Quoting: Nagezahn

Quoting: Purple Library GuyHow can turn-based combat reward quick decision-making? Is it not the nature of turn-based that you have time for your decisions?

The steam page says: "Turn-based Combat that allows for quick action or strategic planning"
And the trailer's descriptions starts with: "A turn-based RPG that is action-oriented but rewards a thoughtful approach."

Tales of Maj'Eyal is similar in that there you can play it extremely quickly, but if you stop, the game stops. Combined with the auto-explore feature, these are games that are turn-based, but feel quite real-time.

That said, Tales of Maj'Eyal will frequently lull you into a real-time mindset, then you run into an Elite, it kicks your ass and there's a horrible temptation to rapidly hit buttons to run away - nope, you should have taken your time, realised that a teleport, a shield, or a stance-change was the better option for survival! Can't tell you how often I've died to things that I realised, belatedly, that I had defences against!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm sure this Miles Morales is a good character and all, but for me, Spiderman is Peter Parker. I've known Peter Parker for nearly 50 years, and I just don't feel right about Spiderman being anyone else.
It's like if someone said "OK, we're doing another LoTR movie, but this time the ringbearer is going to be Merry's cousin Doderic Brandybuck. We think it's time to move on from Bagginses."

Agreed. Then I watched "Into the Multiverse" and I realised I was wrong. So very wrong. :grin:

"...hey"
and
"He CAN'T DO IT on demand!!"

Such a good film. Morales is amazing.

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I didn't think anything could rival Spellbook Demonslayers for variety and polish, but this one looks absolutely top-notch. I watched McQueeb playing this only a couple of days ago, really raving about it, and he's a big, big fan of the Horde Survival genre. Definitely going to buy this.

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If that Linux version lands, I'll finally buy this. The first game was immense, and I was extremely disappointed when they didn't do a Linux version all those years ago. Okay, so it only launched into EA in June 2020, not THAT long ago, but it's felt like a long time.

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Did you never figure out that "look at floor/ceiling" bug? Was it reported elsewhere? Feels like it's controller related, but I never experienced it.

I guess the other advantage of having this built into the game (rather than relying on a full-screen hack) is that it will only need to apply FSR to the scene itself, and not the HUD too, which should make it even more crisp.

I never finished Cyberpunk 2077, despite nearly 50 hours played. There's so much in there, content-wise, I kept forgetting to progress the "real" story. Great game, lots of fun.

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I'm not a Musk fan. I'll be absolutely floored if Twitter is still a platform I want to be on, this time next year. To be honest, it's barely a platform I want to be on now! :grin:

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This is a great article! Brotato is a PERFECT game for the Deck.

I'd add Monster Train and Backpack Hero. Both are excellent on the Deck.

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It looks good in a way that the crude, 1970's-cartoon style graphics don't do justice to. For the same reason, stills of this game look awful, but the video suggests an absolute gem of a game. I think I'll stick this on my wishlist, after seeing it in motion.

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They should definitely release one for the new Uncharted release. Pretty disappointing that it needs a launch command, but it sounds like quite an easy "patch" to fix it.

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Quoting: anewson

Quoting: AvikarrOkay, I see there was an article about this genre and Crimsonland is mentioned :) I thought, that people forgot about this game.

you're not wrong - I wrote the horde article and I didn't know about Crimsonland, luckily Liam did :grin:

I don't think Crimsonland is really relevant. It's a twin-stick for a start. It's also over a tenner. It lacks synergy building. But most importantly, the original came out in 2004, and the remake was 2014, but barely anyone has heard of it. It wasn't new or influential in the way that VS obviously is, to have created a new genre, an entire industry of clones.

It's more Smash TV than Vampire Survivors. Robotron with weapon choice.

But who knows, maybe the devs did get their inspiration there.

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