Dread Delusion Preview | An Indie Morrowind-like
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2023
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A short look at Dread Delusion, an indie open-world RPG. It's got stats, it's got NPCs, it's got towns, it's got mushroom trees....
Dread Delusion Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/15...
Dread Delusion on itch.io: lovelyhellplace.itch.io/dread...
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1 year later and this video is still pretty accurate to the final version. Looking forward to you fulfilling your promise ;)
whats the promise
@@BillyMadison-gn1zu During the Video he said he would do another review when the full game is released.
Obviously, he has no obligation to do so, but a little poking in the comment section may go a long way.
I hope this and Lunacid get revisits, eventually.
Got to the end of the Cadavan Manor and forgot the whole “early access” because i was so inthralled by the world and exploring everywhere on the islands. They easily designed around 8 hours of gameplay but milage may vary between builds and players.
Awesome visual style. I'd be super interested in your full review once it is complete; I'm no the biggest fan of this style of game, but the world has me rather intrigued, and I'd love to play something with this atmosphere if if turns out to be solid.
This looks really nice! I love some mushroom trees!
u can disable wobbly textures in options
its a truly beautiful game ; glad to see it being appreciated
I just got it today and im absolutely loving it! Love a game world i can just get lost in
Nice Channel, i really like your calm but very funny Style, while being spot on.
The Graphics on this looks like an Mix of Thief, Daggerfall, Vagrant Story, plus little Bits of Drakan, Gothic and Arx Fatalis ❤
This game is so my jam.
Did you see the news? Full release 5/14! Fingers crossed you're still planning on doing a full review.
This has been my most anticipated game since playing Shattered on the 1st Dread X Collection. The setting is wonderfully gothic, and its mechanics have a lot of room for extrapolation within the environments and quest designs. Though I've stayed away from the EA, as I've heard with each update new, game breaking bugs are introduced. Not that surprising, considering how difficult it is to design RPGs, doubly so coming from one dev.
Absolutely love your videos, instant sub! I vibe very much with chilling in dungeons.
Funnily enough, even though I have a rule to never buy any early access titles (looking at you Baldur's Gate 3...) in last 2 weeks I have bought... Lunacid and Dread Delusion. I got so invested in both I started going through YT wanting to listen to other's thoughts about them because frankly, I can't stop thinking about how good these games are. It was a pleasure hearing your thoughts!
But, and I say it only because I am a big fan of the wobble, wobbly 3D is not really because of 32bit systems. It's mostly PS1 games that are being associated with this, and it's because PS1 GPU did not have a Z-Buffer, so it did not calculate the Z axis which is quite crucial in 3D. Said buffer had to be done in soft and PS1 did not work with floats either so the computations were far from perfect thus giving us the iconic wobble. It was probably even more complicated, but this is as far as I went. As much as I am a huge fan of it I think that in Dread Delusion it could be toned down slightly, there is A LOT of wobble. If one checks out, for example, Metal Gear Solid 1 or Vagrant Story, the effect is less prominent there I think. Or maybe it's due to the fact that DD's world feels more dense than most of real PS1 games as it is not dealing with the same hardware limitations. No clue honestly, I am no specialist so don't quote me on that :D
Cheers!
Whoa that’s a lot of information. Really interesting though. I never knew that about the Z axis. It makes a lot of sense. The 32 bit era is so fascinating to me because those consoles could just barely manage 3D but they did so much with so little.
Anyway, glad you like the videos! And yeah, I can’t wait for DD and Lunacid to get full releases. I’ll be making more in-depth review videos on them whenever they do
@@dungeonchill Hopefully the info dump was not interpreted as me trying to be a smartass, especially that my knowledge is more than lacking, I just get excited easily.
Yeah, I can't wait for both games to fully release. Both of them already have a surprising amount of polish. DD shines with the setting, mechanics-wise Lunacid is maybe slightly tighter, but also a different kind of game as well so the comparison might be out of place.
On top of that, now I can't wait for more of your videos to be uploaded too, so many cool things to look forward to! :)
Nope, didn’t come off that way at all. Don’t worry! I was glad to learn something new.
More videos are on the way.
The game feels like an acid trip to Warhammer's Old World - like a province devoured by the Realms of Chaos.
The music theme of this game is one of the best I ever heard.
i've been watching any video related to it because i'm on the fence of buying it
I've been playing more of it since I made this preview. There's a pretty good amount of content available for the early access asking price. I'll definitely be making a longer review video whenever it gets a full release.
I've been looking for a game that fills the same niche as the Elder Scrolls games (it's been almost 12 years since Skyrim at this point and I've grown a bit desperate lmao).
I suggest it but I suggest waiting for a full release.
buy it its good
Those sounds are reminiscent of the music in Diablo 1 when in the catacombs. Almost like... skeletons laughing.
I love this trend of retroism in media, especially games. Now, more than possibly ever before, people don't want to be dazzled by something never achieved before; they want nostalgia, familiarity and the comfort of something both recognizable and a bit different.
Kinda like open world games in retro style, i feel more lived in in those games
Kinda like open world games in retro style, i feel more lived in in those games
I dont care for nostalgia at all, i feel as if games with worse of graphics coming from indie studios tend to have super innovative or interesting gameplay/mechanics bad graphics just adds to the charm, the amount of creativty cannot be contain within the medium
Amen it's definitely a great style. Try Bane of Oakenshade if you haven't yet!
People wallowing in nostalgia is not a new thing. Not even slightly.
The reason we keep seeing the same franchises and brands over and over again is because people don't want new things. They wNt things they recognise over and over again.
Hail, Dread Brother (haha)
Great video and I'm happy to be your second subscriber.
The wiggly graphics has been divisive but can be disabled. I don't hate it but I know it bugs some ppls eyes.
Funny enough that back ground noise (which I think is from the mushrooms) reminded me of a little sound effect in the main theme for Splinter Cell of all things.
Ironic your other video is Lunacid as it's the dev for that game that was brought over with the Emberian Update to tighten up the melee.
Thanks for the support! I really appreciate it!
I had no idea the dev from Lunacid was brought on for DD. It did weirdly feel like the two games had some kind of link though, which is why I chose them as my first two vids.
I've got more shorter previews like this coming up and some longer vids in the works, so I hope you enjoy!
@@dungeonchill One improvement he did is fix the block/parry feature. Pre-Emberian update it took a second after clicking for the action to take effect. Felt a bit weird.
Me in my stealth build: undetectable until I'm right at your face. Also, 1 hit KOs on most enemies while stealthed. So it's just your build.
I think this game has mushroom trees
3:11 industrial steam punkish? 🤔
I only consider a game retro if you need to use the arrow keys to move ;)
I must say these short form videos don't have the good heft as your later longer videos.
What are other games like these?
You could check out Lunacid. It’s got a similar PS1 style. I also made a short video about it.
There’s also a game coming out soon called Labyrinth of the Demon King. No demo or anything yet, but it looks cool, especially if you’re also into horror.
I realy love this game, tho i can not play it with all the wobbly §D and textures and so on... i rather paly with nice and crisp non-retro textures and so on. Doesnt cause me tho feel like throwing up xD but yeah, it'S a real retro-gem
No character customization in a first person game where I can't see myself?! Blasphemous! Nah just kidding, game looks great. Looking forward to playing it and / or adding it to the never ending backlog.
If they can make this available to play on my ps1 then I would be interested in purchasing a copy.
If elder scroll 5 can get away with combat, then this should be fine too
the spell icon looks something out of the dark souls 2 .. and i m not sold on the setting it looks too weird .. the gameplay and story may be fun tho
Looks pretty good, but I don't know if it's worth checking out if it won't have m u s h r o o m t r e e s
Morrowing my arse. Bethesda would know how to create an open sandbox fps rpg game even if they were bought out by Black Isle....who kinda know what rpgs are about. This game already has more than most things I have played produced by Bethesda. Old school players might like Morrowind but after a while it turns out it is not better just different from the empty "wander around" games like Oblivion. Morrowind just has a ludicrous amount of stuff thrown together but often without any rhyme or reason. I am so glad this game exists because I have been waiting for Grvn for years.....and what a disappointment that was.
This a really bad take on Morrowind.
@@LlywellynOBrien Yeah, I agree.
What a poo poo platter take
@@SLP0101 Jesus Christ my spelling. This is what alcohol does to people, children please don't drink.
>>Floating textures
>>Games looked like that in 32bit era
Are you for real?
Texture warping was a problem on PS1. The console couldn’t display perspective correct textures, so developers cut up the textures and coded them to correspond with screen space which often resulted with the textures moving around when the camera changed, like in the clip of Cool Boarders 2 I showed. It happens in a lot of games when you play them on original hardware.
@@dungeonchill Yes, it was, because PS1 had no floating point operations nor z-buffer. It has nothing to do with 32 bit processing. Hell, even Skyrim was 32 bit game until SE edition, no floating textures there, are there.
@@vealck But console eras used to be broken up by processor power. So the 32-bit era is PS1, Saturn, etc. I know that most game applications were 32-bit for a long time, but those wobbly textures are brought up a lot when people talk about the 32-bit era of gaming.
And Dread Delusion is intentionally trying to mimic that imperfection. The first demo for it even came out on a download pack of other indie games called “Haunted PS1 Demo Disc.”
@@vealckIt's like you're intentionally misunderstanding just so you can argue. But a person would never do that on the Internet.
@@vealckhe didn't say it was because of the processing, he just said they looked that way in that era. And many did. Especially 3D rendered games. Like legacy of kain, or resident evil, or tomb raider.
wtf part of this game is like morrowind lmao
Dropped in a strange world that's some parts familiar but also weird, and hostile. Graphically its objectively ugly, but the visuals enhance the worldbuilding and the atmosphere. Sounds like the plot is a slowburner, too. If the dev wants to run with that, so what?
You write "PS1 Morrowind" like it's a good thing lol
It is?
Update 0.6.42 was just released today! I can't wait to hop back into the early access version and see what's been fixed since the "Summon Isle" update (0.6.34) was added right around Halloween over a week ago. This game is great and reminds me of playing King's Field 2 back on PS1 back in 1996!
Why do these indie studios go for the ugly early 3d aesthetics?
Lol maybe because they like the style?
It helps it actually stick out. Hyper realism is what everyone wants to do and honestly is boring. There’s actual charm in having your own kind of style.
Because it's strange and leaves room for imagination. You might should consider if ugly to you means not realistic.