d47fcd No.15041926
Lets discuss the only good indie vidya.
Inb4 pseudo art games, SJW shit, and walking simulators, these are not allowed
Can anyone agree that Devolver is the best indie publisher?
25ce75 No.15042139
>SJW shit
How do you even decide whether something is stealth SJW propaganda or not?
Hollow Knight vs Shantae thread became a mess because of it.
c82a6f No.15042174
Reminder that the only good thing about Undertale is the genocide route.
25ce75 No.15042178
>>15042174
Op said SJW shit is not allowed.
c1c19b No.15042180
>>15042174
>game punishes you for trying to have fun
d47fcd No.15042191
7c4741 No.15042204
ce663b No.15042210
i don't know what indie means anymore
7cd185 No.15042218
>>15042210
Traditionally it means "made outside of the major studios."
610865 No.15042229
These are the only good indie games other than those published by Devolver in recent years tbh.
969022 No.15042335
>>15042218
I liked RUINER.
55860d No.15042358
Ruiner? I barely know her!
610865 No.15042420
>>15042335
Is RUINER actually any good?
210abd No.15042480
>indie
>publisher
No anon, independent games are made and released without outside help.
610865 No.15042492
>>15042480
No, Anon, you are wrong.
f2520c No.15042508
>>15042480
>what is devolver
>what is tinybuild
>what is chucklefuck
8eb112 No.15042734
>>15042335
So did I. A lot, in fact.
>>15042420
It's probably a 8/10. Fast, frantic, can be ball-bustingly difficult if you want. Looks great, amazing OST but not all of the songs in the game are on the OST you can buy search Youtube for 'RUINER OST DIrector's Cut' and 11/10 cyberpunk aesthetics.
Made by a bunch of crazy Poles (a few ex-CDPR) and published by Devolver; both good things.
8e1e83 No.15042803
Ruiner is very good and anyone who says otherwise is bad at the game
I also got into the game because of the weapon writing thing
ad090b No.15042826
>>15042420
>Is RUINER actually any good?
It's okay. I beat the game, but it still pissed me off constantly. There was just something about the way the game controlled and the mechanics of your dash that just irked the fuck out of me. You can take very little punishment, which is fine, but you're not given any tools to mitigate that other than dashing – which, if I recall right since it's been some time, are limited and have a recharge cooldown or something.
I would need to really replay it again in order to solidly nail down what really irritated me about it, but it had something to do with the fight design. Outside of a single thing that pissed me off throughout the game, the fights were pretty decent and satisfying. Though there are a few places where it spikes in difficulty and youll be left think "oh come the fuck on."
346eab No.15042889
>>15042826
Were you upgrading your character at all, anon? There are a few things you can do to mitigate damage, and you can also get healing mods (at the expense of energy). Also, doing those sync-kills generates health.
The only pure bullshit I encountered in the game was the Arena mode.
37ec7e No.15042900
self published & playism > the rest. devolver publishes a ton of shit and their public presentation is adult swim tier. Tinybuild publishes flash game tier shit. chucklefuck is cucklefuck.
ad090b No.15042906
>>15042889
I made sure to do everything in the game I could possibly find to do, including backtracking a lot through town to see if any places opened up when I got back (a lot of the time that didn't pan out).
Like I said, I'd need to replay it to figure out what got under my skin about the game design. From my memory of my impressions, I remember that the latter half of the game actually wasn't too big a deal, and the final boss was a shrug compared to a couple bosses that came earlier in the game.
cef3b6 No.15042917
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
>>15042139
>How do you even decide whether something is stealth SJW propaganda or not?
You have to figure out if its subversive
904ddf No.15042926
>>15042227
It's Jewjitsu, faggot
dcf7e5 No.15042930
>>15042927
More like gone homo
d47fcd No.15042946
>>15042927
I said SJW shit/walking simulators aren't welcome faggot
eb4a3b No.15042975
>Ruiner
>Good
I want a cute asian girl to hack my brain and use me to enact her revenge by sending me into a meat-grinder situation while calling me Puppy
>>15042420
>Is RUINER actually any good?
It's ok. Really wish they had just made firing (the pistol anyhow) automatic to the direction you're aiming, while using the fire button for your more advanced weapon pickups. That way you could more effectively manage your power weapons and ammo. Melee feels pretty good though. Never needed to bother with the "strategic movement" dash move, since it felt fairly intuitive to use and fucked with the pacing of combat, but you could probably set up some nice melee beatdowns that way.
Another thing I'd criticize is how there's really not much in the way of combat between "arena" rooms - so you're just more or less walking from combat zone to combat zone, rather than having a nice variable flow to combat from the start of a level to the finish.
Overall, I enjoyed Apocalypse for the PSX much more as a twin-stick shooter - but I haven't played a more modern one in a while, and Ruiner definitely scratched that itch. So I guess that'd be a recommendation.
8213e2 No.15042996
>>15042927
OP asked for games anon.
db9e76 No.15043006
>>15042930
>>15042946
>>15042996
>implying this masterpiece of atmospheric horror adventure isn't a game
lol stay buttmad goobergaynerds this game grossed more than you will make in a lifetime
dd30b9 No.15043008
>>15042420
Its good but when you try to speedrun the game in <1 hour for 100% completion you'll constantly glitch into walls which kills your runs, completely tainted the whole experience for me. Still its a fun game.
ad090b No.15043023
>>15043006
I actually wonder how many people genuinely bought it and enjoyed it. The progressives singing its praises all over the journo sites weren't a market.
dcf7e5 No.15043043
>>15043023
Normalniggers treat the word of journos as gospel without a single original thought of their own. You know this, I know this.
ad090b No.15043070
>>15043043
I've worked with a lot of normalfags over the years in the service industry, and they don't really buy into the progressive shit. Let me qualify that: if all the journos praise some indie SJW shitpile, they'll all believe it well enough if they happen to hear it, but they just don't care. Normalfags only care about massive budget titles or things that get major marketing with multiplayer, full-budget flavors of the month they rage about and can't shut up about for about sixty days and then they drop that game and leave it in the dust. This happens with all the major vidya, like Destiny, TLOU, Overwatch, etc. Shit like Gone Homo they don't actually buy or play, that's only done by pretentious San Fran hipsters. Normalfags in general only rarely get into that kind of stuff, like Life is Strange.
God only knows how that pile of vomit took off.
238031 No.15043097
>>15043070
From what I understand, a combination of Reddit and the incorrect meme that the game had choices that "matter".
fe1d3a No.15043448
>>15042210
why is that predator using predated technology?
93e8fc No.15043472
>>15042420
Needs more porn
>>15043448
Fuck off Carlos that shit's not even funny you ugly spic
6c2e6a No.15043479
>>15043043
Normalfags look to journalists to validate their shit purchases.
e77a81 No.15043500
>>15043043
Maybe sites like Rock Paper Shotgun and Destructoid, but sites like Polygon, Kotaku and IGN are usually ridiculed, even by normalfags. What really sells people on games are Youtube reviewers like Jostled Jose since they're seemingly real people giving their real opinions instead of lines of text describing what some joker is paid to think.
4292d8 No.15043541
CS2D
Wesnoth
Monaco
Formicide
PULSAR
Barotrauma
Alien Swarm
IOSoccer
Great indie games.
000000 No.15043573
>15042900
>playism
>I am bread
>cities in motion
nice bait
>15043500
second RPS, they have sometimes really nice articles, but they push way too often sjw propaganda between the lines.
>15043070
>pretentious
world where pose is life, because nobody ever has time to actually do anything, because slavery/work and shitting instagram with whatever terrific faggotry they are doing is more important then themselves, in that world the word pretentious doesn't exist
it's normal to be pretentious fag
and it's spreading to "academic" areas
Go to some philosophy campus or something you have in murica and start talking to first person, a man, about something ie Kierkegaard wrote.
They all just read extracts and explanations, but not the actual work. Same way how is nietzsche perceived by world, based on the same things, doesn't matter how much "educated" he is.
34d535 No.15043793
HookTube embed. Click on thumbnail to play.
N++, for platformers platforming platformally.
>>15043541
these are also good, even if Alien Swarm is a bit rough
d1e105 No.15043808
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99cf06 No.15043815
>>15042335
Wish I could ruin Her with my dick
d57778 No.15043860
>>15042139
Anything can be declared SJW propaganda through the power of interpretation and spinning.
c3a9d9 No.15044028
I really like Synthetik. I used to regret buying it until the last patch, which made co-op function smoothly.
6c5a3f No.15044069
>>15043808
I want to be that boy
d1e105 No.15044101
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9c392e No.15044540
>>15042174
i had fun the whole game
a9235e No.15046752
Just finished hotline miami for a second time. I like 1 more than 2.
I want to finish Transistor next. The music and art style are cool but the gameplay is a bit shallow. Are supergiant pozzed?
>>15042139
I don't think you can avoid mention of sjw/liberal things these days but the existence of these things doesn't automatically mean it's propaganda. Context + delivery are what I'd base my decision on. But, most indie devs are vocal on Twitter so when you check credits and spot something slightly political in a game, you could cross check their Twitter accounts and make a decision if you want to call it stealth propaganda or not.
37ec7e No.15046761
>>15046497
It's below average.
bd11d4 No.15047411
>>15046761
>>15046761
Imagine painstakingly spending almost a whole decade on the art and programming for this shit and fucking up the game design to where the final product is mediocre and people just slowy forget it was released. I don't follow normalfag shit so maybe it got a good reception and modest sales, but my intuition tells me this won't have any lasting impact on much of anyone.
This is like the reverse of pixel and cave story, and that game only took 5 years. At least it had pretty pixels
d47fcd No.15057265
>>15046752
I preferred Hotline Miami 1 over 2
The sequel tried way too hard on focusing the story but the story ended up shit.
I wish it was more like the first game.
But the OST was pretty good
9a51a0 No.15057279
>>15057265
>those feet
What the fuck?
8e94b8 No.15059299
>>15057279
it's styled like panty stocking and garterbelt
48ee85 No.15059324
>>15057265
The sequel is fun, but the design includes way too many windows and ranged enemies, so melee is pretty much useless.
cd6d16 No.15059364
>>15057279
She's a double amputee.
cd6d16 No.15059370
>>15059299
Should have given her shoes. He would have gotten away with it if he didn't have her wearing just socks.
2311fe No.15072625
>>15041926
>Can anyone agree that Devolver is the best indie publisher?
Sure. Best E3 presentation too.
a14691 No.15072645
>>15042420
There's definitely a lot of effort and polish that went into this game, but it's too difficult for me to enjoy
t. shitter
>>15044028
are all the matches private or something? I never see anybody in the lobby even when people are talking in a general chat.
f81d88 No.15072727
>>15057265
>The sequel tried way too hard on focusing the story but the story ended up shit.
Exactly this- it was overambitious. 1 was cool because the story was minimal but it had the "cool" factor going for it with everything being so cryptic and surreal. Plus it made the game more fun to play through with all the weird stuff happening after you get to your car. But, then you got the lame levels/explanations in 2 as attempts to elaborate on things (like the war stages).
Plus there's only so much you can do to innovate on the style of the gameplay. I didn't find the extra abilities in 2 that fun or useful.
eec189 No.15072734
This thread could have finally died but noooo
e3ced3 No.15073004
Really like the game so far, but will buy only after it comes out on Linux.
c0e44d No.15073025
>>15073022
>Also Ruiner is fucking shit.
42fbc5 No.15073137
Have been playing Synthetik and CrossCode
Synthetik is pretty nice, but has some retarded difficulty spike in the final areas
With CrossCode I was kinda skeptical due to 2D sprites and a female protag with blue hair but after playing it for a bit I was surprised how good the gameplay and the mayor dungeons were
a14691 No.15073175
>>15073137
So what's the deal with transparent dudes in the Army Base? Are you supposed to hit them with a lot of bullets from a rapid firing weapon to down the immunity shield and then hit them with something damaging like the mad shotgun?
And how do I look up what these weapon perks actually do? I don't want to be forced to have a wiki open the way I had to with Isaac.
>found a sniper rifle called 420FLAMEDRAGON which is basically Intervention from callerdudy
>deals bonus damage if you do a 360°
cheeky cunts
42fbc5 No.15073218
>>15073175
>what's the deal with transparent dudes in the Army Base?
They can poison you with their dinky little pistol
>deal with them
I just shoot them until they drop their invisibility and keep shooting until they die
>how do I look up what these weapon perks actually do?
I dont know either
I just guess most of the time what it does
>420FLAMEDRAGON
Yeah I found that too
Had a really good laugh out of it even if the detection of that 360° thing is a bit finicky
e830ca No.15073404
Absolver is pretty tight, but there's just no singleplayer content and the world/story is ass.
62fdd4 No.15073415
>>15073137
>crosscode
Sprites are nice but those characters look like prime SJW trash straight outta Star Jew Walley.
42fbc5 No.15073445
>>15073415
Yeah, thats why i was skeptical about the game, but the protagonist cannot really talk and the others just do the occasional one liner outside of story related cutscenes
There is no SJW shit in it and the "worst" thing besides that is the occasional meme
47a6e5 No.15073459
What you guys think of hero siege?
a14691 No.15073462
>>15073459
I regret buying a 4-pack of it.
I regret drinking during steam sales.
These people have no fucking clue how to make menus or good games.
51e037 No.15073511
>>15073445
>>15073415
>SJW shit
Kyrieru does loli porn stuff, I doubt this is pozzed.
da0309 No.15073518
>>15073511
>inb4 transnigger lolis
bc4f95 No.15073520
>>15047411
>Imagine painstakingly spending almost a whole decade on the art and programming for this shit and fucking up the game design to where the final product is mediocre
the exact conclusion I came to after playing it for about 3 hours and getting bored as fuck
fcd564 No.15073524
I just finished Unworthy, it's a 2d darksouls metroitvania. I never liked the salt souls but this one I really enjoyed. Made by a single polish guy, who seems to actually listen to feedback from the players (improved bow aiming, re-balanced some talents, and is working to add easier changing of weapons)
You can pirate it from igg-games if you use that, but the build there has a few bugs.
Playing Synthetik as well, got to the final phase of the final boss for the first time, maybe I am making it a bit too hard for myself playing on 175% difficulty, that bastard killed me really fast because of the slow effect when you take damage.
c0e44d No.15073593
Do you like playing Doom without gravity? Do you like good level design?
Go get Overload.
9884a3 No.15073610
>play Stanley Parable
>expect a fuckton of endings
there's like 10 of them or less
it should've stayed a HL2 mod
a14691 No.15073634
>>15073593
or d1x Rebirth, because I don't know how many people from the original team worked on Overload. Was it the same deal as with Yookalaylee or are the actual devs in it this time since I keep hearing good things about Overload?
42fbc5 No.15073646
>>15073511
But Kyrieru isnt the artist for this game
c0e44d No.15073665
>>15073634
The main two creators, designers and programmers on Descent, Mike Kulas and Matt Toschlog, did a lot of the base groundwork on Overload to make it actually feel like a Descent game. Most of the lead gameplay and level design were handled by Luke Schneider, who got a job at Parallax/Outrage for Descent 3 because of his fan-made levels for Descent 2. The artists and writers were former Volition employees from the Freespace days, and the music is all done by Allister Brimble, Dan Wentz, and Jerry Berlongieri, who all did the music for Descent games in the past. So it is an actual 6DoF game by the creators of Descent, one they wanted to make as an 20th year anniversary project.
c3c5f0 No.15073681
>>15073610
Apparently there's 19. Dissapointing stuff.
716919 No.15073708
>>15073459
I can tell from a single glance that this is one of those shitty games where the devs just crammed in as much graphical nonsense as they could, visibility be damned. Part of making good pixel graphics is making everything clearly visible.
>>15073511
If that's Kyrieru, it looks nothing like what he's done before.
9884a3 No.15073709
>>15073681
>19
Really?
>main story
>self-destruction
>museum
>insanity
>confusion
>phone
>real person
>suicide by impact
>games
>art
I think there were others, but they (and suicide) feel like easter eggs.
a14691 No.15073775
>>15073665
Alright, cheers. I'll wait for a price drop
e0e8f7 No.15073813
>>15073775
Just pirate it then you can play it whilst waiting for the price drop
a14691 No.15073854
>>15073813
way ahead of you, I was asking in case they actually deserved a bit of my casharooney and a nice price drop comes 'round
5ff076 No.15073897
Who's hype for Goddess of Explosions ITT?
a14691 No.15073914
>>15073897
>not playing fan patched melee instead
5ff076 No.15073932
>>15073914
Melee doesn't have a clutch button. It also does not have Business Casual Man.
5ff076 No.15073975
>>15073914
>>15073944
Which fan patch are you talking about?
188d34 No.15073991
>>15073022
You know what? I'll say it: I think Gungeon is a good game.
I don't care if it's SJW propaganda or if the devs were pozzed or whatever, I think it's a legitimately good game that stands on its own merits.
a14691 No.15074041
2eca0b No.15074188
>>15042420
The camera angle makes it annoying as fuck to play with keyboard and mouse.
5ff076 No.15078407
>>15074041
Wait, you're talking about vanilla melee played over netplay? IE the only fighting game out there with less characters than Slap City?
eb4a3b No.15078473
So, I bought The Vagrant, not really noticing it's an Early Access title. So I don't recommend anybody make the same mistake I did, but it might be one to keep an eye on. It does nothing groundbreaking, lets be clear, and feels very much like a cheap chinese "Not-Dragon's-Crown" knockoff - except that you only have one axis to move on (so, just left and right movement) and it has a more traditional story with a set protagonist. Can't say anything much about the balance so far, but it seems to err on the side of easy as fuck - but I am not far enough into it yet to really see how it fits - nor is the game even finished yet.
I say it might be worth keeping an eye on, because the combat isn't bad for the price. Combos feel pretty good to pull off, and you unlock more of them as you level up and fill out your character skills. Progression seems pretty fast so far, with higher level skill branches being locked behind key-items tied to progression. Unless I have another outlet for my mana points, I get the feeling I'm just going to have a huge pool of them waiting for story unlocks. Maybe it's a placeholder, or there's more to it. But from what I had access to, it still felt pretty good to chain a light-light-heavy attack into a rage uppercut, followed by a series of drop kicks to an enemies head. There's also a cooking mechanic similar to Dragon's Crown at each campfire resting/save spot which will let you use ingredients you find in the field to cook recipes for buffs. Unfortunately, it's not a mini-game or anything cool. You just eat a meal at a restaurant to learn the recipe, then pick it from a list at a campfire if you have the proper materials.
I don't expect it to really develop into anything really good, but if you like Dragon's Crown, it's still very much a similar asthetic to the art style and gameplay that may be worth a look for $2 on sale. Also, there's apparently a couple studio-crossover eastereggs with Battle Chef Brigade.
825e8b No.15078505
>>15078473
>buy games
>doesn't pirate them first to see if they're actually worth it
48d8dd No.15081354
>>15073593
is this finally out of early access and a full game? the last descent clone game I played was a big ass let down. Retro Virus was boring as fuck but the original D team should know what theyre doing.
c0e44d No.15081367
>>15081354
It's been out for like a month now
There's a demo up on the site of the developers too
48d8dd No.15081449
>>15081367
i played the demo already. it was alright.
though what im really interested in is co-oping against the hardest ai setting. but thanks for the heads up.
9f5ba0 No.15081541
>>15046497
>>15046761
>>15047411
This game looked really nice but boring as shit. Is all the platforming seriously just flying around? Constant airborne mobility is sleep inducing.
bce05a No.15082263
>>15041926
Ruiner is not to be played without a controller, shit's ass with mouse and keyboard.
0fa3ee No.15082852
>>15043860
Keep projecting, /trannypol/.
74837c No.15083653
Shilling for Star Traders Frontiers. It's like Firefly: the game with a Mount & Blade-esque overworld. You fly around a galaxy map (either the preset canon map or a randomly generated one that you can set parameters for, like system density and inter-connectivty) running into other shitheads going about their business, fueling up, hiring firing and training crew, buying shipping and selling goods as you see fit, and doing storyline shit.
The storyline shit plays itself out whether you involve yourself in it or not, the course of which shapes the galaxy. Factions slap trade embargoes on each other and ramp up military activity or proxy-war piracy dynamically and as the political stage shifts.
Your skillsets and attributes play a big role. Your ship, crew and captain are constantly passing skill saves as you go about daily business, like maintenance checks and disasters, crew infighting and malcontent, and piloting and navigation hazards in deep space. There are three 'mini games' other than the overworld travel, a different one each for ship combat (turn based), crew combat (turn based with an action point system), and a car draw game for exploring, spying, blockading, and patrolling worlds, as well as accessing black markets.
It's comfy, and autistic depending on the difficulty you choose and your playstyle. The difficulty though is also customizable, enabling/disabling the handicaps you or the AI ships/enemies get, permadeath etc.
The game is heavy duty for what it is: i've put 200 hours into it and still love it.
c8be55 No.15083791
>>15073524
>You can pirate it from igg-games if you use that, but the build there has a few bugs
>not using Good old Downloads
https://goggames.goodolddownloads.com/game/unworthy
c3a9d9 No.15085107
>>15078473
I just came here to shill for this game because I just stumbled upon it and it's blown me away. You're incorrectly comparing to to Dragon's Crown - it's an Odin Sphere clone, not a Dragon's Crown clone. An easy mistake to make due to the Vanillaware art style and the fact that a lot of plebs don't know what Odin Sphere is.
>Unless I have another outlet for my mana points, I get the feeling I'm just going to have a huge pool of them waiting for story unlocks.
You also use mana to enhance your equipment. The "story unlocks" you mentioned are side areas. The items you need in order to continue are in chests. If you're not exploring, you will miss some.
>because the combat isn't bad for the price.
>for the price
Nigga the combat is better than most $30 games and this shit was $1.99. I actually thought the game was going to be hugely defective at that price but it looks like they just have no idea how to price their shit. I haven't played a game with such smooth combat in a long time. I actually gifted it to most of my friends because I felt like I ripped these nips off.
>Can't say anything much about the balance so far, but it seems to err on the side of easy as fuck
What difficulty did you select? I chose very hard, and it seems to be the perfect amount of resistance for me. The monsters can wear you down pretty good, the bosses are acceptably challenging, and the rift bosses will plow your asshole in two. It's the setting I would recommend for people who like these kinds of games. Hard would probably fit most other people. I imagine normal is boring as fuck.
>>15072645
The game tells you every time a new lobby is opened. Games that are full or started are removed from the lobby, and the game is really under populated for how good it is. I haven't played with strangers, but only a long-time friend of mine.
0d963d No.15085423
>>15073593
>check out store pages
>they put out level editor
>and it's not nuDoom shatmap, but rather a full-fledged editor
Never thought anyone would care to put out tools for community to do some shit
store.steampowered.com/app/884970/Overload_Level_Editor/
202d11 No.15085457
>>15083791
I didn't know about this
thanks mate, I think I'll browse me for some games
e8f687 No.15085469
>>15043860
You got fucking BTFO lefty. Sorry we rightfully reject your favorite pozzed games.
a1b93a No.15085581
>>15085423
It really baffles me because the ability for players to add levels greatly extends the life and length of a game.
e9431c No.15092598
>>15085581
It can be a huge boon to sleeper hits/A/AA games, but the AAA market don't care about longevity and making the game more appealing to the relatively small community that might be created by proper map tools. Rake in millions on the release week and several million more over the next few years, maybe release an HD remake in the next console generation then abandon the game. The idea of actually giving people a reason to play long-term is antithetical to their business model, if you make something so good it remains popular forever you end up competing with your own product. Similar deal as pic related.
617679 No.15092651
Enter the Gungeon is not very good. It plays well but the progression is not satisfying and there is not enough variety.
929900 No.15092927
fed9f9 No.15093246
>>15073897
I came here to post this
dac444 No.15093344
>>15083653
>oh hey this anon actually describes a cool game
>early access
fuck you anon I thought I would get my AA FTL
19bcc2 No.15096488
>>15044101
>>15044069
>game actually uses they
Fuck that SJW bullshit, singular they is cancer.
2ea316 No.15096570
>>15042174
>genocide route is boring as fuck
>you have to go out of your way to achieve it
2ea316 No.15096573
>>15042218
>"made outside of the major studios."
But that's wrong you braindead faggot nigger
8d35c8 No.15097920
Played some Valdis Story Abyssal City, a metroidvania. I want to really recommend it as it is quite ambitious for an indie, especially one that was apparently made by a team of two. However there are a lot of annoyances that pile up. Let's start with the good shit.
>Crisp 2D animation
>Challenging pattern-based bosses
>A skill tree which allows for good variation in builds for each character. Each tree has 15 skills in total, so with the lvl 20 cap (as well as some hidden upgrades to be found in the world) you're forced to make choices
>Equipment with specific perks which encourage build specialization further
>Four playable characters (I'm seven hours into the first and I'd estimate I'm just 75% through barring 100% exploration)
However it's one of those games that try to break from the mold and end up looking like they'd be better off being more conventional. This includes :
<A puzzlingly large lore attached to it, making it seem like some kind of obscure deviantart community's grand epic OC. There's a boomerang guy NPC who later appeared in Shovel Knight for instance. It's not too distracting ingame but it is odd
<Regular enemies are trained to stagger you, and there is no air recovery, only a dodge which works very weirdly, you have to press down, which move cancels, then left or right immediately afterward. It's of little help when enemies dogpile you, as shown in the webm
<To compensate this, the game gives you free revives, however they stop being free for bosses. You get a grade for them similar to something like DMC, and better grades mean permanent stat upgrades. If you use a revive here you essentially might as well reset.
<Level design is quite linear, there are a lot of hidden rooms, but if you're backtracking through an area, you are taking the exact same path no matter what abilities you've unlocked.
<There are NO traversable platforms in the entire game. No jumping down or up any staircase you see, everything that's not background is solid. It's very jarring for a metroidvania and only serves to make backtracking more tedious and restricted
<The map only shows solid blocks which don't really match the actual size of the rooms, only their number of entrances.
I'm probably focusing on my annoyances more than I should, since I do think it's well worth checking out, but the annoyances do stick out like a sore thumb.
a8a007 No.15098038
>>15097920
They are all very valid, though. They are also all things that stick out because the game highlights them in some way. Like the odd move cancel/dash/dodge move is used a lot in the platforming sections, and some of those require some tight timing. The map is horrendous when you consider they want you to explore, and come back to things later. You also don't get much in the way of mobility options until late in the game. Some things I would add.
<resets in boss battles detract from your score
<at the same time, getting less than S-ranks, or close, for every boss will fuck you up
<game really wants you to explore everywhere because some characters and things are gated behind progress they used to be gated behind time, thank fuck that changed
<weird/wonky hit boxes, try jumping over the yeti or raven and notice how the jump goes. Interaction between the character and enemy starts a bit outside of the character graphic. I only really noticed it with one specific enemy, however
<in order to get all the weapons in the game you need at least one play through where you don't upgrade your other weapons to the max or use the materials to buy extra levels. Again, you only need to do this once for each character's weapons
<the combination of RPG and action means it is very, very possible to absolutely break the game
<despite the timer, focus attacks and assist attacks get more powerful as you use them
I like the game, however. The combat is fun, breaking the game is fun in its own way and it is clear from the S-rank requirements that they want you to. Some are just too damn easy to break. You want to break the game as Gilda? Put all your points into intelligence and then get the talent that increases your other stats a portion of your intelligence then grab the accessory that increases your other stats by a portion of your luck. When you use her ability to quick change magic, you will fill the screen. You don't do jack shit for damage with that attack, but you can do it. You can also give her three or four jumps, and make it so her jump attack damage is increased. All in the same build, and since you already beat the game to unlock her, chances are you don't need a character this ridiculous, even with all of her attacks being magical one of her weapons drains magic upon hitting.
929900 No.15098050
>>15097920
Speaking of small dev team, that game The Forest was made by essentially 5 people, explains why it took so long for it to come out
It's pretty fun
e9b675 No.15098071
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Been putting time into Fight'n Rage lately. It's a good time if you're into Final Fight/Streets of Rage. Noticed a lot of the enemy movesets are based on Street Fighter characters, too. M. Bison, Balrog, Dudley, Adon. Trying to take a different path every playthrough because you can get different levels based on your route. Mostly playing the ninja dude because he's fast and has some pretty legit moves. Was playing the minotaur at first since he's basically just Mike Haggar. It's got sort of a parry system which is cool. Some of the bosses take a couple runs for it to really sink in how you handle them. I guess there's other modes where you can use any enemy/boss characters that you unlock (bought with ingame currency earned exclusively from actually playing the game).
Hooktube embed is just some gameplay footage I got through Google.
5f8124 No.15098384
>>15073897
Slap City looks absolutely fantastic because instead of shoving Original the Characters, ripoffs of Smash Characters or literal furries like that other smash clone, they just added a bunch of characters from shitty indie games and Super Princess Pitch and just made all their moves completely broken and hilarious to use. The less seriously you take the concept the better off you are.
7fe24d No.15098494
Lots of garbage opinions and shitty games here, but it's /v/ so I shouldn't expect much.
586a13 No.15098503
>>15046497
It seemed okay at first but honestly this game just pissed me off. I'm not one to harp about story but holy shit Otis has to be the biggest bitch in a video game. Fucking Emir Parkreiner had more agency then him.
a86e75 No.15098504
>>15098494
I'm sure that it's just a prelude to a long post examining games from this thread and proposing better alternatives. Anon with such an incredible taste couldn't possibly be just shitposting, right?
5ff076 No.15098797
>>15098384
I mean you say that but Westballz and Mango both streamed the game and joined the Discord tonight. They were showing some pretty sick tech, and I would guess that future balance patches may have their input considered. Although TBH I'm not sure the game needs much more balance, everyone seems to have a different tier list and the only thing anyone can agree on is the Masked Ruby is top tier.
BTW watching Westballz do waveflexes was pretty amazing. I hope he doesn't give up on Fishbunjin.
6c2e6a No.15098821
>>15098384
The big problem with your typical smash clone is that they try to make smash but with none of the fun or appeal for muh esports garbage.
935805 No.15100766
>>15092598
> They deleted a database software because it was too good
And this is why everything is shit these days. There should be a law that you cannot be in a leadership position unless you have gone through the grunt work. Those suits should be force to eat the shit they expect employees to work with themselves.
>>15073634
What does it matter whether it was made by the original creators? You have a game like AM2R which was made by complete nobodies for free, and you have Samus Returns, which was made by Nintendo and overseen by Sakamoto. AM2R is one of the best Metroid games, while Samus Returns is just meh.
cc2068 No.15101675
>>15100766
Forcing it to be where people could only get to the top if they rose from the bottom would definitely improve the leadership quality and mentality of the whole company
Would encourage them to value the underlings work and breakthroughs more
but that would make it so nigs would never be able to make it to the top, and jews would have to work among goyim, and both are frowned upon
a14691 No.15101756
>>15100766
Because as far as I know we've only had one AM2R and several Mighty No9s and Yooka-Laylees.
8d35c8 No.15102131
>>15100766
>and you have Samus Returns, which was made by Nintendo and overseen by Sakamoto
This is so blatant a lie I'm not even going to bother refuting it.
Also AM2R is not "one of the best metroid games" by a long shot, it's very small and tries to distract you from that fact by constantly throwing shinespark tests and sections that don't belong in metroid at you. In super and zero mission the shinespark was the emergent cherry on top. In AM2R it's are YOU badass enough at shinesparking to get this collectible?! Don't want to be a pleb now, don't you?!!.
AM2R knows how to pander to a certain audience and make a fan out of them, but if you think it's "one of the best metroids", you are fucking mental.
2311fe No.15102155
>>15041926
>Can anyone agree that Devolver is the best indie publisher?
Only good one yes.
e9431c No.15102442
>>15100766
It's not so much an issue with management as it is the change in allegiances of management. In the 19th and early 20th century Managers and Workers were seen as having shared interests, often people would work at a given business for decades or even their whole working life, so had a shared interest in keeping it healthy, whereas financiers were essentially viewed in the same fashion as Jews, nomadic, profiteering, etc. This was called corporatism and was the basis for fascism. In the later 20th century managers came to be more and more pulled into the circle of said shareholders/financiers, often being payed partially in dividends, getting bonuses for bowing to the whims of shareholders, etc. Between that and higher-ups tendencies to also bounce around between different companies they have less interest in keeping workers on their side/happy.
As for the tendency of managers to jump in without prior experience, it's a symptom of modern obsession with credentials. Everyone has to spend years getting a fucking degree where before they'd be taken on as an apprentice and work their way up from there. This creates an iron barrier where those who come in with lower credentials or (very rarely) come in on some kind of apprenticeship are hardly ever promoted to management even after years of experience, or at least not the upper levels of management.
b794f0 No.15102453
>>15102335
My first Shantae game I played and enjoyed was Pirate's Curse. It's a fun platformer, imo.
I wouldn't mind asking anyone else what they thought of 1/2 Genie Hero and if its worth getting like Pirate's Curse was?
eb4a3b No.15102573
>>15102453
>I wouldn't mind asking anyone else what they thought of 1/2 Genie Hero and if its worth getting like Pirate's Curse was?
Only on sale. It's was a kikestarter project, so only the first two stages actually feel like they're from a complete game. Everything else is unfinished, or unpolished, because they weren't using that to demo and advertise for more crowdbux. And due to the nature of stretch goals, a lot of the content is just throw-away one-offs added in because they promised - but didn't balance the game for or account for in level design. Some of the later DLC shit like Friends to the End and the Beach/Ninja/MSF levels actually redesign stages for their gameplay changes, but that kind of attention to design is missing from earlier DLC where you run through the same stages just with a different set of powers.
So it's a goddamned mess, but still worth the price of admission - so long as that price is low, or free.
Pirate's Curse > Shantae > HGH > RR
a8a007 No.15102820
>>15102442
>jump in without prior experience
Even when they go into an unfamiliar situation, most of the ones I deal with don't seem to try to learn what actually goes on under them, or else they generally appoint one or two ass kissers to do the job for them while they leave to kiss more ass.
20bd24 No.15102860
>>15102573
>gif
After all these years I still haven't found full video.
dc752a No.15102954
>>15102860
Just download the gif and then use SauceNAO, you massive newfag.
bed7c9 No.15103059
>Enter the Gungeon
The devs of that vidya are gigantic pozzed #MeToo-tier libshits, though.
ff2db3 No.15103089
>>15042927
Hotwheels rated that game 2/10
f13433 No.15103114
I wish there were more decent building games, was looking at Homebrew but its build system seems autistic in the wrong way, there's not even a mirror mode as far as I can tell, and it's EA still with no definitive time frame.
2321ed No.15103271
34f314 No.15103904
>>15042420
No! Its a fucking demo. Game is small as hell and if it were bigger it would just get repetitive and they know that. Shitty gameplay.
Anyone that likes that game is just because of "pretty colors"
9ad773 No.15111982
gungeon is pozzed beyond help and you are a cuck for liking it
bc0529 No.15112990
458239 No.15113118
Gonna shill my all time favorite indie gayme, Assault Android Cactus
Pretty simple top down shooter with some decent scoring potential if you're into that.
>9 char with fairly good balance especially after the new patch
>enough content in it to keep you occupied for a while
>skill ceiling that is high enough to keep you occupied for a couple hundred hours or more
>no story to speak off, you can disable it entirely and not miss anything
>DRM free even the steam version can be copied to an USB drive and ran anywhere without restriction, only thing you're missing is leaderboards / Linux native port
<voices might be irritating
<art style on the main char is early PS2 uncanny valley-tier
<if you're not into scoretism or self improvement at all the game is just about 2hr long
>>15085107
>I actually thought the game was going to be hugely defective at that price
The game was $15 for a long time but the new publisher told the dev to put it way lower than that, iirc the publisher is a cancer one so that sucks but the game itself is really good, last I tried it was a slightly stiffer Odin Sphere.but that was back in early access.
ade1b6 No.15113240
>>15073524
>Go to steam page
>UNWORTHY is a hardcore combat-focused metroidvania without jumping.
What? Is that true? Because that sounds like a driving game where you can't turn left.
c08acd No.15113244
>>15042174
It has loads of good porn, though.
c08acd No.15113245
>>15113118
I liked it up until the spider boss shot out webs at you with stock fart sound effects.
I don't know why, but that small thing soured the whole game for me. It felt so out-of-place and off.
ade1b6 No.15113362
>>15113118
I played it, liked it at first but the whole thing quickly soured after reaching the 50% mark, I just hated the battery mechanic. Though to be fair, it was probably because of a glitch of sorts. I played it on the shitty laptop that was the only thing I had available at the time. The game was playable but slow, but I think it didn't affect the battery drain rate. So I eventually reached a point where I literally couldn't kill enemies fast enough.
At the end of the day though, it did quickly became apparent the replayability was squarely based on scoring, which I don't care for at all, so I just abandoned the idea of liking it, whether the battery was fucked by performance or not.
But yeah, good core gameplay.
458239 No.15113395
>>15113362
Well there's also the one pirate version that's an old leak that has way fucked battery drain but I doubt you would have downloaded that one.
But yeah I can see why having that shit cranked up would be bad for a first time experience.
af4c6c No.15115067
how2gitgud at this game? So far I feel like controls or mobility is shit and that there might or might not be upgrades (I've found two shining yellow plants and I couldn't eat the second one because I was full), and that the only thing you should look for are other safe spots.
1547c7 No.15115170
>>15043006
>gone home
>masterpiece
This had better be bait anon
434c73 No.15115208
>>15043008
>speedrunning
>speedrunning indieshit
The only type of speedrunning that's slightly interesting is glitch runs and TASbot runs, and arbitrary code exaction. Anything else is beyond retarded.
1378fe No.15115313
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I know I'm a bit late but I've started playing Fez recently. I think it's great as something to just relax to, you can't die and there's no enemies so you can just take your time with it and go wherever you want without feeling like you need to brace yourself for incoming danger. The OST is great and the puzzles are engaging so far but not to the point that it feels frustating. I know a lot of people here feel a strong hatred for pixel art or at least simplistic pixel art but I think the graphics in this are pretty nice as well.
Too bad the developer quit on the sequel. I know he behaved like an asshole towards the people who actually wanted to play his game but it was probably frustating to develop the game and I think all those e-celebs and gaming news outlets overreacted over a guy just cursing at people.
0308cf No.15115376
Aviary Attorney. Bird Phoenix Wright in the French Revolution.
458239 No.15115440
>>15115313
Like you aid it's primarily made to relax , figuring the cyphers is also somewhat interesting, after that it gets a bit stale though, and then there's the heartpiece shit that's retarded.
>I think all those e-celebs and gaming news outlets overreacted over a guy just cursing at people.
Nah the guy is a grade A faggot and deserved every single bit of the shit he got, the one that didn't deserve to be shit on is his partner which actually did most of the work and is not a fucking asshole.
e40498 No.15115447
>>15115376
oh man, that was surprisingly fun, if you like shit like that
e40498 No.15115460
f360bf No.15115462
>>15115067
Just play cautiously and pay attention to your surroundings, you're supposed to be trying to survive, not plowing your way forward blindly. Progress will happen naturally as you make your way through the levels, and it's going to be faster to go slowly and surely than to just bang your head against an obstacle over and over.
>So far I feel like controls or mobility is shit
The controls are fine once you know what you're doing, take advantage of your momentum
>there might or might not be upgrades
There aren't. There are two upgrades, sort of, but they're not movement- or health-related or anything like that.
Protip: you can eat the berries that grow from the ground if you wash them in water first, it will help if you run into a food scarcity situation in a cavern
fe3e45 No.15115500
genuinely one of the best looking games of the past five years, and the replayability is high for such a simple formula
ade1b6 No.15115503
>>15085469
>implying he's wrong
Did you know Okami was the first japanese game compromised to serve a liberal agenda?
>You are forced to be a stronk female character, a Goddess of the sun and also a predator in the form of a wolf
>Susanoo, arguably the representation of power and masculinity in the shinto pantheon, is reduced to a bumbling fool
>Your only other ally is male and ant-sized, completing the brainwashing program imprinting you with the value that females are not only stronger than men but straight up transcend them
af4c6c No.15115531
>>15115462
>The controls are fine once you know what you're doing, take advantage of your momentum
Part of the issue is that I never know what will happen when I press a certain combination of keys. Will I jump up or fall off? Will I do a walljump or run that little bit up to reach the ledge? Maybe I'll learn, maybe I won't, but it doesn't feel like I'll have fun until then
>throwing your stick at the enemy
Why? I thought you can't kill them, just annoy them.
5e33dc No.15115565
Capsized is a pretty neat platformer with comfy music by Solar Fields. Highly reccomended is you like alien settings.
1378fe No.15115580
>>15115376
Damn, I remember seeing the kickstarter for this years ago and thinking it was a fun concept but didn't want to bother investing (time and attention, not money) in a project that might get delayed for years like most of them do. A bit suprising that it's already a few years old.
f360bf No.15115583
>>15115531
>stick
It's sharpened rebar, they can be used as spears. You can absolutely kill the enemies, the Hunter difficulty entirely revolves around hunting large prey to eat.
I know what you mean about the controls, but it's not random, you really only need to do an action once to figure out how it works. Walljumps are single button presses while mantles are held, pressing the jump button on a pole will make you jump off but you'll drop off if you jump while pressing the down button, etc.
5e33dc No.15115600
>>15115580
Most of the art came from public domain, old science books and whatnot, which probably spend up development.
9ad773 No.15115609
>>15115503
>forced stronk female character
Amaterasu is whatever gender it fucking wants, she's also dumb as shit and really naive (leftshits would NEVER willingly depict a female like this), her previous incarnation, Shiranui, was a male wolf, and the sequel has you playing as her child of unknown gender, who by the way spawned from Amaterasu and Shiranui, which means it gave birth to itself.
>Susanoo reduced to a bumbling fool
He just really liked to drink, the one time he decided to sober up was the time he kicked orochi's shit for good, even amaterasu failed at this.
>Your only ally is a tiny man, completing the brainwashing imprinting that female are superior
Nigga do you really not know who issun-bosshi is? He's not ant-sized because the developers wanted to estabilish males as inferior.
Okami has absolutely zero poz in it, in case you don't remember almost every important female character dies.
f8b20a No.15115695
>>15115503
Amaterasu has a visible butthole, your argument is invalid.
1378fe No.15115725
>>15115503
Japanese gods can change genders if I recall correctly so Amaterasu is technically both male and female.
0308cf No.15115798
>>15115447
I legitimately loved it, probably cause I didn't play much in the vn department but still. Any recommendations for something similar?
>>15115580
I researched it a bit and apparently it shipped without an ending, but that got fixed later on. They also planned a game with a few of the characters present in AA but that got abandoned. I also sent the devs and email asking about it but I never got an answer.
8e3fdf No.15117227
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Indie titles I enjoyed over the past few years which haven't been mentioned yet and which I'd be willing to recommend to another: FTL, Legend of Grimrock I & II, Darkwood and Papers, Please. I've recently acquired Into the Breach (music vid related) and am probably going to take it for a spin during the weekend. Any anons here have played it, was it a pleasant ride?
decbe5 No.15120859
as much as i approve the recent pixel invasion, most of these games are trash - they look the part, but play like shit. as such, 90% of them go straight into the trashcan
imagine people paying money for this on steam… much wow very brain
9f5ba0 No.15121887
>>15120859
>much wow very brain
1378fe No.15125214
>>15115440
>deserved every single bit of the shit he got
Really? I mean most of the people he insulted were people who insulted him first. People then acted like it was a big deal because he was "famous" and started focusing more on him than his game.
d47fcd No.15126438
Its not the best game ever but its the only indie mech game that i can think of and it was fun.
483126 No.15126464
>>15117227
I almost beat it on my third run. It was pretty fun.
152f0d No.15126795
I enjoyed Wizard of Legend I don't know shit about the studio that made it I also enjoyed Into the Breach from the guys that made FTL
84c494 No.15126805
>Can anyone agree that Devolver is the best indie publisher?
they literally made one good game though, so how are they the best? unless the rest have made 0 good games, in which case yeah
208d7b No.15126829
>>15126805
they got the best memes tho xD