Squanch Games has announced HIGH ON LIFE, a new first-person shooter for Xbox Series, Xbox One, and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store). It will launch in October. It will also be available via Xbox Game Pass.
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Partner with talking guns, collect intergalactic bounties, take down an alien cartel, and save Earth in the latest game from the mind of Justin Roiland!
Fresh out of high school with no job and no ambition, you’ve really got nothing going for you until an alien cartel that wants to get high off humanity invades Earth. Now, you and a team of charismatic talking guns must answer the hero’s call and become the deadliest intergalactic bounty hunter the cosmos has ever seen. Travel to a variety of biomes and locations across the cosmos, go up against the nefarious Garmantuous and his gang of goons, collect loot, meet unique characters, and more, in the latest comedy adventure from Justin Roiland!
Key Features
Guns are Your Friends (Awww)! – Rescue and team up with charismatic, talking guns to become the deadliest intergalactic bounty hunter the cosmos has ever seen. Each weapon has its own unique personality, and you’ll get to know these guns (in a cool and normal way) during your journey. They’ll share their thoughts and perspectives during pivotal moments, and the decisions you make can lead to different outcomes in the story.
Go All Over the Place – Navigate dynamic and changing worlds that include a jungle paradise, a city built inside of an asteroid, the hub of the cosmos, and a variety of other strange places. These aren’t one-way trips, either. Hunters can revisit planets to track down collectibles, rescue human stragglers, and discover Exciting Narrative Surprises.
Take the Law into Your Hands or Whatever! – Leverage the unique skills of each gun to go up against a variety of [URL='https://www.gematsu.com/companies/crim']crim[/URL]inals as you track down the nefarious Garmantuous and his gang of alien goons. Hunters are encouraged to strategically choose the best gun for every situation, sizing up enemies and swapping weapons on the fly. Just so you know, these guys have all been extensively researched. They use humans as drugs, so it’s totally cool that you’re doing this. Seriously.
Do Some Other Stuff – Hunters can hone their skills in replayable Hunter Challenges, earning in-game resources to buy upgrades and an array of alien technology. Warp Bases can be used to recharge your bounty hunter suit and special ammo — or even enemy encounters when you’re feeling bloodthirsty. Get to know a bunch of weird, fun, and hilarious, NPCs! Did we mention that the guns talk?
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
reviews are prett much split up aroudn the humour ... as in if you hate Roiland humour you will hate it and if you liek it you will like the game
I'm a fan of his humor, and game looks ok for a generic linear 3d platformer.
I admit Roiland's humor is based around disjointed, word salads of non-planned out ad-libbed scene quips.
But from that gameplay video this, this is too much of it non-stop to me. Just shut the hell up for 10 damn seconds. The humor loses its charm when you feel silence ruins the humor and instead think filling ALL the time with rambling adds to it.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
Played a few hours. Boy this game, I think the closest thing I can compare it to is Savage Planet with shittier humor and worse gameplay.
The pacing is all over the place. You can't quite freely explore and you are hampered every other second by not having some kind of gimmick yet or have to wait for the game to push the plot forward.
You can't change the FOV which is standard console bunker/tank viewport 80-90 degree. The movement feels clunky, not fluid, especially with vertical jumping, pulling etc. You don't know if you will get that grappling point and just mash the "E" button or if you grab this or that ledge or miss it. Fortunately the game is pretty forgiving for dying in "water/sludge".
And yeah the humor is a hit or miss. I like Roilands' disjointed adlibs but here, it's not as witty and too much with a lot of swearing and low brow humor just for the sake of characters saying something. And there is literally a charater that's an ass with eyes that farts instead of speaking.
And yet I somehow enjoy it for the junk it is. The mix of gameplay is something rarely occuring in gaming. So truly a weird beast this one. Not recommending buying it for full price but maybe trying it in gamepass, yarring it or getting in for free on epic in due time.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
And yeah the humor is a hit or miss. I like Roilands' disjointed adlibs but here, it's not as witty and too much with a lot of swearing and low brow humor just for the sake of characters saying something. And there is literally a charater that's an ass with eyes that farts instead of speaking.
That's the vibe I got. That type humor is great sprinkled around unexpectedly at key moments that highlight it's adlib and disjointed nature. Here they slathered an overly thick layer over every moment talking was able to be done.
Sort of like a Amy Schumer joke: Sure a 'Ma Vagina' joke can land well, but when 30 minutes of your set is that joke stretched out for no reason...kinda ruins it.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Devs must know they put in too much fucking bullshit chatter when there's a setting in the audio options to have the gun shut the fuck up more. Christ.
There are so many shit and cum jokes just to be and doesn't lead to anything. Just filler and not even funny. Oh a puzzle with shitting into someones mouth, oh a cum dealer. So funny!!!
There are some funny jokes - yes, especially the guns personalities, but so much low-brow filler like three times the amount.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
I think it's pretty funny overal, including the juvenile, low brow humor I'm not above this, it's basically classic South Park with its anal probe and Canadian fart jokes
It's quite refreshing too, in a sense, that a game doesn't give a damn about trying to please everyone and not be political correct.
I admit I can't play this for long sessions either, though (also because I've outgrown the FPS genre a bit too). But it's a bit of change of pace and fun distraction, switching between this and Pentiment
Gameplay wise it's not special, but I dig the visual style and exploration.
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
dialogue is funny af but they talk too much so everytime u need to wait if u want to listen to everything which gets boring after a while. even with npcs they talk and talk. in other games you move from point a to b and dialogue length is like perfectly timed, here sometime distance is too short so just skips dialogue fast
My son got this. And he loves rick and morty. He's not a 'i got merch and talk about it all the time" type fan. But watches all the episodes.
He was playing it in discord when I join and streaming for some of our mutual friends. Asked him how it was I got:
Eh...pretty basic gameplay. And the humor isnt as good as I expected, it's a lot of quantity over quality. This gun and knife won't shut up telling the same jokes.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
I actually liked this game even though it did have a pretty basic gameplay and the humor was hit and miss, but there was something in it...maybe it was the atmosphere which was intriguing to me.
Maybe it helped that I thought the OST was really good, but then again I always liked TOBACCO's music.
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