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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Carson on December 07, 2007, 11:05:42 pm
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Aquaria is being released tonight, for anyone that didn't know. For those who have no idea what Aquaria is, it's an indy game that has been in development for a while now. It is a side scroller similar to Super Metroid, only it is controlled entirely by mouse. What is pretty neat about the game is its setting, the ocean. Think of Ecco the Dolphin only much prettier.
Anyway, check out the website, and maybe try out the demo tonight: http://www.bit-blot.com/
For the record, I have nothing to do with this game, I just thought I'd let others know about it.
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This game looks cool as hell.... thanks for the info.
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I've been following the production of the game for a while now but I could have sworn it was mac only. Please tell me I'm wrong.
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You're wrong.
Says on the site: "Coming to PC in 2007" :fogetcool:
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Woow, sometimes I love you, GW. I've been interested in this game for quite a while but I had forgotten about it.
Thanks for the heads-up.
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This game is Beautiful, why didn't I know about this!! Strapped for cash as of now so I can't really buy this yet, maybe I'll check the demo out once I get my fast internet back. Wow beautiful!!
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Awesome looking game. I will probably grab it after Christmas when I feel safe spending $30.
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it's pretty cool if you are gay for exploring games like i am
you have absolutely no guidance of any kind, just YOU AND THE OCEAN. it is metroidy in that you require upgrades to access areas, and i think i just ran into a boss that does 30% damage to me in one hit and i dont think i have any real way of damaging it so i ran away.
so yeah good if you like explory games/games that dont hold your hand at all (but rather shove you out the front door when you are twelve and say ITS UP TO YOU NOW)
not so good if you require a deep plot from the get-go and hate not knowing where to go next.
few key problems, ie the escape key doesnt exit the map screen (what the fuck is with that) but apart from that it is really nice!
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Man, been so long since I played something like SOTN... I'll download it as soon as it leaks, and if I like it (Which I most probably will), I'll buy it next month...
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just download the demo and see if you like it instead?
i dont know where the demo ends but i played it for like an hour and it didnt end
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Take my word that it will be the best $30 you'll ever spend. It also won the grand prize at the IGF (http://www.igf.com) this year, and well deserved it. And oh my word it is so BEAUTIFUL! I could play it for hours on end...
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I think it may just be me, but I want to try the demo but when I access the sites it's down.
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Take my word that it will be the best $30 you'll ever spend. It also won the grand prize at the IGF (http://www.igf.com) this year, and well deserved it. And oh my word it is so BEAUTIFUL! I could play it for hours on end...
Uh, no, I don't think so :o. I mean, it's pretty, and it's ok if you like exploring games, but I believe you are going a little overboard in with this statement!
edit: and now im stuck. i dont know if the demo actually ends or just leaves you running out of options, but I can't explore anywhere new and i can't kill the one boss i can access because he's ridiculously damaging and i have no reliable way of damaging him.
oh well!
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Yep lol sites definitely down now... Thankfully though I found these mirrors for the demo at gamefaqs...
http://zaphire.ca/aqdemo/AquariaDemo.2007.12.07.exe
http://derekyu.com/aqdemo/AquariaDemo.2007.12.07.exe
http://www.flashbangstudios.com/mirror/AquariaDemo.2007.12.07.exe
http://www.ninj4comic.com/aquaria/AquariaDemo.2007.12.07.exe
http://www.battleforthecity.com/aquaria/AquariaDemo.2007.12.07.exe
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SP8R2O0K
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Does anyone have a link to the full game? The site is down, apparently.
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Full game is $30.
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how unlucky do you have to be to have your webhost unregister your site the same day you release a game
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https://www.plimus.com/jsp/buynow.jsp?contractId=1724988 to buy the full game
Only played the demo so far, but it's pretty good. I am running out of places to go though.
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has anyone bought the game from there with the mainsite being down?
im guessing the game file is hosted on bit-blot so it wont work and youll pay for nothing at all (until the site comes back up)
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Yeah, I found the demo good as well. Started off kind of slow, but once you start getting into the dungeons and stuff it starts getting good. I like the dungeons in this game because the puzzles are challenging and the dungeons are vast and detailed. Game really starts picking up when you get the ability to throw fire balls and stuff.
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oh, you do get fireballs in the demo? i guess that was just a path i didnt find then
did you have to kill the giant ammonite before you get them?
edit: in case anyone is wondering, you can buy it and get it from that link two posts up even if the mainsite is down. they email you a link and your code etc.
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@Jester: there is a walkthrough in the readme if you get stuck. And no, you don't have to kill the nautilus prime (as it's called) - in fact it's an optional boss, but totally worth it. Hey, if you do beat it without the energy form (i.e. by throwing rocks at it...) it would be quite an achievement.
Also the mainsite is back up and has been for a while.
Kinda off-topic: I also reccomend checking out TIGSource (the indie gaming source (http://www.tigsource.com), which is run by the artist of aquaria and has a lot of links/reviews of cool indie games as well as a large community.
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Yeah, I found all that out. I'm at the bottom of the Abyss right now. The game has a pretty good learning curve, going from really easy to man-14-hours-straight-and-i-cant-beat-this-fucking-boss-because-i-am-so-damn-tired.
It'll be fun to talk about this when more people get this far.
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This actually looks really cool, I'm downloading the demo now to see if it's as great as it looks and as you all say it is.
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Kinda off-topic: I also reccomend checking out TIGSource (the indie gaming source (http://www.tigsource.com), which is run by the artist of aquaria and has a lot of links/reviews of cool indie games as well as a large community.
I am downloading this right now so I have nothing to say about the game yet, but yes, TIGSource is an excellent website.
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I am downloading the demo but god damn those videos look incredible. I'm really pumped to check this out.
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I think I am fighting the final boss and I have no idea how to hurt it :(.
edit: I think I have beaten the final boss and man that was a very cool final boss.
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So how long is the game? I don't want to spend $30 on a 4 hour game, yet the demo seems awesome, so I'm considering it.
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I am so going to download the demo as soon as I get a new computer to replace the rock I've been using for nearly a decade (frailty thy name is ~550MHz). Why do the 2D games of today all of the sudden require more hertz than the 3D games of yesterday... well, okay, of last week?
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Because the programmers are lazy.
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So how long is the game? I don't want to spend $30 on a 4 hour game, yet the demo seems awesome, so I'm considering it.
It took me about 15 hours, and I think I found about 80ish% of the secrets.
And it's pretty heavy on the requirements because it has a bunch of effects that make it look really fluid in motion. You can turn them off, turn down the res and turn it to 16-bit and it'll probably run on most old machines. Get the demo and try it, that's what it's there for. (I know you said you were going to do this anyway but yeah.)
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It took me about 15 hours, and I think I found about 80ish% of the secrets.
And it's pretty heavy on the requirements because it has a bunch of effects that make it look really fluid in motion. You can turn them off, turn down the res and turn it to 16-bit and it'll probably run on most old machines. Get the demo and try it, that's what it's there for. (I know you said you were going to do this anyway but yeah.)
haha yeah my demo froze for about 2 minutes every time I saved (afterward) because of something that was going on as it zoomed out.
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Tried the demo for about twenty minutes, it was a very nice game. I'm not going to finish the demo though, I'd rather play through all that and not have to repeat it, or to prevent spoiling myself.
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haha yeah my demo froze for about 2 minutes every time I saved (afterward) because of something that was going on as it zoomed out.
They just patched that to fix it, idk if they patched the demo or not but yeah this is fixed in the full game.
UPRC: Demo saves carry over.
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I tried it and it was pretty boring. I wish it had more interaction and varied environments but you mostly just explore cave mazes where everything looks the same.
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Drule hates everything good //_- ...cheer up emo kid :3
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I agree with Drule. It feels more like a chore than a game.
Not going to stop me from continuing to play it (yet!).
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why would you play it if you dont like it
just so you can whine about it more or what
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I decided to give this another shot and it gets better with time I guess. The intro/tutorial level was really drawn out and boring, and I found that if you take a wrong turn in the opening scenes you can end up swimming round long tunnel mazes for a long time and that gets pretty boring. I guess this time I managed to go the right way and I bumped into some more interesting creatures (so far that huge fish swimming below Naija's Home is pretty interesting) and I just got to the point where you turn into firefish and shoot fireballs at things. The charge up is badass. So I'm a little more into this game now than the first time I played it. The game seems to get more interesting with progression and I hope it keeps that up.
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I decided to give this another shot and it gets better with time I guess. The intro/tutorial level was really drawn out and boring, and I found that if you take a wrong turn in the opening scenes you can end up swimming round long tunnel mazes for a long time and that gets pretty boring. I guess this time I managed to go the right way and I bumped into some more interesting creatures (so far that huge fish swimming below Naija's Home is pretty interesting) and I just got to the point where you turn into firefish and shoot fireballs at things. The charge up is badass. So I'm a little more into this game now than the first time I played it. The game seems to get more interesting with progression and I hope it keeps that up.
Man, how do people get lost in the tutorial level? There's a map! And one path!
It's amazing, but somehow you aren't the only one who did it. I guess some people have a negative sense of direction (or eyesight) :(.
but yeah you get the vision like 3 minutes into the game so if you gave up before that before then prolly shouldnt play games :(
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I couldn't figure out how to open the map with the mouse, only the gamepad.
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the game tells you. it's double click on the minimap (or q, but the game doesnt tell you that and you have to look in the control options)
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Ya I managed to miss it.
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There is a fork at one point in the tutorial level, this time I went down and carried on playing and everything went smoothly, the first time I played I went up and ended up in this maze of tunnels which was really annoying, and I swam around it for five minutes and got bored. I knew there was a map but still.
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Yeah but the thing is there isn't a maze of tunnels.
(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/24811/secret_passage1.jpg)
like i said unless you have absolutely no sense of direction you physically can't get lost :(
(the grey dot in one of the tunnels is a rock so you cant even go that way)
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why would you play it if you dont like it
just so you can whine about it more or what
I didn't say I didn't like it. (If you look closely, Drule didn't either.)
I said the gameplay felt like a chore.
That shouldn't be hard to understand, given how well RPG games with tedious gameplay do.
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Yeah but the thing is there isn't a maze of tunnels.
(http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/24811/secret_passage1.jpg)
like i said unless you have absolutely no sense of direction you physically can't get lost :(
(the grey dot in one of the tunnels is a rock so you cant even go that way)
WELP I didn't really bother looking at the map at all, even when it told me to but yeah. I see what you mean, I must have been moving in circles or something.
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I didn't say I didn't like it. (If you look closely, Drule didn't either.)
I said the gameplay felt like a chore.
That shouldn't be hard to understand, given how well RPG games with tedious gameplay do.
yeah i dont play those :/
i always thought people only played games they enjoyed but i guess i was wrong my bad
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People enjoy different things. It'd be nice if I could enjoy 100% of aquarias, but enjoying 50% of it is still enough to get me to play it. (any lower than that and I have to have some "enjoyment enhancers" in my system to play it. *coughweedcough*)
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Really enjoying it so far.. I've reached the Open Waters and have explored a bit from there, accidently going to the Abyss and Kelp Forest.
After I find the statue in Open Waters, where do I go from there?
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Because the programmers are lazy.
More like: Because today there's so much CPU power and memory that you can focus not on writing some damn game engine, but on making a damn game instead.
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Really enjoying it so far.. I've reached the Open Waters and have explored a bit from there, accidently going to the Abyss and Kelp Forest.
After I find the statue in Open Waters, where do I go from there?
Naija tells you that when you inspect the statue.