Game News Cyclopean is an upcoming Lovecraftian dungeon crawler from the creator of Islands of the Caliph

[whydoibother]

It looks very bad visually.
At some point we are going to have to start calling out these "retro games" that look intentionally shit, when the goal of the very games they are copying was to look as good as the then technology allowed.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

I thought the Islands of the Caliph looked somewhat decent, so why the awful 2-color palette graphics from the late 70's ? God, what an eyesore, it's so bad it could permanently damage your vision.

As time passes, and technology advances, hipster devs intentionally make shittier looking games

 

[BING XI LAO]

blobber is an absolutely trash genre

 

[whydoibother]

blobber is an absolutely trash genre

Legend of Grimrock single handedly revived it for the wider audience. And it seems very good for smaller screens, for handhelds and phones. They just need to figure out how to make the text easier to read, and stick to turn based. It has potential both as a niche and as a mass product.
And not have this vomit intentionally bad visual style.

 

[Arvennios]

blobber is an absolutely trash genre

The turn-based ones are cool.

 

[lvl 2 Blue Slime]

I thought the Islands of the Caliph looked somewhat decent, so why the awful 2-color palette graphics from the late 70's ? God, what an eyesore, it's so bad it could permanently damage your vision.

It's obviously ultra-low budget

 

[Eirinjas]

Neo becomes The One and realizes the Matrix was just some shitty indie dev's duct-taped fan-fiction game.

 

[Baron Tahn]

Can't say the artstyle for this is my jam. I do like retro style graphics if done right - like xeen looks fucking great and if emulated correctly I think that's good for a modern game, but meh...this ain't that.

 

[Darkozric]

Stop supporting blobber hipsters

 

[Darkozric]

Zed Duke of Banville seriously, do you actually like this cat vomit? unacceptable.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Blobber-haters:

 

[Baron Tahn]

Dungeon Master. Jesus where do I go for that full colour goodness?

 

[Darkozric]

DM has nothing to do with this shit. I'm not a blobber hater and you know it.

This is the way to make it right

And if you want to go more retro than this, even the 8-bit version looks more charming than this hipster cat vomit

 

[Baron Tahn]

Wots the top one?

 

[Darkozric]

Shadows of Sergoth, the top one is the amiga version, below is the 8-bit amstrad version

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Tags: Cyclopean (Schmidt Workshops); Schmidt Workshops

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2958790/Cyclopean/

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Trapped in the Vaults of Zinn!​

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Dungeon Master. Jesus where do I go for that full colour goodness?

You might try reading the signature on my posts.

 

[Baron Tahn]

I can't see signatures? Maybe cos I use phone...

 

[Daemongar]

I think the overall concept is idiotic. It feels like an AI trying to reproduce an era of games that didn't exist. There was never a time of highly detailed green screen. IBM green screen systems used the DE-9 (9 pin) connection. It was a serial *fucking* connection to video output! I know, that doesn't mean anything to anyone, but it's slow - trust me! For reference, watch the movie Wargames from 1983 to see how slow things write to the screen. This is garbage disguised as retro.

 

[Modron]

I can't see signatures? Maybe cos I use phone...

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/account/preferences -> Content Options -> Show people's signa....

 

[Baron Tahn]

Cheers but apparently it's already ticked. Not gonna lose any sleep over it I'm sure I'll figure it out when I have time to search it up.

 

[Zeriel]

blobber is an absolutely trash genre

Legend of Grimrock single handedly revived it for the wider audience. And it seems very good for smaller screens, for handhelds and phones. They just need to figure out how to make the text easier to read, and stick to turn based. It has potential both as a niche and as a mass product.
And not have this vomit intentionally bad visual style.

Funny since LoG is the worst exemplar of it. It's like if you rebooted platformers and the game that got popular for it was Battletoads instead of Mario. Flash in the pan too where obviously people didn't actually like LoG for the game it was, the sequel failed horribly. I really wish the game to get the LoG sales and popularity had been an actually solid blobber so we would have gotten a sequel with legs.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Cheers but apparently it's already ticked. Not gonna lose any sleep over it I'm sure I'll figure it out when I have time to search it up.

Yeah, same issue on iphone. Even clicking 'display as desktop' does nothing.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Would this game run on an Amstrad CPC?


It'll probably be on itch.io as well. If really cheap then maybe I'll pick it up. A blobber is a blobber is a blobber and I have played far worse graphically and with probably a way inferior interface.

 

[treborSux]

I fuckin love rogue-likes! What a waste of time developing a proper game, when you can get a heckin new experience every time!