top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well deserved!

It's one of the few games where I truly felt I was in an alien/different (sci-fi) world.

  • source
  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Well deserved. Live and drink, friend.

  • source
  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Wooo. Really glad it won and mad props to Bucklew (who is a great bsky follow)

    And ignoring the long chain from someone who never even looked at the grpahics of this or old windows games:

    Honestly? Qud might be one of the best Steam Deck experiences out there. No, I don't know how that happened either. But the UI and graphics scale perfectly (after a lot of work by the devs) and the game is shockingly gamepad friendly. And with it being one of the weirdest AND most approachable roguelikes out there (come at me Berlin), it maps perfectly towards quick sessions.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Seth's Comment section on this vid specifically is an absolute cesspool

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    What video are you referring to? All I could find searching on YouTube was a single stream with comments disabled followed by pages of videos complaining about how "woke" the awards are.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Ah, right. I thought you meant a comment under the awards themselves.

    Is there any video of his whose comment section isn't a complete cesspool? His edgy 4chan-lite schtick draws in the worst sorts of people to become fans.

    Sseth also destroys the culture around the indie games he covers. Whenever he does a video on a niche game, the flood of viewers overwhelms the existing community with toxicity and many of them never fully recover.

    I'm still mad he turned the wider community of the game Starsector from mostly left-leaning fans of classic sci-fi into a bunch of stereotypical Redditors who constantly joke about committing rape and genocide - his fans even spearheading development of a mod to add those into the game. Fucking disgusting.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    :D

    Live and Drink

  • source
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I like the game but I never finished it. I got pretty far when setting it to checkpoint mode, but lost interest near the end.

    I don't really understand the game in detail so I don't know all the good builds. Extra legs and guns seemed strong.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The writing is excellent. I enjoyed examining all the mundane things in the world to read descriptions that always seemed to start from a novel perspective.

    Here's the description of a Wide Brimmed Hat; "The crown is crushed by wear into a hundred papery creases, and the brim is stained in the fractal signatures of sweat and salt."

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    The graphics are too primitive for me, which is a shame. I don't consider myself a graphics snob, but this looks like something that came out 35 years ago.

  • source
  • hideshow 28 child comments
  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    okay i hadn't played it yet. you had me worried it was

    kinda lookin bullshit. i'm not a graphics snob but i can't go back to that. here's caves of qud


    it's fucking gorgeous if you ask me, but i've just seen screenshots and art is subjective

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 12 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    For me, "primitive" is not the main problem (though I'm getting a bit sick of pixel art), it's more blue-green hue is off-putting. It might match the theme of an alien planet, but it lokks like it would give me headache or something.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well Rogue did come out 45 years ago. 35 years ago was around the end of the NES/start of SNES generation.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    shut up shut up shut up i am still 27

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The game was in development from 2007 to December 2024 so not that far off...

    It's surprising how quick you can get used to the graphics with the amazing world building. I wasn't sure at first, but now I love the visual style.

    Obviously not for everyone though.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I feel the same way. I grew up with 8 bit graphics and every time I pick up my steam deck I'm amazed at how things look today, how far we've come. I have no desire to go back to the way things were. I know this means I may miss out on some cool experiences, but there's so much other stuff to play and so little time. It's great that people enjoy the retro look but it's not for me.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    People are sensitive about this. I didn't think our opinions were controversial but you got a downvote within a few minutes of leaving your comment. That was fast.

    We're not even criticizing it, just saying it's not for us. I was born in 85 and used computers in the computer lab at school in the 90s that were too old to even have mice, they were keyboard only. We played educational games on them like Oregon Trail and lots of math games. These graphics remind me of those. I'm just not interested in going back that far.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (18 replies)
    load more comments
    view more: next ›