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Post by Sarge on Jun 7, 2020 18:32:00 GMT -5
The correct Dark Void game to play is Dark Void Zero.
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Post by toei on Jun 7, 2020 18:41:58 GMT -5
Sarge Oh yeah, Dark Void Zero was completely legit. Easily one of the best DSiWare games. At the time I didn't have Internet at home, so I'd bought a few of them using a friend's wifi. There was a half-decent, but very short action RPG (Legends of Exidia), a port of that one long-running Korean cellphone ARPG series (Xenonia I think) which seemed really cool at first but turned out to be entirely made up of boring MMO-style quests (ie Kill 10 Slimes, Get 10 Herbs), and a shameless Pokemon clone that I got completely sick of playing a few hours in. Dark Void Zero was the only fully-legit, could-have-been-a-physical-release DSiWare game I found, and the best kind of NES-style "retro" game design, ie something that mostly feels like it could have come out at the time, rather than a dubious rehash of something that did. This is the Pokemon clone: And this is Dark Void Zero:
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Post by Sarge on Jun 7, 2020 20:02:21 GMT -5
Yeah, I ended up tapping out on Zenonia, which I had on my iPhone 3G. Oh, man, the memories... it feels like forever ago I was using that phone. It was nicely polished, but the gameplay loop was blah, and of course on a touch screen, I just couldn't stick with it.
Dark Void Zero really did recreate the NES aesthetic to great effect. While I know it isn't strictly an NES title, I wouldn't bat an eye if someone said it could be done on real hardware.
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Post by Ex on Jun 7, 2020 21:26:32 GMT -5
I honestly don't love Raven's backlog much, nor do I wish they became a CoD backup studio though. I still think this is an excellent Raven FPS... ...that no one likes around here but me. I thought you dudes were Star Trek fans.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 7, 2020 21:39:41 GMT -5
Dang, I'm glad you reminded me of that. I always hear that it's a really good game. Is there anywhere to really purchase it these days, or is it pretty much abandonware?
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Post by toei on Jun 7, 2020 21:53:31 GMT -5
Sarge I think they're up to Zenonia 5 or 6 by now. I grabbed it when I got my new cellphone and ended up turning off its access to my phone functionalities (why does it need that, anyway?) pretty quickly as it's just more of the same basic MMO quests.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 7, 2020 22:41:04 GMT -5
Yeah, I remember there being up to a fifth game some time ago. They pumped those things out really quickly.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 7:06:26 GMT -5
I honestly don't love Raven's backlog much I do like their stuff for the most part - mostly due to Heretic, HeXen II, Soldier of Fortune, Jedi Outcast, Quake IV and now obviously Singularity. But there are just as many games of them I don't care much for, such as Hexen, SoF 2 and Wolfenstein 2009. I couldn't get into Elite Force because I'm really, really not into Star Trek. Forgot to mention another game I've beaten: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West [2010] Starts off as a decent hack 'n slash game with an interesting setting - a Mad Max-like post-apocalyptic world - and a story loosely based on Journey to the West. However, after a while the tone gets way too silly and once you leave the ruins of New York the environment becomes dull, boring and almost monochromatic (... brown). Combat is OK, but definitely not enough to carry the game by itself. Feels like an Andy Serkis (who does the motion capture and voice for the main character) fan-project by the end. - Anyway, just a heads up that if I'm going to beat more games it's probably gonna be dialog-heavy point 'n click adventure games for the PC from now on. I made some good progress with my Russian and wanna keep at it, so those kind of games (as well as books) are pretty much my main focus right now. There are many adventure games I might play, it's not a genre I ever explored much.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 8, 2020 13:19:13 GMT -5
I enjoyed Enslaved, but yeah, it's an acquired taste for sure. The controls felt a bit odd, and it took me some time to adjust to.
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Post by Xeogred on Jun 8, 2020 13:30:51 GMT -5
The story/characters/world is what I liked about Enslaved, enough to finish it. But I also agree, the gameplay wasn't very special and didn't compel me enough to check out more of Ninja Theory's works.
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