Ion is probably the second best use of the build engine from a level design perspective (second only to deathwish, which is a mod for BLOOD that has been worked on for 10+ years).
the enemy roster is underwhelming but serviceable, better than OG duke or DOOM1, but much worse than BLOOD or DOOM2.
weapons are good, but the pistol and shotgun will be your workhorses and be used far more often than the better weapons.
it's a good shooter, a solid 8.5/10, mainly held back by the enemy roster.
The Build game with the more consistent quality throw the entire campaign. Thight pace, good ecosystem of weapon and enemies.
Level design is it's its own thing, levels are huge compared to the originals and to some extent comparable to Half-life.
the size is probably due to being worked on by modders, and if you've played alot of those mods, the levels can get huge, so the designers probably just went crazy for ion.
Is this actually good? I don't trust any game that gets shilled by Gmanlives anymore.
there's a public demo if you're worried about that.
It's Arguably one of the best new-wave boomshoots bar-none, probably better than cultic or postal brain damaged.
Extended and well-customized EDuke32 engine, large maps with at least 7-12 secrets each, most being a pain in the c**t to get to.
Enemy variety/weapons are limited like
Ion is probably the second best use of the build engine from a level design perspective (second only to deathwish, which is a mod for BLOOD that has been worked on for 10+ years).
the enemy roster is underwhelming but serviceable, better than OG duke or DOOM1, but much worse than BLOOD or DOOM2.
weapons are good, but the pistol and shotgun will be your workhorses and be used far more often than the better weapons.
it's a good shooter, a solid 8.5/10, mainly held back by the enemy roster.
said but besides that a solid 12-14 hour time investment for the price.
Aftershock will throw in a new expansion pack of levels and a mirrored mode to make the base game levels fresh.
First few levels feel like the best retro shooter ever made, extremely detailed and expansive, a lot of interactivity etc, but then you realize the whole rest of the game is made with the exact same assets and you fight the same few enemies all the way through. And the game is way longer than Duke 3D etc, so it DRAAAAGS
Yeah, this. After the rooftop boss fight at the villain's corporate hq, the game takes a massive nosedive in quality. From that point on, I hope you like sewers and subway tunnels... Fun first half though, just a shame the second half is a 3/10.
> Be me > Be single > Puberty hit like a truck > Got pimples and a pube stash > Im hidious AF > Women look at me with disgust > Triggered 200iqmove.exe > Decided to date the new blind girl Becky > Shes a fortune teller or whatever > Go on a dinner date > Have a fun time and get a little touchy at dinner > Get erection > Beckylemmesmash.mp4 > Feel her hand touching my face > She starts reading my future > Notice shes using my pimples as braille for the prediction > Accidently pops a pimple. > Puss falls onto her fries > She doesnt notice > She eats a puss covered frie > Says the foods delicious > escapeplan.exe > i run away, leaving her to pay the bill > Come home > Told parents date went well > Go to bed > Cry myself to sleep
The epitome of ''Short, but very sweet.''. I absolutely adore Amid Evil's artstyle in it's levels, feels like running around a good number of 90s power metal covers.
Good news: The final boss fight doesn't suck
Bad news: There is no final boss fight because the devs released the game unfinished and it just abruptly cuts to credits after a stage
I frankly prefer this outcome. I do not enjoy boss fights in fps games, it always amounts to ammunition dumps into a spongy health bar. Boring at best.
FRICKING
FINALLY
HOW MANY FRICKING YEARS DID WE HAVE TO WAIT? >2020 >"Oh hurrr it'll be out by christmas" >Dec 2020 >"Hurrrr maybe this upcoming summer" >Rinse repeat until today
At least it will have slightly less normies than turbo/ultrakill and phantom fury
i hope voidpoint makes their own game after this because it would be very funny to see that the company that's been dicked around by 3d realms was needed to make this series actually good
What did 3dr do to them?
I know one of the voidpoint devs said something in a tweet that pissed off troons but I thought the IFAF delays were because the devs were working full time jobs and ran voidpoint on the side
Nothing for certain. It's just that 3DR has a history of screwing over their devs they take on (WRATH being the big example since the main dev left and 3DR didn't bother with it for a year) and I've spoken to people who worked at nu-3DR who were generally unhappy with how things were run is all.
lol lmao
>DLCucks
no thanks. plus we already have FPSOTY
Is this actually good? I don't trust any game that gets shilled by Gmanlives anymore.
I liked it, but the difficulty is "very easy" for the first 2 chapters then "very hard" for the last one.
They should have sold it as a standalone sequel.
then we couldnt have an arrange mode that adds the new stuff to the original campaign tho
Does it have any more outdoor non-urban maps? I liked that one the most in the base game.
Holy frick it's really happening. Wish I took tomorrow off from work.
Will it play in eduke32 I wonder?
Yes, with some new technology like slopped sprites.
too bad Shelly is such a boring protagonist
>Ion Fury
Pass.
It's going to be complete shit. If you think it won't be after the development hell it has been through, you're an actual moron.
You are thinking in Wrath.
No, I'm not. That is also trash.
I'm worried the 24 journal release is just a rip the band aid off "get it over with" thing.
Hope it's good tho
Sell me this game. It's on sale right now. I love Duke 3D, probably more than doom
Ion is probably the second best use of the build engine from a level design perspective (second only to deathwish, which is a mod for BLOOD that has been worked on for 10+ years).
the enemy roster is underwhelming but serviceable, better than OG duke or DOOM1, but much worse than BLOOD or DOOM2.
weapons are good, but the pistol and shotgun will be your workhorses and be used far more often than the better weapons.
it's a good shooter, a solid 8.5/10, mainly held back by the enemy roster.
The Build game with the more consistent quality throw the entire campaign. Thight pace, good ecosystem of weapon and enemies.
Level design is it's its own thing, levels are huge compared to the originals and to some extent comparable to Half-life.
the size is probably due to being worked on by modders, and if you've played alot of those mods, the levels can get huge, so the designers probably just went crazy for ion.
there's a public demo if you're worried about that.
Just pirate it and if you think it was worth it, buy the game.
https://gog-games.to/game/ion_maiden_game
First half of the game is excellent. Second half is garbage though. The level design tanks super hard at that point.
It's Arguably one of the best new-wave boomshoots bar-none, probably better than cultic or postal brain damaged.
Extended and well-customized EDuke32 engine, large maps with at least 7-12 secrets each, most being a pain in the c**t to get to.
Enemy variety/weapons are limited like
said but besides that a solid 12-14 hour time investment for the price.
Aftershock will throw in a new expansion pack of levels and a mirrored mode to make the base game levels fresh.
First few levels feel like the best retro shooter ever made, extremely detailed and expansive, a lot of interactivity etc, but then you realize the whole rest of the game is made with the exact same assets and you fight the same few enemies all the way through. And the game is way longer than Duke 3D etc, so it DRAAAAGS
Yeah, this. After the rooftop boss fight at the villain's corporate hq, the game takes a massive nosedive in quality. From that point on, I hope you like sewers and subway tunnels... Fun first half though, just a shame the second half is a 3/10.
It doesn't says the price
I NEED arrange mode - maximum fury is no longer hard enough as i've become a headshot machine.
we're getting a fifth difficulty too on top of that
nice
>No breasts
In the trash she goes.
frick yeah pop pop
never right click with loverboy
>frick yeah pop pop
watchin' heskell's motherfrickers drop
>mfw 1HP and not going to use medpacks
I hope the final boss battle is actually fun this time.
When has a boss battle in an FPS ever been fun?
Halo 2. But it doesn't count because it's the best FPS ever made.
metroid prime
the bosses and UK are great
Turok to start.
I hope it's playable in eduke32 so I can play on my hacked switch. I don't want to wait a year for the console version like the original release
the source will probably be released quickly, so i wouldn't worry about it
Should have bought a steam deck.
I will never give a penny to the Gaben israelite
Have they announced a price yet?
Where can I check the games showed at the Realms Deep event? No, I don't want to watch the stream that is painful.
No.
Top comment has timestamps
The Youtube stream's top comment has timestamps for everything. It's too long to copy/paste.
$39.99
Bulshit
$0 at gog-games.to
> Be me
> Be single
> Puberty hit like a truck
> Got pimples and a pube stash
> Im hidious AF
> Women look at me with disgust
> Triggered 200iqmove.exe
> Decided to date the new blind girl Becky
> Shes a fortune teller or whatever
> Go on a dinner date
> Have a fun time and get a little touchy at dinner
> Get erection
> Beckylemmesmash.mp4
> Feel her hand touching my face
> She starts reading my future
> Notice shes using my pimples as braille for the prediction
> Accidently pops a pimple.
> Puss falls onto her fries
> She doesnt notice
> She eats a puss covered frie
> Says the foods delicious
> escapeplan.exe
> i run away, leaving her to pay the bill
> Come home
> Told parents date went well
> Go to bed
> Cry myself to sleep
You ditched a blind girl on a date and made her pay?
God damn you were a worthless piece of shit. I hope you've improved since then.
>100MB
Jesus Christ, that's the entire size of the base game.
the scale is probably enormous.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=O9dyn_acWqagLLIj&v=oUiAWzAKSzA&feature=youtu.be
dios mio la criatura
Ugly people opinions don't matter.
Fricking hell Anon. I’m eating over here.
Disgusting.
>
Already came out
I'd rather replay Arcane Dimensions
It's Octobwe, why aren't you going through your anuual AD playtrhrough?
The epitome of ''Short, but very sweet.''. I absolutely adore Amid Evil's artstyle in it's levels, feels like running around a good number of 90s power metal covers.
DWELL ep2 is better.
>mid evil
Hours until expansion: 20
Hours since I cared about IM: 14000
What happened in October 2021?
?feature=shared
I'm watching the video and I'm already regreting that I posted it.
>shillmanlives
>couldn't git gud
I like how he complains near the end aftershock basically isn't doom eternal.
Yes and that's a good thing. Frick Doom Eternal.
Volcano map seems nice.
Good news: The final boss fight doesn't suck
Bad news: There is no final boss fight because the devs released the game unfinished and it just abruptly cuts to credits after a stage
I frankly prefer this outcome. I do not enjoy boss fights in fps games, it always amounts to ammunition dumps into a spongy health bar. Boring at best.
At least it actually released.
The heskell fight in the base game is aids unless you abuse reload cancelling.
>only 4 hours long
This shit better be only $5
That sucks wtf man
Seems about right for an expansion.
Ohh ok thats fine I took longer than 8 hours my first time
FRICKING
FINALLY
HOW MANY FRICKING YEARS DID WE HAVE TO WAIT?
>2020
>"Oh hurrr it'll be out by christmas"
>Dec 2020
>"Hurrrr maybe this upcoming summer"
>Rinse repeat until today
At least it will have slightly less normies than turbo/ultrakill and phantom fury
>pitch black and cramped catacomb level
For frick's same.
i hope voidpoint makes their own game after this because it would be very funny to see that the company that's been dicked around by 3d realms was needed to make this series actually good
I hope they find a new publisher. They are too good for 3DR.
What did 3dr do to them?
I know one of the voidpoint devs said something in a tweet that pissed off troons but I thought the IFAF delays were because the devs were working full time jobs and ran voidpoint on the side
Nothing for certain. It's just that 3DR has a history of screwing over their devs they take on (WRATH being the big example since the main dev left and 3DR didn't bother with it for a year) and I've spoken to people who worked at nu-3DR who were generally unhappy with how things were run is all.
Did anyone else absolutely hate that Phantom Fury demo?
its so mediocre
its worse than an hl2 mod
It should follow in Duke Nukem Forever's footsteps and never come out.