Board 8 > Subnautica: Below Zero is out in 4 days.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Anyone else hyped?

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Hasn't this been out for a few years now?
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my boyo who loves Subnautica is excited, he's been playing it throughout early access but the final part of the story or something comes out with the official release

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Oh, I loved subnautica so I might be interested

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KCF0107 posted...

Hasn't this been out for a few years now?

Early access, during which they basically scrapped the whole story and revamped it, among other changes (I haven't kept up super much but I know the story was basically rebuilt from the ground up)
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Subnautica is one of my top five games ever. I sometimes replay it just to relax, I love the loop of gathering resources, scanning technology, always improving... there's always something to do.

I played Below Zero twice during development. Once right when it came out, at least what little they had, and once back when they did the big story revamp update. I didn't like it anywhere near as much as the original. Now, I never played the original Subnautica until it fully released so maybe I'm about to be pleasantly surprised by the final polish, but I dunno. For such a similar game it just didn't feel like it had the same satisfying loop. Still fun but not 'one of the best games of all time' fun.

These are comments from the old story that was mostly scrapped but I'll spoiler tag them in case anyone wants to go in fully blind. Below Zero in the original story had a space station your sister was on and you regularly interacted, sending each other gear and such. A lot of people on forums complained that they lost the charm of the original Subnautica where the main character was completely alone, but I actually liked that way better than what they turned the story into. It doesn't need to be a carbon copy of the first Subnautica, having space station drops and missions was fun and different and I'm sad it was almost entirely removed
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Its downloaded on my machine and waiting for launch day.

Robazoid posted...

Subnautica is one of my top five games ever. I sometimes replay it just to relax, I love the loop of gathering resources, scanning technology, always improving... there's always something to do.

I played Below Zero twice during development. Once right when it came out, at least what little they had, and once back when they did the big story revamp update. I didn't like it anywhere near as much as the original. Now, I never played the original Subnautica until it fully released so maybe I'm about to be pleasantly surprised by the final polish, but I dunno. For such a similar game it just didn't feel like it had the same satisfying loop. Still fun but not 'one of the best games of all time' fun.

These are comments from the old story that was mostly scrapped but I'll spoiler tag them in case anyone wants to go in fully blind. Below Zero in the original story had a space station your sister was on and you regularly interacted, sending each other gear and such. A lot of people on forums complained that they lost the charm of the original Subnautica where the main character was completely alone, but I actually liked that way better than what they turned the story into. It doesn't need to be a carbon copy of the first Subnautica, having space station drops and missions was fun and different and I'm sad it was almost entirely removed

I agree with this. It even makes narrative sense, since 4546B would have become quite a hot (cold?) destination after Ryley likely spilled the beans about how rich in resources it was. Of course there would be other people there. You can still do a survival horror game without being alone.
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https://www.ign.com/articles/subnautica-below-zero-review

9/10 from IGN

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Can't wait for it to be below zero in the next X-Stats

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Leonhart4 posted...

Can't wait for it to be below zero in the next X-Stats

Exactly how much I care about this game or these type of games.

So far this game has been pretty much the same thing as the first one, though I've been putting off some of the locations marked on my HUD. I think I've actually found other spots that would have been pointed to later if I hadn't already found them, though.

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