Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

sf4 is hideous

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I still feel like the only way to make 3D models look good in a 2D fighter is cel shading

and if we take as a given that a) people still want new 2D fighters with the kind of budgets that demand existing licenses and b) they’re gonna fuck up collision detection either way, based on present evidence, I say let’s cel shade

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did any of you play the absolver beta?

nope but it looks really good

in other recent midbudget indie news

I guess this came from the same initiative as setsuna, ā€œmake a game like one of our old properties and we’ll fund and release it.ā€ the mechanics look pretty interesting but the presentation isn’t doing it for me at all and the animations look really weightless

meanwhile the presentation of this looks fantastic but I don’t really want to play it and it’s coming out in the middle of the original sin 2 / absolver / dishonored clusterfuck

also sundered looks really good, I hope to heck it’s better-made than jotun

I was in the Absolver Beta. I think botagel was too. I had some issues with the control method but I signed an NDA to play it. Kinda just want to wait and see how the player base settles on for easy decks. It’s a bit more work that Dark Souls builds and God Hand combo edits.

Well that’s some cool history.

I mean there are now 4 different games called Ys 4 and the only one actually made by Falcom is the Vita one.

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Quality over quantity (haw haw haw)

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I keep thinking I know that Pyre is gorgeous in my brain but I just don’t… feel it.

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they’ve been pretty oblique about how it actually plays for whatever reason

but it’s not like I’m not excited about ā€œsupermelee-style game with branching narrative paths from the makers of transistorā€

what is supermelee style

archon / star control

paul reiche

hm OK that’s actually pretty tangible

I loved memories of the past. nice simple detective stories, no convoluted horseshit, and there was a smoke break mechanic where you could stop to go through the case in your head anytime.

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i love their other two but this looks boring.

I know :frowning:

Yeah Pyre looks like a chore, which is a shame

It looks like… fantasy fire basketball?