Renault on 8/1/2025 at 16:30
Quote Posted by demagogue
Subnautica was a really important game to me, but I don't have much faith in Subnautica 2.
Curious why you say that, seems like almost no info has been released so far about the game. Does it have anything to do with how Below Zero turned out? I have yet to play it, but I have a big time soft spot for the first game. I thought it was really special, especially in VR, so I have high hopes for the next version.
demagogue on 8/1/2025 at 19:47
Yes, I was going to add that. It has to do with Below Zero losing the magic. The gameplay and exploration is still there, but less of the motivation. (Mirror's Edge is the other classic example of that.) But also I think if you go in with purposefully low expectations in a context like this, it actually gives a game a better chance of proving you wrong and putting its better foot forward when you play it. That's what I'm hoping for. That just comes from a long experience with sequels and franchises.
Come to think of it, I got on the original Subnautica train really early in the early release period when it was a buggy mess, which was what more than half the comments on it were about, and before it even had any of the end-game areas. So I went in with expectations in the basement, and it kept surprising me more and more with how good it was turning out with each beta-release, but it had its magic already even in these early releases that you could feel.
Neb on 8/1/2025 at 21:53
They previously worked on Natural Selection, which I remember being great. It grew out of the Half-Life modding scene, and was like a multiplayer first-person shooter/RTS hybrid of marines vs aliens where your commander would place down buildings and you'd scurry around building and fighting.
As a low-powered alien you were a tiny impish thing that could climb on walls and go through vents. You'd have to ambush a lot and use guerilla tactics. I remember a final push on the marines' base where I was playing as the flying pterodactyl creature - very weak, but swooping in, dumping poison gas on them as we overran their final stand. There's also a massive rhino creature with a charge attack which smushes enemies. When you could afford to transform into it, your whole team would suddenly get the morale to follow you into any kind of stupid charge. The marines also had a power suit with miniguns to match the rhino.
It was not obvious that Subnautica would turn out so well when it first went into early access, but it definitely was an application of the development team's existing game design philosophy. (Subnatica also takes place in the same universe as Natural Selection - whatever that means).
EvaUnit02 on 10/1/2025 at 15:16
Let's go!
[video=youtube;iCGyfXGPSvc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCGyfXGPSvc[/video]
Renault on 14/1/2025 at 19:13
I saw (
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1534840/Hyper_Light_Breaker/) Hyper Light Breaker is available now in EA on Steam. I really hope it's good and does well, but I also have very little confidence that it will feel as magical as Hyper Light Drifter did, one of my favorite games of all time.
Yakoob on 14/1/2025 at 21:49
Quote Posted by Renault
I saw (
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1534840/Hyper_Light_Breaker/) Hyper Light Breaker is available now in EA on Steam. I really hope it's good and does well, but I also have very little confidence that it will feel as magical as Hyper Light Drifter did, one of my favorite games of all time.
"Mostly Negative" wtf :V
demagogue on 14/1/2025 at 22:09
The comments are about bugginess in the game mechanics & controls that presumably are going to get fixed, as opposed to the content or gameplay per se. That's a reason to be somewhat optimistic about the game, or anyway to be skeptical of reviews while it's still in early access.
