It's a troll/meme game. Hipsters like it because it's weird and impenetrable, so liking it makes them feel smart and cultured and like they're part of an exclusive club of enlightened chosen ones. A lot of people are calling it an "immersive sim", but that's really overselling it unless you think any first-person game with open levels is an immersive sim. Frankly, there isn't much in the way of "immersion" going on. The world and story are literally just a meme; "capitalism is a nightmare" that's it, that's as deep as it goes, and everything in the game is nothing more than a throwaway joke in service of that. The levels are empty and lifeless; you can pick up and throw chairs and toilets... and that's about it in terms of interactivity. The levels are pretty open, but isn't much of anything to actually do in them. In many ways the levels feel unfinished, like a prototype full of placeholder assets. The visual and audio design is terrible, but I guess that's the point. Unfortunately this isn't just a harmless aesthetic choice, it directly impacts the gameplay in several negative ways. The font is nearly impossible to read; your aiming reticle is easily lost amid the garish visuals; and if an enemy happens to be standing in front of a dark-textured wall then they're basically invisible (it's also extremely difficult to tell if an enemy is facing you or not). Remember the amazing sound design in games like Thief and System Shock 2? Well none of that is here. You can't get a sense for enemies by listening for them... because unless they're shooting at you they make no sound whatsoever, and even then you likely won't notice over the blaring ear-rape that is the combat music. Honestly, it has more in common with Postal and Goat Simulator than it does with Thief or Deus Ex. It's meant for people to act bewildered and laugh as they get one-shot a bazillion times by silent, nearly-invisible hitscanners, and for hipsters to sneer at you because they get it, and you don't.
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A lot of words to say "I got filtered".
I wasn't filtered by a single thing OP listed. I was filtered by the moronic reload gimmick.
Didn't even realize you could reload, I thought once you were out of bullets you were done.
The reload mechanic is great.
I honestly started doing the RMB-pull-down out of muscle memory in other games after I beat it
It's a pointless waste of a right-click button. Which is especially moronic when you start getting abilities where it would be fricking good to have a right click to bind them to. Yes It would be nice if I could hold right click to use the grappendix. Inb4 "rebind them" the reload gimmick makes it so you want it to be bound to a mouse button.
>not using right button for Jump
Gee I wonder who is behind this post.
So what do you bind reload to?
Oh wow it's bad enough that gears of war caused cover shooter cancer, now it caused this bullshit. Give one reason why it's great.
Asterisk on the number pad, right near where the ARROW KEYS are because I'M NOT A WASD-USING ZOOMER
WASD predates when zoomers were fricking born. And well done you've still got the awkwardness of trying to use a reload gimmick that's designed to assume you bound reload to a mouse button. I'm sure you're going to stubbornly insist it works fine but the game had it be a mouse button as a default for a reason.
>I'm sure you're going to stubbornly insist it works fine
What's so hard about dragging the mouse down for 0.001 second while holding down another button?
It's awkward. Even the dev clearly thinks so or else he wouldn't wasted the right click on it.
If anything you sound underage because it's normal to want to use arrow keys when you're young because you're too small to have you arms stretch across the keyboard to use wasd.
>t. right-handed npc normalgay
>cruelty squad gay is a literal lefty
thinking that using wasd is somehow a zoomer thing is probably the most zoomer thought I’ve seen someone have
Pretty much nobody in the 1990s used WASD. I haven't seen anyone commonly refer to direction keys as "WASD" until around the time Quake 3 was released.
WASD became popular because it became meta in Quake to rebind your movement keys to WASD
90s was the actual birth of the fps genre and it took a few years for people to figure out that wasd was the best keys for movement. Plenty of late 90s shooters like half-life and deus ex had action keys bound to wasd-adjacent keys (it's not like arrow keys had many to begin with). I remember when first playing deus ex and trying to use q and e to lean I quickly picked up on how convenient wasd was for movement.
The right click reload mechanics is just as innovative and great as active reload from GoW like 20 years ago.
Kek, the reload gimmick was designed explicitly to filter people like you.
Looks like it did its job. Get fricked.
playing with a touch pad was so hard I think I had to make the reload space or shift
Thanks, I got 3 sentences in before scrolling down for a summation of this moron's dumbass take.
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Nah, it's pretty shit.
fpbp
it’s not even that complicated of a game, so if you don’t “get it” somehow then you must be pretty fricking dumb
Fpbp, there's nothing to "get" with the game it's just a fun fps with a goofy aesthetic and story.
fpbp
hylics continue to remain filtered years later
Coping to the max. You know it's fine just to say you didn't prefer the game. No need to get all R*DDIT over it.
>explaining and arguing about things is Reddit
I'm going to kill you in real life.
Black personhomosexual OP just went on a huge blog rant because they're a homosexual pseud.
>B-BUT IT'S JUST EXPLAINING~!
Back to r*ddit, gay.
Regardless of your motive, whether it's to get attention or if you're being sincere. It's rather insane to write all that and completely throw subjectivity out the window. You're making so many assertions on the behalf of others without realizing people are different.
It's fine if you don't like it, don't think it's immersive, etc. but it doesn't mean others making those claims are wrong, they simply have different perception and preferences.
>but how can anyone enjoy empty lifeless levels?
It could be anything. Maybe they're not focused on that aspect, maybe they enjoy that negative space compared to something busy, it could be any reason. Apply this logic to the rest.
It's a much more reasonable assumption to make than the idea the majority of people are simply pretending to like a video game that's atypical.
Not OP but I've got a serious question about the game actually, is there like a mod or something to turn off the border, the one after you get from dying a few times creeps me out for some reason and makes it hard for me to play the game. I know the answer is to get good so that I don't die and don't have to see the border, but I can't get good if I can't play the game.
Before getting good at the game your task is now to get good mentally. Strongify your resolve. I know you can do it. I support you.
>the border creeps me out
That other anon is right theres something mentally wrong with you. You actually need to get over that.
If you just sad it looked ugly I would understand but it actually disturbs you?
Not him but i get. i've also been startled by dumb shit you really shouldnt get startled by, but something about the art style just flares uncanny valley warnings.
For me, it's anything with loud bee swarm sound effects because i remember the time one bee kamikazi'd me when i was a dumbass kid
It's the part at the bottom with all the holes in it, it really makes me squeamish for some reason.
Theres a name for that its "Trypophobia". You should probably look into it.
Or hell, how about removing it because taking up such a large portion of the screen from the sake of a really gimmicky difficulty mechanic is kinda dumb.
Black person, if you want to play the most generic shooter out there and optimize everything for max gameritude, go play counterstrike.
Cruelty Squad is Cruelty Squad. It has design decisions that are there because it fits the theme. It's not interested in appealing to zoomers like you
>you think this one quirky aspect of the game is dumb, you must think all quirky aspects are dumb and want to play the most generic thing imaginable!
For someone who likes quirkiness you went for a really overtrodden argument.
based
have you played hylics?
i like abstract things but dont want to waste money on some hipster tier trash
Not OP but I played it and found it enjoyable despite absolutely all of the game's philosophical content going completely over my head. The aesthetics, gameplay, and dialogue made it appreciable for a philistine.
what about hylics 2?
Haven't picked it up yet because I figured the longer length might make it harder for me to appreciate without properly understanding it.
Well, uhh, you may want to avoid Cruelty Squad then, it was made by artsy hipster who wanted to make Game So Hipster It Can't Even Be Played. In some interview, the creator said he used some old version of Godot before it was cool just because it wasn't unity, and the art direction is ugly, harsh and "low quality" on purpose. It's True Hipster, except it resonated a lot with others audiences too so it gained popularity.
Unity is dogshit and he made an objectively prudent engineering decision by using Godot.
Not OP. Hylics was delightful. I give a frick about Cruelty Squad. I got my fill of that kind of deliberate-shit game with Post Void, The Underground Man, and Jazzpunk.
You could try Yuppie Psycho, it also does not suck.
Hyper Demon is also one of these "deconstructive" games that doesn't suck. It instead messes with your perspective to make a fun high-score arcade shooter. The visuals are trippy but immersive and not intended only to frick your senses.
Jazzpunk is hilarious it's just the naked gun.
Nah, it's just a fun silly game. You're wrong.
The gameplay is fun but the game itself is 100% shitty videoessay bait just like a dozen other shitty games which come out these days
Name exactly 12 games that are shitty videoessay bait.
>Cruelty Squad
>Fear and hunger
>Cry of fear
>Baldi's basics
>Iron lung
>We happy few
>Bioshock
>Total Chaos
>Gone home
>Firewatch
>Metro (any)
>Stalker (any)
don't forget about
>omori
>celeste
>disco elysium
>celeste
Nah. It's a homosexual game but the story doesn't have enough meat for video essayists.
>disco elysium
Frick I have no idea how I missed that one.
>Nah. It's a homosexual game but the story doesn't have enough meat for video essayists.
ah, fair enough
ok literal troonycommiefemboy
All great games
kys yourself
sorry i'm not neil degrasse tyson
Metro, stalker and bioshock are actual games thoughever. The others are just kind of walking sims
So what kind of kino non-streamer-essay-bait do you recommend?
ninja gaiden black and hunter the reckoning redeemer on original xbox
I’ll stick with the essay bait
as expected
>hunter the reckoning redeemer
It looked like fun ps era jank. Shame WOD is a cursed IP, we really could get another nice game out of the Imbued even if H5 hates them and pleased neither Recoking nor Vigil fans .
>Nier: Automata
>TBOI
>Hypnospace Outlaw
>Lovely Planet
>Inscryption
Not necessarily the GOAT but that covers almost all of the genre overlap with the games that I listed. Lovely Planet in particular is probably the game I've played with the closest gamefeel to cruelty squad
Lovely planet is kino
>enjoying lovely planet
>3 star everything
>reach the mountain levels
>no longer enjoying lovely planet
>stalker
>metro
>essay bait
Do amerimutts really
It’s just morons shitposting about a game that is itself a shitpost
We are really through the looking glass here
If the games story doesn't follow hero's journey to the tee and everything isn't told you in clear cut way in unstoppable cutskenes it is essay bait. That post is bait too fyi
>no you don't get it bro it's slav kino it's so REAL
>I haven't played it myself but I totally believe pyrocynical(tm) that it's the best game ever made
>BTW have you ever heard of pathologic?
Stalker and Metro are the most entry level slav games ever made why would someone need to watch some homosexual youtuber to tell you they like them?
because the alternative is playing them and they fricking suck
>Demon souls
>Bloodborne
>Dark souls 1
>Dark souls 2
>Dark souls 3
>Elden Ring
basado. Finally someone gets it
>Any game that tells a profound story is essaybait
Tell me that you're a contrarian without saying that you're a contrarian
What the frick is the "profound story" of cruelty squad or gone home?
This is just a random selection of games you homosexual. Anybody who puts something like Baldi on the same level as Bioshock, Metro, and Disco needs to fricking kill themselves for being a disingenuous frick
These games do have something in common though, they are favoured by zoomers for their "deep lore" and "incredible message".
Doesn't make them any better or worse, just a fact.
>my favourite pseud-slop is actually... LE DEEP
>We happy few
How is this essaybait, they just wanted to cash in on bioshock aesthetics and the survival trend
If the game has perceived story depth then it's going to bait essays. Whether or not it actually does have depth. This isn't hard to understand.
What essay is there to be written about STALKER? What you see is what you get.
Even the endings are pretty straightforward
Most of the ones I've seen talk about the books, the movie and then how the systems are intentionally obtuse and how the game really makes you FEEL like a slav
What are some good video game essays to listen to? Ones without cringe comedy and assuming you're moronic
Joseph Anderson, NeverKnowsBest and WhiteLight are my go-tos.
Pretty much everything they've made has been good.
mrbtongue was good minus his last video or two, which were pretty shallow.
For ESL readers 12 means twelve.
good take, it's slop for pseudo intellectual adolescents
everything about it is deliberately offputting as though that is somehow a profound thing to do when it's really as moronic as spec ops the line in punishing the player for playing a fricking video game, to top it all off it's also pretty buggy
>Hipsters
It's 2024, you're about over ten years too late on that one.
my deep fried tik tok youtube shorts adhd zoomer brain can't finish reading this post without getting distracted
How is it even remotely “impenetrable”? The game is easily accessible it just has a kooky style
yeah ok but is it fun? Been thinking about playing it.
no not really, it's pretty bland and repetitive
If you can stomach the sound/art design, it’s fun
>zoomer thinks everyone just pretends to like things based on how that makes him look, just like him
fortunately previous generations don't have that type of brainrot, OP
only you moronic fricks constantly gloat and posture about what entertainment product you're into as if it will fill the hole have where your personality should have been
don't care didn't read plus ur gay
Famn crazy how you think imma be readin all that
Don't worry anon, Finnish humor isn't for everyone
It's literally just fart jokes
They're like germans
*farts on you*
get destroyed xDDD
I beg to differ.
Without the ~ruru.
Germans love rules, hierarchy, organization and function, finnsh not necessarily. Well they do love when gov makes new rules so their neighbours have to pay more taxes but in private lives it's all about chaos, misery, and casual anarchy. But not the activism type, in humour and linguistics.
Oh, it's Finnish. Something about the game just made me automatically assume it was American.
Sounds kino
replayan the game with my brother, give me a hint on where to go after the holy scope since i forgor this games fricked progression
>It's a troll/meme game
the gameplay is actually good thougheverbeit
i can wait to play for Psycho Patrol on Early Access
Don't agree with all of your points and would be fine with the aesthetics itself, but I also never understood why people think this is some kind of deep "immersive sim". The gameplay feels so basic, the enemies have absolutely no AI whatsoever and, like you say, there is basically no interactivity in those levels. Dropped it after 4 hours.
That interview was hilarious
>So why did you decide to use experimental weapon #12345 as the design for the DNA scrambler?
>FUG :-DDD IT WAS EBIN :-DDD
>some kind of deep "immersive sim"
I don't necessarily hold the opinion but I can try to understand the perspective of those that do.
It likely has to do with every element beyond just the missions/shooting. You can play the stock market, go fishing, buy a house, explore the world in a non-linear way, other things I might have forgot.
It is just another mission shooter game, but it's at least slightly more role playing oriented (in the "you are just experiencing the daily life of the main character" sense, not the RPG mechanics sense). The main character just happens to do violent contract work, but you are the one deciding what to do for that and everything unrelated to that, how to spend his day.
I'm going to draw a weak connection to those sequences in Hitman 2 (PS2) and Tomb Raider where between missions you can spend time at their house doing whatever you want to and it has no significance to the main game. It's like that but a whole environment instead of just one level.
>looks like shit
>made on godot
heh
>get excited the achievement update
>find out they’re incredibly bland
Frick man, he needs to at least incorporate ones for catching all the fish and for collecting all the guns.
Also, I love this fricking game. Exploring the levels carefully and patiently was incredibly exciting and rewarding.
>The world and story are literally just a meme; "capitalism is a nightmare" that's it, that's as deep as it goes
hylic get out
>Yet another Gankergay about to regurgitate the same few pop gnosticism stock phrases that he doesn't understand or feel any actual connection to.
You have one year.
one year for what?
>corpo boot-licking leftist
they're liberals, not leftists
Gnostics are really insufferable.
>The world and story are literally just a meme; "capitalism is a nightmare" that's it
no toughbiet
Yep, you summed it up pretty well.
It's also funny how a game that pretty obviously takes a lot of inspiration from MDE has a generic commie homosexual message to it. Then again, have finns ever made a halfway decent game?
>have finns ever made a halfway decent game?
UnReal World
>have finns ever made a halfway decent game?
Max Payne
Noita
Baba is You
ULTRAKILL
and of course, Pro Pilkki 2
tl;dr
There's nothing wrong with it being a "meme game" it's fun to boot up and shoot through a couple missions once in awhile, it has a unique aesthetic and fun powers and the gameplay can get bonkers, it's not meant to be viewed as some masterfully crafted avante garde artsy game that makes you think
settle down
I am a sad sack of shit. I huff and puff and suffer. I am number two.
try actually playing it OP. Enemies do make all kinds of sounds that aren't shooting. And the only level with 'combat music' is the first one, which indicates that's the only level you played. Utterly filtered
Contrarians like it because it's le wacky weird
Anon, the reason why people liked this game is simple. In an industry that has become insanely derivative, games like this stick out simply because they are different than Goyslop Clone #347. Does this automatically make it good? Hardly. In fact, it's probably the most unpolished, janky game I've ever played and yet somehow it didn't seem to matter to me or thousands of other people who played it. And yet despite all that jank and amateurish design, it still manages to be competent in the areas that matter. You can approach any level any way you want, using whatever guns/gadgets you want (assuming you've unlocked them). The levels are well-designed and have interesting secrets and side-areas to explore. The various enemy types, although completely devoid of AI, still manage to have enough diversity in their attacks to make them seem smarter than they actually are. I get that the visuals put people off of the game but I found them interesting. Maybe if the industry wasn't on life support, this game would have just died in obscurity, yet it didn't. At the very least, you can admit that the success of CS is an indictment against the state of the industry while still being a decent game attempting to emulate better-made games in its genre.
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I like the game a lot, but to be honest I can't blame people who got filtered by the ugly visuals and aesthetic. I just found them interesting, but I myself have been filtered by other visuals before (Saya No Uta).
It's weird that modern people have this conception that a game can't be good or successful unless literally everyone on the planet like it.
For example, Metal Gear Solid has never interested me because it looks boring and I don't like stealth games. But I'm not out there writing 5 hour video essays on why the series sucks, or spending all day hating on it on Ganker. I just move my attention on to things I would actually enjoy.
Wrath has just infected people's minds.
It is a meme game on outside but the gameplay is actually solid, it has a nice old school game design that takes priority on freedom over hand-holding, and you're just coping that you've got filtered
If the game was both inside and out a meme game like you claim, it would be treated more like Bad Rats
I like the concept of playing as a genuinely mindless bloodthirsty monster whose only purpose is to kill without thinking.
the game is what it is, a silly pure fps stripped of pretense.
naturally people on this board hate it because it pokes fun of politics, the only thing they actually care about
I just think it looks cool and is a strong example of games as art. It's not a great game, I didn't even bother to finish it, but I know it has a lot of secrets to dig into and some interesting mechanics. It's more competently executed and designed than many, many indie games, and that deserves appreciation.
It's a stupid fricking moron game with shit graphics and no meaningful message or story
But it's fun so I like it
Frick off
Based. At what point did everyone seem to forget that you play video games for fun?
>Game's supposed to be a critique of late stage capitalism
>All of the mechanics involve you participating in late stage capitalism
>Point this out in any Cruelty Squad thread and watch actual children start sputtering
>"NO!!!! NOOOOO!!!!!! The funny Finnish femboy is NOT a hack!!!!!!"
>Post the picture where Ville Kallio literally admitted he wishes he was a passing trans woman
>"AIEEEEEEEEEE quick quick!!!! Someone mod the game to include this guy's posts and then shoot him!!! That means I win the argument!!"
the left can't meme
no one can
YOU HAVE TO FIND A SELLER, THAT SELLS WEAKER POTIONS
yet it seems you're mad. curious!
then how come you got BTFO
Looking for some interaction?
>>Game's supposed to be a critique of late stage capitalism
>>All of the mechanics involve you participating in late stage capitalism
Anon are you moronic?
Satire definitionally requires some kind of extreme depiction of what you're critiquing.
How the frick are you even supposed to critique something without describing it's features?
name one game that critiques capitalism where you don't use money or some form of currency
NTA but a newgrounds flash game titled A Small Favor
It's a shitpost game that indulges and glorifies the absurdity of "late stage capitalism" (or globohomosexual dystopia) because its funni
can't people make a semi-political shitpost game without commie turds going "THIS IS A PROFOUND DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST CAPITALISM!!! VIDEYO GAMES PLEASE VALIDATE MY POLITICAL IDEOLOGY"
>waah people I don't like are enjoying this game
>if a game is political it can only pander to me specifically
>if I can't think of any counterarguments against them but I still enjoy the game, I'll just claim it's not political.
Read it again moron, I didn't say it's not political, I said it's a political shitpost
It's clear that he's just clowning around the political ideas and political what-ifs but without anything substantial nor speaking his own mind, because he's only doing it for shits and giggles, same in line with moronic JREG gays
If you've actually played the game and if you couldn't see through that, you're media illiterate
Dismissing a game as having "nothing substantial to say" when you don't like what it's saying is the definition of media illiteracy. And you poisoned whatever opinion you could express here by crying about "muh commies" out of nowhere, you revealed you have an agenda. Play it smarter next time if you want to manipulate people into agreeing with you.
shut the frick up reddit Black person
lmao what agenda? I'm just casually talking shit as you'd do in a site like this, I don't really give an ounce of shit about commies nor maga-turds or whomever you're fighting against in your head, because I'm not a moronic borgor that's obsessed with shit like that.
Talk about illiteracy, you couldn't even read the room to figure that out, lurk more idiot.
post the trans post
>>Game's supposed to be a critique of late stage capitalism
>>All of the mechanics involve you participating in late stage capitalism
Anon I....
"Capitalism forces you to take part in capitalism to survive" seems like an apt criticism of capitalism. It's like how most people see paper's please as criticisms of bureaucracy and oppression even if you're required to uphold them.
the man is being incomprehensible and it appears that he doesn't understand the concept of satire
The thing is that no one in Cruelty Squad is competing to survive, the whole theme is they are competing out of pure boredom and the need for a spectacle.
>no one in Cruelty Squad is competing to survive
You pay money to be resurrected and even have the equivalent of a welfare check if you die too often.
Which is basically just removing your face until you stop being a frick up. Or do a punishment for the first time in an area
>Which is basically just removing your face until you stop being a frick up.
So capitalism then.
Yes, like any other social ordnance it removes individuality dumbass.
Point is your still competing to avoid such a fate.
you're all wrong
> game starts with you crawling thorough the ground, avoiding and slowly taking out enemies because you are a walking eggshell with a speed of slug
> game ends with you flying all over the place with sonic speed, sweeping entire map with magical fart gun that penetrates through walls and disintegrates everything
How is this not fun?
At what point does 2 happen. I'm tired of getting shredded by the one guy I didn't headshot and lost among the slop visuals. I think I got to the mall before I dropped it.
I can understand about the mall as the first-time playthrough of that is fricking nightmare as you lack heavy weapons to kill those giants, but post-mall it shouldn't be that bad, just make sure to return to previous levels if you get a new gear that allows you to get hidden items. Make sure to pick up guns you don't have (even if its shit some of them can synergize with some implants or fit for some levels, unless its a meme weapon), there's no shame looking at wiki for secret implants/weapons as they are very well hidden. Also learn to use Grappendix because that lasts the entire game, flying death machine is an end-game loadout but you could pretty much achieve the same effect if you know how to use grappendix with jump abilities and have bolt ACR.
I see, maybe I haven't fully unlocked fun because I don't even have grappendix yet and I'm still in the "peak every single corner or get oneshot" stage but hopefully I'll get to invest in better armor later. Thanks mate. Didn't think of wikireading as a decent way of unlocking hidden options but I guess that's cuz I like to play everything blind.
*peek, frick
Literally right after the mall. The plot of the mall level is that you are killing the last politician who is anti-corporation, which results in the stock market skyrocketing infinitely until you beat the level after it. Put all your money into GamesGames or a penny stock before you beat the level and just let the game run for awhile then you can buy whatever you want. Just make sure to sell before beatinf the next level, especially if you went with GamesGames.
can't you just get the stock market to go up again by replaying the mall mission?
Nope. It's a one time thing.
People don't like games that make you grind a bunch before you get to the part where the game is actually fun to play, like Sonic and the Secret Rings.
Then go play Sony goyslop or something, those will give you instant gratification and pointless power trip no matter how shit at you are at video games.
Cruelty Squad isn't for everyone because of its old school approach to game design, where it'll throw shit at you first but gradually awards you when you start to get a hang of it, but that doesn't mean its objectively shit, it's just not for everyone.
Let's get this shit started because OP is a homosexual that is not just wrong, he got filtered by the first level and only saw a youtube video afterwards
>The world and story are just a meme; "capitalism is a nightmare"
Cruelty Squad game criticizes more the aspects of over-consumerism (hinted by the second and fourth level's funko pops) as a way the world got degraded and degenerated to the point it's in, and it's more anti-corpo more than anything considering that in one mission, you go out of your way to kill a candidate that wants to put a pissfully tiny minuscule 1% tax on corporations.
>The levels are empty and lifeless; you can pick up and throw chairs and toileets... and that's about it in terms of interactivity
You can also use upgrades to catapult yourself into secret flank routes or flat out break the level's intended sequence, and in the second level, if you grab a meat giblet from someone you fricking annihilated, you can place it over the grill and it becomes an edible meal that restores health, something you can also do with a flame thrower you get later in the game.
But then again you'd never understand this because...
>the blaring ear-rape that is the combat music
Combat wienertail, the track that plays upon starting a fight, ONLY PLAYS DURING THE FIRST LEVEL AND ONLY IN THE FIRST LEVEL.
All of that fricking text in your post and all it amounts to is ''BOO HOO I CAN'T GET GOOD'. I'm surprised you didn't b***h and moan about the reloading function, but chances are you died before you even reloaded your gun.
>r-r-real capitalism has never been tried! The game only criticises corporatism!
Stopped reading
The game is more ''corpos bad'' than ''capitalism bad'', commie. And even if you only read one part as a way to dismiss the other, i am not dismissing that capitalism is bad in the world of cruelty squad, a game that literally has a built in stock market for you to lose all your money.
But in the way the world is presented and all the shit you do leading up to the final 3 levels, it's definitely more in line with ''i hate corporations'' than ''i hate the system'', especially since at the end of the day, your actions are ultimatedly just a way to put Cruelty Squad HQ on the top of the food chain rather than fixing said food chain.
At least at first until you get to the true ending and even then, said ending amounts to ''hoho death is a thing again, time to rip the fabric of life like it's a nigh endless onion, layer by layer'' nonsense kill everyone.
>n-no! I'm serious it's corporatism and not capitalism!
cringe
I hope your boss at least gave you a weekend off after you sucked his dick
>especially since at the end of the day, your actions are ultimatedly just a way to put Cruelty Squad HQ on the top of the food chain rather than fixing said food chain.
Isn't that literally the opposite of what you're trying to say?
If it was just about "who's at the top" then getting to the top would make the world better. Instead the fact that the pile exists at all is the problem
>Isn't that literally the opposite of what you're trying to say?
No?
I said that this game is all ''corpos bad'' and your work during the first two endings is basically put YOUR corporation (Cruelty Squad) on top, so essentially you're part of the problem.
>Then getting to the top would make th world better
And the true ending is where this shit happens, like i also said in the post you replied to. Bringing death back in the true ending literally starts a golden age where you fix this broken world in which human life has zero value
How do you have a capitalist system without corpos?
By having the government stay atop said corporations before said corporations get above thee law?
Too bad this ain't happening IRL.
>real capitalism has never been tried
Stop the government from crushing small business like corpo boot-licking leftist scum keep doing.
This but unironically. I hate these pretentious games so much.
tl;dr?
I liked how I sucked at first then I got really good and beat the game.
I thought the game was shit at first until I got to the level where you escape from your own apartment, and ended up in this room where I thought I lost the cops chasing me... only for that big fricking necromorph to bust through the wall and blast my ass. Most exhilaration I've got from any videogame in a long time.
*necro-mech, not necromorph
Really? I thought that level was the worst as you could pretty much beat it in 3 seconds even without broken implants, the exit is right in front of you and you don't need a gigabrain to think "oh I just have to walk through there before I explode"
but I guess that's the part of the charm of cruelty squad, everyone experiences the game differently because of how open-ended the game is
I remember the mall level being a clusterfrick but other than that the game was hardly impenetrable.
but anon...
Postal 2 is an immersive sim
So... why does an FPS have a stock market minigame?
Isn't that how most corporations function?
Me too, I call it the principle of suffering
this reminds me of when Ganker gaslighted me into playing e.y.e.
I heard that's a good game though.
Both games are actually pretty good if you can forgive jankiness.
no, you gaslighted yourself into playing E.Y.E
It was the gods who did it. And also eye who gaslit you into playing I.
at least its visually legible
put your Black person game on GOG and I'll buy it you finnish homosexual
You will suffer the fate of unplayed game. Your own punishment to yourself.
I use steam as well but refuse to play it there on principle
What principle? What are you proving/doing by not playing this on steam?
Imagine being openly anti-capitalist, then later becoming a millionaire but hording all that wealth to yourself
more like
>capitalist makes a game that doesn't align with his views but knows it'll make him cash
pretty based on my book
Now this is pure cope
It used to be "go woke go broke" but then once people realized that wasn't what was happening they moved the goalposts and started claiming "Well actually the dev is secretly not woke and is just making the game woke to pander to the masses!" Sure, whatever buddy. The end result is still a woke game that sells a lot and spreads the message to millions.
I don't know what Finnish-weird-name guy's intentions were, but I wanted to make a game that makes fun of anti-capitalist strawman culture by mocking its histrionic facade, it would be a LOT like this game.
This braindead fricking mentality is exactly why capitalism will never be dismantled. "Eat the rich" has no exceptions.
capitalism will never be dismantled because, to do otherwise, requires that some ambient force prevents all consenting parties from engaging in mutually-beneficial transactions. And even if that were possible, you'd need moral authority to do so too -- which you do not have.
"Dismantling capitalism" is an impossible wishful thinking of just wanting a heaven on Earth. That shit won't happen unless we devolve to a point we don't see commerce as a mean for our survival, meaning going back to the time when we were literal monkeys. Kind of funny how anprim grugs are more smarter and grounded in reality than commies, despite they are the one that boasts most about how smart they are than everybody else.
>despite they are the one that boasts most about how smart they are than everybody else
Check out this actually good recent immersive sim with:
A consistent artstyle.
Unique set of mechanics.
Less upgrade railroading and more solutions than just "shoot the baddie". Become the baddie, make a wagon with explosibe barrel explode near baddie, push the baddie into space, lead a hacked enemy into room of the baddie,build a trap and make baddie walk right into it with all the physical props, fly past the baddie.
No over the top political messages.
I bought this game on your recommendation and screenshot, you better not disappoint me anon.
is there a native linux port yet? i tried to play it on my netbook but it had my download files from discord and it was too much of a hassle.
it's a Godot game, you can copy the .pck file(s) to a standalone directory with the Godot Player executable and run it.
Not even true for Linux -- it's even playable on OpenBSD this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=789neTwS9WI
I haven't even played this game but you sound moronic so I'm going to buy a copy when it goes on sale
it goes on sale like every three weeks
>Capitalism's a nightmare
That's the surface-level pleb trap masking the real thing and you stepped into it like a moron.
The actual message of the game is "Death is an essential piece of life".
The world is fricked not because some big corpos control everything with their money - the world is fricked because everyone can just fricking die and will just get remolded at a small fee, or even free in case of power in misery, so everyone just kills each other, orders hits on each other, fricks over each other, turns himself into a bouncy castle, eats everyone, speculates organs, open carries uranium rounds, et cetera, which the big corpos just use to their advantage.
You don't even do anything about the capitalism in the endings save for killing the Triagon of commerce, who actually BLESSES you after that.
Now remove the "capitalism" part and we end up with a post-scarcity utopia.
Gee, i fricking wonder.
>Post scarcity utopia
Does not happen unless the world becomes a hivemind focused on it. All the chaos will still happen, because there's always going to be some psycho, greedbag, sad frick or a funmonger doing this shit just to get his kicks or some personal reason. Ubercapitalism fricking everyone over is only one of the outcomes that can happen when human life doesn't value for shit.
>can now perform dangerous experiments on humans with no ethical constraints as long as they're voluntary
>can push sports and competition to inhumane levels as you no longer have to worry about your life
>can dedicate your entire existence to a singular task you actually enjoy doing
>diseases and mortal wounds are no longer a death sentence if you can just come back to life
all of this is a great foundation for building an 17776 esque utopia where people just perfect everything they want to perfect and live indefinitely doing what they love.
to me that sounds like humanity inflicting pain on itself for the name of progress
You lack understanding of human nature
This.
Cruelty squad is if Everhood was a deus ex clone instead of inverse guitar hero.
Everhood takes an extreme approach to the concept.
Citizens have lived and were happy for millions of years until they got bored. Taking such huge stretches of time is not comparable to the agenda cs is trying to push.
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>reaches bump limit
Many such cases.
Did you beat it though?
imagine projecting American politics to some Fin who just wanted to shitpost
gunk blast
*grunts ur funk*
Cruelty Squad is just too basic for me to really care about. The level design is subpar compared to Thief, Dues Ex, Quake, or a million Doom levels that have been created.
>immersive sim
Reddit homosexual
>"capitalism is a nightmare"
Double reddit homosexual who didn't understand the game at all. It's about immortality, not capitalism
>230 posts
>Bataille not mentioned
Black folk
It is just a fun game with a unique visual/musical style. The frick are you throwing a tantrum over it for?
If you
>played on anything but Hope Eradicated
>took the Archon Grid shortcut
>underwent the DEATH procedure
>cheesed the Cruelty Squad CEO with the Bolt ACR
>took the shortcut in Trauma Loop
>killed the Limit Chancellor
You didn't beat the game.
It's crazy how this sounds like complete gibberish but is actually the names of things from the game.
Did you even try to have fun at all moron?
I think Ganker hates this game because they’re American Republican Conservatives (tm) so any criticism of capitalism is offensive to them. Americans in general worship corporations, Democrats are all over corpo worship the last few years. Ganker can’t imagine being conservative and also critiquing capitalism so they just have a melty at this game instead.
When I went to play this game I thought it was gonna be some dumb right wing propaganda game cause the first Steam review I saw was something like "Not a cucked game like Ultrakill" and I was like oh great, it's a game that attracts these people. Thankfully, it turns out that this game's philosophy is so complex that it just sails over literally everyone's heads, even the ones who actually like the game. People are very stupid and will get whatever message they want to get out of it, but the fact remains that it is very well made from a gameplay standpoint. Frick that guy for shitting on Ultrakill though because that game is way better.
You should write another paragraph so you have one for every million dollars the dev made on steam.
Cruelty squad feels like it was made by ghosts
>blah blah blah
it's fun and the movement is tight as hell. if you don't like this game you're a dumbass zoomer with shit taste.
I like it it's a fun game that looks cool to me
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