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Quoting: DoomedpaladinNah. I prefer Wanderbots' name for the genre, "Bullet Heaven." If you controlled a horde then "Horde" would work, but games like Pikmin and Overlord 1&2 would work better for that.

There are Twin Stick shooters (games where you move around on a map, chased by things, but you can aim with a secondary stick, so you can constantly move away from the enemies while shooting them) and then there are 'Flick Stick' shooters, which is what these are. You have to flick the stick in the direction they're coming from to be able to hit them, at least with some/most weapons, as it doesn't aim with the second stick.

Both Spellbook Demonslayers and Nomad Survival allow for second-stick aiming, but there's only a tiny handful of weapons where that's an issue, since most weapons are auto-target, or AOE around you, or a random spot. Some always target in front, or behind, so the aiming weapons occasionally give you some tactical advantages.

To that end, I still think the fourth criteria that really matters is the auto-shoot mechanic.

I love that Nomad Survival even plays on the Twitch runs that VS saw where you're not allowed to move. There's a whole character class that just stands still for the entire run. Quite hard to unlock too, but a fun and extremely tactical way to play these games.

Quoting: DoomedpaladinNah. I prefer Wanderbots' name for the genre, "Bullet Heaven." If you controlled a horde then "Horde" would work, but games like Pikmin and Overlord 1&2 would work better for that.

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Quoting: kuhpunktAnd here I thought the joke couldn't be more obvious

Really, sarcasm and irony is unusable on the internet. There's just too many who'd seriously mean what's said as a joke - regardless of what's being said :D

That's why there have been sarcasm marks since the dawn of networked text communication: http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/e/emoticon.html

(Maybe not the best example, I remember another jargon file asking to put a smiley or other sarcasm indicator like /s after sarcasm). Edit: more specifically, the argument was: a lot of people read these messages. Even if 100 people understand the joke, the 101th might not, and reply with an annoyed answer.

Quoting: jarhead_hLet's see.... this makes TWO VR games that I actually want to play, and they are BOTH Half Life games. I'm NOT paying $1K for an Index for just two games. They could Announce Half Life 3 as VR only and I still wouldn't do it.

Quoting: shadow1w2Dbrand expensive and sketchy or atleast odd PR.
Dunno about their products but I can say I'm not interested for those two reasons alone.
As for the uproar, something feels off about it to me and I think this is all according to plan.
It certainly is getting them attention isn't it?

Personally I'd rather give my money to these garage makers in the community.
Especially the open source ones.

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Quoting: constI want real community forums back, reddit is cancer.

Consider that we need somewhere to put the cancer/blind outrage output and that visiting reddit isn’t very useful for immediate reactions. Avoid it, vote with your wallet (browser).

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Quoting: slaapliedjeFrom my understanding of it, Icewind Dale 2's source code was lost, so we'll never see an Enhanced Edition of that one. So GemRB would be the only modern way to play it. Granted, I think GemRB also has a port for the Amiga. :)

Yes, I think it is worth stressing!

Quoting: InterknetNever bought anything from dbrand myself, doubt I ever will - not because of this issue, but because of reasons such as I'm a cheapskate and I also don't particularly care much for cases/skins myself.

But anyway, dbrand's humour is generally funny, but "If you don't like it, move." doesn't come across very well and makes them seem rather up their own arse to be honest.