Stuff I bought with my No Man's Sky refund: Duskers · 3:39am Aug 18th, 2016
So! In the wake of the No Man's Sky fiasco, namely it not being half the game it was promised to be, I find myself with 60 bucks in my steam wallet needing somewhere to go. And I figure some of you might be in the same situation. SO, in the spirit of that, I give you:
STUFF I BOUGHT WITH MY NO MAN'S SKY REFUND
Today's episode: Duskers!
Duskers is a strategic roguelike sporting a very Aliens-esque gritty sci-fi theme. The premise is that you are the last living soul in a graveyard of a universe, shuffling from wreck to wreck gathering scrap and fuel in an attempt to stay alive and discover what happened.
Now, one of the most controversial parts of this game is equipment decay. As you use your gear, it wears out, and becomes increasingly likely to break at a critical moment. You can repair it with scrap, but as you use scrap to do everything, constantly repairing will starve you out pretty quick. Some people hate this, but personally I feel it adds an element of challenge. Since parts only decay as you use them, it encourages frugality. You have to ask yourself "do I really need this module today?" If you bring everything, everything wears out, and of course you'll be burning all your scrap trying to stay afloat.
However, I can talk about this all day, and really to understand it you should see it. SO, at some point I plan to update this post with some raw footage I took of a foray into a dead spaceship. Honestly, it was a darn near perfect run for a demo video, showing off a lot of the features and just how the game plays, especially when things start going wrong.
Saw a video of that once. Looked cool, but only to watch. Mostly because I ain't no coder.
Well that sounds interesting. I love roguelike games, but I'm also terrible at them. So this sounds like a game that I would enjoy, but also be very frustrated by.
I'll at least try to give your video a watch. Maybe I'll give it a shot if I like what I see.
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Duskers is a game with a high learning curve but also a 'Everything that goes wrong is your fault' which I like.
There are very few scenarios where it's 'This happened and I couldn't have stopped it'. Once you start understanding the game well, you start being able to solve the resource shortages and achieve a powerhouse state. Figuring out how your mods weave together, and so forth - yea.
It's a great puzzle-roguelike. I heartily recommend it
I was under the impression that NMS was receiving a lot of criticism it didn't deserve. Is it really that bad?
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The problem with No Man's Sky is that it's $60 worth of promises, paired to $20 worth of delivery. We were promised a limitless universe of discovery filled with friends and enemies and wonders. What we got was an endless sea of the same 12 assets recycled by a lazy procedural mix-n-match, paired with alien species who's interactivity would make a Mario Party game look like a riveting narrative.
To put it in metaphorical terms, we hired no man's sky to trim our hedges, whereupon it proceeded to cut half of them sloppily, then call it a day and demand full payment and a lemonade.
So, if No Man's Sky were free, the criticism would be undeserved. As it stands, it earned every kick its taken.
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Okay, I gave your video a watch and looked into the game a bit more on the internet. I have decided that it definitely looks like it could be fun, but I strongly suspect that I would play it for a few hours and then never bother to open it up again.
4158004 Given the structure of it, I find that I usually boot it up, do one or two missions, then close it again for a while. So it's definitely not a game you have to finish in one sitting.
:D Duskers is super fun. And like you say, it's a game that you dip into for a stretch, then wander away from, only to dip back into it later.
It's one of those "bite-sized games" where play sessions aren't so long that they leave you exhausted, nor so short they leave you frustrated.