Atomfall - The most British Game

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Eurogamer thinks Atomfall is the most British game ever made:

7 Reasons Why Atomfall Is The Most British Game Ever Made

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[Vangey77]

Then they never played “Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture”. I swear Atomfall is what you get when Stalker and the aforementioned game have a baby.

 

[Morrandir]

I was browsing the Steam forums a bit and found this. So it doesn't seem to be much of an RPG?

 

[ikbenrichard]

I was browsing the Steam forums a bit and found this. So it doesn't seem to be much of an RPG?

oh... still gonna give it a try.

 

[wolfgrimdark]

Yea I finally decided it isn't a game for me. Hopefully fun for many others as it sounds like an interesting game even if not my style.

 

[JDR13]

I was browsing the Steam forums a bit and found this. So it doesn't seem to be much of an RPG?

Yeah, that's actually been talked about in another thread. The devs wanted to avoid the RPG label because they set out to make their own gameplay experience that doesn't necessarily fit into any one category.

 

[Couchpotato]

Well for me the game was a huge disappointment. That's on me though as I thought it would be more of an RPG, and instead it's an FPS/puzzle/adventure game instead.

 

[JDR13]

I'm amazed that some people are so swayed by labels that they can dismiss a game they haven't even played.

 

[Carnifex]

Well, giving it that title might encourage me to acquire this even quicker!

 

[rjshae]

Yes but is it really British without some level of cultural class snobbery?

 

[wolfgrimdark]

I don't care about the label, I play other games besides RPG, it was the mechanics and game play, and other things I read/saw, that turned me off for now. If I hit a dry spell I might try it but I got plenty to do currently.

 

[Couchpotato]

I play other games besides RPG's as well. Marketing just made the game into what it's not. Once again though that's my fault as I rarely read or watch gaming news anymore.

 

[Morrandir]

I'm not an RPG purist either, but meaty and good mechanics/combat might have persuaded me to give it a try. I'm still put off by the setting. However, it doesn't look as depressingly post-apocalyptic as I feared. I saw a lot of green in the videos. So I'm still on the fence...

 

[docmars]

I play other games besides RPG's as well. Marketing just made the game into what it's not. Once again though that's my fault as I rarely read or watch gaming news anymore.

I got a similar impression from my vague look at the initial marketing. I thought it was going to be more Stalker-ish.

Still intrigues me if it's going to be more along the lines of Half-Life or something.

 

[JDR13]

No, marketing did not make the game into what it's not. On the contrary, the marketing for this game was more honest than most.

 

[JFarrell71]

Well for me the game was a huge disappointment. That's on me though as I thought it would be more of an RPG, and instead it's an FPS/puzzle/adventure game instead.

I chalk that up to the lazy Fallout comparison (it's a post-apoc, everyone knows Fallout, ergo it's Fallout!) made by a lot of people before release. That set people up to be disappointed when they found out how unlike Fallout it is.

 

[JDR13]

I got a similar impression from my vague look at the initial marketing. I thought it was going to be more Stalker-ish.

Still intrigues me if it's going to be more along the lines of Half-Life or something.

It's very open and non-linear, so it's pretty much the opposite of something like Half-Life. I don't think it's too far from Stalker, but I have the impression that there's a lot more C&C.

 

[JFarrell71]

There are at least two problems when people start telling you that a game is "like X".
One, the people saying that are usually looking for clicks/attention, so they're going to compare it to something everyone knows and or likes.

Two, the people making the comparison often know very little to compare it to. If you've only ever played one post-apocalyptic first person shooter in your life, and a game that vaguely resembles that comes along, guess which game you're going to compare it to?

 

[Couchpotato]

I chalk that up to the lazy Fallout comparison (it's a post-apoc, everyone knows Fallout, ergo it's Fallout!) made by a lot of people before release. That set people up to be disappointed when they found out how unlike Fallout it is.

Correct it's similar to how journalists hyped Outer Worlds as Fallout NV.

Also that's what I meant with marketing. If people enjoy it more power to them.

 

[JDR13]

Except that game journalists have nothing to do with marketing.

Funny thing is, I can already tell this is probably far more of an RPG than games like Assassin's Creed or Horizon, and those were actually advertised as RPGs.