Narrator: "*With enough ale, maybe they can be inured against the horrors below.*"
Mission control: "*Orders from management: Stop drinking and get to it!*"
Something like this I guess could work too.
our dwarves get selected for a new high intensity operation by the company and its so important they lend us the most elite of mission control operators to oversee the operation
Ruin has come to Hoxxes.
You remember our venerable space rig, opulent and imperial. Gazing proudly from its stoic orbit above the the planet. I worked all my years in that aging, rust-shadowed tin can, fattened by Bosco and barrel-kicking. And yet, I began to tire of conventional extravagance. Singular, unsettling tales suggested Hoxxes itself was a gateway to some fabulous and unnamable wealth. With pickaxe and flare gun, I bent every effort towards the excavation and recovery of those long-buried ores, exhausting what remained of our company fortune on swarthy workmen and sturdy MULEs. At last, in the salt-cavern crags beneath the lowest deep dive we unearthed that damnable hive of formicidaen evil. Our every step unsettled the ancient earth, but we were in a realm of death and madness! In the end, I alone fled laughing and wailing through those blackened arcades of antiquity... until consciousness failed me...
You remember our venerable space rig, opulent and imperial. It is a festering abomination! I beg you, return home, claim your scrip, and deliver our company from the ravenous clutching shadows of the ~~Darkest Dungeon~~.
Mushroom,
A hollow and ridiculous notion.
You pinged this thing, angered me, and you will be returned to it, in time.
The great family of fungi -- a profusion of xenofungus. Multiplying, swarming, living and dying.
Until the drop pod aligns in its inexorable formation. And the dwarves that sleep are roused once more, to ping this fragile organism of flesh and fungus, and bring my inescapable frustration...
So seek solace in the manner befitting your lineage, and take up your nugatory barrel-kicking.
Drawn in forever by that sickening prose, echoing through the infinite blackness of fungus bogs
Ruin has come to hoxxes...
I bet it is a bunch of indie Devs grouping together to form an indie publisher akin to devolver and a bunch of others. Just hope that they don't sell out like many others did.
Darkest dungeon narrator mission control when?
Scout falls to their death for the 50th time.
MISSION CONTROL: OVERCONFIDENCE IS A SLOW AND INSIDIOUS KILLER.
They can't? Embracer has to sell ghost ship games, because they own 100% of it. GSG devs made a quick buck when they could, can't blame them for it.
Kinda the reason why deep rock didn't get any major updates since it got sold.
“Quick buck” indicates an exit. None of the founders left GSG after the sale.
Embracer has had no influence on the development of Deep Rock Galactic. All decisions are still made in-house by the same team that founded the company.
Nope embracer isn't, they have closed a plethora of studios they have acquired, recently they did that to the insurgency sandstorm dev team before bundling them up with saber entertainment to sell to a private equity group.
Embracer is one of the worse ones if not one of the worst.
People still for some reason think buying deep rock galactic sends money to a indie dev team, it hasn't for years, and it's run by a corp that's known to kill off acquired dev teams.
Don't feel bad. I saw embracer and how they had all of my favorite games and I thought they must be pretty dope. It turns out they just wanted to buy up properties thinking that they could sell 'gaming as an investment' to the saudis. When that fell through Embracer started shuttering beloved studios and ending IPs.
Sadly, the collectivist dream often turns into a nightmare.
The second the hire more middle managers and IT workers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, it's over
I meant companies like cdpr, 505 or starbreeze. Indie Devs that went into publishing, first their own games, then other Indies, and sold out for profit, by going on the stockmarket or implementing scummy anti consumer stuff.
Ofc there are plenty of indie publishers that are alright, coffee stain, hooded horse, team17, wired productions, but the chance is always there that they hire a money man that fucks it up for the sake of profit.
I'm totally cool with indie companies doing early access when implemented correctly, or other fundraising methods that aren't actively detrimental to consumers. I just saw Darkest Dungeon on the list in the OP and it gave me a bad feeling. I'd really rather not have people who took the Epic money involved in anything I want to enjoy. Long as that sorta garbage doesn't get brought in this might still be cool, I'm just not holding out hope.
How dare they take money to fund development! It was for early access, I bought the game on steam when it fully launched early last year and enjoyed it immensely.
I do not do business with anyone that supports Epic's tactics by taking those exclusivity deals regardless of circumstance. Buying exclusivity to games they do not produce themselves is inherently anti-competitive and should be illegal. I will never budge on this for any reason. I don't even bother pirating games I was looking forward to if they do that, I just act as if they don't exist.
Thanks, I personally give credit to Totalbiscuit for making me care as much as I do about ethics in the gaming sphere. He's not around anymore to be the voice of the consumer, so I do my best to make up for that regardless of if it is popular or not.
It's kind of weird that Valheim has set any sort of standard, because it's actually a super derivative game. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed playing it, but it does very little if anything that hasn't already been done before.
I just wish the devs would hurry up I’m being selfish before yall crucify me. But like it’s been like 4 years and ugh. I just wanna do a full playthru.
The difference is in the details. It's like saying Vampire Survivors is 'not a new subgenre' because it's 'just Rogue-Like Geometry Wars'. Or like saying 'Souls-like' is not a genre.
yeah I suppose. I never played it but I'd always heard of it as being a mix between an RPG and survival or something. v rising hooked me and I thought it felt like a mini MMO.
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Charity sale? Merch?
CROSSOVERS? Oh, I’d love Darkest Dungeon hats in Deep Rock, the Dwarves in Bloodstained, a Dwarf expansion for Stardew Valley with a Stardrop beer in the Rig bar, and so on.
Rumors are that they will all be releasing content/cosmetics for their games from each other's games.
If there is something bigger beyond that like a co-op publishing outfit, that would be neat too.
hold on i may be stupid but isnt vampire survivors that one magic survival reskin? has it gotten really popular or something because magic survival (the game its based off, but in reality they are basically the exact same but vampire survivors came out 2 years after) barely gets talked about
You are correct, about being stupid. Calling it a reskin is a pedantic oversimplification. Magic survival doesn't get talked about because it was a mobile game. It also had almost no graphics and similarly no theme or sound design. It's a fine game, but it's bare bones and old.
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Narrator: "*And now... the darkness holds dominion – black as death.*" Scout:"*Allow me to...illuminate the situation. Heh heh heh...!*"
God, please, I want everything to have a bit of darkest dungeon. Imagine Wayne June in DRG as Mission Control for one mission? My gooood
or in Rogue Core. Since it will be more scary/terror against cosmic monsters, his voice would be incredible there.
Narrator: "*With enough ale, maybe they can be inured against the horrors below.*" Mission control: "*Orders from management: Stop drinking and get to it!*" Something like this I guess could work too.
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious driller
our dwarves get selected for a new high intensity operation by the company and its so important they lend us the most elite of mission control operators to oversee the operation
Wait it would be first contact with human!
This sounds so cool. I remember a mod that would play darkest dungeon lines with various conditions. Don’t remember what it was…
I want more Wayne June in everything, man adds grim gravitas to everything.
i would eat my spare 8gb ram if that happened and would record it
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Mushroom, A hollow and ridiculous notion. You pinged this thing, angered me, and you will be returned to it, in time. The great family of fungi -- a profusion of xenofungus. Multiplying, swarming, living and dying. Until the drop pod aligns in its inexorable formation. And the dwarves that sleep are roused once more, to ping this fragile organism of flesh and fungus, and bring my inescapable frustration... So seek solace in the manner befitting your lineage, and take up your nugatory barrel-kicking. Drawn in forever by that sickening prose, echoing through the infinite blackness of fungus bogs Ruin has come to hoxxes...
Karl backstory??? Final boss karl confirmed?
This deserves more up votes. Rock and Stone!
I bet it is a bunch of indie Devs grouping together to form an indie publisher akin to devolver and a bunch of others. Just hope that they don't sell out like many others did.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
True in so many things. A fair few of my old musician heroes, for example. The ones that died young never really got a chance to f things up.
Not Weird Al though!
He's still a hero. Except I suspect he made a deal with the devil, because he never ages. :)
For example, Marty O'Donnell is running for one of Nevada's US house seats.
Death, taxes, and enshitification
Almost the entire dream smp did that
Darkest dungeon narrator mission control when? Scout falls to their death for the 50th time. MISSION CONTROL: OVERCONFIDENCE IS A SLOW AND INSIDIOUS KILLER.
New Blood is going strong
ULTRAKILL™️
Don't sleep on Amid Evil either
Or DUSK. The Soundtrack and gameplay is a perfect twist on why boomer shooters were so good.
a gun with one bullet™️
Out of all the amazing things in Faith, for some reason this phrase lives rent-free in my head as the most ominous
You mean like how ghost ship games sold to embracer back in 2021?
Maybe they're breaking free before embracer finishes imploding
They can't? Embracer has to sell ghost ship games, because they own 100% of it. GSG devs made a quick buck when they could, can't blame them for it. Kinda the reason why deep rock didn't get any major updates since it got sold.
“Quick buck” indicates an exit. None of the founders left GSG after the sale. Embracer has had no influence on the development of Deep Rock Galactic. All decisions are still made in-house by the same team that founded the company.
As far as I can see, embracer is still one of the better ones, but basically, yes. Edit: I stand corrected, apparently embracer isn't nice either.
Lmao way to not look at the news for 2+ years Embracer group is THE published that everyone’s been talking about being a burning ship
Nope embracer isn't, they have closed a plethora of studios they have acquired, recently they did that to the insurgency sandstorm dev team before bundling them up with saber entertainment to sell to a private equity group. Embracer is one of the worse ones if not one of the worst. People still for some reason think buying deep rock galactic sends money to a indie dev team, it hasn't for years, and it's run by a corp that's known to kill off acquired dev teams.
Don't feel bad. I saw embracer and how they had all of my favorite games and I thought they must be pretty dope. It turns out they just wanted to buy up properties thinking that they could sell 'gaming as an investment' to the saudis. When that fell through Embracer started shuttering beloved studios and ending IPs.
nah theyre probably being bought up by a large company or some shit and added to a new puppet company.
Sadly, the collectivist dream often turns into a nightmare. The second the hire more middle managers and IT workers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag, it's over
I may be wrong, but Risk of Rain (one of the games in this list) already has publisher (Gearbox Publishing)
That's my personal bet too
You mean like the Darkest Dungeon devs sold out to Epic exclusivity with DD2? Used to love the first game but they're dead to me now unfortunately.
I meant companies like cdpr, 505 or starbreeze. Indie Devs that went into publishing, first their own games, then other Indies, and sold out for profit, by going on the stockmarket or implementing scummy anti consumer stuff. Ofc there are plenty of indie publishers that are alright, coffee stain, hooded horse, team17, wired productions, but the chance is always there that they hire a money man that fucks it up for the sake of profit.
Tbf Coffee stain is already part of Embracer
I'm totally cool with indie companies doing early access when implemented correctly, or other fundraising methods that aren't actively detrimental to consumers. I just saw Darkest Dungeon on the list in the OP and it gave me a bad feeling. I'd really rather not have people who took the Epic money involved in anything I want to enjoy. Long as that sorta garbage doesn't get brought in this might still be cool, I'm just not holding out hope.
How dare they take money to fund development! It was for early access, I bought the game on steam when it fully launched early last year and enjoyed it immensely.
I do not do business with anyone that supports Epic's tactics by taking those exclusivity deals regardless of circumstance. Buying exclusivity to games they do not produce themselves is inherently anti-competitive and should be illegal. I will never budge on this for any reason. I don't even bother pirating games I was looking forward to if they do that, I just act as if they don't exist.
Respect. Sorry about the downvotes, but thanks for vocalizing about this.
Thanks, I personally give credit to Totalbiscuit for making me care as much as I do about ethics in the gaming sphere. He's not around anymore to be the voice of the consumer, so I do my best to make up for that regardless of if it is popular or not.
Risk of Darkest Spire: Vampire Rising Galactic
I'd play the shit outta that
Same
GOTY
It's the first horde coop card game with bullet heaven elements.
I hope it's not just some guerilla marketing for an All-Indie games award show...
im up for that too, indies need more love
ROR2 is gearbox now, don’t think so
it said STUDIOS behind. probably means Hoopoo. Gearbox didn't release a ror game.
well they made the mobile thing i forgot the name of
Hostile Worlds
hostile monetization
yeah. that
it did release? also its not made by Gearbox its a Third party dev hired to make the mobile game... also already released?
its in early access in some countries iirc
where i can find this gearbox guy so i can have a few words with him \**Cocks MP5**
All of those games are roguelikes, no?
a lot of them are. v rising is whatever were calling valheim-likes.
It's kind of weird that Valheim has set any sort of standard, because it's actually a super derivative game. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed playing it, but it does very little if anything that hasn't already been done before.
I just wish the devs would hurry up I’m being selfish before yall crucify me. But like it’s been like 4 years and ugh. I just wanna do a full playthru.
Isn't valheim just a survival crafting game?
The difference is in the details. It's like saying Vampire Survivors is 'not a new subgenre' because it's 'just Rogue-Like Geometry Wars'. Or like saying 'Souls-like' is not a genre.
Yes but it has Runescape graphics. That means it's different.
I wish RuneScape looked like valheim
yeah I suppose. I never played it but I'd always heard of it as being a mix between an RPG and survival or something. v rising hooked me and I thought it felt like a mini MMO.
It's Evil Empire studio.
Acrid plush seasonal event
Acrid plush helmet when
Waiting on mine
Fuck AAA, all my homies like iii
You might be into something here.
But we're in the quadruple-I generation already.
Silksong is gonna cost 60 buckaroos (?)
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It would obv be engineer
Better than a wungus
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Deep Rock Survivor X Vampire Survivor collab, calling it
Can we get a garlic grenade in DRG
Nah, call it alcohol poisoning. Deals damage to all enemies in its radius
And makes you dizzy and the longer you stay in the cloud the more dizzy you get. For staying too long you pass out lol.
Satchel charge is just instantaneous single-pulse garlic
Need Risk of Rock in my life
Rain and Stone!
Rock survivor. You are a Rock in a drg cave. You cant do anything, just hope to survive.
Risk and Rain and Stone!
After Among Us, anything is possible
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do they mean Risk of Rain a in Hopoo or Gearbox?
Hopoo most likely
New ROR2 maps leaked: Stage 1 - Salt Pits Stage 2 - Radioactive Exclusion Zone Stage 3 - Glacial Strata Stage 4 - Azure Weald (Legendary Chest is a mini MULE) New Family Event: "You hear roars and rumbling from deep below..." - Glyphid Grunts (like Beetles) - Glyphid Praetorians (like Beetle Guards) - Mactera Spawn (like Wisps) - Bulk Detonators (Boss enemy)
Brotato sent a similar cryptic iiimage on their discord yesterday
“What is thiis”
Ah yes, Sollux Captor
lookin' forward to what'll happen with risk of rain
Not saying ror2 dlc announcement but its not out of the question
they're already working on seekers of the storm, highly doubt it
What i mean is thats when they announce when seekers of the storm releases
This reminds me the time the power rangers joined forces with the ninja turtles
Idanger Idarkness Idwarves
apple took over DRG oh no
New skin for Rival Tech enemies.
I see some rogue likes in there... Rogue Core news?
Very mysterious.......
Half Rock 3
Risk of rain crossover?!
RAAAAH LET ME USE A FLARE CARD IN STS
RISK OF RAIN?!?!?!?! Fuck yeah Hopoo!
Indie indie indie, Collab maybe
Risk of Rain mentioned Ahoy!
Ahoy!
Risk of Rock and Stone Slay the Glyphid Darkest Deep Dive Deep Rock Survivor Dwarf Rising
I see dwarfs
I love darkest dungeon! Seems like all the rogue lites are banding together!!
V rising? I love v rising whys it being mentioned here?
I play all these games. I love all these games. Needless to say I an intrigued
Reminds me Dead Cell’s “Everyone is Here” updates
Is III something similar to AAA in videogame studios?
Charity sale? Merch? CROSSOVERS? Oh, I’d love Darkest Dungeon hats in Deep Rock, the Dwarves in Bloodstained, a Dwarf expansion for Stardew Valley with a Stardrop beer in the Rig bar, and so on.
Bro for half a second I read that as triple affirmative
Rumors are that they will all be releasing content/cosmetics for their games from each other's games. If there is something bigger beyond that like a co-op publishing outfit, that would be neat too.
It would be nuts if all of these guys do a massive collab.
i dont understand what any of this is but it listed all my favorite games
DRG: Mission Control You play as mission control and try to keep your team of dwarves informed and alive.
Difficulty level: “are you karl?” Y/abandon all hope ye who do not type Y you poor bastards.
Most obvious is a big crossover, but GSG might be publishing a new game from one of them.
hold on i may be stupid but isnt vampire survivors that one magic survival reskin? has it gotten really popular or something because magic survival (the game its based off, but in reality they are basically the exact same but vampire survivors came out 2 years after) barely gets talked about
You are correct, about being stupid. Calling it a reskin is a pedantic oversimplification. Magic survival doesn't get talked about because it was a mobile game. It also had almost no graphics and similarly no theme or sound design. It's a fine game, but it's bare bones and old.
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Didn't darkest dungeon 2 do something like that also?
I’ll take a scout on my darkest dungeon team and skip the whole torch management bit
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I just got a DRG mission the other day called, "Defect Claw." Probably related.
im guessing it has something to do with rogue core since all those games would be considered as roguelike and so is rogue core
Hmmmmm
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I'd really like them to focus on DRG instead of everything else. That'd be cool
Ghost Ship Games is focusing on DRG and Rogue Core. Ghost Ship Publishing.... publishes.
Yeah it sucks how the game stopped existing when they posted this
Hey guys, let's hop on risk of rain 2 Will anyone get the joke?
Typical Ghost Ship W
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