I feel this game is misadvertised.

[Why Contain It?]

I thought this was going to be a game about punching goons and shooting 'em and it's secretly an imsim with an entire thief tribute level. If gloomwood is thief with guns, this is like, Thief with... Goons? Thief with Gooning?

Seriously, there's like nine ways into the nightclub. 9! that's insane! And they're all, like, actually different. Why does a game that's about beating up goons and throwing garbage cans at them and making them slip on banana peels need NINE WAYS INTO A SINGLE BUILDING. Absolute madness. I think i just had anotha stroke.

[fourfourtwo79]

Originally posted by Beavis Ryan Gosling:

All games are immersive sims if you believe hard enough.

"The point of all this talk about computer role-playing games is not to claim that this project of ours is or isn't an RPG. The point is that great games don't happen by shoe-horning your design into a rigid category made up by some magazine."


Lesson well learnt, Fallen Asses. https://web.archive.org/web/19980224020118/www.lglass.com/p_info/dark/manifesto.html

[bl5ck0ut]

i gooned lol

[Aces Dev]

Originally posted by Ozium:

it's not an imsim, it has some imsim elements like the wonderful map design but it is NOT an imsim. there really aren't that many systems you can interact with. it is a good game in its own right but an imsim? nah.

Not true at all. You can turn off lights, Break down windows and locked doors, you can ignite oil puddles and break electrical devices to electrocute enemies. You can eat bananas to make enemies slip on em. Carry and hide bodies, hide in shadows, use safe codes. There's plenty of systems.

[shotgunner]

i get your idea

[Why Contain It?]

Originally posted by Aces Dev:

Originally posted by Ozium:

it's not an imsim, it has some imsim elements like the wonderful map design but it is NOT an imsim. there really aren't that many systems you can interact with. it is a good game in its own right but an imsim? nah.

Not true at all. You can turn off lights, Break down windows and locked doors, you can ignite oil puddles and break electrical devices to electrocute enemies. You can eat bananas to make enemies slip on em. Carry and hide bodies, hide in shadows, use safe codes. There's plenty of systems.

Honestly, to me, what sets the imsim apart isn't the systems, it's the open design. It doesn't matter how you do X, it's that you do X. Pick a lock, break a door, trick a guard, build a ladder out of grenades, whatever. Admittedly the "how you do it" is those systems but you get what I mean.