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Vapourware Fortune's Run - retro FPS inspired by Quake, Deus Ex and E.Y.E - now available on Early Access
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Three years at least in this case.
Jinn
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I sometimes buy early access juat to support them. I think of it like late kickstarter pledge. To my surprise, blood west which i bougbt few months ago actually gonna get released in the end of the year.
Imo the lens you have to see it is not "it's playable/i can get hours of fun" but "it's a promising project that i am willing to risk the rest of the game sucking or the project halted so i can support ongoing development and give feedback"
Your attitude in general is right, but sometimes i just feel like if a project is promising enough and dev has good track record enough then it's worth the risk.
Jinn
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Yeah, I'll do that with developers I trust and who have delivered in the past. That's pretty much it for early access though.
Also for the rare codexer developer with good intentions.
Too many times I have seen early access games announce full 1.0 release and then still kick you with a post launch roadmap.
Me too, when it's a combination of game I want to play for a bit before release, with a discount and devs are stating there will be a price increase when it releases... but when they flat out say the price will be the same after early access release like this game then there's really no incentive to get it early.. Also like to check to see how often they have been updating it and what the updates consist of.
Eisen
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It seems that both devs are trans
https://twitter.com/FortunesRun/status/1710438874248323312
https://twitter.com/FortunesRun/status/1710438874248323312
Lemming42
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I mean, that was obvious as soon as they credited themselves with names like "Arachne".
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Be Kind Rewind thoroughly defeated
lightbane
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That explains why they are trans and why they felt the need to include fucking sexual drama in a FPS. The two were abused in their childhood and became trannies as a consequence.
toughasnails
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I kept thinking why the music sounded so familiar. Think its a sped up remix of House of the Rising Sun.
std::namespace
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I'll buy it if they show bussy!
Gerrard
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It also explains why the combat in the game is an unfun clusterfuck.
Lemming42
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The sexual assault stuff is gonna be such a total misfire, I can already tell. As I wrote upthread, I spent the whole early access in a state of heightened tension just waiting for something fucking horrific to happen, and the fact that it didn't just means that the anxiety will transfer into the next bit they release.
Whatever they want to convey and however strongly they feel about it, this just isn't the right medium for it. The game does tap into a grimy, foreboding feeling of malaise, which I suppose pairs well with the revolting horror of the topic they want to portray, but it's just going to be such a jarring and fun-wrecking nightmare to be jolted from "hmm, how am I going to get through this room undetected" to "oh, now allegorical sexual violence involving aliens with long tongues is playing out on my screen".
Whatever they want to convey and however strongly they feel about it, this just isn't the right medium for it. The game does tap into a grimy, foreboding feeling of malaise, which I suppose pairs well with the revolting horror of the topic they want to portray, but it's just going to be such a jarring and fun-wrecking nightmare to be jolted from "hmm, how am I going to get through this room undetected" to "oh, now allegorical sexual violence involving aliens with long tongues is playing out on my screen".
Lemming42
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You mean the pre-release drama? The devs got into a scrap with Steam about the tags for the game, because Steam playtesters (no, I didn't know Steam actually playtested the shit on their platform either) failed to beat the tutorial, and also objected to the content warning on the store page for some arcane reason. The devs relayed this story in a confusing blog post in which nobody could quite tell exactly what had happened or what Steam's alleged problem was. They claimed these issues may lead to the game's EA release being delayed.
People started questioning the devs to try and tease apart what had actually happened, and one person asking questions was Dave Oshry. The devs were a bit snappy with him in response. Since Dave Oshry is a LIVING LEGEND having made like two mediocre games, his fanbase all rallied round him and said they'd boycott Fortune's Run, for the devs were now guilty of Crimes Against Dave. Dave himself was actually very reasonable about it and told people there was no reason for a boycott.
Beowulf
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Thank you for the explanation, but I meant the sexual abuse controversy, as I'm out of the loop.
Lemming42
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Oh - there's going to be a depiction of sexual violence at some point in the game, and it forms a "core part of the story" (devs' own words), and the protagonist's backstory. It's hinted at right from the start, with the mentor in the tutorial suggesting that something terrible has happened to your character, which you can't quite recall or confront.
The devs say that they've both experienced sexual violence in real life, and feel compelled to portray it in the game in a way that conveys the full gravity of the experience and inspires revulsion and sickness in the viewer, rather than the flippant or glorified depictions they feel tend to exist in other media.
It's not so much a controversy in itself as much as people just feeling that this isn't going to be the best medium/game through which to address the topic. I don't doubt that the devs have something they really genuinely want to get across in the game, and I don't doubt that their intentions are good, but I just don't see how something like that popping up in a sci-fi FPS/imsim game is gonna be anything other than a disaster. It's a sticking point for a lot of people and the devs response is generally just "don't play the game then" (which is fair enough).
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