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if I for some reason decide I want to get back into this.. and I played before they charged actual dollars for this "game" do I still own it for free or do I gotta buy it.
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Gotta buy it or you're bopped back to demo status
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May 28, 2021 15:37
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Have they ever gotten this game to run decently? It's really weird fun but man it's so hard to deal with (A) the lack of players and (B) jittery 30fps, and it's hard to fix A when I'm not willing ot recommend it to anyone because of B. EDIT: Answered my own question- it's not great! 30.5 Days fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Aug 10, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 17:56
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30.5 Days posted:Have they ever gotten this game to run decently? It's really weird fun but man it's so hard to deal with (A) the lack of players and (B) jittery 30fps, and it's hard to fix A when I'm not willing ot recommend it to anyone because of B. Is he still charging 40 bucks for this game? Has he made any progress? Can you still have sex with a elf in the middle of town...?
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Aug 10, 2021 03:52
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Yes, yes, ...maybe?
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Aug 10, 2021 07:39
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which elf? half of them have sex with you if you get your rep far enough.
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Freakazoid_ posted:which elf? half of them have sex with you if you get your rep far enough. I thought you had sex with them to get your rep up in the first place!
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cmdrk posted:I thought you had sex with them to get your rep up in the first place! It's the circle of sex~
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Aug 11, 2021 15:00
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i understand why 40 bux is a high barrier of entry for an ugly indie game, but IMO its worth it. game's fun and full of stuff to discover, and if im going to play a game for a long time id rather pay 40 bux once instead of having to pay subscription, and this way i don't feel like i have to play a lot to not "waste" money i paid for the sub a free trial that lets you get a good feel of the game would be nice though
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RottenK posted:i understand why 40 bux is a high barrier of entry for an ugly indie game, but IMO its worth it. There's a demo of it on steam. I downloaded it and within 2 minutes of putzing around, decided it wasn't for me.
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Aug 25, 2021 06:57
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Any goons still playing this? I picked it up a couple of days ago, and having a pretty good time of it. In as Blaquetooth
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Blacktooth posted:Any goons still playing this? I picked it up a couple of days ago, and having a pretty good time of it. Do you happen to be Aarghul Blacktooth, or is it just coincidence? Also, is this game ever on sale? Its been in my wishlist for a few months but I don't think I ever saw it sold at bargain price
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Mr. Pickles posted:Do you happen to be Aarghul Blacktooth, or is it just coincidence? it was 25% off at the end of jan/start of feb
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dev blog posted:And of course the main way to get high-level players is to keep low-level players playing longer! Most players don't reach max-level combat skills -- they quit sooner than that. (This is the norm for every MMO, of course, but I think we can do a lot better.) How about removing the irritant that is your 40 dollar price tag?
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They like free to play and seem to still think you have to charge once or monthly with no other way to fund. I like this game it's like a little gem trapped in the 90s still being refined. With all the weird quirks that 90s games had. I've never hit more than I dunno 20 in any skill but I pick it up for a few weeks every few years because it's an experience. That said I'd be willing to throw $5 for that month if they wanted but then they'd have less money than the $40 they already got from me. I'm not even sure that's what I paid, it wasn't on steam when I bought it. pixaal fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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Feb 25, 2022 13:00
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paid $40, played some jank, got bored. f2p tier that caps your skills when?
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They have an optional monthly fee now. Let the whales spend, reduce the buy-in to like 10 bucks.
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https://shop.projectgorgon.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=51 Let's buy a package that's not in the game yet?
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This is on sale for another week so it's "yikes 20 dollars". It's a very interesting game even with its extremely obtuse systems but at least it's not Shroud of the Avatar.
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 it's on sale for 10 bucks right now (finally)too bad I'm busy with another mmo, but I picked it up for later
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Glad i refunded Elden Ring for this, kind of jank but certainly will be interesting for a while. Would be nice to see a big B movie-game of the systems in this game.
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So I’m gonna hop into this tomorrow after getting it on sale, I usually play support or healer builds and it sounds like this game requires a lot of soloing, what would that look like? I played way back in the day when it was free and only serbule was available and found it very charming, so I’m curious to see what it’s like now
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iirc mentalism was support/heals but youll need another thing for damage
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Aster0ids posted:Glad i refunded Elden Ring for this, kind of jank but certainly will be interesting for a while. Would be nice to see a big B movie-game of the systems in this game. Project Gorgon: Glad I refunded Elden Ring for this  It's a good game. I could take or leave the sexy elves but kudos to the developer for making the best of what they had available from the asset store.
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I think I paid for this, but do I have to buy it on steam now anyway?
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Frog Act posted:So I’m gonna hop into this tomorrow after getting it on sale, I usually play support or healer builds and it sounds like this game requires a lot of soloing, what would that look like? I played way back in the day when it was free and only serbule was available and found it very charming, so I’m curious to see what it’s like now It doesn't require a lot of soloing- there's a lot of weird exploration in terms of figuring out how to pick up skills and stuff and that is best done solo, and solo is always an option. The overworld is solo-friendly, and you can usually set up shop in some hallway near the entrance of a dungeon and pick off mobs one at a time/flee for the zone line if you get mobbed. However, the best way to level is still to push deeper into a dungeon with multiple people. There's some non-combat grinds that are better with others too (for instance, the ability to craft tools when I played was locked behind the ability to get level 50 in the goblin language which required collecting card drops from goblins, one for each level, from the goblin dungeon. There are benefits to doing this with other people where you can trade cards.) At least this was the case when I played a very long time ago. One thing I'll warn you about is that when I've tried to play again recently, looking toward serbule from anywhere in the zone caused my framerate to falter. 30.5 Days fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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Dungeons usually have multiple levels with the deeper levels being fairly solo-unfriendly and having better XP and rewards. However, there are often also some skills that are gated behind your ability to advance deep into a dungeon at least once. So for instance, when I played, the serbule starter dungeon had some good solo grinding against spiders on the top floor, but also had the ability to become a spider at the bottom level. And I think there's some quest objective at the bottom of the goblin dungeon but I forget what that provides.
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Interesting, I’m wandering around the tutorial item acquainting myself with the mechanics and it’s all very silly in a way I find kinda compelling, eager to get to the mainland and learn more
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Hmm for 10bux I may buy.. I played this ages ago, and probabaly wont' touch it for abit but it's 10bux lower than it's lowest.. and 10 is throwaway money. Seam Deck Verified ? LOOOL edit: it says playable. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Jul 6, 2023 |
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Picked this up in the sale as I’ve had it wishlisted since… oh, since this thread mentioned it moving to steam. It’s insane and silly and my guy needs a product manager (I laughed out loud at how obvious a failure of dev time that “casino” was). But I’ve also now played it for several hours a day and I’m having fun. It really brings back that tiny little burst of private joy one felt upon discovering something new in a video game. Which is not a feeling I’ve had for 30+ years. So that’s cool. Also I like that you’re always getting more points in something. Even if it’s death.
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Tempted to log back in again purely because of how much fun it was to play a cow. I just hated that there wasn't (at the time) a decent way to farm gear or get the stats you wanted. I remember something about augmentation at one point but I wasn't able to really figure it out before something else distracted me again. How's the community now?
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Lol oh poo poo I forgot I own this from the sale.
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Trip Report! Got my alpha account reactivated and tied to my steam account. The alpha account password reset doesn't work, so you'll need to email support. First thing I noticed: A little more inventory space! Although the game deceives you with extra bags, apparently those are folders for organization and not actual spaces. Your total spaces are listed separately at the bottom of the inventory window. After looking through all the poo poo I've been hoarding over 4 npcs... I think an intervention may be in order. Or maybe I needed those for some future task? It's hard to tell. Cartography got reset at some point. Every zone got some sort of rework as none of my old map pins pointed to the correct locations anymore. First thing I did was hop over to Eltibule and get my riding skill. 6k for the skill + the prototype mount. It's definitely faster than running but it's got a slow acceleration and deceleration. Leveled it to near 20 in about an hour while I worked on uncovering all of serbule to get some carto skill back. In my attempt to make some money, I saw that Sun Vale got a complete revamp. None of the mobs I used to hunt were there and bananas seem uncommon, which is what I used to collect to make decent food for my level. hosed around anyway, ran into a kraken and got killed by it, got bonus xp for death skill because it was the first time I got killed by seafood before. Then I logged off. I'll probably take another stab or two at this game, see if I can earn some more money to uncap my main skills. Training is still expensive!
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After a few more attempts I realized why I wanted to stop playing in the first place: The game is too grindy. I know, it's an MMO, it's supposed to be grindy, but this is a level of grind that rivals old school MMOs, just in a different way. Instead of group mandatory progress with death penalties and bad parties ruining hours of work, the rate at which you can earn things is limited by money. It didn't seem so bad at the start. There's nothing blocking you from leveling your skills, you get a decent amount of money along the way and can try different things. You do spend an unusually long amount of time just in serbule, partly to earn favor, partly because of dungeons that help get you at or near 30 in skills, and the fact that Serbule was designed as a hub city that has most everything. By the time you're mid-level, you need to focus on money. Your main skills get very expensive very quickly and the money you earn isn't really getting you there. That's also when a bunch of very tempting side skills open up, things that could help you get a little more money and things that help with quality of life. There's just so much money sink going on it's become prohibitive to anyone but the most dedicated poopsockers. There are also key npcs the game doesn't really emphasize but are necessary to keep money flowing. Getting favor can take a good long while and interfere with earning money, but getting all of serbule's storage npcs and unlocking the highest tiers of favor with shop npcs are the two things you really need to make progress at a decent clip. Storage npcs outside of serbule are arguably optional, but you will want shop npcs at near max favor to take advantage of higher sell limits. They all have a budget of how much you can sell to them and it gets reset only once per week. To get an idea how dramatic it is, there's an armor/weapons npc in Eltibule (level 30-50 zone) that starts at 10,000 max but at the highest tier reaches 120,000. When I picked up where I left off, I actually had 180k. I dropped down to 160k for a while because I picked up horse riding, a new tier of mushroom gathering, and some other cheaper skills. I have since managed to make that back and slightly exceeded 200k in the past few days. What will I do with that money? Pay for my next tier of archery and animal handling, both at 95k each. There will be at least one more tier after that. Also, I probably have to level carpentry and fletching because each new tier of archery needs new arrows. The player economy right now is largely focused on end-game products. There's little demand for mid or lower tier items in bulk and when they do, they're fairly lowball offers. Conversely, player shop npcs are fully stocked on low/mid tier items and charge a decent amount, but it seems like nobody really buys them in bulk. The exception seems to be mushrooms for some reason, but you basically need mushroom growing to participate and demand is based on the lunar cycle. The grind aside, the developer is so laser focused on being an ideas guy, he can't really step back and look at the big picture. How one progresses in this game feels uneven and haphazard at times. There are roadblocks that don't make sense. The wiki kind of helps but there are missing bits of information. There are a couple things that are obviously better than it was 5+ years ago, but some of it is locked behind the grind, and the ones that aren't were added in a half-way measure, probably because the developer at least sort of recognizes how dumb some of his ideas were but won't admit it.
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I like PG precisely because of how dumb his ideas are, sure it comes with a lot of cons, like everything being paywalled behind layers of grind. But we got playable animals, and lots of memorable weird poo poo as a result. It's like seeing alternative AAA mmo that is still in alpha stages being unshackled from chains of good management and someone with enough sense to say "no", with just horrible ideas executed left and right. It's the best. (Not to mention super refreshing for first timers) What you're describing just made me quit faster, since I speedrun through my mmo cocaine cycle and become disillusioned relatively fast. And it just doesn't hold up in that treadmill cycle (unless you're turbo into crafting, then it's the best game that ever existed for you, right after SWG) Thanks for breaking my mmo addiction, Citan.
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I have to wonder how the whole unity drama is going to affect PG. It deserves a better engine.
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According to the lead dev they are too small to be affected. I'm not sure that's the correct read but that's what he thinks. They are considering dropping their pro license to save 4k a year with the only drawback being adding a unity splash screen.
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Things aren't looking good: https://forum.projectgorgon.com/entry.php?47-Game-News-2023-11quote:We've written a lot over the past few years about our development plans, about Statehelm and orcs, about housing, about what comes next and what we need to get us across the finish line. It's an uncomfortable position -- we're so *very* close, but we're not there yet so we ... Just! Keep! Pushing! tl;dr: the covid shutdown, followed by his wife still being treated for cancer, has sapped their savings. They have enough cash to keep the servers going, but they probably won't reach the finish line.
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