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Abyss Odyssey |OT| A Warlock's Nightmare From Which I Am Trying To Awake
- Thread starter Vazra
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What if she is a strong male fantasy?
Played some Ghost Monk. Spoilered for the sensitive:
Okay, first thing you should probably do is die on purpose. Both characters get a free extra ability in the limbo area between deaths so you might as well get it out of the way and start with that ability.
Ghost Monk's a bit slower but more powerful. Better juggler, his throw can be comboed into a lot easier than Kat.
It looks like each character gets their own Soldier spawn. GM's soldier is a bit slower too but I think I like his moves better. Both aren't exactly fun compared to other characters.
Figured out what the tiers of Camps mean. The number corresponds to respawns. Bought a 2 token and received two respawns.
You get skill points every three levels, I highly recommend putting them into Skill Cancels before upgrading skills. Being able to cancel 3 times will be more useful than a 14 percent damage buff on a skill, especially early on.
GM seemed to get mana a lot faster than Kat, which means capturing pokemon is easier on him.
Gold is shared between characters but not levelling, so you'll probably want to start in the first area when you unlock a character to get them some experience.
Ghost Monk's a bit slower but more powerful. Better juggler, his throw can be comboed into a lot easier than Kat.
It looks like each character gets their own Soldier spawn. GM's soldier is a bit slower too but I think I like his moves better. Both aren't exactly fun compared to other characters.
Figured out what the tiers of Camps mean. The number corresponds to respawns. Bought a 2 token and received two respawns.
You get skill points every three levels, I highly recommend putting them into Skill Cancels before upgrading skills. Being able to cancel 3 times will be more useful than a 14 percent damage buff on a skill, especially early on.
GM seemed to get mana a lot faster than Kat, which means capturing pokemon is easier on him.
Gold is shared between characters but not levelling, so you'll probably want to start in the first area when you unlock a character to get them some experience.
There's not a ton of story in the game and the game is upfront about the whole dream stuff so I can't see it being a sticking point for many.
ambientmystic
Member
So tempted to read those spoilers but I won't.
Corpekata you lucky SOB, I'll be looking at them after the game hits, and not a moment before.
Corpekata you lucky SOB, I'll be looking at them after the game hits, and not a moment before.
I think those spoilers dont need to be spoilered tagged. It basically talks a bit more about the difference between characters and some mechanics.
it would require less of a budget to not do procedural generation so what are you talking about?
it's a game design choice...
do people here get mad at spelunky when they die in the ice caves?
a lot of the fun in roguelite games for many people is the unknown and the fear and discovery that comes with it so props to you
Of course more hand crafted content takes more effort and money than procedural generation? Is this even an argument?
When I first heard the title, I thought Abyss Odyssey was a spiritual sequel to Albert Odyssey.
The game still looks great, but I was really hoping for something else.
Depends on the team really. You are still creating all the assets for the procedurally generated games as building blocks but they are organized at random and it might be more work on the programming side of things to make sure the game doesn't create impossible to beat stages.
Messofanego
Banned
We need a stream.
2 player Coop
VS Mode (PC exclusive atm no clue if its coming to consoles) has 4 players
Strange in Stereo
Member
Atlus have a stream and yesterday they streamed nothing but P4AU (almost 12 hours of Persona). It makes sense considering it's EVO but it'd be nice if Abyss Odyssey got a bit of stream time.
How hard could it be to have an alternate channel or give AO 1 hour of streaming and then go back to Persona.
Strange in Stereo
Member
Agreed. I really think a lot of FG peeps (both, those watching and attending) would dig this game.
Messofanego
Banned
Yup. Especially the Smash crowd.
At least they got the game there to hopefully generate some interest but the lack of streaming is not helping the fact the game is not well known. A few minor streams could help the game if they announced them.
Messofanego
Banned
Yeah, still have time until tomorrow night. Tweeted them at least
Asked on FB.
Gonna stream a bit in about an hour, just getting things set up. Probably just do a run or two depending on my luck. Might see me popping in and out of it here and there but that's just me testing some things.
http://www.twitch.tv/corpekata
http://www.twitch.tv/corpekata
awesome! I will do my best to tune in for a bit.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Snakethesniper
Member
I loved the chat of the stream.
"I will avenge you!"
*drop-kicks boss*
LOL
edit: changed to be less spoilerish
"I will avenge you!"
*drop-kicks boss*
LOL
edit: changed to be less spoilerish
That had me screaming.
Also the end of the fight he almost got killed by the horse
No problem. Was glad some of the surprises were streamed, have about 5 hours clocked now and still getting surprised by
Gonna archive from now on and look into fixing my mic issues and may try again Sunday or Monday.
Odin (achievement calls him Verbum Dei, which translates roughly to Word of God) and the base invasion.
Also it looks like Ace Team confirmed that the way to unlock Ghost Monk is to kill a miniboss, which are those red veiny ghost type things that appear every 4th or so floor. They didn't say how to unlock the third character.
Killing Odin with 60 health left was one of my prouder recent gaming moments so I'm glad I managed to kill him at the tail end of the stream after losing so much.
Also it looks like Ace Team confirmed that the way to unlock Ghost Monk is to kill a miniboss, which are those red veiny ghost type things that appear every 4th or so floor. They didn't say how to unlock the third character.
Killing Odin with 60 health left was one of my prouder recent gaming moments so I'm glad I managed to kill him at the tail end of the stream after losing so much.
Gonna archive from now on and look into fixing my mic issues and may try again Sunday or Monday.
The game being randomly generated and if they update it with more content as they say they will it could be really a beast of replayability if everything is well put together. I hope they do add CPU VS option cause otherwise I wont be able to play the game VS Mode until they patch online -_-
Pierre Levegh
Member
Just found this thread after hearing about the game for the first time in the PS blog "Drop" post. This looks fantastic, I've already devourered everything I could find on it. This is going to be a definite pick-up.
By any chance they had new footage? I havent checked PS Blog in ages.
No. Just a short little section that says it's available this week. Sony are pushing the Destiny Beta so hard I'm kinda surprised it got any attention at all from them.
Shouldnt surprise me. Not even Atlus streamed the game at EVO. All they streamed was Persona 4 Arena Ultimax which while amazing as it is they could have done a side stream for 1 hour or 2 of Abyss Odyssey VS Mode.
Yeah, that's a good initial offer, and the team making the game seem pretty cool, so I'm gonna pre-order now.
If you pre-order a game with pre-order bonus item (soundtrack), but store it as a gift, does the recipient still get it once claimed in their library?
Original Famous Ray
Member
Any more impressions and streams? Interested for sure but still want to see more and read some impressions regarding how responsive the controls and combat are. Maybe we'll see some reviews this afternoon?
Reviews won't hit until release day.
Corpekata said the controls are responsive