Deathloop is free to claim on Epic Games
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Is this just Epic begging people to come to their platform and shelling out $ to cover the cost for devs?
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Is this just Epic begging people to come to their platform and shelling out $ to cover the cost for devs?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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But that would require me installing epic games.
Nope.
Actually, no you don't.
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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!
Fantastic overview
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Just picked it up! Thanks for the tip.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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
CartKart, 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. -
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
CartKart, 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!
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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.
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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
CartKart, 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."Kyle my way through a wall" is my new favorite saying for the next few days. Amazing
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And Heroic recently put out an update that fixes the games claiming bug
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But that would require me installing epic games.
Nope.
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.
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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.
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Heroic Games Launcher
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.
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I don’t think they let you turn it off on launch, or maybe I couldn’t find the setting. I had the laggiest julliannas ghosting around my map every run.
Single player was great, the invasions were awful.
The game is forced multiplayer? Yeah, then I'll pass.
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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.
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I'll take it, throw it on a 300+ pile, but I won't install your shit Sweeney.
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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.
My thoughts were not too dissimilar. Definitely with you, fellow internet stranger, on the boring, but I found it to be a mixed bag of fun so never finished the game. Though it's been some time since I played, I may revisit to see if that has changed over the years.
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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
CartKart, 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.is this more a fight between random internet strangers?
I think the traditional way of settling this is a meme duel.
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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.
playing whatever you claim DOES however require you to download the launcher. so ill still pass
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Is this just Epic begging people to come to their platform and shelling out $ to cover the cost for devs?
That would imply that, at some point in the future, Epic might not be able to cover their devs through the EGS and have to close it. Which would probably mean you lose access to games on there.
