I’ve only tried it on the old PC, and it ran like crap.
robc04
1849
Has anyone played Traffic Manager? The idea sounds good but it seems like it may be heavily flawed?
Didn’t see anyone mention Landinar: Into the Void (EA) yet. It’s a top-down space RPG/sim, sort of in the vein of Freelancer. I played a few hours prior to the latest big patch (Propulsion Update) and found it to be quite a bit of fun. You start with a little basic ship and fly around in a big “open-world”, get into dogfights (that were admittedly a bit underwhelming before the patch), land at space stations and talk to NPCs, do missions, buy and sell, upgrade your ship, yada yada yada. I really liked the “real time” seamless play where you can literally zoom into your ship during flight/combat, hop out of the cockpit, walk around and do repairs, restock ammo, etc. Check it out!
Imagine Freelancer as a top-down RPG. In Landinar: Into the Void you start as a rookie bounty hunter in the oppressive Landinar Empire. Explore the universe to meet diverse characters, fight your battles and build your own space ship to fit your personal playing style.
In Landinar: Into the Void you create your own adventure. You decide what to do, who to talk to, who to fight and how big (or small) your space ship is going to be.
Features:
- The quadrant: Explore the quadrant of Landinar: into the Void any way you like. Travel to 10+ (with more to come) different sectors to find new people, tech and different types of enemies.
- Build your own spaceship: Gather hull templates and parts to design and build your own ship. Do you prefer speed or gunpower? Build your ship to match your personal playing style.
- Seamless scaling: Dock your ship, walk around a station, get into the cockpit and seamlessly fly out into space whenever you feel like it.
- Enjoy the universe at your own pace: Decide where to go, who you work for and how you complete your objectives
rowe33
1851
Interesting, will check this out. They really should let you import any purchased jpegs from Star Citizen for the ultimate space adventure.
Ehhh, at least a year of EA mentioned, which probably means 2 years of EA in reality. :P
Needs mining. Like the art style, though.
Can confirm Landinar is pretty great.
But…
Is it as good as Star Citizen?
I bought it. I would hold off for a while. The concept is good but it needs more time before its fun.
I’m excited, but for a reason you didn’t mention! Frankly, I have a hard time caring about yet another fly/fight/trade space game. But this one is by the guys who made Convoy, a nifty nod to the Roadwar games us older geezers played on our Apple computers. As for Landinar being early access, hmm, let’s see how early access:
That would be September 2019, which we all know means early 2020. So you guys please stop posting about this until it’s out.
-Tom
MrTibbs
1859
Two ex-Raven devs are trying their hand at an old-school FPS, which is looking very promising! Prodeus just got a Steam page, and will release next year.
It looks cute, but I got past “blood, ho ho ho, gross!” with Infernal Runner when I was 8. I am a bit sad they seem to focalize around that.
MrTibbs
1861
The violence is very exaggerated and I can understand why that could be off-putting, but for me I find that absurd
levels of gore can provide very satisfying feedback in FPS games. I still load up Monolith’s debut Blood from time to time just because of how enjoyable throwing a bundle of dynamite at a bunch of silly cultists feels! These guys seem to appreciate that exploring to hunt down keys and finding secrets is a big part of the appeal of old games, and it’s not like they’re not coming out of retirement or anything to make this (they’ve been active creating modern shooters, too).
I think the store page might be focusing around that merely to attract attention, too.
The pixely but not pixely (when the monster closes up on the player, in the first gif in your post, for instance) sort of art seems super cool though.
MrTibbs
1863
I agree that the stylized art direction is pretty appealing. It stands out from the other recent throwback shooters by avoiding being either absurdly faithful, like Ion Maiden and 3DR’s unannounced Quake 1-engine FPS (gif below), or looking a bit low-budget.
tomchick
1864
I see a game like Prodeus and think to myself, “Hmm, I should just reinstall Painkiller…”
Still, I love the look of the over-the-top gunplay in MrTibbs’ gifs. And if they’re guys from Raven, I’m betting they know what they’re doing. So, yeah, put me down for some – checking the name again, because it sounds like something from the bottom of a long list of names they wanted to use but couldn’t – Prodeus!
-Tom
Speaking of Convoy, it’s in a Steam bundle with Landinar for $20 (33% discount): https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/9186/Convoy_Collection/
JoshoB
1867
Surely you mean Shadow Warrior 2?
