From Herobyclicking
When winter descends on the Rocky Mountains in Colorado I get more than a little bit excited. Life, in our house, is food. When the cold rolls into town I cannot wait to unleash my repertoire of soups and stews upon my family’s appetite. There are distinct stages and mindsets when I make soup. If I am preparing from an existing recipe, I select and organize my ingredients and chop, slice and sauté as needed. Though, perhaps the most exciting moment in soup making is experimenting. Combining previously untried spices, veggies and meat? Exhilarating. It is perhaps that the preparation of the soup is so focused and the cooking and simmering portion takes the power of the soup out of your hands and places it firmly in the power of the soup gods. Yes, you can adjust heat or stir to varying effect. Sometimes a soup must set a day or so before consuming. However, there is always a little bit of a gamble when preparing soup, sometimes the pot just goes bad. Sometimes, it is ambrosia.
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You can imagine my delight upon discovering Q-Games latest Pixel Junk title, Nom Nom Galaxy. Nom Nom Galaxy pairs its soup simulation, tower defense terra-forming platformer with a steaming bowl of Zen rhythm. Soup. Simulation. I was torn. Do I celebrate by making soup or do I explore this strange new title? I forwent the soup making to spend time with Nom Nom Galaxy. Taking the role of a trusted Astroworker with Soup Co. you have landed on an alien planet. Your mission: to help the soup market boom or bust. Armed with a soil destroying buzz saw you tear through the bizarre world searching for ingredients and resources to build your soup empire. If I could just go outside and punch and saw the local flora for my ingredients, soup preparation would go much easier, and even more fun. The planet's denizens don't take too kindly to your presence, though they do make wonderful additions to your space-bound soups. Especially delicious in the soup du jour are the monstrous tomatoes, flying squid, leaping corn beasts and a towering mammoth (don’t try to attack that thing, it doesn’t want to be eaten) that inhabit the planet.
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The world of liquid sustenance is not without competition. A rival company has also launched a campaign for the majority share of the soup market. You must also defend your factory from alien attacks. Flying fleets of vicious foes will tear down your factory, with no regard to your sacred high mission of soup production or brilliant base construction. Though your rival will strive to deliver more delicious soup, the aliens dismantle your factory and the wild critters poke, bash and bite, you will find peace. The music and pacing of the game elicits similar emotions when making actual soup, a calm bubbles to the surface.
Sound like a lot for one person? Thankfully you can enlist the aid of robotic helpers to make sure your base is defended and efficient. Earning your resources is just a matter of using your yo-yo sawblade to carve out the precious elements to build, upgrade and repair your soup factory. Some caution should be taken as the land will collapse if you over-mine, potentially plummeting your factory to the chasms of the alien planet. You are not just limited to running and jumping across the land picking up ingredients by hand. Use your resources to unlock pogo stick, hover board and my personal favorite, the Vacuum-Tank. Even though the game may inspire a meditative state, the computer is not having the same experience. On more than one occasion the game ended with failure on my behalf. I realized I had been harvesting the wrong ingredients or not ensuring the delivery of my soup. But some of that balance could be that Nom Nom Galaxy still has a bit of cooking left.
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Nom Nom Galaxy is in Early Access on Steam. What that means to Q-Games is that they really want you to be a part of this game. They want you to add to the pot, find what doesn’t work and help it cook to near perfection. You can purchase access in varying tiers with different rewards on each tier on the official website. If you engage Q-Games on Steam or social media concerning the state of the game you will be heard. The game has bugs, needs tweaks and is not a completed title, yet. It has a great base, it just needs a roux to start sticking those tasty bits together. Pixel Junk has an impressive legacy of games and Nom Nom Galaxy is well on its way to joining those ranks. Come its final release in 2015, we will be able to enjoy four player co-op in Big Picture mode on Steam and make virtual space soup with friends. With the help of a community that seems to care about this open and collaborative process, Nom Nom Galaxy will be an indulgence worth sharing.
Day 31 | Q-Games
Alan Wake, from Max Payne and Control creator Remedy, is a horror classic, prompting one player to buy 4,000 copies that don’t even work.
Kind of a goody story...
On a serious note, that is why I try activating gift cards asap. It's happened to me where the store didnt scan it right where the card was unusuable. Happened at Wally World.
Usually most of those redemption card have an expiry date on them. If they expired all buyer did was buy recycled paper. And some of those codes are country locked to certain countries. I buy a card from the States I can't use it in Canada.
UKIE published its latest Consumer Market Valuation Report, showing that the UK games market was worth £7.82 billion in 2023, a 4.4% increase compared to 2022's revised total of £7.49 billion.
Final Fantasy is a long running series at this point — it's easily one of the most storied franchises in gaming. But when you're up to the sixteenth mainline entry, you must start wondering whether fresh installments still have the power to pull new players in. Indeed, audience growth will be an important metric for the suits upstairs at Square Enix.
Pretty much. It was barely an rpg. Sorry if I like a little rpg in my final fantasy games.
I really hope this doesn’t mean they are going to continue to streamline the games even more going forward
It didn’t even have element weakness and the like during battles. A game with element based Eikons you use in combat and they didn’t include any elemental strategic tactics
I expected fire to burn grassy enemies. That didn't happen.
I also expected to see a "we have to go there!" moment in a cutscene, and have to travel there myself. FFXVI instead loaded the map to one selectable map marker and the next cutscene loaded to us there.
Disappointing as an RPG. Disappointing as even being "open area". I'll maintain that this game would've been best served as a more linear DMC-style experience than what we got, because the core of the combat and story were so great.
I'm an old fan who's played literally every FF game (excluding 2) and I *loved* FF16.
I genuinely struggle to understand the mindset of people are who get weird and territorial over JRPG franchises. I think as a whole we should be encouraging developers to try new things. We're the old guard - what we want to see in a game is going to become increasingly irrelevant with time so we gotta change the way we think about this stuff.
Classic franchises thrive on their familiarity. While they can introduce new ideas, it's crucial that these innovations stay true to the essence of the franchise. Otherwise, it might be more appropriate to develop a new franchise or spinoff.
And that's where FFXVI sort of drops the ball for many. It doesn't offer much to old Final Fantasy fans. Honestly, I loved the game, but I feel it might have worked better as a spinoff, a new franchise, or even a reimagination of another classic series like Musashi or Dewprism.
Sounds exactly what Tales did with Arise. I enjoyed FF16 more than FF13 and FF15 personally. I just hope the next mainline entry Yoshida makes is more party RPG based.
I enjoyed the game but I would like them to try making a turn based FF. It’s been too long. Even if it was a spin-off that would be fine.
For me the Bravely Default series is more Final Fantasy than current Final Fantasy. Since it started its development as a FF spinoff, it even keeps some FF stuff like magic names (Fire/Fira/Firaga etc.).
Unfortunately it doesn't sell that well and we can't be sure Square will keep making them, but I hope they do.
"This doesn’t mean that all future Final Fantasy games will take a similar direction to Final Fantasy 16,"
Here is a quote from the article to keep the XVI haters easy .
I enjoyed the game for what it was. What the team wanted to make. And i hadn't enjoyed a mainline FF game like i did XVI since X. Not counting Remake. People say it isn't an JRPG but it's pretty much Kingdom Hearts gameplay wise.
I decided to play some Arcade mode in XVI to get ready for the DLC after 220 hours of Rebirth and i still love the gameplay.
Can't wait for the DLC to hit in less than a week and see how crazy the Leviathan fight will be.
Now this i'm super excited for!! Q-GAMES ARE MAGNIFICENT PEOPLE!!
PJM is such a good game, this looks right up there to. Really gotta try this
This looks like another platformer to me and there are possibly some RPG elements going on as the top left box would suggest, at least to me.
Q-GAMES make Great games !
and i'm sad that it will come next year :(
but i hope i win the early access ... i wanna try it
Quality Games ;) This looks awesome, keep it up!