giwake

game developer, I think?

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i make games and music, sometimes.

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giwake
@giwake

i've been bleeding out ammo before i got into pod 2, now i'm basically dead. barely any grenades, no ammo for anything, the laser pistol does jack shit, worm gun sucks, EMPs are pretty much useless. might have to cheat.

this game is good at creating a sense of incredible dread.

i am playing on easy.


giwake
@giwake

and like... holy shit, this was fantastic. great fun to play (although i got my ass handed to me in the last 2 chapters and had to cheat by giving myself a bunch of ammo for my assault rifle) and i was incredibly invested in the plot. i usually don't pay much attention to the intricacies of the plot but fuuuck something about this game just kept me invested.

i really like these little moments where you see a ghost or an NPC for a bit. something about it is very cool and it's neat to see these sequences. maybe it's the way that they're just doing a mocapped animation on a low-poly model, but they stick out a lot in a positive way and make you stop in your tracks. it's kind of like a predecessor to modern games with their Super 8k Cutscenes i guess?

minor spoilers under the "read more"


i think the soldier really fucked up by not taking the deal, ruling the universe as a swag robot with a cool robot gf? sounds great to me, fuckin turn me into a .exe file, run me through debabelizer or something idk

oh that might be an indicator of something


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in reply to @giwake's post:

i remain unconvinced that the difficulty settings actually do anything in SS2, beyond the one time i played the demo version on "impossible" and there was this one time a shotgun hybrid spawned in med-sci 1. i recall spending like an hour seeing if i could possibly spec the demo character (Navy) to the point where i could repair the dropped shotgun, and i think there literally were not enough cyber modules in the demo to get the necessary repair and standard weapons skills to use it.

not to mention that i could never find another shotgun hybrid again on that level.

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