Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 15 hours ago
Have barely played any games this week, a few hours total if that.
I started on Roadwarden, and so far it looks promising. It’s very slow though. It is pretty much just a choose-your-own-adventure book. I’m liking the writing and the world building and setting, but it’s just walls of text upon walls of text. Not at all bad text (in fact it’s quite good), but I have to be in the mood for reading to sit down with it, not gaming.
I also played a bit more Wanted: Dead. Still not in love with it but I want to finish it before moving on to a new game. Let’s hope I can. The combat does get a bit better after you unlock most of the skill tree, but I would still not claim it to be good, even though it has its moments. And there are loads of questionable design decisions in there. It’s a very bizarre game in every way.
mohab@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Absolutely, haha. Requires a lot of suspension of belief and it’s a steep learning curve to get into it.
Which stage are you at?
Brother, there is no suspension of disbelief that can hold this shit together hahaha. It’s a shame because it’s sometimes managing to hit that “so bad it’s good” vibe, but too often it’s held back by the voice acting. It’s quite literally the worst I’ve ever heard and it fucks up the whole thing. It isn’t even bad in a hammy way to match the B-Movie vibe, it’s just… absolute garbage. Like people who have never acted before doing roles in their second language while cold reading their lines off the page over Skype bad.
I’m at the end of the Police HQ stage. I can’t tell if it’s a learning curve or just a fucked up progression, though. The first level was by far the hardest, but there’s just way too much shit locked behind the skill tree I think. Like, when I got to the 5 shield guy ambush after the miniboss in the first level I hadn’t yet unlocked any of the tools to deal with shield guys. Almost quit then and there.
I also kind of hate the sequences of huge gauntlets with no checkpoints. It’s not the kind of challenge I enjoy that much. I’m sure some do, and there are some elements of strategy and planning it requires of you that I’m sure some love. I don’t, really, though.
I’m also glad the game isn’t that long. I think this is the penultimate level. The lack of variety in melee and the combos and attacks you have is starting to feel noticeable.
mohab@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Yeah, I think what helped me get into it is I didn’t really care for anything other than combat, so I skipped most of the cut scenes except anything I felt important.
I also never bothered doing well in the mini-games. They were just not that interesting and poorly put together overall.
These long stretches without checkpoints felt fucking impossible at a couple of points throughout the game. I had to take a couple of long breaks to make it through on my first playthrough.
Unlocking shit definitely makes the game way easier. Some parts don’t feel doable without grenades, for example.
I did end up having a lot of fun in the last stages and on a subsequent playthrough though. Unlocking everything + figuring out guard cancels to increase mobility + tactically using grenades/weapon pickups made it all click in my head.
Guard canceling into gun at close range in particular made minibosses a lot easier, especially when combined with grenades.
It’s definitely one of these games that get better after the first playthrough. Issue is the first playthrough can be so rough it kills any desire to revisit the game for most people.