Radiator Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The high visual polish and stellar production values adorn a solid but predictable gameplay loop: you fight through dungeons with random rooms / enemies, collect resources, and bring them back to your hub to build up your village and its inhabitants. Here the restraint of the walking sim format justifies the minimalism.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. The starting area is like 2-3x the density of vanilla Skyrim. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Being able to backtrack is generally going to be more realistic in the RPG sense--of course your character should be able to go back and pick up that item they left behind, or fight that enemy that scared you away before. Not universally so, to be sure, but grind tends to be more of a roguelite thing. Architecture.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

I won’t go in-depth here since many others have explored this psychological terrain in much more detail but I will use some existing taxonomies like the Gamer Motivation Model from Quantic Foundry to illustrate my point. Players get matched with another player’s team to fight an AI-controlled battle against it.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

So I reimagined them yet again, taking into account their unique targeting mechanics and what that means when fighting other bots. Kinetic projectiles also light up targets (including terrain) due to the impacts, and at the start of this battle you can see two mechanical machines fall silent after being disabled.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). Failing that (gets blasted in a fight? one of the potential “encounters” is another Terminal nook containing a new “Download(Registry)” hack with an even more extreme effect, revealing all terrain, security locations, and even item caches.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Where players can navigate the terrain and feel a sense of history beneath their feet.” By building, crafting, exploring and fighting your goal is to become a skilled Realmwalker that finds their way through the portals to the magical city of Nightingale, the last known bastion of humanity.

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Filmustage

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The centurion and his men must fight their way through hostile territory and battle barbarian tribes in order to complete their mission. The landscapes become an integral part of the narrative, reflecting both the perilous terrain and the indomitable spirit of the characters. Centurion" is a gritty and realistic historical action film.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 15, 2022

Balancing relies heavily on gear, maps are crowded with question marks, Boss fights feature repetitive mechanisms. The map models are rich and varied in terms of items, buildings, and terrain changes, which offsets outdated graphics performance. However, there are not many innovative areas in the core gameplay and UX. The grand scene).

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A homophobic English farmboy is forced to work with a hunky Romanian farmhand, and so inevitable muddy fight sex and simmering romance ensues. Longtime readers may remember my white working class British masculinity simulator Hard Lads , so I'm certainly not unsympathetic to this premise.

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