The RPG heroes bundle and I thought the last two choice bundles were good. I'm sure many would disagree :) Just the fact that they are releasing more bundles recently (with a reasonably priced tier 3) is worth celebrating.

If you're just getting the bundle for that, I'd hold off for now. Chances are someone made a mistake while typing the description or they changed their mind at the last minute. I've opened a support ticket. Will try to remember to reply here when I get a response :)

Watched his vid this morning. Already tried the game last night and loved it, but his video convinced me even more :)

Glad you are enjoying both! I'm always impartial to KB + M for PC gaming, so here is my take:

SYNTHETIK benefits from a mouse for performing precision headshots in a way that would be trickier for me with a controller. However, if you are really good at mentally drawing lines from your character to an enemy, then it might be worth it, but...

let's say that you line up a shot perfectly that draws a straight line between your character and the enemy's head, but your character is lower on the screen than the enemy such that the line would appear to pass through their body before reaching their head (because the game is isometric perspective). Would the game give you a head shot or body shot? I have no clue. With a mouse, your aim depends on your ability to aim and click the literal head of whatever you are shooting at. I hope that makes the nuanced difference clear.

EVERSPACE doesn't demand as much precision, though aiming is still important. I think the tradeoff is that keyboard is less precise with ship movement but mouse is better with aiming. So a controller may be more precise with movement but aiming would come down to your ability to handle a thumbstick/pad versus a mouse.

It's only ever from this user and there are 2 different links that I've been redirected through. My roommate and I did light research and both sites definitely have affiliate link type deals.

Clearly your blacklist is a measure of when you slip up on bundle posts here /s

Stay awesome Lilly!

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I've been curious for a couple years but never really bothered to look into it. Big thankies for the info and keep killing it with your posts!

Nope, I don't own it. I checked some YT reviews and it seems decent enough but nothing you must have.
But considering how little T3 costs extra compared to T2, you really really should go for it. If you don't already own all but Hero Siege. ;)

The base game goes for like 1€, not more than 2€ during sales. Take a look at how many DLC's the game has, you'll probably want some of those (the one for increasing inventory/storage size is I'd say a must, there are lots of character DLC's too, the one that adds 7th chapter is not that great, most people that own the DLC just skip that chapter anyway, but I think there's also a character you get with it).

Anyway, I bought the Complete edition for 10€ on steam's summer sale and the game was a lot of fun. I played it for like at least 10 hours every day, and it's been quite a while since I got that hooked on any game. Then the season 12 ended, season 13 came and was not only riddled with buffs but they drastically slowed down the progression through the game by nerfing stats on all items and buffing enemies.

Game went from being very fun, to just not being fun at all. You used to be able to get to the end-game in like 3-5 hours if you knew what you're doing, now I hear it takes over 40 hours to reach end-game (which is just grinding btw, since the game doesn't really have a storyline and the very few quests it does have are not worth bothering with). Also before when you reached lv100 on your character you'd then gain hero levels which were infinite (I think they were infinite) which applied globally for all characters on your account, so starting with new characters was easier over time which made you want to give other classes a try and experiment. Hero levels are now no longer global but tied to each character instead, so each new character will be just about equally slow to go through the game, well maybe a bit quicker since you'll probably have items for them in your storage.

Anyway, I really can't recommend the game right now.

I tried it, it was really bad for me. Essentially the first ~2 hours was killing millions of unthreatning mobs with tons of items, none of which have any use. From what I've read, my experience was shared by other players, that then complained about very easy turning into very hard with no balance

It had some of the worst interface issues I've ever seen in a game, to date (seriously, trying to navigate basic equipment menus was like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube). I decidedly could not stand it. The actual gameplay wasn't good either, playing out just as a generic, clunky arcade game (honestly, it envoked memories of NES era Gauntlet games more than anything else).

Sure, it's got Diablo-like looting to it but, I mean.. do you really want to suffer all that for something you can find in countless other games? And nevermind how glitchy the multiplayer was and how very, very bad the level design was. From combat design to mob design to difficulty balancing and basically everything else, I just can't think of a single part of the game that didn't frustrate or bore me. Nevermind you couldn't rebind any keys, which only made the terrible control and interface design that much worse..

More notably, it was one of those games I got to play with friends, and all four of us hated it immediately and gave up completely after two sessions attempting to play it.

That all said, I haven't tried it for years- but another major issue was how very unresponsive the developer was to feedback (perhaps in part due to the support oi a small, rabid core fanbase), so I heavily doubt it has improved. Really, it's probably the second most notable game after Payday 2 that I just can't fathom why people like so much [I'm not sure of the present state of Payday 2, but originally the base game was $20 for demo length content, and was filled with bugs, subpar shooting mechanics, weak level design, and extremely weak AI and AI spawning mechanics. It was an amazing cosmetic sim, though, to be fair].

tl;dr version: If you ever wanted to play the NES Gauntlet games again, but also wanted them to be generic Diablo-clones done with very messy map design, horrendous menu interfaces, loads of polish issues, and just overall clunkyness.. this is definitely the game for you.

Really, it's one I'd heavily recommend going for the base game on, before considering DLCs. Given that it's been previously bundled at low tiers, you should be able to find a lot of good trade or giveway offers for it, so perhaps consider trying to get the base game on its own first, before shelling in fully for the bundle.

You're right, you kinda have to just drop it and stop fighting at some point. The meaning of the word has changed forever and there's nothing anyone can do about it now. Most people, if they know the word at all, would probably name Binding of Isaac or the like if you asked them to name a roguelike and that game is about as far from the original definition as possible. But I guess some purists would say Tales of Maj'Eyal or anything that looks better than ASCII characters doesn't qualify so even if I tried to be technically correct, I like tiles and images over ASCII so I'm a heathen too.

BTW - I whitelisted you and I have a couple GA's going for game that also bastardize the name roguelike as well.

Problem solved! I didn't know that! Thanks! XD I'll wait! Probably it's not good as I thought! haha

Wanna tell me how bad is it? :D I'll accept you in a second! :D

That was very nice and helpful. Thank you so much! :)

First of all, it's visually outstanding, every sector with its secrets and hazards looks really cool, there are 4 ships depending if you want to go balanced, full stealth, fast or just braindead gunship, you will mostly stick to a playstyle depending of what you choose at the start, but it will vary in some ways depending on the weapons and devices you get during each run.

During a run, you have limited time to explore, kill enemies, get secrets and farm resources at each sector before it gets really difficult, so there is some planning and time management in that (it's not as hard as it sounds). It has a main story and side quests that progress through each run, they're good, but not the main selling point.

My favorite part was the dogfighting, it's incredibly fun because it feels really different depending of the ship you choose and the equipment you get during each run. There are some balance issues with some broken build combinations but that's just part of the fun.

I highly recommend playing it with the encounters DLC and a gamepad for the full experience tho.