Quick Look: Unstoppable Gorg

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DAMN YOU NUMBER 2. DAMN YOU.

Now to watch the video

NICE WORK

"so this is basically a tower defense game"

nope.

NOTHING CAN STOP THE GORG

Thank God. Things were getting hostile in the forums. Something to distract people. :)

Unstoppable who?

Oh my Gorg, a sunday Quick Look.

ooo Patrick now needs to dress up as the Gorg in a future video.

Then he will be a rock god hotdog alien. Which everyone can appreciate.

I'm not sure Tower Defense games have much of a future. I don't see any way to innovate their gameplay.

Sunday quick look <3

"So this is basically a tower defense game."

Quicktime closed.

I'm sorry, but the sole Tower Defense game I own and intend to play is Dungeon Defenders. I find it very hard to be interested in a Warcraft 3 level as an entire game (same stance I have for HAGs, or whatever you want to call them).

This looks really fun

I love the fifties sci-fi theme and the fmv stuff is done pretty well.

Ryan was really rushing to get through this.

THIS IS AWESOME!

$5 ipad game.

had no idea this was for the PC as well.

@Cyrisaurus said:

I'm not sure Tower Defense games have much of a future. I don't see any way to innovate their gameplay.

Strangely enough, they've been going on for over 12 years without any innovation, but still seem pretty damn popular. Personally I got tired off it after the big wave of newgrounds flash games around 2001 or so, but as long as people seem to pay for them (despite there being thousands of free games in the genre), it's understandable that they keep getting made, and having lasted so long kind of makes it seem like it's more than just a fad. I'm just sad it seems to have replaced the RTS genre somehow, a genre which I love.

@Cyrisaurus said:

I'm not sure Tower Defense games have much of a future. I don't see any way to innovate their gameplay.

Both Dungeon Defenders and Orcs Must Die are great, innovative Tower Defense games. In fact, DD may have started the TPP Tower Defense game structure. Oh, and let's not forget Trenched/Iron Brigade.

Are those turrets shooting bullets? In space?! I mean how is there even muzzle flash? Space lasers I can understand but space bullets?

Thunderous applause for FMV in this game.

UNSTOPPABLE

Tower defense? You lost my attention.

I had no idea Futuremark was making another game. This is pretty bad ass! I might have to give this one a buy, cause I love what those guys do.

btw the FMV scenes with Gorg remind me of Power Rangers

I am afraid we are coming up on the 'ironic FMV' breaking point. Leave that shit in 2011, folks. Too much self-awareness CAN be a bad thing.

@Mezmero said:

Are those turrets shooting bullets? In space?! I mean how is there even muzzle flash? Space lasers I can understand but space bullets?

A gun would fire in space. Space bullets are more plausible than space lasers in fact.

I have no desire to play a tower defense game but I love everything surrounding the core gameplay of this title.

Awesome theme for a game and great FMV, but goddamn, I just don't want to play tower defense anymore :(

@Mezmero said:

Are those turrets shooting bullets? In space?! I mean how is there even muzzle flash? Space lasers I can understand but space bullets?

Newton's first law pretty much means that a bullet when go perfectly straight forever in space without slowing down.

Light waves travel through space, so muzzle flash makes sense.

Ha, I didn't expect to see a QL for this game at all, especially considering how it just kinda dropped in out of nowhere.

I'm not a huge tower defense guy. It's more or less run into the ground at this point. The B-Movie homage got me interested though and it's been pretty fun. The tower defense itself is pretty tight/difficult as far as placement. The earlier stages definitely feel more like a puzzle than anything else as there is almost an expected build and placement order if you want to do even marginally well on it. It seems to be loosening up a bit in the later levels. Either way, the whole retro sci-fi wrapper on it has made it worth at least an initial play through.

Tower Defense doesn't interest me, but I like the trappings of this game.

@MrGtD said:

I am afraid we are coming up on the 'ironic FMV' breaking point. Leave that shit in 2011, folks. Too much self-awareness CAN be a bad thing.

OK I don't really want to labor the point because I do kind of agree with what you're saying. But Gorg isn't really aping the FMV thing. This is more of a throwback to 50s sci-fi kitch than an ironic FMV homage. A love letter to the days when the MST3K movies were actually being shown as movies, not fodder for Mike and the bots.

Regardless of all that, this game is a lot of fun. If you're sick of Tower Defense this won't bring you back though. It's pretty much TD101 on the gameplay front. The game is really won or lost on the cheesy sci-fi it's wrapped in, but I'd still say the gameplay is solid if you're still entertained by this sort of thing. (which I personally am)

When I saw the 1930s style Buck Rogers/Flash Gordon Serials black & white art style, I was hoping for these kind of FMVs - they alone will make me buy this game.

Sadly, the game play part is not interesting at all. The last Tower Defense style game I did like was Anomaly Warzone Earth. It is generally a very narrow formula, indeed - but so is shooting everything on sight (FPS).

@Cyrisaurus said:

I'm not sure Tower Defense games have much of a future. I don't see any way to innovate their gameplay.

I dunno, this game specifically seems to innovate them in many ways. The whole orbits/rotating is new as far as I can tell, and the idea of picking your "team" of towers each mission is fairly new.

Shooters, at their core, are still Doom but that hasn't stopped them from changing drastically over the years. It just takes the right group of smart guys to make subtle changes that affect the experience drastically.

Looks cool, i'll probably pick it up for something to do on the bus or something like that

the face reflection in the blackscreen is kinda creepy

Tower defense in space with FMV interludes is still tower defense.

@Tomkang said:

@Mezmero said:

Are those turrets shooting bullets? In space?! I mean how is there even muzzle flash? Space lasers I can understand but space bullets?

Newton's first law pretty much means that a bullet when go perfectly straight forever in space without slowing down.

Light waves travel through space, so muzzle flash makes sense.

It's not like ALL guns have flash lights in their barrels. Muzzle flash is caused by heat, which usually has issues in the vacuum of space. Without an ignition of some sort there's no way to even propel a bullet perfectly straight. Unless you got out and pushed.

Sunday content? Yes, please.

It's a pity that I'm totally over tower defense, because those FMV cutscenes were pretty great.

@Mezmero said:

@Tomkang said:

@Mezmero said:

Are those turrets shooting bullets? In space?! I mean how is there even muzzle flash? Space lasers I can understand but space bullets?

Newton's first law pretty much means that a bullet when go perfectly straight forever in space without slowing down.

Light waves travel through space, so muzzle flash makes sense.

It's not like ALL guns have flash lights in their barrels. Muzzle flash is caused by heat, which usually has issues in the vacuum of space. Without an ignition of some sort there's no way to even propel a bullet perfectly straight. Unless you got out and pushed.

You can probably make bullets containing oxygen or a weapon which releases it into the combustion space. I don't see the problem.

The shot would accelerate the turret too, though, that's a problem.

Absolutely love the FMV.

@Chris_Woods said:

@Cyrisaurus said:

I'm not sure Tower Defense games have much of a future. I don't see any way to innovate their gameplay.

I dunno, this game specifically seems to innovate them in many ways. The whole orbits/rotating is new as far as I can tell, and the idea of picking your "team" of towers each mission is fairly new.

Shooters, at their core, are still Doom but that hasn't stopped them from changing drastically over the years. It just takes the right group of smart guys to make subtle changes that affect the experience drastically.

You're right, but with most genres, a game can take a step in a completely different direction and set itself faaaar apart from everything else (like Portal, which I would consider and FPS, but I don't need to explain how it's like no other FPS). I just don't see Tower Defense games being able to go too far off in one direction without no longer being a Tower Defense game.

I dunno how to explain it, it's just that this is one of those genres where when you see the games, you say "Yup, looks like another Tower Defense game".

This seems pretty rad, especially since I'm a sucker for tower defense games. The rotation mechanic seems pretty neat, and I love all the trappings surrounding the game too.

This actually looks pretty goddamn awesome, and I'm not even a huge fan of tower defense.

How are game companies still making generic Tower Defense games? This looks as generic as they come!

You know, tower defense may be getting a little played out, but I have to admit that the "moving your towers around" mechanic is kind of cool. Also, Arielle is pretty. Also also, I love Jeff's "What?" right at the beginning.

Fantastic looking FMV but game looks boring.

@mnzy said:

You can probably make bullets containing oxygen or a weapon which releases it into the combustion space. I don't see the problem.

The shot would accelerate the turret too, though, that's a problem.

If the gun uses gunpowder then it should fire in a vacuum since gunpowder has its own oxidizer (i.e. potassium nitrate) and can burn without oxygen.

In any case though it makes no sense to use a traditional gunpowder weapon firing slow-moving projectiles when you can fire coherent beams of light traveling at lightspeed or rail guns.

Damn, this game is boring and tedious.