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What do you consider the best eurojank game?
- Thread starter Baphomet
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What's the definition of a "Eurojank" game? It's buggy and from Europe?
I would assume Stalker, which is one of the best games ever made, fits that mold? Probably?
I would assume Stalker, which is one of the best games ever made, fits that mold? Probably?
Gothic 3, if you like big worlds.
Gothic 2, if you value story more than exploration.
Both are amazing eurojank =)
Gothic 2, if you value story more than exploration.
Both are amazing eurojank =)
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. Hilariously broken at release, and one of the best games ever made.
I thought Elex was really solid when i played it earlier this year. Probably not the best though. Maybe Gothic or Stalker.
I keep reading about it yet when I check some info and screenshots it just looks and sounds unappealing.
What makes it so compelling? I do want to pick it up on Steam finally.
Hell, I'll back you up on Elex.
I also liked Outward (Canadajank?) and Greedfall too.
Edit: To elaborate more, I really like Elex for a lot of the same reasons that I like Fallout: New Vegas in terms of story and quest design. I like Outward for its unshamed leanings into survival-mechanics in making a difficult RPG (instead of doing something more combat-oriented like a Souls game). Greedfall for landing somewhat close to the Bioware rpg of ten years ago.
It's either Metro or Witcher3. For me they 'fail' in the gameplay department and are overall ugly though their bugs, but the artwork, story and lore more than make up for it. Metro but with the gameplay of Wolfenstein, or Witcher with Breath of the Wild would be a game of the generation for sure
Properly modded it's an extremely atmospheric semi-open world survival game, in which the AI moves about the world doing its own thing. The world is gloriously hostile - walking into an anomaly will kill you. Walking in to a high rad zone will kill you. Not spotting some bandits will kill you. A pack of wild dogs will kill you as you panickedly fumble shells into your high end auto shotgun because you forgot to reload earlier. It's not frustratingly difficult, but it maintiains a sense of threat right to the end, even as you rampage about the place in power armour armed with a fully automatic shotgun and scoped assault rifle. But more than anything, it's the glorious sense of post-Soviet decay and supernatural weirdness that the game positevly drips with that has kept me coming back to the series.
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That's what I was thinking , people consider Witcher 3 eurojank?
Maaaan I forgot about E.Y.E. I feel like that game had quite a bit of hype/word of mouth around the release on PC forums.
My man! (Although Gothic 2's story is garbage compared to Gothic 1). But Gothic 2 TNoR is god-tier eurojank. Closely followed by Risen 1 and Elex. World, exploration, rewarding (character) progression is ace in those games.
I love PB games (even the trash Risen 2 and Risen 3 games have something many open-world games can't get right today: rewarding and meaningful exploration).
+1 to ELEX.
Elex is the embodiment of eurojank. Piranha Bytes made 6 games before Elex, most of them using the exact same game formula with few tweaks.
Somehow, 16 years after Gothic 1, they make a scifi/post apoc/fantasy Breath of the Wild with jetpacks, and it still has the same janky feel of the games they made 16 years ago. I love it!
Elex is the embodiment of eurojank. Piranha Bytes made 6 games before Elex, most of them using the exact same game formula with few tweaks.
Somehow, 16 years after Gothic 1, they make a scifi/post apoc/fantasy Breath of the Wild with jetpacks, and it still has the same janky feel of the games they made 16 years ago. I love it!
it was way ahead of its time. Semi open world (big maps), revolutionary AI but so bugged it often blocked progression (all ai had agenda and would wander around independant of player, making hilarious organic encounters as factions would drop and fight between themselves or bugs when important NPC would randomly disapear and die in a map corner or undermap.
It oozes atmosphere too as the setting was unique and very pretty for its time. The game offered a unique freedom of choices when dealing with missions for it was open ended level design and you could more or less play it like a RPG, betraying factions etc...
It also had very spooky levels (underground labs) akin to horror games with insane enemies that would really make you shit your pants when you encountered them in a dark rusty corridor only your flashlight as a light source.
It also had anomalies : paranormal phenomenoms generated by the high radiation exposures. Some were invisible but created hazard as you walk in : you had to throw bolts to find a safe passage through the reaction. Others were more flashy but most of them had the artefact in their heart you could loot and equip for powerful effects or sell for good cash.
Gun play was insane too : it was hard. Guns were shit lol you had a lot of choice of ammo for every situation like vs flesh or vs armor, it had dispertion model, ballistic model etc... It was frustration at first because guns were shit but when you master it and got good guns it was soooo good
Made by Americans clearly working in the eurojank aesthetic brought over by their ancestors during colonial times.
ELEX jetpacks are the best thing ever. Every video game needs jetpacks.
Eurojank is in a really interesting position nowadays, in that it's unique qualifier isn't the jank anymore (that's just most western games now) but instead it's the redeeming qualities. Eurojank is the missing AA games, the not-quite-indie but also not watered down and catering to the absolutely lowest common denominator, like most AAA does.
Also Gothic 2 is still the best, followed by ELEX.
Also Gothic 2 is still the best, followed by ELEX.
How do we define eurojank games?
Let's try this: (Primarily) roleplaying games produced by small European studios; creative direction of hard fantasy settings that are realized through complex systems (immersive sim) and allow player choice; gameplay mechanics and animations are serviceable at best due to a lack of specialized staffers and limited funds.
can we build on this?
Let's try this: (Primarily) roleplaying games produced by small European studios; creative direction of hard fantasy settings that are realized through complex systems (immersive sim) and allow player choice; gameplay mechanics and animations are serviceable at best due to a lack of specialized staffers and limited funds.
can we build on this?
That's perfect! Swedes and Finns already say yankee that way.
Sounds fair. I don't think it needs to be a role-playing game although they usually end up that way. I typically see Eurojank as a genre of games characterized by ambition and technical shortcomings, often due to a lack of budget. You can also have non-European Eurojank, e.g. Alpha Protocol or Outward.
Metro 2033 and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series are good examples of first person Eurojank shooters I'd say. For role-playing games there are so many great games, from Divinity II (the action RPG) to Kingdom Come.
Biggest jank i've played in the past 15 years and it's not even from europe.
