The News Grandmaster 4000

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I always thought that was one of the coolest things about this game, and often wondered why other games didn’t have that sort of feature

I almost posted this in the cartoons thread, because I saw it out of the corner of my eye on Adult Swim that I had on as background noise, and my split-second thought was “wow, a new show, and it looks neat!”
and I wanted to inflict that on others

grrrr. oh well. slightly longer trailer with gameplay here. seems that it’s coming to PS4 (already out on Switch and PC)

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attn @km @tulpa @grinklestink

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It looks exactly like more Spelunky which is weird after playing hundreds of hours of Spelunky but also I am so into it.

Hmmm a game where you can summon cats and the spectre of death is around every corner

Sign Ven up!

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between this and planetoid pioneers and noita it seems like “balls to the wall fully-simulated-everything physics roguelite” is gonna be THE genre of 2018-9

don’t know if it’s because my eyes are conditioned by having played a lot of spelunky, there’s something in the visuals of this new one that seem strange. like the environmental textures (in the physical sense) are made of something different.

i’m excited, though!

Mark my words - fully simulated everything physics are going to be really incredibly boring. Hopefully game design will make up for how boring that shit is.

I think it does necessitate very good and fun design to go with it – there were lots of boring physics indie games early on in the late aughts, but I love planetoid pioneers to death and I keep trying to get people to play it

it’s a roguelike so you’re going to be disappointed on that front

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It looks like they’re going for a more visually legible thing but it’s also a little cuter(?) than I’d prefer. No big though, we’ll see.

First-print copies of Langrisser I & II will include a download code for “Classic Mode,” which lets users play each game with its original illustrations and background music. A newly added heroine character will also have artwork drawn by original artist Satoshi Urushihara for use in Classic Mode.

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which server are you on, I just joined

can’t believe you guys are going to make me play this again

Tingler game is apparently out of money and limping to the finish line per kickstarter update just now but Zoe is cool so I’m happy to wait

In other news this is probably only another couple months out:

Which is nice because the list of stuff I’m still looking forward to this year is rather short; other than “maybe Polybius will make it to PC” I think there’s just Pathologic and Outer Wilds and KRZ 5 and Noita, and any of those could slip into next year.

also a heads up to anyone who couldn’t play it on Windows that original sin 2 is out on consoles today, it’s weirder and not as immediately revelatory as the first but just as fantastic

they also apparently redid most of the last act because it was too much of a “quest flags barely hanging together” situation even for them

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one rec I will make if you’re playing it for the first time is that you should probably pick ifan ben-mezd as your main character, it sucks to have to be that prescriptive in a game that’s so open ended but it’s way too easy to lose the thread of the main quest at times without his personal quest which is the only one that actually weaves in and out of it a narratively consistent way (the game is still great otherwise, it just makes some plot beats more flat/confusing/extraneous), and there are a couple of mid-game areas that are non-hostile if you have him, without which those combats can seem padded.

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