• PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    That feels awfully soon. I hope they can actually create enough new content for this, as Below Zero felt far too similar to the first. It felt more like a new game plus rather than a full-price sequal.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah I felt like below zero could have gone without the above land content. It just wasn’t nearly as good as the rest of what they had made. I really missed having the submarine thing too

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          10 months ago

          The first time you make the Cyclops and go “woah, that’s big”. When you are welcomed on board. When you walk about and go “oh, engine room. And 6 power cells”, when you flick all the lights on and off, when you have to start the engine, when it steers like a bus and you bonk everything I’m sight. When you first honk the horn. When you learn to drive using the cameras. When you learn you can build in it. When a creature attacks and you drop a bouy.
          So many great firsts with the Cyclops.

          The seatruck was fine. But it didn’t seem to have the personality of the cyclops

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      10 months ago

      I remember reading somewhere that Below zero was originally intended to be an expansion, but got changed into a standalone release. The subnautica 2 they are working on now is entirely new.

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      10 months ago

      I’m tempted to agree but on the other hand, I’d rather see the budget go towards a better game than designing for coop. The first one wouldn’t be atmospheric at all if you had a laggy friend floating around you all the time.

      Plenty of other survival games that have coop and are better suited for it.

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      10 months ago

      I wait for the co-op return, only Nintendo keeps this going in a wider scheme.

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        10 months ago

        Split screen maybe, but there are absolute loads of indie games released each year with co-op.

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    10 months ago

    Please be good. I loved the first one (despite the bugs).

  • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    here’s to hoping they don’t scrap a perfect story half way through again like they did in sub 2, I loved the original pre-release story, then they scrapped it for the boring one it is now

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      10 months ago

      What was the pre-release story for BZ? I played it this year and thought the story was fine, though it didn’t manage to recapture the feelings of mystery and discovery of the first game

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        10 months ago

        I want a truly massive nuclear submarine and be able to explore some of the actual deep parts of the ocean. Like they hype up the huge drop off in the first game. Maybe a bit of protection against the giant ghost laviathans.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Didn’t they say they were don’t making Subnautica like games? I hope not though, I loved 1 and 2.