|OT| Druidstone: The Secret of the Menhir Forest ( Grimrock devs)
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Releasing May 15th!
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What? That's so soon!Releasing May 15th!
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Yakuza will have to wait then, I guess.
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Oh, oooh...
No controller support, and they never added it on their Grimrock games either. Pre-historic PC devs, not worth my time and money.
No controller support, and they never added it on their Grimrock games either. Pre-historic PC devs, not worth my time and money.
Grimrock was old school on purpose so calling it prehistoric isn't too far off. It's too old school or rather not within the niches I enjoy with a mouse & keyboard too, as you have to juggle multiple party member attacks, skills, items, spells, whatever, in real time while also moving around and that's all part of its gameplay and challenge. I don't think they could convert that to gamepad controls unless they totally changed it and gave us something like a turn/pause based battle option which would make it so I can play on mouse & keyboard too without the panic of juggling all that stuff in real time. Still, that's not the kind of game they were making (and so not the kind of game I can enjoy, that would be something more like Operencia which Epic stole from me or Might & Magic or Wizardry). Gamepad controls seem feasible for this game, maybe they'll eventually add it though maybe they also don't have the resources or time for it, who knows.
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I'd be okay with it if the reasoning makes sense. Grimrock makes sense judging by your description, but this is not. After their success with the previous games, I don't buy the lack of resources excuse anymore. I'm usually content with playing games with kb/m if it's from a new studio, like ATOM in December.
It's just that I've been in a lot of Steam discussions asking for controller support for various games. I often get disappointing response from the devs, using excuses like "it's a PC game that's best played with kb/m", "we will look into it if there's enough demand", even though it's proven time and time again that their games aren't special. Lots of other games in similar genres that have controller support. I call them pre-historic PC devs because they can't see the landscape of PC gaming today.
I mean they aren't horrible horrible devs but still you could always just ask them, they seem pretty reasonable. Plus it's literally 4 for people for their dev team
Developer Makes Disabled Gamer's Wish Come True With an Arrow Click
When a commenter on the website of Legend of Grimrock asked about clickable on-screen arrow navigation for the upcoming indie dungeon crawler, developers said they had no plans to implement such a feature. When they found out why the commenter asked, they quickly changed those plans.
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Yeah that was a rad moment, I instantly thought of it as I was reading your post before even getting to the link embed 
Makes me ashamed for being unable to play these games well when that guy also has to juggle the moving around with his mouse, when I only have to juggle the party actions with the mouse and use wasd etc to move which should make it much more viable, haha. I hope the guy (and others like him) enjoyed it.
Makes me ashamed for being unable to play these games well when that guy also has to juggle the moving around with his mouse, when I only have to juggle the party actions with the mouse and use wasd etc to move which should make it much more viable, haha. I hope the guy (and others like him) enjoyed it.
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After reading the impressions in Era, I guess I'll pass. Sounds like it's too difficult and the gameplay loop looks repetitive.
It seems like it's quite similar in idea to Element: Space. Everything is very limited so there is probably only one way to play levels correctly, almost more of a puzzle game. It takes away all player agency and discourages experimentation.
I don't like it.
Not a fan of the mission design (even if you can come back to them), and yeah, it's needlessly hard for my liking, especially with turn limits, NPCs to escort, hefty enemy spawns and a focus on activating objectives rather than the more organic D-RPG of Grimrock.
I think it's also incredibly at odds with itself, with deterministic combat (that's good, you know what you will do every turn instead of just missing and dying)... but also crazy RNG with ennemies randomly dropping (I think it's random? Did not seem to get the same thing twice so...) extra actions (!), or even chests getting you absolutely bonkers stuff like a full turn of invulnerability for all characters.
It's not al all what I expected, it feels like a shoddy die-and-retry, mission based puzzle-strategy game with an accidental layer of randomness sprinkled on it.
I wonder why it's so different from Grimrock1&2, it takes almost none of their strengths outside of some nice puzzles once in a while, but it's not even the focus here...
Not a fan of the mission design (even if you can come back to them), and yeah, it's needlessly hard for my liking, especially with turn limits, NPCs to escort, hefty enemy spawns and a focus on activating objectives rather than the more organic D-RPG of Grimrock.
I think it's also incredibly at odds with itself, with deterministic combat (that's good, you know what you will do every turn instead of just missing and dying)... but also crazy RNG with ennemies randomly dropping (I think it's random? Did not seem to get the same thing twice so...) extra actions (!), or even chests getting you absolutely bonkers stuff like a full turn of invulnerability for all characters.
It's not al all what I expected, it feels like a shoddy die-and-retry, mission based puzzle-strategy game with an accidental layer of randomness sprinkled on it.
I wonder why it's so different from Grimrock1&2, it takes almost none of their strengths outside of some nice puzzles once in a while, but it's not even the focus here...
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interesting , so more of a puzzle/bordgame RPG rather than cRPG (what i expected) ... dont really have problems with that and still quite interested in it but looking at the impressions will rather wait for some patches and tweaks
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