Comments on: Games You Should Be Playing: Faster Than Light (FTL)

By: libbaz

libbaz — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:11:05 +0000

yep, so I just lost 4 hours… dont know where it went, one minute I was clicking “paypal” and the next the room was really dark and I was hungry WTF!

By: ElectroTyrian

ElectroTyrian — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:50:59 +0000

tajin: Very addictive, in a very oldschool way. Great game, been watching it for quite a while. Thank god we can finally play it. Play it. Play it. Play it. Play it….

Yeah, right up until you get fired because you forgot to go into work. :)

By: tajin

tajin — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:43:28 +0000

Very addictive, in a very oldschool way.

Great game, been watching it for quite a while. Thank god we can finally play it. Play it. Play it. Play it. Play it….

By: ElectroTyrian

ElectroTyrian — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:57:39 +0000

caitsith01, Yes they do. If it's not on Steam, they don't want to know about it. Which is probably why Steam Greenlight is so important for a lot of developers. I oppose DRM as well (which includes Steam), but since it basically blocks access to most games I can understand why a lot of gamers don't think about it. But there's enough older commercial titles and newer indie games to provide way too much gaming for the time I have available, so I don't care. :)

By: caitsith01

caitsith01 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:30:59 +0000

ElectroTyrian: if you insist on doing all your gaming in Steam

Do people do this? I bought through GOG because I oppose DRM (i.e. Steam) and want to support their excellent project as much as possible so that they keep releasing awesome classic and indie games.

By: caitsith01

caitsith01 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:29:25 +0000

James Pinnell: I don’t feel sorry for any of you! You are all now damned to be as addicted as I :)

Why would you do this to us? You're a monster.

By: syncourt

syncourt — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:21:29 +0000

Haha. I was just looking at this on steam and added it to my wishlist to grab later. :D

By: ElectroTyrian

ElectroTyrian — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:14:52 +0000

Anyone who hasn’t bought it yet, you really should get it straight from the developer’s site. Why? Because it’s the only way to get the game for all three main platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux), plus you get a Steam key anyway so you don’t lose out if you insist on doing all your gaming in Steam. GOG has the benefit of a few extras such as a soundtrack sampler and some artwork, but you only get the Windows build.

Anyways, ’tis a great game.

By: vcatkiller

vcatkiller — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:35:29 +0000

Oh managed to tear myself away from this thing. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? *goes back to play some more*

By: James Pinnell

James Pinnell — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:39:00 +0000

I don’t feel sorry for any of you! You are all now damned to be as addicted as I :)

By: vcatkiller

vcatkiller — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:22:23 +0000

Yeah I knew the term roguelike when it was still unpopular. Loved me some Angband and Nethack I did. Been a while though…

By: caitsith01

caitsith01 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:58:44 +0000

“I’d probably be in the majority of people who, before now, had never heard of the sub-genre known as “Roguelike” (as embarrassing as this might be for an old school PC gamer/journo).”

Not embarassing… it’s a weird and somewhat redundant term made up by D&D type ultranerds which is suddenly the Cool Game Description of the Week TM. It will soon submerge back to the depths of uncoolitude from whence it came.

By: muscularteeth

muscularteeth — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:48:09 +0000

bastard write ups. constantly chewing up my hard earned monies. lucky this one is only $8.
i look forward to firing it up

By: diamondd

diamondd — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:42:14 +0000

vcatkiller: Haha I just wishlisted this on GOG yesterday.So I should just stop being cheap and buy it then?Ok.*toddles off to GOG to buy*

see you next year

By: vcatkiller

vcatkiller — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:24:24 +0000

Haha I just wishlisted this on GOG yesterday. So I should just stop being cheap and buy it then? Ok. *toddles off to GOG to buy*

By: ginji

ginji — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:25:29 +0000

coatsy22,

Reminds me of http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38453/space-alert and http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31481/galaxy-trucker too ;-)

By: coatsy22

coatsy22 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:19:39 +0000

The first thing i thought on playing the Battlestations rpg/boardgame (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12350/battlestations) was that it would make an awesome pc game.

Glad someone took the risk to make a compy game in the same style.

By: ashigaru

ashigaru — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:18:06 +0000

Yah, thread going on over here for more game discussion:

http://games.on.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=260&t=196790

It’s sooo scarily addictive. I have limited gaming time and this has taken up 100% of that over the weekend. Best $9 indie game I’ve ever bought :)

By: nit001

nit001 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:52:40 +0000

Totally awesome game. Best $8 I have ever spent.

By: diamondd

diamondd — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:31:09 +0000

so good. so so so good

By: kinkykel

kinkykel — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:59:25 +0000

I agree with makena. Watch out this one will hook you. I purchased it the day it came out (Saturday I think) and I just can’t stop playing it. Probably close to 100 playthroughs already and only beaten it once. (Mainly because I suck.)

I thouroughly recommend it. If this is the quality of the kickstarter games we’re going to get, then I reaaallly look forward some a good era of gaming coming.

By: makena

makena — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:50:50 +0000

Nice write up review thing!

Warning though, this is addictive, bought it yesterday to see what it was, suddenly 5 hours later and 1:30am I realised I really needed to go to bed :<