Looks/sounds pretty good, but I'll wait for a few more details such as the price. Not going to say 'Take my money' when I don't know how much money they want to take.
Dust: An Elysian Tail To Unleash the Furry On Steam
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Good show. I was eagerly waiting for this so it can do wholesale slaughter of Shark Attack or (subjectively speaking) Inherit the Earth or Earth Eternal. Shark Attack especially, that game had piss-fucking-poor hitbox detection *period*, and most of the development budget was spent hiring Duke Nukem as trailer guy, yet furries cared more for that trainwreck than this far-from-perfect-but-still-far-more-competently-made game, mostly because Shark Attack has fanservice called Mayhem the Shark. I will oil my hands with this game and break the jaws of those furries without regret everytime they try to give me a flimsy excuse to care more for a fanservice trainwreck than an actual product that's appropriate for their subculture, and isn't a smoldering piece of demon shit for once.
WALLET, I SUMMON THEE
WALLET, I SUMMON THEE
Inherit the Earth wasn't that bad. Considering it was made back in 1994 and had full voice acting and what I felt was cleaver writing, it was alright. Earth Eternal or Shark attack I can't attest for, neither played or touched, but Inherit the Earth I thought was a solid game, despite the fact the ending was ambiguous at best. Even with an ongoing web comic.kitetsu said:
I can recommend this game to anyone who likes sidescrolling beat em ups. If you hate furries just try not to let the art style ruin the game for you, the characters are all cute and likeable and theres nothing sexual in it. The story is pretty wacky and will keep you entertained but not all that invested.
The problem with Inherit the Earth is that it spawned a bandwagon where somehow, if it's furry-centric, it has to draw as much inspirations, if not be almost like Inherit the Earth, if it's not pornographic. Either that, or it's chopped liver furries in non-furry games where you're a human hero killing them wholesale because the writers didn't bother making them compelling.dragongit said:
If you're asking me, ItE's problems of being a product of its time (still is, jesus christ that fucking sequel and webcomic) is highly pedestrian compared to Shark Attack, which is like a reflection of furry-centric game development circles, with the ones being genuinely competent either working as an invisible number in a large team somewhere off-shore, or is like Noogy... too few in numbers to damage the stigma that furries make terrible game developers.
Imo Vanillaware really need to get themselves a decent game designer as both Odin's Sphere and Muramasa get really repetitive once the initial graphical wow factor wears off, especially Muramasa where you fight encounters of the same enemy type. I prefered Aquria's cookery system to OS too.Denamic said:
Which is a shame because as a 2D nut I want to like them.
For what it's worth, I liked the Jazz Jackrabbit character designs from the first game, before Dodrill took over, better than the ones he created.
April is only a few days away, technically.-Dragmire- said:
OT: Well fuck. I already bought it on the Xbox because I figured it wouldn't be coming to the PC. Now I'll have to spend even more money because I vastly prefer PC games to console games...
I'm a rather impatient person when it comes to games I want coming out... Also, it hurts hearing that from someone who already got to play it... easy for you to say, "be patient"!shrekfan246 said:April is only a few days away, technically.-Dragmire- said:
OT: Well fuck. I already bought it on the Xbox because I figured it wouldn't be coming to the PC. Now I'll have to spend even more money because I vastly prefer PC games to console games...
*sobs while in the fetal position*
I suppose I can give you that. though the string of published furry games outside of games like say, ratchet and clank, or Sly, is limited at best. They don't understand core game mechanics or plot, and would rather just design something with furry characters without making it functional. ItE I think could have been something better but at it's time anthropomorphic animals were even more then today, considered children's things, it's possible if they didn't have that restriction they could have fleshed out their story more and made it mature. Now a days we've unfortunately progressed into the complete opposite. Where people consider furries to be fundamentally perverted instead a sub genre to achieve an end.JoshuaMadoc said:
I'm a furry, not the convention hopping costume wearing kind. Hell looking at me you'd think of me as perhaps just a nerd, a guy who enjoys DnD, not necessarily a furry. And I have been so for nearly 12 years. I don't go out on a limb to announce it to others because hey, it's not really necessary to wave every flag you have. if the situation arrives and someone asks me out right I'll be honest. I just like the aesthetics of it, and the freedom of design of it. I draw furry characters, and have done so for a long time. Artists can get away with a bit more using anthropomorphic characters then simply using human begins, which can lead to very distinctive characters. I can only see a slightly shaven head so many times before they all look the same to me.
I also see the distinct flaw with the general furry fandom. Many people do fly their flag high, and wearing costumes and what not, whatever. We've got anime conventions of people being just as silly. As for the extreme fetishes, every walk of life under the sun has them, but none quite so well exploited like the furry genre. They have websites dedicated to furry porn and every branch there in, which I might add could easily extract the "furry" component out and they would still have said fetish just without the fuzzy coating. It does depress me that these people however broadcast their desires and taint the image of furries. It's the few that ruin the image as a whole.
I'm not suggesting that people accept furry as a main stream genre, or to more writers and designers to incorperate them into their media. Hell, I don't even expect people to understand or like them. Perhaps a little more tolerance like it seems to be paraded in school that children are suppose to be tolerant of everything. Guess some lessons don't sink in. In it's broadest scope, the fandom for the non artist is a form of roleplaying. Just as much as dungeons and dragons. You create an ideal or at least adept form of one's self you can project upon your own world or with a group of people to escape reality. It's a device used by many to have some sort of kindred connection when the rest of the world would shun or reject them for being slightly abnormal. Many do surprisingly keep to themselves despite what people would believe, only going as far as revealing themselves when they are confident they would be safe from persecution.
I do see the use of anthropomorphic characters as a means to an end when it comes to design and functionality. It allows for a wide arc of story tones from the whimsical to the serious depending on the writers needs. It can be slipped into other categories such as Science Fiction, fantasy, steam punk what have you. It can help to give a property a distinct design and personality to distinguish itself apart. Would Dust here receive perhaps even part of it's recognition if it didn't star a furry cast of characters? Perhaps, but the fact it does include it makes it recognizable at a distance. It shouldn't be used hap hazardously, it can illustrate stereotypes we use in the real world to project upon the cast of characters such as wolves and sheep, which being the victim and which the predator. A Sneaky sly raccoon perhaps, or a fox. It can lend itself to enhance the fiction it's put in if used correctly and not simply hackneyed.
My point I suppose before I loose myself on any more tangents, or TL
R, furries as a whole have issues because they try to shoehorn the design perhaps when it isn't needed, but used correctly it can enhance the design of a story and setting to make it more distinguished and recognizable. Giving something it's own identity. They may never escape the perverse stigma that it's acquired, but I still see the furry fandom as a whole the right to exist just as much as any other geek genre out there. There are plenty of perverse art on anime alone, and video game characters sadly none quite as widely documented or broadcasted as furries. Every fandom has it's share of its, if you pardon my use of the phrase, black sheep.I think you and every other like-minded furry are glossing over two problems that I already mentioned that I feel is a plague upon the fandom and the fandom's game development circle:dragongit said:
- A large chunk of developers within the fandom are either incompetent, complacent, undisciplined, gets into infighting even easier than Phil Fish when he's completely shitfaced drunk, prone to making bizarre or downright suicidally dumb decisions, or all of the above.
- The audience within the fandom don't care about quality, so long as they get to play as Zig-Zag or Raven Hunt or Mayhem the Shark or Tay the tiger supermodel or Krystal or Renamon or whoever else, thus further enabling the developers to crank out sub-par content or just grossly mismanage their resources, which I've seen them do all too many times, even outside the game development circle (FurAffinity, full stop).
The whole problem that stems from outsider treatment of furries on the internet and/or in society is already a much-repeated topic, and it's not a bad thing to talk about, but I believe in getting one's shit together first before taking any action. You can't survive a gunfight if you bring only the damn gun.
