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I started playing Environmental Station Alpha (henceforth called ESA because fuck this long name) and the game is fine.
If you played Super Metroid there is nothing you haven't seen and if you haven't played neither I'd say Super Metroid is the superior game but the game is still fine, it just has a lower production value.
The game works but Metroid has better music, better graphics, better «flow» and come first so you it was original once.
One special note about graphics. While I think Metroid LOOKS better this may a matter of faste, however more than one time I failed to notice part of the background was a platform and though some background decoration was solid ground and on the worlds of Miyamoto «this is not good game design»
Still, hoping to see my 8 pixels high robot turn into a hot chick!
Nerf Now!! 2603
Before I bitch about Oxygen Not Included like a stressed duplicant let me point the good things.
The art is charming,
Under the hood of the cutesy art, you have a very complex simulator.
Now I got this out of the way, let's bitch.
While I enjoy the cutesy art, it betrays how ruthless the game is. Your colony is a sinking ship and if you do everything right at the right time you are at best making sure your base dies later instead of now. However, since the game has no end BUT the resources needed for your survival are limited the whole ordeal seen futile.
Remember what I said about complexity? A «healthy» base is a very delicate balance between energy grids, heat circulation, food production, personal management and fucking pumbling, all those carefully simulated to make sure the smallest mistake will spiral out of control.
And of course, this is assuming you do everything right. God forbid you dig too fast and open a pocket of polluted water or heated air and now your duplicants are vomiting due to stress instead of fixing the mess.
In a game like Sim City you can go for the megalopolis or a charming countryside town but ONI force you to optimize your base because failure means a fast death instead of a slow one.
But if you like Dwarf Fortress and the idea of sailing a sinking ship on an infinite ocean with no land, this is the game for you!
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Don't worry Toru, I still like you thou truth to be told I like all girls from Deku class.
I fully expect her to get some power-up at some point because right now she is meme tier in potential.
This comic idea come from how terrible has to be for Toru to do missions on Tokyo winter, walking barefoot on the cold season, stepping on all kinds of shits and ultimately being blocked by something trivial like a locked door.
Nerf Now!! 2610
I think from a business point of view, Anthem is dead but like a white elephant, you can't just throw him into the closet and forget about it.
I believe Anthem is on life support with the working crew behind it being slowly moved to different games until they have one guy doing basic maintenance stuff.
I don't blame Ben Irvine to leaving though. He tried and he failed and it's hard to stay at Bioware after that. Who knows, his next game may be amazing though from what I heard his work on Star Wars The Old Republic also got a bad reputation.
Still, I think being Lead Producer is a hard job which goes beyond deciding if Javelins should have this or that attack, there is probably lots of more mundane, corporate-like functions he needs to perform which makes him sought after.