Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Are you talking about Thousand Year Door? Because that's a 20 year old game lol

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Are you talking about Thousand Year Door? Because that's a 20 year old game lol

Vandar posted:

(Super Paper Mario was great though don't come at me.)

Ariong posted:

This one is going to be difficult to communicate through text but I’ll do my best. Satisfactory is a resource-gathering and base-building game in the vein of Factorio or Minecraft if you squint, with a focus on designing and building factories and production lines for increasingly complex products.

The story is thin but serviceable by design. You are an employee of a company called FICSIT Inc. and your job is to go down to an alien planet and harvest its resources. That’s it really, your character has no name and every part of their body is obscured by a hazard suit. However, a lot of detail was put into rendering a world that is both beautiful and verdant in a familiar way but also has cool weird alien stuff, like dog-sized hummingbird-looking creatures that open their beaks to reveal flower-like mouths that seem to be designed to lure in insects.

Anyway, it’s a very chill game with a very lonely sort of vibe, at least when you’re playing singleplayer. The only “character” is the company AI that gives you the tutorial and VERY occasionally chimes in to give you information about something. Again, calling this a character would be very generous, it has no personality. The only stuff you ever hear from it is stuff like…

code:

Constructors will allow you to automate the creation of certain items you can produce at the crafting bench.

or…

code:

This material is made of various sulfides. It likely has useful incendiary properties. New research options have been added.

Stuff like that. It’s basically just a voice for what would otherwise only appear in tutorial popups.

So just now I was exploring a new part of the planet, looking for a vein of quartz crystals. I heard a noise I had never heard before, sort of a distorted… wooshing noise? Almost like signal interference. Then…

This was the first time the AI’s voice had ever chimed in without being directly prompted by me doing something new for the first time. I hadn’t heard it in like 10 hours of gameplay. Furthermore it was slightly… wrong. Like it was a slightly distorted recording being played back. I don’t know quite the right way to describe it, but between the contents of the message and the way it was delivered I instantly understood what was happening: This isn’t real. My character is hearing a voice that isn’t there.

So yeah, I almost pissed myself. It wasn’t a particularly original or sophisticated bit of psychological trickery, but it was very effective considering that in dozens of hours of gameplay the game had not done anything close to this. Anyway, I looked around for the artifact (unfortunately the dialogue had not triggered while the thing was actually in my line of sight as intended) and found it was a black sphere surrounded by enemies. As I fought them, I kept hearing things.



Unfortunately nothing else about the artifact has been implemented.

Randalor posted:

But... Zephon isn't out yet...

SerthVarnee posted:

Demo version.

Randalor posted:

And is this demo version in the room with us right now?

I was checking it on Steam's phone app, but I don't think it shows the demo option on there.

Meowywitch posted:

I want a game where I can explore a hotel and all 500 of its rooms

CJacobs posted:

Lobok posted:

This game is so lazy. It's like they designed just one room and copied & pasted like 500 times.

CJacobs posted:

Condemned: Criminal Origins is hilarious, I am reeling over this statistic. I thought they were implying here there are 28 assaults every week on another 28 citizens. Assuming they actually mean the crime rate was say 10% and rose 28% to therefore be like 12.8%, that's still a GIGANTIC jump for a city of hundreds of thousands. No wonder everyone in this city is shaped like a linebacker.



edit: this statistic completely reflects the gameplay. There is one normal person for every 20 insane people who hit you with rebar pipes.