Browser Game Pick: Starfeld (Stephen Lavelle)
increpare's Starfeld is a simple horizontal-scrolling shooter where the player's job is to just pilot the ship while the lasers onboard are fired automatically in regular intervals. The game features small bits of cutscenes to break up the action, although the conversations can get a little raunchy, disturbing, and possibly offending at times.
Comments
that game is pretty disturbing
Posted by: Vince | February 7, 2010 9:03 PM
This game is terrible.
Posted by: MarkTrinos | February 7, 2010 10:18 PM
This game probably took less time to write than to play. That, or it has been programmed by some AI, or maybe an intelligent parrot, or a dolphin, in which case it's pretty amazing.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 8, 2010 12:45 AM
This parody is better than Mass Effect.
Posted by: Dustin | February 8, 2010 1:23 AM
Inertia... in SPACE!
Posted by: Choja | February 8, 2010 1:45 AM
Did anyone manage to be a soulless bastard from beginning to end? I tried to, but without the upgrades you get from doing the right thing, passing the last level seems impossible.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 8, 2010 1:47 AM
I was a soulless bastard. It's hard, but doable. I think that's part of the point: you need their help.
I'm playing with as many different combinations as I can. I still haven't handed the crew over, and am expecting a surprise when I do. Or just depression.
Posted by: Tartar | February 8, 2010 2:10 AM
It seems there are just four endings: good with crew, soulless bastard with crew, and both handing the crew over. I tried one more combination (being a bastard to just one member), but then I got the same "soulless bastard" ending.
My opinion: the gameplay is boring, but the dialogue is fascinating - in a creepy way. I like it.
Posted by: Cerv | February 8, 2010 3:00 AM
Hehe, increpare merged with bioware ...
Honestly I played through the 'good' path and then just read the source code to see the rest of the dialog.
Posted by: Zaphos | February 8, 2010 3:09 AM
The dialogue isn't nearly interesting enough to justify how boring the gameplay is.
And I usually love Increpare.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 8, 2010 3:32 AM
Interesting concept, but they could have done a whole lot more with it.
Posted by: Ashkc88 | February 8, 2010 4:34 AM
uhm, it was okay, I guess... but honestly, if its goal was to be a comment on "Moral choice" games like Mass Effect, it kinda failed. Although its point was accurate, it's been made over and over already, and has been quite well avoided by Mass Effect 2. Not perfectly, of course, but pretty damn well all things considered. So its a valid point, just kinda... late, and poorly timed.
Posted by: Lightstriker | February 8, 2010 4:34 AM
yeah, this game is horrible.
Posted by: Agaetis | February 8, 2010 5:10 AM
Dammit! Game ended before I got my entire crew into one bed. :-(
Posted by: Dom Camus | February 8, 2010 10:11 AM
> Honestly I played through the 'good' path and then just read the source code to see the rest of the dialog.
Yup, I'd recommend playing the game this way too.
Posted by: allison | February 8, 2010 11:50 AM
i think this was a waste of my 45 seconds. the collision detection was assitude, afaicr.
Posted by: Raoul Duke | February 9, 2010 1:09 AM
Raoul Duke: stop tripping on mescaline when playing games, bro. especially increpare's. as your attorney, i advise you to rail some speed and play tetris.
Posted by: Anonymous | February 9, 2010 2:43 AM
Spoilers I suppose.
Did everything good a didn't betray my crew and then get killed. I feel like I missed the point.
Posted by: High Tide | February 11, 2010 4:59 AM