Hey Red...

Fossilmaiden

...We're not going to get away with this, are we?

LOAD Cherry

I really wanna replay this when I get the PS4. No computer lag to ruin the experience

Yarrun XIX

Hey, Cerise didn't make this thread

Yarrun XIX

i  wish there was a video on youtube that's just Reisz's ranting

LOAD Cherry

I find it funny and flattering that you assumed I was the OP

One-Winged Eagle

stop making me cry, supergiant

LOAD Cherry

Please give me more feelings, Supergiant

Tre

I need to play both Bastion and this.

I own Bastion but haven't redeemed it; Transistor is probably one I'll pick up down the road.

Fossilmaiden

transistor is literally 80% off on steam right now, so :P

Klinotaxis

the cops are pretty harsh on unlicensed motorcyclists

Haven

seconds march into the past

the moment's past

but just like that

they're gone

the river alwaaaaays finds the seaaaaa

eriophora zia

Tre said:

I need to play both Bastion and this.

I own Bastion but haven't redeemed it; Transistor is probably one I'll pick up down the road.

Do it, do it!

Full disclosure: the "Zia" part of my name is because of Bastion. Great game. Transistor is also quite good, and has a very fun weapons/combat system. 

One-Winged Eagle

I DIG THAT HOLE YOU BUILD A WALL

Yarrun XIX

Okay, HH

Bastion or Transistor? If you had to pick one.

Salix Babylonika

the latter

LOAD Cherry

For which you should play or which we prefer personally?

Obā-san

transistor, I haven't played it but I wasn't so huge on bastion so I figure

Yarrun XIX

I like Bastion a little better. Transistor's gameplay is deeper, the soundtrack in general is more my speed, and the lore is more my speed, but Bastion's plot feels a lot more comprehensible, the gameplay's simplicity works pretty well, the vocal songs are better integrated, and it feels less...constrained? -shrugs-

Yarrun XIX

Knightess Cerise said:

For which you should play or which we prefer personally?

latter

One-Winged Eagle

Bastion is more fun and more dear to my heart. I like it more in general.

Transistor has "better" music and better tone work in general, plus interesting ambiance and mechanics.

Yarrun XIX

Or better put

I like Transistor better as an art object, but I preferred the gameplay in Bastion a bit more

LOAD Cherry

I prefer transistor personally as its more up my alley, not to say bastion wasn't a wonderful use of the medium and dare I say it, a masterpiece.

I would argue perhaps that bastion is the better story of the two, but transistor the better game.

Haven

Knightess Cerise said:

I would argue perhaps that bastion is the better story of the two, but transistor the better game.

The two are such different experiences I don't know if they can really be compared beyond personal preference. Bastion is freewheeling, branching out, and exploring; Transistor is laser-focused, relentlessly linear. This is a parallel that goes from their basic aesthetics (a bumpy world that gives you a sense of infinity and boundlessness by assembling itself around you, compared to straight tron lines & right angles) to the game mechanics (freeform battle, or planning and executing a precise sequence of events) all the way to their endings--Bastion gives you choices at the ending, Transistor deliberately takes away the player's control and puts the final decision in Red's hands.  Bastion would be a (high budget) TV series; Transistor is a movie.

The biggest similarity is that both are about the end of the world, but even then: Bastion is post-apocalyptic, Transistor is apocalyptic. This is why Transistor ends with a suicide--apocalyptic thinking is a form of suicidal ideation--whereas one way or another, Bastion ends with a new beginning.

eriophora zia

Haven: that was an incredibly good post, and it put into words quite a few things I hadn't ever fully articulated about the games. 

I love when people say what I want to say, but do it better.