Unfinished: We Happy Few 07/27/2016

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not gonna play this until it's finish

Such a disappointment, the E3 trailer made it look like this cool story game, but the actual game is just all procedurally generated...

Like no thanx.

@nagafen: They were saying that at E3. The trailer only showed the intro, but the presentation said it was gonna be a procedural exploration/survival game.

Man, this is actually the first time where I'm upset I don't have an Xbox

@nagafen: they had a playable demo available long before e3 though. Its not like they tried to mislead anyone I think.

I always though this was looking really interesting, curious how substantial the full game will be.

Dan driven Quick Looks can be super frustrating.

was expecting a bioshock type of game. this is looks a lot less interesting.

Steam pops this crap up when you first start it. Honestly from a glance it looks dumb. But I guess I shouldn't judge a game by its cover eh? I may try it out when it's finished.

This really seems like a game that would benefit from a more directed experience.

I feel like if they had stuck with more story stuff this game could have been a masterpiece. The survival aspect and freedom to run around ruin it in my opinion. Disappointed.

Is Dan trying to speedrun this quick look? 20-minute video for Survival game? Just don't bother then. Let the East Coast guys do it because they actually seem to give time and do a proper rundown of a game.

West Coast's way too literal approach of 'Quick Looks' is probably my number one complaint against Giant Bomb.

I don't dislike what I've played of this at all (And they're pretty upfront about saying that they do have more story stuff beyond the intro, but it won't be in these pre-release versions.)

Still, it's definitely a jarring move from the fancy scripted intro to the open survival game. I'm hesitant to imply any malice by using words like "deceit," but that E3 demo definitely gave some folks the wrong idea and that's a shame :(

@shabtai: I've gotta agree here. There's a whole 'nother side to this game that wasn't even mentioned.

Doesn't seem like Dan has played nearly enough of this to give a proper overview. Even so far as not knowing how most of the mechanics work.

I'm not on this game's defense squad or anything, but the coverage I've seen of the Alpha so far has not been good.

Shame it's not more like the intro so far.

Alpha, alpha, alpha!

:P

To be honest the game looks pretty good to me. Not gonna go into Early Access anymore just because I nevre end up playing the finished game but this game could still get great!

When Dan can't even figure out what the inventory expander item does, who knows what's a bug and what's something he just doesn't understand?

Looks like the game systems don't lend themselves to sprinting around and attacking like a mad man.

Is it just me or does Dan seem to really be rushing through this?

EDIT: Yeah, it's been a while since I thought a QL was uninformative and boring, but this one kind of is.

Where are the happy few?

Where are the happy few? Everyone looked unhappy.

Yeah...this game is definitely not for me.

Hey @danryckert don't be afraid to take your time with Unfinished/Quick Looks. Yes, we've seen the trailer/content, but skipping the cut-scenes and half paying attention is a total turn off for us as viewers. It makes us miss stuff that we are anticipating to see and also makes it SUPER hard to contrast the thing you are trying to present.

Man this could have been so cool. Hopefully the full release comes together better.

I've played about an hour of this game and it's a shame they put it out this way. There is a lot of cool stuff in here but it feels so unfinished (which it is an Alpha) I haven't played it since the first day it came out but I ran into a lot of progression type of bugs. I couldn't give items to NPCs to complete quests. Another thing is even though they give you a map you can't create waypoints and I couldn't get a sense of the world I was in so I was lost quite a bit couldn't find places I've been before. The disjointed dialogue is really off putting too. I think what's the point of even talking to any of the NPCs since none of the dialogue makes any sense. I hope the game improves and that's the promise of early access so I hope it gets better because the world itself is very interesting to explore.

I was hoping it was going to be a lot more story driven. Perhaps I'll come back in six months or so. :/

Fool me once with Counter Spy, shame on me. Fool me twice with Mercenary Kings, shame on me. Fool me three times...nu-uh, We Happy Few, I won't do it this time!

...and that sure is a shame. I wonder why they ended up picking this genre? You'd think by the intro and setting, that these guys have a good vision of this fictional world and would be able to make a story out of it, but guess not. I hope the reason's at least that it would've cost them too much to make a full, narrative single-player experience, instead of them wanting their share of that oh-so-hot survival pie.

I'd say Dan's understanding of this game looks more Alpha than the game itself.

Yeah this doesn't look like a game Giant Bomb would enjoy.

Does not look very good at all.

I reallly, really wish Austin was still around for this one. No offense to Dan, but he is the wrong guy to QL this game.

And that is coming from someone who was not a big fan of many of Austin's QL.

What a bummer. I don't even like the Bioshock games and I still kind of wanted this game to be more like that.

Jeff put more effort into the Gal Gun QL, a game he doesn't really like (presumably) nor thinks it's good, than Dan did in this. If you dislike the game fine but don't do a lazy job because of it

The quickest of quick looks.

No disrespect to Dan and Brad, I really like them, but I feel like this is the kind of game that should be shown by Vinny and Alex. Maybe once it comes out those guys will do a Quick Look or something.

Anyway, I'm really disappointed with what this game turned out to be. That intro was so great for a narrative-focused game. Stuff like hunger and sleep meters are the kind of things that take the joy out of games. Also, I wasn't expecting the visuals to look so last-gen...

This is exactly how I felt.

It still has great style but this looks pretty janky and empty. I know it's an alpha and it's 'unfinished' but it just doesn't look all that fun to play.

I am happy I correctly did not get excited for this just because its concept is kinda cool. Gameplay looks shit.

@themasterds: Yeah, agreed.

The game might be disappointing but i fell Dan did a bad job about showing this game non the less.

I'll go back to rewatching the intro over and over while dreaming about what could have been.

No thanks to whatever this thing is

From cool Bioshock type game to just another open world survival game. How disappointing. What is the point of that intro if its just a random generated world with no story.

I agree with all the Dan criticism on this one. It felt like because he came in with so much prejudice against the game/genre he couldn't be bothered to learn the mechanics. I was able to determine more just watching him rush through it than it seemed he figured out having played it for several hours already.

But maybe that's just because I've spent a little bit of time in similar games before like Day Z. To me this looks well designed and not nearly as clunky as Dan implies.

Love Dan but I hope GBEast does the actual Quicklook when it comes out.

The red marker doesn't mean that you're being seen but that you're suspicious, i.e. if someone sees you like this they'll raise the alarm/attack you.

I don't think Dan is the right person to be playing this game, especially considering he doesn't even seem to grasp the game's mechanics very well. I feel their judgement of the game is a little premature. Like others have said, I hope the East coast guys do a quick look of this game and give it a little more time. It seems this game is a bit more up their alley.

Love the premise. Alpha is Alpha. I won't look at this game till it is finished, but I think there is the strong potential of early games coming out doing themselves a strong dis-service.

Off to take my Joy Pill.

That was an incredibly unsatisfying Unfinished. Dan's display of dissatisfaction and annoyance at this game was really unpleasant to watch. I felt like he did the viewers a disservice by whipping through everything at a breakneck pace. Poor form.