I downloaded and played it this morning before work. I got to the first dungeon portal but then had to leave for work.
I love the premise! Great intro.
I didn’t really know anything about Dungeons of Hinterberg before today but that RPS review has sparked my interest. Going to download it and hopefully not leave it sitting on my hard drive for the next year waiting for me.
Dungeons of Hintenberg is a perfect example of why I pay for PC Game Pass. Without it I would have added this to a very lengthy Steam wishlist waiting for it to go on sale for so little that I couldn’t ignore it any longer.
I’m really enjoying my time with it through the first 5 dungeons or so. Love the art style and the monster attacks are well enough telegraphed that I feel it’s my fault when I get hit. Throw in some numbers getting bigger and I’m quite content.
Dungeons of Hintenberg is a good game.
It is an Shin Megami Tensei game, but set in Austria, with a very appealing aesthetic. It has beautiful 2d cell-shaded graphics (is that the name?) and interesting camera angles
The best part is the trolly puzzles. They are blindingly obvious once you solved them. Which taunts how smooth-brained you are.
Yes, the dungeons are a lot of fun!
And the framing is … interesting. It’s like Zelda, Persona, and Stardew Valley had a threeway baby, which was then raised by a very Austrian nanny. I’m not sure what to make of this mix (other than to quote the game: it “smells of old wood and unfamiliar detergent”) but I’m gonna keep on playing.
The only choice in Hintenberg that I’m questioning so far is to have that weird “text displaying sound effect” whenever text is displaying on the screen. I find it a little distracting. I’m kind of amazed that they have characters with very little expression on their faces so far, so they add flavor and emotion via text bubbles since they can’t do it through the art. It feels like an art limitation rather than a choice they made.
I was checking at the last games released on Game Pass, and how they did it on Steam, and well, I sure hope Microsoft is paying them enough, because it seems Game Pass is cannibalizing most of the sales. Or maybe they just would have bombed on their own, with or without Game Pass.
Numbers mean '24h max CCU - all time max CCU".
Even if I go back a pair of weeks to Still Wakes the Deep is the same: it would be “203 - 927” for it.
It seems to me 2024 is going to be a year of contraction even harder than 2023.
Personally I believe they all would have sold badly even without Game pass: Outcast bombed, Alone in the Dark bombed, Suicide Squad bombed, Concord is going to mega-bomb, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was underwhelming (I’m talking number of units!), Tales of Kenzera: Zau bombed too, etc. None of these were on Game Pass.
Had to google this as I have never heard of it, ugh a Overwatch clone.
It’s part of the new Sony’s initiative of making more online/gaas games for their portfolio. Helldivers 2 worked great, but all seems to indicate that Concord will fail: it is like Overwatch… except it is slower, and with notably less charismatic characters,and less content, and it cost $40 when Overwatch, Team Fortress, The Finals, etc are free.
Glad you all brought up Hintenberg here. I started playing yesterday, and it’s a real gem, the kind of game I need right now. I probably wouldn’t even have tried it if not for the favorable chatter here.
Flintlock is pretty cool. The controls are a bit sloppy at times, but overall, it’s pretty well done.
I’m kind of lukewarm on Hinterberg at the moment. I’m on Day 6, I think, but there’s still some time-gating of content. Just last night they finally let me stay up and read the book on my nightstand. Looking at the book of characters, it looks like there’s whole mechanics gated off behind the social stuff, which you can only engage with one per evening. It’s a little annoying.
I’m playing on Normal, and I think I have my weapon and armor levels to 4/3. I just decided to do the big boss dungeon of the first area (L5), but can’t because I need to complete all the L1 dungeons in the area (I spent the last couple days doing harder dungeons in the newly-opened areas). So off I go to the Jelly Cavern, even though I’m super over-leveled for it. Another day lost. Meh. This, after telling you at the beginning that you don’t have to go in order, that you can just skip around and try stuff too difficult for you if you want.
On the other hand, I was gated off one dungeon in the Glacier area- you have to do the other dungeon first, for reasons not really given (the mayor says so!). But that one actually had a pretty cool design, I’m glad I did it. So there’s that.
I think I will give Path of the Goddesss one more hour to see if it improves, but possibly I will drop it and try that instead.
So weird that they’re starting with last year’s game. I thought they’d start earlier in the catalog and move forward. But I guess this is kind of like having Rambo on Netflix or something, someone might watch it, and then rent First Blood to check out the original. So in this case, someone might play the Modern Warfare III campaign, and then get Modern Warfare 1 and 2 on sale to check out how we got here?
It’s basically what EA does, so not too surprising.
Was hoping for Black Ops 5, which I never played, but getting MWIII is good to mess with.
I hope I can install just the campaign. I don’t want to have to go through another round of “what should I uninstall now?”
Agreed, although playing a few rounds on a team with some QT3 folks sounds nice too. The Game Pass listing might create a bit of a shallow pool to play in for a bit.
Speaking of Game Pass games, I’ve got to get back to the Dead Space remake, which I played quite a bit of and was quite good. Hope the controls and strategies are easy enough to pick up again.