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Haunted
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The climbing in Grow Home feels amazing.
It's actually a freely controllable climbing mechanic. It's not a context-sensitive "hold a button + up and the game does everything for you" like in other games. You control each hand individually, can move the body and the hands in any direction, grab any surface. If you master the mobility from grab -> jump -> jetpack -> grab you can execute moves you couldn't ever do in something like an Uncharted or AC or Dying Light, where the game dictates what you can and can't grab onto, what kind of moves the game automatically selects for you. Movement, traversal and climbing feels much more free-form and expressive in Grow Home.
And that's important because it is mainly an exploration game, after all. You can jump off the plants while you grow them and they'll do a little swirly thing, or you can direct them fairly straight to reach the different islands. You can also connect them to each other, or to different places on the bigger islands to create a connective plant network that enables you to go to different places quicker. It's creative, expressive and useful.
Other touches they might have missed in the QL: you can click the right stick to zoom out and see more of your surroundings (useful to locate crystals, would've helped them see the one they could only hear). That flower in the ground they couldn't figure out what to do with is actually a launcher giving BUD some serious airtime. There's an additional plant BUD can pick up, a gliding leaf which gives you more mobility compared to the slow-falling flower. The teleporter screen shows how far you're up (the goal is at 2000m, the island they reached in the QL is somewhere around ~650-700m). The bigger island they reached is littered with neat little geographical touches. That waterfall offers some pretty sweet platforming if you want to. There's caves, the mountain, forests of trees and mushrooms, all with their own little alcoves and crystals to find.
It's 7,99 on Steam and I highly recommend it.
It's actually a freely controllable climbing mechanic. It's not a context-sensitive "hold a button + up and the game does everything for you" like in other games. You control each hand individually, can move the body and the hands in any direction, grab any surface. If you master the mobility from grab -> jump -> jetpack -> grab you can execute moves you couldn't ever do in something like an Uncharted or AC or Dying Light, where the game dictates what you can and can't grab onto, what kind of moves the game automatically selects for you. Movement, traversal and climbing feels much more free-form and expressive in Grow Home.
And that's important because it is mainly an exploration game, after all. You can jump off the plants while you grow them and they'll do a little swirly thing, or you can direct them fairly straight to reach the different islands. You can also connect them to each other, or to different places on the bigger islands to create a connective plant network that enables you to go to different places quicker. It's creative, expressive and useful.
Other touches they might have missed in the QL: you can click the right stick to zoom out and see more of your surroundings (useful to locate crystals, would've helped them see the one they could only hear). That flower in the ground they couldn't figure out what to do with is actually a launcher giving BUD some serious airtime. There's an additional plant BUD can pick up, a gliding leaf which gives you more mobility compared to the slow-falling flower. The teleporter screen shows how far you're up (the goal is at 2000m, the island they reached in the QL is somewhere around ~650-700m). The bigger island they reached is littered with neat little geographical touches. That waterfall offers some pretty sweet platforming if you want to. There's caves, the mountain, forests of trees and mushrooms, all with their own little alcoves and crystals to find.
It's 7,99 on Steam and I highly recommend it.
Jimmyfenix
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Another great ubisoft game
stump sock
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Yeah but I'm with Dan. If you did it right, the time limit was a joke to the point of it being a non-issue in the dungeons. The passage of time in the overworld was awesome.
TharpDaddy
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Everyone knows Kameo is the better shapeshifting game
alex isn't moving the camera enough it's as important as in a third person shooter. aiming where your hands land is THE mechanic one you get that down your sprinting round the world and it feels amazing. hopefully he keeps going cos when it clicks is great.
Haunted
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Well, Reflections didn't get many chances to prove themselves since Ubi bought them a couple years ago. They're probably still best known for making Destruction Derby and the Driver games, but since Ubi acquired them, they've mostly been relegated to grunt work for bigger projects at other Ubi studios. :/
Grow Home is their first own game in quite a while (since Driver: SF in 2011), and it's pretty awesome.
I like that time was your enemy. I also love Dead Rising with the way the time limit breathes down your neck.
Driver SF was my GOTY that year so fuck yeah Reflection.
Glitchesarecool
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The debate around Majora's Mask among the GB crew is absolutely fantastic every single time it comes up.
randomlyrossy
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He's talked about it many times on Bombcasts & such. The way it was scored back then means that because it excelled at a lot of the technical aspects & such it got a higher score in general. Also it's worth taking into account that he lays on the hyperbole about how much he dislikes it these days for the sake of comedy.
SatelliteOfLove
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Plus that shows he ain't letting his personal disdain get in the way of his proffessional advice. The mark of quality in a reviewer.
ratcliffja
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Grow Home is basically Mount Your Friends but single player and in 3D. Can't say I'm interested.
I completely understand why the time thing can be off-putting. I hated the idea of it when the game was released, but today I love it. I guess I don't really see it as a time limit. You can reset time whenever you like, however many times you like, and the world will always follow the same motions through the game's three days. The three day system allows for you to explore not one world, but six. Each day/night has its own specific events, and if you miss them the first time, you can reset the timer and see them all. You'd have to, because there are several events occurring at the same time in different places. I think it's kinda beautiful.
God, I love that game.
Jimmyfenix
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stump sock
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So... when are we getting some Neptunia QLs?
anyone?
anyone?
ratcliffja
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I'm so glad that exists.
Jimmyfenix
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i am with you stump
Freedom = $1.05
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It came out at a time where the PS3 peeps were really hungry for something resembling Geometry Wars.
It's no GeoWars but it's definitely an enjoyable dual stick shooter of its own. I'm going to pull the wait-for-ps+ card since i have it for the PS3 but if you've never played it it's worth your time.
stump sock
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I mean it's cool if they skip the Rebirth games as long as they promise to do Hyperdevotion Noire and Neptunia U, which by the way, both look kind of awesome
chaobreaker
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NumberThree
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I rearranged my apartment so that I'm sitting about half as far from the TV as I used to, and I finally see why people have complained about the video quality on the site! Of course this Stardust game isn't the easiest one to encode, either.
stump sock
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Freedom = $1.05
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For some reason, regardless of what their settings are in regards to resolution and/or bitrate, they always manage to make an Assassin's Creed game look like blocky muddy poopbutt. It's a hell of a thing.
chaobreaker
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To be fair, Dan gets enthusiastic over new things all the time. Just look at his twitter.
That reminds me. After the last trailer, I became unironically excited for Dancing All Night once I saw all the people that were involved with the remixes. I had a genuine, "Wait, what?" moment when I saw the name Akira Yamaoka in the trailer.
Wait I thought D&D was for nerds and not like cool normal regular guys
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Man, I the more I hear about GI the less I can imagine Dan working there (from his Tumblr)
SuperSonic1305
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Grow Home has a lot of hot penetration.
stump sock
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Yamaoka seems like a really genuine, humble guy, who truly loves what he does. His involvement isn't a surprise to me, but it's welcome. There's actually a ton of great people doing remixes for it. I'm super excited for the NARASAKI, DE DE MOUSE and TOWA TEI remixes.
Hah, fortunately military scenarios didn't come up often enough to get annoying or detract from the over all experience. I just want to build/micromanage massive ancient cities in peace, dammit!
TharpDaddy
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Atari is making an Asteroids MMO. I look forward to Jeff's reaction.
It's the weirdest possible fit for Asteroids.
it's an open world survival game...
It's the weirdest possible fit for Asteroids.
Zero-Crescent
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Finally, Dan can take Kenzo Suzuki to the World Heavyweight Championship!
Now this is a version of D&D I'd like to see them play.
We need step up our "Cara is the new hire" conspiracy game.
avengers23
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Why isn't the clip of the duders reacting to the news story about the Pokemon tournament winner being stripped of his championship because he was throwing poop in the hotel hallway on YouTube?
Freedom = $1.05
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I heard that Brian Williams was about to announce that Cara was going the site but then he lied like 10 years ago and he won't be able to say a peep about it for 6 months. we were so close!
unplugged today?
Wouldn't count on it. Kind of sounds like they're focused on another new feature at the moment.
avengers23
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Glorious! Thanks!
unplugged today?
Nope, they said that it wouldn't be this week after the first D&D Unplugged and on the podcast. I think Rorie is on vacation this week.
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