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suuma posted:At the risk of being dogpiled, what's wrong with Ion Fury? the game contains shampoo bottles labeled "ogay" and someone found a homophobic slur hidden in one of the levels. then some screenshots from the dev's private discord got leaked showing them making transphobic jokes and complaining about sjws. after the initial backlash they said they would remove the hidden slur and the ogay bottle, but a bunch of people review bombed the game on steam so they decided to keep the ogay bottle after all, which 3d realms released a statement in support of. personally i don't really care much about that particular dumb joke, but it is a good indicator of who they think is worth listening to Guillermus posted:The game itself is not bad but isn't as good as other recent boomer shooters. also yeah. it's ok and i like seeing the level designers go nuts with build, but none of the weapons really feel that great and there's some annoyingly circuitous backtracking. dusk is the superior neo-retro shooter in basically every way, and if you want to see a talented designer flex with the build engine play blood: death wish Weedle fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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I think Ion Fury is better than Project Warlock but not as good as Dusk. gently caress the devs but I am mildly interested how the expansion will turn out.
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SeANMcBAY posted:I think Ion Fury is better than Project Warlock but not as good as Dusk. agreed
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It's not even in the same galaxy as DUSK.
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Ion fury is miles better than dusk but inferior to Wrath.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:the boomer shooter bundle let you split up the money by publisher individually as well as just charity & store so I do own ion fury now.
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I’ve tried all the notable new retro shooters, except Amid Evil (anyone have a spare key? ), and Dusk is really the only one that I’d call great. Playing most of the others just made me want to play the games they were aping more. SeANMcBAY fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Mar 13, 2022 22:19
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koren posted:Because they own the company and have control of the twitter account and physical distribution. All the contributors jumped ship after their first psychotic meltdown. The magazine has been effectively dead for well over a week. Oh drat, yeah then it's no surprise the magazine went under. Wouldn't mind if a non-chud would take over, because I liked the idea. Digital-only would be fine, too.
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SeANMcBAY posted:I’ve tried all the notable new retro shooters, except Amid Evil (anyone have a spare key? Hey, I've got a spare key for Amid Evil, I'll PM you!  bovis fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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The Ion Fury dev account also went ballistic for a day in response to the backlash. I wasn't impressed by the game. There were still too many fucky leftovers from the Build Engine I didn't like, like the awful hitboxes that resulted in shots just sailing through enemies. I can deal with that in 30 year old games, but I have no patience for it in a $20 modern release. I rate Project Warlock way above it.
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koren posted:Ion fury is miles better than dusk but inferior to Wrath. 
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koren posted:Ion fury is miles better than dusk but inferior to Wrath. Oh hey, we're talking about Wrath! I actually got early access on Steam during a sale or otherwise weak-willed moment, and I played maybe 2-3 levels of it but then stopped since I felt I might be ruining myself for the actual release. Game has top-notch level design and I enjoy the look&feel of things mostly, but it's really suffering from lack of enemy variety I feel? The recent Dev blogs are talking about boss monsters and chapter2, does that mean that they consider chapter1 to be finished and they won't update the menagerie? I know they said they'd do a another pass on weapons later in development but the amount of not-cacodemons that keep spawning in is tedious.
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bovis posted:Hey, I've got a spare key for Amid Evil, I'll PM you! Did you feel Project Warlock is not fairly sold by its demo? Everyone keeps talking about how great it is, but my impression of the demo was that it had a bunch of doom1 monsters in it that could be countered by slowly backpedaling or just tapping the strafe key as their projectiles sail past. I like the look of it and it's trailers etc but I'm afraid of being some rear end in a top hat asking for a key to a game I might not enjoy. edit vv: Cheers man, yea send that key to someone who'd love it. Serephina fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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Thanks bovis for the key.Serephina posted:Did you feel Project Warlock is not fairly sold by its demo? Everyone keeps talking about how great it is, but my impression of the demo was that it had a bunch of doom1 monsters in it that could be countered by slowly backpedaling or just tapping the strafe key as their projectiles sail past. There’s also some light rpg mechanics thrown in but I think you got the gist of it. You probably won’t enjoy it if you didn’t enjoy the demo.
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I actually hear a lot more antipathy for Warlock than anything. It's not very deep and the level design is simplistic, but it's one of those "mowing down the cool-looking enemy sprites" games.
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The Kins posted:Powerslave Exhumed has updated with less chunky hitboxes when dodging projectiles, support for Invert Mouse and Gyro controls, and an internal level editor and mod support on PC. My upside down brain can now enjoy this game, and it is good.
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i was pretty disappointed with project warlock. it looks cool but is not very fun and the save system is annoying. some weapons are neat. 4/10
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bovis posted:Hey, I've got a spare key for Amid Evil, I'll PM you! Yo that DUSK code still available?
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verbal enema posted:Yo that DUSK code still available? Sure is! I'll PM you Also the Project Warlock key has also been taken so hope everyone enjoys
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bovis posted:Sure is! I'll PM you You a legend Thread owns
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:I actually hear a lot more antipathy for Warlock than anything. It's not very deep and the level design is simplistic, but it's one of those "mowing down the cool-looking enemy sprites" games. Yeah that's essentially my experience as well. I played on the second highest difficulty (I think the highest included perma-death) and it seemed really easy and one-note. Looked nice though.
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I wanted to like Ion Fury, the levels were really nice looking but the enemies sucked real bad, like even fuckin Depth Dwellers had better enemies
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Yeah, very impressive level design, but I played the game when it was released and got bored with it, and I literally cannot remember a single enemy design.
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, very impressive level design, but I played the game when it was released and got bored with it, and I literally cannot remember a single enemy design.
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, very impressive level design, but I played the game when it was released and got bored with it, and I literally cannot remember a single enemy design. Seven varieties of indistinct men in coats and sometimes drones
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Automata 10 Pack posted:same but with powerslave exhumed tbh 'Red spider' is very memorable thankyou
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smdh if you don’t remember the sexy cat ladies
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The Powerslave port actually increased bug variety by quite a bit
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Hill I'd gladly die on. Ion fury has some significant weaknesses, but I can appreciate the degree of craft involved at every level. I was consistently impressed with the texture work, level design and how they managed to bend the build engine to their will. I'm also one of the people who thinks for the most part the weapon roster felt decent to use once I got comfortable with the alt fire stuff. It was engaging enough that I've played through it more than once and will probably go back for the arrange mode when the expansion comes out. Dusk, for a myriad of reasons, I simply do no care for and there's nothing I can dispassionately look at and say is impressive... except maybe that Event Horizon rotating tunnel. I think the developers probably liked that bit too because it appears twice. Serephina posted:Oh hey, we're talking about Wrath! I actually got early access on Steam during a sale or otherwise weak-willed moment, and I played maybe 2-3 levels of it but then stopped since I felt I might be ruining myself for the actual release. Game has top-notch level design and I enjoy the look&feel of things mostly, but it's really suffering from lack of enemy variety I feel? The recent Dev blogs are talking about boss monsters and chapter2, does that mean that they consider chapter1 to be finished and they won't update the menagerie? I know they said they'd do a another pass on weapons later in development but the amount of not-cacodemons that keep spawning in is tedious. The big problem with the flying enemies is how they tend to chill out at mid to long range and never really bother closing in. I think pathfinding is one of those legacy quake engine/map format issues and they're going to address it further in later patches.... If the game ever gets finished.
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I both get the dislike for Project Warlock and unabashedly love it. If you gave a poo poo load of guns to the Catacombs guy and added in way more gore, you get PW. I can't not love that.
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Convex posted:'Red spider' is very memorable thankyou It would have been very nice to know that HROT had giant spiders before I played. I'm not arachnophobic but the HROT spiders are exactly the kind that I hate the look of.
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i've been avoiding Project Warlock because I like at least a little verticality in my maps but y'all are making it sound tempting.
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Bridgeburner had a chat with some kiwi Youtuber: https://twitch.tv/videos/1423707823 Jimmy revamped the Discord for his Joy of Mapping series into a general hub for newcomers to learn the ropes...: https://twitter.com/JamesPaddock/status/1503382655487950853 ...and also put out Gloombase, a GZDoom map paying homage to early-2000s ZDoom maps with all their feature abuse: 
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Gaspy Conana posted:i've been avoiding Project Warlock because I like at least a little verticality in my maps but y'all are making it sound tempting. Just don't go in expecting any verticality, and you'll be all set. PW2 looks to be very Quake-like, whereas PW1 is Wolf3D-like.
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Project Warlock becomes pretty fun once you get a couple guns to use
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drrockso20 posted:Project Warlock becomes pretty fun once you get a couple guns to use Also, don't be afraid to replay earlier levels. You get to keep your new guns and any resources you find, so while you never have to grind it is possible and pretty fun
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koren posted:Ion fury is miles better than dusk Easily the wrongest anyone's been in this thread.
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i think ion fury has great graphics and style but the level design is rubbish
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