Are things I have no interest in playing, yes.
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no spelunky or necrodancer or nuclear throne, even?
Iāve come across some creatures that looked kind of silly. But then, plenty of creatures in old science fiction movies and artwork looked a little ridiculous. And sometimes that sort of thing can be amusing.
When I was playing Bloodborne, I had fun with the chalice dungeons but I couldnāt help but think that they violated one of the important principles of world design in those games. I like how you can study the ground or a random wall without finding repeated textures, let alone repeated overall structures. Finding the same room you saw a while ago but with different colors and minor details is something that only happens in other games.
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Spelunky I played like three rooms of and was like, oh, okay.
Necrodancer does nothing for me.
I guess Nuclear Throne looks pretty cool.
I really, really, really, really. Really. Like level design.
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pfffft. talk to me when strafe comes out. gonna honeypot you so bad.
spelunky has a whole bunch of level design
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Yeah I would say Spelunky is procedural but hardly random or lacking in direct intent.
honestly, spelunkyās progression is so bafflingly non-random iām hesitant to call it roguelikey at all
Procedural is a loaded word. letās call it Computer-assisted level design ?
i wish the creatures in this game were like procedural collages of slimy cubes and pyramids clipping through each other, not dinosaurs
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They said things get weirder as you approach the galactic core, so Iām still hoping for some really out there stuff in the late game
Apparently people arenāt naming planets after Donald Trump en masse but instead Harambe? So there are I donāt know how many planets and plants and species now called Harambe
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Ugh.
Iāve run out of names for things. I love the soundtrack. I agree with @Mr_Mechanical this game is a wonderful time sink. Iām on the Atlas path because I believe it will lead me to the most alien language knowledge. I like that is is divisive. If Jim Sterling hates it, it must be awesome.
He doesnāt hate it in his video that I saw. He just thought it was meh.
Iām not enjoying this at all, and I want my money back. It seems like the most common aspect of enjoyment that positive comments on the game appear to be āitās good to chill out toā, but Iāll pick my own games to chill out to instead of being told whatās meant to be relaxing.
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I think they shipped this a couple months too early. I just played an hour of it on steam (long enough to see a space station and a second planet) and went for a refund; itās not quite visually spectacular enough to justify the straightforward resource collection stuff, and I got the impression that I already saw most of what happens in the game on a fundamental levelā¦
it should be way way better soon though. and I feel bad about all the internet bile theyāre gonna get in the meantime.
on the plus side itās openGL and no DRM so it turns out to run perfectly in wine
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How was your performance? Apparently the PC port is broken, with framerates all over the place