I've been following the dev on Mastodon for ages now, it's great to see they've got a new demo out.

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My question for those who have and play the game is, how is it as a single-player experience?

A lot of what I see from people is multiplayer, but I'm not all that interested in getting a group together, fitting their schedule, not being able to wander off and read something at my leisure, etc. So is there enough to keep someone like me engaged with the world?

Going to add a caveat that I do expect the next year or two to bring a LOT more content to the game, so it's obviously going to improve. But that said, in your experience so far what do you think its appeal is as a solo adventure? Particularly for someone who's just fine playing Minetest alone and loves stuff like Subnautica which is exploration and base building heavy.

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Quoting: NumericSide Note: MineClone 2 [External Link], the popular Minetest game known for its efforts to replicate the Minecraft 1.12 experience, has undergone some major changes itself. The last few releases have added in major features such as the experience system and enchantments. The current version (0.70.0) was the last release under the talented project maintainer/developer Wuzzy. The torch has been passed to two active contributors, Fleckenstein and kay27, who are well underway in tiding up the 0.71.0 release. Based on the git page, it seems to have a lot of nice improvements https://git.minetest.land/MineClone2/MineClone2/issues/997#issuecomment-13272 [External Link]

Thanks Wuzzy for all of your years of hard work!

I tried that recently, and it's pretty good. I like the double chest mechanic a lot. Although it could stand with a lot more interior design recipes. Not much motivation to build a cool house if it's just standing there with empty rooms.

Still, looking forward to the 5.4.0 release, even though it's not on the Ubuntu-MATE repository yet. I imagine it'll show up in the next few days sometime.

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Man, that turret voice from Portal is really making the rounds lately.

I like the humour in the trailer, and it's rare for me to like humour in adventure games. Almost every time I've encountered it as the narrative's dominant element it comes off as trying too hard. The Whispered World, Edna & Harvey and so forth, they tend to leave me cold.

But this. This, I like.

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Quoting: Nezchanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSFPIwMEq4

Amusingly, I just took a second look and I'm pretty sure that's the same guy at 1:27 in the much older video, except doing something interesting.

Looking at Standard Fantasy Synopsis #14 there, I suspect this is gonna be one of those series that tries to take a "realistic and grounded" approach, and will have a lot more to do with the politics of the factions, delivered via long exposition scenes. There's my prediction.

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Wow.

All the characters they could have picked, there's what, 120 of them? Almost all with amazing, visually impressive designs and costumes, flashy abilities and compelling backstories, and this is what they picked? A generic looking human warrior whose outfit is mainly brown?

Gotta say, not impressed at all from this teaser. It's got less to draw me in than any of the trailers for the game itself that Valve has made. Seriously, compare it to this from nine years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSFPIwMEq4 [External Link]

I know which one makes me want to know more about the world and the people in it.

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Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: woox2kI would also like to know how is this possible?
It's good the game is doing good and it is a good game, but to be on the very top of the charts while still being EA?

I haven't played it, but I've seen that there are a lot of streamers/influensers on social media praising it. I'm sure that has something to do with it's sudden popularity.

I watched some of one popular streamer playing it, and while he was very impressed with how pretty the game is, how well it runs, and many of the early aspects, by a couple of sessions in the bloom was coming off the rose and he started to get more lukewarm about it. All the other stuff was still true, but he was disappointed by small dungeons, lack of enemy variety, and how the procedurally generated terrain was very "same"-y. As in, other than a point of interest being plunked down in an otherwise nondescript (and identical to other chunks of forest), there weren't really dramatic things to break up each type of terrain.

I'm sure the early first session drove a bunch of sales though, since he was praising it a fair bit and has a fan base that trusts his judgment on this stuff (he's pretty analytical about design).

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I've mostly been playing Terranigma via Mednafen (since I really can't be bothered to jump through Retroarch's hoops) and flirting with getting into Unreal World. The former is great but shows its age in sometimes frustrating mechanics, and the latter seems absorbing if difficult.

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: psy-qBlazed through Dark Souls 3 .

One does not simply blaze thorough Dark Souls.

Unless one plays pyromancer.

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Okay, but can you install Linux on it?

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