Chapter 498: Fuck—! The Horde is Spooked! |
"Too fucking cool ahhhhhhh—! Awesome—!!!"
The moment the trailer finished playing!
Pew could no longer contain his surging excitement and roared directly in his livestream chat!
That's right, this is exactly the flavor!
The unique Golden Wind style of mysterious and obscure storytelling, the eerie and horrifying monster designs, and that spine-chilling horror atmosphere creation!
An unprecedented, immersive horror game experience is waiting for his exploration!
And!
The most crucial thing is!
This time—
The chat barrage was also filled with gasps of astonishment at this moment!
Holy shit, multiplayer co-op shooting horror! This is a complete direct competitor to Endless Dark Tide!
Rather than saying it's a competitor to Endless Dark Tide, it's more like a continuation of their own Left 4 Dead's formula.
Co-op multiplayer is exactly what I've been looking forward to! My friends are in for a treat now!
Probably because Little Yellow saw how popular that Left 4 Dead mod has been lately, so he just used new tech to create a whole new game.
"Hiss— makes sense, Little Yellow's tech now is definitely something to talk about..."
'Phoenix's visuals are already the Old Thief's go-to horror game engine.'
That's not the important part! The important part is Aurora Games' enhanced panoramic spatial audio! Look at the last line in the trailer! This game definitely has something to do with sound!
'Top-tier audio-visual experience, just thinking about it gets me hyped.'
"Don't get hyped yet! Look at this game's price, something even more exciting is coming—!"
......
And as the viewers discussed!
In the livestream chat, Pew had already eagerly followed the link provided in the email and entered the Yiyou Gaming Platform store page!
Click!
As the four stark white, mottled, paint-brushed letters 【GTFO】 jumped out, the game page also leaped onto the livestream!
Price: $40 per copy!
That's right!
This time, to deliver a fatal blow to Phantom Dream, this newly released "GTFO" was directly priced at half of CloudPower's "Endless Dark Tide"!
You're selling it for eighty, huh? Then I'll start directly at a fifty percent discount, forty bucks a copy!
After all, anyone with eyes can see my game is specifically targeting your "Endless Dark Tide"!
With such a direct comparison, which is superior and which is inferior is naturally clear at a glance!
"Daaaaaaamn—!!!"
Seeing the price, Pew was stunned, even a Black exclamation was scared out of him:
"Only forty? Damn, I bought 'Endless Dark Tide'! Don't do this, GW! This makes me look like a fool!"
Pew is, after all, a streamer, and Endless Dark Tide was indeed hot when it first released, so he bought the game immediately.
But now it seems—
That eighty bucks was indeed a bit of a sucker's purchase.
After all, after buying "Endless Dark Tide," he only streamed it for two days, with less than eight hours of playtime.
After that, he was completely engrossed in Left 4 Dead's MOD maps, and was even just playing them earlier.
He originally thought "Endless Dark Tide" would just collect dust and probably never be mentioned again.
But then!
Golden Wind backstabbed him!
It was like picking at a scab!
If you had told me earlier you planned to bring Old Miles back, I wouldn't have wasted that sucker money!
This game!
Crafted by Golden Wind's First Studio, Golden Experience Studio!
The most authentic, orthodox horror experience!
Personally directed by Gu Sheng, with the national symphony orchestra lending their full support again, the classic protagonist Miles makes his return!
You should be the one selling it for eighty bucks!
Pew rolled his eyes.
He thought about refunding "Endless Dark Tide," but it had already exceeded the game refund policy's time limit.
"...I'm fucking speechless,"
Finally, Pew could only let out a long sigh, helplessly and indignantly curling his lip:
"Absolutely no more impulse purchases from now on."
Hearing this, the viewers naturally erupted in laughter—
Victory for the wait-and-see faction!
"Good thing my playtime on Endless Dark Tide hasn't exceeded two hours yet! Refund it immediately!"
"The money refunded is even enough to buy two GTFOs (doge)."
"Rounded up, it's like getting a free game from Little Yellow and making a clean forty bucks profit."
"Profited big time!"
"Hahahahahahahahaha..."
"So, don't blindly believe in industrial quality upgrades in the future either; gameplay is still the number one priority for games."
"True, although Little Yellow has been constantly upgrading his industrial quality, gameplay has always been the top priority."
"GW has always been a gameplay-first company from the start, otherwise they wouldn't have made a masterpiece like My World."
"Hand-crafting without an engine back then really shocked me."
"Sigh... if it weren't for the blockade, how explosive would the effect be if GW got Early Access to Phantom Dream VI..."
"So yeah, engine suppliers really shouldn't act all high and mighty; if the game sucks, the engine being awesome is still useless..."
"Phantom Dream is all about stubbornly holding on; their stock price is almost in the gutter, yet they still won't retract this shitty current pricing policy."
"They're also in too deep; they can only keep going down this dark path."
"What a waste of this technology."
"Whatever, honestly, I don't really feel this technology is that amazing either; at best, it's just a bit more refined than Yiyou's external full-sensory assist."
"That's because you used it in a CloudPower motion-sensing pod; CloudPower doesn't have full-sensory assist. Try it with Yiyou? Reality Augmentation + full-sensory assist! You'd be flying!"
"Picked the wrong side, that's what you get."
"My rating is: Konik, when are you going to ()?"
"Support."
"Hard not to agree..."
"Hahahahahaha..."
"Here we go! Pew's loaded in! GTFO—"
......
"Staaaaart—!!!"
As the audience discussed.
Over here, Pew had also completed purchasing and loading the game.
And Jack, who had just been teaming up with him, naturally joined the squad.
"Damn, this game... the Golden Wind flavor is way too strong..."
Just entering the character loadout screen, Jack gasped sharply, his tone tinged with a bit of cowardly panic.
It could be seen that the game's overall style was gloomy and obscure.
The flickering, blurry opening screen was like nightmare fragments.
The occasionally distorting and flickering loadout interface resembled the signal fluctuations of an old, big-butt CRT TV.
Golden Wind's signature, ever-present hollow sounds, enhanced by the panoramic spatial audio technology, made one even more uneasy.
Typical Gu-style horror game aesthetics.
Unlike other horror games that only start building the horror atmosphere when the main story begins.
Golden Wind's horror games often start instilling terror in players the moment the game is launched.
Creating a thrilling atmosphere has always been their greatest specialty.
"I need to pick something fierce!"
As the fear and unease in his heart grew more severe, Jack planned to find some balance in his weapons.
Because it's well known!
The source of fear is insufficient firepower!
As long as the firepower is fierce enough, no monsters or ghosts are to be feared!
Therefore, Jack's requirement for weapons was— not necessarily the best, but definitely the fiercest!
"Hmm— I'll use a rifle plus a machine gun, and bring a machine gun turret!"
After browsing for a while, Jack finalized his weapon loadout, then scratched his head again:
"That's it, although the way this game classifies primary and secondary weapons for loadouts is a bit strange..."
Indeed.
Compared to conventional FPS games, GTFO's weapon classification is slightly different.
In typical FPS games, the "primary weapon" is usually a long gun with fierce firepower, high damage, and strong burst potential.
Like assault rifles, heavy sniper rifles, shotguns, etc.
And "secondary weapons" are lightweight weapons like pistols, PDWs, hand cannons, etc.
But GTFO does the opposite!
Lightweight firepower like pistols and submachine guns are defined as the "primary weapon."
While its "secondary weapons" are guns like heavy machine guns, heavy sniper rifles, shotguns, etc.
Moreover, on top of that, GTFO's weapon equipment separately lists melee cold weapons.
Large hammer, small knife, spear, spiked club— four cold weapons in total.
And all four initial cold weapons are available from the start, unlike some guns in the primary/secondary weapons that need to be unlocked through gameplay.
Jack could sense that this design seemed to contain a certain hint from Golden Wind.
But what exactly the hint pointed to, he hadn't figured out yet.
But whatever, my firepower is fierce anyway!
Jack thought, feeling confident and unafraid.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Pew had also completed his loadout—
Primary weapon was a machine pistol, looking like a cross between an Uzi and a power drill, which also fit the "all weapons in GTFO are modified from mining equipment" setting.
Secondary weapon was a pump-action shotgun.
Special equipment, same as Jack, was also a machine gun turret.
A conventional loadout.
It could be said that Pew and Jack's configurations were the choice of ninety percent of players experiencing GTFO for the first time.
Because when players have never encountered this type of game before, their first instinct is definitely to bring weapons with "high rate of fire, high power," and special equipment that is "fierce in firepower" and "strong in support."
As for special equipment like the "bio-tracker" that "can detect life signs," and the "foam launcher" that "can reinforce doors and impede monster hordes"?
Things that deal absolutely no damage don't hold much interest for players to choose.
"Alright, I'm ready!"
Here, Pew equipped all his weapons:
"How about you over there?"
"I'm OK too,"
Jack confirmed there was nothing he missed:
"Let's go!"
With that!
Both simultaneously selected the 【Dispatch】 option!
As the option marker's progress bar trembled and filled up—!
Whoosh—! Rumble—!
As the screen before their eyes abruptly plunged into darkness!
The next second!
Accompanied by the clanking sound of massive machinery operating!
Pew felt a wave of damp, cold air hit him.
With the support of top-tier sound technology, he could easily tell he seemed to be inside a huge, hollow space.
The mechanical sounds from overhead stretched all the way down to his empty feet below, emitting unsettling echoes.
"Hiss— Huu—"
At this moment, Pew realized how realistic the trailer was.
His current nervous deep breathing was exactly the same as in the trailer.
It's not that he's cowardly.
After all, Pew is a seasoned horror game streamer.
But right now, being in this cold, vast, empty environment, feet dangling, eyes blindfolded, anyone would inevitably feel tense.
Squelch—
And just in the midst of breathing!
As the sound of dripping, sprinkling water from above started, the pitch black before his eyes was dispelled, and Pew slowly opened his eyes....