fierce dagger
Overall, love the demo.
The Good:
- Still Streets of Rogue - definitely has the overall feel. Earthbound aesthetics with a touch of GTA chaos is always great
- Gameplay feels fluid overall
- Fun atmosphere, great music
- I like the multifloor buildings, gives a dungeon feel which is a good change of pace from the usual smash and grab (More of this!). Busy streets with lots of buildings to hit quickly is good, but I really like the idea of having to work my way through something more complicated and lengthy. Imagine a necromancers lair, vampire cave, bandit hideout, etc.
Demo Related issues:
- Hard to judge the systems since they are fairly limited access at the moment, but I like the idea of a skill tree. Need more exposure to properly judge
- 2nd floor of mayors office is really choppy - all performance issues go away after I leave 2nd floor. Couldn't turn in Mayors hat
Suggestions for overall direction:
- Permadeath, and death consequences in general are needed - no punishment for getting smashed
- Vehicle progression would be nice - Make me earn a license based on reputation to get a car, and even more progression for other vehicles or better vehicles)
- Would be fun to have some cities be walled off completely - either you have to break in and be seen as a criminal by everyone, or earn your way in to meet objectives. This would prevent any sort of "head straight to mayor/president and kill to complete mission
- Same with fire arms - fire arms are OP and it would be cool to have to do more then just kill someone with a fire arm to obtain one, or alternatively, continually ramp up challenge so killing enemies doesn't become too trivialized.
- Star system for attracting too much attention. Too easy to get away with shooting up buildings
- Could be that I haven't got far enough, but would be nice if factions would send out assassins if you cause too much trouble
Thanks for putting together the demo. Will be buying once it is released.
harsh cradle