KickStarter Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones - a Lovecraftian Computer RPG

[Roguey]

You did, when you first went to the French hill, you saw him entering the club and killing a guy on his way.

On the Steam forums, a dev confirmed that was just a guy, not Wax Face.

 

[Delterius]

can you be a degenerate sex wizard or should i just be a normal occultist

for no reason in particular

 

[Wunderbar]

You can't be a sex wizard, unfortunately.

 

[Delterius]

You can't be a sex wizard, unfortunately.

but also :thanks:

 

[Wunderbar]

Sex-related class trait is pretty useless, probably because most of sex options were cut.

 

[Roguey]

You can't be a sex wizard, unfortunately.

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Depraved Occultist

"Like Crawford or Rasputin before him, you have an unholy aura of sexual magnetism but tend to neglect studies in favor of carnal pleasures."

Higher Sex Appeal, Slower Artifact Research

Well, sure, I doubt you get any specific dialogue options, but the concept is there.

 

[Delterius]

I doubt you get any specific dialogue options

dat was question tho

I mean if all you get is a freebie from prostitutes then why be a movie actor / depraved occultist

unless this is the way stygian has found to criticize our desire for self validation in power fantasies as well as how our culture has become too obsessed with sex, much like how beauty is useless in arcanum

woah

 

[Wunderbar]

Mind=blown

 

[Roguey]

dat was question tho

I mean if all you get is a freebie from prostitutes then why be a movie actor / depraved occultist

unless this is the way stygian has found to criticize our desire for self validation in power fantasies as well as how our culture has become too obsessed with sex, much like how beauty is useless in arcanum

woah

There really aren't too many women in the game, at least not important to quests. I imagine you'd get more benefit from it by playing a female depraved occultist/actor (I intended to try out the latter; maybe once patching's all done)

 

[Wunderbar]

Roguey i've been playing as a female depraved occultist for the first third of the game (solved Fredkin's quest and was halfway through Arkham serial killer). Freebie from prostitutes was the only option i've encountered.

 

[Abu Antar]

You can also get freebie from speechcraft, because I didn't pay anything.

 

[V_K]

Yeah, I don't think gender or age play any role in the interactions, only skills do.

 

[Wunderbar]

Yeah, I don't think gender or age play any role in the interactions

Sometimes npcs will call you "an old man" if you're playing as an old man.
also prostitute will say that she never had sex with another woman before, but yolo.

 

[V_K]

Yes, I mean, they acknowledge it, but gameplay-wise there's no difference. It doesn't open/close quest solutions the way skills do.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

If you play again, you'll know to bring lots of drugs to the boss every fight. Remember you can use them before combat starts. When you got 20 AP and go first every turn, nothing can stop you. My Explorer/Big Game Hunter was able to empty the bulldog pistol every turn (with snapshot for 3 AP shots) when he was on Coca Vin Marie, Powdered Cocaine, Ferocity, and Ampheta-Man. The game is so short that being addicted to analgesics, tobacco, alcohol, AND cocaine isn't even a big deal.

For some reason, I did feel bad turning my dog into a junkie though.

So you're bringing a syringe to a gunfight?

Hey, it worked for that Spy dude in the commandos game.

 

[Silva]

Yes, I mean, they acknowledge it, but gameplay-wise there's no difference.

Already more C&C than Baldurs Gate ever produced.

 

[Tyranicon]

You can't be a sex wizard, unfortunately.

but also :thanks:

No point in getting this game. Whats the point of embracing eldritch monstrosities if theres nothing kinky involved?

 

[Abu Antar]

I'm almost done, I think. My opinion is that you shouldn't buy the game (yet). There are some great ideas and some things are implemented well, but some things are poorly thought out, or poorly executed. I think that it starts out great but gets worse as you keep playing. I enjoyed my first 6 hours the most. The writing is decent for Turkish developers, mood is nice, but combat is a chore, even if it's not super challenging. There needs to be better clarity for what everything does. Too many useless feats, and slow actions when fighting (thanks cheatengine!). The best thing about the game is probably that a lot of quests have several solutions. You can see that they have looked at some of my favorite games, and maybe if these guys got better with experience, we could actually get a truly great game from these games. I'd call this a flawed gem. There are lots of things to either like or dislike. The question is if the negatives overshadows the positives for players. In my case, $17.40 wasn't a bad price to pay, and I'd be willing to play this if it got some fixes and fleshed out content (among other things, a better ending, yes I spoiled that for myself).

 

[Delterius]

You can't be a sex wizard, unfortunately.

but also :thanks:

No point in getting this game. Whats the point of embracing eldritch monstrosities if theres nothing kinky involved?

I shall supply all the kink.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Has (/had?) potential, but should've been postponed instead of rushed. I heavily doubt that they'll develop the rest without a monetary incentive and, given the circumstances, anything but a symbolic price for the missing content would be a shitty move on their part.

But then again, stygian'd or otherwise, it's nobody's business but the Turks'. Would still recommend it to others once it gets heavily discounted since the game in itself is decent in concept.

 

[Theldaran]

I don't know how the "hype" surrounding this game sustains. How can this game srsly be celebrated as incline by some?

1. Artwork sucks. Who are those people talking about the atmosphere? It looks basically like a Tim Burton Sketchbook, also devs seem to get confused with "Arkham" and "Innsmouth". Arkham is a New England college town, not some backwater harbor. Game looks horrible, no area design whatsoever.

2. Dialogues are cringy from the get go.

3. Mythos depiction for plebs. *Throw everything in there, no need to pace anything*

4. Combat is boooooooring.

The music and sound design is nice. But that's it. Some might rank it high just for it's obscurity alone, but meh.

I fundamentally agree even if it's an unpopular opinion. I played the demo, and saw lots of reminiscences to Fallout, so I guess that's why people love it.

However the game is as rough as they get. And I don't want to spend my time in a Cthulhu game fighting mobs. For some reason I couldn't find out how to flee, so they made mincemeat of my detective. I chalk it out as another point where the game isn't clear.

If the votes don't get better in time, I'm not getting the game.

 

[GandGolf]

.... For some reason I couldn't find out how to flee, so they made mincemeat of my detective. I chalk it out as another point where the game isn't clear.

If the votes don't get better in time, I'm not getting the game.

Fleeing confused me at first also, but there are some foot prints near the bottom right of the screen that you press to flee. If you don't want to have the fight start all over again make sure your character is on one of the progressive escape spots.

 

[V_K]

WTF is wrong with people these days. You have some very visible differently colored hexes on your side of the battle map. How on earth isn't it obvious that those are the escape hexes?
Like, I'm not going to argue that the game doesn't do a very good job of explaining its less conventional mechanics and UI elements, but things like needing the lantern in the darkness or fleeing by moving to the edge of the battle map are like RPG 101.

 

[Roguey]

Right after the dream sequence the game tells you to press a button to bring up the help screen and you should definitely pay attention to everything it says.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Nothing to see here, folks.

Spoiler

Later on my trusty hound also developed an addiction to cigs (or was it whiskey?) if I'm not mistaken.