Rant Thread

[Blaizeus]

Go crazy; tell me about how mad some of the games make you. I'll start.

I am absolute garbage at 90% of the strategy games in the bundle and they're mostly the ones I haven't completed.
I'm awful at Bug Hunter and can hardly beat job 1.
I HAVE LIKE 5 HOURS IN AVIANOS AND I CANT BEAT THE SECOND DIFFICULTY
The enemy always seems to have twice the units I have and is way smarter than me. I've tried rushing and I've tried building up slowly but I get crushed.
I want to like Party House but for the life of me I can't beat the first mission. I also hate the luck of the first few turns; spamming reset game because of no income or 3 troublemakers.

In between other games I've booted up Golfaria like 10 times and I can't find any holes around the spawn to beat, so I keep giving up on it.

Every time I think I like Onion Delivery I get to day 3 or 4 and get absolutely destroyed by big onion monster or rain. This game is fun and makes me rage.

I started the game wanting to gold every cart, but I don't know if I'm capable of beating some of these strategy games. Attactics is one of the few strategy ones I've beaten and thats from really good spawn luck.

[Shoe]

Shucks eredeti hozzászólása:

Overbold pissed me off so much because the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blue ducks ranged attack is way faster than your movement speed.

Its also like a top 5 game for me in the collection.

Those birds have ruined countless runs at round 2 for me. I like to start betting high early on, and the damn birds always ruin me.

[fakename]

Fist Hell is not as bad as I thought. It's only the very end that's really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Hyper Contender is definitely learnable as well, although I still don't like it.

[Fox Tenson]

Shucks eredeti hozzászólása:

Overbold pissed me off so much because the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blue ducks ranged attack is way faster than your movement speed.

Its also like a top 5 game for me in the collection.

Try going for the bomb upgrade that lures enemies to it and increase your bomb count. Those ducks will stop shooting to rush over to get blown up. Probably one of the best upgrades and how I got the cherry.

[Coxy]

WHY IS THE GIFT IN STAR WASPIR ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE!?

get a 10x combo sure ok except the damn thing resets if I
-die (expected but obnoxious when there's so much visual clutter i ram into bullets I just can NOT see)
- clear a wave (you know how many times ive finished on MULTI 9x!? what the hell!!!)
- SPELL SOMEHTING THATS *NOT* EGG (ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEE HGHJGHJGSAHJGAHJG YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET OUT OF A GGE CYCLE)

im actually gonna gold and cherry this aggravating game before i get the gift, what the actual grimstone hell.

[Fox Tenson]

Coxy eredeti hozzászólása:

WHY IS THE GIFT IN STAR WASPIR ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE!?

get a 10x combo sure ok except the damn thing resets if I
-die (expected but obnoxious when there's so much visual clutter i ram into bullets I just can NOT see)
- clear a wave (you know how many times ive finished on MULTI 9x!? what the hell!!!)
- SPELL SOMEHTING THATS *NOT* EGG (ARE YOU KIDDING MEEEE HGHJGHJGSAHJGAHJG YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET OUT OF A GGE CYCLE)

im actually gonna gold and cherry this aggravating game before i get the gift, what the actual grimstone hell.

Some advice: You can spell other things that give you stuff to maintain combo. GGG giving you an option won't drop it. My best advice is take the left ship and gather GGG twice for both options. Then stay near the middle of the screen and the options will home in on and kill the enemy ships before they can fire. This gives you plenty of time to stack EGG combos. Every so often get GGG again to refresh the options. You can get the gift on stage 1 doing this. Game is a right pain in the butt though I agree.

[der.dida83]

Okay, now that I finished Grimstone, I have to add to the rant about those f*cking one shot kills...

wth were they thinking with these? A one shot kill enemy is only then acceptable if you either have a very easy way to revive someone or they have a really low chance of succeding in the kill.

But in this game it is implemented terribly, they succeed way too often and a random battle with 6 hangmen can pretty much eradicate your party in their first turn and you can't do squat about it other than hoping you kill them first (at least they are not the fastest to attack)...

Also I had Doc, so one party member could revive, but even than, reviving alone doesn't help since you also have to heal the revived party member to not immediately die again.... and afaik there is no FF6 Life2 (or even Life3) equivalent, which fully heals... Docs healing spells suck btw.

wow, that is my single biggest gripe with the game, it has other issues, but having random enemies that are 100 times more dangerous than all bosses rolled into a single fight (the final boss was a pushover for me), is just a terrible concept... not even sure if the Evade Stat helps much dodging the attack, since my party had maybe around 60 evade and as said, a battle with 6 hangmen more often than not ended in first round KO....

At least, one positive, you are not getting severly punished for dying. Party gets fully healed, I guess you keep all items and just lose half the gold you carry... so it could have been (even) worse...

[der.dida83]

Fox Tenson eredeti hozzászólása:

Shucks eredeti hozzászólása:

Overbold pissed me off so much because the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blue ducks ranged attack is way faster than your movement speed.

Its also like a top 5 game for me in the collection.

Try going for the bomb upgrade that lures enemies to it and increase your bomb count. Those ducks will stop shooting to rush over to get blown up. Probably one of the best upgrades and how I got the cherry.

Totally agree about the luring item, it's very effective, also getting the faster shot upgrade really makes a huge difference.

[Sigsig]

Not a game related rant but of all the things, they had to choose Divers for Steam profile background

[11clock]

I got to Onion Delivery, and what a giant piece of unplayable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It's somehow worse than Barbuta. I am thankful that the gift was easy to obtain.

[PK SPACE JAM]

Onion Delivery is the Dark Souls of UFO 50 (/s)

[PlantMurderer]

11clock eredeti hozzászólása:

I got to Onion Delivery, and what a giant piece of unplayable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. It's somehow worse than Barbuta. I am thankful that the gift was easy to obtain.

I feel like it plays exactly like the games it's emulating, albeit I have no deep knowledge as I truly do not enjoy this experience.

[Kiane]

I have two moods playing Rock On Island, enjoying myself and wanting to rip out the developer's fingernails Higurashi style because something tapped my character on wave 10. This is not a fun cherry.

[Kiane]

Rakshasa is easily a bottom 5 game for me, everything about it irks me. The weapons all suck, you're never at a good angle to hit enemies, movement is clunky, and it seems to be the only game in the collection where points don't help you at all besides just getting the cherry cart. Also instead of having a catch-up mechanic if you're doing poorly, it has a ♥♥♥♥-you mechanic where it throws more enemies at you if you have more deaths, making certain segments nearly impossible. It's beyond me how people like this one.

[Garbage]

We could have done with only 1 schmup, not 3. I really do not like Star Waspir, and it is what made me give up on the game.

[tcassat]

Garbage eredeti hozzászólása:

We could have done with only 1 schmup, not 3. I really do not like Star Waspir, and it is what made me give up on the game.

shmups isn't the problem, the problem is that the devs seem to me to have felt obliged to put games in the genre because they were quite common in the 1980s, but without really knowing how to do it.

Xevious from 1982 is more advanced n terms of game design than all the UFO50 shmups.

I also think that shmups are too “pure” a genre, and the UFO50 games don't try to hide the fact that they're indie games (and not “retro” games), and because indies apparently can't make games without adding gimmicks, UFO50 shmups have become too gimmicky and silly.

And finally, Star Waspir is probably the worst game of this kind I've ever played, at least considering everything from 1982 onwards.