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[def sim]

who will do this with drew next

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

These kind of low-poly environments are super cool to walk around in in VR.

 

[Myggen]

Strafe looks rad.

 

[Meneses]

Strafe looks lame.

 

[Data West]

This music feels super out of place

 

[giant_frying_pan]

This music feels super out of place

A bit too chiptuney.

 

[MassiveNights]

Strafe looks terrible. Like Mighty No 9 for the Pentium crowd.

To think they criticised projects like the FF7 remake.

 

[mnz]

Strafe looks rad.

Strafe looks lame.

Welp

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Oooh, VR hopefully!

 

[Data West]

This looks like something High Voltage would make

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Welp

 

[NeroAngelo]

Not feeling Strafe at all.

 

[Data West]

Yeah man, as much as I can knock this game for stuff, nothing feels worse than this choice of music. It just feels slapped on. Like 'well I've got a chiptunes xXKavinskyXx, we could just use that?' It doens't fit what's on the screen at all and it's really throwing me off.

Like this music feels like Blood Dragon and not like this weird Quake/Doom BLOOD EVERYWHERE aesthetic they're going for.

 

[bigwinnerx]

Looks cool. Weird seeing so much blood but see where it fits in.

 

[MassiveNights]

Yeah man, as much as I can knock this game for stuff, nothing feels worse than this choice of music. It just feels slapped on. Like 'well I've got a chiptunes xXKavinskyXx, we could just use that?' It doens't fit what's on the screen at all and it's really throwing me off.

Like this music feels like Blood Dragon and not like this weird Quake/Doom BLOOD EVERYWHERE aesthetic they're going for.

This game feels like it's ticking boxes.

Rogue like - tick
90s aesthetic - tick
Chiptunes - tick
Flicker on the pause menu - tick
Crafting - tick
Lame attention seeking disk thing - tick

 

[Piston Hyundai]

They really need to pick an era of shooters and stick with it. This thing is all over the fucking place, and it's worse off for it.

 

[Doop]

I don't think the floppy disk is lame. I kinda like how far they're going with the 90s thing.

 

[Myggen]

To think they criticised projects like the FF7 remake.

What does a retro shooter have to do with the FF7 remake.

 

[Exterminieren]

This seems alright! The presentation's all over the place, but it looks really satisfying to play.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

The UI seems very much designed with VR in mind. Having a helmet/cockpit-like view, looking down left for map and down right for the stats.

[EDIT] There's a VR test build. Downloading now!

 

[MassiveNights]

What does a retro shooter have to do with the FF7 remake.

Nothing, and I didn't say it did.

 

[Myggen]

Nothing, and I didn't say it did.

Then I have no idea how to read that post!

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

This game feels like it's ticking boxes.

Rogue like - tick
90s aesthetic - tick
Chiptunes - tick
Flicker on the pause menu - tick
Crafting - tick

I feel like you could do this to any game ever. Let's do The Witcher 3:

Open World - tick
1,000s of uninteresting things to do - tick
Mediocre Combat - tick
Glitches Ridden - tick
Gather nodes for the shitty crafting system - tick

Strafe looks pretty good to me. I'll agree that the music is incongruous but gameplaywise it looks better put together than its competition like Bunker Punks and Wasted.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

The No Man's Sky music isn't procedural generated, it just adapts to what's going on. Lots of shooting and action and explosions? Fade in bass tracks and percussion. Peaceful exploration? Light instrumentation and lower tempo.

 

[MassiveNights]

I feel like you could do this to any game ever. Let's do The Witcher 3:

Open World - tick
1,000s of uninteresting things to do - tick
Mediocre Combat - tick
Glitches Ridden - tick
Gather nodes for the shitty crafting system - tick

Strafe looks pretty good to me. I'll agree that the music is incongruous but gameplaywise it looks better put together than its competition like Bunker Punks and Wasted.

The Witcher 3 is the worst example here. That game was meticulous in making its parts fit a greater whole and coherent vision.

This game's parts absolutely do not go together in theory and apparently in execution which makes it look very gimmicky to me.

 

[mnz]

Nothing, and I didn't say it did.

That was more than a year ago, why would you bring it up then?

 

[Myggen]

Been years since I've seen this game.

 

[hamchan]

Dan gave PREY a 9/10

wow

 

[Data West]

I bet Prey is a better game than Strafe

 

[kingocfs]

SAVE IT, GRANDFATHER. YOU KNOW I DON'T GO FOR THAT SHIT.

 

[MassiveNights]

That was more than a year ago, why would you bring it up then?

Because I remember things they say and related it to a project that uses nostalgia as a crutch they were enthusing about. Hardly controversial!

 

[Myggen]

I bet this game has aged terribly. But I remember liking it at the time.

 

[Data West]

In-game touchable interface is the way you pander to my nostalgia.

 

[CoolBatteryCharge]

Clutch lol I saw them live in May

 

[broncobuster]

Prey is an okay shooter. In league with your Singularitys and Timeshifts.

The Darkness isn't an okay shooter.

 

[def sim]

i'm legit surprised jeff is passionate about the darkness

i liked it a whole lot. the main character needed to get a haircut though

 

[Data West]

Prey is an okay shooter. In league with your Singularitys and Timeshifts.

Singularity is much better than PRey

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

The Witcher 3 is the worst example here. That game was meticulous in making its parts fit a greater whole and coherent vision.

This game's parts absolutely do not go together in theory and apparently in execution which makes it look very gimmicky to me.

You said crafting doesn't go with roguelikes when a huge amount of existing roguelikes have crafting mechanics? You said the 90s aesthetic doesn't go with them sending out shareware disks? You can say shit is gimmicky, but as I mentioned I think the only thing that doesn't go with the theme is the music.

Also I don't think Witcher 3 is a coherent vision, I think it's a fucking mess. Gwent is a gimmick FF card game that had no place in the world, the games mechanics (combat, horse riding and follow your Witcher sense) don't hold up for 5 hours let alone the 100+ hour duration of the game, and the open world isn't dynamic in the slightest which is the whole point of having an open world. If Witcher 3 was a significantly more linear title with a gameworld a tenth of the size that only featured the major quests/side quests it would have been a much more coherent product that focused on its strengths.

 

[Data West]

This biker sounds about 80

 

[Human Trashcan]

Throwing my lot in with the "Strafe looks whatever" people.

Also I really shouldn't be surprised that Dan has bad taste in things at this point but The Darkness = Prey, really?

 

[Myggen]

Haha.

 

[Data West]

I think we just discovered by Dan likes this game

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Ok this intro is pretty great.

 

[broncobuster]

Want to say Prey's first level throws in all its gimmicks. Portals, spherical levels, reviving via ghost bow, and maybe a flying vehicle.

PC Prey is notable for Steam running out of CD keys and having to delist it.

 

[Data West]

Aliens got some interesting dissection techniques

 

[tonka]

well, that was... something

 

[MassiveNights]

You said crafting doesn't go with roguelikes when a huge amount of existing roguelikes have crafting mechanics? You said the 90s aesthetic doesn't go with them sending out shareware disks? You can say shit is gimmicky, but as I mentioned I think the only thing that doesn't go with the theme is the music.

Also I don't think Witcher 3 is a coherent vision, I think it's a fucking mess. Gwent is a gimmick FF card game that had no place in the world, the games mechanics (combat, horse riding and follow your Witcher sense) don't hold up for 5 hours let alone the 100+ hour duration of the game, and the open world isn't dynamic in the slightest which is the whole point of having an open world. If Witcher 3 was a significantly more linear title with a gameworld a tenth of the size that only featured the major quests/side quests it would have been a much more coherent product that focused on its strengths.

Strafe is all about that nostalgia pop, nothing more, nothing less.

It doesn't use those features in any meaningful way, they're tacked on, a ticked box of what is 'in' right now in PC video games. It might as well be a menu and a loading screen.

I got bored looking at the 3 enemy types after 5 minutes.

You can dislike The Witcher 3, but you can't say that it isn't ambitious.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Strafe doesn't come out for like a year, maybe let's (you) not pretend we have it pegged.

 

[Myggen]

Prey at least had some interesting ideas. The gravity stuff is pretty cool.

 

[MassiveNights]

Strafe doesn't come out for like a year, maybe let's (you) not pretend we have it pegged.

Let's go crazy and call it unique.