It's nice to see the developer stopped by, took the criticism professionally, and interacted with people. Respect for that. My advice to the dev for future projects would be to reel in the scope, it's better to do a few things well than a lot of things poorly.
Hey guys, 3089 developer here! Thank you for the video, Jim Sterling. My first suggestion would be to watch the "Quick Guide" on Steam, next to the trailer -- since it looks like Jim didn't use the run feature at all (which is why he was moving so slow). This is also explained in the Quick Tips he skimmed over. I'm also working on making some improvements to the aesthetics, but many do enjoy the graphics which are meant to be simplistic & cartoony. You can head over to the Steam forums to read the discussion & also check the reviews section, which is overwhelmingly positive for good reason! Anyway, if this game isn't your fancy, thank you for at least stopping by & have a good day!
Garrick Backer Thank you! It can be tough when a popular UA-cam player like Jim makes such a negative video -- I just hope people realize this is one person's opinion and if you played with a bit more attention to what the game is trying to tell you to do, I think he would have had a much better time. I hope other players decide to try it out for themselves. I can't guarantee you'll like it, but you just might -- many do!
oOMetalheadOo in addition I played this when it was in alpha state, which was in an indieroyale bundle I think.... but even back then I thought it looked better than now, you might have taken a wrong turn somewhere
oOMetalheadOo Interesting observation... many of the changes I made visually can be changed in the "Effects Config", like the "Toon Mode" and ambient occlusion, if you prefer the (really) old look better.
Hey all -- developer of 3089 here with an update. Just letting you all know, 3089 v1.0.13 is out (and more updates are coming) that includes a few fixes and improvements inspired by this video and comments. Please follow me on Twitter,@phr00t_, to get updates on future releases. Thank you again for stopping by!
Ha! But hey, we loved, and many still do love N64 games! 3089 was certainly not designed to be the next Crysis or Fallout, but it does have its own art style and the gameplay is very good. Check it out, you may like it!
Oda Swifteye Thats not how it works. Superior to what? comparing to console graphics? he has to have a really old computer not to be superior to that. a 5 year old graphics card beat console graphics.
He didn't play the game correctly. Just took it at face value to make a funny video. He complains about how slow you move but never once used the sprint button or a hover-board. I bought this game a few days ago and have been absolutely hooked. The gameplay itself plays better than most shooters I have played in a while, mostly due to the fact that using the skill point system allows you to play the game in any style you want. There are little to no bugs, the game functions perfectly fine. You explore the map doing quests or fighting towers to add skill points. You see something, you go there. The further from your starting point the harder the enemies. I have found some really cool geographical structures and the robots wandering around make the game feel really alive. It's like being inside a world inside a computer. The customization is insane. Multiple parts make up every weapon or piece of armor. This review is not a proper assessment of what the game is actually like. Look past the graphics, this is a great game.
Thank you for the response! I'm glad you are enjoying my game and I had the same thought -- I wish Jim paid a little more attention to the Quick Tips & do what the game was telling him. However, I think he purposefully didn't give the game much chance because he didn't like the visuals. Oh well.. I hope people still try it out for themselves!
phr00t For some feedback based solely on what I just watched,the tips and guide could be presented better. Being forced to read them before starting seems really grating and I'm not sure I'd even properly skim through if forced. Farting around, looking for the equipment dispensers seemed like a real enthusiasm killer too, they could stand to be more accessible from the start. Overall, I see a lot of the discovery not being worth the effort in this video. Find equipment dispenser, but it costs money; find a building, but it's empty; find a sword, but it's just a piece of a sword. In the case of the sword, finding the workbench early on would open up the desire to find pieces to assemble with it. A short tutorial-style stage might help.
I think it's lovely that the developer him or herself decided to stop by on this video and is taking the criticism in stride. That speaks volumes about the method behind this madness. I've played a bit of this game... personally I didn't find it too particularly fun or boring. It was just kind of... an experience. You shoot things, you craft things, you take over territory and do quests - pretty much just as promised. So it's unfair to really call it a bad game, since it delivers what it promises in what can be called a decent manner. I imagine the dev isn't still bothering with this video's comments and I'm too lazy to make a twitter account just to give my feedback to him or her, so I'm not going to bother. Instead, if you're reading these comments I encourage you to at least have a look at the game yourself because it really isn't as terrible as Jim makes it out to be, it's just not particularly great either - but a developer will only be able to improve a game so much without people playing it and giving feedback.
Spooky Spartacus I actually stopped by to check the comments, and I'm glad I did. Criticisms come in all forms, some deserved and some manufactured, but often result in improvements. I do hope people give 3089 a try, they may find it much more enjoyable than Jim did. My newer games, 4089 and beyond, does many things differently from the start -- so even if you don't like 3089, please check out what else I have to offer.
+Phr00t's Software This is driving me crazy, but can you point me into a DETAILED tutorial on how to use workstations? I have two parts, the outter part of a chip, and the inner circle part, I press E on the workstation... what next, I've pressed right click on each of the part, nothing happens other than "cannot do that" it's frustrating me. A video tutorial would be best.
It is a testament to you, Jim, that I watched the entire thing listening to you and wondering why the hell I was watching it, if I'd bought this I'd have shot my computer 2 mins in
Developer of 3089 here with another update! v1.1.3 is out with a whole new, much better looking interface. Keep in mind Jim is playing an old version and rather haphazardly at that! imgur.com/a/dkRBz
Iterating on your game is really good and kudos for that, but I'd rather spend time on the issue that I'm watching Jim do a whole lot of, well, nothing in your game. A whole lot of open space with not that much in it it to do it seems.
Yeah, you can't expect Jim Sterling to play a game well. He's fat, and therefore has bad reaction times and is lazy. Probably the reason why he didn't like Vanquish.
Bravo! I love the opening to this game, it really draws you in and creates a Sci Fi fantasy world that you can really immerse yourself in. When he picked up that hoverboard I was instantly sold, you can tell the developers must have been working on this game for years to come up with innovations like that.
This game becomes more interesting if you open the map, mouse over close building and se that there are stations that alow you to do some stuff. One of the more important one being the "quest" station. This gives you quests that alows you to gain stats. The other important one being the workbench. that allows you to dissasemble and assemble parts of weapons. Different parts having different stats and abilities. Sadly these things are not that well communicated in the game. Haven't been playing this game for a very long time tho, so i can't really tell if there is alot too it yett tho.
I actually enjoy this game quite a bit with the time ripping, the item crafting, and the ship piloting. I haven't gotten far into the plot, but Taking out blue bases with my friend and converting them to red is pretty fun.
By getting thousands and thousands of votes :-) I'm glad Jim made a video, but I do think he painted a pretty poor picture of my game because he made very little attempt to follow the Quick Tips & understand the game. That is OK, though, everyone has their opinion and wants to play games certain ways.
phr00t Because your game doesn't deserve a good picture. You claim that art style is deliberately "simplistic" and "cartoony" while in fact it's just lazy, barely any improvement from 3079 too. Antichamber and Proteus are simplistic, deliberately so. Simplicity in color and overall visual design of those games helped to build an atmosphere, set a stage and immerse players. Sam & Max, Don't Starve, Torchlight and Team Fortress 2 are cartoony, one glance is enough to realize that is an aesthetic decision. All these games i mention went for the design decision that you claim to have made and yet all those games look infinitely better than 3089. There wasn't a single thing worth looking at throughout the video. Robots look like something a kindergartener can draw. Big open spaces filled with nothing but low-poly trees, low-poly rocks, boxes and empty cubes filled with disappointment and covered by putrid textures. This game has absolutely nothing going aside from some of the soundtrack. As a I understand you're one man team, everybody knows it's hard to make a game and it's even harder. That's why there are people who spends years of their free time and their money like Vince Twelve, Daisuke Amaya, Jonathan Blow, Lukas Pope or Alexander Bruce, developer of said Antichamber. And then there are people with high self esteem that don't care much about the quality and just take a bunch of shortcuts.
TheRadioSquare Thank you for your very detailed opinion. Sorry you didn't like it -- just pointing out that thousands do like 3089 & do believe it deserves a good picture, and that is why it got greenlit. I thank my supporters and appreciate them greatly.
I was on the fence about this along with the prequel: 3079. This video doesn't change that, perhaps if Jim had listened to the tutorial we would actually know whether anyone could get into the game and see what its all about. Ah well, plenty other reviewers out there.
phr00t, I have to say that I am not trying to make a judgment on your work and that you appear to have been polite and downright friendly throughout, however your omnipresence in every comment that sounds even slightly negative towards your work doesn't paint you in the best light. I am not saying that you shouldn't defend your game or that you are entirely in the wrong, just when you take it to this level it looks like you can't take criticism. As an indie dev, your personal image can be almost as important to your success as the games you create. If you remember when Jonathan Blow would magically appear whenever anyone would talk about Braid and what that did for his image, you have an idea of what I mean (not that he isn't also incredibly successful, just that he looked a bit immature). All of that being said, thank you for being a respectable person throughout and keep creating, the more the merrier in our gaming community.
Well it shows that he cares, and it's valid for him to be around and try to prove that the reviewer was a piece of sh-t, or at least incapable of playing the game in a manner it was designed to be played. Although I won't say there is no room for improvements, he didn't bother to read the "game guide", essentially that's like playing Chess without knowing the rules and then bitching about how you can't use your units the way you want to use them.
That gunfight where you got the hoverboard actually got me pretty pumped, to be honest. I saw this before and got turned off, but I think I might actually check it out.
Well, can't really say this video did this game any justice. There are ALOT more features in this game than what was shown. Problem is he didn't really take the time to explore them. Those guides on there are pretty much a must read if you want any kind of direction. Graphics are hardly an excuse to really bash a game. Especially when all those pretty little particles and details tend to go unnoticed after playing longer than 30 minutes or are turned off for more framerate(not to mention alienating the rest of the people who like to game but can't simply fit in a fancy 2,000 dollar gaming rig or has the technical know how to overclock it without frying their components). I'd trade game play for graphics any day as long as the interface isn't a hassle(Dwarf Fortress).
With art tools like Blender and GIMP--and even just MS Paint!--all you have to do is care *a little bit* to make graphics that are at least an order of magnitude better. First impressions are vital. If you as a person meet someone for the first time and you are dressed like a homeless person, they probably aren't going to take the time to figure out that underneath the smelly rags is an individual they might really like. This game does the game-equivalent of going around dressed like a homeless person and wonders why nobody gives it a chance. Considering how flooded the indie game market is with shit if you want to succeed you have to do everything possible to differentiate yourself. But this game got lucky, out of the mass of indie games vying to be noticed, it is being reviewed by a fairly prominent UA-cam personality so it has its chance to show that... the developers cared as much about the UI and the story, and the gameplay, and the music as they cared about the graphics. That is, not at all.
"Press the hint key regularly for us to point you in the right direction". Lazy design at its best. The hoverboard was pretty cool though. Feel better, Jim!
That doesn't seem like much of an insult. I would consider it an honour to be invited to ANY feast ion hell, let alone the final feast. Get your shit together Jim.
Awesome. I learned of this game a few days ago, and it became THE game I was hoping Jim would make a video of. This game seems quite interesting, and unfortunately Jim didn't seem to give it enough of a chance. The first impression the game gives doesn't seem great, so it's hard to fault him for it. I also don't expect Jim to heavily research every game he decides to make a video on, so I'm not mad at him for insulting the graphics or the apparent vapidness of the start of the game. However, I also think that expecting high-quality graphics in a vast randomly-generated open-world game designed by one person (whose talents may lie principally in aspects other than visual/graphical art) is a bit unreasonable. I'm sad Jimothy had a bad time with this game (though exciting things started happening towards the end). Perhaps he went in expecting something instantaneously exciting like Paranautical Activity, and wasn't ready to devote Skyrim-esque lengths of time to discovering 3089's depth. I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll purchase it myself. Still working through a dozen other games from my backlog at the moment. But I think this game seems worth a second look, so hopefully viewers don't dismiss it outright because of this video.
I'm passionately waiting for your review of Ibn Battuta. just don't forget to mention it is a game from Middle East, a region that hasn't developed any games before.
Before phr00t can reply to this saying I did something wrong, I picked up the game today to do a review for it and gave it a spin. It has alot of potential wrapped up in horrible graphics, a 15year old interface and reminds me of Duke Nukem 3D. I'm not saying its bad, I'm just saying, its not great. The music is fantastic and I really enjoyed it but actually playing the game is very slow and feels like a trudge through mud. The graphics feel oversized, like your playing as a guy whos maybe an inch tall, so everything feels out of proportion. If it didnt have the voxel graphics and had its own type of art style or direction it could be a fun game but right now, your being presented with a very ugly game that plays like a walk through waist high wet sand. Think Jim did it some justice in his review, and I'm glad to see I wasnt the only one who felt the same.
You certainly did nothing wrong! I am not saying anyone with a negative (or positive) opinion is doing anything wrong. I completely expect people to not like my game, that just comes with the territory of having an indie game -- not everyone is going to like the decisions I made. I actually thank you for at least trying to the game out & I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. The game is still under development & improvements are coming, but I can't guarantee you or other people will be satisfied. With that said, many do enjoy the game & graphics, so it is definitely worth trying. Just also keep in mind, this game is much more enjoyable if you give the game more of a chance and pay more attention to the tips.
phr00t Figured you'd reply, just didnt expect it so fast. I actually admire that you're defending your creation, and I want people to know that they should try it, 6euro is really nothing. I just think, currently, there's alot of wasted potential in the game. The world feels dead most of the time, there's nothing happening outside of minor battles or semi larger scale ones, the world has no life. The art style is horrible, its not attractive at all. The weapons are well textured, but against the world that's not hard. Smaller tiles for the landscape would be a way to remedy this, right now it looks like one massive panel that just has paint slapped on it, but I'll say it does look nice how it blends in with other "biomes" for lack of a better word. The game could be alot of fun, but like you said, still in development, so there is room for improvement. I'll keep up with it and hopefully see more I like, right now I don't think it'd be fair or right to write up anything about the game, I've seen better come out of Greenlit, but I've seen way way worse, so keep up the hard work, and I hope in future I can come back and see more I like.
***** Thank you for the response. I'm proud of my work, but I'm also interested in hearing feedback & cutting through the "this is terrible" vague statements and finding out why -- and better, if there are any suggestions to improve things. Smaller tiles for the landscape is possible, but the polygon count jumps dramatically, which may change how far stuff can be drawn (particularly on lower-end machines). What kinds of things would bring the world more life for you that robot battles and quests are not?
phr00t More npcs like in 3079 that was really fun just because you could make everyone angry at you and just flee while invisible, also, JETPACK, bring it back.
phr00t I can't believe that people make games that look like the late 90s(Minecraft as another example). I am merely here to see a video of a gameplay to see if I am interested. Alas, the graphics give me the auto-deny. Hopefully, you guys do have the funding and willingness to improve, visually. I would see no reason of buying my GTX 660 if I play this game. Buying it to support the dev team, though.
Hey Jim, this game is actually pretty good when you get to know it, watch the 2 min basics vid the dev made and you will see it has potential, you can even fully costomise your weapon with random parts to make a better weapon etc, its fun when you understand it
TheRadioSquare It is worth a few pennies. However, it isn't for everyone. Jim did paint a pretty poor picture of my game, which is OK -- it happens. However, keep in mind that this game is enjoyed by many, particularly those who give the game a bit more of a chance -- and follow the Quick Tips.
God just looking at this game makes me sad. Good idea, great music, but all so hidden in menus rather than organically explained, and with voxel graphics of all things. -_- Voxel graphics and the minecraft art style need to find a hole and die together.
Jim, you said you needed a better mouse. My recommendations: Roccat Kone XTD is wonderfully smooth, thumb buttons slightly high for my taste(pretty standard), one thumb button acts as a set-shift so you can have double functions on all the other buttons. Tilt buttons on the scroll-wheel are also nice. Redragon Perdition has tons of programmable buttons(very similar to Razer Naga), I'm not finding it to be quite as smooth as the Roccat though(but it gets better if you lower DPI from 16400 to 8200, same as the max on the Roccat and Mionix), and the thumb buttons, while more numerous and easy to access, are a bit on the stiff side. Also might be that it needs a breaking in period(just got it today, used it for 15 minutes before I had to head to work). For ones I haven't tried: Mionix Naos 8200 looks very good, or if you're a claw-gripper, Steelseries Sensei pro grade. R.A.T.7 (or 9 for wireless) are apparently quite good, comfortable, and adjustable, but with durability issues.
As a disclaimer: I'm a palm-resting-on-pad palmgripper, though the Roccat and Mionix ones should work with palm further forward resting on mouse. The Redragon might work for that, but it's a little short.
I'm sure there is an interesting idea within this game, but its not displayed at all, which is a shame. A starting area, small in size, with clear simple tutorial objectives might make the more open areas more appealing and clearer to the player..
It doesn't look like Jim takes a single quest in this video, which is what the starting messages tell him to do. He also didn't buy any armor, which was suggested by the "Q" tips. Anyway, he could have had a much more enjoyable time, but I don't think he gave the game much of a chance.
I do admit it was surprising that he never even read about how quests work, and all he did was "run" out without actually running to murder some random stuff and didn't take a single quest, in an RPG. Like, wtf.
What I'm meaning is Jim is doing a quick play of the game. Wanting to jump straight in. And there is no real structure for that. We all know that games nowadays need to be clear and to the point for gamers to pick up and play, and pick up the gameplay.
To be fair to Jim, reading all that stuff would make for a boring video for us poor Chunguses. Maybe, Mr. Phr00t, you could implement some kind of sectioned-off tutorial thing different from the main game the way that games like Deus Ex and the original Half Life did? Reading about how to do something and actually practicing it are two different things entirely, and the 'wall-of-text in the menu' approach to tutorials is a bit overwhelming and off-putting. But hey, your game, do what you will.
I really don't need cutting-edge graphics to enjoy a game, but come on. This game would have been panned for its graphics and interface if it had released on the PS1.
Well, Mr. Jim, you did a pretty darn good job of showing people how NOT to play this game. There's a small reading to do before we jump into the "action", the game guide, it's REALLY brief, and it's not like we all haven't watched Stars Wars before, is it? After not introducing yourself to the game mechanic you roam aimlessly waiting for something to happen, what is clearly agains't gameplay directives. First thing you should do is to complete a Quest. It's in the tips. That said, I urge people to disregard this video entirely in deciding if the game is interesting or not. I hate Minecraft graphics, but dig the "cell shading" done here, I think the game looks nice (in the same way I think Quake II will always look nice). Hell, this game is forcing me to put Borderlands 2 and other so-called AAA games aside. If Phroot had a whole studio, maybe we could get to impose something "bigger" from 3089, but developing such an ingenious game on your own is not exactly a walk in the park.
Initially I was supportive of this game, but after seeing all the good ideas being provided during development thrown out for cel-shading and features that affected nothing, I'd place this at a 6/10. I mean seriously, go onto the indiedb forums and look at some of the things suggested during alpha, and tell me that implementing even one of them wouldn't have made this a better game. Hell, back in late september there was practically a whole design document posted on how to improve the game, and exactly 0 of the changes were implemented. I can't help but feel this would have been better executed by a different developer who wanted to make more than just a "randomly-generated shoot the dudes" game.
1 person did make this -- I am the developer & I am very proud of my work! I wish Jim gave the game more of a chance and paid more attention to the tips, but oh well! I hope people still try out the game, it isn't to hard to enjoy the game much more than Jim did!
I think you need to work on the presentation then. Bare buildings, and what looked like a fairly empty world. I know game devs have it rough, so I'm hoping you can make a game that people want.
Trancecend The good news is, 3089 already is a game people want. It isn't a game everybody wants, but nobody can make that game. With that said, improvements are coming & there is much more to this game that Jim didn't get to (and honestly didn't give much of a chance of getting to).
Comes across as kinda an under-developed unreal tournament gold. Which would be perfect for a modern Indy game by a more experienced developer. Speaking of Unreal I'm foo to play some futuristic action FPS.
How Jim was playing it & narrating, even as the developer, it sounds boring to me too! However, he could have used the run feature to move quicker, could have taken a quest & followed the tips provided to get more into the game. You can also run around and do whatever you like, though, which is OK! I wish he gave the game more of a chance, but not everyone will and I understand that. Oh well, have a good day otherwise!
phr00t I can totally agree with you, and people who regularly view Jim's channel should know that he gives a VERY, VERY basic quick view of a game without really looking at instructions. It's more satire than it is actual gameplay. I think you should be proud of what you've done and shouldn't feel the need to defend yourself.
This game would have looked muddy on an N64, for fuck sake. Minecraft's pixel graphics are at least vaguely decent in terms of definition - if that makes sense. This is like some idiot took a 8 bit graphic, and stretched it to 512. And it's not like the gameplay works too well. The fuck.
I absolutely love voxel based graphics (Minecraft, Resogun, 3D dot heroes, etc etc) But when developers, like the ones who made this pile of shit, uses voxels it makes me want to rage because I can see it as an excuse to make their game look like shit and uninspired.
Zhuinden look at this: th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/137/6/9/minecraft___beautiful_world_2_by_muusedesign-d3gl6om.jpg then look at this video. compare.
£7 is an outrageous price for this. Dull gameplay, overused voxel nothingness for graphics. Just consider the fact that this game is the same price as something like Papers, Please which is also designed by a single person.
And Papers Please is a 2D game with a fairly limited interface, while this is a procedurally generated 3D world. The difference in complexity is off the charts.
All the work in the world doesn't make it worth the value or a good game, that seems like a stupid argument in every sense of the word. When so little work went into the actual gameplay too I'd say that any other game had more going for it in terms of design. Sure Sonic '06 may have taken longer to design but that doesn't make it a better game than FTL does it? Nor does it warrant the right to charge a ridiculous amount for a game not worth it.
If not for profits sake, this game would have not gone this far and stayed in alpha. It has no potential: 1. strategic enemy placement is none existant 2. Immersive tutorial area none existant 3. Graphics are decent, could be fixed with some dedication to changing the textures 4. city design overall is just a walking simulaor 5. Shop design is only practical but kill the immersion by not even having furtanture or decorative items 6. Combat looks like point and click, has projectiles but not really a challenge. Can we like vote of this game from steam? that would be great If not you can better be bored or do something useful for entairnment since if even Jim stephanie sterling can not make it look fun then it it not fun
It takes a little bit of time to get in to, but there is lots of depth! I think if Jim gave it more of a chance, he would have enjoyed it more. Anyway, to each their own!
As far as I know, the problem was that the reviewer kinda forgot to use the "Run" key to move faster, and then complained about the movement being slow. He said there's nothing to do, but he never read the game guide on how to do quests. Although I do admit the area did not seem as populated as one would expect from an "action" RPG if you take games like Torchlight 2 into account, but I'm hoping that will be subject to improvement.
Zhuinden I'm not even taking what he says into account, it just looks extremely boring. And those graphics, damn. There's a reason people don't make games that remind you of Atari Jaguar anymore.
Mr0life Although I do admit it's not the most aesthetically pleasing, it's not bad from a single developer - at least it's not YET ANOTHER RETRO 2D PLATFORMURRRRRRR because you can write one of those in 2 days, I'm not even joking. If he could somehow increase the quality of the textures, this game would look a lot better - but as it stands, it's still a 3D game made by one person, and for that, it's actually quite decent. As for the Atari Jaguar, fun fact - 'Nidhogg' came out on Steam 2 days ago, and people are actually defending it's graphics for being in Atari-style, and even bothered to compare it against 3089 and claim how much better it is for it to have an even older retro style for the feel. It's a shame the thread got locked, because it's just sad how it reeked of ignorance.
After getting steam a few days ago I've concluded that a lot of the games are NOT worth the prices they command, even if they are relatively cheap they look repetitive and most of them are just clones of minecraft like 7 days to die. Sure papers please looks good but I wouldn't pay twelve pounds for it. If anyone can recommend any good games I could play on a pretty decent laptop I'd be grateful. Ta :)
I love you to death Jim but how do you miss the sprint button in so many games? I mean, its not like its an uncommon thing that you wouldn't expect. Nearly every fucking game has one like... You even read the tip in this that said capslock was for sprint... Makes some videos very slow and irritating to watch.
Dis gaem iz bad cuz if I no read tutorial and guide on how to play and don't run then it's slow and I don't know how to quest in an Rpg durrrrrr durrr durrr
I... remember seeing gameplay of this a few years ago and it sure look a hell of a lot better than this version. Actually I think it was Lowtax like 2 years ago. Was still a bit meh but at least less meh than this meh version.
This was such a lazy attempt at a video. When you get somewhat popular on YT I guess you don't always feel the need to put in the same amount of effort anymore.
It's nice to see the developer stopped by, took the criticism professionally, and interacted with people. Respect for that. My advice to the dev for future projects would be to reel in the scope, it's better to do a few things well than a lot of things poorly.
Hey guys, 3089 developer here! Thank you for the video, Jim Sterling. My first suggestion would be to watch the "Quick Guide" on Steam, next to the trailer -- since it looks like Jim didn't use the run feature at all (which is why he was moving so slow). This is also explained in the Quick Tips he skimmed over. I'm also working on making some improvements to the aesthetics, but many do enjoy the graphics which are meant to be simplistic & cartoony. You can head over to the Steam forums to read the discussion & also check the reviews section, which is overwhelmingly positive for good reason! Anyway, if this game isn't your fancy, thank you for at least stopping by & have a good day!
Kudos to you for being upbeat.
How come small props like weapons and crates have better textures than the rest of the world, specificly the ground textures?
Garrick Backer Thank you! It can be tough when a popular UA-cam player like Jim makes such a negative video -- I just hope people realize this is one person's opinion and if you played with a bit more attention to what the game is trying to tell you to do, I think he would have had a much better time. I hope other players decide to try it out for themselves. I can't guarantee you'll like it, but you just might -- many do!
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in addition I played this when it was in alpha state, which was in an indieroyale bundle I think.... but even back then I thought it looked better than now, you might have taken a wrong turn somewhere
oOMetalheadOo Interesting observation... many of the changes I made visually can be changed in the "Effects Config", like the "Toon Mode" and ambient occlusion, if you prefer the (really) old look better.
Hey all -- developer of 3089 here with an update. Just letting you all know, 3089 v1.0.13 is out (and more updates are coming) that includes a few fixes and improvements inspired by this video and comments. Please follow me on Twitter,@phr00t_, to get updates on future releases. Thank you again for stopping by!
9 years late, but I thought you deserve a like for being cool.
I didn't know N64 games were still being made
Ha! But hey, we loved, and many still do love N64 games! 3089 was certainly not designed to be the next Crysis or Fallout, but it does have its own art style and the gameplay is very good. Check it out, you may like it!
phr00t Well, I played it and..... It isn't for me, but i like that the toon style gives the graphics a nice cel shaded look.
Skywardking IV Thank you for the positive comment on the toon style :-) Sorry it wasn't for you, but thank you again for at least trying it.
"...doesn't just mean you can have a game that looks crap." My sentiments exactly. Part of why I can't get into a lot of PC games.
So you cant get into platform with superior graphics because you dont like bad graphics? how does that make sense?
Strazdas Either the game has superior graphics that his computer can't run or he can run it but the game looks bad no matter what.
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Thats not how it works. Superior to what? comparing to console graphics? he has to have a really old computer not to be superior to that. a 5 year old graphics card beat console graphics.
He didn't play the game correctly. Just took it at face value to make a funny video. He complains about how slow you move but never once used the sprint button or a hover-board.
I bought this game a few days ago and have been absolutely hooked. The gameplay itself plays better than most shooters I have played in a while, mostly due to the fact that using the skill point system allows you to play the game in any style you want.
There are little to no bugs, the game functions perfectly fine.
You explore the map doing quests or fighting towers to add skill points. You see something, you go there. The further from your starting point the harder the enemies. I have found some really cool geographical structures and the robots wandering around make the game feel really alive. It's like being inside a world inside a computer. The customization is insane. Multiple parts make up every weapon or piece of armor.
This review is not a proper assessment of what the game is actually like. Look past the graphics, this is a great game.
Thank you for the response! I'm glad you are enjoying my game and I had the same thought -- I wish Jim paid a little more attention to the Quick Tips & do what the game was telling him. However, I think he purposefully didn't give the game much chance because he didn't like the visuals. Oh well.. I hope people still try it out for themselves!
phr00t
For some feedback based solely on what I just watched,the tips and guide could be presented better. Being forced to read them before starting seems really grating and I'm not sure I'd even properly skim through if forced. Farting around, looking for the equipment dispensers seemed like a real enthusiasm killer too, they could stand to be more accessible from the start. Overall, I see a lot of the discovery not being worth the effort in this video. Find equipment dispenser, but it costs money; find a building, but it's empty; find a sword, but it's just a piece of a sword. In the case of the sword, finding the workbench early on would open up the desire to find pieces to assemble with it. A short tutorial-style stage might help.
I think it's lovely that the developer him or herself decided to stop by on this video and is taking the criticism in stride. That speaks volumes about the method behind this madness.
I've played a bit of this game... personally I didn't find it too particularly fun or boring. It was just kind of... an experience. You shoot things, you craft things, you take over territory and do quests - pretty much just as promised. So it's unfair to really call it a bad game, since it delivers what it promises in what can be called a decent manner.
I imagine the dev isn't still bothering with this video's comments and I'm too lazy to make a twitter account just to give my feedback to him or her, so I'm not going to bother. Instead, if you're reading these comments I encourage you to at least have a look at the game yourself because it really isn't as terrible as Jim makes it out to be, it's just not particularly great either - but a developer will only be able to improve a game so much without people playing it and giving feedback.
Spooky Spartacus I actually stopped by to check the comments, and I'm glad I did. Criticisms come in all forms, some deserved and some manufactured, but often result in improvements. I do hope people give 3089 a try, they may find it much more enjoyable than Jim did. My newer games, 4089 and beyond, does many things differently from the start -- so even if you don't like 3089, please check out what else I have to offer.
+Phr00t's Software This is driving me crazy, but can you point me into a DETAILED tutorial on how to use workstations? I have two parts, the outter part of a chip, and the inner circle part, I press E on the workstation... what next, I've pressed right click on each of the part, nothing happens other than "cannot do that" it's frustrating me. A video tutorial would be best.
It is a testament to you, Jim, that I watched the entire thing listening to you and wondering why the hell I was watching it, if I'd bought this I'd have shot my computer 2 mins in
... Jim this looks painful. My heart goes out to you for putting up with this.
Well...that's a 16 minutes and 25 seconds I'll never get back. Then again, Jim only made that loss of time all the more sweeter.
Developer of 3089 here with another update! v1.1.3 is out with a whole new, much better looking interface. Keep in mind Jim is playing an old version and rather haphazardly at that!
imgur.com/a/dkRBz
Iterating on your game is really good and kudos for that, but I'd rather spend time on the issue that I'm watching Jim do a whole lot of, well, nothing in your game. A whole lot of open space with not that much in it it to do it seems.
Yeah, you can't expect Jim Sterling to play a game well. He's fat, and therefore has bad reaction times and is lazy. Probably the reason why he didn't like Vanquish.
Bravo! I love the opening to this game, it really draws you in and creates a Sci Fi fantasy world that you can really immerse yourself in. When he picked up that hoverboard I was instantly sold, you can tell the developers must have been working on this game for years to come up with innovations like that.
Reading, the game
This game becomes more interesting if you open the map, mouse over close building and se that there are stations that alow you to do some stuff.
One of the more important one being the "quest" station. This gives you quests that alows you to gain stats.
The other important one being the workbench. that allows you to dissasemble and assemble parts of weapons. Different parts having different stats and abilities.
Sadly these things are not that well communicated in the game.
Haven't been playing this game for a very long time tho, so i can't really tell if there is alot too it yett tho.
I actually enjoy this game quite a bit with the time ripping, the item crafting, and the ship piloting. I haven't gotten far into the plot, but Taking out blue bases with my friend and converting them to red is pretty fun.
I have no idea how shit like this gets greenlit.
By getting thousands and thousands of votes :-) I'm glad Jim made a video, but I do think he painted a pretty poor picture of my game because he made very little attempt to follow the Quick Tips & understand the game. That is OK, though, everyone has their opinion and wants to play games certain ways.
phr00t Because your game doesn't deserve a good picture.
You claim that art style is deliberately "simplistic" and "cartoony" while in fact it's just lazy, barely any improvement from 3079 too. Antichamber and Proteus are simplistic, deliberately so. Simplicity in color and overall visual design of those games helped to build an atmosphere, set a stage and immerse players. Sam & Max, Don't Starve, Torchlight and Team Fortress 2 are cartoony, one glance is enough to realize that is an aesthetic decision. All these games i mention went for the design decision that you claim to have made and yet all those games look infinitely better than 3089. There wasn't a single thing worth looking at throughout the video. Robots look like something a kindergartener can draw. Big open spaces filled with nothing but low-poly trees, low-poly rocks, boxes and empty cubes filled with disappointment and covered by putrid textures. This game has absolutely nothing going aside from some of the soundtrack. As a I understand you're one man team, everybody knows it's hard to make a game and it's even harder. That's why there are people who spends years of their free time and their money like Vince Twelve, Daisuke Amaya, Jonathan Blow, Lukas Pope or Alexander Bruce, developer of said Antichamber. And then there are people with high self esteem that don't care much about the quality and just take a bunch of shortcuts.
TheRadioSquare Thank you for your very detailed opinion. Sorry you didn't like it -- just pointing out that thousands do like 3089 & do believe it deserves a good picture, and that is why it got greenlit. I thank my supporters and appreciate them greatly.
phr00t Trillions of flies can't be wrong - shit is tasy, you should try it.
TheRadioSquare Thing is, we are all flies, even you and I. :)
I was on the fence about this along with the prequel: 3079. This video doesn't change that, perhaps if Jim had listened to the tutorial we would actually know whether anyone could get into the game and see what its all about. Ah well, plenty other reviewers out there.
phr00t, I have to say that I am not trying to make a judgment on your work and that you appear to have been polite and downright friendly throughout, however your omnipresence in every comment that sounds even slightly negative towards your work doesn't paint you in the best light. I am not saying that you shouldn't defend your game or that you are entirely in the wrong, just when you take it to this level it looks like you can't take criticism. As an indie dev, your personal image can be almost as important to your success as the games you create. If you remember when Jonathan Blow would magically appear whenever anyone would talk about Braid and what that did for his image, you have an idea of what I mean (not that he isn't also incredibly successful, just that he looked a bit immature). All of that being said, thank you for being a respectable person throughout and keep creating, the more the merrier in our gaming community.
Well it shows that he cares, and it's valid for him to be around and try to prove that the reviewer was a piece of sh-t, or at least incapable of playing the game in a manner it was designed to be played. Although I won't say there is no room for improvements, he didn't bother to read the "game guide", essentially that's like playing Chess without knowing the rules and then bitching about how you can't use your units the way you want to use them.
I saw this on the Steam Store and I was sure you would do a Squirty Play of it.
YAY I was right!
That gunfight where you got the hoverboard actually got me pretty pumped, to be honest.
I saw this before and got turned off, but I think I might actually check it out.
for that announcment, I had expected a meatier shower
I think it looked pretty decent.
This video changed my life.
Well, can't really say this video did this game any justice. There are ALOT more features in this game than what was shown. Problem is he didn't really take the time to explore them. Those guides on there are pretty much a must read if you want any kind of direction. Graphics are hardly an excuse to really bash a game. Especially when all those pretty little particles and details tend to go unnoticed after playing longer than 30 minutes or are turned off for more framerate(not to mention alienating the rest of the people who like to game but can't simply fit in a fancy 2,000 dollar gaming rig or has the technical know how to overclock it without frying their components). I'd trade game play for graphics any day as long as the interface isn't a hassle(Dwarf Fortress).
clbrans1 Thank you for your support!
With art tools like Blender and GIMP--and even just MS Paint!--all you have to do is care *a little bit* to make graphics that are at least an order of magnitude better. First impressions are vital. If you as a person meet someone for the first time and you are dressed like a homeless person, they probably aren't going to take the time to figure out that underneath the smelly rags is an individual they might really like. This game does the game-equivalent of going around dressed like a homeless person and wonders why nobody gives it a chance. Considering how flooded the indie game market is with shit if you want to succeed you have to do everything possible to differentiate yourself. But this game got lucky, out of the mass of indie games vying to be noticed, it is being reviewed by a fairly prominent UA-cam personality so it has its chance to show that... the developers cared as much about the UI and the story, and the gameplay, and the music as they cared about the graphics. That is, not at all.
Jeffrey, that was some truly iconic ass kissery. As old as this comment is, you're still an idiot.
I have so much work to do. But Jim Sterling made another video which must be seen. Something is so wrong but so right.
"Press the hint key regularly for us to point you in the right direction". Lazy design at its best. The hoverboard was pretty cool though.
Feel better, Jim!
I'm sorry, but polygons with pixel art textures are not the same thing as voxels.
No need to be sorry. That is a fact.
Yeah, it's just that it might be seen as a really trivial distinction. It's just a pet peeve of mine when people refer to plain cubes as voxels.
QWERTYCommander
Same here. I played a lot of Comanche and Delta Force back in the days.
This is one of the ugliest voxel games I have ever seen...
Come on fellows,We got used to a lot of retro-style optics, but this world does look, like someone puked it out.
That doesn't seem like much of an insult. I would consider it an honour
to be invited to ANY feast ion hell, let alone the final feast. Get your shit together Jim.
Awesome. I learned of this game a few days ago, and it became THE game I was hoping Jim would make a video of.
This game seems quite interesting, and unfortunately Jim didn't seem to give it enough of a chance. The first impression the game gives doesn't seem great, so it's hard to fault him for it.
I also don't expect Jim to heavily research every game he decides to make a video on, so I'm not mad at him for insulting the graphics or the apparent vapidness of the start of the game.
However, I also think that expecting high-quality graphics in a vast randomly-generated open-world game designed by one person (whose talents may lie principally in aspects other than visual/graphical art) is a bit unreasonable.
I'm sad Jimothy had a bad time with this game (though exciting things started happening towards the end). Perhaps he went in expecting something instantaneously exciting like Paranautical Activity, and wasn't ready to devote Skyrim-esque lengths of time to discovering 3089's depth.
I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll purchase it myself. Still working through a dozen other games from my backlog at the moment. But I think this game seems worth a second look, so hopefully viewers don't dismiss it outright because of this video.
well you saved me from having to experience this nonsense myself!
I'm passionately waiting for your review of Ibn Battuta. just don't forget to mention it is a game from Middle East, a region that hasn't developed any games before.
oh.. and also.. made by Arabs.
its already up, with the title "Worst games of 2014". I'm not sure what you were expecting from an Uncharted knockoff.
TrustworthyAndroid Naaah.. he only did the gameplay, not yet the review on the escapist.
Middle eastern games have existed prior to Ibn Battuta, for example Garshasp, and even that isn't the first.
Good that they made changes since, but not so good is everything else about the game
Also nice that Jim knows what's up with Razer
I really dig the music
This looks like the video games from 2014 as imagined by television producers in the 90's. This game doesn't use voxels, it uses fuglygons.
Before phr00t can reply to this saying I did something wrong, I picked up the game today to do a review for it and gave it a spin. It has alot of potential wrapped up in horrible graphics, a 15year old interface and reminds me of Duke Nukem 3D. I'm not saying its bad, I'm just saying, its not great. The music is fantastic and I really enjoyed it but actually playing the game is very slow and feels like a trudge through mud. The graphics feel oversized, like your playing as a guy whos maybe an inch tall, so everything feels out of proportion. If it didnt have the voxel graphics and had its own type of art style or direction it could be a fun game but right now, your being presented with a very ugly game that plays like a walk through waist high wet sand. Think Jim did it some justice in his review, and I'm glad to see I wasnt the only one who felt the same.
You certainly did nothing wrong! I am not saying anyone with a negative (or positive) opinion is doing anything wrong. I completely expect people to not like my game, that just comes with the territory of having an indie game -- not everyone is going to like the decisions I made. I actually thank you for at least trying to the game out & I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. The game is still under development & improvements are coming, but I can't guarantee you or other people will be satisfied. With that said, many do enjoy the game & graphics, so it is definitely worth trying. Just also keep in mind, this game is much more enjoyable if you give the game more of a chance and pay more attention to the tips.
phr00t Figured you'd reply, just didnt expect it so fast. I actually admire that you're defending your creation, and I want people to know that they should try it, 6euro is really nothing. I just think, currently, there's alot of wasted potential in the game. The world feels dead most of the time, there's nothing happening outside of minor battles or semi larger scale ones, the world has no life. The art style is horrible, its not attractive at all. The weapons are well textured, but against the world that's not hard. Smaller tiles for the landscape would be a way to remedy this, right now it looks like one massive panel that just has paint slapped on it, but I'll say it does look nice how it blends in with other "biomes" for lack of a better word. The game could be alot of fun, but like you said, still in development, so there is room for improvement. I'll keep up with it and hopefully see more I like, right now I don't think it'd be fair or right to write up anything about the game, I've seen better come out of Greenlit, but I've seen way way worse, so keep up the hard work, and I hope in future I can come back and see more I like.
***** Thank you for the response. I'm proud of my work, but I'm also interested in hearing feedback & cutting through the "this is terrible" vague statements and finding out why -- and better, if there are any suggestions to improve things. Smaller tiles for the landscape is possible, but the polygon count jumps dramatically, which may change how far stuff can be drawn (particularly on lower-end machines).
What kinds of things would bring the world more life for you that robot battles and quests are not?
phr00t More npcs like in 3079 that was really fun just because you could make everyone angry at you and just flee while invisible, also, JETPACK, bring it back.
phr00t I can't believe that people make games that look like the late 90s(Minecraft as another example). I am merely here to see a video of a gameplay to see if I am interested. Alas, the graphics give me the auto-deny. Hopefully, you guys do have the funding and willingness to improve, visually. I would see no reason of buying my GTX 660 if I play this game. Buying it to support the dev team, though.
Stayed for the music. Sorry to hear about your mouse, I've had several razer products die on me too. I don't know why they're so popular.
good advertisement can sell shit at price of gold. Razer has good advertisement.
i love the backround music
It sounds a lot better than it looks.
Hey Jim, this game is actually pretty good when you get to know it, watch the 2 min basics vid the dev made and you will see it has potential, you can even fully costomise your weapon with random parts to make a better weapon etc, its fun when you understand it
So in the end Jim, what's your opinion on this game? I keep seeing it, I hear a lot of praise for it but I'm not too sure.
"I'm not into this game" -- jim sirling 11:41
Who's praising it exactly?
paavokokko Kids on steam that write "reviews" paint this game like it's worth a penny.
TheRadioSquare It is worth a few pennies. However, it isn't for everyone. Jim did paint a pretty poor picture of my game, which is OK -- it happens. However, keep in mind that this game is enjoyed by many, particularly those who give the game a bit more of a chance -- and follow the Quick Tips.
TheRadioSquare You mean people who have actually played the game?
Pretty much.
I kinda like the design...
God just looking at this game makes me sad. Good idea, great music, but all so hidden in menus rather than organically explained, and with voxel graphics of all things. -_- Voxel graphics and the minecraft art style need to find a hole and die together.
Where are the voxels? I'm not seeing any.
You really should play Delver Jim! It's a super fun rogue-like first person dungeon crawler.
wish i knew what song in backround is
I own this game, and I respect the developer for his hard work. Regardless, I do think this game needs a lot of work to be enjoyable.
I accept your apology Jim.
Jim, you said you needed a better mouse.
My recommendations: Roccat Kone XTD is wonderfully smooth, thumb buttons slightly high for my taste(pretty standard), one thumb button acts as a set-shift so you can have double functions on all the other buttons. Tilt buttons on the scroll-wheel are also nice.
Redragon Perdition has tons of programmable buttons(very similar to Razer Naga), I'm not finding it to be quite as smooth as the Roccat though(but it gets better if you lower DPI from 16400 to 8200, same as the max on the Roccat and Mionix), and the thumb buttons, while more numerous and easy to access, are a bit on the stiff side. Also might be that it needs a breaking in period(just got it today, used it for 15 minutes before I had to head to work).
For ones I haven't tried: Mionix Naos 8200 looks very good, or if you're a claw-gripper, Steelseries Sensei pro grade. R.A.T.7 (or 9 for wireless) are apparently quite good, comfortable, and adjustable, but with durability issues.
As a disclaimer: I'm a palm-resting-on-pad palmgripper, though the Roccat and Mionix ones should work with palm further forward resting on mouse. The Redragon might work for that, but it's a little short.
This looks like a game Lowtax would play...
...This is on Steam?
how do I find your escapist content
I'm sure there is an interesting idea within this game, but its not displayed at all, which is a shame. A starting area, small in size, with clear simple tutorial objectives might make the more open areas more appealing and clearer to the player..
It doesn't look like Jim takes a single quest in this video, which is what the starting messages tell him to do. He also didn't buy any armor, which was suggested by the "Q" tips. Anyway, he could have had a much more enjoyable time, but I don't think he gave the game much of a chance.
I do admit it was surprising that he never even read about how quests work, and all he did was "run" out without actually running to murder some random stuff and didn't take a single quest, in an RPG. Like, wtf.
What I'm meaning is Jim is doing a quick play of the game. Wanting to jump straight in. And there is no real structure for that. We all know that games nowadays need to be clear and to the point for gamers to pick up and play, and pick up the gameplay.
To be fair to Jim, reading all that stuff would make for a boring video for us poor Chunguses. Maybe, Mr. Phr00t, you could implement some kind of sectioned-off tutorial thing different from the main game the way that games like Deus Ex and the original Half Life did? Reading about how to do something and actually practicing it are two different things entirely, and the 'wall-of-text in the menu' approach to tutorials is a bit overwhelming and off-putting. But hey, your game, do what you will.
Thank you Pierce. That was what I was meaning.
Nothing smells more of desperation than attempting to micromanage the comment section of an uncomplimentory video. Very proffesional
Oh boy, am I glad I didn't buy this. Thanks Jim.
I really don't need cutting-edge graphics to enjoy a game, but come on. This game would have been panned for its graphics and interface if it had released on the PS1.
This game would probably be well loved and played if it came out in 2001.
Maybe.
Well, Mr. Jim, you did a pretty darn good job of showing people how NOT to play this game. There's a small reading to do before we jump into the "action", the game guide, it's REALLY brief, and it's not like we all haven't watched Stars Wars before, is it? After not introducing yourself to the game mechanic you roam aimlessly waiting for something to happen, what is clearly agains't gameplay directives. First thing you should do is to complete a Quest. It's in the tips.
That said, I urge people to disregard this video entirely in deciding if the game is interesting or not. I hate Minecraft graphics, but dig the "cell shading" done here, I think the game looks nice (in the same way I think Quake II will always look nice). Hell, this game is forcing me to put Borderlands 2 and other so-called AAA games aside. If Phroot had a whole studio, maybe we could get to impose something "bigger" from 3089, but developing such an ingenious game on your own is not exactly a walk in the park.
Initially I was supportive of this game, but after seeing all the good ideas being provided during development thrown out for cel-shading and features that affected nothing, I'd place this at a 6/10. I mean seriously, go onto the indiedb forums and look at some of the things suggested during alpha, and tell me that implementing even one of them wouldn't have made this a better game. Hell, back in late september there was practically a whole design document posted on how to improve the game, and exactly 0 of the changes were implemented. I can't help but feel this would have been better executed by a different developer who wanted to make more than just a "randomly-generated shoot the dudes" game.
Yeeeaaa! My dream has come true. More Ubatnu trails of the abyss or whatever that dreadful game was!
What's up Jimbo? Did this dev also refuse to pay you off for a fair review?
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Are you an idiot, or do you not understand what Let's Plays are?
Is this an early access game.... Or just futuristic?
I rather you didn't call me all these names jim ;_;
Reminds me of Anarchy Online. It its...abstractness. In its low fidelity.
I really hope 1 person made this, and not a team...
1 person did make this -- I am the developer & I am very proud of my work! I wish Jim gave the game more of a chance and paid more attention to the tips, but oh well! I hope people still try out the game, it isn't to hard to enjoy the game much more than Jim did!
I think you need to work on the presentation then. Bare buildings, and what looked like a fairly empty world. I know game devs have it rough, so I'm hoping you can make a game that people want.
Trancecend The good news is, 3089 already is a game people want. It isn't a game everybody wants, but nobody can make that game. With that said, improvements are coming & there is much more to this game that Jim didn't get to (and honestly didn't give much of a chance of getting to).
An andriod's chungus! :D
Comes across as kinda an under-developed unreal tournament gold. Which would be perfect for a modern Indy game by a more experienced developer. Speaking of Unreal I'm foo to play some futuristic action FPS.
Okay... I was thinking about playing this game, and now I won't. This game looks like a complete bore.
How Jim was playing it & narrating, even as the developer, it sounds boring to me too! However, he could have used the run feature to move quicker, could have taken a quest & followed the tips provided to get more into the game. You can also run around and do whatever you like, though, which is OK! I wish he gave the game more of a chance, but not everyone will and I understand that. Oh well, have a good day otherwise!
phr00t I can totally agree with you, and people who regularly view Jim's channel should know that he gives a VERY, VERY basic quick view of a game without really looking at instructions. It's more satire than it is actual gameplay. I think you should be proud of what you've done and shouldn't feel the need to defend yourself.
This game would have looked muddy on an N64, for fuck sake. Minecraft's pixel graphics are at least vaguely decent in terms of definition - if that makes sense. This is like some idiot took a 8 bit graphic, and stretched it to 512. And it's not like the gameplay works too well. The fuck.
This game doesn't seem to be any better than the last game ''3079''. Actually it seems even worse than 3079.
I absolutely love voxel based graphics (Minecraft, Resogun, 3D dot heroes, etc etc) But when developers, like the ones who made this pile of shit, uses voxels it makes me want to rage because I can see it as an excuse to make their game look like shit and uninspired.
I don't see how this looks worse than Minecraft, though.
Zhuinden
look at this: th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2011/137/6/9/minecraft___beautiful_world_2_by_muusedesign-d3gl6om.jpg
then look at this video.
compare.
Jim can you stop playing such action packed games, my eyes are beginning to bleed from all those explosions
£7 is an outrageous price for this. Dull gameplay, overused voxel nothingness for graphics.
Just consider the fact that this game is the same price as something like Papers, Please which is also designed by a single person.
And Papers Please is a 2D game with a fairly limited interface, while this is a procedurally generated 3D world. The difference in complexity is off the charts.
All the work in the world doesn't make it worth the value or a good game, that seems like a stupid argument in every sense of the word. When so little work went into the actual gameplay too I'd say that any other game had more going for it in terms of design.
Sure Sonic '06 may have taken longer to design but that doesn't make it a better game than FTL does it? Nor does it warrant the right to charge a ridiculous amount for a game not worth it.
If not for profits sake, this game would have not gone this far and stayed in alpha. It has no potential:
1. strategic enemy placement is none existant
2. Immersive tutorial area none existant
3. Graphics are decent, could be fixed with some dedication to changing the textures
4. city design overall is just a walking simulaor
5. Shop design is only practical but kill the immersion by not even having furtanture or decorative items
6. Combat looks like point and click, has projectiles but not really a challenge.
Can we like vote of this game from steam? that would be great
If not you can better be bored or do something useful for entairnment since if even Jim stephanie sterling can not make it look fun then it it not fun
this looks more boring than Skyrim. Oh man.
It takes a little bit of time to get in to, but there is lots of depth! I think if Jim gave it more of a chance, he would have enjoyed it more. Anyway, to each their own!
Only because Jim's being boring.
As far as I know, the problem was that the reviewer kinda forgot to use the "Run" key to move faster, and then complained about the movement being slow. He said there's nothing to do, but he never read the game guide on how to do quests. Although I do admit the area did not seem as populated as one would expect from an "action" RPG if you take games like Torchlight 2 into account, but I'm hoping that will be subject to improvement.
Zhuinden
I'm not even taking what he says into account, it just looks extremely boring. And those graphics, damn. There's a reason people don't make games that remind you of Atari Jaguar anymore.
Mr0life Although I do admit it's not the most aesthetically pleasing, it's not bad from a single developer - at least it's not YET ANOTHER RETRO 2D PLATFORMURRRRRRR because you can write one of those in 2 days, I'm not even joking. If he could somehow increase the quality of the textures, this game would look a lot better - but as it stands, it's still a 3D game made by one person, and for that, it's actually quite decent.
As for the Atari Jaguar, fun fact - 'Nidhogg' came out on Steam 2 days ago, and people are actually defending it's graphics for being in Atari-style, and even bothered to compare it against 3089 and claim how much better it is for it to have an even older retro style for the feel. It's a shame the thread got locked, because it's just sad how it reeked of ignorance.
After getting steam a few days ago I've concluded that a lot of the games are NOT worth the prices they command, even if they are relatively cheap they look repetitive and most of them are just clones of minecraft like 7 days to die. Sure papers please looks good but I wouldn't pay twelve pounds for it. If anyone can recommend any good games I could play on a pretty decent laptop I'd be grateful. Ta :)
A recommendation requires an emphasis. Story: Psychonauts. Strategy: Planetary Annihilation. and so on.
William Wallace planetary annihilation got my attention
I love you to death Jim but how do you miss the sprint button in so many games? I mean, its not like its an uncommon thing that you wouldn't expect. Nearly every fucking game has one like... You even read the tip in this that said capslock was for sprint... Makes some videos very slow and irritating to watch.
Razer isn't kinda shit, it's total shit.
Razer is shit! I've had 2 of their mice and both were broken withing a year.
Dis gaem iz bad cuz if I no read tutorial and guide on how to play and don't run then it's slow and I don't know how to quest in an Rpg durrrrrr durrr durrr
God, it's like the mirror universe Wracked; great music, shit game.
This seriously looks like one of the worst games ever.
The review was designed to make it look like the worst game ever. It's a work in progress.
I... remember seeing gameplay of this a few years ago and it sure look a hell of a lot better than this version.
Actually I think it was Lowtax like 2 years ago.
Was still a bit meh but at least less meh than this meh version.
Wow this is the ugliest game ive seen in a while!
man what a boring game lol at lest Jim can make it entertaining. plus this made me wana play fall out 3 lol
No he can't, he honestly even said that he's lazy to even bother to attempt to make the Video entertaining, and apologized for it insincerely.
well i was entertained.
awful
This was such a lazy attempt at a video. When you get somewhat popular on YT I guess you don't always feel the need to put in the same amount of effort anymore.
Oh shit, its a sequel to 3079!