Weird West: Definitive Edition - top-down immersive sim action-RPG from Arkane founder Raf Colantonio

[Jrpgfan]

Game's fun, feel very tactile so far, also I'm a Max Payne fanboy so the bullet time easily hit my soft spot

but

NO REALISM

NO IMMERSIUN

GAME'S RUINED

RAF'S NO LONGER OUR GOD

UNINSTALLED

Drinking from cactus is a genre trope.

People who complain about muh realism because of that should be sent to the gas chamber.

That said, IIRC there's a few cactus species you can drink water from in small amounts with little to no harm.

 

[Fedora Master]

Mixed race couple but couldn't spring for a negro character model huh

 

[Jrpgfan]

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Mixed race couple but couldn't spring for a negro character model huh

Maybe he was covered in charcoal dust when he took that picture.

 

[Lyre Mors]

This is all very relevant to gameplay discussion.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

This is all very relevant to gameplay discussion.

it's part of the game, so, yes?

 

[Contagium]

No launch discount, either. Devs are getting real stingy these days.

 

[Momock]

This is all very relevant to gameplay discussion.

Good incentive to do the quests and explore isn't gameplay, but it's part of game design.

Therefore rescuing a negro husbando for his coalburning waifu so she can keep spawning little mulatos into the world is bad incentive, making a bad game.
That is... if your target audience is essentialy composed of codexers.

 

[Jrpgfan]

I'm sure it can't be as bad as Expeditions Rome.

Having Black Centurions has really set a new standard for wokeness in videogames.

 

[Fedora Master]

All the vendors in Grackle are either negros or Asians. Lmao.

 

[Contagium]

Can any game be released without some neckbeard asking if you can romance someone in the game?

 

[Tyranicon]

Gameplay seems interesting, especially since apparently AI is somewhat decent. People seem impressed with the reactivity and writing as well, which you don't see much these days.

My only concern is if the fast-paced, top-down shooting actually works. I also prefer very high lethality, so hopefully custom difficulty is a thing.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

especially since apparently AI is somewhat decent

I read all the reviews and they kept saying the AI is shit

 

[Tyranicon]

especially since apparently AI is somewhat decent

I read all the reviews and they kept saying the AI is shit

I only glanced at the ACG review, this thread and some steam reviews. The impression I got was that the combat AI is more than serviceable, but there's some bugs that prevent them from loading in correctly.

 

[Cricket McBangle]

I like this game so far. I like that when I do something, it actually does something far beyond just “shoot till dead”

 

[Fedora Master]

Everyone's favorite quest!

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

Bought it. Don't think I'll have time to play until tomorrow night though.

 

[Salvo]

This is all very relevant to gameplay discussion.

It's all in your head bro there's no hidden agenda nobody is forcing interracial couples take your meds

Yeah...

 

[rusty_shackleford]

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Everyone's favorite quest!

f5, open package, quickload
yawn

 

[notpl]

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Everyone's favorite quest!

f5, open package, quickload
yawn

More and more I feel like a really great rpg has to figure out a way to do away with manual saves and reloads altogether. Either going full permadeath with a tight, highly reactive game (a la the Way of the Samurai franchise) or just committing further to the simulationism and locking players into one daily save for their progress, like Kingdom Come without the essentially infinite save potions.

 

[Fedora Master]

especially since apparently AI is somewhat decent

I read all the reviews and they kept saying the AI is shit

I only glanced at the ACG review, this thread and some steam reviews. The impression I got was that the combat AI is more than serviceable, but there's some bugs that prevent them from loading in correctly.

The AI wont notice a shootout in the next room over and can easily be baited into going through choke points one by one.

 

[Jrpgfan]

People crying over quicksave feature is getting so fucking old.

You don't like it, don't use it, ffs!

 

[rusty_shackleford]

People crying over quicksave feature is getting so fucking old.

You don't like it, don't use it, ffs!

I agree, every game should come with all cheats enabled by default. Don't like it? Just turn them off! Oh, what's that? The game is designed around using those cheats? Yeah well... Too bad!

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

I just have a quest to help two old cowboys who are gays to escape together, well i helped them. I feel dirty now. These times...

 

[Roguey]

No launch discount, either. Devs are getting real stingy these days.

Cringevolver Digital is so scared of pirates they delayed the GOG release, truly pathetic.

Therefore rescuing a negro husbando for his coalburning waifu so she can keep spawning little mulatos into the world is bad incentive, making a bad game.
That is... if your target audience is essentialy composed of codexers.

It's a game where they claim you can kill anyone and not get blocked from completing it.

I'm sure it can't be as bad as Expeditions Rome.

Having Black Centurions has really set a new standard for wokeness in videogames.

There were a lot of black and native and Chinese people in the American frontier so it's not even out of place to feature a lot of 'em. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/african-americans-frontier

More and more I feel like a really great rpg has to figure out a way to do away with manual saves and reloads altogether. Either going full permadeath with a tight, highly reactive game (a la the Way of the Samurai franchise) or just committing further to the simulationism and locking players into one daily save for their progress, like Kingdom Come without the essentially infinite save potions.

This was the original design, they changed it because of all the complaints.

 

[Jrpgfan]

People crying over quicksave feature is getting so fucking old.

You don't like it, don't use it, ffs!

I agree, every game should come with all cheats enabled by default. Don't like it? Just turn them off! Oh, what's that? The game is designed around using those cheats? Yeah well... Too bad!

I'm 3 hours in and I haven't reloaded the game once. If the games built around it they did a really poor job on that.

99% of the cRPGs praised on this site not only allow savescumming but encourages it and I don't see anyone complaining. Battle Brothers which's brutal allows you to save anywhere anytime and even autosaves it for you before battles(you can even skip unfavorable events by reloading pre-battle autosaves).

You probably should be in a pure retrogaming forum because I can't see anyone who gets triggered by quicksave playing anything but old arcade and 16 bit console games.