>Games sequel is cancelled
>Lose any and all interest in playing the first game

Has this ever happened to you? It's sitting in my Steam account right now and I can't work up the energy to play it

why though? it's not like it ended on a cliffhanger or anything, the game stands on its own. whether there's a sequel or not is irrelevant

>>715499974
Because when a sequel is announced, it feels like you have to rush/panic to play the first game before the second comes out.

>>715499487 (OP)
Nu-Deus Ex

>>715499487 (OP)
You really should play it though, it's great

B4K:

>Is Slayers X good, at least?

>No. /v/‘s love of this series is pure astroturf. Both it and Slayers X are total Civvianni nerd culture gentrifier garbage full of overtly abusive left-wing politics and ironic Garfield pipe strip bullshit. Set up a Windows 95 VM with 86Box and play some of the games stuff like this and Dream BBQ pretend to rip off instead; they’re free and a lot more fun.

Stop shilling! It didn't work with Disco Elysium and it's not going to work with this.

Why was the sequel cancelled anyways?

>>715500279
Just don't play the sequel until you're satisfied with the first one retard

Fomo niggers like you disgust me

>>715501823
The creator made a Youtube video about it, basically they just ran out of money.

>>715501859
Shouldn't have cancelled the sequel then

>>715501879
I thought the first one was a success, weird that they couldn't afford to make a second one or find someone who'd fund it.

damn was really looking forward to this one

>>715502207
IIRC they did make a good amount of money from the first game and they actually did have a publisher or some group funding the sequel, but it was becoming too large so they came to a mutual agreement to kill it. I believe they were trying to create a fairly robust emulation of the 2002-2007 era of the internet, with a functional working Shockwave Flash player that was built from the scratch. You could make old school Flash animations in it and everything, apparently. I would imagine they were maybe trying to have working pastiches of Neopets or AdventureQuest or Newgrounds or something, but it was just too much.

>>715502821
That sounds like it would've been amazing, I can understand why that kind of feature creep killed it though.

>>715502821
>>715503023
Why not just... NOT do that?

>>715501493
Hypnospace is at least playable, even if it's not very good or interesting. DE is literal commie slop with not a single redeeming feature, unless you're a commie, in which case it's the most important piece of genre fiction in the last 50 years because you're convinced that if anyone just plays a bland propaganda title they will throw off the shackles of capitalism and seize the means of production.

Hypnospace belongs to the same category as Undertale, a dogshit game loved by retards. DE is in a category of its own, and it's unfair to compare any game to it, because I don't think anything else is anywhere near as disgusting.

>>715503467
Well alright, here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH3UbgEWBxg
It'll explain it better than I can since I'm just going off of what I remember him talking about, but I'm pretty sure that was like... the defining feature of the game. Which makes sense, when I think of that era of the internet I think of forums and Flash animations/games, and Flash is definitely the more exciting bit. So once you get rid of your Flash pastiche, what's left?

>>715503721
Obviously flash is important for that era, and obviously you need features like when you right click and play or pause flash videos and discover weird secrets or glitches, but the ability to make your own flashes seems silly. What were they gonna do? Have a Newgrounds style network? Steam workshop with psuedo flash files? Just don't do the flash player. There's still a lot of interesting stuff from that era

>>715499487 (OP)
https://wiby.me/

>>715504354

3rd surprise and I ended up with Jay's page

https://jaytholen.net/teengamedev/

>>715504354
https://www.piratesurgeon.com/pages/surgeon_pages/medicine_containers1.html
that's very cool!

>>715503947
is there? i only remember newgrounds and homestar runner

>>715504821
There was also the rise of corporate websites having a ton of cash infusion to try to get you to go to their websites and weird social """games""" like Habbo Hotel or Coke Music.

>it's another indie dev who wasted all their money made during the pandemic indie boom

>>715499487 (OP)
>mention an obscure game that I like and how great it was
>some faggot replies "this but unironically"
>I wasn't being ironic

>>715504821
>>715504962
Also every new movie had a website as opposed to a Facebook page

>>715501493
This post reads like that one "ESG woke sweetbaby slop blackrock" comic

>>715504354
kino
https://unfinishedempathy.neocities.org/

>>715506713
the next result i also got
https://starmen.net/cult/

>>715506765
>huge Earthbound fan excited to play it for the 666th time

>>715499487 (OP)
Fuck this is the first I'm hearing about it.
I loved Hypnospace and I was especially looking forward to dreamsettler since I'm much more nostalgic for that era of internet. This is very sad.

>>715506765
>>715507997
jej