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Posted January 22, 2019
Some mushrooms are deadlier than others.

ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game, a love letter to the classic Fallouts, is now available DRM-free.

After nearly wiping each other out with nuclear bombs in 1986, the Soviet Union and the Western Bloc are scraping by in the wasteland. Now someone is out to finish the job. While scrounging up a living for yourself, engaging in turn-based combat and stat-based gameplay, you will make fateful choices and explore the Soviet wasteland for answers.
Posted January 23, 2019
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SoMuchATOM: Hey guys! Dev here. If any of you will have any game related questions, bugs to report, or suggestions you would really like us to hear, from now on, please feel free to contact me. It's my first time posting on GOG in this role, so I'm not yet familiar with how the forum works. Hopefully there's a way to address me by name so a notification comes up. If not, no sweat, I'll monitor this comment section as much as I can.

A huge thanks to GOG for inviting us on this amazing platform, basically filled with amazing games that inspired us to work in the industry in the first place!
in the storyline your given the option to talk to Igor or the informer....
Well the informer only plays cards has no dialog to do with the strange medalion,this is my 2nd playthrough and both times the informer was bugged.
Posted January 23, 2019
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dtgreene: I haven't played any Fallout games, but I *have* played Wasteland, which predates those games, is in a similar setting, and is very clearly the inspiration behind Fallout.
Inspiration though it may be, Wasteland in reality is still rather intuitively different than the Fallout series. Gameplay isn't exactly a play-by-play either. I much prefer Fallout 2 overall.

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dtgreene: The reason I likely won't give the game a try is that it doesn't fit what I am looking for in a game. (This *might* change, if I learn that there are LGBTQ characters in the game (are there any?), or something along those lines, but no guarantee.) In a sense, I am not saying that I *hate* the game; I am saying that it just isn't what I'm looking for.
Perhaps at most, there might be a gay companion/romance option. There won't be any lesbian equivalent as you can't play as a female protagonist [redacted] in this particular RPG.
Post edited January 23, 2019 by Nicole28
Posted January 23, 2019
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SoMuchATOM: Hey guys! Dev here. If any of you will have any game related questions, bugs to report, or suggestions you would really like us to hear, from now on, please feel free to contact me. It's my first time posting on GOG in this role, so I'm not yet familiar with how the forum works. Hopefully there's a way to address me by name so a notification comes up. If not, no sweat, I'll monitor this comment section as much as I can.

A huge thanks to GOG for inviting us on this amazing platform, basically filled with amazing games that inspired us to work in the industry in the first place!

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tremere110: How is the English translation of this? Is it like say, Space Rangers - understandable yet unnatural?
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SoMuchATOM: We heard a lot of stuff about the current translation status - from very good, to so poor you want to poke your eyes out with screwdrivers (not joking, this is an actual Steam review) so I guess it's very personal. One might like it, one might hate it. Some of the game matches your Space Rangers prediction, some of the game is much better.
Thanks, I'll probably give the game a go sooner rather than later. I did love Space Rangers but the awkward translation put me off on the choose your own adventure sequences - I avoided all of those missions if I could.
Posted January 23, 2019
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Nicole28: There won't be any lesbian equivalent as you can't play as a female protagonist in this particular RPG.
That's actually a dealbreaker for me, particularly when there are other similar games available that let you play as a female protagonist. (I note that this is also why I haven't even tried Ultima 8 or 9.)

By the way, there's one more gameplay-related question: In the early game, how often do attacks (on both sides) miss? (To be specific, let's assume a level 1 character attacking a weak enemy.)
Posted January 23, 2019
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Nicole28: There won't be any lesbian equivalent as you can't play as a female protagonist in this particular RPG.
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dtgreene: That's actually a dealbreaker for me, particularly when there are other similar games available that let you play as a female protagonist. (I note that this is also why I haven't even tried Ultima 8 or 9.)

By the way, there's one more gameplay-related question: In the early game, how often do attacks (on both sides) miss? (To be specific, let's assume a level 1 character attacking a weak enemy.)
Really? Just because you can´t play as a woman, you´re not gonna try the game?

I´ve played many times as the opposite sex but never would I thought NOT to play a game if it didn´t allow me to change the sex of my character.
Posted January 23, 2019
Hmm, I instabought it because some people here praised it to heaven.
After playing it for about 20 minutes I'm disappointed.

The game is inconsistent at it's best:

Situation 1:
At the beginning (after the tutorial) raiders want to robb you. Because of your talking skills convincing them to stop it succeds but then they attack you anyway (because the developer wants it so). The battle begins. Beside you lies an AK47. When you grab it, it's suddenly gone (because the developer doesn't want you to win against the raiders). So you only can fight with your fists and loose (because the developer want you to loose all your items at the beginning).

Situation 2:
You ask a barkeeper if he has a job for. He sais no but the woman over there. When you want to end the conversation he suddenly sais, wait a sec I have a job for you. Then asking the woman he pointed at, the same game as above.

Wtf. This is some stupid storywriting. That really destroys the immersion.

Then there are some annoying bugs in this game, like when you change the resolution once, you can't change it back. Therefore you have to reinstall the whole game (Mac version). And when you change the resolution, close the menu, reopen it, it always falsely shows you the highest resolution.

I don't know why this game is so highrated.
Post edited January 23, 2019 by Silverhawk170485
Posted January 23, 2019
Looks really cool, instawishlisted.
Posted January 23, 2019
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Tarhiel: Really? Just because you can´t play as a woman, you´re not gonna try the game?
Funny thing is last time I checked, you can play female character (and even …ahem… "convince" female NPCs) in this game.

Well, at least in Kickstarter-exclusive DRM-free build v1.06, that is. Dunno for the GOG release.
Posted January 23, 2019
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dtgreene: That's actually a dealbreaker for me, particularly when there are other similar games available that let you play as a female protagonist. (I note that this is also why I haven't even tried Ultima 8 or 9.)

By the way, there's one more gameplay-related question: In the early game, how often do attacks (on both sides) miss? (To be specific, let's assume a level 1 character attacking a weak enemy.)
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Tarhiel: Really? Just because you can´t play as a woman, you´re not gonna try the game?

I´ve played many times as the opposite sex but never would I thought NOT to play a game if it didn´t allow me to change the sex of my character.
Given that:
1. The game doesn't *really* appeal to me enough to outweigh that factor, and
2. There are other similar games I haven't played that do allow you to play a female character
yes, I am not going to try the game.

(I still want the answer to the question I asked in that post.)

Edit: Why the low rating? What did I do wrong here? Why am I being punished for participating in this topic?
Post edited January 23, 2019 by dtgreene
Posted January 23, 2019
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Silverhawk170485: Hmm, I instabought it because some people here praised it to heaven.
After playing it for about 20 minutes I'm disappointed.

The game is inconsistent at it's best:

Situation 1:
At the beginning (after the tutorial) raiders want to robb you. Because of your talking skills convincing them to stop it succeds but then they attack you anyway (because the developer wants it so). The battle begins. Beside you lies an AK47. When you grab it, it's suddenly gone (because the developer doesn't want you to win against the raiders). So you only can fight with your fists and loose (because the developer want you to loose all your items at the beginning).

Situation 2:
You ask a barkeeper if he has a job for. He sais no but the woman over there. When you want to end the conversation he suddenly sais, wait a sec I have a job for you. Then asking the woman he pointed at, the same game as above.

Wtf. This is some stupid storywriting. That really destroys the immersion.

Then there are some annoying bugs in this game, like when you change the resolution once, you can't change it back. Therefore you have to reinstall the whole game (Mac version). And when you change the resolution, close the menu, reopen it, it always falsely shows you the highest resolution.

I don't know why this game is so highrated.
I did quite some research after Atom came to gog.
I noticed quite a number a "might be" problems and i am still going to buy&test it :)
The reasons behind this are simple...
I.There're only a few games using this style noadays (Fallout 1&2, Wasteland,...), less competition ;)
II. 15,- bucks...and from my research it will keep my busy for days, thats a good price/performance ratio
III.The Dev.' are active on Steam and one is even here on Gog now and the improvment from the first versions
to this one is nice. So i believe that they will solve more problems and make more improvemnts.
In a perfect world games would be released finished and polished...but even most AAA-titles are released at beta-status at best.

And about the ratings...it's mostly a question how you evaluate a game.
I look at technical problems first, at promises made by the Devs/Publisher secound and then at the price/performance ratio. A friend of mine make a absolute judgement compared to the Toptitle he loves most for this category of games. Overall my rating of Indiegames is higher most the time...
Post edited January 23, 2019 by DF1871
Posted January 23, 2019
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dtgreene: Given that:
1. The game doesn't *really* appeal to me enough to outweigh that factor, and
2. There are other similar games I haven't played that do allow you to play a female character
yes, I am not going to try the game.

(I still want the answer to the question I asked in that post.)
DT, I've made a mistake about it. On the player character thing I mean. It seems that you can pick a female protagonist. The issue is that it isn't really clear from the character creation screen. And a lot of video let's players just picked the first male portraits and are done with it, so you don't get to see the full selection.
Post edited January 24, 2019 by Nicole28
Posted January 23, 2019
How does this game compare to Underrail?
Posted January 23, 2019
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Silverhawk170485: At the beginning (after the tutorial) raiders want to robb you. Because of your talking skills convincing them to stop it succeds but then they attack you anyway (because the developer wants it so). The battle begins. Beside you lies an AK47. When you grab it, it's suddenly gone (because the developer doesn't want you to win against the raiders). So you only can fight with your fists and loose (because the developer want you to loose all your items at the beginning).
It's a classic setup to a campaign. The idea is to put you in a place where you gotta' do what you gotta' do to survive, even if that means becoming as opportunistic and ruthless as your attackers. Besides, you've no attachment to items the game just handed you mere seconds ago.
Posted January 23, 2019
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GOG.com: Fallout 3: Van Buren, a love letter to the classic Fallouts, is now available DRM-free.

Awesome things come to those who patiently wait...20+ years
Yes! Van Buren finally has become a reality! Thank you, Lord!! \^_^/

Buying, buying and buying!
Posted January 23, 2019
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dtgreene: That's actually a dealbreaker for me, particularly when there are other similar games available that let you play as a female protagonist. (I note that this is also why I haven't even tried Ultima 8 or 9.)

By the way, there's one more gameplay-related question: In the early game, how often do attacks (on both sides) miss? (To be specific, let's assume a level 1 character attacking a weak enemy.)
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Tarhiel: Really? Just because you can´t play as a woman, you´re not gonna try the game?

I´ve played many times as the opposite sex but never would I thought NOT to play a game if it didn´t allow me to change the sex of my character.
That's it, I'm going to write Nintendo right away! How dare they force me to play Metroid as Samus!! Samus is a girl!! My testicles demand a character I can identify with!!!!1!
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