Разработчик: Parody Games, LLC
Описание
The game is done in a style reminiscent of old school role playing games. While the 'game' within It's A Wipe! is supposed to represent an on-line game world, this is really a single player game. The game play is a mix of strategy, in that you need to figure out an effective plan to beat the encounters, and management, in that you need to balance the various needs and desires of your team of players.
While the game does revolve around trying to win battles to progress, it's not your typical RPG combat. As the leader, you do not directly control your group. You set-up an initial plan, but your group members may decide to go off and do their own thing! You can shout a command at them each turn to try to keep them in line, and do your best to keep them happy with items and by paying attention to their needs.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP or newer
- Processor: Anything that should run windows should run this
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Any Directx8 OpenGL Compatible card
- DirectX: Version 8.0
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any OpenAL Compatible Card
- Additional Notes: The game is designed to be fairly light weight. It should run on almost any system.
- Storage: 250 MB available space
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Wide as a puddle and about as deep
Now let me say this right off. I loves me some management/sim style games. Those that click with me become some of my most beloved games. This game did not click with me.
Basic premise. You're a guild master of an MMORPG Guild and you organize and manage raids. while keeping various guild members happy. A solid concept on paper but the execution is.. baffling. This game through and through feels like the sort of one man project you'd see in the shareware section of a site like Tucows and HappyPuppy back in the 90's. And that's a good and bad thing.
Normally I'd do a whole pros v cons break down but really I can't really find anything that's good enough to be called a pro. It also lacks anything I'd call a con either. So let me just go through the various Aspects. Graphics, Sound, Gameplay.
Graphics:
It certainly has a style. But yeah this is the first hurdle. The interface is clunky and seems designed to require more clicks. You're shown tonnes of options, and information with very little idea of what anything means. and nothing really stands out. Had the game been a text-only affair it'd have worked better, Had the graphics been a little cleaner and more embellished it might have been more cinematic. As is, it is clear that somone put some time love and effort into this, buuuut...yeah you can put your heart and soul into cooking a meal and still have it come out bland as cardboard. There is nothing noteworthy about the sound or music.
Gameplay
Now here's where things get confusing. I've played a lot of sim style games and this... just feels weird. I can't imagine who this game is meant for. Sim game fans will find the shallowness and lack of features to be quite off-putting and this is honestly more apt to turn beginners away from the genre what with being so rough and deliberately obtuse. The UI gives the feel of a complex and deep system but in actuality it's pretty straight forward. As said. This game feels like a one-man team thing and as such it is admirable...but admirable doesn't mean good or interesting. What it feels like is one of those party based turb based JRPPGs where you don't give direct instructions to your party but rather vague strategic instructions., and let the AI decide, but somehow managing to be less reliable.
There's custom workshop content, or player made raids to extend the fun, buut the workshop has only two to date and one of those is a demo made by the developer. *sigh*.
Simply put. Sim Players will be put off by the lack of features options. Strategy gamers will find the lack of depth disappointing. MMORPG Players who'd probably get all the Raid reference and jokes would probably rather be doing actual raids instead of playing this. It tries, and to a degree succeeds. The game is functional, but...I just cannot get into it.
Conclusion:
What truly damns this game in my eyes is its age. Not that its "Lol Old, it sucks" but rather its old and apparently abandoned. The dev doesn't seem to have made much effort to add content or even sort out the myriad of tiny niggling issues like the fonts. This is the sort of game that you'd have expected things like updates, and dlc for to improve the offerings and whatnot. But nope. Seems to have been a one and done. As such I really can't recommend this. Just a little more polish, pre or post launch would have gone a loooong way to bringing this game to greatness. As is It is just painfully mediocre. Not a bad first game for a developer but....
Maybe at it's $2 sales price. But for myself. I'm at this point seriously considering whether to give this game another chance or get that $2 back, and that I think sums it up. I spent $2 on this game and I'm not sure I got my money's worth.
A strategy game where you run a guild and organize raids for a World of Warcraft-like MMO. It's a cute idea, but I found navigating the game frustrating. Two things you have to manage are your guild member's morale and making sure they have good enough gear, but neither of these are visible when selecting who goes on a raid. which is the core activity to improve morale and gear, unless you hover your mouse over their name for a few seconds, which doesn't sound so bad but when you have 20 or so guild members it is frustrating to noty to have these values available to scan through or sort. The interface is overall rather rough, which makes enjoying it as a management game difficult.
Hahaha... WoW I had a lot fun with this game.
On the surface this is really simple Knock off of old World of Warcraft raid dungeon game. It's actually a lot more fun then I expected. All the dungeon mechanics are kinda close but with some interesting new twist in them.
I was kinda pushed away at the very beginning by the cheap graphics, Cheap sound and the generally cheap feeling of this game. But I kinda now addicted to it as such simple dungeon crawling and loot gathering is still so fun! Simple upgrade items tier by tier and managing raid is fun enough. You have to manage all those AI player as real person and take care of their mood in higher difficulty. In even higher Difficulty there are even permanent death of player.
For just a few dollar you will become a guild master again and send you way back to your old WOW raiding days. AFK... mood swing of guild member, buy Forgiveness ...hahahaha I cannot contain the huge smile on my face right now.
A bit of a note... Some achievements are pretty hard to get and will take quite a few runs/time to get them.
8/10 would be my rating. If you already got the game try it! If don't have the game it's worth it in full price and steal if it's on sale. Don't forget to change message speed and etc to faster to make the raid run go a lot quicker.
This game is all the fun of managing a guild without the people! (the game title said it the best)
Please also note 100% this game's achievement is long, difficult and repetitive. As higher difficulty of this game is really hard with this iron-man 1 life setting. Also you need to finish the game with every single different character type will force you to play this game many times over and over.
Look at my time played. I have enjoyed every hour I've spent on this game.
The developer is great about listening to the community, fixing bugs as they're found in a timely manner.
I STRONGLY RECOMMEND not reading a guide before playing, since a major part of the gameplay is figuring out each boss' mechanics on your own.
Essentially, IAW is a puzzle with multiple solutions. Which raiders you recruit, your group's class spread, balancing loot distribution, everything plays a part in your success, and there isn't a single 'right' answer. Do you take two rogues for higher damage, but knowing morale might suffer from loot disputes? Do you take two wizards, knowing they'll deal high damage, but have trouble swapping targets? Do you take a bard for the buffs or replace them with a different class?
I've played through the game with a lot of different spreads. Once with three warriors, once with only one, sometimes I take a bard, sometimes I don't. Once I took two druids, even. It's all about figuring out how the group will interact and doing what you can to keep things balanced.
Plus the humor is great. It's amusing even if you don't get the references, but is pretty great if you do.
So microwave a burrito, turn on voice chat and grab the rum: It's time to go raiding.
Honestly i can't say this is a particularly good game. for some people the raid management joke will strike a chord and they will have a laugh, but overall there isn't much here, hence the price.
That said, i think massive respect needs to be shown to the devs who are still supporting their product long after release unlike so many how just dump half finished or broken products onto steam.
Hopefully this will be a great learning experiance for them and lead to them producing more in the future, the games industry needs more devs like this.
It's so real, it hurts.
I missed raiding for a while and haven't worked up the courage to do so in quite some time. Then I came across this gem yesterday.
I don't want to raid anymore.
This is - literally - the exact same experience I had leading a guild in FFXIV. Except its also incredibly addicting because people actually show up for raids.
Babysitting Simulator 2015
"It's like Skyrim with trinkets" - me
Do you want to:
- Carry 9 idiots who can't even do their job properly unless you remind them every once in a while?
- Lose your main tanks and healers because they didn't get DPS trinkets?
- Have 80% of the raid members AFK out of anger whenever a trinket drops?
- Spend 9 days every week talking about your guildmates problems?
- Bask in the glory of, by some miracle, being #1 guild on the server?
If you answered yes to all but last question, go play any MMO ever! If, however, you also answered yes to the final question, well, this game will have to do.
Have you ever wanted to play an MMO that...isn't an MMO?
Have you ever wanted to raid more often than weekly resets allow?
Have you ever wanted to lead nine other raiders with their heads up their butt?
If so, then It's A Wipe is for you. It's basically a non-Blizzard, non-MMO, WoW. Give your raid orders, and watch them screw them up disturbingly often. (Your own character never screws up, so I highly suggest you be a warrior tank, so you don't derp and lose aggro, killing the entire raid.)
Warning: The game assumes a high amount of MMO raid experience. Non-MMO players will likely be confused.
This game shows exactly what its like playing in a hardcore raiding World of Warcraft guild, just without fighting for a raid slot. Or the the dramatics. Or the guy blasting his horrible soundtrack in vent. Or the guy asking to post DPS charts after every fight. Or all the males hitting on the one and only semi attractive female player. Or the hardcore raiding World of Warcraft guild. Or the World of Warcraft.
11/10.
At first I took this game as a tongue-in-cheek poke at the classic MMORPGs. After playing it for a few weeks - this is what I have to say about it.
1) It has its own style and character. Crappy Graphics. Cheesy Music. Wouldn't change a thing!
2) The raids actually feel like raids - you have to figure out their mechanics and set up your team accordingly.
3) The raid members whine, stand in the fire, goof off, and go link dead ... so real to form
4) This game is a substantial nod to a very popular Level 0-60 MMORPG. Not mentioning any names :)
For the game's price - I would classify it in the "High Value" category and I would highly recommend it to anyone that has ever done a raid in the older MMORPGs.
UPDATE: Six years later and I'm still playing this game ... wonderful game.
If you used to do raiding in MMORPG's (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing games) then you may enjoy this game.
You assume the role as a guild leader and make plans on how to deal with bosses that you encounter, but it isn't as easy as that. You can make plans on how you want to deal with the boss that turn, but your tank might tab out to read his email or your healer might decide he wants to tank.
A varity of things can happen while your raiding and you also have to keep your raiders happy else they will leave you to join another guild including with any loot you happen to have gave them in past runs.
Overall it is a great game for it's price but I'd recommend playing it while watching a movie or playing another game as it is fairly slow and your raiders are doing all the work you just give them the command on what to do.
For £3.99 this game is a steal. I task you to find something else to do for only £3.99 that will keep you busy for hours.
You can't even buy a pint for that for christ sakes.
While I've only really just started playing the game I'm blown away by all the features and immensly fun gameplay, despite my rogues squabaling over gear! Sure its not going for any graphical awards, but its quirky and reminicent of an age of Pc gaming when it was at its finest.
I've played WoW and messed around with other MMO's but never really had to time or commitment to put into actually raiding with other people, this game gives me a taster of this experience with none of the hasle. Despite what other people may say I think the game does have replayabilty, not only because of the increasing difficulties but also because there are several ways and raid composits that the player can employ to defeat raids.
I sincerly hope the developers of this wonderful game continue to produce new content, including other members to recruit and new raids to explore. I will certainly be keeping my eyes peeled, and I hope others will be too in supporting the game.
I have but one quivel with the game, and that is the text font and the lack of guidance in the tutorial - that being said I got to grips with it easy enough, I just think it could do with a little more highlighting the things that are happening or forcing you to use some of the many raid commands to change tactics or healing targets during a raid.
Right, now I'm going to go see if i can stop Medic from spouting his political views whilst I'm raiding!
It's A Wipe is worth the money for the nostalgia factor, but most of the game feels relatively spartan in features or gameplay. Generally, the game consists of managing a sitcom-version of a guild raiding party in an indirect fashion with breaks in between; additional characters or other amusing features that one think to find in a game about managing a guild are absent.
Further, the game is quickly over -- there seems to be only 7-8 raids -- and some of the mechanics really need some work, particularly infighting over loot. This can make the game frustrating and the game itself seems to have relatively little replayability; which is odd given that the overall concept of the game, if developed, could provide for a fascinating guild management game.
The problem with that is that the game not developed sufficiently; it is, as stated, feature light.
With that said, it's five dollars and I had trouble not liking it. For that price you get what you might expect. I would tepidly recommend the game and hope the developer fleshes out the features of it.
Pros:
-Interesting concept.
-Nostalgia.
-Humor is good.
-Good framework for a game; seems easily developed.
Cons:
-Relatively thin in gameplay depth; feature light.
-Sometimes frustrating.
-Sometimes boring in some fights; cannot manage one's own character.
-The UI is really very ugly.
Awesome game. Well worth the money if not more. The game throws curveballs at you that you need to react to in the planning stages and can make the experience more interesting, the weighing of morale and loot drops to manage your party size, as well as distribution of said loot brings a new dynamic that I find interesting. Will definitely be recommending this game to my friends.
Exellent background game.
As an active game, it's a wipe is like a real mmorpg raid, its fun to do one raid once or twice after that its on farm status and then you get bored with it, but you have to do it anyway to be strong enough to advance.
This is where play in window comes along, you can do lot of things on background, play browser games, watch movies so on, and just click orders for next turn time to time and let your raiders do the fight.
Is it worth it ? With that price yes, the game is unique experience but its not a piece of art, you won't play it over and over just either bit or once trough.
I saw this game on sale, and thought "What the heck, I'll go for it." I had an hour before I had to leave for work, so I thought I'd give it a go. Over an hour later, I casually looked at the clock and grabbed my coat and RAN out the door, racing in traffic to get to work on time before I was late. Barely made it with a few seconds to spare. I'm normally a guy who shows up early just because better safe than sorry.
So I would say this game is pretty spot on. Think of a group of raiders, in any game you could play. World of Warcraft, Ever Quest, Final Fantasy Online - just to name a few. Then, take that group, and think of them as real people (we all know that you picture some guy playing a chick character just to stare at pixel booty all day) - Not to say they aren't, but the perception of most people is to look at who they are, and assume everyone else is a robot or just some random nobody.
This game is full of comedy - Everything from "Killalot talks about his political views" to a person "Afking in the middle of combat to check his email" - And will remind you of what really happens. I love when I tell a tank to take over agro, and the tank (who is better geared and more able to do so) cannot pull agro off the first tank. I love when a mage just happens for wander into creature range and gets attacked wildly. I love when the healers forget to heal because they think a tank is good, and start to dps, letting the poor tank die because the fight required a focused heal at specific times. Just like in real MMOs.
This game is easily one of the more addictive games, and as my first day playing, it has already caused me to come close to being late to work AND caused me to rush home just to try to see how far I can make it after the fact.
Fun game for the price. Battles require thought after the early dungeons are out of the way, and keeping everyone happy about loot is a bit of a challenge. Your raid's strength grows noticeably over time, and some of the character actions can be amusingly nostalgic if you've ever raided in an MMO (like someone going link dead, or a mage deciding to tank). MMO experience can help you get a handle on strategy quickly, but I don't think it's a requirement to enjoy the game.
The character quirks don't impact the gameplay too much, so luck isn't a huge factor. Fights boil down to managing the raid strategy (like DPS, healing, and tanking priorities) and figuring out boss patterns. I'm impressed by how well the game simulates the raid management experience ("WHY DID YOU DRINK THAT POTION INSTEAD OF HEALING THE TANK?!?") without getting bogged down in micromanagement. Fights can drag on at times, but hey, they're raids. They do that.
It would be great if characters had more personality, or if raid groups could be bigger, or if character abilities were more varied. For the price, though, those aren't complaints - just wishes for a DLC/sequel someday.
I really like the game so far. It's been interesting to get into the mindset of a kind of manegement position for these "raids" rather than being able to control anybody's actions directly. This game has so far been full of funny moments (when a healer alt tabs right before finishing a big heal is great).
I have a couple of critisisms though.
Switching tanks mid-fight seems so difficult as to not even be worth the effort. One of my warriors has one extra piece of gear over my secondary tank and that seems to be enough for him to take aggro on every creature even if he isn't attacking it.
Only being able to make one command in a turn can get really brutal when things go wrong (if more than one player decides to switch roles, for example). It would be nice to be able to do more in a given turn even if it was only sometimes.
I'd like to see more flavor in the combat log, more classes, more raid abilaties, more everything I guess. I'm excited to see if this game continues to grow after release.
This game is more than worth the price of entry and I will be spending a lot more time with it in the future.
If you have enjoyed an MMORPG in the past then this will probably bring back some memories, lighthearted nostalgia and quite humorous to see ranged DPS trying to tank and members pets assume command of their keyboard.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Parody Games, LLC |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 75% положительных (107) |