I should’ve read the youtube description before posting…

Here’s what it says regarding the co-op:

Master the new Shell System: switch characters mid-combat to exploit lethal synergies and tear through enemies. Play solo or coordinate the carnage in online co-op with up to three players.

So it sounds like the single-player mode will have you controlling all three characters simultaneously but you can go co-op to have friends manage the other characters. Interesting.

Wait, there’s a skypunk?? Man, I can’t keep up with these subgenres…

I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to solarpunk, but does it usually include fantasy elements? I mean… aside from the fantasy that the world could live in harmony (sorry, I’m primarily a cyberpunk guy). That is, I thought solarpunk was more of an aspiration for how technology could be used in harmony with nature. I didn’t think you could have solarpunk where you just say “magic did it.” Yet floating islands typically require some level of “magic did it.”

I’ve always viewed steampunk as a fantasy genre though, not sci-fi, which is probably why I can see floating islands fitting in a steampunk world. While they may be idyllic, I don’t think that would exclude them from steampunk.

I guess the question is: are you more likely to travel to a floating island on the back of a dragon or on an airship?

Not yet but it’s definitely on my list!

Good idea, I’ll do that!

It’s too bad the last post on there was 8 months ago. There’s no way I can prop-up another community in an attempt to keep it active. I should probably sub to that community just in case though…

EDIT: Oh, you’re the one already attempting to prop-up that community! Nice work, I’ll sub for sure!

I still really like Postmortal_pop’s explanation of how common the magic is. If it’s commonplace enough to be used as an energy source, it’s aetherpunk. Otherwise, if magic is uncommon or otherwise “special” then it’d still be considered steampunk. I like how that leaves some room for random unexplained phenomena to not change the genre.

That’s my expectation as well. I think most people are just here for the vibes/aesthetic and aren’t going to “well, ackshually…” at me. I might add an [aetherpunk] tag for the items I post that are closer to aetherpunk than steampunk, but I don’t think it’s going to prevent me from posting those items.

That’s an amazing explanation, thank you!

When did they move away from the skull logo? I expected the new logo on the SR4A version but I didn’t realize they’d already moved away from the skull logo in the original SR4.

Did you ever play the SNES version? How would you describe the differences between the SNES and Gensis games? I know they’re totally different but I never played either.

Ah, ok. So it was intentionally trying to evoke the older artwork style. That makes a lot of sense, thanks for the clarification!

I’m doing everything I can to keep !cyberpunk@lemmy.zip active. But I focus on cyberpunk as a genre of fiction and avoid news about our actual everyday dystopia, so that makes it hard to consistently post something.

Also, !steampunk@lemmy.zip and !vampires@lemmy.zip . Doing my part to fight against the flood of news posts on Lemmy with wacky genre stuff.

@BrikoX@lemmy.zip what do you think?

So I will say that I think the videos posted so far seem to be an accurate representation of this game. It really is about 30% walking to the right, 30% platform-puzzles, and 30% combat. The game is visually gorgeous though so that isn’t a complaint; it’s an intentionally slow game.

I think I could get just as much enjoyment watching this game be played as I would playing it myself. Ultimately, whether I end up liking this game or not will depend on how the story goes. So far I’m intrigued, but they could take it in any number of different directions.

Sometimes there are snippets in dialogue I’m not even sure you are supposed to hear them but you can still read them in the subtitles.

This is the big one for me. If I hear a character mumbling but the subtitles say “[incoherent mumbling]” then I don’t worry about it. But if i hear a character mumbling and the subtitles actually show me what they’re saying, I know the audience was supposed to have understood it.

If this is indeed a serious question, here’s a post I made 2 years ago asking that very question. Fun discussion.

In Graphene’s phone app, you can go to Settings -> Blocked Numbers, and enable “Numbers not in Contacts”. That will send any call from numbers you don’t have saved directly to voicemail. I still get the occasional voicemail message that’s just 2 seconds of silence (they didn’t hang up in time) but it stopped all spam calls for me.

If you can find a good source of that old shadowrun artwork I’d love to keep posting it here for all to enjoy… and as part of my devious scheme to keep this community active.

Awesome, that really helps. Thanks!