You can play solo or with friend. Teamwork makes for some interesting builds. It’s mostly a shooter, but there are effective melee builds. It’s a solid game, but gunning for high score all the time is tiring. They should introduce some challenges.
I’ll try to check out there release stream. I wonder how big the turnout will be.
Now that half an hour is gone and you decided not to tell me anything , here it is from one youtube video:
In a futuristic metropolis, a Mega corporation is sucking the arcade nation dry , there is an eco/financial system of culture, commerce and class (which is not really explained).
You work for ’ FunFunco’ or the man sitting ontop ofthe good chain…
anyway…
this
Fuck this… its not even a trailer. Its like watch a person play the game to explain the shit…for half an hour. So i spend an hour on this post, when i could have spent half if not less IF ILLFONIC WOULD EXPLAIN THIS SHIT IN A REAL TRAILER type video.
Suffice it to say, if Ghostbusters needs a 2 hour video… I won’t be sold. But at least it got funded right? Leave it to Sony or something to market it. If they do it like this, then maybe it will take me 2 years to discover it.
The game is in a great state i’m sure it is playable, but to grab my attention isn’t an automatic thing. I don’t live my life on Steam or epic store merchant trolling. I live my life elsewhere. If they are constantly relying on 13 year olds to make investors happy (because 13 year olds literally have nothing to do, and they have no money), they are barking up the wrong tree.
The lack of investment in marketing is fundamentally lacking and its a problem. They are leaving it unprofessional gut feelings and their inability to write material to market to the gaming market which encompasses a wide range of ages is staggering and overwhelmingly evident.
Another note is that if they leave the game open to have another worthless youtube channel soul to v-log the walkthrough then i guess they saved money right? I guess that happens a week or two after release? or maybe they give out advanced copies?
Their release date was about a year ago: July 8, 2021
It still feels like it came out a few months ago, does anyone else feel that too? I’m not sure why that is, maybe the lack of reviews? or the lack of marketing history with this game?
Maybe it has something to say about the state of games in the industry. If you’re going to discover it, you will on your own time and it doesn’t take a ‘campaign’. Like it does with art right??
I guess PHG does have some relevance? like if its not perfect on release, it will eventually after some fixes?
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Do you believe in the art of gaming? or art in general? or is it a matter of investment authenticity (that if it should be a perfect game, it must be perfect on release?). I’m sure this will trigger @TheSenate to become a jackass in response to this post or this statement.
Illfonic doesn’t believe in marketing
what does that mean little one?
The individuals making this game believe putting it IGN for 15 min and tagging twitter is an acceptable level of exposure because they have their captive audience already.
People that are diehards for the franchise title regardless of quality.
Marketing is an unneccessary expense for a cheap game that’s pretty niche to begin with.
All they have to intrigue is design…its fairly good. I won’t doubt that. There are design aesthetics that make me curious about the origins of its design. but not much is there to lure me to the gameplay or story.
The only thing that keeps me in the universe of Arcadegeddon marketing campaign is because its on the same twitter account as PHG. thats advice right there.
Its prophunt
uhhh
they have this ability to get actors onboard for stuff somehow so there’s that
I really did not expect prophunt from this. I’m honestly a little disappointed.
for consoles this is probably revolutionary if you think about it
they don’t have gmod etc
There needs to be a connection: no story, no game. or you can tell Bill Gates to make it a mandatory download. then it becomes a donation $$$$.
I mean, connection doesn’t need to be dramatic, but at least tell this story in the marketing.
I like gumby, but its not in my face. I mean at least I might find Gumby products at the dollar store. I don’t see Arcadegeddon at the dollarstore everytime i look for gummy bears. To me this is a default find at Illfonics dollarstore.
every multiplayer game ever.
I wouldn’t consider Death Stranding the pinnacle of storytelling lol. it gave us some cool visuals and made me buy some 'tism delivery games on sale.
other than that its like, this is heartman he has heart problems.
this is fragile but she’s not so fragile
THE PRESIDENT WE HAVE TO FIND THE PRESIDENT.
cool concepts like rain warping time but they didn’t deliver on it
All a standard campy kojima flair, very on the nose.
Atleast it was a complete game unlike CYBERPUNK
you really don’t read books do you? Finess being Finess. I mean, there was text in the game, 5% you read. 1% you understood.
Meh, I’ll bite.
First of all, Arcadegeddon was something else. Something happened with a partner, and the game was cancelled over Christmas 2020. Normally when a game is cancelled, there’s layoffs. CEO and Sr leadership didn’t want to do it, so we said “Fuck it, the game is fun. We’ll make it our own and self publish it”. New almost everything except the general gameplay loop.
We didn’t really advertise too much as it’s an early access game that had growing to do, especially with a typical year cut from the dev cycle. Plus, actual advertising is expensive (If some people here can talk cpms we can geek out about that).
Anyways, game is going free for PS Plus next month. We’ll see how well actual gameplay of the game sells it and markets it.
Premise is: Arcadegeddon is a game created by the main character’s uncle, Gilly. It’s being attacked by a megacorp that wants to take Gilly down as he’s the last independent arcade in the city. So you go in the game and kick the megacorp out through playing it, as well as fighting off Data Daemons, which are glitched monsters.
It’s a 1 to 4 player coop PVE game with mid-level PVP matches. There’s a PVP mode too, but it’s targeted to be fun than ultra competitive. The art is fully us. The music, with streamer mode enabled, is dmca protected. The CEO even did a few tracks. Soundtrack is also free to stream. Go for objectives. Go for a boss run. Go for global leaderboard placement. Play to the goal you want to
Now I’ve been typing this on mobile and I’m sure there’s plenty of added spice to review :p
lol it was irrelevant to gameplay. you’d think that would be more survival-game-esque but it boiled down to shooting goo lions with rocket launchers & then going back to delivering pizzas.
You really don’t study things do you Finess. SMH. Look into death strandings…look into the past heavy bombardments…look into why oil exists in the oceans…look into why people believe in life after death. Lets not get into this on this thread as its for something else entirely.
please.just dont. stay on topic.
death was advertised as a mechanic and I didn’t die once playing through that game?
Do I need to go back and play it on ultra hard to get the real experience?
you smoke to many cigarettes’.
Created? how? What is the existential premise going on? Is this human? on earth? if its Purely fantasy it needs to be established in every trailer…understandably, it looks super fantasy. so lets start the narrative on a purely fantasty note.Take it apart from the Super Hyperreal games…make it fantasy or purely cartoon fantasy. That needs to be established. But i think the youtube video (at least the first few minutes) is good enough.
If you can anchor everything on an existensial feeling then you have established something that can clearly take one away from realism.
What is the conflict? That needs to be reiterated in everything! There is too much in the fantasy that one can’t relate to.
if you saw A blue Minion…what are you going to say about him being blue? Who is the Felonious Gru?
There is no movie out! You need to establish the connections in this game!
there is alot of posts on twitter but no storybased conflict.
Where is the call to action? Where is the ‘hero’ troupe?
Don’t keeps showing us cool art and dvd based design aesthetics, show us story!
Thx for the response King
whomst?
do you guys not prefer independent projects? sounds like you only rolled with it because the game was already close to viable as early access.
any plans on doing independent game things?
WTF are you talking about? Are you saying if it fails that it becomes a free to download game?
Finessalogy likes free games, stop making games for profit and start delivering stuff to finessess’ personal email.
