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Deakul posted:So, Wargroove owns and is the Advance Wars successor that I've been waiting for. starbound seemed good at first too
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I still unironically play this game from time to time. I even make dumb mods too. One mod I've recently come to love is the RPG growth mod that adds classes like wizard/knight/rogue and the like. It's actually really well done and can drastically change the way you play the game. Also gives lots of good progression too. Currently playing as this ghost-class thing that can hover through walls and poo poo like those ethereal monsters always do. Takes energy to do, reduces my health quite a bit, but it's super fun!
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Sometimes I think, at least they released something with the semblance of a game and with other (sometimes super lovely) people picking up the slack with mods. Imagine being the devs of games like Planet Centauri, CREA or edge of space half a decade after the sandbox craze is gone on and they're still on early access. I don't want to lump the signs of life guy in here because he's cool with me but he's in a similar situation. hell, I'd like to hear his input on this nerdz fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Feb 1, 2019 23:18
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nerdz posted:Sometimes I think, at least they released something with the semblance of a game and with other (sometimes super lovely) people picking up the slack with mods. Imagine being the devs of games like Planet Centauri, CREA or edge of space half a decade after the sandbox craze is gone on and they're still on early access. Well, they manged to make a pretty sprawling game with lots of content and (apparently) really solid mod support, and they were incredible financially successful. They also did a great job building hype and creating a huge community. I think what the Chucklefish folks did is really impressive, despite the fact that Starbound isn't really something that I want to play personally. In our case, we're not particularly worried about how long our game has been in Early Access because ultimately we're still making the game we want to make. We've got a tiny team of just 2 people doing everything, which results in very slow progress but a more cohesive vision. Our tiny team also means we've got less overhead, which means the long development time hasn't really been a huge problem for us financially. We've done very little marketing, because we figure there is no point in advertising until the game is finished since that is when it will show the best. Our assumption is that people only care about how long a game has been in Early Access while it is in Early Access, and when we finally finish it folks will only care about the final product. Impossible to say if people will still want a sci-fi sandbox game when we're done, but all we can do is make the best game we know how to. Lucid Dream fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Feb 1, 2019 23:52
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At least with Wargroove the Florans are in a better game now. 
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Feb 2, 2019 00:45
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it doesn't actually have a lot of content, it just has a long range of numbers and the hype and community was primarily caused because they went 'what if terraria but more'
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Feb 2, 2019 00:56
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Patware posted:it doesn't actually have a lot of content, it just has a long range of numbers Starbound reminds me a lot of No Man's Sky. Both games are technically impressive and have incredible breadth, but they are at least somewhat lacking in depth. Both games were marketed in such a way that let folks imagine their individual perfect game, both games left a lot of people disappointing when the game didn't meet their expectations, and both games made a shitload of money. Both games were made by a talented team of folks, but they both failed to hold my attention because all the random generation ended up making exploration feel lackluster.
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Feb 2, 2019 01:11
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I Said No posted:Tiy is a loving saint compared to Brad "it is my right to sexually harass my employees" Wardell surely you mean brad 'it is my right to kill my employees' wardell. reminder: the dude had an employee who was deathly allergic to bees, purchased a whole bunch of drones, and released them near the guy as a joke
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Feb 2, 2019 02:10
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Deakul posted:So, Wargroove owns and is the Advance Wars successor that I've been waiting for.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:24
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Patware posted:it doesn't actually have a lot of content, it just has a long range of numbers I'm including stuff like "eyeball terrain" and poo poo in this. They don't really affect anything. Terraria has more genuine variety in biomes.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:26
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And it did have some interesting things going for it but Tiy saw that people were having fun with it, and declared "this will not stand".
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Feb 2, 2019 02:28
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Kly posted:starbound seemed good at first too I can't wait for them to add ammo and movement fatigue and nerf guns.
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Feb 2, 2019 03:03
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Patware posted:it doesn't actually have a lot of content, it just has a long range of numbers it's a shame, i've probably said this before but the original concept for starbound was actually very interesting (and one of the reasons i joined the project so readily) and would have changed up the sandbox genre somewhat, just somewhere around feb 2012 when we announced it became "forget all of the cool poo poo, let's just make terraria but more" i remember there being a huge shift in focusing on numbers and being able to brag about having obscene amount of xyz, be it guns, monsters, whatever, because random generation was all the rage back in 2012. we'd proudly say the game had "billions" of monsters, fully knowing it was disingenuous and functionally we had like...3, with minor differences in AI models. certain people didn't really understand the economics of producing assets and thought we could mass produce randomly genned content that had the feel and personality of custom designed ones, which is why we ended up with so much content that didn't really do anything Rhopunzel fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Feb 2, 2019 |
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Feb 2, 2019 03:23
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the absolute worst thing about starbound to me above all else is that finding a new biome means nothing because the only thing unique to them are furniture sets
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Feb 2, 2019 03:28
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Patware posted:the absolute worst thing about starbound to me above all else is that finding a new biome means nothing because the only thing unique to them are furniture sets "who made this set of perfectly sculpted ice furniture? why is it here? who knows, who cares!" mystery and exploration done right, folks
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Feb 2, 2019 03:32
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also how like half of the starbound 'story' is just 'go scan a bunch of bullshit'
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Feb 2, 2019 03:33
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Player space stations are one of the newer features of Starbound. You can spend a shitload of tungsten and titanium for modular station pieces that you can't remove once placed, and can't edit or adjust in any way other than whatever furnature you decide to fill it with. Oh, but you could fill it with tenants? But you'd get poo poo rent from them since soace counts as tier 1. Better off choosing any other planet. So the thing that really makes player made stations cool and interesting is You're better off just free-building in an asteroid field where you have more creative freedom, is cheaper to build stuff, and is generally less of a pita to work with if you REALLY want a base in space.
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Feb 2, 2019 06:56
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and absolutely none of those rooms actually have any functions. the NPCs in terraria would give you new poo poo or unlock entire mechanics or what have you the only use of the player station is to store all your frackin' universe bullshit if you're desperate enough to use that mod
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Feb 2, 2019 18:18
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I dunno that I've noticed tenants in a player built space station is locked to tier 1. I've recently been playing again but on hardcore mode and fudging it a little by looking at the data logs to find their system to have my other survival character find them and drop off a decent starting weapon and armor before they go to the Erchius base to get their ftl fixed. Even with that leg up, I just had my third hardcore character die stupidly.
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Feb 2, 2019 18:44
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RareAcumen posted:I can't wait for them to add ammo and movement fatigue and nerf guns. Theres a mod for that. Also there's a new starbound mod that allows you to combine Augments. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=739151610 "one augment to rule them all"
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Mar 10, 2019 08:51
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been a month since the thread was bumped here we go again: does a mod make the game good yet
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A firm yes I f you hate people of colour and/or love love Nazis.
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Weavered posted:A firm yes I f you hate people of colour and/or love love Nazis. So, it's good for the Governor of Virginia and that one moron that got decked whose name I can't be assed to remember
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spit on my clit posted:So, it's good for the Governor of Virginia and that one moron that got decked whose name I can't be assed to remember Richard Spencer. I feel like it's important to know who that was, but for his detriment rather than benefit.
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Mar 10, 2019 12:25
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What did chucklefish do? Not trying to stir up poo poo here i just honestly dont know. They are just a logo that pops up before stardew to me.
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ZeusCannon posted:What did chucklefish do? Not trying to stir up poo poo here i just honestly dont know. They are just a logo that pops up before stardew to me. Hell even in the case of stardew there's enough stuff, they're the publisher of it, they did nothing a publisher is expected to, such as advertising.
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ZeusCannon posted:What did chucklefish do? Not trying to stir up poo poo here i just honestly dont know. They are just a logo that pops up before stardew to me. They've been generally terrible for their employees, their games, and their player communities. Oh, and their office dog. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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Mar 10, 2019 17:48
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ZeusCannon posted:What did chucklefish do? Not trying to stir up poo poo here i just honestly dont know. They are just a logo that pops up before stardew to me. Someone who writes on the regular can edit this to read better afterwards but just so someone can actually answer the question in some way. RareAcumen posted:Chucklefish are notable for not advertising Stardew Valley at all, poorly managing development of Starbound to a mind boggling degree. I'm talking little to no direction, so they'd have to come up with poo poo on our own, but unlike most studios, they couldn't show a sketch/storyboard/concept before proceeding, it had to be a 100% polished mockup to even be taken seriously, which meant to get an idea off the ground they'd have to sink dozens of hours before it was even considered, and if it wasn't, all that time and assets would go to waste and as if that wasn't enough while all this was going on, assets/sets people that were approved before would be deemed "poo poo" and or written out and need to be redone, no questions, no reasoning.
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From that thread, as well...The Colonel posted:i'm gonna say you can probably sum up the bad parts of chucklefish by just saying tiyuri said he'd only hire women he thinks are hot 
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hi so our game's coming along pretty well but we're going to need two things pretty soon: 1) a proper name and 2) testers right now the working title is "space survival" which obviously is dogshit. i'd prefer something with a single word, two words max anyone who's interested in testing PM me for a link to our discord
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Rhopunzel posted:hi so our game's coming along pretty well but we're going to need two things pretty soon: I have on good authority that "Jerks" is still available. Or "It's always sunny in space"
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Rhopunzel posted:hi so our game's coming along pretty well but we're going to need two things pretty soon: Astrophobia? spit on my clit fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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Mar 11, 2019 00:20
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Rhopunzel posted:right now the working title is "space survival" which obviously is dogshit. i'd prefer something with a single word, two words max Disastronauts
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Cat Mattress posted:
i actually quite like disastronauts, it sheds light on the more chaotic SS13 style gameplay we're going for ditty bout my clitty posted:I have on good authority that "Jerks" is still available. e: space jerks would be pretty funny too, but i don't think it'd market very well 
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Mar 11, 2019 00:48
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Rhopunzel posted:i actually quite like disastronauts, it sheds light on the more chaotic SS13 style gameplay we're going for Go with my blessing. After running a quick Google check, there's some London-based band with that name and an episode (S1E34) of some series called "My Favorite Martian", so maybe it's not original enough. But apparently, no other game. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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Mar 11, 2019 00:52
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Cat Mattress posted:Go with my blessing. you'll definitely get credit if we go with this, it's my favorite so far. and we've been looking for months lmao
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Mar 11, 2019 00:53
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take after how minecraft and starbound took their names from popular games that had nothing to do with them like warcraft and earthbound, name your game "starry nite"
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Rhopunzel posted:hi so our game's coming along pretty well but we're going to need two things pretty soon: Boundstar
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Rhopunzel posted:hi so our game's coming along pretty well but we're going to need two things pretty soon: "space survival" = dogshit "spacesurvival" = the poo poo
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