So, DUSK flopped hard, can the classic shooter be saved?

with sub-18k sales and tens of thousands spent on attending gaming conventions around the globe, the early access shooter DUSK has failed to make a profit. Do people no longer care about prestigious shooters?

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I'm interested but I'm not spending money on early access shit

The ugly cretin behind Dusk Dave Oshy says that only he understands crowdfunding for shooters. twitter.com/DaveOshry/status/968719264101404673
What a failure and a joke.

I thought it was good. The levels are way too empty and big tho.

>I'm interested but I'm not spending money on early access shit
Buy now and save!

>I thought it was good.
>The levels are way too empty and big tho.
This is me bruv

Is he salty about Hellscreen?

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>can the classic shooter be saved?

Maybe if they actually resembled classic shooters and didn't look like low effort indie trash.

So he spent all this money running around to conventions but I've never heard of this game, so then what was the point of him going to conventions if not for marketing..?

Networking, parties, filling time, spending the cash your father left you in the hopes people will mistake you for an entrepreneur.

>do people no longer care
No. People do care it's just the games that do it best came out 20 years ago, and have thriving mod communities making shit better than dusk.

It's pretty good.
When will he release the final episode?

I've heard of fake 'til you make it, but half a decade of bullshit is really pushing it. Talk about tragic

Geez, thanks guy!

>When will he release the final episode?
Looking like early June! :D

Lel, lil guy has hurt feelings.
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>prestigious


You don't seem to know what that word means. Does not apply to this ugly garbage.

>My girl likes me.
We'll see how much longer that lasts in the face of this failure. I'm guessing not long knowing women.

well, that sucks cuase i enjoyed dusk, even though i never played quake

is the dev a douche or something

the community is still very active, a lot of people are waiting for episode 3 and the online still gets updates
are you talking out of your ass again? also you forgot Amid Evil. kys op more people plays Dusk than Quake

That looks fucking terrible.

>more people play Dusk than Quake
Is this retard serious right now?

the 2nd episode was shit.
if the third episode came out i cant even think of what it was so it was probably also shit.

Any aspiring game developers should take note of Dusk.

It's a good game. A great game even. It's the oldschool shit that used to be king. It's a game of a bygone era and it's amazing for what it is.

But it's a niche game.

If you make an indie or niche game, no matter how good it is, remember that it's indie or niche.

Dusk is an example of pride, blowing your load and playing your hand way too quick. It was good, it was popular, but the developers got full of themselves, and now they're sitting in the financial negatives because of it.

Don't let your projects go to your head. Keep yourself humble.

Its because people that whine and moan about the good old games can be handed the good old game with a new coat of paint and they'd still fucking moan.

People are stupid, especially nostalgiafags.

*yawn*
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>are you talking out of your ass again? also you forgot Amid Evil. kys op more people plays Dusk than Quake
Talking out my ass? Active's a relative term here, buddy, and a field mouse community of 17,000 people who are prepared to pay for E.A. trash is jack shit considering how much the guy's already spent on it.
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>We'll see how much longer that lasts in the face of this failure. I'm guessing not long knowing women.
He won't be helped by the fact that he's 5'2 creep whose previous Ukrainian fiance left him when she realized it would be too cold to marry someone for money, even if they had printed hundreds of wedding invites!

Nah. It's the far more simple fact that instead of dropping $20 on this shit, I can already just play all the classics it wishes it were that I already own instead. And this has worse graphics than all of them for some reason.

why not play quake 1 then?
grab arcane dimensions while you're at it

I play Quake 3 and Champ on a daily basis

Fuck that looks good. We won't be playing it for a year or two, but it'll be worth it. That guy knows how to make great shooters!

Yet another proof that nostalgiafags are the worst.

That is ugly as fuck. I get wanting to be stylized instead of going for photo realism but what they settled on is absolutely horrible to look at.

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Not even once.

Yeah, it's alright but the level design is fairly mediocre. Guns feel good and hit hard enough, enemy design is alright, but a lot of the stages go for spectacle over solid design.

It's also kind of ugly in a way.

Seconding playing Quake 1 and Arcane Dimensions, AD is seriously amazing and Quake 1 is still one of my top favorite shooters. Both are a must play if you like fps games.

>make game pandering to nostalgia
>insult the very people who are nostalgic for this style of game because they rightfully expect better and didn't buy it at such an unreasonable price


This is why you have no sales Mr. Developer :^)

Not to be mean, but the fact that he suffers from severe depression (tweets all the time his life hurts) suggests that he doesn't like himself. he just like the rest of us. :(

The best classic shooters are still the classic shooters. The two Turok remakes were absolutely amazing, some of the most fun I had in 2017. It's a damn shame Nightdive decided to fuck themselves with that System Shock remake because I was looking forward to more Turok and possibly Shadowman.

I was looking forward to that System Shock remake itself. The demo they put out two years ago was great. No idea how they fucked it up from there.

That dev is nepotism personified . Saw him at Quakecon once and he was a sorry sight. Complimenting everyone who could help him and dropping names like fucking crazy. PATHETIC!

>Dusk flopped.

literally not released yet and has already surpassed 50,000 copies and has amazing steam reviews. lmao.

>this damage control


It hasn't sold half that, why are you lying?

It's really weird to have OP samefagging just to shit on him

Dusk was good anyway

Good thing dusk looks good then

It's been put on hiatus so it's not looking good for the game nor the studio, which I doubt really has the means to keep itself afloat through this. Or possibly it means they'll release a few more of the simpler remakes to get the money they need to finish system shock.

Either way, I want more turok. I enjoyed those games on N64 at the time but playing them like this, gently updated and on PC really makes them shine.

>worse graphics and designs than Quake 1 in a 2018 game
>looks good
What did the blind man mean about this?

Garbage game.

Vomit inducing graphics alone means it was never going to succeed.

>fps souls

fuck, just take all of my money.

ALL OF IT.

Dusk isn't even full released yet how has it flopped? Are people just desperate to shit on the game or what?

It looks like obvious indie garbage.

>is for sale
>has not sold
>will not sell


That's the definition of a flop.

>there are TWENTY YEARS of good, free, fun maps on Quaddicted with many of the authors still mapping to this day
>people instead play a 'retro throwback' shooter with 60x the system requirements for 50% of the gameplay and 200% of the BROWN

Maybe if the graphics didn't look like actual dog vomit, people would have noticed it. But when your game is uglier than the 22 year old games that inspired it, there's not much reason to care.

so I really liked the music in this trailer, checked out the kickstarter for composer info and started googling the guy off what was listed in the kickstarter "matthew pasternakiewicz"

couldn't find shit on this dude. I was like "wtf??" so I decided to google his name coupled with one of the albums pictured in the kickstarter. that's when i noticed it. THIS DUDE SPELLED THE COMPOSER'S NAME FOR HIS GAME WRONG. his actual name is matthew pastkewicz. how the fuck are you that level of incompetent and unprofessional?

>That guy

Who is he?

>mfw the Dusk devs constantly used to shill in and derail the Strafe devs shill threads
>Strafe somehow still ended up being the better game

but strafe wasn't that good...........

No. It wasn't. And yet it was far more successful and still better.

strafe is fucking great if you like rogue fps, its way better than most of em.

The problem wss that they marketed it purely as a classic fps, and it wasn't. I had fun with it, but it was far from what they claimed and was ultimately deeply flawed.

Strafe is fucking. Literally the best part of it was the marketing.

It looks like shit.

Roguelike just means randomly generated. Not only that, actually moving around the map and using it to your advantage seems impossible. Why wouldn’t you just wait for enemies to run into a choke point and kill them all?

the game can be amazing, and still the genre is dead
it is the same with point and click adventures: they are a thing of the past for many
and no, telltale games are NOT point and click adventures

They used to be. The Walking Dead season 2 and everything else since changed that.

>Who is he?
Adrian Chmielarz. He made Bulletorm and Painkiller.

Ah so you are memeing. Thanks for clarification.

>David Oshy

This is not the same person as David Szymanski, who is listed on Steam as the developer, is it?

looking good, but I am afraid the gameplay is some SUPERHOT meme stuff
I hope I am wrong

>counting sales on a single player game
I liked it either way. If the final episode doesn't come out, I'd be bummed, but not much. I can't recall any negative points gameplay-wise, though. It was fast, fun, simple at its core and with decent enemy variety. I do think that game itself feels really different in-motion compared to when you're watching gameplay videos and screenshots, so it's understandable that people don't see the appeal right away. Sure, you could be just playing quake maps that are being made every day (probably), but I enjoyed dusk because it was NEW SHIT.

Dusk had good gameplay. The visuals were putrid trash, however, and didn't resemble old shooters in the slightest.
Ironic graphics are just lazy and bad graphics, at the end of the day.

This is what I don't get either

why are all of these new 'retro' FPS so awful and lazy?

no, Oshry does most of the pr

It's easy to do so talentless indie-hacks make them. They don't actually like the genre. They just realized they can throw together low-poly models, drop a couple dozen enemies in an area and call it a game.

drastically underrated. the market is ridiculously saturated, you can't just make whatever niche idea you have and expect it to do gangbusters

>early access
>failed to make a profit
The point of early access is not to make a profit.

Sup Forums always says flop
what is ""flop""?

I think OP means did 'poorly in sales' flop, despite providing no sources.

I mean I get THAT much, thats the surface level you're expected not to think past
but if so its relative
1 million Monster hunter sales VS 1 million small game dev sales is worlds apart

Post sales figures, faggot.

if this game had come out on time it would have done fine. all of my friends were ready to buy it day one, but then it went early access and everyone said fuck it. a few said they'd wait until episode 2 or 3 came out but i'm 100% sure they've forgotten about it now

>look like utter ass (Quake 1 look better)
>Early access
>ho le no, why they bought KCD, Subnautica, Into the breach, PUBG, etc. instead??
Doom and its 836513659138651 wads exist.

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also

>>>>>>>Unity Engine

the lag in multiplayer is unbearable

>Try to compete with minimal efforts against classic games that had 20 years of supports and are still having fan made expensions
>woah, I didn't breach 1 million units sold! How could it be?!?

OP has a rage boner or something?

It's a good game and will get more sales on full release