Indie Megabooth Top 5 - PAX 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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right, guys. Welcome to our Indie Mega Booth top five. Just as a note, games
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we've covered before are not going to be in this. So, stuff like Zing and
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Distance are here and they're awesome, but I'm not going to cover them in this
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top five because I've covered them before in the past. So, let's get right to it. The first game, and I don't
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usually admit this, but my favorite one here was Rockets, Rockets, Rockets. I
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played against Nick. Crazy game. It's all about shooting insane amount of
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rockets. You're this little spaceship thing, and you got to fly around. And it's all directional with a thumb stick.
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You pick where you fly, and it's thruster based movement. So, if you push
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your thumb stick in one direction, it's going to try to throw you in that direction. So, you're going to have
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momentum, and you're going to fly all over the place. It's tons of fun. And you're shooting an insane amount of
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rockets at each other. It's all about timing your shields. So, you have to pop
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your shield on, which doesn't last forever, and try to block either the
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rocket or use your timed shield to smash into the other dude while he doesn't
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have a shield on. And you have to try to mix that all together. And it's very fun
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because it's really, really, really fast-paced. It's on Steam right now for early access. They're rolling out big
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updates every month. I believe it's about $5 right now. Not all the features
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are in there obviously because it's early access which I know not a ton of us are actually fans of but it will be
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releasing I believe sometime in Q1 or Q2 of 2015 if you're interested in it.
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It'll be up one to four players. There's going to have solo modes. You're going
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to have online multiplayer. A lot of the stuff again isn't in the game yet but
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tons of it will be there. So I would highly suggest checking it out. I know I'm going to. It was a lot of fun.
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Secondly, in no particular order, there's Assault Android Cactus, which is
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a super fun bullet hell with a, in my opinion, not that fantastic name, but
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you'll remember it. So, I guess they got that job done. It's a bullet hell where
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you can play one to four players. With four players, it's more of kind of like a party mode with an insane amount of
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enemies. And with one player, it's more tactical and and precise, and you have
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to be very careful. It's interesting. Tons of different levels, boss modes,
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all that kind of stuff. And I'm pretty sure they're going to have online multiplayer later. I believe it's in
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early access right now, so I believe you can check it out on Steam. So yeah, if
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you're into Bullet Hills, maybe check that out. Then we come to Cannon Brawl, a
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game where if you're sitting next to the person you're playing against, I wouldn't even be that surprised if it
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gets physical because what it is is it's kind of like a wormsesque style map. You
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have your main base and you kind of have to build cannons and shields and other
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kind of structures to fight with the other guy and whoever destroys the other
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person's base first wins. But because of how the game is paced, I fully expect
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you to end up punching the guy before you actually win. We'll see how that goes for you. I believe it's on Steam
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early access right now, so you can check it out. It's quite a bit of fun if you're into that kind of base versus
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base style game. Then we come to Darknet, a hacker game, but a Hollywood
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hacker game like pretty much all of them are. The idea is it's a VR game in
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Oculus. It's coming to whatever platform it's supported in later on. They're
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pretty much just tying themselves to VR in general. And it's a it's a puzzle
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game. You get different things like worms and viruses and all that kind of
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stuff. You have to go through and take over nodes. You get money from taking
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over the nodes and you can buy more viruses and whatnot. It's fairly standard puzzle game, but it is in kind
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of like a hacker environment. So, if you're into that kind of scene, maybe
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you'd like it. Check it out on Steam. I believe it's in early access. Not now,
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but he said soon. So, whenever that is.
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And last but not least is Super Meat Boy Forever. This isn't necessarily a new
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idea as it's Super Meat Boy, but the idea behind it is that you pick kind of
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a difficult difficulty or a zone and then it just randomly generates the
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levels for you. That's why it's called Forever. You could potentially play this
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game forever. And I expect quite a few of my friends to pretty much do that. I
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have quite a few people that I know that love Super Me Boy, including Lionus. So,
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I'm sure he'll be excited to hear about this as I've been watching their
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randomly generated content and it all seems quite quality. So, I'm excited to
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check this game out as well. All right, guys. I hope you liked our Indie Mega
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Booth roundup. You can check hopefully links for those games in the description
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down below. Although some of them don't have any links, so I don't know how that's going to work, but you'll figure
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