Quick Look: FTL

This looks mighty interesting.

FTL? FTW!

This game is great

Love this game. Just beat it on normal last night.

For the love of money

Yep, the game is pretty good. I don't think the fun lasts very long though. It grew repetitive for me pretty quickly.

This is one super-cool game. Roguelikes really seem to be the flavour of the month right now - with Binding of Isaac, Spelunky HD, and now this - and I'm loving them. Having a whole bunch of fun playing through this - like the others, it's tough at first but still enjoyable, and very satisfying once you get the base mechanics down.

I really like it, tough though.

Still not sure whether to buy this or not.

SHITTY MISSILE

I think FTL is great. It probably doesn't have much of a tail, but having played it for about 7 hours I am still having a blast.

Straight from a failed normal run to the QL.

Fuck yes. This game is incredible.

divert power from life support and put it in weapons!

I have been playing this constantly since I heard about it on twitter. I'm having varying degrees of success with both the Engi and Human ships - one tip for @Brad might be to use autofire sparingly - focus one weapon to keep the enemy shields down and the other to take out a second important system (I tend to go for weapons unless they are trying to activate their FTL drive) and this leaves you free to focus on repelling invaders and fixing your own ship.

I have messed about with drones but the only really successful run was when I bought a Drone Retrieval Arm which scoops up any drones you used at the end of each battle - essentially removing the need to buy new drones. I also found a drone which would repair my hull, which was nice, though more expensive long-term than getting it fixed in a shop. Personally I prefer having the control over where my weapons are firing, so I tend to stick with the human ship.

Very interested. I have bought too many games this week to justify it, though.

This game is pretty awesome, but basically none of the games people keep calling roguelikes have anything to do with them other than random elements and permadeath.

this game is only $9-10. It's worth triple that, easy.

@Y2Ken said:

This is one super-cool game. Roguelikes really seem to be the flavour of the month right now - with Binding of Isaac, Spelunky HD, and now this - and I'm loving them. Having a whole bunch of fun playing through this - like the others, it's tough at first but still enjoyable, and very satisfying once you get the base mechanics down.

If you havent tried it yet, Dungeons of Dredmor is absolutely fantastic.

This game is the shit.

This is pretty great, especially for the price.

Also i think brad should have played the tutorial first...

FTL!

This game is amazing! I've been hooked for a few days. I highly recommend everyone check it out. for 9 bucks it's a steal!

Game bought!

"Now it's just doomed to fail."

Wee, this game is awesome. I hope the devs gets alotta money so we can get a sequel.

Why are Dave and Vinny not reviewing this :|

The game has some sweet music.

The Kessler ain't the prettiest ship in the fleet, but she'll fly for ya.

Or she'll get her crew choked to death.

FTL is an amazing game. I've been loving every minute of it. I'm terrible at it. I've only got as far as Sector 7 on easy mode. But it's awesome.

I like it, it's enjoyable, but I just don't see the reason behind all the gushing over it. I would put it into the 'enjoyable time-waster' category, i.e. an iOS game.

Still, the music alone is worth the price of the game. It's pretty great.

DIVERT ALL POWER TO DESTROYING THE FLOOR.

Seen a youtuber play this, thoroughly enjoyed it. This should be at least as good. Looking forward to watching it when I come home.

This is a great game. A simple idea executed perfectly.

Very cool FTL got the QL treatment. I've been playing this at every opportunity that presented itself since I pulled the trigger on it and I'm still really enjoying myself. Already well worth its rather humble asking price I think. The glorious last stand you had here is so representative of the game and I think that's fucking awesome. These horrible situations really give me these intense rougue-like-esque moments where you stare at the screen in disbelief trying to find the genius idea to deal with a problem. True consequence to the player actions. By no means revolutionary at all but a great and unique game either way!

Looks fun. I'm getting this game!

Man, I wish you guys gave a longer look at this. It's a fascinating game and I would really love to listen to your commentary as things go wrong in new and exciting ways.

Diamond Trust of London was kickstarter funded after Double Fine and was released last month

"More angry mantises than your body has room for"

I've heard such good things about this game. Glad to see it getting some love from the GB duders.

I don't know what is is about games that are basically menus and stats manipulation, but I can't get enough of them. This game is badass man.

FASTER THAN LIGHT!

Game looks great & windowed games like this as well as Dungeons of Dredmor work great to play while watching stuff on GB or listening to the bombcast.

This game is destroying me.

And i love it.

@Y2Ken said:

This is one super-cool game. Roguelikes really seem to be the flavour of the month right now

Wat? What on earth is the reasoning for calling it that...? It's top down view and hard? Random encounters?

Seriously, this is even less of a roguelike than Spelunky, and Spelunky is not a roguelike. It's completely absurd how the term is being thrown around these days, especially when the genre's bigest influence on modern gaming - Diablo - is largely ignored.

Awesome game!

@MattBodega said:

The Kessler ain't the prettiest ship in the fleet, but she'll fly for ya.

Or she'll get her crew choked to death.

I bet the Kessler can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs

@BlackLagoon said:

@Y2Ken said:

This is one super-cool game. Roguelikes really seem to be the flavour of the month right now

Wat? What on earth is the reasoning for calling it that...? It's top down view and hard? Random encounters?

Seriously, this is even less of a roguelike than Spelunky, and Spelunky is not a roguelike. It's completely absurd how the term is being thrown around these days, especially when the genre's bigest influence on modern gaming - Diablo - is largely ignored.

Theres always one.

I have never heard of this game... and after the quick look I bought myself a copy off steam :D thanks you guys for the quick look :3

Oh, and I don't know if anyone's said this yet but:

Brad, put your third guy on Shields, not Engines when you start. Shields are WAY more important to have powered and running then the 10-15% dodge chance you get from engines. Heading into an asteroid field with no shields is what screwed you over.

A Brad quick look when he dont just zombie around totally clueless about every gamemechanic. Good stuff.

Brad: "People keep calling this a Roguelike. I don't have much experience with that, beyond something like Spelunky..."

Uh, Spelunky isn't a Roguelike. It doesn't even describe itself as a Roguelike. Where do you guys get this shit? This isn't one, either.