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Procedurally Generated Survival Games, like Rust, The Forest, and uh... a bunch of others now exist in some state of intermediate assembly and while I like the concept that they're aiming for, are any of them yet worth playing? I wouldn't know because I'm not one to risk biting down on a poo poo sandwich but maybe one of you risked it?
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Nov 30, 2014 22:52
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Have you played them all? 
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Nov 30, 2014 22:53
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Nov 30, 2014 22:53
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Must have bought 3 of these loving things since they never fail to hit #1 best sellers on steam, they're all exactly as terrible as you imagine
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Nov 30, 2014 22:54
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StabMasterArson posted:Must have bought 3 of these loving things since they never fail to hit #1 best sellers on steam, they're all exactly as terrible as you imagine lol
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Nov 30, 2014 22:55
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if you want to do horrible things so you can eat every night, barely scraping by as you fear for your worthless life, just move out of your parents house
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Dec 1, 2014 00:43
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having done this i can tell you its about as fun as it sounds but really just by law of averages you'd think one of these had managed to be fun by now lets see what a sampling of steam reviews thinks quote:[...] I met some other people that were enslaved then we tryed to over take them but our small militia dident stand a chance against them and they re-enslaved us and this time made us "take off your trousers" then we worked for them for the rest of eternity. Hmm virtual slavery, seems promising! But for the sake of being both fair and balanced quote:You will spend 20 hours building, gathering. No surprises there! Any other gems for us steam reviews? quote:♥♥♥♥ early access games. Early access is a scam and anyone itching to buy into early access games should not do it, even if the games cycle is at a low point, which I think is what spawned this abomination in the first place.
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Dec 1, 2014 00:54
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early access games like those remind me of the "total overhaul" mod projects that would disappoint me as a childe. they might stop development on them someday but most are never gonna be "finished". also playing a game from alpha and waiting on incremental improvements to come out sucks anyway. ignore early access with me, all.
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Dec 1, 2014 00:56
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archerb posted:early access games like those remind me of the "total overhaul" mod projects that would disappoint me as a childe. they might stop development on them someday but most are never gonna be "finished". also playing a game from alpha and waiting on incremental improvements to come out sucks anyway. ignore early access with me, all. that said OP, i (probably stupidly) picked up 7 Days to Die since a friend was begging me to play and it's not... entirely bad. it has a lot of things that are already implented and work pretty well (destructabile terrain, almost everything can be broken down and used for something like you would expect it to do, decent thirst/hunger/health/stamina system that isn't frustrating or boring work, and building forts or underground bases are pretty rad). but holy mother of god, the hitboxes and actual combat in this is atrocious. if they ever can get it so enemies react to getting hit, don't lag like poo poo and hit you even though you're several feet apart, then it would be a pretty fun game.
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i have a friend whos still carrying a torch for day z. he bought me a copy a few weeks ago so i could see how much it had improved since the free mod days, i guess.. we ran around doing nothing for three hours just like we did in the free mod. i felt bad but i had to tell him that the game was terrible and there was still nothing to do in it. this same friend bought whatever $50 option that super-scam day z ripoff had. early access must be stopped.
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Dec 1, 2014 01:19
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The Protagonist posted:Procedurally Generated Survival Games, like Rust, The Forest, and uh... a bunch of others now exist in some state of intermediate assembly and while I like the concept that they're aiming for, are any of them yet worth playing? The forest is awesome!! 
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Dec 1, 2014 01:23
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I really wanted to play Rust but it's Early Access and if it ever comes out it will be dead by then. I'm pretty interested in The Long Dark and Firewatch too but they're not quite the same.
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I bought Starforge for some stupid reason and it's a completely unfinished and poorly explained pile of poo poo. I'm never buying another early access game, and it will forever be a mark of shame on my steam account.
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Dec 1, 2014 02:42
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I have Rust in my steam library and I do not think I ever bought it, and I don't remember it being gifted to me.
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Dec 1, 2014 04:23
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sounds fairly gay
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i preordered starbound and that game still isn't done apparently and i regret buying it.
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It's very survival-lite, but you might want to check out Sir, You Are Being Hunted.sharrrk posted:i preordered starbound and that game still isn't done apparently and i regret buying it. same. i'm dumb.
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Schnedwob posted:It's very survival-lite, but you might want to check out Sir, You Are Being Hunted.
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sharrrk posted:i preordered starbound and that game still isn't done apparently and i regret buying it. i dont regret it
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Dec 1, 2014 08:43
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just f*reaking play minecraft, op
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usually when I buy a bad game i'm just like whoops lol but there was one game that made me angry about the fact that it was such a piece of poo poo. a valley without wind I thought it was going to be like Actraiser and I was hyped as hell but it was the biggest pile of garbage I've ever played in my life
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Dec 1, 2014 09:00
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Terraria turned out to be pretty fun.
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sharrrk posted:i preordered starbound and that game still isn't done apparently and i regret buying it. This, except I was given my preorder code by a friend, for free.
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Dec 1, 2014 15:39
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the Forest was ok i thought. i ran towards the natives on my first try cause i thought "people! oh, they can help!" and instead in some ooga-booga white man nightmare fashion, they bashed my head in i did not run towards them again when i respawned
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Dec 1, 2014 16:45
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Coolguye posted:that game is done + fun so it doesn't belong in this thread, which is for not-done + unfun games excuse me but i'm am actually looking for goodly games yes/no? if there are games, which are also good, then i'd like to know
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Dec 1, 2014 18:21
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THE PENETRATOR posted:just f*reaking play minecraft, op can you point me to a server with like a handful of cool chill dudes with no crazy bullshit mods just good solid utilitarian ones no okay thought not.
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Dec 1, 2014 18:22
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The Protagonist posted:can you point me to a server with like a handful of cool chill dudes with no crazy bullshit mods just good solid utilitarian ones no okay thought not. There's a lot of them, actually, but the best ones are just you and five friends making a server and playing with WorldEdit, WorldGuard, and naught else
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Dec 1, 2014 19:18
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Kylra posted:Terraria turned out to be pretty fun. terraria is great, and i don't understand all the bitching about the patches it's had over the last year. when the moon update comes out i'm probably gonna dive in for another dozen hours
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Dec 1, 2014 19:21
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These games are better with friends or other people who like similar ideas on how to make something screwy in a broken landscape. Like in 7 days to Diarrhea
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7 Days To Die is deffo the exception so far. It's pretty fun and actually gets updatea.
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Dec 1, 2014 19:42
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I don't know if don't starve counts but it's good
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fronz posted:I don't know if don't starve counts but it's good it's Survival, and it's procedurally generated... I guess it counts, except that it's a completed game that is very good, unlike the rest of the genre. Though it's still getting expansions and updates so I guess "complete" isn't accurate.
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fronz posted:I don't know if don't starve counts but it's good it's also getting multiplayer, which should really help. ds was a cool game but you get kinda bored playing it by yourself. i really should get back into it. i burnt out after playing a lot during the beta and after release so i havent checked out all the new content yet
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Dec 1, 2014 19:56
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At first I thought Early Access games were a neat concept, but now I realized it's a basically a scam. You're basically paying them to beta test, and by the time the game gets fully released, you're already sick of playing it, and who knows when it'll get fully released.
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Starhawk64 posted:At first I thought Early Access games were a neat concept, but now I realized it's a basically a scam. You're basically paying them to beta test, and by the time the game gets fully released, you're already sick of playing it, and who knows when it'll get fully released. yeah basically. it's really easy to burn out early in the alpha/beta stages. I've avoided grim dawn though I own because I just want to play it once it's actually complete. I stupidly played starbound and man what a lovely beta. i'm not even interested in playing it at launch now--that's how bad and boring it was. It's also like this as a developer. you get real sick fast of trying every little change and cataloging every bug that comes up, ad nausea and all you ever see is how much further you need to go. hell, the only thing I ever did development for was a dumb custom map called Squadron TD on sc2 and I didn't want to even play it after awhile and felt relieved when I stopped. It's not surprising that most of the EA developers also have limited full development experience yet have ton of initial vision and ambitions. And that comes crashing down when they burn out of the development process and see how much more its gunna cost and take in shear man hours to even come close to their initial ambitions.. so of course they take the money, quit and give up the gently caress up and then go on a long duration to backpack around europe and crash in italy for a few months to start another EA game a year later. Xaris fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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Cool idea to not burn out on a game don't play it all the time.
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apparently people really don't understand what early access/alpha/beta period are or are themselves idiots with no self control
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Sizup posted:apparently people really don't understand what early access/alpha/beta period are or are themselves idiots with no self control to be fair the definitions of alpha and beta have been stretched as far as they will go
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Sizup posted:apparently people really don't understand what early access/alpha/beta period are or are themselves idiots with no self control This is part of it, but there are a lot of scammers taking advantage of Early Access right now.
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