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[–] [email protected] 3 points 42 minutes ago

Natural Selection and then Natural Selection 2 - no games or communities like it. Before there time both of them and very much under appreciated. Felt like NS2 never really found it's rhythm but Unknown World kept it going longer than most games.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago

Well this just wrecked my evening.

But this is an ongoing, recurring story. Thief 2014 was a mockery of the original titles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I feel like I learn more about what I shouldn't play then what games I should play when I am on here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

But can I still buy the OG subnautica?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Heads up: once in a blue moon it’s on “sale” for free on Epic Games.

(Ask me how I know.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 53 minutes ago

Fuck epic games, but I was happy I didn't have to buy it a second time on steam to play it with my kid.

I'm just contemplating to get the mobile version of Subnautica.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I remember Flayra from Natural Selection, a half-life mod twenty years ago. I remember him making appeals for investors/donations to keep Unknown Worlds afloat (or maybe just launch it as a company. I recall a video he posted where he showed us his tiny apartment and the milk in his fridge.)

Then Subnautica came out years later and I thought 'Well I'll be damned.'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Were you on the NS forums? I went by "Scythe" back in those days.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Pop it in your calendars? Maybe I'm using calendars wrong, but mine aren't filled with things I should avoid doing. But, I'm willing to learn. What date should I put "Don't Buy Subnautica 2" on?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Everyday up until it releases

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Shat about after it releases? How will I know to keep not buying it?

[–] HugeNerd 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Shat about after it releases?

Sure, but maybe not in public?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

It's not coming out until 2026. It's probably unhealthy to hold it in that long.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I will support this by continuing to be apathetic toward (and in fact ignorant of) the game known as Subnautica 2.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not ignorant of it, just uninterested. I've watched gameplay footage of the first one, and it didn't look like my kind of game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

First one was a cool premise but really annoying in some ways. The game sort of assumes you get certain fragments of blue prints by certain points but doesn't actually make them easy to find nor really give you any hints to find them.

For people who've played it was for the sea moth and and later the moon well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

That's the point of the game - it doesn't tell you where to go and what to do because you're meant to explore the environment yourself. And the debris you scan, the screenshots you take, and the thrills that you get - are the real reward here, and not some goal that game artificially imposes on you. So I think you were just playing it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Heh. Moon Well. Warcraft 3 player.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I just really don't like crafting mechanics in games, and the game seemed very collecting and crafting heavy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

It was weirdly a little light on crafting in some ways. But extremely heavy in others. I tried playing it like Minecraft and stockpiling stuff but that's not really the way. I found it slightly more enjoyable to gather things only when I needed them.

Also the game has no map and I'm REALLY bad with directions. Like REALLY bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Yep, it loops between exploration and basebuilding / crafting.

The exploration part is what usually gets people hooked because the alien underwater setting is amazing. The other stuff is more to give you a reason to stick around for longer, and pace your exploration since need to unlock things at certain points.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Nooooooooooooooo I was literally just talking about being excited for this game.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Pirate all Krafton games.

Edit. Apparently there's more to the story.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 hours ago

You should get a publisher if:

You want to make one game then get fired

You want your work to be bastardized by the publisher in the future

You want countless hours of overtime/crunch and no compensation

You want to be another disposable cog in the machine

If that doesn't sound like something you want, self-publish.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Publishers are cancer. Self publish whenever possible !

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

It's not so black and white, Clair Obscur : Expédition 33 has that level of quality and polish because the team behind it was able to find a publisher to finance it. Everything has nuance, we got shafted on subnautica 2 but we had other great games, some self published, some not

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

You Don't Need a F-ing Publisher*

*unless you do.

It would just require smaller teams making lower budget games that are more focused on Art than sales, which I would be really happy about honestly. Too many people are in this industry solely to rake in the big bucks.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 hours ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago

Best comment. Trust the publisher bro !

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

Oh fucking god dammit. I was really looking forward to it too.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They did all this because they know that the vast majority of the playerbase will never hear about this, and many of those that do will either forget, or simply not care enough to boycott the game. We're in an age of apathy across the board, with so much bad press that any given scandal just fades into the background noise.

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