okay I suppose I've gushed about Ashen a lot but it is really good
it's like Dark Souls met Journey, and both were better for the experience?? (except not literally because Journey is pretty much flawless with its only exception being sometimes your co-op friend can just... vanish. and it's a total crapshoot whether you find THEM again or someone else entirely different ;; )
but yeah Dark Souls definitely needed some work, and Ashen has it. It's... got a really great aesthetic, it's mysterious and lonely without being FAR too bleak, it's built for co-op from the ground up and is thusly very balanced for it, weapons look and feel nice and meaty, and feel impactful, motion is intuitive and good, the geometry is really nice, animations are slick and clear without being super easy to predict and read... Voice acting is GREAT too, plus you got a clear idea of what to do
@Nine What system is it on? We might be interested in trying it.
We should probably play Journey sometime, too.
@Rosemary oh, turns out it's Xbone as well!
@Rosemary Ashen that is, not Journey, that's just PS3/4 and PC/Epic Store.
@Nine We prefer to avoid the epic store where possible. As bad as steam is, the epic store seems to be worse.
@Rosemary
Mmm, I think that the epic store is bad in different ways to steam personally. Steam has no interest in moderating exactly what gets put on it, presenting itself as a "marketplace" where it only takes action if it is in trouble itself. As such it's largely automated.
Epic on the other hand seem to be geared specifically around being a store. And they do offer a great deal to indie Devs, but I worry about their end goal a lot.
@Rosemary yah, well that's fair. Journey I think is out on the Epic store now so you can get both games on there.