Nah I'd rather play old AAA games from before 2016
they look crisp and run smooth and never stutter
I don't get what's wrong with modren games. it's like they all choose to be foggy washed out stuttery mess
>I don't get what's wrong with modren games. it's like they all choose to be foggy washed out stuttery mess
This, what the frick is that weird blurry dotty shit and why is it in every fricking game nowadays? I played Zelda on the fricking Wii U and it was CRISP, why are games on current gen hardware so fricking weird-looking?
The engines didn't change, the people using them did. Cheaper, stupider people now make up 99% of AAA payrolls, compaired to not that long ago where keeping competent people on staff was considered a worthwhile investment still.
>I don't get what's wrong with modren games. it's like they all choose to be foggy washed out stuttery mess
This, what the frick is that weird blurry dotty shit and why is it in every fricking game nowadays? I played Zelda on the fricking Wii U and it was CRISP, why are games on current gen hardware so fricking weird-looking?
>Changed
The artists and direction changed, not the engines, or at least mostly not them.
Everyone is too fixated on 4k AAA cinematic quality instead of having strong art direction carry the visuals, and therefore everyone resorts to fog (Allows you to add cheap atmosphere and light effects and also make it look more like a movie, and also hider low render distance sometimes) and washed out colors (Muh cinematic again, and also lack of contrast makes flaws less noticeable). >Stutter
Mostly because of the aforementioned cinematic focus with its gigantic textures even for tiny, insignificant objects, tons of postprocessing that washes out the colors, and fog. Especially fog.
Because they prioritize making very good looking trailers and still images over the actual game. Also lots of companies are trying to expand more and more but end up stretched thin, making them rush deadlines moreso than ever before
I played Singularity last month and the way it played out was a pretty nice breather because it was smooth. Same with Mirror's Edge. AA was a nice middle ground between creativity and having a lot of money but almost all of them got fricked by publishers. I barely get excited for new indies anymore and there doesn't seem to be more games coming out that are based on games that I really like so it's kind of a drought. Everspace 2 was great. >at least 5 indie games I am interested in that are still in early access for years (Death Trash, Stardeus, Fabular, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum and The Universim even though Universim is "technically in 1.0 but they still have content they need to add) >at least several other games (not necessarily indie) that haven't been released (Abiotic Factor, Tactical Breach Wizards, Silksong, Bore Blasters, Zephon, and Tempest Rising) >really liked Project Moon games but they made a gacha game that they focus on far more than any other upcoming game >not worth looking at AAA releases anymore because they suck >uninterested in most of the popular games everyone talks about >a lot of new indie releases are doing some trend like "roguelite deckbuilders" or "Vampire Survivors"-styled and almost nothing that catches my attention
Bro there's tons of games post-2016 that are good. Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, and Elden Ring exist, and Baldur's Gate 3 somehow truly got the DnD experience in a video game.
https://i.imgur.com/4o4bFCZ.jpg
just play indie games
Some of my favorite games ever and also some trash....
Hollow Knight, Undertale, and Pseudoregalia are some of my favorite games of all time. Hollow Knight is the only non-Fromsoft game I'd ever actually consider Souls-like.
Stray was cute and I mainly played it for the fact it's based on Kowloon Walled City. Being based on Kowloon Walled City gives you a ton of bonus points in my book.
Blasphemous I own but haven't played it. I only played a little of Rain World.
Paper's Please is more so an art piece then a game I feel, but it's a noteworthy experience.
Terraria I got bored of. It's sandboxy like Minecraft and I think sandboxes are kind of a waste of time.
Hat In Time, Shovel Knight, Shahtae, Celeste, Cave City and Notia look fun as frick, but they're not at the top of my priorities, I'd rather play some older AAA games like Dark Souls 2, or all the Dead Spaces.
Enter the Gungeon looks fun but a bit mindless.
Don't Starve, Stardew Valley, Slime Rancher etc are too sandboxy for my tastes. I try to avoid anything similar to Factorio because that game destroys lives.
I can't say anything about the other games I don't know anything about them.
If the developer is not owned by the publisher and the developer owns the IP, it's indie. I'm not certain on all of them but I'm pretty sure a large majority of OP's image count.
>Blasphemous
Not indie >Rain World
Not indie, fricking Adult Swim is not indie lol. >Slay the Spire
Not indie. >A Hat in Time
Main game sure but not DLCs. >Shantae
Are you fricking kidding? >MOMODORA
It's Playism, no. >Cave Story+
Come on man, we all know Nicalis published that port and its fricking shit. The original version was, but not the Switch version like in the OP.
Slay The Spire, Hat in Time, & Shantae Pirate's Curse are owned and published by their developers. The notoriety or size of the team or game does not mean it isn't indie. Shantae's old games were not indie as they relied on other publishers, but modern ones that WayForward self-publish are. I would need to look into whether the developers of Rain World & Momodora own those IPs or if [as] & Playism do, but if the developers own the right then they are still indie. Cave Story+ was the only game I knew wasn't indie because Nicalis has owned Cave Story's publishing rights for a long time (hard to forget when they shove Quote & Curly into any crossover or marketing stunt they do); it's like Shantae in reverse where it began indie and then no longer was.
Pic related came out yesterday and despite being an only mildly-known sprite-based beat-em-up going for a 5th gen aesthetic, it's not indie. The IP isn't owned by the team because it's a spinoff to an equally-obscure 90s PC game.
The first 3 Momodora games are literal 1 hour long romps on itch.io, the 4th entry is the first one with a more noticeable budget and multiple devs rather than one guy in Brazil.
>1 hour long romps made by one dude doing his best, and they come out well
That's based as hell, never really looked into this series before but I respect it now. If I ever get off my ass and learn how to make a game I can only hope I can get out a fun little hour-long game people respond to.
>rain world IPs
it's quite a ride.
Developers were picked up by adult swim before they even formed a proper company when game still has been in "cool screenshots on forum" stage, but after the kickstarter. They still owned the IP, but AS covered their expenses.
Roughly after the game released, AS wasn't satisfied with the sales and took rights hostage. Videocult manged to release a single update before then, that was somewhere at the beginning of 2018, a year after release.
Up until 2021, videocult didn't actually own rights to their own game, until they managed to get them back through some negotiations with a new publisher, akupara games.
Now RW is published by akupara and rights belong to videocult, but AS still gets their cut from sales.
I don't have a single idea about DLC considering what a giant mess it was, as it wasn't developed by videocult but still published by akupara, and has been a community effort all at the same time.
If the developer is not owned by the publisher and the developer owns the IP, it's indie. I'm not certain on all of them but I'm pretty sure a large majority of OP's image count.
By that logic, can non-indie games then become Indie?
For example - Vangers was made by K-D Lab, a company where the creator worked, and published by BUKA. When he left, he formed KranX, which had nothing to do with K-D at all except for having a bunch of previous employees, and now, KranX is the one maintaining and publishing Vangers. Does that make Vangers retroactively indie?
So they're supporting the original release that BUKA published? That was technically not an indie release, despite the devs running the show. But if they put out a new version or even just re-released it as KranX, then it'd be indie. At least by that metric, which I think is the most objective way to consider things.
>Celest
good >Hollow Knight
slopvania >blaphemous
slopvania >undertale
touhou for homestuck fans >shovel knight
good >rain world
boring slop >gravity circuit
really shallow and easy mega man clone >psuedoregalia
slopvania >slay the spire
id rather eat a bucket of razor blades than play a roguelike deckbuilder >garden story
dont know what that is >hat in time
good >stray
looks boring >terraria
survival crafting slopvania >shantae
mediocre platformer for coomers >papers please
where is the gameplay????????????? >momodora
didnt play >steamworld
terrible franchise >gungeon
nuclear throne for shitters >sea of stars
i would rather be eaten by lions than play western jrpg >rabi ribi
insanely overrated by third world ironic weebs >dont starve
survival crafting slop >stardew
only fat girls like this >slime rancher
see above >noita
good >cave story
good
Hollow Knight, Psuedoregalia, and Undertale are good though.
Trust me, I have amazing taste. Psuedoregalia i beat recently and that was fun as frick with a groovy soundtrack. Love movement focused games like that.
Speaking of indie games, apparently that porn game Future Fragments finally releases tomorrow. If the demo is anything to go by, I can't imagine the gameplay will be very good.
Rank them: >Undertale >Rain World >Hollow Knight >Papers, Please >Terraria >Stardew Valley >Celeste >Cave Story >Rabi-Ribi >Shovel Knight >Noita >Momodora >A Hat in Time >Blasphemous >Slay the Spire (roguelikes are fricking atrocious) >Enter the Gungeon (read above) >Stray >Don't Starve
Never played: >Gravity Citcuit >Pseudoregalia >Garden Story >Shantae and the Pirate's Curse >Steamworld Dig 2 >Sea of Stars (it's on my backlog) >Slime Rancher
Thanks for the pic, saved it. For a while I wanted to play Gravity Circuit but forgot how the game was called until now.
I have played, loved and completed: >Celeste >Hollow Knight >Rabi-Ribi >A Hat In Time >Rain World
Currently enjoying TEVI (which honestly shouldn't even be considered indie) even if it's leaving me with some bitter aftertaste at the moment, for several reasons that are mostly tied to how much I loved Rabi Ribi. I love videogames, and frick you for reading my blogpost.
The main problem I have with Indie games is that it's hard to separate the disgusting slop from the actual good games. Often times they look identical too. I have to rely on Ganker but this place is also full of paid shills...
I've tried a good handful of indies that look nice but play like shit. Ugly games that are fun are very rare though, though I did really enjoy En Garde despite the main character's model being really wonky.
I play recommendations from friends + a youtube channel that is focused on indie games. Sometimes I get to find out about the new FOTM game here or the very sporadic niche indie game but 90% of the time this board is completely useless to actually discuss good videogames.
I played penny's big breakaway today and so far its pretty good. I really enjoyed pizza tower (2023), neon white (2022), and spelunky 2 (2021) and thats just one game for each year, I can name plenty more. Unfortunately OP has terrible taste.
Interesting Incoming Indies (III)
why did you leave out big catch, did you not play noid 2?
probably Astalon, it's a metroidvania with minor roguelike elements (there's no random generation or redoing large portions of the game, you just get to upgrade your stats with currency upon each death) and stays pretty fun and challenging throughout. I usually don't bother going for "true endings" in games but it doubles the game length with multiple new areas, unlockable characters, and unique abilities.
The only major issue I have is that you have to go to a save point to swap characters until 5 hours in when you get an item that lets you do it whenever, which seems unnecessary. Shilling over.
i know butthole i know, but it's basically just a shop you only access upon death, and most of the exploration is self contained within the area you're in until the endgame for true ending.
i realized i had metroidvania autism so i've been playing through a shit ton of them lately. So far I've gone through >Hollow Knight >Blasphemous >Blasphemous 2 >Ori & The Blind Forest >Alwa's Awakening >Astalon >Timespinner >Shantae & the Pirate's Curse >Momodora 4 >Bloodstained Ritual of the Night >Metroid Dread >Rusted Moss >Monster Sanctuary >Ender Lillies
I saw all of them through to the end apart from the last 2, which i got bored of, but it's been fun catching up on everything this genre has been doing, and shit i'm ready for more.
It's pretty fun, I play it on and off. Make sure you know what you're getting into though, it's pure battle autism, there's no town/overworld exploration or other RPG tropes. It's the kind of game that gets you thinking of team/relic combinations when you're not playing it. 100 heroes is crazy. Development is slow but the dev seems autistic enough to deliver eventually.
>no town/overworld exploration
Oh that's interesting.
Yes I was interested in the class variety but the build autism sounds like something currently fulfilled by a game like Siralim, for me at least. Either way, it's still in EA and my backlog is large.
>Siralim
This looks cool. Yeah it's pretty similar to this. You may as well wait until TBC leaves EA if you're still playing this game.
3 months ago
Anonymous
I would recommend checking out Siralim Ultimate, the latest entry. And that was the plan, yep.
What's the original Forced Skies?
False Skies. It's a fun not!jRPG, set in a Game Boy-like engine/UI, with a job system seemingly influenced by the Saga games, and surprisingly maze-y intricate dungeons starting from early on.
Playing Leviathans Fantasy and it's pretty cool. You build like an MMO town for adventurers to come to and who go out and do adventures to collect loot
I hate that Indie games are slowly turning themselves into AAA-lite.
Almost everything comes to the same artstyle (Pixelshit/PS1-shit) and barely any genre distinction.
Most games are the same shit with a twist - We have like a billion Boomer/Movement/Classic/whats the buzzword these days shooters, a trillion earthbound-inspired RPGs, a quadrillion metroidvanias, with just occasionally some outlier.
How many, or have we ever seen Action/character action games? How many actually notable immersive sims there are that aren't just "boomer shooter with inventory"? What about adventure games? CRPGs? RTS? Rhytm games? Some experimental shit that doesn't even have a name? How many of those do we see, quality or not? Why barely any/no Resident Evil, Parasite Eve, DMC, Diablo, Crusader:No Remorse, Oirignal System Shock, God Hand, Simcity, Sims, frick, spiritual successors to fricking ANYTHING other than Metroid, Doom and Earthbound? Some of these genres aren't even that more complex to replicate and make a game upon.
I am not saying indies that aren't those popular genres those do not exist, nor that the majority is never good, but most of what we get today is just the same shit over and over, almost as if indies have become the AAA, which they were supposed to stand against for that exact fricking reason.
The only notable Indies of the last... i don't know, fricking decade i guess, i can remember are Rimworld (RTS/Sims/Dwarfortress amalgamation), Hat in time (A 3D platformer), Stardew valley (Harvest Moon) and Pizza Tower (A platformer on Wario land/Sonic base, instead of yet another bing bing/metroid level jumpwalker). That's it. 4 games in a decade that try to stand out.
This just feels wrong.
I feel like you dont play indies because philistine devs all copying whatever the best game was in the past year has been an indie dev thing since 2012
That... Was not the point of my post at all, anon.
2012 was around when the indie scene was starting to pop off (Or so i remember, fell free to correct) and started getting the rep of "Actually fun shit that AAA wont do".
Now it's been 12 years, and all that was improved was jack and shit. It does not even try to copy what was popular anymore - It just copies upon itself over and over, instead of trying to copy something "new" and fun
I know about Alisa, anon. I fricking adore how it's like the only PS1-style game that actually TRIES to embrace its PS artstyle in gameplay and direction instead of just using it as a crutch, like how for example New Blood games and many 3D indies do. Never heard of ET though, i'll check it out.
The problem is still the same. I didn't say just "No Resident Evil", i said "No/Barely Any". Two good games in a scene that existed for a few decades by now, and those are obscure as shit, is the problem i am pointing at. We need more genre diversity in indies overall.
>Never heard of ET though, i'll check it out.
I think you'll enjoy it, it's not a very scary game, moreso spooky, think Sailor Moon haunted house episode, that's the sort of tone. Only real issue is the lack of a map and the endgame has several rooms respawn enemies without giving you health pickups to correspond with that, but it's not too bad to get through. It's flawed but has a lot of heart.
Oh, it looks like that...
Well, i guess i'll just believe your word that it tries to emulate classic RE then instead of playing it. I was expecting a 3D one like Alisa did, but i don't think i really like what i am seeing, even if the game itself is supposed to be really good.
there's no 3D aiming or tank controls if that's the kind of thing you were looking for, but in terms of weird puzzles using key items, conserving health and ammo, and cramped encounters with the undead, it's all here.
For starters most of these games are not """indies""". Also, most of then are derivatives, which are horrible. There are only two good games in this list, Shantae and Hollow Knight.
Celeste was never good. I could tell it was weird troony shit before it ever outed itself as weird troony shit.
every single game on this list is just a worse ripoff of a japanese game from 20+ years ago. This is the shrine that you worship upon? How fricking pathetic.
Half of those are troon slop
name 1 game you like >inb4 basic b***h Ganker 3x3 game
>started improving it
Cancelled midway through act 2, patch com,ing this Summer.
Also its worse.
>its worse.
How
3 months ago
Anonymous
Hope ENENRA shapes up well, that last Steam demo was really fricking jank. I liked En Garde but its length and depth had a limit on it, the environmental interaction kind of plays its whole hand if you do a replay or Arena run.
3 months ago
Anonymous
>indie MGR
I mean, I'm all for that but we all know the real hook of Rising was the soundtrack.
3 months ago
Anonymous
The backrooms are in it, the voice acting has been redone and the memes are gone and replaced with furshit.
>65. Family Stadium Pro Baseball (1986) >72. Best Play Pro Baseball (1988) >95. Pro Baseball Family Stadium 87
why do japs love baseball games so fricking much?
every single game on this list is just a worse ripoff of a japanese game from 20+ years ago. This is the shrine that you worship upon? How fricking pathetic.
>le nothing is indie >also nothing is le good at the same time >also this game that's actually good is shit because there's a element of rng ignoring that if you're good you would have beaten it anyways but adds replay value
this board is so tiring
RNG slop/rogueshit/cardslop/deckbuilder is synonymous with lazy game design. AKA exactly what indie devs are known for. Instead of making actual quality games, they shirk the responsibility of making the game well onto the player's shoulders and lie to them about how if they were good, they would win.
This. There's no strategy guide to follow or cheese strat because they need to think on the fly based on the cards they're dealt, which they can't so they seethe instead. It's hilarious.
Someone once made a thread about it on /vrpg/ and seemed to insult the Saga games at the same time within the initial OP. This led to someone having an autistic fit throughout the entire thread as a defense mechanism, and has basically slandered the name of the obscure game nobody has played.
>Dev comes in to shill their game under the thin guise of being some rando >insults the very games he claims inspired his own
tl;dr huge fricking homosexual, and it can be surmised that his game is as shitty as he is.
>shill shill shill >hasn't even played the game
You're an lolcow every time you pop up.
3 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, LOOK AT THE FRICKING POST
It's the most surface-level shilling where he pitches the game to the board. Especially the review part at the end.
Not even autists go in such detail about games they like in OP
3 months ago
Anonymous
Why go into detail about a game you enjoy when newbies like you brand everybody a paid advertiser for DARING to enjoy vidya? You're an lolcow.
3 months ago
Anonymous
There's no problem going into detail of a game you enjoy.
There is lots of problems with talking like goddamn salesman and talking about steam reviews you autistic fricking homosexual.
Are you the dev, by chance?
The people.who loved it the most tended to focus specifically on the level design, and that includes me. I don't think it has a ton to offer if you're playing mainly for the combat and story, but I had a fantastic time exploring. I'd say wait for a sale but for $15 you'll definitely get your money's worth
There's a freeware game from Japanese students called UNDEFEATED that's a pretty damn solid Superman simulator for its small scope, and they're doing a full-sized sequel. Not quite the same as hammer tossing yourself across the city to powerbomb a granny off a skyscraper onto a tank that's trying to blow up an infected building, but it's something.
>regularly updated >big modding community (and a group of modders on /vst/ for those who don't want to use the discord) >DRM free >literally free to download thanks to the game not checking for used CD keys
this game is really fun and immersive up until you figure out how to make decent money. After that it becomes super shallow and the colony stuff is really boring
>Big modding community
Isn't it the one modding community that frequently puts player nukes into mods that frick you over for using a mod the author doesn't like?
Glad I'm not the only one on Ganker that's loving SZX but it's definitely not indie, though it's because it's technically in the same setting as some old mech game.
I keep forgetting that Serious Sam is Indie by definition.
So they're supporting the original release that BUKA published? That was technically not an indie release, despite the devs running the show. But if they put out a new version or even just re-released it as KranX, then it'd be indie. At least by that metric, which I think is the most objective way to consider things.
Yeah the original BUKA edition does not run for shit on modern systems. What's sold on GOG today uses a rewritten engine with QOL.
hell yea
they have much better value and are significantly cheaper than AAA slop
no indie would ever waste your time with open world, sidequest filler, or walk and talk bloat
its all pure hardwork put into the full experience for gameplay, characters, animation, music and if there is a story its often a bonus, usually never a detriment to the game experience if the writing isn't great
for me?
it's rain world, hotline miami, corn kidz 64, pogo3d, everhood, vividlope, ballisticNG, frogun, G string, yokus island express, go mecha ball, signalis, project wingman, slave zero x and more....
im excited for some upcoming indies like restitched, ENENRA, and AIKODE
let me know if you guys got any worth buying or following
>pixelshit >allegory about depression, anxiety and/or trooning out >slopvania >rogueslop (padding a 1 hour game into 20+ hours while pretending it's le hecking replayable by locking basic shit behind subsequent runs and upgrade systems) >indie (resistance) vs le evil corporations (empire) >low-poly nu nostalgia forced soul >le hecking cozy wholesome """"""""""games""""""""""" >bing bing wahoo clone but with le quirky and relatable characters >millenial writting >made by literal troons
I'm good. Rain World is good though.
>Shantae fans are still posting the game from 10 years ago and not 1/2 Genie Hero or Seven Sirens
Why are you guys stuck on Pirate's Curse so hard? Are the sequels just not good?
What did the update add? Is the Ultimate Edition the way to go for 1/2 Genie?
I played sirens on launch and it was genuine liquid shit. Even if the game somehow became more fun, as anons here say, it still lacks Kaufman soundtracks, which was like half the charm of previous games.
1/2 genie hero i found quite fun, mostly because Jake went all in with the OST and because i liked the cartoony artstyle, but it's the most barebones and basic of them (Still better than launch 7S though kek).
As for PC - It's the peak of the series. >Fun moveset that expands with the story in meaningful ways >The story is actually interesting, instead of just "being there" >The characters are not braindead morons and actually act like they have at least one braincell in the story, and their dynamics are great too >The dark island is genuinely fricking terrifying on first play >The big bad is actually dangerous, powerful and relevant to the story, instead of Risky just being a b***h to everyone hamfisted into a random plot again
There's a reason wayforward kept re-releasing to literally everything in existence instead of the first or the DS ones.
Im looking forward to Shantae Advance, feels like she deserves better games. Is Risky’s Revenge worth a go too?
Risky Revenge is quite basic, but enjoyable.
Only notable things i can remember about it is that the backgrounds are fancy, and the layered level gimmick. Kind of wish the latter stayed in the games - it was quite fun to explore.
>What did the update add?
It wasn't so much an addition as it was a rebalance. The original game was a timed exclusive for Apple Arcade and was piss easy so it could be played on an iPhone with touch controls. When it eventually came to console people had a lot of complaints about the lack of difficulty so a year later they went back and changed a bunch of little things.
Having played both, the difference was noticeable and welcome, though like all Shantae games buying potions at the shop still might as well be cheating with how easy it makes the game. >Ultimate Edition the way to go for 1/2 Genie?
It lets you play as a few new characters, Risky was IMO the best new mode. It's not essential though, worth the extra $5 over the barebones game on sale but not worth the extra $10 when not on sale.
I played sirens on launch and it was genuine liquid shit. Even if the game somehow became more fun, as anons here say, it still lacks Kaufman soundtracks, which was like half the charm of previous games.
1/2 genie hero i found quite fun, mostly because Jake went all in with the OST and because i liked the cartoony artstyle, but it's the most barebones and basic of them (Still better than launch 7S though kek).
As for PC - It's the peak of the series. >Fun moveset that expands with the story in meaningful ways >The story is actually interesting, instead of just "being there" >The characters are not braindead morons and actually act like they have at least one braincell in the story, and their dynamics are great too >The dark island is genuinely fricking terrifying on first play >The big bad is actually dangerous, powerful and relevant to the story, instead of Risky just being a b***h to everyone hamfisted into a random plot again
There's a reason wayforward kept re-releasing to literally everything in existence instead of the first or the DS ones.
Huntdown
Paint the town red
UnMetal
Cursed to golf
Lonely hills mountain
Death road to Canada
Nuclear throne
Russian subway dogs
Speed limit
The ambassador fractured timelines
>troony game >metroidvania trash >souls slope >reddit meme >good game >good game >didn't play >didn't play >didn't play >didn't play >troony game >good cat >good game >the half genie is better >stressful but good time killer >didn't play >great game >rogue trash >troony game >e-girl trash game >brutal for no reason >boring >cute >didn't play >ok
Nah I'd rather play old AAA games from before 2016
they look crisp and run smooth and never stutter
I don't get what's wrong with modren games. it's like they all choose to be foggy washed out stuttery mess
>I don't get what's wrong with modren games. it's like they all choose to be foggy washed out stuttery mess
This, what the frick is that weird blurry dotty shit and why is it in every fricking game nowadays? I played Zelda on the fricking Wii U and it was CRISP, why are games on current gen hardware so fricking weird-looking?
I'd really like an answer
what is it about modern game engines that changed?
The engines didn't change, the people using them did. Cheaper, stupider people now make up 99% of AAA payrolls, compaired to not that long ago where keeping competent people on staff was considered a worthwhile investment still.
Stop replying to yourself, only the hugest newbies like your dogshit.
>Changed
The artists and direction changed, not the engines, or at least mostly not them.
Everyone is too fixated on 4k AAA cinematic quality instead of having strong art direction carry the visuals, and therefore everyone resorts to fog (Allows you to add cheap atmosphere and light effects and also make it look more like a movie, and also hider low render distance sometimes) and washed out colors (Muh cinematic again, and also lack of contrast makes flaws less noticeable).
>Stutter
Mostly because of the aforementioned cinematic focus with its gigantic textures even for tiny, insignificant objects, tons of postprocessing that washes out the colors, and fog. Especially fog.
no one is being specific so allow me
it's fricking TAA
that's it
>I played Zelda on the fricking Wii U and it was CRISP
Why are you lying?
Because they prioritize making very good looking trailers and still images over the actual game. Also lots of companies are trying to expand more and more but end up stretched thin, making them rush deadlines moreso than ever before
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lol
>dances around dodging everything for 2 minutes
>commander dies anyways because an enemy shot him with an arrow
fricking kek
keep watching, eventually he shuts his monitor off and keeps playing. this is the kind of dogshit games nuGanker praises and is nostalgic for.
>old
>before 2016
2016 was 8 years ago
Yes, 2016 is old, grow the frick up you OLD homosexual. WWWWSSSHHH, 3 YEARS ERASED, THAT'S TIME YOU'LL NEVER GET BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
you are mentally moronic
I played Singularity last month and the way it played out was a pretty nice breather because it was smooth. Same with Mirror's Edge. AA was a nice middle ground between creativity and having a lot of money but almost all of them got fricked by publishers. I barely get excited for new indies anymore and there doesn't seem to be more games coming out that are based on games that I really like so it's kind of a drought. Everspace 2 was great.
>at least 5 indie games I am interested in that are still in early access for years (Death Trash, Stardeus, Fabular, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum and The Universim even though Universim is "technically in 1.0 but they still have content they need to add)
>at least several other games (not necessarily indie) that haven't been released (Abiotic Factor, Tactical Breach Wizards, Silksong, Bore Blasters, Zephon, and Tempest Rising)
>really liked Project Moon games but they made a gacha game that they focus on far more than any other upcoming game
>not worth looking at AAA releases anymore because they suck
>uninterested in most of the popular games everyone talks about
>a lot of new indie releases are doing some trend like "roguelite deckbuilders" or "Vampire Survivors"-styled and almost nothing that catches my attention
Shadow of Mordor is mediocre though
Bro there's tons of games post-2016 that are good. Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, and Elden Ring exist, and Baldur's Gate 3 somehow truly got the DnD experience in a video game.
Some of my favorite games ever and also some trash....
Hollow Knight, Undertale, and Pseudoregalia are some of my favorite games of all time. Hollow Knight is the only non-Fromsoft game I'd ever actually consider Souls-like.
Stray was cute and I mainly played it for the fact it's based on Kowloon Walled City. Being based on Kowloon Walled City gives you a ton of bonus points in my book.
Blasphemous I own but haven't played it. I only played a little of Rain World.
Paper's Please is more so an art piece then a game I feel, but it's a noteworthy experience.
Terraria I got bored of. It's sandboxy like Minecraft and I think sandboxes are kind of a waste of time.
Hat In Time, Shovel Knight, Shahtae, Celeste, Cave City and Notia look fun as frick, but they're not at the top of my priorities, I'd rather play some older AAA games like Dark Souls 2, or all the Dead Spaces.
Enter the Gungeon looks fun but a bit mindless.
Don't Starve, Stardew Valley, Slime Rancher etc are too sandboxy for my tastes. I try to avoid anything similar to Factorio because that game destroys lives.
I can't say anything about the other games I don't know anything about them.
Ew no.
drink bleach and have a nice day in the mouth, you fricking failed baortion
(and mods)
Play Bleed 2.
Half of these aren't even indie games.
what do you consider an indie game then!!!
>Blasphemous
Not indie
>Rain World
Not indie, fricking Adult Swim is not indie lol.
>Slay the Spire
Not indie.
>A Hat in Time
Main game sure but not DLCs.
>Shantae
Are you fricking kidding?
>MOMODORA
It's Playism, no.
>Cave Story+
Come on man, we all know Nicalis published that port and its fricking shit. The original version was, but not the Switch version like in the OP.
were you intentionally trying to parody pic related?
were you intentionally trying to out yourself as a newbie?
Slay The Spire, Hat in Time, & Shantae Pirate's Curse are owned and published by their developers. The notoriety or size of the team or game does not mean it isn't indie. Shantae's old games were not indie as they relied on other publishers, but modern ones that WayForward self-publish are. I would need to look into whether the developers of Rain World & Momodora own those IPs or if [as] & Playism do, but if the developers own the right then they are still indie. Cave Story+ was the only game I knew wasn't indie because Nicalis has owned Cave Story's publishing rights for a long time (hard to forget when they shove Quote & Curly into any crossover or marketing stunt they do); it's like Shantae in reverse where it began indie and then no longer was.
Pic related came out yesterday and despite being an only mildly-known sprite-based beat-em-up going for a 5th gen aesthetic, it's not indie. The IP isn't owned by the team because it's a spinoff to an equally-obscure 90s PC game.
The first 3 Momodora games are literal 1 hour long romps on itch.io, the 4th entry is the first one with a more noticeable budget and multiple devs rather than one guy in Brazil.
>1 hour long romps made by one dude doing his best, and they come out well
That's based as hell, never really looked into this series before but I respect it now. If I ever get off my ass and learn how to make a game I can only hope I can get out a fun little hour-long game people respond to.
>rain world IPs
it's quite a ride.
Developers were picked up by adult swim before they even formed a proper company when game still has been in "cool screenshots on forum" stage, but after the kickstarter. They still owned the IP, but AS covered their expenses.
Roughly after the game released, AS wasn't satisfied with the sales and took rights hostage. Videocult manged to release a single update before then, that was somewhere at the beginning of 2018, a year after release.
Up until 2021, videocult didn't actually own rights to their own game, until they managed to get them back through some negotiations with a new publisher, akupara games.
Now RW is published by akupara and rights belong to videocult, but AS still gets their cut from sales.
I don't have a single idea about DLC considering what a giant mess it was, as it wasn't developed by videocult but still published by akupara, and has been a community effort all at the same time.
If the developer is not owned by the publisher and the developer owns the IP, it's indie. I'm not certain on all of them but I'm pretty sure a large majority of OP's image count.
By that logic, can non-indie games then become Indie?
For example - Vangers was made by K-D Lab, a company where the creator worked, and published by BUKA. When he left, he formed KranX, which had nothing to do with K-D at all except for having a bunch of previous employees, and now, KranX is the one maintaining and publishing Vangers. Does that make Vangers retroactively indie?
So they're supporting the original release that BUKA published? That was technically not an indie release, despite the devs running the show. But if they put out a new version or even just re-released it as KranX, then it'd be indie. At least by that metric, which I think is the most objective way to consider things.
Indie should mean made and distributed without the funding or oversight of a publisher. Hence, independent.
But then EA games started putting out "indie" games and it's completely lost it's meaning. Indie is just a buzzword now.
Please remove stray from that
You can literally put yiik there
>Celest
good
>Hollow Knight
slopvania
>blaphemous
slopvania
>undertale
touhou for homestuck fans
>shovel knight
good
>rain world
boring slop
>gravity circuit
really shallow and easy mega man clone
>psuedoregalia
slopvania
>slay the spire
id rather eat a bucket of razor blades than play a roguelike deckbuilder
>garden story
dont know what that is
>hat in time
good
>stray
looks boring
>terraria
survival crafting slopvania
>shantae
mediocre platformer for coomers
>papers please
where is the gameplay?????????????
>momodora
didnt play
>steamworld
terrible franchise
>gungeon
nuclear throne for shitters
>sea of stars
i would rather be eaten by lions than play western jrpg
>rabi ribi
insanely overrated by third world ironic weebs
>dont starve
survival crafting slop
>stardew
only fat girls like this
>slime rancher
see above
>noita
good
>cave story
good
Rain World’s the second best game ever made.
I played it and it was not fun or interesting at all. I feel like its for stoners or something.
I smoked like 10 times in my life though.
the first?
you sound like a massive homosexual
so?
didn't read a bit of that but your webm made me go :3
kys troonimai avatargay
Hollow Knight, Psuedoregalia, and Undertale are good though.
Trust me, I have amazing taste. Psuedoregalia i beat recently and that was fun as frick with a groovy soundtrack. Love movement focused games like that.
>troony tendie can only tolerate gimmickshit platformers
sad but not surprising to see
sloppost
>psuedoregalia
>slopvania
no need to state your homosexuality like that anon
troony ALERT
>Anime webm
>Celeste "good"
100% a troon.
Speaking of indie games, apparently that porn game Future Fragments finally releases tomorrow. If the demo is anything to go by, I can't imagine the gameplay will be very good.
>celeste
post DISCARDED
but OP I am playing indie games right now
holy particle effects
Rank them:
>Undertale
>Rain World
>Hollow Knight
>Papers, Please
>Terraria
>Stardew Valley
>Celeste
>Cave Story
>Rabi-Ribi
>Shovel Knight
>Noita
>Momodora
>A Hat in Time
>Blasphemous
>Slay the Spire (roguelikes are fricking atrocious)
>Enter the Gungeon (read above)
>Stray
>Don't Starve
Never played:
>Gravity Citcuit
>Pseudoregalia
>Garden Story
>Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
>Steamworld Dig 2
>Sea of Stars (it's on my backlog)
>Slime Rancher
I wont rank the ones I havent played but
terraria > power gap > slay the spire > noita > dont starve > enter the gungeon
Thanks for the pic, saved it. For a while I wanted to play Gravity Circuit but forgot how the game was called until now.
I have played, loved and completed:
>Celeste
>Hollow Knight
>Rabi-Ribi
>A Hat In Time
>Rain World
Currently enjoying TEVI (which honestly shouldn't even be considered indie) even if it's leaving me with some bitter aftertaste at the moment, for several reasons that are mostly tied to how much I loved Rabi Ribi. I love videogames, and frick you for reading my blogpost.
The main problem I have with Indie games is that it's hard to separate the disgusting slop from the actual good games. Often times they look identical too. I have to rely on Ganker but this place is also full of paid shills...
It should be easy to tell from a bit of footage if a game is good, but I get what you mean.
its pretty simple for me
>do I like the artstyle?
if yes then its a good game. I have never been wrong in this regard
artgays are an absolute cancer on society and should be banished to an island
I've tried a good handful of indies that look nice but play like shit. Ugly games that are fun are very rare though, though I did really enjoy En Garde despite the main character's model being really wonky.
I play recommendations from friends + a youtube channel that is focused on indie games. Sometimes I get to find out about the new FOTM game here or the very sporadic niche indie game but 90% of the time this board is completely useless to actually discuss good videogames.
I heard Sea Of Stars is like fat lesbian trooncore Chrono Trigger
It's Chrono Trigger made by cringe millenials and their awful sense of humor and design
those are all fricking garbage except Terreria and Stardew Valley. Would rather play
When was the last time you played a good indie game?
I played penny's big breakaway today and so far its pretty good. I really enjoyed pizza tower (2023), neon white (2022), and spelunky 2 (2021) and thats just one game for each year, I can name plenty more. Unfortunately OP has terrible taste.
why did you leave out big catch, did you not play noid 2?
>why did you leave out big catch, did you not play noid 2?
huh?
This is a FREE game and you should play it.
https://noid.pizza/
Many of the devs are working on this now:
probably Astalon, it's a metroidvania with minor roguelike elements (there's no random generation or redoing large portions of the game, you just get to upgrade your stats with currency upon each death) and stays pretty fun and challenging throughout. I usually don't bother going for "true endings" in games but it doubles the game length with multiple new areas, unlockable characters, and unique abilities.
The only major issue I have is that you have to go to a save point to swap characters until 5 hours in when you get an item that lets you do it whenever, which seems unnecessary. Shilling over.
>metroidvania with minor roguelike elements
uh oh stinky
i know butthole i know, but it's basically just a shop you only access upon death, and most of the exploration is self contained within the area you're in until the endgame for true ending.
why would i want to play two terrible genres combined
Astalon is good but it's pretty old now.
i realized i had metroidvania autism so i've been playing through a shit ton of them lately. So far I've gone through
>Hollow Knight
>Blasphemous
>Blasphemous 2
>Ori & The Blind Forest
>Alwa's Awakening
>Astalon
>Timespinner
>Shantae & the Pirate's Curse
>Momodora 4
>Bloodstained Ritual of the Night
>Metroid Dread
>Rusted Moss
>Monster Sanctuary
>Ender Lillies
I saw all of them through to the end apart from the last 2, which i got bored of, but it's been fun catching up on everything this genre has been doing, and shit i'm ready for more.
Library of Ruina
love that game tons
I usually have at least one indie on my current installed rotation of games. Right now it's Time Break Chronicles. I'm having _______fun_______
This has been on my wishlist for a few years.
It's pretty fun, I play it on and off. Make sure you know what you're getting into though, it's pure battle autism, there's no town/overworld exploration or other RPG tropes. It's the kind of game that gets you thinking of team/relic combinations when you're not playing it. 100 heroes is crazy. Development is slow but the dev seems autistic enough to deliver eventually.
>no town/overworld exploration
Oh that's interesting.
Yes I was interested in the class variety but the build autism sounds like something currently fulfilled by a game like Siralim, for me at least. Either way, it's still in EA and my backlog is large.
>Siralim
This looks cool. Yeah it's pretty similar to this. You may as well wait until TBC leaves EA if you're still playing this game.
I would recommend checking out Siralim Ultimate, the latest entry. And that was the plan, yep.
False Skies. It's a fun not!jRPG, set in a Game Boy-like engine/UI, with a job system seemingly influenced by the Saga games, and surprisingly maze-y intricate dungeons starting from early on.
Void Stranger a few months ago.
Void Stranger a few mo nths ago.
FTFY
Last week.
Playing Leviathans Fantasy and it's pretty cool. You build like an MMO town for adventurers to come to and who go out and do adventures to collect loot
A week ago I played Infernax, one of my favorites.
Interesting Incoming Indies (III)
Just did.
Just play "true" indie games and not commercial slop.
https://files.catbox.moe/wagwcz.webm
I hate that Indie games are slowly turning themselves into AAA-lite.
Almost everything comes to the same artstyle (Pixelshit/PS1-shit) and barely any genre distinction.
Most games are the same shit with a twist - We have like a billion Boomer/Movement/Classic/whats the buzzword these days shooters, a trillion earthbound-inspired RPGs, a quadrillion metroidvanias, with just occasionally some outlier.
How many, or have we ever seen Action/character action games? How many actually notable immersive sims there are that aren't just "boomer shooter with inventory"? What about adventure games? CRPGs? RTS? Rhytm games? Some experimental shit that doesn't even have a name? How many of those do we see, quality or not? Why barely any/no Resident Evil, Parasite Eve, DMC, Diablo, Crusader:No Remorse, Oirignal System Shock, God Hand, Simcity, Sims, frick, spiritual successors to fricking ANYTHING other than Metroid, Doom and Earthbound? Some of these genres aren't even that more complex to replicate and make a game upon.
I am not saying indies that aren't those popular genres those do not exist, nor that the majority is never good, but most of what we get today is just the same shit over and over, almost as if indies have become the AAA, which they were supposed to stand against for that exact fricking reason.
The only notable Indies of the last... i don't know, fricking decade i guess, i can remember are Rimworld (RTS/Sims/Dwarfortress amalgamation), Hat in time (A 3D platformer), Stardew valley (Harvest Moon) and Pizza Tower (A platformer on Wario land/Sonic base, instead of yet another bing bing/metroid level jumpwalker). That's it. 4 games in a decade that try to stand out.
This just feels wrong.
I feel like you dont play indies because philistine devs all copying whatever the best game was in the past year has been an indie dev thing since 2012
That... Was not the point of my post at all, anon.
2012 was around when the indie scene was starting to pop off (Or so i remember, fell free to correct) and started getting the rep of "Actually fun shit that AAA wont do".
Now it's been 12 years, and all that was improved was jack and shit. It does not even try to copy what was popular anymore - It just copies upon itself over and over, instead of trying to copy something "new" and fun
>Why barely any/no Resident Evil
here you go anon, 2 indie games that try to emulate classic RE
I know about Alisa, anon. I fricking adore how it's like the only PS1-style game that actually TRIES to embrace its PS artstyle in gameplay and direction instead of just using it as a crutch, like how for example New Blood games and many 3D indies do. Never heard of ET though, i'll check it out.
The problem is still the same. I didn't say just "No Resident Evil", i said "No/Barely Any". Two good games in a scene that existed for a few decades by now, and those are obscure as shit, is the problem i am pointing at. We need more genre diversity in indies overall.
>Never heard of ET though, i'll check it out.
I think you'll enjoy it, it's not a very scary game, moreso spooky, think Sailor Moon haunted house episode, that's the sort of tone. Only real issue is the lack of a map and the endgame has several rooms respawn enemies without giving you health pickups to correspond with that, but it's not too bad to get through. It's flawed but has a lot of heart.
Oh, it looks like that...
Well, i guess i'll just believe your word that it tries to emulate classic RE then instead of playing it. I was expecting a 3D one like Alisa did, but i don't think i really like what i am seeing, even if the game itself is supposed to be really good.
there's no 3D aiming or tank controls if that's the kind of thing you were looking for, but in terms of weird puzzles using key items, conserving health and ammo, and cramped encounters with the undead, it's all here.
Remember when indie meant something?
Ah yes Doom, my favorite indie game.
For starters most of these games are not """indies""". Also, most of then are derivatives, which are horrible. There are only two good games in this list, Shantae and Hollow Knight.
name 1 game you like
>inb4 basic b***h Ganker 3x3 game
This was my favorite indie game.
>more reaction images (avatars) than actual screenshots
a sign of a shitty thread
I heard this is actually decent now that someone else came in and started improving it.
>posts smash slop
Should have posted an anime girl instead.
is rivals 2 out yet?
Q2 beta for backers, Q4 full release
>its worse.
How
Hope ENENRA shapes up well, that last Steam demo was really fricking jank. I liked En Garde but its length and depth had a limit on it, the environmental interaction kind of plays its whole hand if you do a replay or Arena run.
>indie MGR
I mean, I'm all for that but we all know the real hook of Rising was the soundtrack.
The backrooms are in it, the voice acting has been redone and the memes are gone and replaced with furshit.
>started improving it
Cancelled midway through act 2, patch com,ing this Summer.
Also its worse.
YOU FRICKED UP MY FACE
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Famitsu_Japan%27s_100_favorite_video_games
heres 100
>65. Family Stadium Pro Baseball (1986)
>72. Best Play Pro Baseball (1988)
>95. Pro Baseball Family Stadium 87
why do japs love baseball games so fricking much?
>Also, most of then are derivatives, which are horrible.
>There are only two good games in this list, Shantae and Hollow Knight.
bait
just named 2
For the shit they get I enjoy indie horror games way more than anything you listed, I would even say some surpass AAA horror.
Celeste was never good. I could tell it was weird troony shit before it ever outed itself as weird troony shit.
every single game on this list is just a worse ripoff of a japanese game from 20+ years ago. This is the shrine that you worship upon? How fricking pathetic.
Half of those are troon slop
>le nothing is indie
>also nothing is le good at the same time
>also this game that's actually good is shit because there's a element of rng ignoring that if you're good you would have beaten it anyways but adds replay value
this board is so tiring
just ignore the catalogue Gankertards anon
what indies have you been playin?
Out of action's demo and dicey dungeon
RNG slop/rogueshit/cardslop/deckbuilder is synonymous with lazy game design. AKA exactly what indie devs are known for. Instead of making actual quality games, they shirk the responsibility of making the game well onto the player's shoulders and lie to them about how if they were good, they would win.
deckbuilders are peak video gaming because it filters Ganker so fricking hard
It's formulaic probability management and it's not interesting to actual intelligent people.
>cope
yup, filtered
>t.
This. There's no strategy guide to follow or cheese strat because they need to think on the fly based on the cards they're dealt, which they can't so they seethe instead. It's hilarious.
What's the original Forced Skies?
False Skies, a really obscure JRPG. No idea why whoever made that image has beef with it.
Someone once made a thread about it on /vrpg/ and seemed to insult the Saga games at the same time within the initial OP. This led to someone having an autistic fit throughout the entire thread as a defense mechanism, and has basically slandered the name of the obscure game nobody has played.
>Dev comes in to shill their game under the thin guise of being some rando
>insults the very games he claims inspired his own
tl;dr huge fricking homosexual, and it can be surmised that his game is as shitty as he is.
>shill shill shill
>hasn't even played the game
You're an lolcow every time you pop up.
Anon, LOOK AT THE FRICKING POST
It's the most surface-level shilling where he pitches the game to the board. Especially the review part at the end.
Not even autists go in such detail about games they like in OP
Why go into detail about a game you enjoy when newbies like you brand everybody a paid advertiser for DARING to enjoy vidya? You're an lolcow.
There's no problem going into detail of a game you enjoy.
There is lots of problems with talking like goddamn salesman and talking about steam reviews you autistic fricking homosexual.
Are you the dev, by chance?
its funny how the guy who made this just put "slop" for everything he couldnt come up with anything interesting for
Ironic isn't it, talking shit about something being derivative when you can't even form a unique insult.
Whoever made this, please add Five FOTM’s of furries to the list.
the bug fables spoof is funny at least
For me, it's been Sands of Aura, Penny's Big Breakaway, and Under a Star Long Cold
How was Sands of Aura? I heard that it still needed some work but it had also been on my wishlist for some time. Looked neat.
The people.who loved it the most tended to focus specifically on the level design, and that includes me. I don't think it has a ton to offer if you're playing mainly for the combat and story, but I had a fantastic time exploring. I'd say wait for a sale but for $15 you'll definitely get your money's worth
the dlc
where is it?
@667984770
Have another
The Steamworld Dig franchise is fricking good.
haven't played Steamworld Build but the Dig games are pretty kino
>Prototype-likes out of the reach of indie games because of the AA-level effort the genre requires
There's a freeware game from Japanese students called UNDEFEATED that's a pretty damn solid Superman simulator for its small scope, and they're doing a full-sized sequel. Not quite the same as hammer tossing yourself across the city to powerbomb a granny off a skyscraper onto a tank that's trying to blow up an infected building, but it's something.
It looks solid, thanks anon!
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1166890/discussions/
It's 2D, but it's sorta inspired
Noice
looks cool, thanks anon
>regularly updated
>big modding community (and a group of modders on /vst/ for those who don't want to use the discord)
>DRM free
>literally free to download thanks to the game not checking for used CD keys
this game is really fun and immersive up until you figure out how to make decent money. After that it becomes super shallow and the colony stuff is really boring
>Big modding community
Isn't it the one modding community that frequently puts player nukes into mods that frick you over for using a mod the author doesn't like?
Just avoid the autists like Nia Tahl and Boggled.
This came out a day or two ago btw. It's on GoG
Glad I'm not the only one on Ganker that's loving SZX but it's definitely not indie, though it's because it's technically in the same setting as some old mech game.
Did they really put Donald Trump as a boss in this or was Ganker memeing me?
It's a meme. There's a very patriotic-looking general character named Thorman.
>be me
>only enter this thread so I can laugh at that one dude that replaces every indiegame with "slop"
>he's not here
wait...has Ganker lost its soul for good...?
scroll up
Brainlet triggered by people civilly discussing the pros and cons of games they played. Love to see it
No
>Castle Crashers
>Battleblock Theatre
>Hotline Miami
>Katana Zero
>Super Meat Boy
>Postal 2
>Ultrakill
>Madness Project Nexus 2021
>Serious Sam 3
>Among Us
>Pizza Tower
>Rocket Leauge
>Dead By Daylight
>Goat Simulator
Shit list.
>>Dead By Daylight
you overplayed your hand here
I keep forgetting that Serious Sam is Indie by definition.
Yeah the original BUKA edition does not run for shit on modern systems. What's sold on GOG today uses a rewritten engine with QOL.
SHOVE
IT
UP
YOUR
OWN
ASS
GAME
I'm curious as to why you posted the worst (and really the only bad) Serious Sam game
that's obviously a bait
What is the best way to play Cave Story?
The original freeware version
I've played both the free version and cave story+ both are good. if you dont wanna pay play the free one, if you want to pay for it buy the + version.
hell yea
they have much better value and are significantly cheaper than AAA slop
no indie would ever waste your time with open world, sidequest filler, or walk and talk bloat
its all pure hardwork put into the full experience for gameplay, characters, animation, music and if there is a story its often a bonus, usually never a detriment to the game experience if the writing isn't great
for me?
it's rain world, hotline miami, corn kidz 64, pogo3d, everhood, vividlope, ballisticNG, frogun, G string, yokus island express, go mecha ball, signalis, project wingman, slave zero x and more....
im excited for some upcoming indies like restitched, ENENRA, and AIKODE
let me know if you guys got any worth buying or following
>pixelshit
>allegory about depression, anxiety and/or trooning out
>slopvania
>rogueslop (padding a 1 hour game into 20+ hours while pretending it's le hecking replayable by locking basic shit behind subsequent runs and upgrade systems)
>indie (resistance) vs le evil corporations (empire)
>low-poly nu nostalgia forced soul
>le hecking cozy wholesome """"""""""games"""""""""""
>bing bing wahoo clone but with le quirky and relatable characters
>millenial writting
>made by literal troons
I'm good. Rain World is good though.
Yikes, only Terraria is good
Fix your pic, OP. You're welcome.
frick is wrong with shovel knight, slay the spire and cave story?
>stardew uncrossed
what a Black person you are
every Gankertard dismisses StS as le roguelite cardgame slop. Its the easiest indicator you can ignore anything they have to say
Poker is fine in my book but miss me with all those nu-card kusoge
>mfw the indie games I like are too obscure for this thread
no such thing!
thanks anon
MAN I still remember when it was cool to hate on Fez because the dev was a homosexual
>Shantae fans are still posting the game from 10 years ago and not 1/2 Genie Hero or Seven Sirens
Why are you guys stuck on Pirate's Curse so hard? Are the sequels just not good?
1/2 Genie is mid, buy on sale, Sirens is almost on par with Curse since the update.
What did the update add? Is the Ultimate Edition the way to go for 1/2 Genie?
Im looking forward to Shantae Advance, feels like she deserves better games. Is Risky’s Revenge worth a go too?
Risky Revenge is quite basic, but enjoyable.
Only notable things i can remember about it is that the backgrounds are fancy, and the layered level gimmick. Kind of wish the latter stayed in the games - it was quite fun to explore.
>What did the update add?
It wasn't so much an addition as it was a rebalance. The original game was a timed exclusive for Apple Arcade and was piss easy so it could be played on an iPhone with touch controls. When it eventually came to console people had a lot of complaints about the lack of difficulty so a year later they went back and changed a bunch of little things.
Having played both, the difference was noticeable and welcome, though like all Shantae games buying potions at the shop still might as well be cheating with how easy it makes the game.
>Ultimate Edition the way to go for 1/2 Genie?
It lets you play as a few new characters, Risky was IMO the best new mode. It's not essential though, worth the extra $5 over the barebones game on sale but not worth the extra $10 when not on sale.
I played sirens on launch and it was genuine liquid shit. Even if the game somehow became more fun, as anons here say, it still lacks Kaufman soundtracks, which was like half the charm of previous games.
1/2 genie hero i found quite fun, mostly because Jake went all in with the OST and because i liked the cartoony artstyle, but it's the most barebones and basic of them (Still better than launch 7S though kek).
As for PC - It's the peak of the series.
>Fun moveset that expands with the story in meaningful ways
>The story is actually interesting, instead of just "being there"
>The characters are not braindead morons and actually act like they have at least one braincell in the story, and their dynamics are great too
>The dark island is genuinely fricking terrifying on first play
>The big bad is actually dangerous, powerful and relevant to the story, instead of Risky just being a b***h to everyone hamfisted into a random plot again
There's a reason wayforward kept re-releasing to literally everything in existence instead of the first or the DS ones.
>just play indie games
I do and they are great. Waiting on Ender Magnolia's now.
I recommend Jenova Chen's Cloud (2005)
any indie 4 (word-we-don't-use-here)'s in a row games? i need my fix
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/514470/Fantastic_4_In_A_Row_2/
Are any of these even good? Or are they just your typical indie shovelware that is pretentious homosexual dribble?
Is Rain World one of these games that good as you progress and unlock stuff? Because I've just started playing it and seems boring as frick.
I mostly play indies. Some I like
Huntdown
Paint the town red
UnMetal
Cursed to golf
Lonely hills mountain
Death road to Canada
Nuclear throne
Russian subway dogs
Speed limit
The ambassador fractured timelines
>troony game
>metroidvania trash
>souls slope
>reddit meme
>good game
>good game
>didn't play
>didn't play
>didn't play
>didn't play
>troony game
>good cat
>good game
>the half genie is better
>stressful but good time killer
>didn't play
>great game
>rogue trash
>troony game
>e-girl trash game
>brutal for no reason
>boring
>cute
>didn't play
>ok
What even is an "indie" game these days? Literally half of the games in OP's picture were funded and released by major publishing companies.
anything that isn't AAA for most people? guess AA never really caught on huh?