Maze Slaughter - roguelike FPS from ex-Piranha Bytes devs

[Safav Hamon]

Many senior Piranha Bytes Red employees split from the company last year. Several formed a new studio, Giant Gun Games, and are developing a roguelite FPS.

 

[Zombra]

Many senior Piranha Bytes Red employees split from the company last year. Several formed a new studio, Giant Gun Games, and are developing a roguelite FPS.

Looks suspiciously like hot garbage.

 

[DalekFlay]

When will the "roguelite" craze dieeeeeeeee

 

[Agame]

When will the "roguelite" craze dieeeeeeeee

Around the time when the "Souls-like" dies.

 

[Safav Hamon]

It looks more polished in this footage.

 

[Heretic]

"Fast-paced"...
The PC crawls like a snail.

 

[Zombra]

"Fast-paced"...
The PC crawls like a snail.

Pacing of a game != protagonist foot speed. This does look very fast-paced, i.e. constant action! action! action! In fact monotonously so.

 

[AgentFransis]

The game is literally all blue and orange. Except when the screen is covered with shit, which is half the time. Looks really boring too.

 

[Astral Rag]

That looks so much fun to explore...

It's like Doom never happened and Wolf3D's level design is still the example to follow. Not that Wolf3D looked as bland and boring as this, far from it actually.

 

[Zombra]

That looks so much fun to explore...

There are power-ups in there!!

 

[Durwyn]

How could anybody think it is a good idea for a game is beyond me.

Nice devs you had there Piranha Bytes !

 

[aweigh]

looks like a literal asset flip type of game.

 

[JarlFrank]

This looks like one of those 2 dollar games made in Unity

 

[Reinhardt]

That looks so much fun to explore...

It's like Doom never happened and Wolf3D's level design is still the example to follow. Not that Wolf3D looked as bland and boring as this, far from it actually.

Decline of Bomberman

 

[Safav Hamon]

This looks like one of those 2 dollar games made in Unity

It's Unreal Engine 4. They applied for a grant with Epic to receive more funding.

looks like a literal asset flip type of game.

Ironically the game is funded by selling assets on the Unreal store.

 

[The Decline]

Looks like shit.

 

[Agame]

I appreciate this garbage is out of RPG discussion, but you should probably keep going and send it to Retardo Land.

 

[Darth Roxor]

Looks phenomenally bad. It's like someone took Serious Sam and said "hey, wouldn't this be better if everything was confined to identical 1m-wide corridors?"

Nice devs you had there Piranha Bytes !

Ris3n suddenly explained

 

[Safav Hamon]

Found some new information. Update:

- The storepage images are from a very early prototype build
- The levels are no longer randomly generated
- They plan is to release it into early access once they improve the graphics
- It will feature Twitch integration allowing viewers to affect the gameplay
- They're open to an Epic store exclusivity agreement

 

[Hobo Elf]

Found some new information. Update:
- They're open to an Epic store exclusivity agreement

Desperation.

 

[Safav Hamon]

I found an executive summary detailing their budget and monetization plans. Microtransactions are confirmed.

Spoiler

 

[Dodo1610]

I found an executive summary detailing their budget and monetization plans. Microtransactions are confirmed.

Spoiler

Could you give us a link?

 

[Safav Hamon]

https://www.f6s.com/giantgungamesug

 

[Dodo1610]

https://www.f6s.com/giantgungamesug

Thanks, looks like Piranha Bytes Red no longer exists.

 

[HoboForEternity]

rougelike FPS is one of the shittiest sub genre for FPS behind corridor shooter. i played this apparently critically claimed game called ziggurat and it is fucking boring. the core gameplay itself is good, but all the levels are randomized shit, roulette arrays of the same enemies and level combination. there is no sense of place, no sense of thoughtful encounters, just random shit, you die, then play trough the samey random shit again.

rouge like is cancer