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Spelunky 2 Announced
- Thread starter Jawbreaker
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Pretty much my thoughts 1:1.
I'll still be playing it and I'm super excited to see how they decided to iterate on Spelunky's near-perfect design, but I'm very unsure about how successful they'll be.
Indeed, they didn't; neither Steamworld Dig is a roguelike.
I don't understand how that's possible considering Spelunky's formula IS its gameplay, but OK, keep hoping for that Spelunky-somehow-reimagined-as-a-normal-platformer (actually, that is a sleight of hand I would love to see, just out of morbid curiosity).
This is my gut instinct as well, but again I didn't think the original freeware version could be improved either, so I'm cautiously optimistic and willing to be surprised. :)
I'm hoping that he isn't actually dead and you find him at the end of the game or something. Please don't let him be gone :'(
Thinking of the few but annoying flaws the first game had (the tediousness of kiting the ghost for maximum score being the biggest one) keeps me from putting it on an unassailable pedestal; I'm looking forward to enjoying the sequel on its own terms. Plus, there are features that I was hoping would be expanded on in DLC in the original game, such as a larger number of alternate level "feelings" (like the snake pit in the mines, the big yeti in the ice caves, etc.) that would further keep playthroughs feeling varied. Another great potential addition would be branching endgame paths with different final bosses, or different characters that actually played slightly differently (to crib shamelessly from Binding of Isaac).
The game is an all time classic, regardless of platform. The pc version has a ton of cool mods/level packs available. If that's not an option for you, then get it on the console of your choice.
Yeah, i like to learn and master a level, beat it and move on, that sense of progression
Even if it will last 5-6 hours, I will love to play it in that way and the mechanic of Spelunky were good (jumping and killing) but everything else turned me off after one hour.
I prefer to play "crafted" product, so I asked, that's it.
The first one had random generated levels, the second one not.
Like said before, I liked game mechanics like jump etc, how character controls, the basic gameplay, not the rng and roguelike elements, I don't think it's that hard to get my position.
I only asked if the game shared the same formula of first game, I haven't demanded anything..
The absolutely worst-case scenario is that Spelunky 2 isn't as good as the original and we'll have to go back to playing Spelunky.
I own it on PS4, Vita, PS3, and Xbox 360.
It's excellent on all of them.
And there are a ton of "crafted" level packs available for pc... Download some of those and you have your wish. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to keep the random generated levels that kept us playing for hundreds of hours. Everyone wins.
BAM, this is instantly in my most wanted list. The original is one of my favorite games.
I'll end up buying it on Steam and Switch for sure.
I'll end up buying it on Steam and Switch for sure.
Must've forgotten for a second that Spelunky is a game for the forever.
I look forward to a lot of death & swearing once again just like the first. Hope the shopkeeper makes his shotgun wielding ass back in the 2nd title also lol
Yeah, but a roguelite is a lot more than randomly generated levels. Asking for a Spelunky with crafted levels is asking for a clearly inferior product, but at least I could imagine how that would work. Asking for a Spelunky that is not a roguelite is asking for a completely different product; you might as well reimagine it as a soccer game.
Indeed. If what you liked about Spelunky is "jump" and "how the character controls", then yours is the position of someone who doesn't know anything about Spelunky, and so doesn't really understand what they are asking for. It's like watching the first minute of Casablanca and saying "I like the setting, but could they remove this Rick character? Also, I don't like that it's in black and white". Changing it to make a color movie would result in a movie that at least resembles Casablanca; removing Rick would not; to know this, of course, you must have watched Casablanca, which is my point.
Sure, and I'm not demanding that Casablanca be remade as a color movie without Rick, I'm just asking. :)
(just trying to give you some understanding of why you're not being taken seriously)
HOLY SHIT!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Finally!
Grabbing on PC, with a double dip on Switch if they port it eventually. So hyped!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
Finally!
Grabbing on PC, with a double dip on Switch if they port it eventually. So hyped!
I'd disagree here. Obviously the game's biggest quality is the design of its enemies and hazards, and how they interact with each other and with the randomly generated levels, but what makes the experience so pleasant is also how well the character controls. Spelunky's whip is an incredible gameplay mechanic, and it doesn't need random levels to work.
IMO Spelunky would be far from as good if it had crafted levels, but the core mechanics are still one of its biggest strengths.
Hmm... there's a fairly big moon motif in this trailer... wonder if the moon is going to play a key role in this one.
I'm kinda wondering if the main character being younger will have any effect on gameplay....or if it's just more of a narrative choice.
Can't wait to see what changes they introduce to make it better than the original. I'm catching up with the PGW and, after seeing TLoU2 and GoW trailers, this was the announcement to make me smile from cheen to cheek.
Also, please bring it to the Switch! Spelunky is such a good game to play while commuting.
Also, please bring it to the Switch! Spelunky is such a good game to play while commuting.
I don't think I've ever beaten Spelunky, only got to what I assume is the final boss. I'm terrible at the game.
That said I'll still probably play the second if I manage to get it.
That said I'll still probably play the second if I manage to get it.
Hoping for early 2018.
Wouldn't mind a neater looking version of TowerClimb.
I agree that Spelunky has exceptionally good control, feel and physics. However that is only a part of the puzzle of what makes it Spelunky.
Here, however, I have to emphatically disagree. Spelunky without the whip would still be Spelunky (what do you even find mechanically special about the whip?). Spelunky without random levels would not.
Like most excellent games, Spelunky is a collection of amazing design choices; altering even one of them could make the entire game collapse. Frankly, without randomly generated levels I find it hard to imagine having even one tenth of the appeal the game has, let alone keep people hooked for hundreds of hours. It would become a completely different game, with the focus on memorizing levels instead of learning mechanics.
maybe you can't improve on perfection, but after doing pretty much everything in the game other than a no gold and an eggplant run, I'm pretty happy to see this announcement. very few platformers have ever felt as awesome to play for me as Spelunky, so I eagerly await to see what tweaks, new interactions and secrets derek yu can add to the already wonderful formula.
Is it crazy that this might be one of the games that justifies me getting a switch, if it comes to that platform? Spelunky absolutely popped on the vita. Plus a hell run (usually took about 40 mins) was almost the perfect length for some of the train journeys I take.
Is it crazy that this might be one of the games that justifies me getting a switch, if it comes to that platform? Spelunky absolutely popped on the vita. Plus a hell run (usually took about 40 mins) was almost the perfect length for some of the train journeys I take.
I think you're forgetting Spelunky HD isn't actually the original and had a lot of changes and balance tweaks to it compared to the freeware version. While I would expect there to be a more substantial overhaul when it comes to an actual sequel, I think Derek/Mossmouth has already demonstrated he can add and tweak stuff while still keeping the core of the game great.
Yup!
I've been playing videogames for 31 years and the only one I wish I could play again for the first time is Spelunky. I'm excited that I'll kinda get that chance!
Just heard the news, watching the teaser, and good lord... I'm hyped for this game! The original game kicked my ass, but I loved going through each stage over and over, there's something about that game that makes me feel cozy, even if I'm being very careful not to get killed by traps. haha
So stoked to play this game!
So stoked to play this game!
This is really exciting. Derek is a game design genius (I encourage anyone with even a passing interest in Spelunky to check out his book on designing the game), and I'm really excited to see how he expands and evolves upon Spelunky.
This is amazing news! I thought this day would never come! The first still captures my attention to this day. It is my most played game on Steam. I wonder what sort of themes they will create with the levels this time around, and how they could possibly improve the already perfect gameplay.
Yes! Really interested to see how they develop the ideas from the first game! This is the first sequel that I can think of to a game from the modern resurgence of roguelikes, so I wonder if it'll be the same gameplay loop or if they'll add a few permanent elements.
Happy for my first post on Era to be this one:
Fuck yes, Spelunky 2! Can't believe there's going to be a sequel to this near perfect game.
Fuck yes, Spelunky 2! Can't believe there's going to be a sequel to this near perfect game.
Spelunky guy got hitched with yellow spelunker lady and got a cute kid (I wonder where the damsel fits into all this). I'm really looking forward to this, but I'm also preemptively really sorry for the amount of deaths I'm going to cause his kid.
It's cute they paired up those characters and adopted the dog and stuff. I never really though of them as characters but now that I'm seeing them in this light it's nice.
Oof, another 400+ hours of my life gone.
The last shot of the moon was kind of interesting. Above ground levels?
The last shot of the moon was kind of interesting. Above ground levels?
Long time lurker for maybe eight years on the other place. This site and this announcement has made me pop out of my cocoon.
Really excited for this game! I always die on the last line when trying to beat Olmec for that last speedlunky trophy.
To bad the trailer wasn't gameplay action. Don't like to be honeydicked.
Really excited for this game! I always die on the last line when trying to beat Olmec for that last speedlunky trophy.
To bad the trailer wasn't gameplay action. Don't like to be honeydicked.
Rogueing/lite sequels are weird because the inherent appeal of the genre is that each new run is a whole new level set with the same mechanics, so to make a new Spelunky game Yu has to swap out the enemies and tilesets in order to iterate on the first, at which point it will be a radically different game. I expect the game to be divisive, with people having really strong preferences between 1 and 2.
Looking forward to being terrible at this one, as well! I'm going to enjoy watching speedruns of this.
