. The mobygames credits don’t even list Human Head as a development partner.

Also Brink is just shy of being good. I liked it… the netcode can’t handle the parkour though.

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Oh yeah that’s right. I was looking at the Wikipedia page for Human Head.

well they did release rune 2 in busted form then immediately took off for a new company under bethesda and their publisher for rune 2 had to sue them for the source code so they could fix the game (why it’s called decapitation edition)

but mainly, they made the Quiet Man

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out today

i’ve always thought this game looked interesting, but when videogamedunkey put his stamp on it i admit i became slightly less interested. seems like it’s gotten good reviews tho (not that really means anything to me most of the time for indie games). i will probably play it eventually.

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the dunkey stuff is really miserable, really just making himself and the game look worse.

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Do I even want to know who that is

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popular youtube game guy who talks in a weird voice whose sensibility is vaguely ironic who decided to start a publisher and this game is the sole one his company is publishing. that’s all you really need to know

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also metastasized newgrounds tumor who used to say the n word before he started using facecam

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this game is also out today

i played a bit of it for festival judging and thought it was amusing. the idea of a dungeon crawler + typing game is pretty unique and i thought the implementation was not too bad. maybe a bit too much tutorializing and the tone of writing/voice acting might be either funny or annoying to you depending on what type of person you are. i found it reasonably charming and engaging though from what i played. it’s worth checking out if it seems like the kind of thing you’d be interested in.

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average '00s SA-goon/channer/ytmnd-lord character arc

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all i know of dunkey is that he’s an infamous ā€œsonic bad, please laughā€ guy

i think dunkey has some funny videos but i have so much lower of a tolerance for this kind of sensibility now than i ever used to before due to it fully seeping into the internet as a whole and making some of those lazy internet guys very, very successful. after a certain point the whole schtick wears off. i don’t think what forum guys needed was to have hundreds of thousands to millions of adoring fans for their shtick.

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Somehow he’s one of the few streamers I’m aware of, and he seems pretty uncool.

a couple other indie games came out today as well that i didn’t even realize.

played the demo of this one. i basically liked it! it’s more or less exactly what you’d expect re: being an old Resi clone with FF7-style graphics. i admit to liking the aesthetic, if only because there aren’t too many games that actually look like it.

i literally know nothing about this game but it got nominated for a few IGF awards this past year and Melos Han-Tani was pretty big on it from what i recall. worth looking into more.

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game might be good, but i feel like

if Stellar Blade is a dumb person’s NieR: Automata

this is like, a NieR: Automata-like that leans in the other direction

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