#3935520 - 04/07/14 09:55 AM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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7 Days to Die: Feeling pretty meh about it right now.
ARMA 3: Got the expensive pre-order version. Almost never play it. Bit disappointed.
Assetto Corso: Could have potential, and feels great with a wheel.
Betrayer: Don't like it.
DayZ: Mixed feelings. It's so clunky and entirely up to the players whether you'll get any enjoyment out of it. Will probably never feel like anything other than an ARMA 2 mod.
Dead State: Might have potential. Got frustrated with it during first early access.
Door Kickers: Haven't played much. Not really big on it.
Expeditions: Conquistador: Great game. Probably my favorite out of all the early access/crowdfunded games.
IL-2 Sturmovik BoS: Great potential, mostly waiting for a more complete product to mess around with.
NEO Scavenger: Got 5 hours of entertainment out of it so far. Hard to recommend though.
Project CARS: Been with it since the start. Probably has the biggest potential of any of them so far.
Shadowrun Returns: Good game.
Star Forge: Got it on a Steam sale. Regretting it now.
Takedown: Red Sabre: Worst piece of crap I've ever had the misfortune of pre-ordering.
Victory: Age of Racing: Got it in a bundle deal dirt cheap. Don't feel so bad for not liking it.
So yeah, not a very good success rate with me personally, but I'm probably pickier than most people.
I refuse to buy a flight sim that I have no interest in playing, on the off chance that MAYBE someday they'll make the one I really want to play.
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#3935527 - 04/07/14 10:30 AM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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Assetto Corsa - Developing at a rapid pace, defiantly worth every penny, very good physics so far. A little short on tracks and racing cars (Lots of street cars) but more are in the pipeline. The street cars and drifting are probably what helps it sell, so no complaints. This is what kept me from selling my wheel. rFactor2 - The demo was bad enough I almost quit sim racing on the spot because for me it was RF1 with some new clothes and a bad UI, but against my better judgement I got a minimal license for the historic cars and tracks to run off line. I two upgrades so far, so it was kind of a waste of a subscription price for me. Doubt I do it again.
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#3935579 - 04/07/14 01:06 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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Just sent $100 to a lady raising money for a double lung transplant, but I'd raid the couch cushions for a new Mig Alley.
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#3935598 - 04/07/14 01:46 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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FTL was my first crowd funded game and it was a success and a lot of fun to play.
That new R6 game (takedown) was a complete bust. What a steaming pile of sh it. I think the community funded the wrong game with that one because the RogueSpear guys were doing Ground Branch which seemed like it was a better game by a better team.
Planetary Annihilation it really shaping up to be a fun game. I played it yesterday for a few hours and had a blast.
Castle Story is ok but I am not sure they know what to do with the game. I thought it would be more RTS but really it is just a sandbox building game with yellow plushies. Granted the game is playable and fun but it is pointless unless you just like building things.
StarCitizen is shaping up with the dogfighting module coming out soon. They have sunk so much money into the game I cant see it flopping but to date they have not really shown any gameplay (other than that #%&*$# DF video a few months back to show why they were delaying). I remain hopefully optimistic.
7 days to die is fun but it is also brutal and I get bored with it before I really get crafting or building... or the zombies keep killing me and I rage quite.
Nether is a joke. I wish I would not have bought into that one. I dont like the devs or the game or the direction the game is going. But I bought it one rainy saturday when I was bored so I guess it served it's purpose.
The Dead Linger is also a joke. It has potential but it is just not fun to play at all nor is it optimized even slightly. I have a feeling that this game will die before it is released.
Battle of Stalingrad - Devs lied to us to secure preorders then refused refunds when the truth came out. Slowly they have fixed the limited access but the whole thing has left me not trusting the devs and not interested in the game. The game itself is pretty good and progressing fairly fast. So as long as you are ok with the dev's shady tactics I guess it would be considered a win.
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#3935602 - 04/07/14 01:58 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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For years we complained about new games that were buggy or unfinished, well now devs sell games, or parts of games that we know will be incomplete or buggy and we love it.
I do have a brief smile cross my face while flying in my heavily modded IL2 when I think of those that spent 100 bucks to fly two planes around a small map for a year.
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#3935615 - 04/07/14 02:22 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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Star Citizen & Wasteland 2. I'm starting to get concerned about SC due to the scope creep and that they are already several months behind schedule. In this case I think they got way too much money and now they are blowing through it like crazy. Don't they have a hundred or two employees now? And they can't get something out on time? I wanted to back Elite but it was too late - that's when I started cutting costs due to my soon-to-arrive twin girls The silver lining for SC is that by the time it comes out I might actually have time to play it W2 at least have an excuse for slipping - less money, small team - but they still have a lot of work to show for it.
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#3935702 - 04/07/14 04:21 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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Assetto Corsa: looking good!
Il-2: BoS: I paid $50 back in Oct/Nov, looking good!
Arma 3: just as good as Arma releases before it but I paid only $38 for going in early, win-win!
Takedown: Should be called Letdown. Obviously they needed more money than their investors gave them, a LOT more, but they got shafted and so we did too.
MiG-21bis: Almost there...(we're too close!!)...almost there...(loosen up!!)
Not looking to go for anything else right now, waiting for AC, MiG, and BoS before I'd consider it.
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The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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#3935896 - 04/07/14 09:41 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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For years we complained about new games that were buggy or unfinished, well now devs sell games, or parts of games that we know will be incomplete or buggy and we love it.
I do have a brief smile cross my face while flying in my heavily modded IL2 when I think of those that spent 100 bucks to fly two planes around a small map for a year. Yeap, humans are weird. The two I got was because of the low price. Kerbal Space Program. Hard to beat the $20 deal and they had a demo for you to try for free. Don't regret it for a minute. Planetary Annihilation. Again 20 bucks. So far looking good... although their always online beta version sucks big time (should be removed for final version).
When you're feeling sad, just remember that somewhere in the world, there's someone pushing a door that says "pull".
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#3935904 - 04/07/14 09:55 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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Kerbal Space Program is without a doubt one of the best games I have ever played. I've been playing it since 2011 after seeing a post about it here on SimHQ. KSP has a great modding community, so there is a lot of player created content available. Some of it is very well done and greatly enhances the game.
I have been caught up in the whole Zombie survival genre recently (probably because I enjoyed watching the Walking Dead tv show so much). I like DayZ SA, although it seems buggy at the moment. Rust was fun for awhile but soon became monotonous. 7 Days to Die though has been a lot of fun.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. Carl Sagan
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#3936027 - 04/08/14 02:11 AM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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Why the gaming world considers Dean Hall a hero is beyond me. Guy creates a broken gimpy sketch of a game, then abandons it. And he's a hero?
Gamers have low standards. Warning..DayZ and Dean fan here He hasn't abandoned it, you just have not followed what is happening or have read snippets of what passes for gaming 'journalism' these days. As already stated before launch he said when he wanted to back away, not many picked up on it until after launch via that shoddy intervoiew which was then taken down and rewritten owing to ..shoddy interview making a mountain out of a molehill, if it bleeds it leads. I have never played an Alpha that has been so blatantly shoved in every ones face by the devs as ' DO NOT BUY THIS UNLESS YOU CAN PUT UP WITH A MESS ! MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT ENJOY IT' As one of the launch screen states... ' Thanks for participating in the DayZ early access.This game is in Alpha and will be so for some time. This means you experience bugs, unfinished features, problematic design decision and many more things that will disrupt your gaming experience.' Dean stated way before launch that it was not going to be something most people wanted, bare bones and broken, glitchy and terrible etc. Then people whine when it is. To me he comes across as a solid guy, he has made mistakes and then stated he has, he is active across the forums, reddit, twitter, the dev site as well as accessible at places like Rezzed and others. He just seems stand up and is trying to make something a bit different than the normal cod type games The biggest problem was the mod was out of control popular and i think most people thought the SA was good to go on day one. What can i say, i like the guy, he gives as good as he gets and he doesn't rant and rave or chocolate coat stuff, he says it how it is and it is cool to see a young dev trying keep it real
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#3936052 - 04/08/14 03:44 AM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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You know far more than I on this, so I'll bow to you on that subject. I read a piece on Eurogamer about his leaving the game. I spent a few days with the mod last year and it was one glitchy, janky, unfinished bugfest, taht looked like ass and played like ass. Though admittedly I was a clueless newb in the game world.
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#3936521 - 04/08/14 09:15 PM
Re: What "early access" or crowd funded games have you spent money on? How are they coming?
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For everything dayz does bad it does an equal amount brilliantly else it would not be as popular as it is. The SA is a step up to the mod and once they get all the systems working it should be loads of fun. But it is far from a perfect game. Dean seems like a stand up guy. I talked with him for a bit one before dayz was big. Good guy and I look forward to what he comes up with on his own. I dont think he expected dayz to be a hit and I dont think he expected BIS to take over the way it did. But that is life.
Also, back to PCars. Can someone explain to me what it is? is it just rFactor or is it more like Forza?
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by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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