Quick Look: Risk of Rain

@patrickklepek: sounds okay to me! I hope you guys manage to do more of these, great to see you guys doing a quick look on the site again! =D

This works well, great work guys. Audio is a tad off as you know, but far from unwatchable. I'm excited about the prospect of you guys being some sort of go-to duo for co-cop quick looks.

The seemingly impossible to get chest at 4:32... you can get it by climing down the hidden ladder on the floor above it!

Also, this was a very fun quicklook to watch, even though I've played this game to death since the beta, more of these please! (when possible)

Great work making this quicklook happen. More Patrick/Alex quicklooks!

They should make a game where you have randomly generated stats, and you traverse through randomly generated levels where you encounter obstacles that can only be passed if you use the term rogue-like correctly. If you fail you die and have to start over. At the end of the game you make it out of the maze and look in the mirror triumphantly and realize it is time to shave off the neckbeard.

I was pleasantly delighted by this game. Damn that audio.

Haha, I love that the drill is called the heaven cracker. Good TTGL reference.

This looks awesome, thank you Patrick for always showcasing some awesome indie games. Thanks to you I discovered Dustforce, one of my now favorite games ever.

Yea, it's the Blu Snowball I believe, the same one I got. If they're willing to go the extra mile, it might even be worth to have both of them record locally in Audacity or something and then sync both tracks together later.

(They might have actually done this for this QL, but the quality was definitely uneven as far as I could tell)

I definitely prefer these tele-QLs over the solo format. It's always good to have a little bit of conversation over the gameplay.

This looks rad. Any idea if this is coming to consoles? I have a PC but my friends are console gamers.

Man, this looks great; thanks for the tip!

@triviaman09: @blupotato:

@patrickklepek: I hardly even noticed the audio issue. Game looks pretty damn cool though. Groovy soundtrack. Yes.....Groovy.

Risk of Rain is a great game. If you're trying to play co-op, there's an unofficial server list here: http://46.38.233.95:11100/servers

This game looks pretty cool

also, audio was fine for me. could tell it was a skype call but easily hearable

looks really fun!

@beard_of_zeus said:

There's no matchmaking at all because the developer is quite small. There's this community-made server list, but it's not exactly the same as "matchmake me with someone who is also looking to play right this instant". http://46.38.233.95:11100/servers

Anyway, playing it with friends is probably your best bet.

Really? Not to rain on your parade, but I found Dustforce too frustrating. I love the music and graphics to death, but I wish they were in a more enjoyable game. The way the game progresses was stressful and poorly conceived.

At a certain point, I just wanted to see more levels, and didn't want to S-rank every level perfectly to get another damn key. I like that Super Meat Boy gives you credit for beating a level, whether you did it super fast or you were a giant sissy that slowly edged your way forward. The fact that Dustforce requires you to do an optimal completion of each level to earn the next key is rather frustrating, especially since doing so proves much more difficult anywhere past the first world.

Also, the fact that the game encourages the play to hammer on the dash button constantly (instead of simply having a "run" button like Mario/Super Meat Boy) was a bummer, and I never quite got used to how the momentum slides work when you collide with an angled surface.

After a certain point, I got too frustrated by the difficulty of the game and I wasn't improving, so I watched some leaderboard replays of some of the harder levels, went "Well that looks slick as hell, but I'm never going to pull that off in a million years so I know I'm never going to get that key", then I uninstalled the game.

Just bought this on Steam last night - def a lot of fun. If anyone is looking for some co-op message me and ill give you my steam info.

I bought this game on Steam and ended up dropping it in less than ten minutes because the halfassed gamepad support drove me up a wall. Same reason I couldn't get into Unepic.

I really like that fact that you guys are trying new ways to quick look :) I like the Alex and Patrick combo!!

I like this new coop quicklook Patrick and Alex have created. the audio is good, I hope they do more.

@squidraid said:

It plays totally fine on the keyboard.

This game seeds rad yo

Awesome! @patrickklepek as people have said, the remote QL is a great idea. Been playing since release, I find it best to rush boss asap, this is especially true in the later levels. Anyways, great game, hope people jump on board so there will be more co-op servers available, haven't had time to jump in a co-op game yet, but looks like this is where the game can really shine.

I enjoyed this Quick Look a lot more than I expected at first. It really is a cool-looking gaming, and your long-distance Quick Look worked out quite well!

Rogue-likes if defined by purists would be minor mods for Rogue itself. Spreading it out further is good.

Remote QLs are good, it makes teams that normally don't do QLs possible, and it shows off the strengths and weaknesses of the on-line play and infrastructure.

Great QL. Really hope to see you guys do more of these.

The power of the internet does something useful for once. Letting two people in different places Quick Look a game together.

Never heard of this but it looks great! Is there an option for more than 2 players tho...

@meatsim: Because the internet never did any good.

THIS.

I can appreciate that Dustforce is intentionally difficult, but theres a way to do that without being inaccessible. Super Meat Boy provides a surmountable challenge for those who just want to get to the end and then ramps it up to insane levels for those who want to got the extra mile. Dustforce is just straight unforgiving.

Really cool co-op Quick Look. Hope they do more.

@patrickklepek@brad This game has a Dota reference in it

Bought this based on Patrick's Quick Look and a stream he did some months back. It's all I've played the past 3 days.

The multiplayer requires you to understand port forwarding, which is beyond the capabilities of my small brain....but its still a fantastic single player experience.

The music is really good.

The music is so great!

Great QL guys. Would certainly be happy to see more of these.

Awesome quick look guys. Would love to see more of these.

This looks really neat, do want.

Remote Quick Looks are amazing. This game worked out perfectly! Great job you guys.

PLEASE GOD !!! Let this game come out on ps4 !!!

This game is amazing, been playing this game with friends for the past few weeks. I've unlocked all of the characters and almost every item. I hope they add more content to this game.

Just got this a few days ago, 7 years of my life WASTED