this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
194 points (96.6% liked)

Games

32371 readers
1380 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

I think I'll be finally picking up Project Wingman and Black Mesa in this sale.

What's on your list?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Someone mentioned SpaceBourne 2 in another thread the other day, so I checked the reviews which made it sound like a pretty good game and it was on sale so I bought it.

Mechanically, it's awesome. Polish wise... It needs work. Text-to-speech voice overs (which I hope are placeholders because they are jarring as fuck), kind of a mishmash of aesthetic design that makes me think the assets are merely freebies on the Unreal store, just missing that general pizazz that shows off the quality.

Not that it takes away from the fun, which is the most important part. The best way to even describe the game is "Mount & Blade in space." It combines some of the best aspects of Elite Dangerous, X3/X4, NMS, and Stellaris into its own thing, and it is super cool to play if not look at (though the crazy set piece things in the MQ are super fucking cool; like being eaten by a space kraken and then escaping in a smaller ship while avoiding thousands of little squiddy things, and they're actually there not like some BS particle effect or optical illusion).