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Am I the only one tired of indie games being defaulted to a rougelike? Don’t get me wrong. Not trying to yuk anyone’s yum, but sometimes a 2-hour game doesn’t need to be stretched into a 20+-hour experience by making it difficult and something I have to play through multiple times.
Maybe I’m the oddball, but in the late 90s through the mid 2010s, I remember when there was a lot less focus on the game trying to ‘beat’ the player. Sure, there were still tough games, but I feel like those were not the popular genre. They were the exception.
Sometimes, after work, I already feel plenty accomplished and just want to blow some stuff up or experience a hero’s journey. There are so many games I’ve avoided with beautiful stories and great gameplay loops simply because I don’t want to be frustrated with the gameplay.
I don’t like roguelikes either. Mainly because i like to play the same thing over and over for many hours and i don’t like when it changes and i don’t know where to go.
Boy, have you heard of Nier Automata? You can play the same story 3 times, just switching your character in between. /s
It's great!
I had never heard of this game before your comment and i went to look it up on wikipedia. 26 endings? And not a roguelike? I’m in.
People making 6+ hours lore recap videos on Nier and the previous series that the creator somehow decided happens in the same universe.
Have fun!
Somehow, amazingly, I feel like this needs to be clarified. The creator decided to put in a secret ending to his previous series where the protagonist, who rides a dragon, somehow slips into an alternate reality where you inexplicably suddenly play a rhythm game against an eldritch monstrosity and then get shot out of the sky by a literal fighter jet. And that universe is where Nier takes place.
Yoko Taro is an insane man and I love it. I still won't play Drakengard, but that's just because it's not a great game.
I'm planning on playing Drakengard 3, wish me luck.
I salute you, brave gamer.
o7
I don't want to ruin your excitement, but a lot of those endings are a one-off thing (i.e. make this one particular choice, get an ending and load back from latest save) or even an unique path.
And, in my opinion, the first Nier game has more of "just play the game again lol"
Love them both though
Yeah in reality it's like 2 playthroughs of part 1 then like 2 of part 2 then idk how many of part 3. But you basically switch between the core characters for each playthrough then once you've done both you go to the next main story bit.
Try to go in as blind as possible, the game is even better that way. 100/10, and incredible experience.
Blue Prince probably would have been one of my favorite games if they hadn’t stretched a 5 hour game to artificially take 10x as long. It’s like playing Myst if, once you realize a clue is there, you have to spend an hour getting far enough to see if it’s possible to test the clue this run or start over.
My wife was playing that for a while. Seems interesting, but I don't think I could tolerate a game that requires that much note taking, and that much pure chance.
What is a rougelike? Does it differ from a roguelike?
I'm only being somewhat facetious fwiw, because I've seen this (presumably?) typo so often that I'm beginning to think there's actually another genre I'm not aware of.
It's just a typo. Head into a TTRPG community and be prepared to see rogue mispelled as rouge a lot.
There's roguelikes and roguelites but they get conflated. The definition is kinda subjective but it's basically any game that shares characteristics with the game Rogue. Permadeath, random generation, simultaneous turn-based, tile-based movement and maybe a couple more. Roguelites are anything that uses these concepts but doesn't stick so much to the formula. At least that's my definition and nobody agrees.
Oh, right, I'm well aware of the differences between those two, I'm simply wondering about rougelikes, not roguelikes or roguelites.
It's either a pervasive typo, or it might be a third disctinction I'm no aware of - I'm leaning towards the former, but have seen it too frequently to fully dismiss it.
Nah, that's normal, rogues of any type aren't for everybody, but I enjoy them when going inbetween different linear games
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