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[Dazraell]

3D Realms just announced a release date for Phantom Fury, which is a sequel to Ion Fury. It's coming very soon, on April 23rd

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I mean... if you insist. The game looked awesome in the original reveal trailer, but looked rough in the Realms Deep one last year. I really want this to be good, but I'm cautiously optimistic. April feels really soon based on what they showed last time.

 

[Loke]

I mean... if you insist. The game looked awesome in the original reveal trailer, but looked rough in the Realms Deep one last year. I really want this to be good, but I'm cautiously optimistic. April feels really soon based on what they showed last time.

Yeah, the demo lowered my expectations significantly. But still looking forward to it. Just not hoping for another Bombshell disaster.

 

[Shtef]

Nice, Ion fury was amazing, hopefully this will be same or better.

 

[WitchHunter]

3D Realms just announced a release date for Phantom Fury, which is a sequel to Ion Fury. It's coming very soon, on April 23rd

Demon core! Prevent global catastrophy! I'm hooked. Let's go mudabitches. 3DRealms upped the ante, they are bringing us this groundbreaking thing. Let's hope for a ray trance patch after release.

 

[amigastar]

Ok, interesting, never heard of the game.

 

[winjer]

Looks cool. But very different from the first game.

 

[Denton]

Trailer looks great. I played the first on Steam Deck but never finished it, this looks more interesting tbh.

 

[JonSnowball]

Nice, Ion fury was amazing, hopefully this will be same or better.

I hang around the 3D Realms Discord. Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint who had creative control of the game, they also self-funded development because...I guess 3D Realms exploits people?

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

 

[Neon Xenon]

The Phantom Fury demo that I played during Realms Deep 2023 was not impressive in the least. The word I could use to describe what was shown is "undercooked", at best. Lack of punch and feedback in the weapons, enemy encounters that felt placeholder and stilted, and one particular enemy that either had too much health or the weapons needed buffing. The level design for the one level was okay. For a demo (which, in other cases, I could safely assume is closer along in progress to a full release), it really felt like the game was not ready for prime time. And I really hate to say all this, because I am interested to see how a follow up to Ion Fury plays out.

So I can only hope that there have been some major improvements in the time between the Phantom Fury 2023 demo and the full release on April 23rd.
EDIT: April 23rd still seems far too soon for this.

 

[U n i o n 0015]

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

Damn, that sucks. I didn't realize it wasn't the same devs. That alone kills my excitement.

 

[Barakov]

I hang around the 3D Realms Discord. Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint who had creative control of the game, they also self-funded development because...I guess 3D Realms exploits people?

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

That takes all excitement out of this announcement.

 

[Apocryphon]

Ion Fury was fantastic but I’m still not feeling this. It don’t help that it is a different studio that doesn’t have a great track record, including the fuck awful Kingpin remaster that came out last year. Slipgate Ironworks wouldn’t have been my first choice to outsource Phantom Fury to. Hopefully Voidpoint are working on a proper Build based Ion Fury follow up because I like the character and the world and it felt amazing to play.

 

[xrnzaaas]

I hang around the 3D Realms Discord. Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint who had creative control of the game, they also self-funded development because...I guess 3D Realms exploits people?

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

So what is the studio behind the first game up to now? They're still in the business?

 

[MagiusNecros]

I hang around the 3D Realms Discord. Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint who had creative control of the game, they also self-funded development because...I guess 3D Realms exploits people?

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

Good to know. I suppose the next retro shooter to be excited for is still Selaco.

 

[JonSnowball]

So what is the studio behind the first game up to now? They're still in the business?

They still exist as a company but I don't think they're working on any big projects right now. They're the team that maintain the EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D source port. It would be cool to see them do a Duke Nukem game but with Randy Pitchford owning the franchise I doubt that would happen because it would involve a good decision being made.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Hopefully Voidpoint are working on a proper Build based Ion Fury follow up because I like the character and the world and it felt amazing to play.

So what is the studio behind the first game up to now? They're still in the business?

They still exist as a company but I don't think they're working on any big projects right now.

They did release Aftershock, DLC for Ion fury, late last year:

 

[xrnzaaas]

They did release a Aftershock, DLC for Ion fury, late last year:

Any chance that DLC will make its way to consoles? I played the base game on PS4 and loved it.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Any chance that DLC will make its way to consoles? I played the base game on PS4 and loved it.

No word on it yet, but i assume they will release it there at some point

 

[JonSnowball]

They did release a Aftershock, DLC for Ion fury, late last year:

I played that at release and it was awesome. It's basically the length of another full game. Forgot to mention it in my earlier post.

 

[Bloobs]

PC only? I want to like this but cant get really excited. Where's the SIN remaster Nightdive!

 

[Buggy Loop]

I hang around the 3D Realms Discord. Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint who had creative control of the game, they also self-funded development because...I guess 3D Realms exploits people?

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

I understand everything you say but if the game had another name, I would still find it interesting, the trailer is well made and looks like a good retro N64/PSX shooter. Unless they really drop the ball on gameplay and level design, I really don’t care about franchise name.

 

[Faust]

Looks awesome! Getting it day one.

 

[Hudo]

I remember when it was still called Ion Maiden and the band Iron Maiden freaked to fuck out and threatened to sue Voidpoint/3D Realms if they didn't change the name.

Iron Maiden were always little bitches.

 

[Bloobs]

 

[JonSnowball]

I understand everything you say but if the game had another name, I would still find it interesting, the trailer is well made and looks like a good retro N64/PSX shooter. Unless they really drop the ball on gameplay and level design, I really don’t care about franchise name.

Someone didn't play the demo...or any other games the same developers released. They have a track record that varies from terrible to mediocre with Graven being their most recent adventure in boredom and Kingpin Reloaded being a technical shit show they immediately stopped patching.

 

[winjer]

 

[Hudo]

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

That's that, then.

 

[amigastar]

I hang around the 3D Realms Discord. Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint who had creative control of the game, they also self-funded development because...I guess 3D Realms exploits people?

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

I for one loved Rise of the Triad (2013) so i will check this also out.
also

Phantom Fury Review - Bombshell - Try Hard Guides

Phantom Fury is a unique and action-packed shooter, even if the pace can sometimes fall apart.

tryhardguides.com

 

[Guilty_AI]

is looking so so

 

[Griffon]

The demo was awful.

I don't think it's gonna be good.

 

[U n i o n 0015]

I for one loved Rise of the Triad (2013) so i will check this also out.
also

Phantom Fury Review - Bombshell - Try Hard Guides

Phantom Fury is a unique and action-packed shooter, even if the pace can sometimes fall apart.

tryhardguides.com

How the hell does a game get a 9/10 with stuff like this? This is 3/10 game design alone:

"A big reason why so many of these paths were hidden is also due to an unfortunate lack of consistency in the game. One room will have you move a box into position and hop a fence, only for the next to use an easily jumpable fence as an invisible wall to prevent progress. Another might have you punch open a grey metal door, only for all the rest of said doors throughout the level to be locked and unpunchable. It gives the game a bad habit of training you to expect one thing, only for that thing to never operate that way again—or if it does, it will do so only have several instances of the rule being broken."

 

[amigastar]

How the hell does a game get a 9/10 with stuff like this? This is 3/10 game design alone:

Hmm, yeah seems questionable. I will await more reviews. All i know is i had great fun in Rise of the Triad (2013) even if it had obvious flaws.

 

[KaiserBecks]

3D Realms just announced a release date for Phantom Fury, which is a sequel to Ion Fury. It's coming very soon, on April 23rd

I hang around the 3D Realms Discord. Ion Fury was developed by Voidpoint who had creative control of the game, they also self-funded development because...I guess 3D Realms exploits people?

To make it clear: Voidpoint who developed Ion Fury are NOT involved in Phantom Fury. Phantom Fury is developed by the incompetent retards who were behind Rise of the Triad (2013), Bombshell, and Kingpin Reloaded.
Expect this game to suck ass.

Damn. I guess we'll have to hope for the best.

 

[FireFly]

Someone didn't play the demo...or any other games the same developers released. They have a track record that varies from terrible to mediocre with Graven being their most recent adventure in boredom and Kingpin Reloaded being a technical shit show they immediately stopped patching.

Based on the reviews so far it seems that it is a lot better than the demo but still unpolished and not properly paced. If they support it long term, it might turn out to be an ok shooter.

 

[danklord]

I need these games in VR

 

[winjer]

 

[KaiserBecks]

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Yeah, this kills me after how good that reveal trailer was... but as I'd said earlier in the thread, the Realms Deep footage from 2023 made it clear that this game was half baked, at best. Damn shame, but maybe they'll fix it after the fact like they kinda tried to do with Bombshell?

Edit: Come to think of it, I haven't played the Ion Fury DLC yet. At least I have that to look forward to.

 

[winjer]

Yeah, this kills me after how good that reveal trailer was... but as I'd said earlier in the thread, the Realms Deep footage from 2023 made it clear that this game was half baked, at best. Damn shame, but maybe they'll fix it after the fact like they kinda tried to do with Bombshell?

Edit: Come to think of it, I haven't played the Ion Fury DLC yet. At least I have that to look forward to.

It's a bit of a disappointment, but most of the issues can be fixed with a few patches.
A rep from 3DReamls said on the Guru3d forums, that the version these reviewers were playing didn't have the day one patch. So some of the issues might already be fixed.
Still, I'll probably wait a while, until I get this game.

I haven't played Aftershock yet. So that is something to look forward.