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Same genre, sort of: I love the concept of this game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Summer_Car https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Summer_Car > My Summer Car
by tpmx 6y ago
Same genre, sort of:
I love the concept of this game:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Summer_Car https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Summer_Car
> My Summer Car is set in rural Finland during the summer of 1995, where the 18-year-old player character has the family home to himself while his parents are on holiday in Tenerife. The player has to assemble, restore and upgrade his father's dilapidated Satsuma AMP (modeled after the Datsun 100A) using the car parts scattered inside the garage, as well as by purchasing new parts.
> To earn money for parts, the player can perform various countryside chores for neighbours such as delivering firewood on a tractor-pulled trailer, using a vacuum truck to empty their septic tanks, making kilju (Finnish homebrew sugar wine) and selling it to an alcoholic neighbor, and picking up the aforementioned neighbor from the town pub in the early morning in exchange for a small sum of money.
>After passing the Satsuma at the vehicle inspection office and installing the appropriate aftermarket parts (which can be obtained by mailing an order form to a parts dealer), the player's car is eligible to enter a weekly amateur rallying event for a chance to win a trophy and prize money.
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Writing for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Brendan Caldwell called the game "Funny, detailed and thoroughly confusing"; while writing for Kotaku, Nathan Grayson called the game "Janky and weird as fuck, but fun".
:-)
Having grown up in the Swedish countryside - all of this seems very authentic.
- movedx 6y agoWhat a wonderful game. Something to contrast today's shooters filled with violence and horror with simple, wholesome game to relax to.
- sp332 6y agoThere are some shooters, but they are hard/expensive to make and not that common among indie games.
- movedx 6y agoI wish this wasn't the case. In order to be able to play a decent shooter with a decent amount of online players, I have to download 250GB of assets (I'm looking at you: Warzone) and play in US time zones. Is there an indie scene for online FPS?
- sp332 6y agoI'm not sure, but I would ask @docsquiddy on Twitter. He's a champion of FPS games and an indie developer. He has not yet released an FPS but I know he had one in development at one point.
- bozzcl 6y agoI would say shooters have become less violent and bloody over time, TBH. Gotta keep those games in the Teen rating!
- vanderZwan 6y agoIt's kind of weird how Doom 2016 is such a stark contrast to every other AAA game of the time, because if you were to ask the average person who played it, it is probably how their 90's version imagined Doom to be like twenty years in the future.
- bozzcl 6y agoFunnily enough, I think the newer games are much tamer than the horrific gore and human mutilation that's constantly shown in the originals. I'm kind of glad they didn't go that far, because it was probably tolerable only because of the low-res art.
- movedx 6y agoI think actively moving a character around, aiming a weapon at another (human played) character, and pulling the trigger, then relishing in the victory of killing another is a greater degree of violence than any amount of blood or gore.
- bozzcl 6y agoSo you think paintball is more violent than a movie like Saw, because they involve actively targeting another player? How about a game of tag?
- byecomputer 6y agoDon't be fooled, this game has "PERMADEATH FEATURE"
- stjohnswarts 6y agoDon't skimp on those jack stands. Purchase only those made in the USSR
- quaffapint 6y agoJust gotta love the website for it. http://amistech.com/msc/ http://amistech.com/msc/
- pmiller2 6y agoDid I just time travel back to the 90s? That site looks like it's straight off Geocities. :) All it needs is an "under construction" GIF somewhere, and it would be perfect.
- dTal 6y agoOh my word, that changelog: -Made house fire smoke higher so player can see it from greater distance -Weight now also affects how much you can drink alcohol -Driving fast without Windshield can lead to bumblebee hitting player's face -Teletext forecasts also local weather, on page 188 -Grandma can now call about food deliveries This game is Dwarf fortress-levels of "dev thought of everything".
- drchickensalad 6y agoCheck out caves of qud for some similar amazing changelogs (and probably one of the best rogue style games ever)
- GordonS 6y ago> Driving fast without Windshield can lead to bumblebee hitting player's face Haha, that's absolutely hilarious!
- pmiller2 6y agoHaving known a couple of Finns, "janky and weird as fuck, but fun," seems like exactly their style.
- sample2448 6y agoCool game, quite popular in russia