Didn’t this game have required rt? Does it turn off for steamdeck? Can’t really see other ways to make it happen

I’ve heard the game’s name, but otherwise not familiar with it at all. The stutter could be some kind of dynamic shader compilation too, who knows.

depends entirely on the game, how it loads stuff and how big the stuff is.

100 GB openworld game? HDD probably is going to struggle with the asset loading, probably leading to stuttery gameplay or very noticeable pop-in

<10GB game with closed arenas/levels? Probably loads everything at the start of the level, might take slightly longer on HDD, but probably doesn’t make any difference after that.

scifi? point&click? Are you targeting me specifically? Wishlisted & waiting for the demo to drop.

Digging the art style, it’s kinda reminiscent of “Another World” / “Out of this world”.

Just going by the video/screenshots on the steam page, is this going to be on phones as well? The dialog choices ui seems needlessly massive for regular pc use. Also the video says “demo available now”, but I’m just nitpicking :P

“Already?” :D

Man this game has been through some dev.hell, I guess. Seems like their kickstarter project promised this would have been out in february… 2013. Oh well, better late than never.

Never really played the OG Space Quest -games, mainly because I just don’t enjoy the occasionally brutal late 80’s/early 90’s Sierra -adventuregame design where games contain a lot of softlocks and instant death traps. I’d assume SpaceVenture has moved on from those practices, though.

Wishlisted. Thanks.

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Chants of Sennaar

samesies. Finished it yesterday, absolute banger of a game. The different word order/sentence structures between the languages did my head in a bit, and the last few glyphs I had somehow entirely missed on earlier areas, and when I did finally find them - the backtracking to solve the remaining translations was a bit of back and forth. But man, what a vibe that game was.

No matter what sensitivity my mouse is set to I seem to get stuck when turning. On a controller I can turn completely in a circle, but not with a mouse unless i’m missing something.

are you using running in circles as a benchmark? as a one continuous loop that is not going to happen with a mouse unless you have infinite desk and arm lengh. Generally mouse users do circles in segments: turn a bit, move mouse back to center and repeat as nescessary.

If you’ve mostly used controlles, yea, m+kb is going to feel unnatural. Same applies in reverse too. Different worlds - it can take quite some time to get familiar with the other.

seems like the fans of the game didn’t really stay with it :P

Just a hunch, but have you seen how rabid some nintendo -fans are? If a word of the lawsuit got out some whacko’s could try something. Ref. “Zelda-game got only 8/10? Send death threats to reviewer.” mentality.

Electronic Arts games have mtx. Full stop. Expecting anything else is delusional. Sure, it’s a great day when, in modern times, they release a game without any. But, you know, hell freezing over first and all that.

edit: and even without mtx, I’m not sure they make games anymore that even remotely interest me, probably, I haven’t checked in a while. Last I checked was ME2, iirc.

Yea nah, for it to take off it needs to be short and memorable, “2d wave-survival autoshooter” is just word salad and too cumbersome to use, imo - it’s more of a short description rather than a name.

Ye. Ut99 weapons were pretty much all great. Personally I didn’t really like the goo gun, but others made it an absolute beast. The sniper rifle ended up being hilariously good at range and stupidly deadly at close range as headshots seemed to trigger on any hit above belly. The buzzaw throwing thing was nifty for the bouncing shots, but iir the headshots with that required hits to the forehead… Which still cut the heads off from the neck. Felt weird that

I guess the default pistol was a bit weak, but dual pistols was decent upgrade to it.

I’m kinda torn between Unreal Tournament’s (ut99) sniper rifle, flak cannon and the instagib variant of the shock rifle.

hand holding

what manner of degeneracy is this

I’ve played 2k21 and 2k23, both pretty fine for casual/beer golfing with friends while absolutely trash talking to them in voice chat. It’s pretty great… but:

The absolutely only reason I got 2k23 was because the 2k21 had stayed full price ever after the 2k23 released, so those of my friend group who didn’t already have the game didn’t (understandably) want to cough up 60-70€ for the game. Once 2k23 got a reasonable sale, we all got that as it was more affordable - but functionally identical to the older game.

I’m going to assume the same pattern will repeat, and it’s only because of the in-game mtx which they want you to buy AGAIN, for basically the same game but with different number in the title. To my beer-gaming group the mtx stuff is entirely irrelevant, we just play with whatever gear the game gave us from the get go, this isn’t equipment-race.

Played this ages ago when it was in closed-beta. It was… okay-ish? Hella grindy tho. Decided to wait a bit until they did more to the game, only for the game to go behind epic (IIRC) - and now I see a steam forums post it’s going bye-bye? It moved to steam at some point? O_o

I guess the grindy game was pretty hard sell considering Monster Hunter exists.

I’m not trying to bust your chops or anything.

didn’t take it as such, no worries. We cool? :)

And I bet the whole “'murica” stuff is quiiite a bit more prevalent.

Aaaaanyhoo, feels like these kinda drunklol games are pretty much just youtuber/streamer-bait for cheap giggles - and I do watch quite a bit of gaming content so these things are kinda inescapable. Oh well. Old man yells at cloud. :P

Just because “when finland -> lol alcoholism”, I get that it’s a self-deprecating joke and all that, but… we could have other jokes too, maybe? :P

I don’t mind the games, let peeps have their fun.

edit: what I called “weird”, is probably better put as “…this thing, again”. I guess.

well, ofc I can only speak on my own point of view, as a finn, the fairly prominent “lol drunk” -memery in games feels a bit weird. If that was what you were asking.