KickStarter Underworld Ascendant is a disaster

[Infinitron]

 

[Zep Zepo]

^^

LOL

Zep--

 

[MasterLobar]

Spoiler

More typical Otherside deception and twisting the truth.

The trailer quotes Gamespace as follows:

"A world apart from other dungeon crawlers." (0:53)

The full quote is:

"The potential to log into the new player hub, pick a quest from the available list, and jump blindly into a new experience makes me hopeful that when Otherside’s newest title reaches Beta it will make the Stygian Abyss feel like a world apart from other dungeon crawlers." (emphasis added)

https://www.gamespace.com/featured/gamescom-going-down-into-underworld-ascendant/

So Gamespace didn't review the current version of UA and concluded it is "a world apart from other dungeon crawlers." They reviewed the Alpha in August 2018 and said they hope it will some day feel a world apart.

Gamespace never reviewed the game after release (or the Beta for that matter), but the same author recently wrote a nonsense report on the console release.

https://www.gamespace.com/all-articles/news/underworld-ascendant-ventures-onto-playstation-4/

Even in this BS piece, "a world apart" is no longer to be found.

 

[Efe]

thats called advertising.
what do you want them to say?
"this was released on pc first and received a very bad reception. now we cooked it some more, we promise its good now"?

 

[MasterLobar]

Efe, I am sorry to say this, but you are so biased, it's not funny anymore.

 

[Efe]

if anything, im biased against them.
i just dont see the point to the amount of vitriol you carry with you.
it loses its meaning when you lash out this hard against every. single. thing.

its a console trailer for a failed game partially quoting an unknown and probably shit gaming website.
how many really honest trailer quotes have you seen so far?
mots of the time even if the quote is truthful, its truthful to a paid fucking review... so whats your point here?

 

[karnak]

Ultima Underworld was the game which showed me that videogames could become something more than just shooting things, jumping over platforms and racing pixelated cars.
The feeling of claustrophobia, nihilism and despair which one felt while exploring the dungeons is - to this day - something which most survival-horrors games still fail to acomplish. Not to mention the great lore which one would acquire by reading the books and interacting with the races trapped in the abyss.

The game even simulated gravity, FFS!!

I was so hyped for this game...

Now I just think the devs should be sent to the Stygian Abyss as punishment for trying to soil the Underworld legacy.

 

[Jenkem]

25% off lmao please.. it was already 75% off a month ago.. if it was 75% off again like I expected, I would have probably bought it as a meme.

 

[MasterLobar]

The first console review. As expected.

In just about nearly every area that matters, Underworld Ascendant falls horribly short.

https://www.psu.com/reviews/underworld-ascendant-ps4-review/

 

[Comte]

Next time Grandpa Zep-- tells you something is going to be shit before it's even released...

YOU LISTEN. HEAR ME SON? I didn't just fall off the back of the turnip truck. Fiddley Fee!

Zep--

Listen Zep I always knew you were right.

 

[Max Heap]

The first console review. As expected.

In just about nearly every area that matters, Underworld Ascendant falls horribly short.

https://www.psu.com/reviews/underworld-ascendant-ps4-review/

"(Ultima Underworld, for the record, did not nearly have the reliance on shonky platforming that Ascendant does)"

Factually untrue!

While I love the rest of the game, Ultima Underworld has some of the most miserable and overused platforming in the whole wide world of video games. As your acrobatics skill increases you launch yourself further and further into the air and bounce off walls like there is no tomorrow. And the higher you jump the more likely you'll miss whatever you aimed for - so the further you progress in the game the worse it gets. You'll likely overshoot or hit the ceiling and drop straight down. And it's not like that's just on the first few floors (like when you're trying to get into the ankh room and fall down into the water for the fourth or fifth time). That shit goes on and on and on, from the first to the last level. Almost always in a room with some god damn lava on the floor. And it's not any better in UUW2 either. Admittedly its far less there, but the academy world easily makes up for everything! It's mind-bendingly annoying!

Other than that the review seems pretty spot on though...

 

[karnak]

The first console review. As expected.

In just about nearly every area that matters, Underworld Ascendant falls horribly short.

https://www.psu.com/reviews/underworld-ascendant-ps4-review/

"(Ultima Underworld, for the record, did not nearly have the reliance on shonky platforming that Ascendant does)"

Factually untrue!

While I love the rest of the game, Ultima Underworld has some of the most miserable and overused platforming in the whole wide world of video games. As your acrobatics skill increases you launch yourself further and further into the air and bounce off walls like there is no tomorrow. And the higher you jump the more likely you'll miss whatever you aimed for - so the further you progress in the game the worse it gets. You'll likely overshoot or hit the ceiling and drop straight down. And it's not like that's just on the first few floors (like when you're trying to get into the ankh room and fall down into the water for the fourth or fifth time). That shit goes on and on and on, from the first to the last level. Almost always in a room with some god damn lava on the floor. And it's not any better in UUW2 either. Admittedly its far less there, but the academy world easily makes up for everything! It's mind-bendingly annoying!

That's why "Vas Hur Por " is your friend

 

[Efe]

finally someone could find a part of the game improved over the original

 

[MasterLobar]

The point is, after over 7 months since its release, the game still has major shortcomings, some of which are the same they always had.

Meanwhile, Steam reviewers (the few new ones there are) still say the game is crashing.

"Sadly I can't recomend Underworld Ascendent yet as it is still prone to crashing quite frequently. I will re-evaluate my opinoion on the game when I can actually play it without it crashing every 15 minutes."

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197961588233/recommended/692840/

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

.. and for that you will hunt them all of their days.

 

[Nyast]

Today's good laugh: https://forums.otherside-e.com/t/ps4-issues-in-detail/10108

TLDR; on PS4: Arrows still a problem, traps are disappearing randomly, inventory's a mess with a gamepad, physics stacking is a nightmare, loot still sucks, an NPC that you freed in a quest gets reset, and the lack of skill rewards from quests is annoying.

I'll leave the conclusion from the reviewer here:

As I said, there are things that I like, such as the level design and general atmosphere. I hope that the bugs can be dealt with and gameplay issues resolved. In all honesty the game shouldn’t have been released on the PS4 as it is and I’m surprised it passed certification. However, I am prepared to give it another shot.

 

[Sacibengala]

This will turn out as the most entertaining post mortem ever.

 

[Barbalos]

Somebody should make a game, Master Lobar's Holy Crusade Against Otherside and Underworld Ascendant.

 

[MasterLobar]

OS officially abandons the game. Only hotfixes from now on.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/692840/discussions/0/1644292549024972820/#c1640915206465908060

https://steamcommunity.com/app/692840/discussions/0/1640915206446662909/#c1640915206465930384

 

[Nyast]

That's hardly a surprise. They had already announced some time ago that Update 4 was likely the last one. The layoffs was just the confirmation.

 

[Viata]

Well, tbh, it feels like they abandoned the game way before they released it.

 

[agris]

phone release when?

 

[Butter]

Whatever, now we can all look forward to SS3.

 

[Efe]

will you buy SS3 lobar?

 

[Steamboat Willie]

Whatever, now we can all look forward to SS3 getting cancelled.