(and I'm not against the blobber/dungeon crawler subgenre per se, since I've completed Wizardry 8)
Fuck me
The game shipped without a manual or any tutorial, which is especially damning due to its complexity and the above issue with the interface
The...Steam game doesn't come with a manual?
It's one of those clicker RPGS where you walk around and things pop out and attack you
Who needs a tutorial for that.
Stranger of Sword City ( but you can combine people's classes so it's new and exciting!) is a new one I just got and it's not like the genre has every changed from it's inception.
You know how video games have like Warriors and Mages and stuff?
Well you can take your Samurai with his hitting stuff fast ability and turn him into an Archer to make a Archer that can hit stuff fast at a bigger distance then a Front Line fighting Samurai.
Sure it's stuff other games have done before but it's a fun in the clicker fighting RPG crawler
Games like The Dark Spire, Etrian Odyssey, etc had this mechanic before.
Well you can take your Samurai with his hitting stuff fast ability and turn him into an Archer to make a Archer that can hit stuff fast at a bigger distance then a Front Line fighting Samurai.
Go with dualwield/cicada shell/assassin's dagger/evade training/carnage front you pleb.
Ah didn't know about those, not really my genre lol. I'm just pretending I know stuff for Drama
Evade tanks lol.
I just made it super far into the game without using Archers/Itemusing guys and needed them for the harder places like the no-Mages and only mages places are whatever horrifying thing those dungeons are.
What would you say the best modern might & magic-esque game is? I loved the shit out of 6, which was apparently the last good one. I tried getting 9 to run but that wasn't happening.
The more open-ended the better. I think my favorite part of that game was that I could go anywhere from the start, even if it was a horrible idea.
I'm not a specialist of the genre, but I liked Etrian Odyssey 3 (get the tool that says what abilities actually do if you play this though), Strange Journey, and Strangers in Sword City. These are fairly linear, but have interesting customization options which is why I like them. If you like weeb shit there's also unchained blades.
There's also Legend of Grimrock (real time like MM6) but I didn't like it all that much because it's very light on plots and characters and customisation.
Eh. Neverwinter Nights pretty much did that. You could change class easily, and doing so allowed you access to new classes. Like, to become an Arcane Archer you needed to spend some time as a Wizard, then some time as a Ranger.
Come to think of it, The Bard's Tale II did that sort of thing with its spellcaster classes.
Yeah really. How the fuck is that being a scam artist or conning people? You're producing something perfectly legal that people want to buy. How is that anything other than legitimate?
It is not my place to educate you on basic critical thinking or logic, I'm just here to laugh at you for being a joke. If you genuinely cannot understand why it is a valid comparison you might need to get off the net for a while and get some IRL time in.
I've requested a refund due to the aforementioned playability issues and am awaiting a snarky response to this review, likely something about how I'm not hardcore enough for his masterpiece. Yup.
Could it be great? Definitely. Is it worth $40 as is? Definitely not.
Edit: Just as expected, the developer responded and complained, saying he'd have paid me not to play his game, that it's not for "people like me", and that I just bought it to write a bad review. He also claimed he'd report me to Steam to prevent me from getting a refund, saying I was just pirating it anyhow. Very mature and not very logically consistent! Cleve might be unhinged. Do yourself a favor and don't buy this game nor support childish bullies like Cleve."
It's almost like there is asswipes regardless of political affiliation. But thank needing a crying circle jerk session after getting moo'd at by another cow is pretty funny.
I mean the game is pretty much considered shit on steam anyway, I'm not sure what they were expecting. If I could count all the indie games with negative reviews that have asshole devs/devs that abandoned the game... Why even take a chance of buying it?
oh i was copypastimg a review, sorry if that wasnt clear.
ive played some indie games that were crowdfunded (shadowrun comes to mind) and it was worth every buck, this war of mine and the bundle its in rn also seems pretty good. but i find a lot of tiny indie teams are assholes
like if its one dude he probably has the biggest ego ever
i guess the exception is the stardew valley dude, he seems genuine and put a lot of effort in.
Unhinged and not even in the door frame. He built an underground bunker to stay in during the apocalyptic race war he believes will inevitably break out soon.
I'm surprised it took this for Cleve Blakemore to end up here. This guy has been proving that the autism spectrum exists since the '90s through his constant shitposting, insane ranting, and high octane spergouts. He'd be a great candidate for a piece by Snally.
Just so you all know, the creator of Grimoire is fucking straight up insane. He believes he is some kind of higher neanderthal being with old mystical blood or some other weirs shit.
Every one of Cleve's posts are solid gold. You need to keep in mind he's been shitposting for all these years when he should have been working on his game.
He really ought to be an honorary mod here. There's a forum where they've got a "politics & religion" section that was created just to quarantine his shitposting to keep it from infecting everything else.
I dunno, you lot seem pretty hung up on that year too. Seem pretty intent on defending a shitty ignorant "educational" thing by a self admitted abuser.
I dunno, I think the only fresh mass effect wound is how the "inclusive" SJW bigot (sexist racist homophobic (and has the audacity to speak at events like GaymerX in spite of his homophobic attitudes) and pushed one of the worst trans representation in media today), is that his shitty toxic attitude and inability to produce good games got him sacked and the studio is burning down to the ground, so I think anyone who was mad about being lied to is now dancing on the ashes of BW.
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1 SnapshillBot 2017-08-28
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1 Notthehalf 2017-08-28
I don't like these new quotes, to meta and abstract. You've gone all hipster Snappy.
1 80BAIT08 2017-08-28
/u/NerdyTeacher why you acting mad when you go straight to ghazi lol, proving him right?
1 Neon_needles 2017-08-28
The answer: Autism.
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2017-08-28
I forgot we could use that excuse for basically everything.
1 Imgur_Lurker 2017-08-28
Fuck me
The...Steam game doesn't come with a manual?
It's one of those clicker RPGS where you walk around and things pop out and attack you
Who needs a tutorial for that.
Stranger of Sword City ( but you can combine people's classes so it's new and exciting!) is a new one I just got and it's not like the genre has every changed from it's inception.
Everyone who's never beaten Torneko: The Last Hope shouldn't be allowed to talk about Dungeon Crawlers
1 Greekball 2017-08-28
You woupd be surprised how many steam games got a manual. It's just hidden.
Try right clicking on a game and somewhere in the options it should have a manual button.
If you got any total war game, they all got one and they're pretty nifty.
1 Imgur_Lurker 2017-08-28
Yea, I was unironiclly surprised it didn't come with a manual.
I guess it would have delayed Launch another 5 years.
Total War Lord of the rings version was fun but it's gotta be impossible to calculate how much more complicated that game is then a Hack and Click.
Also statistically Pokemon is the best RPG of all time.
1 RichEvansSextape 2017-08-28
The manual for TF2 is just a blueprint for the Engineer's Sentry turret, iirc.
1 Karma-Means-Nothing 2017-08-28
Woah
1 Greekball 2017-08-28
I know, right?
1 HINDBRAIN 2017-08-28
u wot
1 Imgur_Lurker 2017-08-28
You know how video games have like Warriors and Mages and stuff?
Well you can take your Samurai with his hitting stuff fast ability and turn him into an Archer to make a Archer that can hit stuff fast at a bigger distance then a Front Line fighting Samurai.
Sure it's stuff other games have done before but it's a fun in the clicker fighting RPG crawler
1 HINDBRAIN 2017-08-28
Games like The Dark Spire, Etrian Odyssey, etc had this mechanic before.
Go with dualwield/cicada shell/assassin's dagger/evade training/carnage front you pleb.
1 Imgur_Lurker 2017-08-28
Ah didn't know about those, not really my genre lol. I'm just pretending I know stuff for Drama
Evade tanks lol.
I just made it super far into the game without using Archers/Itemusing guys and needed them for the harder places like the no-Mages and only mages places are whatever horrifying thing those dungeons are.
1 SinisterSintram 2017-08-28
Turn based RPGs have had multiclassing since the first edition of DnD. Hardly a new concept.
1 SpectroSpecter 2017-08-28
What would you say the best modern might & magic-esque game is? I loved the shit out of 6, which was apparently the last good one. I tried getting 9 to run but that wasn't happening.
The more open-ended the better. I think my favorite part of that game was that I could go anywhere from the start, even if it was a horrible idea.
1 HINDBRAIN 2017-08-28
I'm not a specialist of the genre, but I liked Etrian Odyssey 3 (get the tool that says what abilities actually do if you play this though), Strange Journey, and Strangers in Sword City. These are fairly linear, but have interesting customization options which is why I like them. If you like weeb shit there's also unchained blades.
There's also Legend of Grimrock (real time like MM6) but I didn't like it all that much because it's very light on plots and characters and customisation.
1 toynbeeidea16 2017-08-28
Eh. Neverwinter Nights pretty much did that. You could change class easily, and doing so allowed you access to new classes. Like, to become an Arcane Archer you needed to spend some time as a Wizard, then some time as a Ranger.
Come to think of it, The Bard's Tale II did that sort of thing with its spellcaster classes.
1 old_grumpy_grandpa 2017-08-28
Lul your second link
1 MaybeIZuckYaDick 2017-08-28
Someone who took 15 minutes to beat Gone Homo?
1 Denny_Craine 2017-08-28
Wait what the fuck is wrong with being a pornographer?
1 Cake_eater666 2017-08-28
posts a .gif of a Rihanna drinking water
Really?
1 Denny_Craine 2017-08-28
Yeah really. How the fuck is that being a scam artist or conning people? You're producing something perfectly legal that people want to buy. How is that anything other than legitimate?
1 Cake_eater666 2017-08-28
Posts a picture of a smug anime girl
It is not my place to educate you on basic critical thinking or logic, I'm just here to laugh at you for being a joke. If you genuinely cannot understand why it is a valid comparison you might need to get off the net for a while and get some IRL time in.
1 knottedfate 2017-08-28
I've requested a refund due to the aforementioned playability issues and am awaiting a snarky response to this review, likely something about how I'm not hardcore enough for his masterpiece. Yup.
Could it be great? Definitely. Is it worth $40 as is? Definitely not.
Edit: Just as expected, the developer responded and complained, saying he'd have paid me not to play his game, that it's not for "people like me", and that I just bought it to write a bad review. He also claimed he'd report me to Steam to prevent me from getting a refund, saying I was just pirating it anyhow. Very mature and not very logically consistent! Cleve might be unhinged. Do yourself a favor and don't buy this game nor support childish bullies like Cleve."
sooo.. op and the game dev are both dumbasses?
1 Neon_needles 2017-08-28
It's almost like there is asswipes regardless of political affiliation. But thank needing a crying circle jerk session after getting moo'd at by another cow is pretty funny.
1 knottedfate 2017-08-28
I mean the game is pretty much considered shit on steam anyway, I'm not sure what they were expecting. If I could count all the indie games with negative reviews that have asshole devs/devs that abandoned the game... Why even take a chance of buying it?
1 Neon_needles 2017-08-28
Because, like, indie is art, bro.
(Support my patreon)
1 Imgur_Lurker 2017-08-28
You're the one who bought it why don't you tell us?
( I'm just posting to say Stranger of Sword City was pretty fun of the same type of game, class system and front/back fighters)
1 knottedfate 2017-08-28
oh i was copypastimg a review, sorry if that wasnt clear.
ive played some indie games that were crowdfunded (shadowrun comes to mind) and it was worth every buck, this war of mine and the bundle its in rn also seems pretty good. but i find a lot of tiny indie teams are assholes
like if its one dude he probably has the biggest ego ever
i guess the exception is the stardew valley dude, he seems genuine and put a lot of effort in.
1 Imgur_Lurker 2017-08-28
No it was clear i'm just retarded.
War of mine you'll either love or hate, it's like someone turned a Russian Novel into a video game. Darkest Dungeon is kinda the same deal.
1 Notthehalf 2017-08-28
I don't know, he closed the quote....but never opened it to begin with, so tbf you're both retarded.
1 Imgur_Lurker 2017-08-28
Copy pasting linked drama and randomly picking a side to go to battle for is one of the best ways to stir up drama here.
1 Miguk_Saram 2017-08-28
Unhinged and not even in the door frame. He built an underground bunker to stay in during the apocalyptic race war he believes will inevitably break out soon.
1 HINDBRAIN 2017-08-28
Filthy sapes, smh
1 SpectroSpecter 2017-08-28
I'm guessing we're looking at literal autism there. Some sort of psych disorder for sure.
1 tomato_man123 2017-08-28
>unironically posting in glaborgoober related subs in 2017
1 Miguk_Saram 2017-08-28
I'm surprised it took this for Cleve Blakemore to end up here. This guy has been proving that the autism spectrum exists since the '90s through his constant shitposting, insane ranting, and high octane spergouts. He'd be a great candidate for a piece by Snally.
1 rewind45 2017-08-28
Just so you all know, the creator of Grimoire is fucking straight up insane. He believes he is some kind of higher neanderthal being with old mystical blood or some other weirs shit.
1 PressFPayRespect 2017-08-28
Sounds like he is [[[[[our guy]]]]]
F
1 KateUptonsCumback 2017-08-28
F
1 SkippyDippo 2017-08-28
Of course you wouldn't understand, you fucking sape.
1 youcanteatbullets 2017-08-28
SSSSSSSSSS
In case anybody was wondering, S is 13 characters away from F, and hence is the exact opposite.
1 Cake_eater666 2017-08-28
Every one of Cleve's posts are solid gold. You need to keep in mind he's been shitposting for all these years when he should have been working on his game.
1 Miguk_Saram 2017-08-28
He really ought to be an honorary mod here. There's a forum where they've got a "politics & religion" section that was created just to quarantine his shitposting to keep it from infecting everything else.
1 freet0 2017-08-28
looks like the turntables are on the other foot
1 Notthehalf 2017-08-28
/u/Aerik tbf it's not different to you lot think you can't be a SJW and a massive asshole/bigot.
1 Aerik 2017-08-28
what are you even on about here?
1 ChipChippersonAMA 2017-08-28
Are any of these indi Dev games even worth playing? They seem to have a lot of drama associated with them for the amount of sales they get
1 Hammer_of_truthiness 2017-08-28
Wow look at all the people unironically saying shitlords. Its like its 2013 again
1 Notthehalf 2017-08-28
/u/KovesD
Wait you mean to tell me lumping in people who are just "morally objectionable" with people who are actually harmful is bad?
/u/OEQuoteThrawanAweg
I dunno, you lot seem pretty hung up on that year too. Seem pretty intent on defending a shitty ignorant "educational" thing by a self admitted abuser.
/u/EthicsOverwhelming
I dunno, I think the only fresh mass effect wound is how the "inclusive" SJW bigot (sexist racist homophobic (and has the audacity to speak at events like GaymerX in spite of his homophobic attitudes) and pushed one of the worst trans representation in media today), is that his shitty toxic attitude and inability to produce good games got him sacked and the studio is burning down to the ground, so I think anyone who was mad about being lied to is now dancing on the ashes of BW.