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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 7, 2022 4:17:49 GMT
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Post by Frog on Jul 7, 2022 5:45:48 GMT
I always thought Gwent was one of the weaker card games. I'm definitely in the minority though as everyone else seems to love it.
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Post by ekz on Jul 7, 2022 5:48:08 GMT
I was so bad at Gwent in the witcher 3.
Is this more akin to say, slay the spire or something than the mini game Gwent in tw3?
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 7, 2022 6:13:06 GMT
From what I understand, it's similar to the Gwent in Thronebreaker. Which is veeeeeeeeery different to (and more fun than) the Gwent in Witcher 3.
(play Thronebreaker, it's fantastic)
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Post by Frog on Jul 7, 2022 6:15:13 GMT
Oh it's different to the one in Witcher 3? I might try thronebreaker then, always held off because of the Gwent aspect.
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Post by ekz on Jul 7, 2022 6:16:04 GMT
From what I understand, it's similar to the Gwent in Thronebreaker. Which is veeeeeeeeery different to (and more fun than) the Gwent in Witcher 3. (play Thronebreaker, it's fantastic) Ooh will do, thanks for the heads up. Always just assumed it was the same in all witcher spin-offs. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 7, 2022 6:18:23 GMT
Oh it's different to the one in Witcher 3? I might try thronebreaker then, always held off because of the Gwent aspect. I mean, the absolute basic rules are the same. But there's a lot more depth and meat to it, it really feels like you're building an army (but in card form). And the story is actually pretty great too. Lots of interesting choices, it's like a mini Witcher 3. |
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Post by dfunked on Jul 7, 2022 6:42:22 GMT
Might have to check that out. It never really gripped me in TW3, but seemed like something I might enjoy given time.
Horizon FW has to hold the prize for worst card game within a game. That was bloody awful.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jul 7, 2022 6:47:05 GMT
Thronebreaker would probably be cheap now, pick it up! It's on Switch too.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 7, 2022 6:47:54 GMT
It's on the steam sale for a fiver for the next 10 hours, so I've just nabbed it.
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 7, 2022 8:00:30 GMT
A deck-building roguelike, set in the world of The Witcher? You (almost literally) couldn't come up with a game that would excite me more...
... And it's not coming to console. Fuck!
I guess I can hope that if it does really well on PC, console versions may be considered in the future; in the meantime, I hope every Font Geek who buys this enjoys the hell out of it.
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Post by dfunked on Jul 7, 2022 8:35:39 GMT
Kind of feels weird that they'd develop a native windows version but not bother with consoles. Minimal effort to port it surely.
Probably a when and not if scenario.
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Post by ryder35 on Jul 7, 2022 13:54:51 GMT
Anyone played it yet?
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Post by dfunked on Jul 7, 2022 13:56:18 GMT
Thought it was F2P for some reason... £10 for a mobile game?! Scandalous!
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Post by ryder35 on Jul 7, 2022 14:01:18 GMT
They should at least give it free to anyone stupid enough to have pre ordered cyberpunk (me)
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Post by LTK on Jul 8, 2022 0:01:12 GMT
I bought this sight unseen based on the strength of Thronebreaker and... it's not nearly as good. Could have expected that, given that they chose a pre-Witchers time period and that doesn't let them go off anything in the books like with Meve's story. Plus it's a roguelike so that's never conducive to the narrative, unless you're Hades, which this is not.
It's a decent card based roguelike though. Takes the general structure from Slay the Spire, with the branching paths, treasures, random events and elites, but instead of health you have energy, and battles are single-round games of Gwent. You lose the round, the run ends, so you need to use that limited pool of energy wisely to nudge battles in your favor if needed, and always keep some in reserve because you won't stand a chance against the boss with zero energy.
It's an interesting twist but I miss the tug-of-war from normal Gwent, and one-round games aren't as interesting, so the structure that works for StS is less successful here. I wish they'd put some more effort into coming up with a roguelike design that gels better with Gwent, because this just feels too much like a StS reskin. A very high-quality, high-effort reskin, but a reskin nonetheless.
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Post by Chopper on Jul 8, 2022 8:41:29 GMT
I bought this sight unseen based on the strength of Thronebreaker and... it's not nearly as good. Could have expected that, given that they chose a pre-Witchers time period and that doesn't let them go off anything in the books like with Meve's story. Plus it's a roguelike so that's never conducive to the narrative, unless you're Hades, which this is not. It's a decent card based roguelike though. Takes the general structure from Slay the Spire, with the branching paths, treasures, random events and elites, but instead of health you have energy, and battles are single-round games of Gwent. You lose the round, the run ends, so you need to use that limited pool of energy wisely to nudge battles in your favor if needed, and always keep some in reserve because you won't stand a chance against the boss with zero energy. It's an interesting twist but I miss the tug-of-war from normal Gwent, and one-round games aren't as interesting, so the structure that works for StS is less successful here. I wish they'd put some more effort into coming up with a roguelike design that gels better with Gwent, because this just feels too much like a StS reskin. A very high-quality, high-effort reskin, but a reskin nonetheless. Thanks for the impressions! It's not on my radar at the moment (haven't even played Thronebreaker) but good to know. I went on a bit of a tear yesterday adding card battlers/deckbuilders to my wishlist, so it will be a fair while before I get to this. It's funny how much Slay the Spire dominates the landscape - whether as the gold standard or just for comparison purposes to other deckbuilders. I was reading a thread yesterday on another site. It was full of grizzled veterans of the deckbuilding scene, and even they still referenced StS when any new game popped up for discussion! |
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Post by Frog on Jul 8, 2022 13:05:30 GMT
I actually enjoy monster train a bit more than slay the spire but they are both excellent games.
Also up and coming are power chord and beneath Oresa that are worth keeping an eye on.
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Post by Chopper on Jul 8, 2022 13:46:01 GMT
Ha, Power Chord looks nuts! And Beneath Oresa looks quite stylish. Both have demos on Steam so I must check them out.
Yeah, I have Monster Train but only played it for about an hour last year, so I need to sort that out. It's hugely acclaimed.
The ones I added to the wishlist yesterday as worth looking at were:
Across the Obelisk
Blood Card 2: Dark Mist
Deck Hunter
Griftlands
Iris and the Giant
Last Regiment
Library of Ruina
Meteorfall: Krumit's Tale
Nowhere Prophet
Roguebook
The Hand of Merlin
The Magister
Mahokenshi (not available yet but looks neat)
Fate Hunters (bought) Monster Slayers (bought)
Also Neoverse which is supposed to be excellent but the DLC was schoolgirl uniforms and the like so I took it off again for being a bit icky.
And Slay the Spire has a mod in the Workshop called Downfall, where you play as the bosses, I think, that I need to check out whenever I go back to StS (possibly never, at this rate).
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