This Sandbox RPG is Bonkers - The Bloodline Review
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
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The bloodline Proves that if Elder Scrolls was made by one guy it would have just as much Quality Assurance.
The Bloodline is an Steam early access sandbox adventure RPG by solo dev Miles Whittaker and is an exercise in trying to work within a manageable scope and failing miserably.
I got a review code months ago but I’ve avoided doing a video because every time I logged in the game had changed. reviewing a game this early almost feels like reviewing an omelette while the eggs are still inside the chicken.
The Bloodline is an RPG that seems more concerned with just chucking everything you like about First Person RPGs into a big pile and just hoping for the best.
This is a game that could only exist because there was no one boring and sensible enough further up the command chain to say no to a debuff that farts you to death. Or, if you time it right you can make the farts a speed buff apparently. Every cloud has a brown lining.
It brings back climbing as a levelable skill, Chucks in wall running and since there was a meme about grappling hooks making every game better that's been YOLOd in there as well. The number of movement options alone make this game a playground of options.
There's even Town building because the only place adequate housing can exist now is inside fantasy games.
When I started the game it made a big deal out of letting me be free to do whatever I want so I took that as permission to ignore base building and anything in the game that looked boring to me and instead just became a full time goblin slayer
The spells and abilities are ridiculous. Imagine the spells you'd cook up with your friends and then you just went ahead and did it. Or you can pick people up by their blood, or teleport inside them and explode em, or turn into a rabbit that immediately gets stuck on a blade of grass. Now this is videogames.
There are even spells just lying around in the world waiting to be discovered which makes poking around surprisingly rewarding.
Skilling is up to the eyeballs in optional mini games, making everything engaging all of the time. Successfully doing them gives bonus xp and materials. For crafting it makes the shit you make more valuable.You can Roleplay a nerd who sits in a library all day learning spells even. That's immersive.
You’re going to be gaining XP from pretty much everything you do. There are no wrong answers in this game. Except fishing. Most of my footage is fishing. Fishing… is a problem..
About the only thing that hasn’t been let off the leash in this game so far is a writer foaming at the mouth to bash out an interesting story, but I’m too busy becoming arsonist spiderman to worry about that.
Since making a huge expansive detailed world can be somewhat difficult for one guy to achieve the game is broken up into explorable zones separated by overworld travel interspersed with enough random encounters to completely derail all of my play sessions as I get immediately distracted.
So this review isn't a “you must buy this game immediately” review. This is more of a general alert to keep an eye on it till the game is in a state you're personally happy with. I like to imagine this game is going the same way as Caves of Qud did for me, sitting in my steam library for the better part of a decade before opening it again to discover I'm the proud owner of one of the best games ever made.
Thank you so much for making a video on my game!! I was cracking up through the entire video 😂 completely accurate by all accounts. If an idea sounds fun to me, I say “Screw it” and I add it.
An omelette is just eggs and whatever else you happen to have in your fridge
That streamer line was devious 💀
"minor problem" lmao gottem
Thanks for showing off the unpolished gems, makes me look forward to the rest of the year
Man how dare you make me subscribe with the funny humor and absolute bangers of recommendations
Love the discovery engine concept for this channel. It's always fun to see the unique titles that crop up here
I bought Bloodline when it first hit alpha because the attitude of "Have ALL the fun things" was immediately apparent, played it for an hour and set it aside to grow. But dang near everything in your video is brand new to me, so it's wonderful to see how quickly this game is developing!
I remember first following this game because the dev regularly posted cool if unhinged weapons and spells on twitter. I was sold when i saw a gif of him doing juggle combos on some poor bandit with shapeshifting and earthbending spells.
Big Rat Hole: "What do you have on your game list spit it out."
Me: *Bleh*
Schim July 18th
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SW Outlaws August 30th
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Astro Bot September 6th
Space Marine 2 September 9th
Enotria the last song September 19th
I’ve been looking for new channels to follow for indie recommendations and this was an instant subscribe. Y’all are hilarious!
its cute hearing the missus in the background laugh at your jokes lol
I bought a game called “Gedonia” yesterday, and this reminds me of that. When you look at it on screenshots it doesn’t look too good. I have to admit, it is a bit buggy. But as you play… it is enjoyable. It has good build potential. Being a mage feels powerful. It is made by one person too.
Thank you for this comment i just bought the game for $1 for the summer sale. It looks pretty good
Damn $1 is good! I think you'll get at least that much fun out of it ha ha
@@punani_slayer4209 I hope you will have fun with it! I got farther since the comment and I absolutelly recommend this game. I was surprised, how much fun it is. Yeah it looks a bit too old-school, but that’s part of the charm 😅
nice CoQ shoutout
never seen or heard of you or this game before but now it looks like i’ll be actively following both
You should check out Soulash 2 - It's an open-world adventure in a simulated and generated world
Your version of an omelette is a great visual hahah
bro how are you so funny ,its honestly sad how short your vids are
Have you checked out Ctrl Alt Ego? The amount of creative possibilities in that game is nuts. Had to take a break every hour or so from overexerted braining. Not in a this puzzle's damn hard; but wait what if I do that, what's over there, oh so that's what that's for, wait that means I could've done that. Absolutely insanity
Hey this one's never hit my radar! cheers
Try Nova Drift! Very cool game by a guy named Chimeric that is nearing its completed edition :)
It's a Roguelite bullet-hell set in space where you play as a living ship trying to survive infinite waves while receiving xp to upgrade, the upgrades are called mods and they are linked to trees of mods with each their upsides and downsides. It's very risk vs. reward. I have almost 400 hours in the game and think it's great.
You should check it out if you're into that kinda game genre :)
This looks hot! Will do
That game looks amazing! I hope that graphics style is easy on my potato of a PC. I'm being left behind by so many hella graphically gorgeous games but don't have damn money to buy them. Thanks for sharing the video!
Might have to join that discord when I remember what my password is.
I just met someone who was really wanting to work on a game to put their college learning experience to good use, and I had an idea for a fun little timewaster mobile title, so we're working on it now.
Nothing mindblowing, but hopefully it'll be great anyway.
0:12 Yup, gonna go ahead and wishlist this game.
Started Fallout 1 recently! Not very hidden but its really fun in the yey i've been slain by a comically large scorpion in the first 10min kinda way
I was such an idiot the first time I played Fallout, Getting to where the water chip was supposed to be and just going "uuuuuh" lol. I have no idea how people manage no-kill charisma runs either, that's insane.
@@bigrathole that sounds insane, everything's out to kill you in that game
@@ShadowTheLight right? Like you literally start the game surrounded by rats even. XD
Jhin is pleased with this video.
I'm so tired of seeing those character models in every indie game. The game itself is very impressive though, surely it won't be stuck in EA for 10 years...
Developers have forgotten what terms like Placeholder and Stock mean. It's unfortunate, but it takes money to comission assets, and if you are making money, why spend it on assets at that point?
Yeah synty assets exploded recently which, good for them, has led to those models being everywhere because they are affordable. Which is a damn shame because I now have hundreds of dollars in synty assets that I can't use without looking like a bum.
If you’re developing an indie game it’s difficult to do everything on your own. I can understand why they use the assets. Also paying for custom made assets is expensive, not every indie dev can afford that.
really into Idle games rn, playing through Melvor Idle and this other game called Cycle Idle RPG currently. Also getting back into Project: Gorgon
:3
try checking out powershovel on ps1, It's a ps1 game just dedicated to letting you drive an excavation power shovel through a series of mini games. Fairly quick game, nice and silly and full of energy.
Heyooo PS1 recommendation, you're the best
If you're asking for game reccs, I recently played Dream Tactics on steam and really enjoyed all the time spent with it. It really allows you to go really in depth with customization for your deck and items. It's a strategy RPG though, so idk how much you are into those.
Also Minishoot Adventures. It's like bullet hell meets 2d Zelda, very well polished and fun.
I passed this by after seeing the graphics because of past experience with asset flips, but I was clearly wrong! +subscribe for keeping me from missing out on something this cool
Neat!
If this game ever gets mod support then it's over for my free time.
oddly enough I was already following it, Not wishlisted just followed.
I don't remember doing that.
The rat hacked your computer
Have you played Shadow of the Erdtree? I don't think there's too many people talking about it at the moment.
A true hidden gem right there
Have you played ZeroRanger? I don't play a lot of shmups, but I adore this one.
Zero Ranger is HOT. Such a good game. Got into it after investigating their new game Void Stranger, which is a sokoban but crazy deep and twisty.
It's an older game at this point, but you should check out Ace of Seafood. It's a completely ridiculous and cheap as dirt game that I had a fantastic time with.
Comment for the algorithm!
Try Zero Sievert if you didn't yet
Been keeping my eye on this game for months now, the progress is astonishing. As someone who tried their hand at solo game dev, it truly is... astonishing.
I’m still just playing balatro 😅
Play gigantic rampage edition
you should play everquest 2 origins server its great
enderal is the best game ever and is free if you have skyrim
Minor problems 😂