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Incline The Mercury Man - post-soviet cyberpunk isometric TB RPG
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"MEH" SOFT?
AdolfSatan
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Graphics guised as retro to justify their shitiness. A generic synthwave soundtrack. Game mechanics conveniently omitted, and a dark plot to for a mature audience. Man, am I stoked.
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This game is being made by a popular Russian Twitch streamer Ilya Maddyson whom I happen to occasionally watch. I don't think you should expect competent gameplay from it, just a lot of memes and jokes. In one of the streams he outright said that the game will have an intentionally boring section where you drive a taxi for two hours and even showed it on stream + forced grind and other troll stuff.
His previous game http://store.steampowered.com/app/513230/The_Underground_Man/ is basically one big joke that makes fun of you for playing it.
So sorry for killing whatever boners you may have had guys.
His previous game http://store.steampowered.com/app/513230/The_Underground_Man/ is basically one big joke that makes fun of you for playing it.
So sorry for killing whatever boners you may have had guys.
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Poster above is completely right, this is a satirical meme game mascarading as a real game, kind of like Frog Fractions. A lot of Westerners and people unfamiliar with the Russian twitch scene purchase the game thinking it is something that it is not. It would be a borderline scam if steam refunds weren't a thing.
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How come it looks so good? The guy actually invested all this time and energy for a shit meme mock game?
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Well, at least he didn't invest time and energy in a Torment successor (for example) that was meant to be good, but then turned out to be the opposite. He seems to be achieving his goal, which is probably satisfying.
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IIRC he said that he wanted the game to look like some effort was put into it and have some sort of basic gameplay so that people wouldn't just immediately refund it like they did with Underground Man.
However the "baisc gameplay" he showed looked like complete ass - the aforementioned 2 hour taxi drive, simplistic move and shoot combat where the next level of enemies would be unbeatable unless you do all the sidequests to unlock the next level gun.
Not saying that the game is completely devoid of redeeming factors - maybe some people will appreciate the art or atmosphere or the writing and dialogue (although from what I've seen it is pretty heavy on the memes, in particularly obscure Russian memes and memes exclusive to his stream) and that would be enough. Just don't expect the game to be fun.
Silva
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Whatever, it's still shit.
Looks like the SNES Shadowrun game?
Not RPG? It has stats, like health and money. Clearly an RPG game.
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