Wow. Never played Subnautica but their website is gorgeous.
The first game is very good. Go into it as blind as possible and try not to look up a wiki on your first run.
The second game…I think if I was to compile a list of “Ten prettiest screenshots from the Subnautica series” Below Zero would be responsible for at least eight of them. They stepped up the world design a bit. Primary gameplay loop is very similar, the story is a bigger disappointment than me.
For real, it feels like I’m back in a time where the internet was fun and websites were unique
I might have to buy Subnautica 2 just to show my support for this site
I thought you were exaggerating, but after checking it out, it really does feel like a mid-late 00’s website, and goddamn do a fucking miss it. Everything online these days is flat, overly-simplified, absolutely corporate and sanitized to fuck and back. I feel like, on an atomic level, I’m closer to a frown than a neutral expression when browsing most of the internet these days.
Also Subnautica itself fucking rules, good to see their website has just as much effort put into it.
So… alway-on DRM and a ticking clock for when it becomes lost media?
Or they were forced to use whatever mouth noises appease the cult of MBAs.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think it was a mistake to describe it as GaaS. I understand how they’re trying to use the term, but the fact they felt the need to clarify how they meant it should have been a clear enough sign the term is rather tainted.
Worse, it may make some people skeptical & suspect that they intend to change their tune down the line. Their track record notwithstanding, that’s how some may be after having been burnt before with other experiences.
To be fair it looks like the publisher originally used the term and reading between the lines in this post, the devs seem like they are annoyed by it.
Yeah, that was my immediate response seeing that term here.
Regular content updates aren’t GaaS any more than horse armor was an “expansion pack” for Oblivion.
Wait, what? The updates are paid, but not a subscription? Icm even more confused. Is that not just DLC?
Fucking hell
Just call it “paid updates.”
Anyway, I’m really looking forward to the optional co-op mode. It made Raft a whole lot more fun, and adding it to Subnautica would be great.
This article really confused me because I thought Below Zero was Subnautica 2, LOL.
