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Mzbundifund posted:Was Elona ever finished? its final release was version 1.16 in 2009. IDK what exactly finished means here. You can play through the main quest, beat the final boss, and get a score/credits screen. But there is still an accessible-but-empty "south tyris" continent that shows Noa had further plans for the game. There are various fan-made mods that expand on it, the biggest and most popular of which is Elona+, which started by adding an Act 2 to the the main story quest in South Tyris and eventually made an Act 3 set on the continent of Lost Irva. It's still being developed in 2022! It's a Japanese mod though, so to get the act 2 and 3 content translated to English you need to install the separately-made "Elona+ Custom" mod on top of it. RPATDO_LAMD fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Oct 3, 2022 |
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Mzbundifund posted:Was Elona ever finished?
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Didn't know where to post this but really sad. Worked on Metro Exodus. https://twitter.com/Leonid_Games/status/1576504412465680395
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Wiltsghost posted:Didn't know where to post this but really sad. Worked on Metro Exodus. That sucks. I was wondering how 4A and GSC were doing in all this; Ice Pick Lodge as well.
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repiv posted:a list of upcoming sony releases leaked, and you're not gonna believe this but returnal is coming to PC You can tell this is legit because it doesn't include Bloodborne.
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Azran posted:You can tell this is legit because it doesn't include Bloodborne. 
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A murder mystery game focused on the Bates Motel is strange.
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Azran posted:You can tell this is legit because it doesn't include Bloodborne.
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Scalding Coffee posted:A murder mystery game focused on the Bates Motel is strange. yeah obviously Norman did it. The old lady wouldn't hurt a fly.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1995880/Afterdream/ This one's short and not bad, I like it.
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The 7th Guest posted:more demos launching for Next Fest this week. bolded are ones i'm interested in, italics mean you may have seen them at E3/various events: Thanks for this reminder. Potionomics sounds and looks like it was heavily inspired by Recettear. I'm looking forward to trying it tomorrow.
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Banished was a really good game, but I didn't expect it to single-handedly create a new sub-genre. Aquatico just released a demo and its mechanics are 100% Banished, just in a futuristic undersea setting. Same with Endzone, which is post-apocalyptic Banished. And Patron, which is a very straightforward Banished clone without even a different setting. Furthest afield to my knowledge is Dawn of Man, which took Banished mechanics but moved things significantly in its own direction.
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...Did it? Isn't Banished just a city builder. The hot one right now is Farthest Frontier, I think.
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I've seen lots of games described as "like Banished" or inspired by it, but I'm not well versed in the genre to really know what it did to be so unique 
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Scalding Coffee posted:A murder mystery game focused on the Bates Motel is strange. It's a truer rendition of Hitchcock's vision with technology that was unavailable in his time
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Wow they refused to put anything in the Murder is Game Over demo, huh? It's like 4 minutes of cutscene then 3 minutes of tutorial then 1 minute of game play and that's it?
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Sab669 posted:I've seen lots of games described as "like Banished" or inspired by it, but I'm not well versed in the genre to really know what it did to be so unique
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Mordja posted:...Did it? Isn't Banished just a city builder. The hot one right now is Farthest Frontier, I think. Okay, so a few examples. One is tracking the entire population, so each citizen has a specific home, job, education, and inventory. So better equipment improves the survivability and efficiency of a specific citizen, while living in an individual house allows citizen couples to reproduce. Most of these games copy Banished's lead in having two types of housing, individual and group, where group homes don't allow reproduction. They also follow Banished's lead in how resources work. There will be scattered depletable resources around the map that can be gathered by citizens without a job elsewhere. But as you develop, you have to use those resources to create sustainable resource harvesting based on buildings with set workers. So there is a progression from gathering to farming/mining/whatever. And this sounds like just a general idea, but the specific mechanics of how you accomplish this are the same, like how you designate harvesting zones for your citizens to work in. Resources are also individually tracked and have to be moved, so depots and marketplaces play an important part in storage and accessibility of those resources. It all comes together in a very specific type of city builder. Rebel Blob fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Oct 4, 2022 |
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Scalding Coffee posted:A murder mystery game focused on the Bates Motel is strange. 
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Banished and others like it are city builders at heart but are micro focused "survival" type builders instead of strictly economy or population based city management like Sim City. This means you've got smaller populations and more direct influence on their lives or livelihood based on how well you provide food, water, housing, etc. You throw down entire city blocks at once in Sim City but in Farthest Frontier your firewood and food supply might be thrown out of balance if you build one more house and aren't prepared for the drain in resources another family brings.
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sorry, i keep noticing demos haha Wavetale - this was a Stadia exclusive game up until Stadia's closure so not surprised that they're jumping right into the Next Fest with a demo The Forest Quartet Backbeat LEGO Bricktales Turbo Kid - a BMX-based metroidvania???? apparently it's based on a movie I also noticed a couple other metroidvanias besides 9 years of shadow: Count Pumpcula, and Slavania I think if I dig any deeper I'll start to hit the chaff rather than the wheat so I'll probably stop at that for now The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Oct 4, 2022 |
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explosivo posted:Banished and others like it are city builders at heart but are micro focused "survival" type builders instead of strictly economy or population based city management like Sim City. This means you've got smaller populations and more direct influence on their lives or livelihood based on how well you provide food, water, housing, etc. You throw down entire city blocks at once in Sim City but in Farthest Frontier your firewood and food supply might be thrown out of balance if you build one more house and aren't prepared for the drain in resources another family brings.
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The 7th Guest posted:sorry, i keep noticing demos haha Turbo Kid is a fun movie IMO. I think I saw it on Amazon or Hulu.
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https://twitter.com/nibellion/status/1576897611470192641?s=21 oh god
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WHAT? I know Gamespot's a dead site from a lifetime ago, but to me fandom is just a lovely wiki page, where the eff are they getting all their money from?
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"Deal Increases Fan Reach & Engagement While Driving Affiliate Commerce And Extending 360 Opportunities for Advertisers" Yay, more opportunities for advertisers, sounds great. Usually you bury that poo poo in your investor guidance announcement, not make it the headline of your public facing press release.
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Rebel Blob posted:Okay, so a few examples. One is tracking the entire population, so each citizen has a specific home, job, education, and inventory. So better equipment improves the survivability and efficiency of a specific citizen, while living in an individual house allows citizen couples to reproduce. Most of these games copy Banished's lead in having two types of housing, individual and group, where group homes don't allow reproduction.
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Fandom will be acquiring Wikipedia soon. There can only be one.
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:Yay, more opportunities for advertisers, sounds great. Usually you bury that poo poo in your investor guidance announcement, not make it the headline of your public facing press release. 
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Sailor Dave posted:Fandom will be acquiring Wikipedia soon. There can only be one. Hell yeah hopefully they put anime titties on every page.
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Rebel Blob posted:There are some quite specific resource and population management mechanics in all those games that are copied nearly directly from Banished. Not to say that Banished doesn't have it's own antecedents, but it brought things together in a certain way that has been specifically reproduced in all those games I mentioned. Thank you for the detailed explanation. I didn't enjoy Banished at all. I don't think it had anything to do with the specific mechanics you list, but knowing those games draw on it so directly lets me know I should approach them cautiously. Did nobody explain to Fandom that you're supposed to buy successful companies? I used to rely heavily on gamefaqs, but it's been years since I visited the site.
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Sailor Dave posted:Fandom will be acquiring Wikipedia soon. There can only be one. And then Embracer group buys Fandom! The internet belongs to the Nords
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anyone who’s played a Yakuza game speaks the names Gamefaqs and CyricZ with reverence
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It is 2093. Winter. It is brutally cold. Machines have eliminated most of humanity. The embers of man begin to slowly fade. Only GameFAQ's lives on.
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