Made me finally register for the forums here to comment on it. More games where there is a real swing please.
Too many games involve a fairly predictable linear trajectory of power. It kind of reminds me of the dynamic of the Super Puzzle Fighter games where it is when you are on the verge of losing a match that you are at your most powerful because if you manage to land the right combo suddenly you have one shotted your opponent. So there is this really nice back and forth in your state of vulnerability/safety. But the bigger the hoard of monsters gets from all those unlit rooms the more your dust economy grows, thus allowing you to light more rooms. So the way this works is that as you explore you get stretched thin, thus increasing your risk as you have to continue to move throughout a level with more and more unlit rooms. You light up rooms by using dust to prevent monsters from appearing in a particular area as you proceed to explore a new room, and you get more dust from killing monsters. I thought the way the dust economy works was a stroke of genius. What I like about that design is the push your luck element to the game.
I never got into TD games in general, but Dungeons of the Endless really clicked with me and I think I played about two dozen hours of it. Maybe a little too complex for TD, but its a dream of mine. It might end up a complicated game, of patterned movements, but I imagine it to happen as a large scale military battle would where advancing the right kit to the right place and right time is crucial, and pulling them back to rest and recuperate with reinforcements plays out a complex dance of offense and defense and perhaps even supply. What I'd like to see, is a TD game where your turrets/emplacements are moveable to react to the creeping hordes - so you can pause, plan and then run simultaneously, checking your timed movement plans. But many of them are worthwhile pursuits in their own right, and for me really take the genre past the likes of Kingdom Rush/Defense Grid style stalwarts. I hope these gems give you a glimpse at the often esoteric edge of TD gaming. Iron Grip Warlord (3d steampunk FPS, tower and base defense)įreaking Meatbags (tower defense, population genetic hybridisation and robots) Gratuitous Tank Battles (tanks and trenches)Ĭreeper World III (land grabbing, base building tower stemming the flow of the creep)
Infested Planet (squad based tower offense)Ītom Zombie Smasher (zombie quell and evac game) Spira Defense/Void Defense - (abstract pure numbers & mechanics orbitting spiral shootdown on mobile devices)
UNSTOPPABLE GORG MISSION 5 SETUP SERIES
Rymdkapsel - (abstract tetris based space build and defend with timed peril)Īnomaly series (Tower offense - escort and kill) Immortal Defense - (storied surreal vector based participatory plan and shoot-a-thon)ĭefenders Quest - (RPG where your "towers" are developing team of adventurers!) I couldn't even finish the podcast without coming here to mention a few of my notables over the years.
0 kommentar(er)
