Comments on: Is Love All You Need? Public Alpha Go!

By: Post Maker

Post Maker — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:11:21 +0000

Stijn, I’m pretty sure I ran into you a couple of times and ended up being of no help at all. Any idea who blew up the old settlements?

Thanks for pointing me to the Love thread, although it seems that I can’t log in any more. Is there any way to recover a password without entering a username? The forums seem to have erased mine (or I’ve forgotten it, which is much more likely), although my e-mail is apparently still saved.

By: Stijn

Stijn — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:08:13 +0000

Post Maker: I'm there, I think currently nicknamed "Cindra" or something. Played with a few nice people (partly from RPS) a few days ago – see the other Love thread in PC Gaming for a writeup – but yesterday there weren't that many people on.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:45:10 +0000

Something very important to note. The thing doesn't auto-update itself, you need to get the newest version and unzip it to a new folder in order to potentially avoid some serious glitches and to get the new features.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:24:57 +0000

Anonymous Coward said:
Well on a 5800 the people aren’t drawn correctly, for one thing – unless they’re supposed to look like horrifying scribbles.

That is how they're supposed to look, yep.

By: Post Maker

Post Maker — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:39:26 +0000

So who here’s playing on UK-1? I’ve spent a large enough amount of time chatting with my servermates to know that they seem like nice people, but I’m always wondering if any of them are on here.

By: Rai

Rai — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:57:19 +0000

3 Euro’s converts to 4.50 USD on paypal.

By: KP

KP — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:32:01 +0000

Well on a 5800 the people aren’t drawn correctly, for one thing – unless they’re supposed to look like horrifying scribbles. Also I wouldn’t waste time criticizing if I didn’t think it had the potential to be a great game. Right now the gameplay side of it kinda sucks.

By: Doug F

Doug F — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:50:18 +0000

So… don’t buy into the alpha then? You can thank me later for coming up with such a simple, elegant solution.

I may not reply right away, as I plan on registering for this as soon as I get home tonight.

By: Railick

Railick — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:49:02 +0000

So is this available in the US? Would it be 5 bucks a month to play it here? I can't access it from work :P (and when I get home I'll probably be playing Blood Bowl all night, that game has a hold on me)

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:39:21 +0000

I played for a few hours last night and had a lot of baffling fun.

Visually love is quite a lot like being kicked in the face by a rainbow, which I expect will probably turn out to be a fairly divisive issue. Personally, it works for me.

I spent the first 30 mins or so trying to get to the settlement and quickly realised that the landscape doesn’t necessarily have simple paths, but does have fairly forgiving jumping and that sometimes a bit of creative jumping climbing and dropping is required to reach a given area. I died a lot from falling into water mainly (sometimes through almost invisible single tile holes!). All the dying-repetition meant that I had to gradually work out how to navigate the various terrain features in all the while making my way slowly toward landmarks I could see in the distance. Its probably the most fun I’ve had exploring an environment with a compelling sense of place in a long while.

When I got the settlement I found that a war was already raging. A war between people trying to build stuff and others who were hell bent on turning everything into inaccessible towers. Teaming up with people and building up the settlement was also great fun, if a bit glitchy but I didn’t get much of a chance to go out looking for tokens or fighting the AI.

I’ll be interested to see where he goes from here, particularly in terms of preventing ass-hats from unmaking everything. So far so good imho.

By: Railick

Railick — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:17:25 +0000

Based on these posts this game sounds awesome.

By: Redd

Redd — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:06:17 +0000

People who won’t play the game as prescribed by the Gameplay section of the site are exactly what an alpha needs.