>game is kino until the very ending where it becomes bullshit
Why is this so common?

I will either buy this game or Queen's Domain next.

Tell me which one.

>>750804761
>What the fuck was the dev thinking with that dogshit sequence
this thought went through my head every 20 minutes while playing the game

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>collect all the health pots
>get the secret gun
>it sucks

>>750804761
I'm still collecting the dimensional violators or whatever

I've been playing this game with my wife watching me for 2 years. Every month when I get my prescription of painkillers, I play it for like an hour when the first dose is hitting me nicely. Then I have to wait a month to play it again because the opiates are only strong when I haven't had one for a while

It's one of the most rewarding gaming experiences of all time. *Gesticulates wildly*

>>750804987
Queens domain looks really slow for souls slop brains

Northern journey expects you to be a quakedad. I am not really kidding.

>>750804987
northern journey is a 10 hour game and queens domain is a 50 hour game. get the quicker one out of the way first.

buying nj first, in 30 hours you experienced 100% of nj and 40% of qd
otherwise, you will have experienced 60% of qd and 0% of nj
the choice is obvious

This game is a gem and I haven't found anything similar. Just a dude making a weird but soulful game with a unique premise.

>>750805314
Imthe only person you will talk to on /v/ who has played the whole history of video games when they came out. >>750805229

I can't honestly think of anything like it. He doesn't get nearly enough respect. Hope he is still making the next one, he clearly considers himself an artist and I hope the massive positive reception to NJ has made him happy

>>750804908
Because writing endings is difficult. You can write a great story but when it comes time to end it, that's not easy

>>750804761
started so good and dropped off so hard I was kind of amazed
has the dev made anything else yet?

>>750805691
The main problem with the last third or quarter of NJ is that it becomes a hallway game where you're just rushing the objective.

>>750805609
Last devlog update was 4 years ago. I think he's dead :(

>>750806216
Nah, he's just the type that has no use for social media updates. It'll drop when it's done

Never has there been such a diverse array of arachnid enemies compiled into one game. And not even just spiders. There are fucking giant ticks that drop on you from the trees.

>>750806265
>living, breathing spiders

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>>750804761
>went mountain hiking and scuba diving to collect textures and references for the game
vibeslop devs could never be this based

>>750806589
I disagree. I'm the old guy posting in this thread and I think vibeslop will actually be the thing to enable more games like Northern Journey that are made with vision

For many decades the personality required to make a product like this on your own is an extreme intersection of art and autism

The artistic mindset greatly benefits the final product however the autistic mindset does not. Drastically reducing the autism requirement while drastically improving the abilities of individuals is the most promising thing ever for games like this

>>750805181
it's pretty good for nidhogg though

>>750806971
Nobody with an artistic mindset wants to use AI to generate their art for them. It's used exclusively by Indians and spiritual Indians who want to slop out some slop for a quick buck.

>>750807076
not the art dummy, the coding. i don't see anything wrong with using ai to generate a bunch of designs that you then polish (and redraw), though

>>750804761
Beautiful game but most of the gameplay bits were kinda dogshit in their own ways.
That's alright, I judge it more as an 'experience' than as a proper game

>>750804761
one of those games I wish I could forget so I could play it fresh again

>>750806275
never gonna forgive this

>>750804761
a better question would be what the fuck was the dev thinking with all the circle-strafing bosses, was he compelled to make an antique shooter by a gypsy curse?
>pick up an axe
>it's a throwing axe, alright
>pick up a sword
>it's not a melee weapon, but a magic projectile sword, fucking hell
nidhogg hellscape is just a logical consequence of that attitude, but at least changeling forest is different and weird

>>750804761
I would never play this game but I did watch Albino play it and it was great.

>>750808109
Quake strafing is fun.
Using melee weapons in first person is not fun and will never be fun. Not really any skill in it either

>>750806971
I actually agree.
A coder who needed a digital genie to do the all art for him will never produce anything worthwhile.
But an artist who never got into coding might just enter a medium that he otherwise wouldn't have.

>>750804908
By starting making the game in the beginning and working until you make the final level. Sounds obvious, but you want to start with working on the end, because that is what everyone will remember. Then the beginning since first impression and hook matters. Everything in the middle is white noise.

>>750805909
I read some time ago an anon said he stopped devving altogether
he had some melee focused game in development but we've heard nothing of that

>>750806275
Living, airbreathing*. Fuck the flute player. But also share your favourite tracks, anons. Mine are granite gash, fallcrush.

Is the dev dead or not? I recall somebody saying he hadn't been seen for over a year.

>>750804761
The weird defense campfire thing? It was messy as hell but not hideous. Had a lot more trouble with the second final boss that just blows you off that tiny walkway.
Or the Troll Passage. They're calling that the Jankest Bullshit Of All Time. Off to the depths with you, the tentacles demand it.

>>750808581
but this game is not quake, not even if you sprint the whole way through
the point is not there aren't any melee weapons, but the bizarre devotion to ALL the shooter conventions
are trollspiders gonna be some incredible memorable boss? you circlestrafe, and then you wonder whether you are content to waste time by relying on your trusty sling, or if you are willing to dump all your ammo into bloated boss HP
compare to the encounter right after or was it right before? against the canyon artillery, and i dare you to tell me that the former is more fun than the latter