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Death Trash - edgy post-apocalyptic isometric action-RPG - now available on Early Access

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Death Trash Is A Grimier, Scarier, Nastier Fallout
Adam Smith on October 12th, 2015 at 11:12 am.
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Death Trash [official site] might be the Fallout game for people who wish Bethesda’s post-nuclear world were a whole lot grimier, scarier, and swearier. I’ve been following development for a while but a couple of nights ago I had a nightmare featuring images from the devblog and that means it’s probably time to bring the post-apocalyptic RPG to your attention. It’s a game in which giant bleeding heads make dire predictions, Lovecraftian entities lurk beneath the surface and in which “Fuck off” seems to be a common dialogue option.


Just about all of the images – several of which are animated – at the blog are good enough to maintain my interest in the game. It’s a grotesque setting, packed with radioactive body horror and conversations about shit and blood. Whether that’ll translate into gross-out sniggers and a grubbily believable pisspunk fantasy isn’t clear – the whole thing could still be charmless and grating – but I’m happy to see something that deviates from the too-clean aftermaths that I’m becoming accustomed to.


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Death Trash is appealingly nasty and anxious, like Barry Godber’s artwork for the Court of the Crimson King, but with extra snot and the sort of bad attitude punk bands used to crave. It’s the work of solo developer Stephan Hövelbrinks and the art and world-building aren’t the only interesting things about it. Inspiration for the ‘living world’ and narrative comes from lofty sources:

“Death Trash is a modern post-apocalyptic roleplaying game with influences of cyberpunk, science fiction, horror, the grotesque, sex and trash-talk humor. It features a world full of dialogue and unique characters. Use shotguns, psi powers and eloquent talking to survive in this hostile wasteland. Death Trash is still at an early stage of development and the next step will be a playable prototype.

“Inspired by the roleplaying classic Ultima 7 with it’s focus on a living world as well as the narrative heavy Planescape: Torment, he knew this world had to be created as a mixture of both.”

Yes. I want to see more.

Oh, and this guy reminds me of that hitch-hiking robot that people were sad about recently.

I couldn't find a thread about this.


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From the website:

Death Trash is a modern post-apocalyptic roleplaying game with influences of cyberpunk, science fiction, horror, the grotesque and trash-talk humor. It features a world full of dialogue and interesting characters, item crafting and realtime combat. Player freedom is emphasized and combat is not the only way to survive. Inspired by roleplaying classics like Ultima 7, Planescape: Torment and Fallout. Supports Mouse, Gamepad and Local Co-op.

And pixel art. :negative: But it's a one man project.

Some more images from the website:

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Wow. The graphics are the "meh" kind of pixel art (none of these modern ones reach the beauty of early 90s pixels) but look fine enough, the premise is kinda cool...

... and then I looked more closely at the screenshots. A big town called "Fucktopia". A bar called "Puke Bar", with people pissing on the floor just because. Every second word used is "fuck".

I really love the Gothic series, especially the German versions, for their colloquial dialogue and liberal use of swearwords, it really adds to the atmosphere in those games. But here? Holy fucking shit this isn't "grimier, scarier, nastier" than Fallout, this is just fucking immature. A couple of hardass characters saying fuck all the time? Sure! Having a "fuck you" dialogue option in most conversations? Why not! Basing your entire game around the premise of inserting the word "fuck" anywhere and everywhere possible? I guess I would've loved this back when I was 12 and easily amused.
 
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Fallout 1 : Tumblr Edition the game.

I pretty sure they going to put in out of place progressive messages in the game and you can't back out of it.
 

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Pixel art? Eew, truly disgusting indeed. Even then, I kinda like the Lovecraftian, bizarre abominations. Also, the protagonist kinda looks like a teenager punk, so it's appropriate he/she/it constantly swears. Even then, chances are this will be more playable and less filled with bugs than Fallout 4.
 
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This is almost funny and the natural end result of fallout fan edgers growing up.


What's wrong?
 

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I guess it's more like an action rpg with dialog. Maybe tankgirl meets horror. Could be kind of entertaining if it doesn't take itself too seriously and the "gunplay" is good.
 

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Despite the childish overuse of the "fuck"... it still looks interesting. Interesting enough to be great if, by chance, it has great mechanics.
 

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It's like those awkward scenes in 80's movies where a bunch of punks with names like "Snot" show up and act retarded for two minutes stretched out to RPG length.
 

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