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Bombshell - isometric shooter starring that cut character from Duke Nukem Forever
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Renevent
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It wasn't a buck when it was released. $30 is inconsequential amount for me, YMMV of course, value being a subjective thing and all. I haven't picked it up yet though, still at work so waiting for some more reviews to come in.
Excidium II
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That's why you should avoid new shit.
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Nah, $5 or $30 doesn't matter to me if it's something I want to play.
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It's not that $30 is a lot to pay for a game, it's that it's a lot to pay for a shitty game that will be in a bundle in six months time. Plenty of other games I can buy at $30 like Dragon's Dogma.
Obviously you like arpgs, so, have you bought/played:
Torchlights?
Grim Dawn?
Derpablo 3+expac?
All strike me as much better choices.
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Just finished Dragon's Dogma, fun game (though with some annoyances). That being said, there's nothing out I want atm, and I may or may not find Bombshell shitty. If it provides a weekend of fun, then that was a good $30 spent.
To answer your question, yeah, it's among my favorite genres, and yeah, played all of them. Torchlight was fun a couple times through but never grabbed me they way something like D2 did. Grim Dawn is the shit, I am def playing that on and off (have two characters in ultimate). I'm kinda waiting for the release patch to spend more time with it though.
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So, this turned out to be exactly the sort of artlessly made, painfully un-fun action game one would expect from Interceptor given their previous effort.
Gotta love how LGR -honestly- tries to keep his positive attitude even when dealing with something like this tho.
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Costs $1 per review score point. SeemsGood
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We'll see...I might still get it out of curiosity. If I end up hating it I'll take my "we told you so" on the chin.
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The release for the Rise of the Triad remake was awful as well, but after some patches it's acceptable. It seems the flaws go deeper this time around though...
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It may be less buggy but it's still a fucking awful game and an insult to the original Rise of the Triad.
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I'm giving it a try because I like punk gurrlz ("shareware" version of course)
Think I encountered a glitch on the first loading screen when it told me to press space to continue but didn't until I mashed some buttons.
This is going to be... something (I'll update it as I play)
There's a regenerating shield, coupled with enemy waves coming in groups of 1-3 makes fights extremely exciting, even more with the enemy projectiles being very fast but not doing much damage.
Oh a turret sequence in the first few minutes, that a good sign
And FPS went up by 40 once I exited the rain.
She uses the revolver and a blade thing in executions (do em for bonus XP yaaaaay) but I have no idea how to use them normally and there is no listing of a melee button in the controls, unless I have to find them first (oh, the sword is an ability that gets unlocked later).
You can fall off edges so it's not that casual. So can enemies and they're extremely good at it.
You can carry a large number of medkits, I was at 47 before the first boss and I think you were required to do some jumping to avoid the damage but the perspective sucked and I just tanked it.
Shelley is CUTE, CUTE!
Rather annoying though as she says the same one liners over and over and over again (even when you start fighting zombie things in the second part of the game she still calls them aliens). Would still marry tho.
Note, there seem to be only two new zombie enemies, you still fight the same aliens with guns but now in large groups so they can get through your shield very fast if you stand still but are still near impossible to die to since one can just run away and spam healthpacks. Also the zombies are probably the least threatening enemy in the game, and not just because their AI breaks and doesn't even bother attacking you half the time (instead of walking slowly and using a short ranged tentacle attack that does no damage).
This is enough for today.
Think I encountered a glitch on the first loading screen when it told me to press space to continue but didn't until I mashed some buttons.
This is going to be... something (I'll update it as I play)
There's a regenerating shield, coupled with enemy waves coming in groups of 1-3 makes fights extremely exciting, even more with the enemy projectiles being very fast but not doing much damage.
Oh a turret sequence in the first few minutes, that a good sign
And FPS went up by 40 once I exited the rain.
She uses the revolver and a blade thing in executions (do em for bonus XP yaaaaay) but I have no idea how to use them normally and there is no listing of a melee button in the controls, unless I have to find them first (oh, the sword is an ability that gets unlocked later).
You can fall off edges so it's not that casual. So can enemies and they're extremely good at it.
You can carry a large number of medkits, I was at 47 before the first boss and I think you were required to do some jumping to avoid the damage but the perspective sucked and I just tanked it.
Shelley is CUTE, CUTE!
Rather annoying though as she says the same one liners over and over and over again (even when you start fighting zombie things in the second part of the game she still calls them aliens). Would still marry tho.
Note, there seem to be only two new zombie enemies, you still fight the same aliens with guns but now in large groups so they can get through your shield very fast if you stand still but are still near impossible to die to since one can just run away and spam healthpacks. Also the zombies are probably the least threatening enemy in the game, and not just because their AI breaks and doesn't even bother attacking you half the time (instead of walking slowly and using a short ranged tentacle attack that does no damage).
This is enough for today.
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just played it for an hour
you ask me this is just a typical top-down shooter, nothing more, nothing less
that pcgaemer review giving it 30/100 is simply disingenuous as fuck
not to mention its plenty full of factual mistakes like there being 'no dodging'
also lol at the constant arpg mentions - who the fuck would call this an arpg or compare it to torchlight or whatever? compare it to alien shooter or something FFS you cretin
also bonus:
except that it gets exploded right after she parks it at the front gate of the white house
attention span level: gaeming journo
you ask me this is just a typical top-down shooter, nothing more, nothing less
that pcgaemer review giving it 30/100 is simply disingenuous as fuck
not to mention its plenty full of factual mistakes like there being 'no dodging'
also lol at the constant arpg mentions - who the fuck would call this an arpg or compare it to torchlight or whatever? compare it to alien shooter or something FFS you cretin
also bonus:
except that it gets exploded right after she parks it at the front gate of the white house
attention span level: gaeming journo
moar
you get an assignment to go kill a big quadruped monster that ate a soldier carrying a databook
wot cud dis one-liner be referring to?????
attention span level: gaeming journo+++
you get an assignment to go kill a big quadruped monster that ate a soldier carrying a databook
wot cud dis one-liner be referring to?????
attention span level: gaeming journo+++
Ahh, fucking idiot gaming journos.
Once again making a game worse than it appears because they weren't bribed.
Once again making a game worse than it appears because they weren't bribed.
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I ended up grabbing Tower of Monsters on PS4 last night instead, but after reading some of your comments I might grab this as well sometime next week. Please keep updating your impressions def interested if you (by the end of the game) had fun and thought it was worth it.
orcinator
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If Bombshell doesn't make you feel funny in your underwear whenever you look at her, don't bother, the game is awful when it comes to everything else.
If she does make you feel funny THEN BACK OFF SHE'S MINE!
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Inb5 some inebriated conductor moves this thread to General RPG Discussion.
pippin
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more like
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It's brainless marketing and them being grossly out of touch with current game prices. Grim Dawn is $25, vanilla Diablo 3 is $20, Torchlights are dirt cheap... and those are all actually arpgs. Isometric shooters are generally cheaper. This is a $10 download title and I doubt they would be getting panned had they priced it appropriately. When you charge $30+ people expect a better product.
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