General / Off-Topic We happy few
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A game of paranoia and survival, in a drugged-out, dystopian English city in 1964.
We Happy Few is an indie survival horror video game being developed and published by Compulsion Games for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One systems. The game takes place in the fictional English city of Wellington Wells, a dystopian, retrofuturistic-fashioned, drug-fuelled society formed following an alternative timeline of events within World War II, which is now on the verge of collapse in the mid 1960s. The residents of the city, seeking to forget an unspeakable horror they committed, began taking a hallucinogenic drug called "Joy" that makes them happy, but also leaves them easily controlled and lacking morality. Players will control one of three characters in the full release, who becomes dubbed as a "Downer" after choosing to stop using Joy, and must try to survive long enough to complete something important and personal to themselves, all while trying to escape the city before the impending social collapse.
❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ that sounds like a crazy game... looks kinda like bioshock though
We Happy Few is an indie survival horror video game being developed and published by Compulsion Games for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One systems. The game takes place in the fictional English city of Wellington Wells, a dystopian, retrofuturistic-fashioned, drug-fuelled society formed following an alternative timeline of events within World War II, which is now on the verge of collapse in the mid 1960s. The residents of the city, seeking to forget an unspeakable horror they committed, began taking a hallucinogenic drug called "Joy" that makes them happy, but also leaves them easily controlled and lacking morality. Players will control one of three characters in the full release, who becomes dubbed as a "Downer" after choosing to stop using Joy, and must try to survive long enough to complete something important and personal to themselves, all while trying to escape the city before the impending social collapse.
❤︎❤︎❤︎❤︎ that sounds like a crazy game... looks kinda like bioshock though
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Good point. You can read creaper's post (thank you for that) and/or watch the vid I linked to.
It looks a lot like that but it isn't. It's a survival horror game. People seem to have bashed the game for not getting that it's not Bioshock. Strong hints of Brave New World scattered about imo
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I'd like to get it, but recent exchange on the steamforum makes me doubt it will ever get out of EA. http://steamcommunity.com/app/320240/discussions/0/135513421443047316/
The Problem is, that the Game suggested in the Beginning (in early Trailers and such) That it will be a strongly Story driven Game. It even starts out that way, but there is so much Gameplay Filler stuffed between the Story bits. If it would have been clear from the beginning, that it is a Survival Game, people would have been less disappointed. It's a bit like with No Man's Sky. Nobody knew in the beginning what the Game even was.
Yeah, they claim it is still in EA because they are only with 20 or something people. *rolls eyes* Cities: Skylines was made with 13 and made it out of EA...I don't even remember that game having EA....
Ugh I was really rooting for this game. I hope they're just behind schedule and it wasn't because they were over delivering on their promises. They had such a good premise/demo and now I'm starting to wonder if it was too good to be true...
Oh dear, seems like these devs have taken notes from RCTW
http://steamcommunity.com/app/320240/discussions/0/135513421443047316/?ctp=3#c135513901709800020 [uhh][rolleyes]
"I appreciate that people get burned with Early Access" How could we interpret that? Also the whiny bit after it: "but we've demonstrated time and again how much we care about you guys, and about our game. If you can't see that, you're deliberately not looking, and we can't help you at that point."
Customer relationships at it's finest. Okay, no We happy few for me.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/320240/discussions/0/135513421443047316/?ctp=3#c135513901709800020 [uhh][rolleyes]
"I appreciate that people get burned with Early Access" How could we interpret that? Also the whiny bit after it: "but we've demonstrated time and again how much we care about you guys, and about our game. If you can't see that, you're deliberately not looking, and we can't help you at that point."
Customer relationships at it's finest. Okay, no We happy few for me.
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Joël
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As a personal comment; the usage of words could have been a bit better on that post.
