NECROPOLIS: A Diabolical Dungeon Delve

Is it one of those games jack of all trades but master of none?

Isn't this the supposed Dark Souls(but not really) roguelite?

Never thought it would have been bashed so hard.

co-op dark souls with friendly fire with revives, perma death kicks in when you all lose like a retard

So is it any good? I don't trust Steam reviews.

i don't know, but i'm pirating this shit

Let us know

not a fan of the no textures "art style"

isnt this shit multiplayer focused?

Anyways, I'll give it a go later tonight when my internet isnt shitting itself trying to load a fucking youtube video thanks for the link OP here have a squid

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Well a necropolis is a place and the game does take

place in one

Nobody cares, how about seeing if the game is shit or not?

Every aspect of this looks terrible.

Found a review on it that says it's pretty good fun but how long that fun lasts is up to you.

Seems to me it's like a lot of roguelite games. Good gameplay, but not enough variety to actually last long without feeling samey. I always get the feeling the people who make the roguelites make content enough for like half a normal playthrough. Still if the combat's fun I might pirate it and play it with my brother since he's a really big soulsfan.

My problem with the look is the lighting is pretty shit, some darker shadowing over the loads of low poly nothing expanses of walls would make it look a lot less barren.

I care, I'm not playing something hat looks like a pre alpha

Oh hey I remember this, it looked fun enough for an hour or so. Maybe it will be better now if they actually added shit since then

Considering how few people even complete games anymore I kind of don't blame them. At least this doesn't look like a bunch of bought assets. I have to see for myself too, if it's yet another of those indie games just doing things without know why they're doing them where it comes to gameplay.

You're a faggot, now if you said pay I would understand.

ok after playing this I can assure you the game is shit. the combat is so weird and there is no 'weight' when you swing. the 'art' isn't appealing to me at all.

How very rapoush of you ,of course i didn't expect anything better from the unenlightened filth that congregates in these places to properly be able to appreciate the minimalistic approach of the creators and the effort to use it as a means to get their message across and express the oppression of the modern day capitalist society .To make a bold commentary on it , an anathema if you will , on the duality of human nature in the post-war era and what commercialization and consumerism has made of it all the while elevating the medium of "videogames" further than from the rancid , smelly pit it dwells today into a true artform

there are millions of games I could pirate, why waste my time on the ones that look like shit

I really have no problem with simplicity as long as it's really pushed to the limit. Take Furi for example, which I actually really damn like inspite of being very simple mechanically. If this is one of these games that try so hard to implement features and mechanics from various well liked games without any rhyme or reason then this game will suck massive dick.
I guess I'll know in a week or so when I decide to play it.

Also I'm noticing a bunch of short indie games being sold for 30 dollars when they are worth 20, at most. What gives? Is it because they were shown off in E3 or have PS4 ports or what?

It's like you want this thread to devolve into YOU'RE A SHILL NO YOU SUCK DICK GO BACK TO PLAYING WHATEVER GAME I DON'T LIKE shitposting

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really hate modern gaming's aversion to primary colors.

CO-OP = more than 20 dollars

No local co-op should be 20 dollars at most. What is this kikery

This game is made by the people behind NuShadowrun and proudly displays Destructoid accolades on its store page.

Make of this what you will.

Hey I kind of liked NuShadowrun

Yeah the devs are pretty tryhard about getting into the "nerd" demographic.

Otherwise, they've produced solid titles with decent writing, though be advised the last games they produced were basically standalone DLC's to Shadowrun Returns.

Still, they've actually DELIVERED on their Kikestarter shite and despite funding all their fragging dlc's via kickstarter, they haven't used it as a crutch for Necropolis which I suppose is commendable in SOME way.

Personally, I'd still give em the BoTD as they've only really managed to fuck up one time and Destructoid is actually a step up from their previous abomination (pic VERY FUCKING related).

Still they've displayed early warning symptoms for a while now so I'd just be on Alert around their shit for now, in case someone goes off the deep end and drinks the koolaid.

I'm glad I haven't played Dragonfall yet.

Also this game is currently Steam's top seller. I guess all that E3 marketing and youtube celebrity shilling paid off.

Im not sure if I want to know the story behind your pic

ignorance is bliss user

Its actually better than you think

She actually backed the game at the In-Game portrait level and she was inserted into the game, complete with terrible writing.

The funny thing is despite all that Most of her Reddit supporters think it's the ugliest portrait in the game, despite it actually looking better than the person it's based off of

Also the shot isn't from Dragonfall, which was pretty damn good btw, it was from Hong Kong which was pretty okay.

I`ve been considering getting this or MHX,The premise seems pretty good and the animations and game play looks nice and smooth, is it any good so far anons ?.

not really. it looks smooth but it doesn't play smooth. the combat feels weird. It's 1.3gb so you can try it quick .

God, this runs likes shit. And the combat feels like a 6th generation version of DaS combat.

If you couldn't tell it was a Unity game you will by how it spikes CPU usage. A better developer could get that under control.

Let me guess, graphics options are Fast/Beautiful, V-sync, refresh rate and resolution?

Game is pretty fucking good, but entirely mechanically designed around co-op. You're fucked if you play this solo. Playing with my friends has been an absolute delight. There's some unfunny humorous shit thrown into the flavor text for no good reason which trashes immersion. Pretty shallow, but good. It plays exactly like Dark Souls, and it probably doesn't need to or should. 7.5/10

I had my hopes up a bit for this game as well, but it's shit. The "it's fun with friends" argument is a bullshit excuse.

There are generally sliders inside Unity games now but it's the case where nothing really has any particular performance impact if it's made for shit from the start. There's a basic newbie mistake where the engine will try to render a lot of off screen shit and say tank the performance when you're staring at the floor still.

Oh right, that. It couldn't even get through the first loading screen without being obnoxious.

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can you post any examples?

after playing a whole one solid hour

This game is a piece of shit fucking retard doom 3-tier enemy placement, where every nanosecond you're sandwiched between dumb tedious enemies that take forever to kill and you never lose hp because of "muh dark souls" where everything is so slow that you don't need to react beause that dildo up your ass is doing everything for you because this game blows so fucking way harder than your sister, this game is not only easy but clunky, its like sliding a dick between two legs except fuck you no thick legs because HOLY SHIT THIS THE WORST FUCKING GAME
EVERY FUCKING TIME THESE SHIT (((((I N D I E))))) "DEVELOPRES" WITH ABSOLKUTELY GARBAGE FRAMEPACING AND INPUTS BEING EATEN LIKE A NIGGER AT KFC, BECAUSE WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BULLSHIT
NO BOSSES, WHY THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS

AND THE FIRST THING YOU"RE GOING TO SAY IS "THIS IS INTEINDE FOR MULTIIPLPAYERE -D__DD_DDD"
THIS IS FUCKING R ETARDED
>THERSE FRIENDLY FIRE ;!_XDD_D_D_D_D
OH YEAH AND SHIT FLAVOUR TEXT WOWOOWOWO SIX WORDS AND I REMMEEBR MY THIRD TEACHERS NAME
GOD FUCKINGM DMAN THIS IS THE WORST GAME IN THIS YEAR WHEN IT COMES TO ACTUAL TASTE

its THE CURRENT FUCKING YEAR
AND EVERYTHING SUCKS, INSPIRATION FROM SLOW GAMES INSTEAD OF FAST GAMES, THSI IS THE WORST

These plus many more. Including one that used "heck" unironically.

You guys must hate Poker.

Those are a little funny

Now just imagine that level of humor every couple minutes.

They get really bad. Those first two are probably examples of some of the much better ones, and they aren't that funny. It's fucking weird too, because it's basically an even 50/50 split between entirely serious text, and super dry barely jokes that are mostly unfunny.

Emmm… Judging by this video:

You can clearly see that animation is so bad, that after swinging a sword, character instantly returns to idle animation without any transition between two animation sequences.

It has really shit animation, user.

Whelp its officially decided.

And I actually wanted this game to be good but of course it isnt.

Thank you,ragemobile. There's also the MMO-tier random mob killing quests and others that basically amount to forced achievement hunting.

The first one I got was him going on and on then trying to figure out what rhymed with orange.

Took a look at it, fun concept but the combat looks terrible, bad AI from the looks of it too

I dunno, I've been having fun.

you are probably gay.

Got em.

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I got to level six on my first run while with a friend. On his first run he literally just beat the game outright.

For a game trying to sell itself on difficulty it shouldn't be this fucking easy.

cancer. So sick of every indie game being roguelike shit.

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i see a female silhouette
post lewds

No bosses? Seriously?

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They are comparatively slow to your average action game. Monster hunter especially since you can contrast slower paced weapons with faster ones.

You need better reaction times and reflexes than in any one of those "cuhrayzee" games.

'Aigth played the gog version for like two or three hours and the best way to describe it's, boring, there's no difficulty, no nothing, one would think that they would polish the mechanics to shine since it's obviously not carried by it's graphics but holy shit, once you get the hang of timing in your weapon is just bait enemies wail on them until they die, bait the next group of enemies rinse and repeat.
The AI it's retarded, since not even once I had to change my tactics even in larger groups you just abuse the friendly fire from the big aoe monsters to wipe out the weaker ones.
Also since you can craft your potions and rations you have literally no excuse to be constantly full health/stamina.
The unknown potion system it's stupid since you can just not pick them up and be constantly shoving rations down your throat
I made it to the fifth level and stopped since I was getting bored out of my skull.
Maybe with some friends could be fun (with the whole friendly fire system) but for single player this shit is just not good

Saw the video and surprise surprise total asscancer is constantly with his stamina half depleted what a fucking fag

PS: I also got triggered by how they put the fucking greatsword in their hip instead of in the back
At least the women have an actual female silhouette

Depends on circumstances, weapon choice, and a shitload of other things.

Basic logic is Slower==less reaction need. The thing about Souls and Monster hunter is that you need better management of your button press, if you screw up you lose health, in faster paced games it's less about timing your button presses and more about comboing them together to perfection.

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Oh boy.

BoI and RoR made it look like a dawn of the new era.
Well it wasn't, enjoy your sturgeon's law motherfuckers.

it did well enough that its getting an etrian odyssey crossover, or something along those lines
>ftl some people like it
id say the "roguelike" train is doing well for itself.

This game is the biggest fucking disappointment I've played all year. I played it for 4 hours and I don't think I'm going to get a refund at this point… dear god help me.

Im waiting for Below. Hoping they dont fuck that up

Try hyperlight drifter.

Dragonfall was a standalone expansion, but Honk Ong was a full sequel
Though it doesn't really matter since both of them are both leagues better(and longer) than Returns anyway

You deserve it

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It looks like shit. Goddamn indie art styles.

Wouldn't that imply that you've been looking forward to this shit?

Frankly this is the first I've heard of it and it looked like shit immediately.

Oh god this looks terrible. Nasty looking color scheme makes it not attractive to watch, terrible animations and movement, how did this get jjudgedto be a final release?

My god this is terribe.

The refund went through

It was meh. The writing itself was mediocre, brought down by the constant "muh racism!" shit. When you reached the in-game equivalent of Ben Garrison, I recall the dialogue options were:
"Fuck you!" (attack)
"You won't get away with this!" (attack)
"You're a monster!" (attack)
or something to that effect

Congratulations user

how did you justify it past the 2 hour mark?

Respawning enemies/10. Don't bother.

Played quite a lot of it now anons.

It's not very good, actually i'm quite let down. After you spend more time with the game, the repetition becomes more and more apparent. There's probably only 6 different weapon movesets and 4 different tiers. Enemies repeat themselves over and over again. The game tries to take itself half seriously, but just kinda falls flat, not choosing one or the other. It tries pretty hard to be dark souls, yet doesn't have the content, skillful battle or world building. (note; i don't even think dark souls is awesome, but i respect it)

Honestly the most infuriating thing about the game is the fact that it has potential, but clearly needed another 6 months. It's totally suffering a lack of content.

I'm going to go back to UnderRail.

Verdict: pirate.

Have you no shame user?

It's a shameful thing.
LOST YOUR HEAD

But is there any porn yet?

Porn of what? There aren't any characters, design or art to it. It's all low poly single color forms, it has less personality than generic FF7 mobs.
You should search for r34 on basic geometric bodies, and that will be this game's porn.

The flat-colour texture style is about the only thing in this video that doesn't look shit.

Oh cool.
Cell shading (yes I like it fite me IRL), exploring, dork souls inspired and punishing of mistakes
Into the trash it goes

Game in question isn't even cel shaded.
But yeah cel shading is absolute bottom and you should kill yourself irl.

it's from the cucks who made Sword and Sorcery. it will be shit.

Gameplay looks very barebones and those animations…
Will give it a try tho at least

In a sense, it's nice of devs to have art directions that immediately scream "SHIT GAME DONT BUY" I suppose.

Cel shading, pixel art, "muh realism" brown textures = Shit game.

I bet you hate "pixel shit" too

i found the game to be fun even with its weird janky combat. i reached to level 5 with no sweat because those tiny golden spiders dropped a tier 2 weapon while im on level 1 and made those floor turn into a cake walk. there are no bossess except one which is shitty and i encontered a bug with the controllers that doesnt make you sprint. the "humor" is suddenly using modern words while trying to do dark souls like lore text and the other is like "that bastard's sword: Not to be confused with bastard sword, this sword belonge to a very, very awful person" which i dont really mind. You cant pick a hat, only your character skins since hats are only found while playing, which is lame. the online only works with the people on your friend list, so on annoying russians suddeny joning and ruining your experience.

If you really want to play it, ask yourself "is a vita game worth 30 dollars?" because this game really feels like its a vita game with all the sweet vita jankiness. which is sad because its not on the vita

I like the idea behind this, but holy fuck the game controls like absolute shit.
It's like they saw Dark Souls combat and went "oh we can do that" and then just gave up midway through.

Is it just me? It feels so fucking clunky

the starter sword is so shit; its slow and it feels wrong just by swinging it. get the screamer blade as soon as you can which is much faster and far much better feel when attacking

Even morrowind has better feedback than that.

But every weapon feels like shit. At least every weapon I've found.

i never tried those shattered longswords that the first skellies or early enemies drop, but i bet those are shit too. i found those three weapons to be not so shitty. Dont forget to kill those triangle spiders to get some really good weapons, even in the first level

just sitting around killing those triangle spiders gave me tier 1 weapon while im still in level 1. those weapons really feel like they're made for bossess but they didnt bother. that'll be a cool thing to find boss rooms that you can easily skip but you get a boss weapon for it

You're only saying that because my sister blows only me :^)

dont forget to check the writing on the walls. they might lead to secret spots with either lots of crafting/loot/weapon. you might hear chicken noises too that really shows that there's something hidden there since the chicken potion seller is kinda rare and you'll most likely find him behind secret walls

this character would look good as a boss. too bad there are no bossess and his/her sword is probably a rare drop or something shitty

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What a waste.

This, I was playing for several hours yesterday, and I came to the same conclusion as a majority of people in this thread.

Enemies are brain dead and just run at you with zero purpose other then to bash your skull, their pathing is horrible and they just get stuck on shit all the time.
The art style is nice, but it makes the game feel super monotonous because all the areas look the exact same, and the same goes for enemies too, you just fight bearded guys for the entire game.
After I got to the seventh floor of the game, and I had yet to even fight a boss, so I just stopped. I was so bored of just trudging through whack and smacking the same enemies in the same environments for hours on end.

Thank god that refund went through.

You better post more

That's cause the developers are pandering to normalfag humor. They posted their progress on imgur that's why they have that fucking retarded "when men were men, women were men" phrase in the intro.

Whelp I can already tell the game is going to be shit, as soon as you release a game on greenlight the majority are going to become attached and expect the alpha you released but with added features. Shit's always beena terrible idea since alpha is supposed to be about trying things out and adding, removing, or changing things entirely before settling on then moving to the beta phase.

what does that even mean?

I wasn't clear, my bad. They're essentially channeling that oh so hilarious "dry and punny" humor that imgurfags and other retards like the 3rd pic posted.

Also: imgur.com/gallery/cW2a9

god this game is really fucking ugly.

Is it weird that the "men were men, women were women" joke really doesn't bother me? Douglas Adams made that exact same joke in the first Hitchhiker's book.

I've completed a run.

10 levels, but technically only 8.5.
There is one boss, at the end of floor 9 that has 'phases' in that once it takes enough damage, it stumbles a bit while being invincible, then stands upright and gets some new attack patterns, each stumble being a little closer to full knockdown.

But of course once you have a T4 Weapon, like The Greatsword of Oppulence that drops gems from enemies on every hit, I had 13k by the time I got to the transition room at the end of level 8 you will barely see any of the attacks due to how much damage you do.

The 10th floor is just a pathway to a door that when you go through, you die and are brought to the credits.

I can try to answer any other questions regarding shit other than what most Codices do, assuming there are any left at this point in the thread.

That sounds terrible

Ｉt's not that it bothers me, it's how they constantly go over the top with it and insert it everywhere - like the "muh arrow in the knee" meme.

It's kinda like that girl or guy who says something funny but takes it to the Nth degree and it just becomes annoying.

nice shill thread fam

Yeah it's pretty fun.

if this is the biggest disappointment of the year for you then i envy you severely

How do GoG multiplayer games work anyway, can you connect to the servers with the pirated copy and play with other people?

I'm asking because No Man's Sky is also gonna be on GoG and that has multiplayer features as well

Heres a suggestion for those trying to get a refund beyond the 2 hour mark.

When you give Steam a reason, tell them there are massive framerate drops which only happen in the middle of the game. I did this with Salt and Sanctuary, played for like 3 hours.

This sounds like some real fucking shovelware.

And that was after buying 2 upgrades for my health. That fuck-huge bar? Gone, just like that.

I'd really like to know what the fuck the devs were smoking

If any of you is playing, do yourself a favour. There's a codex that doubles gems gained. Trust me on this, that's all you're gonna need. I tested every other codex, they're all shit that's barely usefull.
For fuck sake, there's one that doubles your jump. The only place that's usefull is to jump through a window to acess a room instead of pressing "E" to open the fucking door.

Also, confirmed: no bosses, nothing. Zilch.
You get about a dozen enemies, then about 15 reskins for each other.

How long did it take you?
A run I did earlier, the first level was short as fuck. Took me 5 minutes to clear it.
After I died and restarted, the first level took me 25 minutes to clear. It got fucking huge.
What the fuck is wrong with the generation algorythm?

Also: the beacons of light you activate (Brazen Head says something was restored and what not).
Are they part of some secret, are they usefull, or just a simple HP recovery thing with some "humor" tossed in?

Yeah wtf are they there for? Other than the one time I used them to move some platforms, but the ones at the end of each level seem fucking useless.

Reported This Loophole To Steam. yw ;)