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Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

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The level design seems a bit drab, but otherwise looks good. Hard Reset was a clever little FPS without major issues (it certainly had smaller ones though). It had well designed weapon interplay, and shooting them was a fuckton of fun. Certainly looking forward their next effort.

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Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

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Coupon + preorder discount stacks I believe, cutting the price to just over $30. Personally I love what I've seen so far, but I don't have the machine (or spare cash) to play it anytime soon.

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Oct 24, 2010

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Platypus Farm posted:

I can't help but feel like stuff like this takes what was a light hearted, silly ninja game, and makes it into a game that very pointlessly tries really hard to shock people.

Oh, just like Saint's Row I guess.

edit: haha, that article even comes with "see if we give a gently caress, nerds" edge to it. Jesus.

What exactly is so shocking or meant to be anyway?

Rinkles
Oct 24, 2010

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Yodzilla posted:

Yeah it's not trying to shock anyone it's "we publish Saint's Row now, here's something stupid and silly."

That's Deep Silver, not Devolver.

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Platypus Farm posted:

Right. I think giant purple dildos in ninja games is stupid as poo poo, and family guy style random humor is tired as gently caress. Therefore I "want to be a huge downer".

I also think the Saint's Row series is a collection of poorly strung together meme jokes and barely passable action with a too-loose-to-work targeting system.

Anyway, for the record, I do not think this is supposed to be some kind of literary masterpiece, and I'm perfectly fine with a game starring a guy called Lo Wang being silly. There's a pretty vast gap in my mind between "mindless violence and doofy one liners" and "Ha ha! Here's a DILDO!"

Yet you said the game, not this stupid cross promotion (of a gag two games old), was trying to be shocking. Do you just disapprove of associating SR's lame humor - in this entirely irrelevant bit of marketing - with the game, or did you actually mean the words you typed?

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Oct 24, 2010

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Fwoderwick posted:

Very Important Question, does this game have a personal nuke which kills anything within line of sight?


Shadow Warrior was awesome and insanely good fun in multiplayer. The weaponset was so gloriously overpowered I think I had even more fun than in Duke 3D.

The trailers I've seen so far have made me laugh so nuke=buy.

Don't think it does, unless it's a secret pickup they haven't revealed.

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Oct 24, 2010

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Devolver announced they'd continue releasing katana alternatives for a while after the release, some time ago.

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Why are there so few reviews of this game? http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/shadow-warrior (I read the RPS wot I think).

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Oct 24, 2010

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randombattle posted:

It's surprising how good this game is when it really had no reason to be any good at all.

Except for who's developing it? Hard Reset had problems - how serious depends on who you ask (I loved it) - but it showed Flying Hog certainly had potential.

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Yodzilla posted:

This is built using their proprietary engine they made for Hard Reset, right?

Yeah.


randombattle posted:

I just mean Shadow Warrior as a concept. A game about a super racist caricature getting a modern sequel in the vein of Duke Nukem Forever is not a concept I ever held hope for regardless of the developer.

Well I have enough confidence in Devolver not to greenlight something as out of touch as Forver, but outside that context, yeah it is a bit bizarre.

On the topic of Devolver, they've promised that if SW does well, they'll go after the Blood IP.

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