Comments on: Pyramod: Curse Episodes

By: Wedge

Wedge — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:28:43 +0000

Oh wow, the combat is amazing. They’ve managed to simplify the w+mouse1 of the Pyro and make it into w+mouse. Seriously, since mouse movement waves the mace instead of looking and you go into autolock, combat consists soley of holding down w and waving the mouse around. It’s thoroughly the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but at least it’s easy.

This does seem to be mostly an artist’s project though, and it is quite pretty and fun to walk abouts in.

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:29:14 +0000

Will, I’m with you – I’m stuck on the more complicated ball slidy thing in “Level” III – and thus, I can proceed no further. It should be noted I ignored the 2nd slidy thing due to the frustration, and the first I got just by brute forcing it. I really don’t understand what I’m supposed to be doing – is it just a timed puzzle? Are you not supposed to hit the walls w/ the “ball”? What am I doing “wrong”? I tried turning up my mouse sensitivity, turning on mouse smoothing, going fast, going slow…

Perhaps related, I don’t get Alec’s love of the combat – it’s horribly floaty, I just end up waving left and right until all the baddies are gone, usually to end up facing some random direction, later to find the last baddie on the opposite side of the courtyard/room , so I guess I flung him like, really far?

By: Will

Will — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:03:39 +0000

Is it just me who was put off by the ball-on-a-path exams? The first time I failed one and a glowing hand pushed me away I thought it was totally sweet, but they’re only difficult because the interaction system is so floaty/weak; i.e. not difficult, just frustrating.

So really, I’m not saying anything negative about the mod author’s work (jaw-droppingly, italicised sweeeeet looking mod), the source engine brings it down. Which is a shame, because I always before felt that source games felt more “concrete” than games made in other engines.

By: jk

jk — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:01:15 +0000

Yay, I was excited about this, didn’t know this was coming out so soon, thank you ;D I’m gonna play now ^^

By: GB

GB — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:23:06 +0000

I have finished it the last day, is one of the bests mods for HL2 I’ve ever seeenn!!1!!!!!!1!!1!!!ONE

By: Johnny Law

Johnny Law — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:59:48 +0000

…and now I finished it. Well done. I like the way it “ramped up” a little from one scenario to the next, and I got more accustomed to using the mace.

By: Johnny Law

Johnny Law — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:46:54 +0000

I’ve played through the first level so far (and unlocked the green room and “banished all evil”). Fun so far; exactly the kind and scale of experience I am happy with from a mod. It’s not so much that it has great action gameplay, but the quirky/creepy bits of presentation, mild puzzles, and exploring around are entertaining in a relaxed sort of way.

The only nitpick I have is with the mace combat, or specifically the transitions that happen after one enemy is killed. Your view is either immediately snapped to another enemy (a little disorienting) or else if that’s the last one, you’re released back into normal freelook while you are still swinging the mouse around (more than a little disorienting). If the mod author(s) make more episodes hopefully they will polish and tweak that system a little more.

Congrats to them… I still love seeing a unique mod make it all the way to release. My view of mods is still largely what it was in my “formative” Doom/Quake years. I applaud anyone that hands me a complete, free, fun little experience rather than spending years trying to mimic some commercial AAA game and failing to produce anything.

By: Garreett

Garreett — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:14:16 +0000

Alloflifedecays, it was released days ago.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:08:54 +0000

Aesthetically amazing, and that ending creeped the hell outta me. Creepy things inexplicably doing something strange… *shudder*

By: FunkyLlama

FunkyLlama — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:06:17 +0000

Ultra-meh. *uninstalls*

By: Smeghammer

Smeghammer — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:07:33 +0000

@Alloflifedecays

Masturbating the War God anyone?

By: Alloflifedecays

Alloflifedecays — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:07:04 +0000

It’s official, I can’t even look at screenshots of an Egypt-themed game without hearing Nile songs in my head.

I’m SO getting this when it’s released.