Interesting. I'm a random Internet stranger and I thought it was boring and not fun. However a lot of people liked it so I'm not saying it's bad it just wasn't for me.

But that would require me installing epic games.

Nope.

Heroic Games Launcher

I played this on Game Pass (Gamepass? I don't recall how they brand it) years ago and had fun with it. I'd enjoy playing it again, assuming I could forget my previous playthrough.

YES! Thank you, finally someone else who sees it!

In my opinion, Deathloop is a spiritual successor to the OG System Shock as well. System Shock 2 and Prey (2017) both adopt RPG elements which is all well and fine, I adore both those games, but OG doesn't have them and leans more on the interplay of immersive systems, really giving credence to the immersive simulation labeling that feels a bit more obtuse these days.

In OG System Shock, I really do feel you're supposed to play with the Mission difficulty maxed so you have a time limit. It's fine if you don't, I've still never beaten it with the time limit on either Enhanced or Remake, but hear me out. System Shock (especially the REAL OG release) was an older game where you were meant to invest more time into it. You were supposed to do new game runs where you start from scratch, learn the world, learn the systems, and push further every time. It becomes more menacing when SHODAN is a real opponent that you can literally "lose" the game to.

Modern gamers don't really tolerate that kind of stuff because losing a good run to an 8 (or 10) hour time limit feels like a waste of your time, and I can sympathize with that. That's why Deathloop pulls the idea of runs into a metacontext where you're reliving the same day over and over again, learning the layout of the different areas at different times of day, making use of the tools available to you until you're ready for THE DAY when you do THE RUN and basically speedrun the game.

Part of me wonders what a Deathloop without Wenjie's preservation mechanic (I forget what it's called at the moment) would look like where you're forced to re-gather your favorite weapons from their specific locations each run would look like, too. But I get why it was included and I'm not ready to say it would 100% be a better game without.

Oh and Julianna obviously acts as the SHODAN antagonist stand-in even though I know their personalities and motivations are very different. You get how having an ever present, somewhat omniscient foe hunt you is kinda the same.

There's more but I won't ramble any further. I know they're very different games, but you see the outline, right?

EDIT: Of course there's copious amounts of Thief and Dishonoured DNA in there, but I've actually never played those so I have less to say about it. I promise, I'll get on it someday, I swear!

Is this just Epic begging people to come to their platform and shelling out $ to cover the cost for devs?

I never spent a single cent at their store and probably never will, but since Epic is so keen on burning money I am happy to help them with that.

Actually, no you don't.

Fantastic overview

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Is this now a fight between random internet strangers? Are we supposed to use slurs? (JK, just in case)

Totally fair! Nothing can appeal to everyone, and I would never be accused of having average tastes. Loads of people seem to like Mario Cart Kart, but playing it makes me want to Kyle my way through a wall. I had just played Prey Mooncrash, and was jazzed up on the loop mechanic. If I played again I may feel differently.

It's mario Kart you heathen!

Hmm, it appears I already owned it on there. Which means they put it out as a free game at least once before already.

The only games I have on there are free games.

"Kyle my way through a wall" is my new favorite saying for the next few days. Amazing

And Heroic recently put out an update that fixes the games claiming bug

New to this? You go to the website and claim the game, then never play it and go back to playing whatever you were before.

I had it on PlayStation a while back. Really enjoyed so much about it, but ultimately found the controls on console to just be unbearable.

Yup. I claim through the website and play through Heroic. I haven't ever installed the Epic Games launcher, yet I've played several free games.

The game is forced multiplayer? Yeah, then I'll pass.

Very occasionally, on certain maps people or bots invade. It’s dark souls 1 style. It doesn’t impact that much until you are trying to beat it, then you get invaded once or twice.