Incline Gods Will Be Watching - C&C + shades of gray = despair

[Awor Szurkrarz]

http://www.godswillbewatching.com/
Looks very interesting. Pretty serious stuff, I think.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Yeah, I remember their indiegogo (?) campaign. Could be interesting.

 

[StaticSpine]

Holy shit, the trailer is brutal

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Holy shit, the trailer is brutal

Probably right now someone somewhere is doing something like that in the name of a higher cause.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

this product has potential, but it's a shame it sucks as a game.
all i could endure was the first chapter, then the game crashed anyway.
it plays like a glorified, "turn based" tapper, where all you have to do is balance clicks around.
there's supposed to be a way to understand when and where to do what by looking around, problem is it's fucking impossible to understand what the hell is going on on a 80x60 screen.
had it been done with l.a. noire's engine i'd have claimed this game as the new messiah. the way it is, it's just an excellent atmosphere tacked on a game so "artsy" that only people who praise infinite biocock could love.

 

[agris]

This is 50% off on steam right now, does it really suck as much as MadMax said? Based on the amount of butthurt "itz hard" reviews.. I'm tempted to pick it up.

 

[Drakron]

Not even at 100% off.

 

[bledcarrot]

This is 50% off on steam right now, does it really suck as much as MadMax said? Based on the amount of butthurt "itz hard" reviews.. I'm tempted to pick it up.

I got it half price, played for the last few hours. I'm enjoying it. Some of the mechanics are flawed but it's an interesting design and pretty well executed. If you don't like rng maybe steer clear.

 

[Grimwulf]

First mission expressions:"Why the FUCK can't I just tie the prisoners and be fuckin done with it?"
Second mission expressions:"Why all the high-tech mumbo-jumbo and not a single fuckin' camera in the cell? Coz you know. Every night we talk about how we ended up like this, who we work for and stuff. Oh, and also our FUCKING BOSS comes to us every single night, but that's ok. Torture the shit out of us must be more fun than installing a camera".

And all the crashes too. Nah, I'll drop it for naw.

 

[bledcarrot]

First mission expressions:"Why the FUCK can't I just tie the prisoners and be fuckin done with it?"
Second mission expressions:"Why all the high-tech mumbo-jumbo and not a single fuckin' camera in the cell? Coz you know. Every night we talk about how we ended up like this, who we work for and stuff. Oh, and also our FUCKING BOSS comes to us every single night, but that's ok. Torture the shit out of us must be more fun than installing a camera".

And all the crashes too. Nah, I'll drop it for naw.

Yeah there's a lot that doesn't make sense plot wise, including the fact that characters who die in one mission are inexplicably alive in the next. I think there's a pretty interesting idea underneath it though, just hasn't been executed very well. But for five bucks I don't expect the world.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Free expansion released + game is 75% off in a Steam sale: http://store.steampowered.com/app/274290/

“There were never plans to create a full-fledged sequel to Gods Will Be Watching, that story has been told,” studio lead Jordi de Paco said in a launch announcement. “But we wanted to further explore the plight of Sgt. Burden’s team in such a dark time and give the fans of Gods Will Be Watching a glimpse into the future of the characters they had come to know so well.”

Set 20 years after the main game, the expansion sees the old gang reunited “on a desperate quest to change the past and prevent the oppressive Constellar Federation from ever coming to power.” Something like that is bound to include a few tricky decisions and no mistake.

 

[Zombra]

MadMaxHellfire and oasis789's observations mirror mine.

Played it, crapped out in the first scene after 15 failures. This game looks like it wants you to make hard, brutal choices, but it doesn't - it wants you to patiently balance a complex framework of numbers. It even keeps some of the numbers offscreen, so to play optimally you have to make several time-consuming clicks every turn calling on information that should be readily available ... yet suboptimal play is severely punished; one slip-up and the scene is failed and you have to start all over. These two design choices add up to a clear "fuck you" from the developers.

What could have been a very difficult and emotionally charged scene is swiftly drained of all gravitas through forced repetition. I sympathized with all the characters at first and was very interested in following this story, but the difficulty demands that the player not only ignore character and environment, but balance number stacks so perfectly that even a well-intentioned "ruthless" player will have to replay a scene many times to strike the right balance. This isn't a good hard challenge for smart players; it is sheer sadism.

After giving up, I decided briefly to try again at a lower difficulty, but immediately quit without even trying to clear the first scene. Playing at a low difficulty seems equally pointless, as that will likely remove those harsh decisions I'm supposed to be making. We'll see; maybe I'll give it another shot.