I plan to create a PC console to use with my TV and Bazzite looks like a good choice for OS in that case.

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Quoting: RFSharpeIf I notice that a game is made with the Godot Engine, that always piques my interest. When I notice that the game is under $5.00, that also gets my attention. When I discovered that Halls of Torment was Steam Deck verified, I bought the game. It is my goto Steam Deck game when reclining in bed before going to sleep. In my limited experience, the game works flawlessly on the Steam Deck. Some people might be bothered by the "retro" graphics, but I enjoy that sense of nostalgia. Some people commented that the game is "grindy", but I have found the progression mechanics are very engaging. Of course I am only 8 hours into the game, so that may change. I would highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys bullet-hell video games.

I have more than 100 hours in the game and it's still fun. Mostly trying to get the correct combinations of artifacts, traits, abilities and equipment to complete another quest right now. Still around 150 quests I didn't completed yet :-D

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: SakuretsuNot interested but it's funny to see how it only took a little bit bankruptcy for the suits at Ubisoft to decide to go back to Steam.

Now they just need to understand that denuvo and superfluous client annoy people and lower the sales, and they're back on track.

It would also help, if they let developers to work on something they would like to create.

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This game is absolutely amazing. I already spent more than 100 hours in it and still want to play it more. The amount of things developers added with 1.0 release is huge and what is best no live service crap nowhere in the game. :-)

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Quoting: neolithI just started up the game. Last time I played I had all 310 achievements. Now there's 500!
Aw man... there goes my spare time...

Same here plenty of new achievements to hunt :-D

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Quoting: Tevur

Quoting: NagezahnI had that, too, a few months ago, and the cause I identified was some library linked into the Godot binary. Can't quite remember what it was, but the solution for me was switching to Proton + the Windows version.

[Edit]
Remembered I sent them a bug report, and this was the Godot issue I found:
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/75308

Hmm, no, I run Wayland session.
Nevermind, will try switching to Proton.
Still sad if that is what you get when a native linux version is promised.

I actually didn't check if the Steam Deck is running native or Proton version of the game by default. But I was downloading some hotfix yesterday, so it's possible they fixed it.

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Quoting: Hooly

• 1. The game is grindy by design, and designed to be an enjoyable grind with a strong focus on the enjoyment arising from the sense of progression, which is impeded for new players in the case of see 2.

I assumed it would be done like this by design, it's like playing MMO without the social aspect. I'm probably not the target audience as I enjoy games with interesting game mechanics or games that have interesting story.
Monster Hunter isn't any of those. I was just confused by the first hour of the game.

Quoting: Hooly

2. Did you use the Guardian Armor and Weapons? Those will kill the experience for new players in particular because you don't get into the progression feedback loop. The Guardian equipment is intended for returning or replaying hunters that want to rush into Iceborne.

Not sure what is Iceborne as there was so many confusing things thrown onto the player at start that I got lost pretty quickly. But I probably had Guardian Armor and Weapons as everything else I could craft looked really weak. I probably wouldn't like the progression feedback loop anyway as it's not that interesting like finding new piece of armor/weapon in Elden ring. Just a stat boost that doesn't do much.

Quoting: Hooly

"Given the opportunity, players will optimise the fun out of a game."

3. The story was never the focus, the early games didn't even have a story to speak of outside of lore bits sprinkled into item descriptions and similar.

As I said if the whole game is about grinding for new equipment to kill something stronger and repeat then I'm not interested. I was aware from what I knew that it will be somewhat grind, but I didn't realized it is the whole game.

I'm not trying to talk bad things about the game (if you enjoy it, enjoy it). I'm just trying to warn others to not do the same mistake as I did, as the game looks completely different in the trailer than what you actually get in the end.

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Quoting: TevurHmm, I don't know... first round, crashed to desktop after 15 Minutes...
Will try some more, but not a good first impression...

I didn't had any crash on Steam Deck, but I noticed that the wellkeeper is invisible and I couldn't buy anything from him when I interacted with him.

I assume there will be hotfix released soon as the patch for 1.0 was really enormous.

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I tried the Monster Hunter World and after first hour it started to feel like just a grind. The start was awesome cinematic epic story introduction, but after that you will get so many confusing things to do and for everything you need to grind your way to it.

If you hope for some epic story like God of War you will not find it here, even the battles with the monsters weren't that interesting. Most of the time it feels like Live service game, but without trying to get more money from you (I can see how this could be easily added to the game).

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Another reason to spend few more hours in this game as it's absolutely awesome :-)

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