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[Tomasety]

New historical low and recommended by our RPG expert texhnolyze

Steam Community :: texhnolyze :: Review for ATOM RPG

The true successor to Fallout Classics Some games just come out of nowhere and suddenly become a topic of conversation in many places. That said, there's barely any report from gaming outlets for Atom RPG, even though it has very positive Steam reviews. After being developed in more than a year...

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[Swenhir]

That's the most meaningless leak I have ever seen. Even if it's genuine, who gives a shit about that random, empty screenshot?

Eh, it shows some rather good-looking terrain. It's good to know from my standpoint.

 

[NarohDethan]

Is someone playing P5S with a controller? Prompts seem to switch back and forth between keyboard and Xbox ones. I thought it was my controller but it doesnt seem to be the case?

 

[Tizoc]

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[fantomena]

Is someone playing P5S with a controller? Prompts seem to switch back and forth between keyboard and Xbox ones. I thought it was my controller but it doesnt seem to be the case?

Yes, playing with my Xbone controller.

 

[Mivey]

Eh, it shows some rather good-looking terrain. It's good to know from my standpoint.

I'd be more interested in any info about the scope and content of the game.

 

[NarohDethan]

Yes, playing with my Xbone controller.

And do you have the same issue?

 

[Swenhir]

I'd be more interested in any info about the scope and content of the game.

Of that there is no doubt. Just saying it had some value to me ^^.

Though terrain without information about scope isn't all that amazing. Terrain looking like this is nice in a regular game, and breath-taking in a PCG planet-scale game for example.

 

[fantomena]

And do you have the same issue?

I do not. Are you using your keyboard suddenly while playing?

 

[NarohDethan]

I do not. Are you using your keyboard suddenly while playing?

Nope, I even put it further away to see if a cable was pressing a key or something but no. This only happens during the dialog scenes btw

Edit: nevermind, it was the mouse what was causing the issue lmao

 

[Valdien]

mandatory reminder:

Oh, damn. I had no idea they were on Steam! Used to own the PS2 copies.

 

[fantomena]

Edit: nevermind, it was the mouse what was causing the issue lmao

Oh man, Ive been there myself, haha.

 

[AHA-Lambda]

Potential leaked screenshot from Starfield. In Todd I trust.

 

[fantomena]

Well I always love me some shining rocks.

 

[NarohDethan]

Just made it into the first palace of P5S, and fucking hell, this might end being one of my favorite musous/ games in general.

 

[Shahem]

Got myself a Playstation housecoat and bath robe (yes, they make these).


I'm now fully ready to accept Playstation into my heart.

 

[lashman]

Oh, damn. I had no idea they were on Steam! Used to own the PS2 copies.

you're welcome

 

[FunnyJay]

Is someone playing P5S with a controller?

Read this as:
"Is someone playing PS5..."

The confusion doubled as fantomena said he was using an Xbox controller...

 

[C-Dub]

Read this as:
"Is someone playing PS5..."

The confusion doubled as fantomena said he was using an Xbox controller...

I've gotten to calling it P5 Strikers just so I don't think I'm talking about PS5 when I re-read any of my posts in the future and think, "Why were you lying on an enthusiast forum about having a PS5 in February 2021?"

The thing is, now when I read PS5 my mind jumps to Persona 5 Strikers, so there's no winning really.

 

[Wildebeet]

Got myself a Playstation housecoat and bath robe (yes, they make these).


I'm now fully ready to accept Playstation into my heart.

I was pretty convinced you were way too into Sony games before this post but now it's a whole new level.

Also, pictures particularly of the housecoat?

 

[Shahem]

I was pretty convinced you were way too into Sony games before this post but now it's a whole new level.

Also, pictures particularly of the housecoat?

I thought it was obvious but I was not serious.
My last PS console was the PS3 and I was never what you could call a Sony "fanboy" at any stage of my gaming life.


I do have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for their first party games.

 

[Wildebeet]

I thought it was obvious but I was not serious.
My last PS console was the PS3 and I was never what you could call a Sony "fanboy" at any stage of my gaming life.


I do have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for their first party games.

Yeah I should've known that you weren't about to trade out your Bloodborne smoking jacket.

 

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

I actually have always wanted a space game like that. Rarely does a game make space seem challenging and vast because you always have magic technology and fast travel. I'd like a clunky ramshackle spaceship more like the ISS than the Enterprise. A vast universe that is pointlessly huge and desolate, not populated by plants and animals on every world, and each planet has earth-like gravity and atmosphere, etc. It would be novel and interesting if a game wasn't about blue humanoid english speaking aliens for once, but was more inspired by the Rare Earth hypothesis than Star Trek. I know there is no chance in hell that Starfield will be like that. But it reminds me that I still like the idea of space space.

It would be novel, and interesting, insofar as it's novel, but ... how does the idea of space space translate into a game?

I mean, from the point of view of a human, by and large...

Space is boring. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly boring it is.

 

[ZKenir]

just give me power armor and some alien to shoot at and I'll be fine in any space game.

 

[Swenhir]

It would be novel, and interesting, insofar as it's novel, but ... how does the idea of space space translate into a game?

I mean, from the point of view of a human, by and large...

You may be interested in traversal mechanics, KSP is an entire simulation built on those. Other than that, space landscaping and vehicles that provide infinitely more fun avenues for traveling than holding W.

Seriously, it's the same design problem as any other game, only it's orders of magnitude larger, but the idea is the same.

 

[Wildebeet]

It would be novel, and interesting, insofar as it's novel, but ... how does the idea of space space translate into a game?

I mean, from the point of view of a human, by and large...

I guess a slow paced mystery game but you have to pilot and defend your space bus. Solve space problems on your ship and communication difficulties to a planet that is constantly further away. Combat isn't space phasers, but an ever expanding field of ball bearings fired at you from 25,000,000 km away by a human enemy. A rough space setting where it's not cool, it's ramshackle and improbable that any of it even works. Not Star Trek but a WW2 submarine. No sentient robots. It would be an interesting way to depict space. The fast travel and solved technology of most (I guess?) scifi tames space down from being frighteningly vast to something we just drive across.

 

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

You may be interested in traversal mechanics, KSP is an entire simulation built on those. Other than that, space landscaping and vehicles that provide infinitely more fun avenues for traveling than holding W.

Seriously, it's the same design problem as any other game, only it's orders of magnitude larger, but the idea is the same.

Maybe I'm focusing too narrowly on the idea of realistic space as an immersive RPG setting, in the same way that Morrowind or Skyrim are for the eponymous games (to stay in the original context of Bethesda RPGs).

I guess a slow paced mystery game but you have to pilot and defend your space bus. Solve space problems on your ship .... The fast travel and solved technology of most (I guess?) scifi tames space down from being frighteningly vast to something we just drive across.

If space is that frighteningly vast, and the technology that ramshackle, what kind of "bus services" do you have across it? Who would buy that ticket? To go where? To do what? What would the insurance premiums be?

Asteroid mining perhaps? Something like the Nostromo in Alien: a slow, humongous mobile station, on decades-long missions, the intervals between playable events -- technical problems, geologigal surveys of astreroids, etc -- skipped over via cryosleep?

Okay, I could see something like that, actually...

 

[Mor]

Fellas, I don't know if you realize this but, we are almost in fucking MARCH already.

Time sure flies.

 

[Swenhir]

Maybe I'm focusing too narrowly on the idea of realistic space as an immersive RPG setting, in the same way that Morrowind or Skyrim are for the eponymous games (to stay in the original context of Bethesda RPGs).

I think so. I mean, there's no question that what I've experienced of space in modern space sims had me reeling at how enormous, mind-bogglingly big and immense space is. Even 100 000km is freighteningly huge, and that's like a tiny leap by those game's standard. The way space is populated, how they make it interesting required new answers but I think they aren't all that different from traditional RPGs. Interdiction zones, gravity wells and nebulas have replaced mountains, rivers and cliffs, but the paradigm doesn't seem too alien.

There's also something to be said for the awe of such spaces, of such scales. Many people mention how empty a lot of those landscapes are and they'd be right. Still, what a backdrop! What a world and setting to surrounding your story with, not to mention that it's real in ways that make skyboxes look medieval.

Edit : Just because I can take the opportunity to use one of the last posts of the thread for February, here's an old video of SC that might illustrate the feeling I mean.

 

[lashman]