Inscryption - "An inky black card-based odyssey"

[Siri]

Sounds like Inscryption is rated for the PS4 via the Australian classification board. Hopefully we'll see a drop for other formats, too.

 

Can't wait for the game to get dunked on in the GOTY 22 thread because of the 'stop voting for Hades, dickheads' clause!

[Jamie John]

4 hours ago, Siri said:

Sounds like Inscryption is rated for the PS4 via the Australian classification board. Hopefully we'll see a drop for other formats, too.

 

Can't wait for the game to get dunked on in the GOTY 22 thread because of the 'stop voting for Hades, dickheads' clause!

 

It'll be interesting how they do some of the later game stuff on console. 

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Maybe they could get you to find your oldest achievement/trophy instead of the oldest file on your hard drive.

 

[Siri]

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I wonder how they'll do the largest file, as well. Maybe they'll skim the game list from your hard drive and threaten to delete it? That's a big enough threat if you're somehow into card games and Warzone 

 

I'd imagine Dan Mullins would have to make a new error message to show it's not deleting anything, though, as you can't look at the game files any more to find the error log 

 

[panda_t]

This seems to be out on Playstation now, so I have no idea if it's a good version but the game is so fresh and unusual and good - anyone who's not played it, I thoroughly recommend it

[MansizeRooster]

I love the look of this, but I also have a huge backlog, so hopefully I'll be able to catch this on PSPlus Extra sometime soon.

[moosegrinder]

It baffles me that this came out on Playstation to zero fanfare. I had no idea until @Vorgotmentioned it on discord.

 

Mullins has said it's "highly probable" that it's coming to Xbox so maybe Game Pass will snap it up and make some noise.

[Vorgot]

On 31/08/2022 at 15:50, panda_t said:

This seems to be out on Playstation now, so I have no idea if it's a good version but the game is so fresh and unusual and good - anyone who's not played it, I thoroughly recommend it

Grabbed it a few days ago on PS5 and am loving it so far

[Vorgot]

Seems to drain the battery on the dualsense quickly as it uses so many lights. All adds to it though.

 

Love the fact there is a lot going on outside of the card game. Enjoying figuring stuff out

[panda_t]

It does the atmosphere so well

[Vorgot]

My son has been playing it, and has got way further than me. I keep sticking my AirPods in so I don't hear much and trying to avoid the visuals, though I had seen some from the trailer.

 

Children are annoying. They spoil loads of games for me, selfish freeloaders 🤣

[ThePixelbarks]

So, I've played this ... Enough so far to say this is already in my top 3 games for the year.

 

This is absolutely incredible, if you've clicked on the thread, just get it. It's cheap enough at the moment.

 

That's all I'm going to say, and now I'm going to leave the thread until I've finished it... Look at the time, I've not had a game have that moment where I look at the clock and it's nearly 1am in YEARS.

[PaB]

Well this game took an unexpected turn! 
 

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Genuinely had no idea about what happens once you beat the third boss in the cabin . Fmv followed by 2d game ( what was in the disk)  and the four scribes are the cards you rescued in the cabin. What wonderful unexpected turn of events. 

[NecroMorrius]

I've tried to get back into this so many times since hitting act 2, but it's ugly, annoying and tedious. I've played tens of CCGs and LCGs and I don't enjoy the cardgame here at all. Shorn of the amazing atmosphere of act 1 the game has nothing going for it beyond memey fourth wall breaking which was done better elsewhere. I think I'm just going to call it a day. But it's great they made Kaycee's mod, clearly they know that's the bit worth playing.

[BadgerFarmer]

I've just got to the second part too, and it's certainly quite the comedown. Hoping it gets better again if I push through it, because I loved the first part, but it's much less enjoyable at the moment.

[Vorgot]

I found Act 2 tough going, but act 3 is brilliant. Slammed through it and really enjoyed it. 

 

Ended up buying The Hex in the Steam sale even though I rarely play games on the Mac. Want to see more of his ideas

[alex3d]

Never played a card video game and am trying to get into this for the second time now. I don't know what it is but it's just so difficult for me to get a grip on it. I've already died in the third battle again and struggle with putting the right cards on the deck and their effects once the battle starts.

[Alan Stock]

Keep plugging away, the more you play the more stuff it gives you. One thing to bear in mind that its ok to take a bit of damage as long as it doesn't kill you. And if there's nothing for the opponent to block with you can just plop down something big like a wolf and end the round in victory with some big hits. The items you can get like scissors, bottled squirrel etc are really handy too, don't forget to use them if things are looking bad.

[BadgerFarmer]

I pushed through and finished it in the end, and I'm glad I did, even though some of it was a bit of a drag. Somehow, as much as the card game keeps evolving, it never really gets more tactically interesting, but the presentation and meta-narrative stuff is worth staying on for.

[Jamie John]

Yeah, the section after the first section is probably the weakest, but there's some great stuff towards the end.

[MansizeRooster]

Does anyone have a link to somewhere that details the difference between the PC and console versions?

[therearerules]

Onto Act 3, and having the same problem I have with all of Daniel Mullins' games, namely that the act of playing them is often actually really boring. And I always wonder on a meta level if I'm playing them correctly. Really bored of act 3 now- is there any way of resetting my deck or something?