L.G.C. |Reviews| — Starbound

This week your intrepid heroes embark on a Starbound hipster-pixel journey ..in spaaaaaaaaace!

Scale:

– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Starbound

Devel: Chucklefish Games

Engine: Custom (Made in C++)

Price: $14.99/€13.99/2 Rai Stones

Wazzat: In Starbound, you take on the role of a character who’s just fled from their home planet, only to crash-land on another. From there you’ll embark on a quest to survive, discover, explore and fight your way across an infinite universe.

Makes with the working

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Shiny / Sounds

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Hipster, pixel, graphics.

J-

Terreria did it, so no points for originality
Gets the job done, but no bonus points

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Music is nice and smooth, most of the times you can’t even tell it’s there.
Graphics are meh! Like Jordan said, it’s Terraria all over again.
Bonus chair for the awesome background noise soundtrack, each planet/biome has its own and it does its job at immersing you in the game.

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Control

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Yeah, it “controls” but clicking on the right top clicky buttons are a PITA unless it’s windowed.

J-

Controls are reasonable enough
My one gripe is that they tend to be all over the keyboard. Closer to WASD == Good

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Are you seriously not letting people reassign their keyboard mappings? Really?!
Guess they’re working on it: http://imgur.com/LgT7Yfv
- They have until Saturday to get a better score from me.

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FUN

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2D Minecraft in spaaaace

J-

Interesting premise, but I find I suffer from minecraft fatigue syndrome whilst playing it
Multiplayer is a bit stupid. No steam integration, no clear indicator that you need to go to the game folder and launch the server executable from there
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound ~/.steam/SteamApps/common/Starbound/starbound_server

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The game is actually fun. I spent almost 8 hours on it in one sitting, playing with a couple of guys I met on twitch tv.
Problems arose when we needed to fight and fine motor controls became a necessity. Having to use my right hand on WASD meant I got killed in a matter of seconds.
I’d like to give this game at least 3 chairs, but if I can’t rebind my controls to something I can manage with it only gets 1.

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