Thread 718043669

I played demos again.

how about you drop the fucking bullshit for a minute and get serious

First was the "machine that breathes". Schizo game. Not sure what the plot is. That's a good thing, I think. Most games you have a good idea what your goal is just from context. RPGs with four party members are about saving the world. Murdery mysteries are about solving the murder.

In this one you wake up and it's implied you used to be a drill. They didn't actually say that outright, though. You can walk around in rooms and find memos and bullets and stuff like in Resident Evil. It seems to be a survival horror type game, but in 2D. Seemed intriguing enough, wishlisted.

30 days on ship was pretty straightforward, survival game with the gimmick that you are stranded on a container ship where every container is a mystery box. I played it for a bit and it's like every other survival game, really.

The question is if you like the gimmick or not, I suppose.

i love seeing ai

>>718043669 (OP)
kys

Besmirch is in the "farming sim horror" category. I can name more of those if anyone cares. Horror is probably the most predominant video game genre asides from sex. Everything becomes horror eventually. Anyway, the crop-growing mechanics were pretty good. The voices are a good approximation of what voices would have sounded like if the Atari had voices, I suppose. I'm pretty sure there was no dialogue in atari games but I'm not an expert on the atari, more of an intellivision guy, you know. There might have been an 80's toy that had synthesized voices, I forget. Might be that mandela thing.

I thought it was worthwhile, will probably get it when it comes out. I died to the wild boar boss, which was actually reminiscent of the Robin Hood game for NES that was probably ahead of it's time.

Aquametsis looked cool but from the description it seemed like trying to learn all the game's features would take forever and I like to get through demos quickly. Also it didn't seem optimized for controllers yet although admittedly I didn't check the pause menu to confirm. I didn't want to reach over for my keyboard. I can put it on my wishlist and just see what early reviews say when it finally comes out.

So, "Echoes in the Storm". Blatantly made by one guy. He actually used his own voice for multiple characters and didn't really even bother to change his register when switching between characters he was voicing which made conversations sound like he was talking to himself and it was rather confusing. English might be his second language. Controls might need finetuning. In general lots of things need finetuning but that's what demos are for. I thought initially the sluggish controls were just because you were driving a car on ice and maybe it was immersion but then you get out of the car and turning around takes like ten seconds. must be a fat cop.

Anyway, they try to imply that maybe the slaughter at the police station was the work of a "large beast" like a wolf or something. Wolves don't tie your intestines around a coatrack, nor have they figured out how to operate chainsaws and I could hear the chainsaw revving when one guy got murdered. I'm no detective but it's probably not a wolf doing this stuff. But they throw lots of weird information at you like the document that implies there is an "unidentified sailing object" that landed at the port. Sort of like a UFO, but it goes over water instead of air. and it has "strange contours". It's a reasonably original idea. So maybe it's aliens/evil government conspiracy and not a chainsaw massacre situation.

Also the TV was playing a old horror movie that I instantly recognized. I think that movie featured a Yeti...which, yeah maybe that sort of "beast" could have done that massacre. It was snowbeast(1977).

I preferred the "Snow Beast" song though. Mercedes Lackey was great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s2wYg-9pA

So Comix Zero here is a take-off of Comix Zone for the Sega Genesis. It does use AI artwork, which doesn't really bother me. I play RPG maker games too, which is also just using pre-built stock assets. Occassionally, a good one shows up.

Although Comix Zone was specifically known for it's hand drawn artwork (I know some other real hand drawn games that are coming up if anyone cares about that genre) so maybe AI would be a turn-off in this case.

It is high quality AI artwork, though. The opening cartoon was pretty good. You fight against Poison Ivy and she murders you rather gruesomely by making fucking plants grow out of your eye sockets.

But anyway, I'm not even sure how much I liked Comix Zone to begin with so this might not be a game for me.

this one was a pretty straightforward sexual rip off of Five Nights at Freddys. not much else to say.

This is from "The Blue Cut Hook" which had reasonably high quality artwork. It's a tavern management/visual novel/VallHall1 thinger. It was vaguely amusing giving the adventurers crappy food and crappy advice and watching them get beaten up because I didn't care to play the game properly since it was just a demo.

Again, I'm not sure how interested I am in this genre, but if I was a fan of this sort of thing, this would probably be a standout game in the field.

I died in less than 30 seconds in this one but who cares it looked lame anyway and I want some chicken wings. temporary break from demos while I go down the street to 7/11 and get some I'll be back shortly.

>>718043735
>>718044296
>>718044435

go play demos

This one was called Shinehill and it's another farming sim. Not horror this time though, science-fiction. You play as an alien who crashlanded on earth and is trying to maintain his cover. You have a gender selection choice at the start, but you aren't really male or female, you're just choosing which body you want to masquerade around in. You're an alien, no matter what. This one is actually already out in early access. I might pick it up sometime if I feel in the mood for farming. The reviews actually compare it to Innocent Life: A futuristic Harvest Moon, which I actually really enjoyed but that one didn't do too well because it messed with the formula. For example, there was no romance whatsoever since robots can't fall in love. People didn't like that. whatever.

This demo didn't even start up. Oh well, onto the next one, I guess.

this one was more horror-comedy that horror-horror. either way it wasn't much of a standout. pass.

This one was weird and hard to describe but if you like logic puzzles you'll like it.

this one did the body type 1/body type 2 shit on the character creation screen. Instant dismissal, uninstalled.

this one froze up on the main menu screen. another failure. delete and move on.

This was the last one I had on my list to try this time. A faithful recreation of Command & Conquer, but with dinosaurs. Your units even make little remarks when you move them just like in Red Alert 2. I can hope they get some hottie dressed in an army uniform for cutscenes and she calls me "Commander".

I should go have a bath now, and for the rest of the night I will play this cool horror game I found that is reminiscent of Rule of Rose. It'd be a cult classic on it's own if people still bothered searching out obscure and unpopular games. Anyway. I got my work schedule and I have to go work for two weeks straight so no more demos for me for a while. It's fine, it takes two weeks to get a new list of demos to try out anyway.

bump

Someday there will be a person besides me who plays demos.

>>718052570
Last weekish I played one. It was for Somnabuster. I know this place wouldn't like it because you play as a brown girl in it. I thought it was ok. It was very SEGA.

Crystal Project has the best demo of all time. Not joking.

>>718054230
It's a more or less average rpg. Maybe below average.

>>718054782
No.

i played the void war demo a month or two ago. its a lot like ftl but with more emphasis on personnel. its fun but it looks like dried sewage

>>718050306
I mean it does look like that from the screenshot and artwork

>>718054978
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200220/Red_Rogue_Sea/

If there is something I learned about steam demos and indie games is, always judge the book by its cover, because a lot of motherfuckers put more effort into presentation than everything else

>>718055178
this guy never gets to experience the joy of booting up a game that he is 99% sure is going to be garbage(because of how it looks) and finding out it's good.

I am always so much more impressed when I am inclined to think a game is shitty, but it actually reverses my opinion. That's hard to do.

>>718055507
name a few examples of this please
I would like to be surprised too and I can't think of any

>>718055507
I don't know man. I already got burned from spending too much time on 3 or 4 next fests to find most of what looks like garbage, actually is. But most disappointingly, what doesn't look like it has the same problem. Out of every 50 or so demos I tried I got maybe 2 good hits.

>>718055629
Demoes that I specifically thought wouldn't be good until I tried them:

1. The Joker's Game

>>718055791
2. Wildwood Down

>>718055895
3. High School Dirty Secrets.

>>718056024
4. Reality Layer Zero

>>718056073
5. Wicked Seed

>>718056153
6. Molytropia

>>718056198
7. oneway.exe

>>718056247
8. bunny tyrany

>>718056306
9. Bianka lovesick

>>718056342
10. Puttdown

>>718055639
pretty bad rate of return. you probably just have no clue what you like....

i have a dresser full of demo CD's from the 90s and 2000s. it's really fun playing demos that had more shit in them than the full release game. So many faggot developers dumb down the end product.

>>718057435
It's called having standards. I don't just like works based on effort alone. I know what genres in particular I like and filtering by those I find billions of them.

>muh standards muh principles

wow can we get some gamers here instead of whiners. what principles could possibly matter when it comes to games? Are you really against getting money when you land on free parking because it's not in the rule book?

>>718058278
Nigga what the fuck are you on about

>we are talking about a man who has absolutely no principles or standards about video games at all
>he will literally play any game he wants and there is nothing that I, or anyone else can do to stop him, Mr. President.

>>718057907
removing features is something that hardly ever happens, actually

Bump for real game discussion

>>718060545
Bot? Retarded? Or 'just pretending' to be retarded?