Come, me hearties, and hear the zong of the zee. Let's play Sunless Sea!

The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Come, me hearties, and hear the zong of the zee. Let's play Sunless Sea!

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

Thank you for the LP! I didn't manage to get a review copy of the game, so not-so-slippy seconds is a good way to enjoy it.

# ¿ Feb 23, 2015 03:47

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 09:33

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

While I'm a reactionary at heart, it only really applies when I'm the one on the throne. Sorry, Armored Pigs, supporting Proratariat

# ¿ Feb 24, 2015 11:26

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

Black Wombat posted:

So I did. It's been fixed.

I'm glad you're enjoying it! We've still got a long way to go, but Petra is getting close to being out of the dying-early stage of the game. Sometimes things just get arranged such that it's hard to get started.

It is quite fun and has made me take another pass at Fallen London. It's a hoot!

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 08:49

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

Black Wombat posted:

It seems like exactly the sort of thing that the group of people willing to sail a body of water known to be home to crabs that could eat a small house would embrace whole-heartedly. And then be VERY snippy about.

The explanation seems, dare I say, plausible.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 19:53

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

What about that dinner could indicate that you're eating man flesh? Pork liver? Because I've never read human flesh be described "somewhere between sea shark and cave tuna"

# ¿ Mar 4, 2015 05:13

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

MagicBoots posted:

The description makes me think that you are not eating what you think you are eating. How does this little church in the middle of the nowhere have such a spread of different food? And enough to give it away for free.

Poppy might be suspect, but they're at ~~sea~~ zee. You'd probably expect zeefood. Granted, I don't know much about the ecosystems of the Underzee, but I'd say the poppy wafers and pork liver are the only suspicious things.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2015 06:08

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

ousire posted:

There actually are places in the Neath where you can access the surface world, and I believe one of the endings in this game involves you moving to the surface world. Ironically, an actual land of sunshine would probably be one of the most unpleasant and dangerous places in the whole game, as sunlight is almost universally fatal to things from the Neath; or at least the strange reality-warped parts. People who've come back to life die again, substances like Prisoner's Honey revert to mundane counterparts, Glim just melts away, animals loose their abilities to speak and reason, etc. Why that is, is a rather large spoiler for the lore of the game.

I hope it's not something stupid like "this is all a dream" or something

And the references to the Great Game, I thought it means that there is some sort of communication between surface and Neath. Why is it called Neath, anyway? Because it's under-neath?

Also, I thought the Horizon is an Event Horizon reference.

I also want to get into these mysterious adventerious adventures! Sign me up!

Sometimes, I dream of a Grand Strategy game of fantasy, and Sunless Sea makes me dream of things like civilizations discovering something like Neath, but the sea being none too explorable in early eras (maybe most mages go insane down there). Later on, you could have stuff like screaming torpedoes that break every light in a ship. Then you wait. Then your send in guys with flashlights and torches, and presto, you have a new carrier, just clean the bloodstains and don't look at the writing too much. Maybe there's be an upgrade for storing actual torches on your ships in case that happens.

A carrier with insides lined with torches.

Sorry.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 06:07

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

Whenever they pull "it's all a dream", I feel cheated a little (sometimes a lot). I want my monsters to be solid, God-drat it.

If North is horror, Warp and hell worse than actual Hell, then what's in the South?

And, ooh, ooh, are we going to see any of those ships mentioned in the Khanate corsair harbor report?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 08:05

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

Well, it's a relief. Can't wait to hear about the Empress and such.

Is there an official name for the sum of the world building in Fallen London, Echo Bazaar (I asume it was a precursor, yes?) and Sunless Sea? Neath-verse, etc.?

I love worldbuilding to the point were it makes me a lovely writer, so the game is top notch for me. Everything is so new, fresh and exciting. Even the countries with names I can't pronounce!

I wonder how boner inducing is Sunless Sea to long time Londoners. I mean, before that, you only read about those places, and now you can go there.

And unlike Zeno Clash 2, the secrets revealed don't reveal disappointment.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 18:18

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

I'm not good at opinions, so The Unfinished

Who knows? May it was so cheap because it's not furnished inside, and half the engine is angry voles in vole wheels.

now, to find out what a vole is

# ¿ Mar 8, 2015 16:07

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 09:33

JcDent: May 13, 2013; Give me a rifle, one round, and point me at Berlin!

I'm trying out this newfangled crazy idea of not reading spoilered text! This is going to be crazy.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2015 06:18

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