• Days after LawBreakers shut down, CliffyB's studio reveals a Battle Royale game
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http://i.imgur.com/5aL4dNJ.jpg Still couldn't past battleborn
This game is gaining some traction in Twitch. Any publicity is good publicity, I suppose.
wow late to the party CliffyB****
I tried googling the game and https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107295/81ba6e25-6048-42b5-9e32-706110e5443c/fortnite.PNG
Most of it is outright mockery of the game. Doubt Cliffy B is smart enough to take advantage of the publicity judging by how much of a walking marketing blunder he is these days.
You know they taught me in Dev school that making a super safe concept riding the current trend is always destined to end in failure unless you got a real good selling hook or something that stands out. I am utterly convinced Cliffy B is drunk on art.
case in point https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Unreal_Tournament_screenshot.jpg/220px-Unreal_Tournament_screenshot.jpg Genre got popular, it still stood out.
Now I don't play any of the Battle Royale games because it's not really my thing and I would refuse to support something like PUBG anyway because I think it's a scummy product by a scummy company that can go to hell but there is something I don't understand in all this. Why is the internet doing its usual whiny freakout over this, of all things? Comments like "Ugh another BR game" and "I'm so tired of one of these coming out every month." seem kind dumb reddit tier whining because isn't this like...the third one? Or am I mistaken? I know some games have put in a BR mode to their non BR game, although several of those were jokes I think, but as for actually dedicated Battle Royale games which is what we are talking here, competing for market attention, don't we just have PUBG and Fortnite right now? That's hardly a choice saturated scene. I know they are a popular genre which means they are cool to like, which means they are even cooler to hate for internet points but I'm not sure when a third contender is announced it's time for people to freak out and act like your favorite game was cancelled in favor of this because only a certain number of games can be made per year. It's the hero shooter and MOBA scene over again where people complain about other people liking games they don't and having games in that genre is apparently bad even though other people like them. I just don't get that mentality.
There are plenty of battle royale games besides PUBG and Fortnite (H1Z1, The Culling, Paladins: Battlegrounds, Stand Out, The Darwin Project...) Radical Heights looks like shit and umimaginative, which is why people don't like it. Good for you if you enjoy it.
I thought H1Z1 was a DayZ style game so that's on me, The Culling has been dead for awhile hasn't it so it doesn't really count as an active competitor, Paladins sort of counts I suppose even though it's really just a mode for a Hero Shooter, I don't know what Stand Out is so I'll give you that and I totally forgot about The Darwin Project you're right, although from what I understand that one is iterating and doing its own take in several ways, and isn't that what should be encouraged? Like I said, I don't have a vested interest in this genre or any of its games, I just really dislike the internet outrage attitude of people constantly jumping all over what is currently popular just to hate every facet of it no matter what, even though they probably don't play them either and especially in instances like this where having more competition and chances for innovation or positive iteration seems like a plus. I really enjoyed the alphas and betas of Lawbreakers, but it was a Hero Shooter at a time when it was super cool to hate those and pretend there were 20 every week and every new try at them was the worst thing since sliced Hitler so it barely got out of the gate, that toxic kind of attitude just really sucks.
i find it funny how they still managed to make their character models look generic af
https://twitter.com/KazHiraiCEO/status/984194032938176513
I think most of the people playing this are BR aficionados morbidly curious to see how bad it is first-hand.
I can feel the burn from here
That was my fault, I misread this thread where I mistook their statement for one of closure, but re-reading it, I see it says: our studio is determined to give this game the second life it deserves. However, between now and then, we cannot sit idle. We will continue to support the game in its current state, but we also need to focus on other projects with fresh creative leaders. We have been working on something new and we can’t wait to share more about it! It’s a passion project that we’re in complete control of. So that's a fucky wucky on my part there.
Fortnite's servers go down days after Radical Heights launches, resulting in it hitting six digit viewer counts on twitch 🤔
Not defending the game or the genre, but i genuinely wonder what else you expected as far as the guns go. If it's a game piggybacking off the retrowave 80s trend, then guns from the 1980s are the only option. All the guns we've seen are exactly what you'd find in a stereotypical 80s action movie. The M202 FLASH makes an appearance as a rocket launcher because Commando taught everyone (incorrectly) that it's just a rocket launcher.
is Radical Heights better or worse than Radical Islam
I'm sorry but I don't quite see how the 80's aesthetic is overused.
Blood Dragon also has 80s retrowave inspired guns and while some of them are simpler, the arsenal overall is kind of a pastiche of made up weapons from films of that era, which makes them far more interesting than simply taking a bunch of guns of the era and incorporating them with no further alterations. IIRC the only gun in Blood Dragon that's a straight up existing firearm with very little modification is the 1887 which has a different name and manages to still be silly and over the top on virtue of its animations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqXsJYCmg28 you decide
You're right, but Blood Dragon was a very extreme take on the 80s retro theme and the guns reflected that. This game looks like a pretty tame and fairly 'realistic' take on it, and I feel like the guns fit that. As someone who likes real guns from the 80s, I appreciate that, but I feel like anything else would be out of place with the rest of the game. Not that I'm ever going to play it, but that's just my two cents.
The game tries to present itself as this whacky over the top game show ala Running Man but does not go the extra mile to actually present itself as such.
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