Raiders of the Broken Planet - Another Invisible AAA Studio Online Only Game

So, you might not remember this, and you are not alone, but MercurySteam released this game in 2017, and, while it does have a more healthy player base than Stillborn or JUSTBreakers, but it still really small.
But, after spending some hours on the free mission, what I understood:
While there is fun to have in a coop session, this game sure feels like an anomaly. And they still have two mission packs to deliver.
The game is on XBONE, STEAM and PS4. You can try the demo, and it allows for one level with other people, but, this is such an weird game, that, I don't know.
The question is, who was the public for this game exactly? What is making these companies just keep releasing these games, don't they have some type of marketing research?

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is the age of singleplayer story driven games over?

No, multiplayer-only trash is just a passing fad.

Not really. This year we had a new Ys, Echo, Divinity OS2, Elex and others.
I would not agree with , multiplayer is not a passing fad, I mean, the next two EDF will be heavily focused on MP. Even 4.1 have many exclusive missions for MP. But, online only games with SP content, that's something I would love to see go and stay go.

I didn't know that this existed
And into the trash it goes

If the grils were cuter i'd try it

Wait so what is this, PvP? Or is like coop objectives against npcs like warframe?

It is more like Warframe, but you will have on Antagonist player that can "appear" at any moment to stop your progress. The problem is that when it appears, it must stay until he dies.
The missions are simple, but can be challenging. It is PvE with a bit of PvP;

They are like a western version of Anarchy Reigns girls, I guess. Not terrible, but a bit weird.

The girls look like fucked up broken Marxist demons that would sentence me to death by snu snu
Kind of hot

Holy shit, this looks terrible. Why are you shilling this?

They look disgusting.

This.
boringlands eeughstetic/10

I don't understand how anyone could think the art design looks good. It's so unappealing. Like Transformers Beast Wars mixed with Borderlands and Hot Topic. Gross.

But the question remains user.
Doesitpass?

Nice try, shill-san

Why do all the women look so fat?

It might have to do with the dyke hair.

I see the game still have a small playbase on Steam. Interesting. I still can't understand some of the design choices. What is the inspiration behind games like this?

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Well, maybe?

Why do the women all look like men?

Looks pozzed as hell

Into the trash it goes

I think people are so used to Japanese artstyle that it became the only standard. These are the guys behind the last two Castlevania LoS.

I think people just dislike bad art in general user, Castlevania's art direction is quite different than this one.

I actually like Raiders design. Is weird cause I usually hate this kind of trashy characters, but they look so over the top and edgy that kind of loop back to being fun. also the white haired Warframe rip-off girl looks nice

Is the game any good? It sounds like it could be potentially fun, though fuck the always online shit.

It is fun, since it is most PvE, which I prefer for online games.
The weapons feel very different between each character. It feels like I am playing Spawn on the Dreamcast all over again. I agree that the melee is overpowered, but at least you can counter melee attacks. The best part is the fact that there is a demo available on every platform, and you can play every level in group or alone too.

It looks ugly, which is weird because I really enjoyed the visual quality of the LoS games if nothing else.

The levels reminded me quite a bit of Rage. So, it does have color, at least. I was a bit surprised by the game because it clearly had a good production, there is quite a bit of money behind it, but there was almost no marketing.

Why are all the textures so smeary?

These are from the XBONE. I don't have screenshots from the PC version. But, I think they use an in house engine for this game, could be that too.

Where are the lewds?

Just for you user.

Lewd, now get lewder.

Seems to have received many bad reviews. Particularly people seems to complaint about an awful progression system, the co-op forcing you to go with 4 people, so no 3 or 2 players co-op, but worst of all a terrible micro transaction system, for a game you pay to play. Awful
Regarding gameplay, seems like people are mostly positive about it, though it looks like is rather simple and there are some cheap 1-hit grabs. Although the focus in melee seems interesting.

Sounds like the game probably is garbage and quite frankly OP, you kind of sound like a shill or you really want someone to play with you at what looks like a dead game. Hell, the micro-transactions and all the bullshit surrounding it pretty much guarantee that is not worth buying and probably would work better either as a F2P or just get rid of that bullshit. Still, at least there is a free demo so we can attest for ourselves the quality of the game itself.

UMA DELICIA

user, since I got called a shill because I wanted to share highscores from a shmup, I really don't care about it. This game is free to play if your don't want to spend money, but if you do, you can buy four levels and one character for, 5 bucks on steam, I guess.
I do want people to play it, because, frankly, it's not that bad. In a way, it is the closest thing we will see from Anarchy Reigns on Steam. You can give it a try without spending one cent, so, why not?


CARA…


No more lewds user. Unfortunately, lewd makers usually only work on famous franchises.

Just giving my two cents, user. I was interested when the game got announced anyway and would probably test it out. My expectations are quite low though. Better to form an opinion for myself.

Also if you wanted to sell the game, you should had done a better job searching for lewds. These ones are easy as fuck to find.

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That's how you should for your opinions anyways. I'm here just to remember people the game exists. I played it during the holidays and found it to be interesting.
Anyway, I can see you probably got all the lewds that ever were from the game. All from rule34. I had forgotten about that site.
Anyway, nice job.

shill/10

You couldn't pay me to buy this shit.

Heh.
Tried the game. The tutorial, first mission and a mission that was unlocked for 2 hours. Only Solo mode.

So far, the game is, at best, ok if not mediocre. It seems to do better the RPG/Shooter than boderlands by virtue alone of giving each character significant stats differences and making their skills actually useful if a little boring, although that is not saying much. The game controls well, and I would say that, although simple, the melee is nice. The game does encourage you to play aggressively. I like the style. Is bad, but it is so fucking edgy and over the top that it kinds of work for me, like it was done by some edgy teenager. Is stupid, but I like it. There is some kind of aggro system, and you can even play somewhat stealthy, with some characters actually being specialized on it.

The two missions I played though, painfully bad. The enemies themselves were nothing special, with exception of the elite enemies that can fight back in melee. The objectives are boring and there is not a sense of excitement on them. The game also feels slow, and the sprint and cover mechanics are awkward to use. Being limited to one single weapon for character and the card system gives it a MOBA feel, which I don't like. Also the missions themselves are kind of short and small, and the levels themselves are nothing to write home about.

I would say, it feels like a F2P game. It probably should be. I'm fucking retarded though, so I'll probably still try it out a bit more to see if my opinion changes.

This "game" art looks as retarded as your animu pedo lolis. GTFO with your "innocent" question, you faggot.

The thing about the cannon fodder enemies are just their numbers. They can get annoying on harder difficulties because they can also melee you. And it hurts.
The thing about the weapons is that the difference between the ones available is significant, but get the weapons is kind of counter productive. You need the blue print, you will get by finishing a level. After that, you need gold. And you must choose which you will get at tge end of a level. It's interesting.

So this is what happens when you want a piece of the Warframe audience and add ugly faces.

tbh if warframe started out with potato children it may have ended up the same way

Why is her asshole so fucking vacuous?

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God, anime girls are so fucking stupid looking. I really don't get the obsession.

it is not a loli, retard


shhh youll get banned for that kind of talk here

Look at the kind of women being designed in the west and ask that again.

They fucked up their hips so it looks like they all have love-handles.

Quit responding to Kotaku employees that confuse big tits with lolis

I believe there was a rumor out there that MercurySteam actually pitched a Metroid Prime Hunters sequel, with that plan that if that pitch didn't go through the game would be reworked into an original IP.


Unless your an EA executive, than yes.
For everyone who's not crazy, no.

You know, I think it could be had been interesting, and I think it makes sense. Most bosses are gigantic, and they are mostly alien life forms. Exactly the kind of thing Samus used to work with. The game do have some passion, but why would they chose the almost F2P model for the game is beyond me. It could had been a cool coop focused game, crazy monsters and simple missions, hell, maybe even a simple PvP, with local matches too. But the only way to get better weapons is by playing online with others. It is kind of fun, but what a wasted opportunity.


Have you really tried very hard? The enemies will pile on you fast, they are much more precise, are effective on melee. It is not a walking in the park. Maybe it could be with certain characters, but not with the initial ones.

It's fun except for antagonist mode, who the fuck though that was a good idea?

Agreed, that is extremely annoying and counter intuitive. I wonder if they played Evolve and thought it was a good idea. The sad part is that we know plenty of players would love that shit too.

For the short time I played this game the only fun thing to do was play as antagonist. The only downside was not getting anything if the players won.

What is that ayy's name, because I am definitely into that.

Why does the first one look like Lena Dunham?

Looks like thinly veiled furfaggotry?

in what fucking manner?

Watch webm.

A robot wolf does not a furfaggot make.

You seriously asking that? Are you blind?

Agreed.


It's basically D'vorah from MK, her name is Hive

Why is this even thread worthy?
What is next? you guys will recommend the new guild wars 2 expansion?

Anyone wanna do something about this?
Mods?
MODS?

The OP of the Hat in Time thread was outed as a shill and it was never deleted either.

Let's be quite honest here. This is bullshit, this is cancer, but the real problem is that people do buy it. You can point pretty much every single game with multiplayer elements, even fucking EDF 4.1, and you will find paid skins. For games you bought. At least, it does not have loot boxes.
I would like it to be gone, but we know developers put this because people are putting money in their bags.
The most damning thing to me is the online only part.
I've been playing it a little more and another problem is how you can only get new powers and weapons is by playing online. That is really stupid. But I still can see an fun game on it, not worth a full price, but good enough for some coop. Damn, it would be great if it had local coop…

Pick one

Well, AA then. The production values on their Castlevanias and on this game are not far from something like Overwatch. It is a bit better than most AA games on the market, too, I guess.
I think it fall under that spot that Ninja Theory and Deck13 share nowadays. Better quality than most indie games, but not "on par" with the bigger studios. Anyways, anyone managed to get the blueprints from the free mission? I'm having problems to find online matches. Not surpised, since the number of players is not anything to write home about.

this is disgusting

How the fuck do people find this shit attractive?

I cant tell if the games industry hates normal women or I just hate 2018 women.

They revel in disgust and debasement. They glorify all that is ugly, twisted, and wrong. They obsess over bodily functions: shit, blood, and cum. The most important issue in their entire world revolves around what genitals are between their legs, and what they rub those genitals on. They hate beauty, rage against it. They seek to destroy and dismantle and deconstruct all that makes civilization: art, history, culture, law, and family. They embody in all ways 3DPD.

They are leftists.

There's no way this wasn't originally a dude they just slapped some mosquitobite tits on.

The worst part is the color scheme.

No sense of aesthetic coordination at all, for fuck's sake.

should have been green and purple, imo

where?

It's just "dude contrasting colors LMAO" without any concept of boundary like the stupid forest park ranger game or the submarine one. Can't remember the names.

this is one of the ugliest characters i've seen in games.

ikr, not to mention those disgusting bleached red hair. everything about her just doesn't work. literally everything. especially the horrendous color scheme. ow is decidedly the last blizzard game i've bought. i honestly thought the mechanics made it a pretty decent shooter with shit game-modes but their balancing priorities aka. competitive only when the game isn't even designed to be properly competitive and the character design (which didn't improve at all over its lifespan) just threw me off too much. it's like they made a framework for something that could possibly be good but then proceeded to make every wrong choice from that point onwards (except ffa)

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why does the middle chick's face look like the face of a crack whore but the rest of her body is somehow fit and in shape? they just don't fit. she should be skinny to the bones and full of little bruises that don't really heal because of the poor immune system.

It wouldn't surprise me to hear that everyone involved with making Overwatch was fired shortly after release.

Her whole body is out of whack. Her head is too small, her breats are too saggy, her torso just suddenly balloons into a pear shaped bottom that somehow manages to have no ass, her thighs look like sausages, and her knees are too low. Nothing about it is normal looking, from her grotesque anatomy to her unnaturally stretched clothes.

If you are talking about the blue hair girl, she took a blast in her head: They explain it in her comic and also made a skin with her comic look.
I do think the art style used in the comics were much more inviting. But it is not the worst I've ever seen too.
The Kangs part I really could not understand, since the game does not have on single nigger. At least, not yet.


Dude, are you OK? Seriously.


What is not to hate about 2018 women? But, about what said, It think it's just that we need more guys who work in games doing more hentai/porn. And I mean it sincerely. As humans, there are things that naturally attract us, and the people that usually understand this concept are the ones who work with it more closely. We do have very competent artists in these games. You go to their artstation and you see they know the craft, but they do not have the sense to tell that what is attractive. The more I see this game, the more I think it had the inspirations in the right places, like Anarchy Reigns, but most people in there might not know how the get it right. That's where a competent porn or hentai artist could make a real difference. Just look at how much good Raita did to Valkyria Chronicles. Now, I don't know nothing about the Spanish comic & porn books industry, but, I wonder if there isn't a good artist from there that could had made a whole lot of difference.


Dude, I've seen plenty of /fit/ girls that are ugly as hell. For better or worse, that is extremely realistic. And, in that world, healing is not a problem because every character is abusing a thing called Aleph, that basically is a natural "Extremis mutagen", from Marvel comics. It heals pretty much everything, but will mutate you if you abuse it. I think she uses her ugliness as a weapon for close range, since she also uses a shotgun. And believe me, she is ugly. But, the best part is that you can't see her face too much if you play her, just her ass. that helps.

Oh and I forgot to mention the slit throat scar, how original, how edgy.

Well, about that: raidersofthebrokenplanet.com/comic/alicia/index.html

Fuck. I thought those were orange tights.

No they are orange tights, but they still look like sausages because the orange color they picked is a dead ringer for "hotdog skin".

They are orange tights. Are people blind?

Dude, I have too, and I don't want to see them in my games

Me too, but, she is the worst the game have, at least.