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Reminds me a lot of Liero...whatever happened to that game?

Well, if you have a minute, play the browser prototype and try moving and jumping. It's more like sliding and floating :)

I went to play it again because I wanted to see if the web version was the same, and damn, I'm definitely buying this. Not for this price, but still. It gives me the same vibe Postal used to when I was a kid, only this is actually fun to play. Putting it on the hardest difficulty somehow only makes it better. And the screams are lovely :p

Unpopular opinion here: I like the art style.
No, seriously. People like me are the reason you keep seeing these games.
I like , [url=https://images-1.gog.com/3474af03677758cd9400c1b73fcdc7da661a5e5e994f3d1d0c59fc073496ce0c.jpg]this, , and [url=https://duelyst.com/img/screenshots/screen-2.jpg]this, so it's unsurprising that I also find this appealing... Sorry. I like big blocks and I cannot lie.
I also get excited when I see grids, but that's a separate issue :S...

You mean art is subjective? The people who are consistently being triggered by it aren't being as objective as they think they are? Gosh :)

Let me get this straight... You've sarcastically made up a stereotype, and now you're mad that reality doesn't fit it?

BTW: I'm sorry about your penis size, but you must learn to accept the idea that there's more to psychology than Freud. If someone is ambitious or own something you envy, the size of his genitalia simply cannot be deduced from that. That's one step away from the "good is bad; bad is good; up is down and down is up" mentality of using the word "tryhard" as an insult. To close this off, allow me paraphrase the ultimate example of humiliation I have witnessed in relation to this mindset:
"- Oh yeah? You're probably some 12-year old virgin with a short dick yaddayaddayadda!
- Actually, I'm a girl.
- Oh, ummm... Uhhh... Sorry. You... are probably on your period or something in that case...?"

I'm sorry, I don't understand you post at all. I don't think you understood mine either.

Nononono... That's an extremely common misconception that I disagree with. There is an objective side to art. Taste exists, but there's also "good taste" and "bad taste"; "unrefined taste" is a thing. Objective value of a work can be judged, though not necessarily easily. If anyone doubts this, I can show them amateurish scribbles that the world will "miraculously" agree are BAD in quality. It's just in the upper echelons that the issue arises, mostly because separate groups of things can get lumped up as one. Is an RTS better than a dancing game? Gosh darn it, this cannot be decided... EVERYTHING IS SUBJECTIVE!
It really isn't, though. We can compare RTSes with other RTSes, particular games can scratch particular itches to different extents, and reviews aren't simply describing the emotions of players, but can provide accurate information on properties of the art object and its aesthetic values.
The above are mostly my intuitions, backed by some basic education in the subject matter. I can't really demonstrate the veracity of this to a reasonable extent, much less prove my stance to be right. I refuse, however, to simply give in to the temptation of going with the postmodern flow and gladly embracing the idea that there is no Truth, Beauty, or Good, there are only subjective tastes, since there's 2x2=4, ET, and genocide.

You chose to supplement your aesthetical judgements with strongly evocative expressions. Unfortunately, they partially fell within the bounds of one of my pet peeves. I understand that demeaning sarcasm and lackadaisical nihilism are all the rage these days, but I oppose nonsense.
More to the point: if you stand by your implicit claim of "all ambitious people have penises that are short", I am willing to demonstrate counter-examples. If you do not, then kindly fuck off with the tiresome "dick measuring contest" metaphor, because it suggests that ambition is bad. The fallback claim is "people who are putting in effort and like challenging themselves are defective, since normal people don't feel the need to prove anything to anyone INCLUDING TO THEMSELVES".
Yes, I'm probably putting more thought into what you are saying than you are, but I dislike messy thoughts, messy rooms, and messy code. Clean your shit up. Thank you.

Hey guys, one remark - the prototype is super old and the game has been completely rewritten and improved upon (basically every aspect of it) since then (2014).

Interestingly, Liero inspired the game Soldat, which is made by the same developer as this game.

I know, I just wanted a comparison between the two. You and Khalosh seem to agree, and that's confirmation enough for me. Thank you as well!

Calm down. Like I thought, you misunderstood me. I was not trying to seriously ascribe players to that stereotype. I was saying that this game looks to me like it's the developers who believe in that stereotype, and are relying on it to sell their shitty looking game for them, when they describe it as hard enough. I see nothing bad with liking a challenge, but in my opinion (and experience) people who are not trying to prove something but simply enjoy the challenge don't go for the product that lazely makes "difficulty" a selling point, and laudly proclaims to be "so hard you guys", to let everyone to know that the people who play it are real men (and by extention people who don't are not) especially when the game looks unappealing to begin with.

All better now? Are we good?