Grey Goo

mats effect · Jan 2015

http://store.steampowered.com/app/290790/

Anyone else playing it? Its from the guys at Petroglyph (a lot of old C&C developers). Great to see that someone is still making good old RTS games.

skyline5gtr · Jan 2015

not yet, will get when it goes on sale im sure. Seems to be another RTS but im a massive fan of the genre. Nothing genre defining but still seems like a fun experience

Sastrei · Jan 2015

Saw it at PAX South, and heard one comment from the announcer in passing that threw me for a loop - something to the effect of "so you have flying units that you really have to use to scout the map out, and that's something that's really not been done before" - um...by every RTS ever?

Anyways, it looks like a solid little RTS, reminded me a lot of smaller scale StarCraft 1 levels, but nothing earth shattering.

-Stefan-

Muzzoid · Jan 2015

I need to pick it up, but im glad that someone is still doing classic rts games!

I hope it does well for them. That name is terrible though.

ambershee · Jan 2015

It looks like nothing special, but otherwise pretty good, so I may well pick it up at some point.

On a personal level, I was annoyed when they announced it as I was working on a prototype RTS called 'Grey Goo' at the time for my own reasons - except the 'grey goo' was intended to work much more like a real world grey-goo scenario, with a fluid-like construct that would attempt to deconstruct everything in it's path in order to multiply and spread further

Sastrei · Jan 2015

ambershee, you could always rename yours "Von Nuemann's Nightmare!" - Use "XTREME!" somewhere in the title and get a gravelly voiced WWE style announcer for bonus points.

ambershee · Jan 2015

It was actually Eric Dexler who coined the 'Grey Goo' scenario

Sastrei · Jan 2015

D'oh! I have to up my nerd game, thank you.

mats effect · Jan 2015

Gameplay is pretty standard RTS with nothing groundbreaking but everything is done really well, with the possible exception of some balance issues though I don't really play multiplayer RTS much.

Single player is really well presented too didn't think I would ever get another RTS with CGI cut scenes again!

Snader · Jan 2015

Hang on. I was under the impression that the goo faction could actually deconstruct enemies (not terrain and such, that would rather break the game/balance) for resources?

LRoy · Jan 2015

mats effect wrote: »

Single player is really well presented too didn't think I would ever get another RTS with CGI cut scenes again!

Yeah this is really cool. I was watching someone play through it and was surprised by how well they were done in between every mission.

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ambershee · Jan 2015

Snader wrote: »

Hang on. I was under the impression that the goo faction could actually deconstruct enemies (not terrain and such, that would rather break the game/balance) for resources?

Not really - they're still fundamentally bog-standard RTS units with all the normal behaviour:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qqBeuMlq9I#t=548)

Grey Goo

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