wolfsburgraz said:Iceman2pnt0 said:Anyone here played Rad? I'm a big Double Fine fan, but I don't know if I would like this game. It seems to be a 3rd person action game with rogue lite elements, but I don't know how that translates to the actual gameplay, or if it is fun.
I bought it at launch and would recommend it for the current price. I like the synth music, the whole retro aesthetic, the menu announcer guy. It's pretty hard for me, I haven't completed a run yet. I've done around two dozen or so and got to world 3-2. There are some accessibility options to make it easier, I haven't tried them yet.
The gameplay loop is basic, you get dumped in a world and have to activate some towers to open a door to defeat the level boss. There are caves and overworld sections, tapes to collect (the currency), floppy disks to collect (keys to unlock chests). You gather radiation as you defeat enemies that grant you random mutations. In the cave sections there are giant statues that grant you perks.
Some of the mutations are difficult to make proper use of but once in a while you get a set of powers that lets go deep. Later in the game you can get negative ones that hamper you. You don't seem to get any permanent character upgrades between runs. All of your progress seems tied to depositing money in the bank to let you use it in the field, buying stuff at the shop so there's more variety between runs, and there's a bar that fills up whenever you die that unlocks some stuff I honestly haven't paid enough attention to to tell you.
It has a pretty high ratio and only 5 out of 1634 players on TA have completed all achievements, so I guess that's a consideration if you're into completion.
Thanks for the info, you're the real MVP.
Finally gaming on the One.