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Quoting: scaineChasm, btw? Absolute excellent! Like Hollow Knight with pixel graphics, only better gameplay (no constantly working back to your shattered shell) and faster progression (I still have a few abilities to collect though) and less weird characters/atmosphere. It also features different weapon types and the enemies are generally less frustrating to deal with.

I realise that sounds like I'm shitting on Hollow Knight, but I really enjoyed the game, but couldn't get past its frustrating failures.

Chasm is really superb.

Thanks for the perspective. I didn't find Hollow Knight frustrating (just hard).

I am wary of the procedural generation in Chasm. It rarely works well - although Sundered nailed it, much to my surprise. It always seems to be an excuse to avoid hand-crafting levels. Does Chasm tie it well enough to the story?

I had no idea this game used procgen! Does it procgen the maps?? If so, there must be many elements of "fixed" map layout, since all the puzzle elements feel hand-crafted. The game is much easier than Hollow Knight, but still challenging. Actually, "easier" might not be the right term. It's more what I outline above - progress is more obvious, there's a levelling mechanism that makes earlier areas easier to visit and it's much clearer when am area is blocked off because you haven't unlocked an ability.

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Chasm, btw? Absolute excellent! Like Hollow Knight with pixel graphics, only better gameplay (no constantly working back to your shattered shell) and faster progression (I still have a few abilities to collect though) and less weird characters/atmosphere. It also features different weapon types and the enemies are generally less frustrating to deal with.

I realise that sounds like I'm shitting on Hollow Knight, but I really enjoyed the game, but couldn't get past its frustrating failures.

Chasm is really superb.

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There doesn't seem to be any context for this, but hopefully the Rückert brothers are about to launch a new game and this is a nice piece of publicity for them? Cracking looking game though, so it's an amazing gesture regardless!

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Horde mode sounds right up my street. I prefer co-op online play like Killing Floor (definitely not family-friendly) or Insurgency co-op (also not FF). Might pick this up in the New Year.

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I've just played an hour of this and it's reasonably fun, if pretty basic. There's not much guidance going on, and chests seem to be bugged, often giving nothing. The lack of path-finding by the enemies is frustrating - they just fly/crawl in a straight line towards your base... if you don't have enough turrets, you die, simple as that. The random amount of wood you get from trees is also pretty frustrating. Two bad days in a row will see your run end.

Can't fault the price and I might come back to it occasionally, but despite all the upgrades on offer, I don't think there's enough basic gameplay at the moment. Definitely one to keep an eye on though.

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Oh, hell no! :D

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Quoting: poke86Wasn't Borderlands 3 supposed to be a 6 month Epic exclusive?!

At this point we can all agree that Epic exclusives are more like a Steam veto agreement.

Yep, BL3 is available on the MS store. Pretty much the reason I won't support Epic. In fact their behaviour makes me more likely to remain with the monopolistic incumbent, Steam, because they're trying to break into that monopoly by being anti-consumer. Pro-dev, I suppose? So there's that. But I'm not a Dev, so...

As for Stadia, I wish it luck only so far as it might benefit traditional Linux gaming in the long run (e.g. Devs go the Vulkan route). I've no interest in it beyond that.

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I'd love to see Outer Worlds or Borderlands 3 ported. But the biggest benefit Feral bring to my table these days is
a) removing EAC restriction or
b) removing Denuvo

I'd still love to play Vermintide 2 (EAC) or Monster Hunter World (Denuvo), Strange Brigade (Denuvo) or Nier: Automata (Denuvo). I own the first title already, which is a blow, but I'll never buy any title "protected" by Denuvo. Ever.

With the exception of Total Wars games though, to be honest, I've bought every title that Feral released. So I guess I'm a shoe-in regardless!

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I did indeed pause this month. I haven't bought Shadow yet, but intend to pay full price when I do. Nothing else on the choice menu stood out, so it's a miss-a-month from me.

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Quoting: scaineThis game had great quality. I'm looking forward to seeing the studio's next offering! Horizon Chase Turbo looked amazing, but I'm just not really into racing games, so I've given it a miss right now. I wonder what else they're working on?

Just noticed that Horizon Chase Turbo is on the Humble Choice this month, so I guess I already own it!!

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