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Nightmare Reaper is now available DRM-free. Get it 15% off until October 8th, 1pm UTC.

Explore the cursed depths of a nightmare while finding powerful weapons and improving your abilities in this retro first person shooter, inspired by the classic of the 90s like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Rise of the Triad and Wolfenstein 3D.
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Dray2k: I'm super interested in this game, but the rating are low with a score of 2.2 stars by the time I'm writing this. Nobody even bothered to write a review. Can someone who gave this game a lower rating tell why this game is bad or at the very least post a video explaining the flaws about it? Theres no way this game is really that bad. I mean I've already read some Steam reviews and from what I can see its nowhere near as bad as people imply here.

At least there are new games that try to emulate the look and feel of older games, I can't find any reason why thats bad. The gameplay looks as good as Project Warlock which was fun, though more faithful to Wolfenstein 3D esque FPS games.

Besides any of that stuff it also reminds me of SuperDuper Quake (high fives to people who remember this).
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joppo: I find it pretty ironic that in Steam, where all the graphics-addicted kids flock, this game is accepted with open arms. While here on Gog — where the audience is supposedly older and nostalgic and gives a lot more weight to gameplay versus visuals — we see no shortage of people turning up their noses over it. It's like things are suddenly backwards.

Bear in mind I don't have a horse in this race. I'm not a big fan of FPSs.
Bad reviews here are only from those who have not even played the game. The average rating from owners is 4.7. And it is very high.
Despite some mess with the graphics (you quickly get used to it), but then .... The game is actually quite good, it returns the feeling of playing the Heretic and Hexen, only with random levels (a little repetitive, but quite right-maded random), the feeling of weapons is good, the elements of looting are pleasant (especially to find some legendary gun). The gameplay is peppy, the plot is not crocked (in the style of American McGee Alice with a heroine with a slightly "traveled cuckoo in the head").
In fact, this is a correctly made retro-style shooter with well-deserved ratings in Steam (very positive), no worse than that of the Project Warlock.
I hope those who rated game such low without even trying to play for 10 minutes will be ashamed (although I doubt it).
Post edited October 04, 2019 by Loger13
Bought and played this game for an hour, its quite fun but its obviously unfinished.

I'm glad that I bought it though, it really seems to be like one of those games that will just get better in the following months.
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joppo: I find it pretty ironic that in Steam, where all the graphics-addicted kids flock, this game is accepted with open arms. While here on Gog — where the audience is supposedly older and nostalgic and gives a lot more weight to gameplay versus visuals — we see no shortage of people turning up their noses over it. It's like things are suddenly backwards.
I view it as now Steam allows stuff for everyone now (for better or worse), whereas GOG has sort of attracted pickier people. Plus we're only hearing from the forum where everyone including me complains and wails and gnashes teeth because GOG is not the shining beacon of hope we all thought they were supposed to be. :P
Post edited October 05, 2019 by tfishell
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Dray2k: Bought and played this game for an hour, its quite fun but its obviously unfinished.

I'm glad that I bought it though, it really seems to be like one of those games that will just get better in the following months.
Please go post your opinions on the game's forum, especially why you think it's unfinished.
Post edited October 05, 2019 by ItBurn
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ReynardFox: No seriously, this looks like hot garbage.
Well i can say the same about DUSK .
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ItBurn: Please go post your opinions on the game's forum, especially why you think it's unfinished.
I may do that soon if it helps out. However, I gonna play some more of the game to collect my thoughts to have a more grounded opinion about the game.
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Dogmaus: We're all missing out on many good games, and out life won't last enough to play all of them, and new ones come out everyday. I would rather be missing out on those that make my eyes bleed, and the fake "retro" shooters - like Project Warlock you mentioned - , without insta save and graphics WORSE than Wolfenstein 3D, with a MODERN bad-looking-pixelated, not retro at all. I didn't question the gameplay (though I bet it has very little of the real classics).
Children of Morta is well.done pixel art. This looks just like indie convention eye sore to me.
As for Painkiller...it was ok, nothing more, mindless fun but too repetitive and over-celebrated.
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ItBurn: I mean, I think you definitely should only give money to games that interest you, but I'd be careful about judging games mainly by graphics. Nightmare Reaper has 95% on Steam, so it must be doing something right.
Steam's a binary system, and you're forced to choose 1, or 0.
So it's even worse than GOG's 1 to 5 system, also forced.
I refuse to use any review system that forces me to give it a numerical score, or accept any number scoring system.

Some of us, detest all these pixelated pieces of crap, that seem to infest both Steam, and GOG, by pretending retro means having 8-bit graphics.

These games fully deserve to be judged by making that graphics choice.
We judge them, by not buying them, so we can't review them even if we wanted to.

I don't expect amazing graphics, but I do expect the devs to at least use the power of modern 64-bit graphics.
Even 32-bits would be good enough, but no lower than that is acceptable to me.

When games could only be 8-bit, those devs would have loved to have even 1080p, and 32-bit CPU's.
Never mind the 4k screens, and 64-bit CPU's some of us now use.

It's the deliberate choice to downgrade I despise, and I was gaming back when 8-bit was all we had.
I was so disappointed that games remained 8-bit, when I got my 16-bit Amiga.
Then they had the valid excuse, that most gamers were still on that 8-bit hardware.

There is absolutely no excuse for going 8-bit now, most PC's are 64-bit these days.
I lost my 8-bit nostalgia goggles, in 1985, when I was using an Amiga, and I have no intention of wearing new ones.
As soon as I see pixelated graphics, that I know look awful on my 1440p monitor, I lose all interest in the game.
I shudder to think what they look like in 4k, or above.

Another thing is I judge games, based on my preferences, not what others think.
I can't stand lots of games, that I acknowledge as good games, just not what I like.
I also like a few acknowledged bad games, because I have fun, despite their obvious flaws.
Usually that means using mods to fix the flaws, but not always.
Hopefully after attending the GOG User Roast of Nightmare Reaper, ItBurn will still choose to release the next game he works on here.
Yep, it's sad to see so many dumb close minded people on GOG. More interested in shiny graphics than actual good gameplay.

NR has great gameplay and uses a very cool aesthetics. I LOVE IT.
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Don't worry. It's fine if some people don't like the game or are turned away by the graphics. From all the time it's been on Steam, it's been clear that people love the game and that the graphics are. at least, fine. After the next episodes come out, word of mouth spreads and more streamers/youtubers make videos, people will see it for what it is. The game isn't done yet :p
Maybe an alternative could be creating a Kickstarter specifically for raising money for higher-quality art. "We've got a solid game but can't afford or don't have the skills to create the nicer artwork we want. Consider helping us afford that." You could even let people switch between artstyles.
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FoxySage: I'm not really the target demographic for the game (don't really like FPS games much), but after watching these videos - i just wanted to say that the screenshots on the store page don't do the game justice at all. Looks better than that. Whoever choose those screenshots deserve a whack on the back of the head. :P
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ItBurn: You're right about the screenshots. They need to be redone. The thing is, the game gets improved all the time, so they'd need to be redone all the time too. I think it might be time to do a new batch now though.
Fair enough. Still in early acce- i mean in development. Was just an observation i had to all the negative comments talking about the graphics after having looked at the store page. :)

I do want to say i liked the origin/background story of the protagonist being in an asylum and fighting the demons in her dreams/imagination. ^^
The game crashed three times in a row now, always with the same error message, saying Galaxy64.dll couldn't be found.
Which is weird as it's in the games folder. (It wouldn't even be able to start without the .dll)

Anybody had a similar issue?

Edit: Make it a dozen times. :P
Edit2: Seems to have been save file related, started a new game and for some reason the error message stopped popping up.
Post edited February 09, 2020 by NuffCatnip