Thread 718659237

without any irony, what went wrong?

>>718659237 (OP)
i dont remember

>>718659237 (OP)
it was trying to be terraria but much worse

they could've just released the beta version and the full version and everyone would've loved it

>>718659534
*as the full version

>>718659237 (OP)
It didn't have a plan other than terraria space, while not actually understanding the gameplay that made terraria work.

Lots of minor things, but that's the core of it.

>>718659237 (OP)
Tried to be Terraria with more of a scifi aesthetic and traveling to different planets instead of playing on one world, your ship being a mobile base. Ended up with way too many ideas guys in the company so nothing got done. Every planet was half assed. They destroyed the free roam aspect and forced you into a set of storyline missions. It never got better through any kind of update, only worse, and they basically abandoned it. Great idea, but the people actually making it were incompetent

>>718659237 (OP)
tried to be terraria but with a many worlds gimmick
turns out gimmick doesn't quite work in a game where youre supposed to build a permanent base.
Then tones of promised features were scrapped and development abandoned.
Game released in a gutted state barely held together with a shitty excuse of a story it has.

>>718659237 (OP)
Having a team of only artists and no one to actually make a game, let alone fulfilling the promises they made at the start.
I get that they had experience working on Terraria, but it was all on art. It's kind of sad that the best iteration of the game was the very first extremely rough version they put out.

Last time I played?
Clusterfuckery. Menus everywhere, hints, pop-ups to go to places, to grab mandatory quests, to go to places, to unlock other menus, to go to more mandatory quests, to unlock hubs, to do preview things that you can't do yet, etc.

There was no reason for any of that. It became a railroaded nonsense filled with pointless noise and riddled with mandatory mods to even make it feasible to enjoy.

>>718659237 (OP)
They made terraria in space and then turned it into a linear narrative game instead while actively cutting all their interesting features like procedural guns.

I am going on an adventure! In space!
>no you aren't. here's your questlog.
But... I want to go explore-
>shut up. it's locked.
Ok...

What went wrong indeed...

>>718659751
>tried to be terraria but with a many worlds gimmick
>turns out gimmick doesn't quite work in a game where youre supposed to build a permanent base.
What about the space ship? A mobile base is pretty cool.

>>718659237 (OP)
Absolutely everything as soon as they were a guaranteed success from kickstarter hype.

>>718659751
>turns out gimmick doesn't quite work
Nah it worked even back then. Uou could mark a planet as your home and you could teleport back to it at any time from anywhere, I'm pretty sure. But there was no incentive to because food was just sort of a meme nobody cared about so crops don't matter and the space ship does everything you need it to otherwise.

>>718660171
The problem is the ships all had a pre defined layout and look based on your characters race. In Terraria you can make your base look like whatever you want

>>718659237 (OP)
Well the murdered a puppy, for one.

>>718660407
You're right, deciding where the new rooms go would be way better even if the ship looks silly.

I didn't like how I needed to complete the story to unlock all shops so I could make a nice settlement. Even if you made a new character you were kind of forced to do that.
So I just went /admin and built shit

>>718660457
kek
i forgot about the office puppy dying

is frackin universe really that good as people tell?
i tried to launch it but got spooked by abundance of mechanics and seemingly convoluted crafting recipes

>>718661043
No it should have been a list of mods for you to download instead of everything in one.

>>718660407
You can mod the ships to improve them, add more space, different layouts etc.

>>718660457
>>718660889
>Work at Chucklefuck studios
>Bring my puppy dog to work one day
>Have to go to the toilet take a shit and leave my dog unattended inb my office for 5 minutes
>Come back to the sight of a fat jewish co-worker spitroasting my puppy dog over a fire while a fat black man is fueling the fire with more wood.

>>718659237 (OP)
They basically couldn't stop shooting themselves in the foot

95% of the things you got in the game were for a building system you didnt use because you had your ship.

>>718659237 (OP)
Didn't Chucklefish have an incredibly high turnover rate? With how much staff they cycled through it shouldn't come as a surprised they there were unable to keep a coherent vision for the game and kept changing shit for the worse.

>>718659237 (OP)
718659237
Tried to be Terraria with a sci-fi twist but missed the mark.

Absolutely. The game's ambition was evident, but it lacked the core elements that made Terraria great. The shift from a single, cohesive world to fragmented planets disrupted the building and exploration experience. Instead of enhancing the gameplay, it diluted it.

Moreover, the overcomplicated menus and mandatory quests created a sense of directionlessness. Players found themselves navigating through a maze of tasks without a clear purpose, detracting from the enjoyment.

It's a classic case of overambition without a solid foundation. The game's potential was overshadowed by its execution.

>>718660328
Home really just meant Vegi garden.

>hire 200 artists (mostly underaged)
>hire 1 programmer
>treat programmer like shit so he quits
>left with 200 unpaid, underaged volunteers
yeah i wonder

>>718662576
>hire 200 "artists" (mostly underaged)
>hire 1 programmer
>Murder the programmers fucking puppy dog when he brings it to his office so he quits
>left with 200 unpaid, underaged volunteers
fify

>>718660457
>>718660889
>>718661780
>>718662785
What is this about the puppy being killed? I have never heard about this incident before.

>>718661043
It's good if you've got the autism for it and are willing to put up with a few really fucking annoying decisions.

>>718659237 (OP)
Ignore everyone else, here's the real answer:
Tiyuri.

>>718663698
More like Ti-YURI you fucking cuck!
You will never be a real lesbian woman!

TTPP got new update

>>718663742
It's the name of the head developer you chronically obsessed retard.

>>718661043
it's built on a bad foundation so it's also bad
dev is also retarded egotist but I guess that's normal in modding

>>718659237 (OP)
nothing?

A base building game where you keep moving planets is inherently flawed.

>>718663126
they posted a picture of puppy next to a live wire or an open socket or something and then never posted another picture of it again
I think. I don't really remember, some autist probably has the picture saved.

>>718659237 (OP)
this >>718659708

It was a spite project made by a bad pixel artist who was fired from Re-Logic.

>>718664147
This so much.
How do you even play this shit?
Base on some shitty low tier planet and keep returning to it? Move your entire base every time you advance a tier? Just build temporary bases? Just base in your tiny spaceship with limited build space?
Bullcrap game design.

>>718664859
There are mods that make the spaceship bigger and you can make multiple bases on multiple planets.
That’s what I always did when playing this game.

>>718664379
It was a massively over-stuffed electrical socket, with literally ten different plugs going into it, and the puppy's bed was directly next to it. They didn't post about the office puppy for like four months and when they finally did again it was a completely different dog.

>>718664147
they added teleportation to your base from ship

>>718665472
>to your vegi gardern from your ship

Wrapping around the planet was a nice feature.
Wish you could that in Terraria.

Progression is king in these type of games.
Having well structured progression/exploration makes for a fun game.
The way they did their planets and procedural generation made it dogshit. Even terarria took a while to fine tune how far you can progress in what biome and what bosses you can fight. Starbound was just bad. It was 1000 flavours of bland with its planets.

>>718661639
>m-mods will fix it
So the game is shit, and players had to hope someone who is not a dev will fix the fuckups?
Not a selling point for a game.

>>718666292
If anyone says that games like this are shit just because it has some things that need to be fixed with mods have never played a truly bad game before. Any games that has mods goes up a lot higher in my book just as you have a whole range of awesome user made content.
If you want a shit game look a something like Superman 64, Action 52 or Back to the Future II and III.

>>718659237 (OP)
Very little diversity of shit to do. Too few biomes, too few pre-built points of interest. There is so little of everything, I'd say you can fit it on single planet. Whole concept of space travel is there just to spread it and waste time. Basically, 2D Starfield.
Story is shit.
Bosses were lame.
"Mechs" were terribly tacked on.
Incredibly poor itemization that was at first balanced out by sometimes completely broken randomly generated weapons, but devs removed that.
Colony building system is pointless.
However, it looks good and some environments were really great in terms of lighting.
Also, monke wives.

>>718661043
Last time I played it was over five years ago. And it was a heap of poorly balanced autistic shit. Just pointless bloat with Lovecraftianisms sprinkled here and there. Still better than OG story.

>>718666659
>there are worse games this means this bad game is actually good
Man, I love /v/ tier mental gymnastics.

>>718659237 (OP)

Early access took forever and was empty. Release put out shit story to justify bosses it didn't have in early access, with worlds still largely empty. Too many empty worlds to fly around to, defeated the purpose of putting it in space to begin with. Gameplay wasn't very good, not enough variety anyway.

Mods solve some of these problems, especially the larger total conversion mods such as fracking universe and others, but it was a wasted opportunity.

>>718661043
I like it just because of the variety in systems it adds, most items end up having multiple sources instead of just one. You can get solarium ore from beekeeping if you want. The new biomes are neat too. While it somewhat improves the gameplay loop, combat and such still feel quite awful

>>718659237 (OP)
combat is shit
progression is shit
story is shit
removed all the cool shit
music is shit

>>718659237 (OP)
had "bound" in the name

>>718666142
Nah it feels cooler in terraria that you can hit the end of the world

>>718668296
Forgot to mention that I wish they cut down on the number of new races, the vanilla ones are pretty unique when it comes to their gimmick while half of the FU are underwhelming as fuck. The Peglaci only exist because there was no race specializing in ice biomes but then they forgot to get them any unique mechanic/tech or even weapons, same for the ugly dragonpeople where they saw the crystal weapons and thought they should add a race for that reason alone.

>>718659237 (OP)
They removed 75% of the game's content before release so they could cram in a terrible, badly-paced, uninteresting story.
And also fucked up all of the species lore to retarded degrees.
>humans going from natural spacefarers with a dream to explore, to being little babies that got so homesick that they isolated themselves on Earth and invited every other species to live there (and are now teetering on the brink of extinction because a cult destroyed the only planet they inhabited)