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We Happy Few now available to play for free + August GwG

Posted on 7/26/16 at 11:18 am
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46305 posts
Posted on 7/26/16 at 11:18 am
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gameplay trailer
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We Happy Few is the tale of a plucky bunch of moderately terrible people trying to escape from a lifetime of cheerful denial in the city of Wellington Wells. Set in a drug-fuelled, retrofuturistic city in an alternative 1960s England, you’ll have to blend in with its other inhabitants, who don’t take kindly to people who don’t abide by their not-so-normal rules.

***1960s Dystopian England***
Set in a retrofuturistic 1960s, you will find a city ravaged by war and rebuilt by delusionally happy people. Everything appears to be happy in Wellington Wells, including the roads, the people, and its omnipresent television personality, Uncle Jack! However, it’s a beautiful world on the brink of collapse. You will discover the history of this world, and how it came to be just so beguilingly happy.

***Suspicion and Joy***
We Happy Few is about surviving in and escaping from a procedurally generated world, where you must learn to hide in plain sight. If you act out of turn, or you’re not on Joy (the local happy pills), the locals will become suspicious and will rapidly turn your frown upside down! Forcefully. You will need to practice conformity, stealth and combat if you want to survive long enough to escape.

***A Mature Story***
We Happy Few’s characters are not typical video game heroes. They are flawed and not particularly heroic, warped by the trauma their world has been through. Each character has their own storyline that reacts to the events of the world around them, and their place within it. Our stories are definitely not appropriate for children, but are laced with dark humour, hope, and even a spot of redemption.

***Features***
In We Happy Few, you will experience:
- A procedurally generated world, meaning that everyone’s experience will be unique,
- A range of difficulties for new and experienced players alike, - Permadeath, if you want to satisfy all your masochistic needs,
- Three modes: sandbox, story and Wellie mode,
- A unique soundtrack, and
- A fully voiced, cinematic, first person story.

And you can play it in your own style:
- Fill your basic needs (hunger, thirst, and sleep) to survive,
- Learn how to interact with the other members of your society, and choose stealth, conformity or combat,
- Encounter dozens of in-game unique events,
- Conform to the specific local habits by learning to behave accordingly, and taking your Joy,
- Collect recipes, scavenge items and craft dozens of weapons, tools and devices, fight with your bare hands or the crazy weapons you create, watch out for traps, or learn how to use them to your advantage.

can't wait to try it later today. definitely has a bioshock feel to it

August games with gold
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Xbox One
WWE 2K16, Warriors Orochi Ultimate 3

Xbox 360
Spelunky, Beyond Good and Evil HD
Posted by Carson123987
Middle Court at the Rec
Member since Jul 2011
66373 posts
Posted on 7/26/16 at 1:05 pm to
Very interested, will likely pay the 29.99 for the whole thing
Posted by SoFunnyItsNot
Member since Mar 2013
4623 posts
Posted on 7/26/16 at 5:16 pm to
It's a survival game that looks like bio shock. That's about the end of the comparisons
Posted by UltimateHog
Oregon
Member since Dec 2011
65757 posts
Posted on 7/26/16 at 6:15 pm to
Good reviews on Steam so far, gonna grab it tonight probably. Maybe. Steam purchase link

Kotaku review is disappointing, said there are a lot of early access issues and game isn't near its full potential. 6-12 month planned early access period.

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At the moment, there’s not much to do beyond wander, survive, and complete a handful of quests. Many of the quests aren’t entirely intuitive (a somewhat clunky map system doesn’t help), so wandering and survival take center stage. If you’ve played a survival game before, you know the drill: you’ve gotta make sure you’re well-fed, hydrated, and rested. Meters slowly tick down for each.

It all works fine, but to be honest it’s kinda tedious. As it stands, the interesting things about We Happy Few are its world, characters, and the deeper mysteries underlying them. Having to stop and slurp a bowl of rancid stew, or go off your planned path to pump some more water into canisters feels like a distraction. It’s rarely challenging or exciting. Same with inventory management. They feel like things you have to do if you want to keep doing the things that are actually fun.

To top it all off, excellent opening segment aside, the story’s not really in the game yet. Don’t get me wrong: between a bevy of quests and multiple islands to move between, the game already has quite a bit of Content (TM). It’s just not coming together in an exciting way for me yet. I’ve played for three hours, and I’m already starting to get bored. At the moment, I can see the bones of something excellent in We Happy Few. But it’s just a skeleton. It needs meat, gristle, and blood.

This post was edited on 7/26/16 at 6:17 pm
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46305 posts
Posted on 7/27/16 at 10:43 am to
game developer gave his input on reddit. appears WHF will be play anywhere eventually
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So if I'm between buying on Steam and Xbox, it would be better to go Xbox so that when it hits play anywhere I can play it on Windows 10?

[–]CompulsionGames Compulsion Games 6 points 19 hours ago
Sure, it's up to you.

also about 40% of the game is available right now
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Can you give me a brief run down at what is available in the early access mode? I get that there's is no story mode, so what is available just a sandbox mode? You sort of take over a character and just try to escape? Just trying to figure out what I'm getting before I jump on in.

[–]CompulsionGames Compulsion Games 4 points 20 hours ago
I spoke about this in the AMA here. But basically, 40% ish of the total content, depending on how much we expand/contract during Game Preview.
This post was edited on 7/27/16 at 10:46 am
Posted by hawgfaninc
https://youtu.be/torc9P4-k5A
Member since Nov 2011
46305 posts
Posted on 7/27/16 at 10:43 am to
anybody play it yet? I'm installing now
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