If you want real-world simulation, play Master of Pottery: Ironman mode!
(There is no Ironman mode, but now I think there should be.)
Damn right!
The concept of this game actually makes me want to get a proper GPUed one.
Beautiful stuff.
Kolbex
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I bought MoP when my real-world pottery class was cancelled, but I’m a bit disappointed with how totally unlike real potting it is. Makes me want to make a game where you actually have to center and open your clay, with each hand being controlled by one of the controller sticks.
I don’t believe anyone really wants a QWOP or Surgeon Sim - style pottery game.
Sounds like a cool VR title
Kolbex
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No, those games were designed to be practically uncontrollable, so that’s not what I’m suggesting.
Sounds like piracy. You won’t download a clay vase would you?
Anyone played Scrap Mechanic? It looks pretty refined but then again it’s been in EA for like 4 years!
@Jason_McMaster has been, its not something I would enjoy , but he seems to like it.
Kolbex
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Anybody played this one?
It’s $4 on Fanatical right now, and given that I consider Little Shooty Tank/Dude games a related genre to my beloved Little Shooty Ship genre, I’ve taken a spin.
It seems insanely hard.
I haven’t played it, but my understanding is they put tons of missiles and laser beams with lots of visual noise in their Arranged mode, and that it made it through to the supposedly Original mode.
Take that with a grain of salt, as my opinion is that the remake looks like crap compared to the raw power of the original simple pixel art.
The original was very hard.
Kolbex
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I can absolutely appreciate that point of view, re: the art, but as someone who didn’t play the original I prefer the new style. It still looks pretty retro!
How does it compare to Valken? That was one of my favorite games growing up and might have beaten it dozens of times.
They are so different. Leynos is much more cinematic, but the gameplay itself really felt antiquated compared to Valken. I should play it again, since my sensiblity might have changed in over 20 years (just maybe)…
Kolbex
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Apparently this studio (Dracue) went out of business a couple years ago. They had done another game, Armored Hunter Gunhound EX (I love these names so much), that had a Japanese-only PSP release but can still be purchased secondhand for rather exorbitant amounts and got an English translation for PC a few years ago that kept its Japanese voiceover. That version has been removed from Steam, which is odd since Leynos hasn’t been, but I hear it can still be gotten from…places. Seems a lot closer, style-wise, to the older games, and possibly not as balls hard.
I can’t speak for Gunhound EX, but the original doujin release of Gunhound took years to be finished, and when a friend (name redacted, but a huge fan of the genre) got his game shipped to him, he was very disappointed. I trust his opinion very much on the matter.
I wonder if the Steam version was just that old doujin version relabelled as the EX one, or if it was really that PSP game. I have the game in my library but can’t install it, oh well!
Had no idea it was the same guys who did that Leynos. Makes sense, after making that weird Valken remake, eh!
Kolbex
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What, really? What does it say?
That I should be using a Windows PC ;D
VirtuaVerse, a cool looking cyberpunk point-and-click adventure game, is out on Steam and GoG. I’m waiting for impressions before taking the plunge, but it looks rather tempting.
Kolbex
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True!
Story by Master Boot Record? How odd.
