Comments on: Starfeld

By: superflat

superflat — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:50:19 +0000

Oh nice, very nice. At first I thought – heh? It’s so happy! Cute, even? A new feeling from one of your games! Then it dawned on me what it was, having dipped in and been very unsatisfied by ME2 recently.

The weird thing is, like ME2, I’m addicted to it despite disliking it (I wanted to keep playing it, even knowing it would never satisfy, but made myself stop). Actually the progression is better implemented in this game, from a purely mechanical pov!

Like ME2 the moral choices felt absurd, arbitrary, and ‘forced’. Dialogue was hilarious.

As a statement about the state of ‘AAA’ games it works well. Too many options, diluting each of them, requiring blandness of story (and frequent character brain transplants) so that it can be malleable enough to fit each wildly varying case.

By: stephen lavelle

stephen lavelle — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:03:08 +0000

You can just download the swf if you want…

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/Starfeld/Flixeltest.swf

It’s not site-locked…

By: raptorjack

raptorjack — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:51:09 +0000

Sad, I can’t download this :'(

By: FatMat

FatMat — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:19:06 +0000

did a short review (in french) here : http://www.gamersepicerie.com/?p=1532

good points : the shooter is really good compared to its mass effects counterpart, the dialogs are great (i love you shannon !), tricky moral dilemmas !
bad points : way too short, the graphical engine is slightly outdated, can’t play with my dualshock 3 controller.

By: Gamer’s Epicerie | Let me fuck you Mass Effect

Gamer’s Epicerie | Let me fuck you Mass Effect — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:07:53 +0000

[…] Je viens de finir Mass Effect 2. J’ai trouvé le jeu assez court, ça m’a pris environ dix minutes (mais ça les vaut). J’ai bien aimé : le shoot, vachement amélioré depuis le 1, la partie dialogue carrément géniale (Shannon, elle est trop bonne !), les dilemmes moraux diaboliques. J’ai moins bien aimé : la durée de vie, le moteur graphique un peu daté, la maniabilité au pad. Conclusion : pour zéro euros, foncez ! […]

By: jc

jc — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:52:02 +0000

I think this would work better if you could get a “romance” with at least one character regardless of the choices you make. Your best bit of satire here is in the reward dialogs for saving the puppy, but those could easily be missed. A lot of players are probably inclined to pick “no” at the first choice. After acclimating to the austere presentation and the repetition of the flight sequences, killing the puppy seems like the first chance to make something interesting or unusual happen.

By: Emriss

Emriss — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:47:11 +0000

Haha, and here I thought I just jumped to ‘Mass Effect’ and ‘Knights of the Old Republic’ (a similar game with a different combat system) because I’d just been playing it. It was amusing, but I’m wondering if this is modeled after a specific game. I kept getting the feeling you were parodying something I didn’t know.

By: Bennett

Bennett — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:57:43 +0000

This works as a very effective critique of Mass Effect (and other ‘moral choice’ RPGs). I wish Bioware would play this and get the message.

By: Monkeytree

Monkeytree — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:39:37 +0000

Is there a happy ending possibility? Fantastic game, strangely addictive. Such a simple interface, yet the story sucked me in, and I want satisfaction!

By: allen

allen — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:36:18 +0000

This is incredible. It’s meant to be a kinda parody on Mass Effect isn’t it? Outstanding really, love the dialogue and the different branches. Ending was a bit of a surprise too.