I'm getting real tired of this "too deep for you" bullshit.
The game was great, why must they abstract the story to the point where absolutely nothing is clear. I don't have the slightest idea what the fuck was the point of everything.
They reused the exact same cut scene through out the entire game, they even scrapped almost everything the trailer showed. Even the kickstarter stated the game was to be about "exploring lost worlds in search of technology" and instead we get some vague story about a dying main character (I think? he coughed up 5 litters of blood through the game and nothing happened) and something about a dog?
I have absolutely no idea how is it that it took them more than 3 years to develop this game. Even the music is extremely basic, there was no point in hiring Disasterpeace because all music in the game was nothing but repeating ambient sounds, even the ost they released almost 2 years ago was much better than anything in the game.
Actually there isn't a single thing in the kickstarter page that made it to the game, even the guys that pledged the 1k to design a boss ended up with nothing.
I heard the guy that started the kickstarter has a terminal illness and they had to scrape everything to make it in time, since they didn't even include the co-op.
What happened?
>>332912759
>What happened?
>I heard the guy that started the kickstarter has a terminal illness and they had to scrape everything to make it in time, since they didn't even include the co-op.
>a kickstarter game that failed to deliver on its promises.
Color me surprised.
the music's pretty nice desu.
as someone who thinks most videogame music is pretty backwards and terrible, disasterpeace is an exception.
game's fun, don't give a shit about story.
>>332912915
Its a rumor.
>been waiting for this game for 3 fucking years
>exactly my kind of shit
>releases after hyping us for years with the alpha and the demo OST
>beat it in 4 hours and nothing promised made it to the game
dude almost died like 6 months ago, thats why he hired a shit ton of people
not sure what really did happen tho
>>332913079
>>beat it in 4 hours
How?
>>nothing promised made it to the game
Such as?
>>332913172
the gameplay barely changed since the demo, its pretty easy if you got used to it
the stuff that didn't make
>not a single enemy from the kickstarter, including the bosses
>not an open world game with loot, like the developer wanted
>no vehicles
>no dynamic lightning
>not a single weapon from their tumblr dev blog like the different grenades and bombs
>people that bought the enemy designs got nothing
>story was about the MC looking for a cure for his illness, not sure what is it we got
basically everything from their kickstarter page
>>332913416
I don't remember vehicles being mentioned, but yeah, now that I think about it, none of the enemies that they showed in the updates are in the game.
Yeah, it's shit.
Beat it in four hours as well, what a joke.
The exploration is not rewarding at all and feels like a fucking hassle, the bosses are nice but the game suffers severely from input lag/30 fps.
I was expecting an open-worldish game as well where you could explore at your own pace to find all kinds of neat shit, but this is just a glorified linear shit with four small areas.
>>332913698
Apparently the game we got was the game they originally scraped, if you look into their devblog you'll notice nothing after mid-2014 was included in the final product.
>>332913829
>>332913079
>4 hours
Post finished saves
>>332914018
Note that 30 minutes was spent looking for keys which was a huge fucking waste of time that I regret doing, I had the last boss door open and everything.
>>332914018
I afked for at least 50 minutes to eat and shit.
>>332913845
Neat. Was there any promise of any customization beyond palette swaps?Ten bucks says they'll release the full version with most of the stuff they promised as a new edition
>>332914229
Yeah no doubt.
Check their dev blog out, its full of stuff that didn't make into the game like bombs and attacks.
Apparently pic related was the equipment menu.
>>332914317
Haah waw, why'd they scrap fucking everything? Should've just delayed considering they released such a shitfest.
>>332914380
the game was supposed to launch in 2014
worst of all, its a fucking gamemaker game and they hired 5 fucking programmers and even hired freelance artists to design maps
no idea what took them so long
>>332914317
Christ on a crack pipe, just skimming over this stuff and I see a ton of shit not in the game.Do we have an ETA on those Paradise: Lost and Shante quests? I can only assume each will be released alongside their respective games
>>332914513
This is a fucking scam, seriously.
This game is one big fucking scam, almost none of the advertised features are in.
>>332914632
the thing is that it makes no fucking sense
the game is a longer demo and it released more than a year ago, it has nothing they supposedly developed since 2014 or so
>>332912960
that faggot better die soon because he got my hoes up like no indie game has ever done
>>332914819
More like 2013, there's a 'combat video' where the weapons are not ingame, some of the enemies as well, while the enemies that are in it are unchanged.
That's all they fucking had, jesus christ.
>>332914513
>>332914513
>just realized the game has no shadows at all because it has no lightning
jesus christ and that is a 3 year old gif...
>>332914632
Bend over, it's DLC time!
not even the pledge goal rewards are in the game
so glad I pirated it
>>332914819
Never, ever buy into hype.
>Finish the game
>Well, it was decent, solid 6/10
>Watch the Kickstarter trailer again
>Almost nothing from the trailer was actually in the game
What could've been.
holy fuck their devblog is full of shit that isn't in the game
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1661802484/hyper-light-drifter/posts/1534048
This is just retarded.
>we're too incompetent to design a 60 fps game, 30 is fine
>our design goals have changed, all the stuff we've promised is not ingame. get over it. and thanks for funding btw
>>332914990
I learned my lesson with Project Ego, which became Fable. It was supposed to be the RPG to end all RPGs.
>>332915091
How do they do it?
>Today I will create a weapon and showcase it
>Then I will delete it and never show it again
>I am a good developer
>>332914819
someone with a tumblr ask the dev what the fuck happened
this is beyond pathetic
>>332912759
Thanks for buying overpriced unfinished indie shit.
I'm sure they'll stop doing that.
It's a combination of laziness and cowardice.
Why bother putting effort into writing when you can just be 3deep5u?
>>332915252
at least they had the decency (or incompetence) to release the game without DRM
>>332915247
They just 'didn't like it' or 'morphed it in to something better'
STOP ASKING QUESTIONS
GET HYPED FOR DLC
>>332913416
>>not a single enemy from the kickstarter, including the bosses
From the trailer, the basic green enemies are in, the missile shooting fucks are in, and the 1 droids are in. Nothing else from the trailer was in at all. Which is a shame because the other enemies and bosses looked a lot more interesting than what we got.
lmao, do people not realize that this is a thing that happens?
Just because they make a bunch of things in development doesn't mean any of it would make it into the final version.
Sunless Sea? Use to have turn-based combat on Every. Single. Encounter.
Combat was eventually completely overhauled in favor of real-time fighting.
They didn't "promise" vehicles. Vehicles were just in early showcases.
Also, if you're going to claim the guy who donated 1k to design a boss "ended up with nothing" you better damn well post a source to back that up.
Otherwise you're blowing smoke clear out your ass.
>>332914819
>that faggot better die soon because he got my hoes up like no indie game has ever done
we hope you die too, you piece of shit
Should I get it? Seems fun.
>>332915443
Showcasing things while asking for more money is fundamentally dishonest, scum.
>>332915484
We're all going to die, you piece of fuck.
>>332914986
Incompetence from what I can tell. Those stretch goals were terribly planned out. Promising new features for a difference of only 10~20k? That's not even close to the amount you need to properly implement important additions.
A co-op function is bloody difficult to properly design, that should have been the last fucking stretch goal. By promising that early on, the devs doomed every other stretch goal on the list, so it's no surprise that they completely failed to implement anything at all. They probably wasted a ton of money trying to get it to work, only to later realize just how much effort it would take.
>>332915443
>>332915443
>>332915484
and here come the shills
sadly, the main reason the faggot devs get away with this is because of blind asswipes like you two that eat up whatever they shit on the plate
it takes skill to get 700k and 3+ years to develop a game and fail in almost every aspect
>That HUGE amount of incompetence
>Trying to backpedal so hard on having 30fps because they were too retarded to start developing the game with a 60fps framework in mind in the first fucking place.
Shit values, they don't know how to design OR develop a game.
>>332915598
a fucking gamemaker game, the whole point of using that piece of shit engine is to avoid having to make your own and save time
>>332915505
It's showing progress. Again, just because it's not in the game isn't dishonest. I mean the game made it's initial funding goal in 24 hours. Everything after that was just additional icing on an already complete cake.
Admittedly a co-op mode seems odd for a game with such a heavy platform/positional element to it.
BUT that could be something they work on and let out post-release.
>>332914986
>Fully realized soundtrack by Disasterpeace
I haven't played the game yet so I wouldn't know, but did this actually happen?
>>332915593
So a random guy on Reddit claims to be a 1k Boss Backer and that's evidence? Hahaha, yeah no.
Why even care?
Like whatever man.
>>332915593
i'd say that at least he payed 1000 shekels for a learned lesson
but we knew he didn't learn shit
>>332915685
>Again, just because it's not in the game isn't dishonest
look at >>332914986
they asked for money specifically to implement said extra stuff and did nothing
>>332912759
>kyojin as main feature
>all kyojin is dead and never fight one
it has nice concept and battle mechanic, but some boss is plain bullshit, its like megaman boss but without weakness because the supposed weapon to defeat them is never impemented.
I hope they got sequel and ditch the game maker, maybe its why the game feel so limited
>>332915702
There was a soundtrack? All I heard was ambient TINGS and TONGS so I eventually just put up my own shit.
>>332915685
Well maybe they shouldn't have made the game like that in the first place, eh? Considering they hit the fucking co-op milestone so soon in development.
Core Mechanics
Primary weapon - Composed of phase shifted Hard Light (also known as Solid Light), your sword acts as the primary means of offense; it's quick, brutal, and can slash through most anything. Best of all it never runs low on energy.
Sprite Companion - An indispensable personalized drone, the Sprite manages your inventory virtually, maintains your shields, seeks out hidden paths and lights the way in the darkest of times. Functionality may be expanded with new modules.
Secondary items - You'll come across a variety of advanced weaponry, items and gear throughout your travels; Light Rail Pistols, Heavy Rifles, various hi-power explosives and enemy-aware Seeker Drones. All of these are powered by limited batteries, found scattered throughout the world.
Defense System - A rechargeable Hard Light Diamond shield which offers total protection from attacks for a short burst of time. If timed correctly projectiles can be reflected back at enemies for extra damage. Can be upgraded to extend duration.
Dash Module - Multi-use gear that enables a triple speed dash; can be used to evade attacks, cut across gaps and chasms, break through certain blocks and rubble and even stun enemies.
>>332915598
I can understand people having different opinions about area and boss design, but how can anyone defend a 30 fps lock in a supposedly fast paced action game is beyond me.
>>332915685
Reminder that Aliens: Colonial Marines E3 footage was just showing progress and complaining that it wasn't representative of the final release is unfair. :^)
>>332915702
No, you can tell they told him to fuck off after he developed the main theme and the demo song they released 2 years ago, because all there is in the game is ambient sound.
>>332915794
>Sprite Companion - An indispensable personalized drone, the Sprite manages your inventory virtually, maintains your shields, seeks out hidden paths and lights the way in the darkest of times. Functionality may be expanded with new modules.
Secondary items - You'll come across a variety of advanced weaponry, items and gear throughout your travels; Light Rail Pistols, Heavy Rifles, various hi-power explosives and enemy-aware Seeker Drones. All of these are powered by limited batteries, found scattered throughout the world.
Defense System - A rechargeable Hard Light Diamond shield which offers total protection from attacks for a short burst of time. If timed correctly projectiles can be reflected back at enemies for extra damage. Can be upgraded to extend duration.
I like this meme, not even core fucking features.
>>332915702
Disregard the faggots, the soundtrack is great. It's just not conventional catchy vidya tunes.
>>332915628
Actually, there was a specific reason for the 30 FPS and it was explained as something to do with transitions and animations? And how 60 FPS literally didn't contribute a thing to that except make it more disorientating?
Or something along those lines. Basically, 60 FPS on this sort of game, with this art-style, wouldn't have done ANYTHING to make the game look or play any better. So why does it matter that they're not using 60 FPS?
>>332915749
It just shows to other devs you can outright lie to customers and still get praise if you don't care about blatant omitting of stuff promised
Man, I was really pumped for this game. I love the designs and the gameplay looked amazing. 4 hours? Really? I wish I cpuld justify that, I really do. And not putting there kickstarter goals in the game is just slow. That is what people backed for and they didn't receive it. That's low, no excuse.
>>332915861
>It's just a deconstruction of the video game music genre.
>>332915893
>60 wouldn't have done anything
>To make it play better
>Wouldn't have
>Anything
DO YOU EVEN KNOW THAT 60 FPS DIRECTLY READS TO A MORE RESPONSIVE GAME BY DESIGN? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT EVEN FUCKING MEANS?
OH MY GOD, HOLY SHIT.
IT'S AN ACTION GAME
A FUCKING PIXEL ACTION GAME
IT HAS NO REASON TO LIMIT ITSELF TO FUCKING 30 FPS.
>>332915893
dumbass devs tied animation frames and refresh rate to framerate instead of delta time
game dev 101
>>332915949
>I'll quote something he didn't say and pretend he was being pretentious, that'll show him!
>Beat the game in under 5 hours
Now beat NG+, find the other 16 purple diamonds, do the 1k Chain Dash challenge, and the key fragments.
>>332915976
>READS
LEADS
FUCK
I like being mad again, that April fools was too mellow.
>>332915598
>it takes skill to get 700k and 3+ years to develop a game and fail in almost every aspect
It's even more absurd when the initial goal was $27,000.
>its another kickstarted tech demo being released at full retail price
>>332915893
Check this fan-made interpolated 60 fps trailer. This is what the game could have looked like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4BHbiPXV_w
>>332916015
Why? There's no incentive to do any of that.
The bosses are the same, the enemies are the same.
Like, come on.
>Do the dash challenge goiym so you can get a COSMETIC ITEM
>This is content I-I swear
Who gives a shit? The story/lore is garbage and it has no characterization anyway.
>>332916079
I LOVE YOU ROSE WITH ALL MY HEART
>>332912759
what do i do after beating all 4 bosses NESW? I guess there is some shadow final boss and then NG+ but I have no clue what to do.
>>332916095
I hate to be 'that' guy, but the only thing that looked any different to me was the part where the three giants are falling aparts looks noticeably smoother and more fluid in transition.
Everything else looked pretty much the same.
>>332915986
It's because it's the default way of working with shitmaker studio. RAD tools are cancer and enable incompetents to make all of the wrong decisions until the amount of work necessary to fix them is unmanageable.
>>332916204
go back to the village and take the elevator down to kill the last boss
Has anything good come out of Kickstarter besides Shovel Knight?
>>332916212
Coming from just playing the game I'm going to say that it looks a ton smoother.
Interpolation is pretty shitty anyway, you're essentially guessing half the frames.
>>332916110
>Story/Lore is garbage
People are already translating the monoliths you find in game that give a pretty good starting point for lore.
It's basically Dark Souls-esque in that very little of the story is told up-front. While perhaps a frustrating way to deliver the story, it is a method of doing so.
>>332915986
did the game has slope collisions?
they could've hired a single competent programmer to make the game in C++ and SDL and none of this shit would've happen
probably would've taken even less time
>>332916278
Undertale__
>>332916253
which elevator? where is it exactly? and thanks
>>332916015
It's 800 chain dashes for the costume. 1k doesn't get you shit, and I did it so I know.
I got all the diamonds in each area, all but 8 gearbits, all but 4 monoliths, and all but 2 keys. I also completed all the arena challenges and got 7 of the 12 costumes. Took me 10 hours to do all that, the vast majority of which was just going through areas repeatedly trying to find the various annoyingly hidden paths to find more shit.
>>332916212
Keep in mind that this was achieved though post-processing the original video, without redoing any animations, but the difference should be immediately noticeable every time the camera pans.
>>332916292
Yeah, and I would care if it wasn't a little platformer that has almost 0 fucking content.
A large open world game with expansive environments? Sure, I'd give a shit then.
Dark Souls lore is interesting because the game is evidently thematic and quite large in scale, the player has to explore many different regions. HLD is too small to give a single shit about.
>>332916292
Evidently you've never played a souls game, but you failed to address the other point of there being absolutely no incentive to complete any of the optional content.
>>332916380
in the middle of the town where the pillars rise every time you kill a boss
make sure you have all 16 triangles as well
>>332916278
FTL
>>332916395
>but the difference should be immediately noticeable every time the camera pans.
The choppyness annoyed the hell out of me in custscenes until I realised why. I also don't understand why anime isn't made at 60fps for the same reason. They don't actually have to draw any more, but it'd make panning shots so much smoother.
>>332916351
kek, but seriously though
>>332916395
Yeah, I don't see it. Like I said, the giants falling apart was, to me, the only noticeable difference. The camera panning seems 'different', but honestly, if you hadn't told me?
I wouldn't have noticed it. I had to watch a second time and actually look for it to see it. Just by default I didn't see a noticeable difference.
The LTTP design and the stupid 4 shard shit in each wing made exploration really unfun.
Nothing ruins the mystery of a game when you lay out the structure from the start and never deviate from it for the entire game.
>>332916445
wait I have to collect 16 hidden garbage just to challenge the final boss? fuck that shit. I looked right in the middle as it was logical for the final boss to be somewhere there but now I don't even want to do it anymore. Trying to push every single wall in 4 areas was retarded enough to get 13 or so. Also how do you figure out 16? 4+4+4+4? I think there is 8 per area right? The game was not even that hard but it seriously has too many design flaws and bugs to be better than 6/10, so glad I pirated it. Could have easily been 9/10 with better devs, sad waste of potential.
>what could've been
>>332916569
Yeah, absolutely awful.
I was still positive around the first area, but then they repeat the whole fucking shit FOUR TIMES and YOU WIN GAME OVER.
Jesus, come on. The blandest possible thing to do in a fucking game is to hunt for 'key fragments'.
>>332916278
divinity: original sin, volgarr the viking, grim dawn, shadowrun returns/hong kong, ftl, dankest dungeon, freedom planet, elite: dangerous, giana sisters: twisted dreams, xenonauts, banner saga
>>332916431
>No incentive
The fact it's there? I admit, I'm not the sort of person who 100%'s games left and right. And honestly I'm not THAT good at action games.
But for 10-ish bucks this was a fun game. There's still the 'Alternate Drifter' DLC (for non-KS contributors) and whatever else they release.
Another kickstarter game failed to meet expectations? What a surprise.
>>332913829
How could a piece of shit pixel game not get 30fps? Jesus christ man, why do these cunts even make games?
>>332916682
>Volgarr
>Grim Dawn
>Darkest Dungeon
>Freedom Planet
>Giana Sisters
>Banner Saga
>good
>>332915247
>I can't be Green Goblin
Does this game have good replayability to justify the cost?
>>332916682
why would you list elite dangerous?
>>332916770
this board is 18+ memelord, go play your dota 2 and stfu.
>>332916706
Lets put it like this, coming back to Souls games.
The player is rewarded by a variety of ways if he explores.
>New NPC's
>New weapons
>New items in general
>Maybe even an optional area/boss fight
In HLD it's just
>ITEM TO UNLOCK COSMETICS I GUESS who gives a shit
Just because
>It's there
Is fucking garbage.
>>332916779
Game has absolutely 0 replayability, despite having the option for NG+ there's absolutely no reason you would want to. It's like asking if you'd wanna replay the triforce hunt.
>>332916682
>ED
>Good
FTL and Darkest Dungeon I'll give you though.
>>332916779
No, you can play the game again with different characters/weapons but the fights/platforming/'puzzles' are always the same so it's not really worth doing.
>>332916816
'Cause it's a pretty good eurotruck simulator if you like eurotruck simulators.
I don't like them, but I can recognize it.
>>332916779
no its barely worth pirating at this point. Controls on kb+m are barely playable and shooting on controllers is also fucking retarded. music is a mixed bag, exploration is garbage, pixel art is trash and input is unprecise and has lag on it. The dev directly supports sjw like anita and wu and your money will go straight to them. This game is everything wrong with indie games right now. It is basically a bad transistor ripoff, get that one instead. Or pirate it, what do I care.
>>332916818
The upgrades should have been findable in the world instead of the shops.
In fact, why is there even a peaceful bustling hub city? It clashes with the post-apocalyptic setting.
>>332916876
Why would you do that if you can play one of the 20 or so other good games in that genre which offer more?
>browse the game files
>everything is uncompressed, every single texture and audio file
I'm at a loss for words
>>332916926
I don't know, you can't even interact with 99% of them.
What's up with that one guy having a story about how he was robbed? I never saw any robbers.
>>332916816
If you were over 18 you'd know that half those games are just shallow imitations of their inspirations with little understanding of what made those games good.
>>332916961
You got a link to that son?
>>332916682
Darkest Dungeon, FTL, Xenonauts are all awesome
>The game just randomly doesn't dash or attack when you hit the button sometimes
Why does this happen? Not even to do with combo timing, it's just that the controls don't seem to register some 2% of the time.
>>332917000
I am 26 kiddo, go back to plebbit with your le ebin hivemind opinions that are not even your own. The only shit game there is Dank Dungeon and only because the devs do not understand what makes rng utter shite. Grim Dawn is a better D3 which can actually hold a candle to D2 and Banner Saga was pretty great as well. Not even sure what game that would be ripped off from, you tell me champ. I bet you do not even know what Zac Mckraken, Zork or Betrayal at Krondor and Ur-Quan masters are without google but you wanna tell us funny stories about shallow imitations? kek
>>332916998
>What's up with that one guy having a story about how he was robbed? I never saw any robbers.
Are you fucking blind? The people that robbed him were all the store owners.
>>332917081
That's input lag at work, my good man.
30fps coupled with random drops in input really give you that 'hardcore' experience, eh?
Oh dear, a successful kickstarter where a ton of money & development has gone missing. Much surprise.
>>332916961
It's still under 1Gb. What's the problem exactly?
The game has a different time window for the first 2 dashes than it has for all the subsequent dashes which made setting up a macro for the million dashes an absolute bitch.
Game was a decent way to kill an evening but I'm glad I pirated.
>>332917131
this. slowdowns are retarded common, probably memory leak or whatever. inb4 it is my PC's fault when it can run fallout 4 but not pixelshit, just completly lacking optimization here.
>>332917160
it should be even smaller
>>332916998
Maybe they wanted to do a quest for him but instead they didn't?
I beat the game and everything but it feels bittersweet. Seeing this game 2-3 years ago made me think that it would be great but it missed that potential. And to think the initial funding was like fucking 27K. Only devs that are honest about the numbers are Labzero.
>>332917129
Guess I wasn't really paying attention, it was just so non-consequential.
>trailers and kickstarter pitch have zero furfag content
>game is full of nonstop furfag content
>EDGY furfag content
>>332917253
That's it?
Was there even a 16 key door somewhere?
>>332917280
I hate furries and I wasn't bothered myself in the game. It has a lot bigger issues than that. You should try out that furry shit beat em up sidescroller game and come back to see what bad is.
>>332917064
Darkest Dungeon is one of the 5% crowd funded games that are actually worth playing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_crowdfunding_projects
Look at this fucking list. So many games that are shit or how they are "unreleased"
>>332917316
It just tells you how little the game really is.
>>332917316
the MC's legs are one pixel wide
this game has no right to take up 1GB of space
>People acting like 30fps is a crime against humanity/affront to nature/etc.
>"Locking animations to framerate is bad development 101"
Maybe that was the point? He wasn't going for AAA pixel game.
>>332917471
>The point was to be bad at making games
>>332917394
>moblile shit tier time killler
>worth playing
yeah no
>>332917471
it ruins the fast paced combat you dense nigger. It would be ok in a turn based game but you actively miss combos due to 30 fps here among with slowdowns which outright can get you killed on ng+.
>>332917471
>AAA pixel game
the best of goys right here
>>332917471
>AAA pixel game
>>332917471
That's a pretty terrible excuse, my fellow apologist.
>>332917394
its an rng shitfest, basically>>332917508
this
wait, this is locked to 30 fps even on PC?
Anybody encounter the bug where you fall through the floor constantly till you warp into a new area? And if you go back to that area it still happens?
>>332917361
possibly hidden in the main town
>>332917394
my expectation is that bloodstained, la-mulana 2, half-genie hero, and divinity: os 2 have a chance of being good, but we won't know until they're released
>>332917527
>Actively miss combos due to 30fps
lmao what? I can confess that when you get a lot of enemies with particle effects the game gets messy, but it'd just be a smoother mess at 60fps.
If you're missing combos that's on you.
>>332915702
yes but none of its in the game
>>332917616
yes it is, also full of slowdowns even on good pcs, shitty coding be praised. Quite the feat for a game that is smaller than most games from the 2001 era, kek.
>>332917471
the game movement is actually felt clunky, i died so many times because millisecond difference on movement input. Its ideally should be as robust as hotline miami
>>332917616
60fps animations would require twice the amount of effort from the developer.
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>>332917616
It's only on the PC right now.
They're working on a XB1/PS4 port.
And there's some issue between the people who made the engine and Nintendo, so a Wii port may not happen at all.
>>332917665
Fluid animations are easier on the eyes m8. If the game constantly forces you to watch a choppy mess and often simply doesn't recognize your input at all or fuck up the timing even when you do it at the same speed then it is not my fault.
>>332917471
We made it bad on purpose. As a Joke.
>>332917714
generally games do animation at 24-30fps while the game itself runs at 60
>>332916095
Holy shit this looks so much better than what we got.
>>332917714
>he thinks sprites are animated at 30fps in this game
a higher framerate would mean lower input delay and the general line based shit would be smoother, and since this is an action game that's actually important
the game would still look like shit, because they suck at this
>described as zelda meets diablo
>ends up being another 2D soulslike with 0 kickstarter promises met
I was somewhat excited but now I think I'm going to pass on buying it
I've put 5 hours into this game and still have only beaten 2 bosses. I fucking love this game. The difficulty, the aesthetics, the tight controls, the abstract storytelling...The only thing I wish it didn't have was atmospheric music for boss battles. Boss fights should be hype. But instead its just loud and continues the atmospheric trend of the music. I get what the game is going for, but at least give me memorable boss music.
>>332917869
no you idiot, they tie everything to delta time to avoid this shit, that way even if the game lags on a toaster they get the same experience
>>332917380
Anubis and the Buried Bone?
>>332917902
But the sprites ARE animated at 30fps.
Literally there's a dev quote in here about how the animations/screen transitions are synced to the framerate.
The game runs at 30fps because it's literally made in 30fps.
>>332917687
alright thanks, I'll probably avoid it then
>>332917714
you're an idiot my man
>>332917380
I really hope you aren't referring to Dust: An Elysian Tail, because that game is golden.
Where can I find this node? Left-hand side dungeon area.
these people truly know no shame
The combat and gameplay don't coincide with the music at all. Most rooms and bosses you're dodging around trying to either chip down the boss between attacks or taking out smaller enemies but the music is just so out of place, thats my biggest complaint outside of the 30fps lock, which is also bullshit.
>>332917923
I admit, I sort of expected distinct boss music, but what we got was louder atmospheric tunes and more "ambiance"-style during the major fights.
I can understand if that was an aesthetic the dev is going for but it does make the fights themselves less memorable, with the exception of the actual game mechanics.
I'm 11 hours in and have yet to finish it, I'm enjoying find all the secret stuff
Has anyone else managed to get back to the starting area?
I have played the game for 20 hours and here's what I have to say.
I love the aesthetics. The music fits and the visuals are amazing. If you don't like this sort of game that's fine but this is how the game looked like when it was Kickstarted and those that backed it wanted this kind of game from a visual/atmospheric standpoint. I like how there's barely any text and everything is told with symbols and pictures. I thought the presentation was perfect overall. I can see why some people would want the game 60fps and there's no doubt it'd benefit. But I didn't find 30 fps to be an issue in my time with the game.
I expected the game to be shorter than it is. In my 20 hours of playing, I still have 3 monoliths to find along with 5 more keycards and I don't know how many doors to open. The end boss is left too. The game is surprisingly rewarding in its challenge but some of that has problems I'll talk about later.
I actually really enjoyed the exploration. You had to really explore every wall sometimes and carefully use the map to find everything. I can completely understand why some people would dislike it but I felt rewarded when I found and obscure switch or platform to a new area.
The combat is probably where the game shines. It needs more of it. The bosses were great and reminded me of Ys games. You have to be quick and position or you can die fast. I look forward to playing on ng+.
The problem I have with the game is the input lag. Dashing around in this game is great fun when it's working and the platforming or dash challenges are rewarding to be able to complete. But they are a fucking pain in the ass when the game drops inputs or has delays. This literally makes certain sections impossible sometimes. It's a fucking travesty cause the game would be a dream to play if it wasn't for this annoyance. I was able to still enjoy the game cause I wanted to keep going and play more but it would have been so much better if they fucking fixed that shit.
>>332918048
>>332918048
>january 9 2014
what the fuck...
>>332915757
> the most blatant EVA ripoffs ever made
>call them kyojin
are you 12?
>>332918127
>20 hours
>3 monoliths to go
Is this.. Bait..?
Even if you explored every room you'd still do it easily in half the time.
The game is fun but I don't get the story at all. I'm just wondering around the north killing guys and activating little diamond things that maybe do something probably. It's like they got half way done and decided writing text for the npcs was "too mainstream".
>>332918127
The timing on the chain dash upgrade is sometimes shoddy too. I'll randomly be able to zip against the countryside and record speed or can't chain to save my ass.
Outside of that I don't notice input delays. Are you using a controller? I heard there was some controller issues day 1 that they're patching?
>>332918127
I-I'm totally not a shill you g-guys!
>>332918127
>>332918127
I'm this cunt >>332914201 and found all the monoliths.
There is something wrong with you m80.
>>332918217
Spoon.
I honestly can't understand how you can stand the 30 FPS. It looks so fucking awful and it gives me a slight headache after just a few minutes.
>>332918280
Oh, you just don't get it. He's evidently "Taking it all in" and "Exploring at his own pace" ((While still putting up his gametime because ???))
What a fucking sham, the type of person that could spend 200 hours in Gone Home.
>>332918217
i actually liked how the game didn't have dialogue and you kinda had to interpret everything, but the story itself really went nowhere
i also really didn't like how they just completely ignored the disease. i guess they just took the easy way out and killed off the drifter so it didn't really matter
>>332918048
ok now I'm mad
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>332918202
Not the guy you're responding too but still, why is this hard to believe? I've got 34 hours in playing Undertale and that's an incredibly fast game too.
I'm 4 hours in and I haven't found more than 2-3 monoliths, only 8 diamonds and exactly 1 key fragment.
>>332918313
I can't understand how you find it abhorrent. Were you able to play Final Fantasy Type 0 back when it got a release?
>>332918048
what am I looking at?
>>332918048
>>332918136
Someone explain to me what I'm looking at
>>332918376
>>332918048
>>332918136
Why are you people upset? That looks like shit.
>>332918028
yes that one. ok game but furry shit out of your ass.
>>332917959
see here
>>332918401
>34 hours
>In fucking Undertale
I don't.. What..?
This IS bait!
STOP BAITING ME YOU FUCKING JIAN SCUM
>>332912759
how long does it take you to beat the game?
>>332918443
>>332918467
>>332918476the game actually had lighting and actual shadows2 years ago
>>332918401
>I've got 34 hours in playing Undertale
You what?
Did you do sixteen runs of the same game?
>>332918501
Do you want a screenshot?
I'll take a fucking screenshot. I'm not above providing proof.
>>332918516
4 hours if you play normally, 1000000 (unlimited) hours if you play like a fucking autist that even Ulillillia would be proud of.
>>332918501
I'm not him but pic related.
Its extremely easy to get lots of hours if you take the time to do everything a game allows you to.
>>332918501
I've got 46 hours
>>332918530
>lighting and actual shadows
>in a pixel shit game
thank god they removed them, looked hideous
>>332918414
I used to play almost solely consoles when i was younger and it didn't bother me. I've just been playing at 60-120 fps for so long that 30 is not doable.
I mean there's literally no excuse to lock your game at 30fps today unless you're completely incompetent.
>>332918552
No, anon, I don't care about that.
I believe you, I just don't understand you.
You're beyond my realm of comprehension, shoo, you vile being.
>I found 16/32 diamonds, 0/howevermany outfits, 0/16 keys, 0/16 tablets this game is too short reeeeeeeeeeee
>>332918604
How much is there to do really? Did you guys just go through the neutral route and just try to find all the small detail changes and stuff like that?
I just did two runs - true and genocide and that's like 13 hours on my Steam account. At least 2 or 3 of those hours were basically just dying to Undying and Sans.
>>332918048
Why even implement all this shit then scrape it?
>>332918656
>No excuse
Who needs an 'excuse'? What if you just don't want to?
If it makes you physically ill to play at 30 fps I'd say you've got bigger problems than what games you play.
>>332918679
nice anime image dude!!
>>332918501
you fell for the "undertale is 4 hours long" meme
if you actually do all the stuff the game offers and don't just skip through is as fast as possible like some impatient kid you'll be at 20 hours minimum
>>332918680
>The game's not short if you ignore the main story and focus on hugging the walls and pixelhunting so you can unlock additional costumes!!!! Reeee for good measure.
>>332918680
To be fair a lot of the collectibles are hidden behind bullshit like invisible platforms and false walls and other basic shit. Finding stuff isn't fun.
>>332918679
>You're beyond my realm of comprehension
Because I enjoy playing the game? I mean, I've played a number of games from scratch just because I could, even when I've already gotten the most optimal outcomes.
I do it literally because I can.
>>332918762
>This game advertises as being similar to zelda but it's too similar reeeeeee
>>332918202
>>332918280
>>332918335
I should have added I also maxed out upgrades besides like the shotgun and pistol.
I'm not saying it couldn't have been done faster. I died a shit load of times. It took me a while to figure out how the game hid stuff and hunted at them which would have saved way more time. That being said does it really matter?
I played the game for however long while enjoying it. You can play it and finish it faster or slower and enjoy it or hate it, it's all subective anyway.
>>332917560
>Niggerfrogposter still thinks he can be condescending
>>332918785
Because there is nothing to find, you don't get shit for hugging wall and getting triangles.
>>332918816
judging be the dates this faggot started posting that shit, Alx had definitely given up
>>332918757
But I HAVE played the game, pacifist and genocide.
It's shit, by the way, but at least it kind of incentivizes 'replaying (read, doing X and reloading, then doing Y). Unlike this fucking shit.
You should still feel bad for spending so many hours on such a garbage game.
>>332918757
16 out of those 20 hours are grinding the temmie armor.
>>332918742
Are you retarded anon. No one has ever made a game in 30 fps in the last 5 years because ''they wanted to''. The devs were unable to unlock the 30 fps because they were UNABLE TO, INCOMPETENT.
And i said a slight headache from 30 fps in a game which is meant for fast acting with a fast moving screen. They don't go well together.
>>332918734
That's part of the development process, they opted to be very transparent so you're seeing a lot more content that was cut than most games
I can guarantee you that near every game you've ever played has gone through a similar process
>>332918714
Explore every place and find every secret (temmie village and such) while also making sure to walk all the way back at the end before going through the door took 12 hours after including getting stuck a few times at bosses, especially just for figuring out Undyne. Then genocide's I got stuck and took a few hours just to beat Undyne the Undying and still have yet to beat sans. Thus a grand total of 24 hours. If it means anything, I do tend to do a lot of walking back and forth to find new things and examining as much as possible.
>>332918907
Why the fuck would you want or need that armor
Welp, got this from a steam thread regarding the 30fps issue:
>We absolutely value performance on as many systems as possible. We have done everything we could to test on a multitude of systems, but of course there are configurations and outliers that we could not account for.
>There's a contentious debate about frame rate these days. I think it comes down to personal opinion and preference on many different games. As a gamer, I very much enjoy games at 60, of course, and feel that some games NEED it to be at their best - modern shooters as the prime example.
>I've never had much issue with games at 30, and in fact many of my favorites are locked at that rate: Bloodbourne, Nuclear Throne, Souls games, many Zelda games, Mario 64, Undertale, etc.
>Hyper Light plays as intended at 30fps locked, and we feel confident, great about the end result. We realize some may not agree, and some refuse to play games at 30 these days.
>We have investigated the possibility of a 60fps option. This is a HUGE endeavor, and would take months (three at minimum) of labour to retool all the systems that are dependent on frame timing, to make major optimizations to the game so it runs on all the same machines it does now. This is no small task for us.
There you go.
>>332918886
I never even mentioned whether it's good or bad
but it's nice to see how you got triggered immediately and try to change the topic
>>332918840
Similar to Zelda? But it's NOTHING like Zelda.
Exploration is redundant, there are no quests/sidequests, it has NO PUZZLES.
God, these fucking shills.
>>332918947
look at the thread, they pretty much made 2 different games and released the shitty one
>>332918742
I am usually playin at 25-60 fps as an idort and this game here is fast paced and hast shitty framerate mixed with fast paced action and frame drops out of the ass. It is vomit inducing, in 9 hours I actually confused my own character once with a fucking pepe frog when my eyes started to loose focus and I could not focus anymore on the action. Never had that outside of 20 guy+ raids in mmorpgs or similiar shit where 20 guys all cast sparkly shit at the same time over n over plus mobs.
The sprite art in this game simply looks like garbage. It's very basic and simple. Everything looks flat and some of the shading is just a blurry mess. The aesthetic of the characters and monsters is also very nu-pixel with big bodies and tiny stick limbs. Not sure why people got so excited over this in the first place, but I still feel sorry for the people who donated a lot to this game but didn't get anything they donated for.
>>332918936
Sorry, I missed your post saying a slight headache.
Funny enough I suffered a slight headache the first few hours I played, but it turns out I was dehydrated, rather than it being the game. That's what I get for being lazy.
>>332919008
Maybe because this thread is supposed to be about HLD and not fucking Undertale, why do you keep pushing that shit? Literally worse than MLP at this point.
Fuck, now I'M talking about it by proxy, fuck you.
>>332919040
Woah a slightly different grenade the game is ruined forever
>>332919093
>Not sure why people got so excited over this in the first place
the game they promised AND originally developed was completely different.
Just look at the devblog.
how the fuck
>>332919030
its also described as being like diablo with 0 loot, that is the creator of the games description, may as well toss the zelda+diablo bullshit into the pile of broken kickstarter promises, turned out to just be another 2hard5u souls ripoff, but without the atmosphere exploration and items
>>332918881
wrong. you are not even allowed to fight a single boss without doing this hidden bullshit faggotry. Even when you found enough to challenge all 4 bosses you still need to grind more hidden shit for the final boss. Utter mandatory BS.
>>332919160
Use the small piece of land sticking out of the water
Believe it or not you can actually dash to and stand on it. Trust me, that threw me off the first time I saw it as well.
Christ the pixel art in this game is absolute shit. Even Fez had more effort put into it.
>>332919160
nvm, I'm idiot. Tried to step on the lily and fell down so thought that wasnt the way.
>>332919160
You can jump on the lilly pad
>>332919150
nice cherry picking faggot
I bet you actually payed for this trash
>see this game years ago
>that looks cool
>stuck in dev hell forever; forget it exists
>hear it has finally come out
>go to steam to buy it right away
>30fps lock
the incompetence is astounding
I hope all the promised stuff was archived before the dev starts deleting everything and backtracking.
>>332918785
>drone signals you when there are invisible platforms
>all fake walls have a tell near them like different colored floor tile or debris near them
Things people just rushing through the game wouldn't notice. And if you don't like this kind of thing and exploring and don't think finding stuff in a game is fun than what the fuck are you doing playing this style of game anyway? Not gonna have waypoints or some bullshit like that. Do you people hate Zelda, metroid, castlevania, souls etc too? Goddamn
>>332918990
>There's a contentious debate about frame rate these days. I think it comes down to personal opinion and preference on many different games.
this is literally untrue, a solid 60 game will objectively play better than a solid 30 game, any opinion and difference in opinion comes from ignorance and nothing else
>>332919030
>nothing like Zelda
>no puzzles
>no point in exploration
How the hell do you come to these conclusions about Hyper Light Drifter?
>game requires you to travel an overworld using melee combat to beat monsters while looking around and finding secrets (in HLD's case, that either get you more money or more healing items) all while trying to figure out how to get from a location to the boss
>getting to the boss oftentimes involves figuring out how to get doors open
>game has one major town akin to the prevalence of Hyrule Castle Town
>>332919226
sadly true.
After clearing two initial areas I was too bored to even fucking purchase upgrades because upgraded dash and an upgraded shotgun make t he game so fucking easy.
What garbage.
>>332919226
>>332919129
based autistbro
stay triggered you fat tumblrina
>>332919276
>Money
>Unnecessary after the first few upgrades because the game is pretty fucking easy
>Healing items
>Easily farmed by reseting a warp point and picking up a nearby healing item
>Figuring how to get doors open
>FIND KEY PIECES THAT ARE SHOWN ON MAP IS A PUZZLE NOW
>Here have a complementary picture of the game ooh so pretty ;))
Fuck off shill.
>>332919332
he is right though. There is probably dozens of indie games by now with better art in the same style.
>>332919129
>>332919274
But the point still stands. Many games, many POPULAR games, run in 30fps. And they're pretty good games too (Bloodbourne, Souls, etc)
And these games were made in 30fps. Clearly the framerate didn't hurt them at all, in terms of sales or popularity.
