Thread 723787884

This shit sucks

>>723787884 (OP)
as soon as one of my zoomer friends said he thought it was good, I knew it'd be utter dogshit

Cool art style/aesthetic. Good premise that they play far too restrained. Poor combat mechanics that lead you to spamming levitate. 5/10.

>>723787884 (OP)
>triple ayy scp ripoff, but hr is in the room so it can't be anything interesting it's just ghosty TVs and shit
>shooter where enemies stand around and do nothing for a full 3 seconds out of every 5 because god forbid something kills you
>marvel slop dialogue, exposition monologue
>puzzles is pick box and put in box shaped hole. that's it, there's nothing else
>AI generated passive tree with boring stat increases
>game requires top end pc to play properly, runs terribly and looks like a PS3 game at best
>every zone is the same concrete copy paste hallway
>built in vaseline smear on the screen, truly next gen visuals
>story is bland and mc makes a point to explain everything to sub room temperature iq audience
Yep, it's a playstation game alright.

>>723788204
Launch* even. Forgot what it was called.

>>723787884 (OP)
I was enjoying it, then I stopped playing for weeks...came back to it and I have NO FUCKING CLUE where to go. I got up to the part where you save and cage her brother and now I legit don't know where to go...haven't played it since.

>>723788204
This. I got so tired of the same 5 enemy encounters, I maxed telekinesis and spammed object throws to wipe out entire rooms. Everything else is cool but the gameplay is ass.

>>723788303
Even when I was playing I still got lost multiple times because the map is strange and mission details aren't very specific.

>>723787884 (OP)
It gets better around the time you can float about

Its too girlbossy but I thought the game was pretty fun. The goofy scientist videos grew on me.

>>723787884 (OP)
I agree. Easily their worst game.
I especially can't believe how bad the dialog is. What happened to Sammy?

>>723788204
Accurate.

>>723787884 (OP)
Its entirely fine. Combat is cool for a little while then boring. Builds were pointless. The lore might have been cool but buried beneath too much. The actual story of the game was kinda uninteresting too. Really don't know peoples standards when they shill these kinda games.

Was half way through the Alan Wake dlc and it hit me that I was an hour or two away from dropping the game, so I left it and rushed as quickly as possible to the main story ending.

It's a little annoying because the gameplay is very close to being good and fun, but it falls flat.
Actually fighting the enemies is really boring, and not at all fun and interesting as it could be with the abilities we were given. If the combat was made by actually talented people it would have been amazing.
The world building and story is really good for a video game though, I will give it that. But I could never finish it because actually playing it was so boring.

Was there any point to those little containment rooms everywhere? Other than just having an item in there.

>>723787884 (OP)
Imagine that there are people on this planet, in your species, that would buy a game with THAT promotional art instead of something like a Souls game.
The moment I saw how the protag looked is when I lost all interest in this.

The best bit of the game is the jannie who is in it for 2mins. A jannie is the best character in the game.

>>723787884 (OP)
I had my fun with it, too bad you're miserable.

>>723789147
I can never take people who make negative remarks about her appearance seriously. She looks good, and let's not pretend that if anyone who looked like that showed even a passing interest in any of the /v/irgins in this thread, they wouldn't fall for her hard.

>>723787884 (OP)
Yep, one of the worst games I've ever played. It's essentially a tech demo. It was even bundled with GPUs at the time. Crap story. Too sci-fi from the start too, doesn't drag you into it. They clearly just put a bunch of things together to showcase their engine. The only positive thing about the game is that it gave me an early warning to stay away from Remedy and their other shit games like Alan Woke 2 and the upcoming Max Payne reboot failure.

if i did not like this would I like alan wake 2?

>spec into throwing
>just throw shit at people all game
Was fun

It takes a lot of talent to create a mythical shape shifting god weapon and have it transform into handgun, shotgun and smg. Very exciting stuff. Happy the developers are not going through a financial crisis right now because of poor decisions and their obsession of making TV over good gameplay.

>>723788686
Yeah it's really retarded and confusing for no reason but I guess the excuse is the building is always changing or some retarded shit like that, or it's alive idek, honestly don't remember much from the story as it's been quite some time since I played. But I do remember constantly having to backtrack a lot of and constantly looking at the map.

Careful, pointing out Remedy's games all suck really annoys poseurs. Regardless, they'll be shut down soon enough.

>>723789884
The House doesn't change layout after you went through a place. The map is just dogshit and incapable of showing verticality properly

>>723787884 (OP)
I started it twice but dropped it both times towards the end
Also the protag is trannified

>>723788227
>>game requires top end pc to play properly
That's just a fucking lie,I am playing on the deck and it runs great

>>723787884 (OP)
i played it for a few hours and didn't care for it so never finished it. i've grown to dislike anything remedy ever since alan wake 1

>>723787884 (OP)
>>723787950
>confirmed for never even playing

>Remedy
Gameplay wise, they really peaked at Max Payne 2.

incredible introduction.
graphics, setting, mystery - great.

it all goes to shit as soon as you meet the first npc though

>>723787884 (OP)
if they were going to do an scp ripoff they should've made it weirder. you spend 90% of the game fighting generic zombie-type guys. the scps are basically all just "it's a normal household item...but it has superpowers!" even the random readable logs you find lying around are boring. the most memorable part of the game is the vhs series because that's the only thing that feels properly weird and creepy

people say "play this if you like SCP" is this true?

>>723793112
Yes. Same with Abiotic Factor.

>>723793112
the setting is literally the FBI UIU
they blatantly plagiarise from the scp wiki to try and make their game more interesting

>>723793112
Yeah, you get to play as the boss of the SCP foundation pretty much. Just don't expect any actually interesting objects, it's mostly shit like "this fridge makes people go insane oooOOOoooOOOO"

>>723787884 (OP)
It's insane how much of the discussion about this game has been people obsessing over the story/lore when the plot is razor-thin and the lore/worldbuilding is just shallow set-dressing. The game plays like shit, though. 5-6 hour linear game that they decided to stretch out to 15 hours with filler and a pointless empty free-roam world and MMO-tier side quests.

This game would be 10 times better if they removed respawning enemies , scaled back the combat in general and focused more on platforming and engaging puzzles.

The combat is flashy , but gets old really fast. It's just so annoying backtracking through a previous area and fighting the same enemies over and over again every god damn time. It just feels tedious.

>>723793112
they were not very creative with the concept of spooky objects that act in mysterious ways that need to be scientifically studied and CONTROL'd

it's maybe an 8/10. one of the few, true 3D Metroidvanias. Souls shit is generally not
sounds like (You)'re getting filtered somewhere

>>723787884 (OP)
Some parts were really good. I still remember the mirror, the ashtray maze and the chase of the janitor into the basement. But the combat was really bad, and I regulary replay the original Alan Wake and enjoy the fighting there... And don't get met started on the supid upgrade system via random loot drops in a fucking singleplayer game. They could have made something really cool with the premise, but most of it is just lost opportunity and falls flat. Real shame.

>>723789147
>stop liking anything i don't like, please play the 9th sequel of my nigga with a sword game

>>723789272
Literally looks like a man with a wig. And I don't mean that in a /v/tard way where any realistic looking woman gets called a tranny by chuds. Her entire facial structure is that of a man. I don't know what else to tell you

>>723793147
ugh. scp ruined abiotic factor. its like how multiverse slop automatically destroys a story. luckily the level design goes to shit way before SCPshit takes over

>>723787884 (OP)
One of the biggest astroturfed piles of shit I have ever witnessed. Holy fuck.

>>723787884 (OP)
I did episode 1 of Alan Wake last night and the gameplay seems mediocre while the writing is dogshit. Does it get any better? If I feel the need to drop it do I skip to American Nightmare or Control?

>>723796292
they're all shit anon. they're all memes

>>723796568
What a shame
I'll play it a bit more to see if it's drop-worthy but I'm not impressed. Especially by how Mr. Best-Selling-Author writes at a fourth grade level

>>723787884 (OP)
Ugly female character.
Will never play.

>>723794426
Liking dogshit =/= having different tastes

>>723789272
Her actress is hot, sure, but they trannyfied her in game model to hell and back.

>>723787884 (OP)
it's just another slop meant for people who play games like
>prototype
>infamous
>quantum break
etc
Super power roaming slop with a story only interesting to niggers

>>723797313
her actress, while much better than her tranny scanface, still has an anvil-chin

>>723787884 (OP)
Why do you play games with ugly woman, dont play those games.

>>723796292
What do you not like about the writing?
>skip to American Nightmare
I didn't care for it.

>>723787884 (OP)
>a SCP type of game, but instead of fighting monsters who can destroy our World in different dimensions/locations with the help of a squad, you're a bitch who fight 90% humans who were infected by some "thing"
how to take a cool idea and run it into the ground

>>723797756
Sure, that just means she'll give you chad sons. Just look at her next to the in game model and it's clear they uglied her up.

>>723798067
I guess I should say the truly dogshit part is Alan's in-universe writing and somewhat the character of Alan himself. The rest so far just seems mediocre, most everything is a hollow reference to Stephen King or Twin Peaks. They're trying to pull an unreliable narrator but then they drain half the mystery out of that at the end of the first chapter, when Alan appears on a tv and rants about exactly why he needs everything happen this way. It's only Episode 1 so we'll se how it goes.
Also the Twilight Zone parody was kinda cute

>>723787884 (OP)
Have they made a mod to fix her jaw? If not, I'm not playing.

Sam Lake aka Sam Puddle is a HACK SHITTER

>>723797792
FOMOs are the worst

>>723798183
>manjaw genes
Games aren't dating apps and I don't do eugenetics. A woman has to look good

>>723798589
>Also the Twilight Zone parody was kinda cute
Yeah, there is more of that later. Control also has a puppet show and video logs that are filmed IRL.

>>723799250
That kids show was the creepiest thing of the entire game, I could not make it further than 5 seconds of one episode

>>723798183
>it's clear they uglied her up.
No it isn't. I think she's hot in the game and IRL, perhaps unconventionally attractive but attractive none the less.

>>723799496
Jesse ingame for comparison. Seems like a pretty close scan to me, I will admit though the soccer mom haircut they gave her does her no favors.

kyuuute

I still don’t understand why they hid all the boss fights behind sidequests

>>723797792
So it turns out the lookism incels on this board are third worlders. Who could have guessed?

>>723787884 (OP)
It's a great game, actually.
I just ignore anyone that brings up her appearance, or anything remotely politically related, and can have a good time discussing the game here. /pol/ tourists will never talk about the game in good faith.

>>723800092
The gameplay is fun but I got truly tired of it by the 15 hour mark. I never touched the DLCs cause I can't possibly care about Alan Wake nor did I wanna do a roguelite mode
Did all the sidequest bosses though

The game has two fatal flaws as far as I'm concerned.

1. The game doesn't give you a map and the world is built in a way that's very annoying to navigate without it. If the game simply had one of those little diorama maps like in Metroid Prime it would instantly be noticeably more enjoyable and feel like a chore less often
>but dude you can just follow the signs
Yes, I realize you can follow the signs but that's an annoying way to do it
2. Your weapons are all kind of shitty and it feels like you have to use the telekinesis ability to do any appreciable amount of damage, so the combat ends up feeling very samey throughout since you're just using this one very simplistic ability through most of the game.

There's other problems besides those two, honestly the game would be better off if they just stripped 90% of the RPG shit and 90% of the sidequests. Returnal is a game plays a lot like Control without the annoying shit and it's a much more enjoyable experience

>>723800270
Returnal has the exact same problem that they should have stripped out 90% of the game. The roguelite shit is entirely pointless and serves no purpose other than to get normalfags to say "whoa you do another run how novel"

>>723799803
t. projecting from his basement
nobody normal want ugly shit on his screen, troonella
12/10 sexy hot babe or gtfo

>>723800483
"t." means signed by, if you're trying to use it to epically pwn somebody, you should use meme arrows to imply he is signing his post like that
Have a great day!

>>723787884 (OP)
it's a decent premise, but despite the promise of weird SCP shit, the House is surprisingly dull
the combat is serviceable but nothing to write home about
and the story just sort of stops
I'd at least consider playing a sequel since I liked the premise, but it's barely mediocre
Take Control is pretty great, though

>>723800386
>The roguelite shit is entirely pointless
the roguelite shit IS Returnal, it's a game about getting high scores like Resogun and Super Stardust. the story shit was just included because the average midwit wouldn't want to buy a game based around playing the game, this is a direct quote from the devs

>>723800670
Wrong, the gunplay IS Returnal. It's a game about having fun firefights with well-designed enemies
>it's a game about getting high scores
Then make it a game about getting high scores, not a roguelite with some lip service to permanent progression upgrades
>story shit
I don't care one way or another
It's a linear game that's padded out with roguelite shit to draw in normalfags who never played any
It actually would have been better as a run-based game like you're pretending it was

>>723800779
>It actually would have been better as a run-based game like you're pretending it was
I mean, you're gonna clear the story in about 6-8 hours, from that point onward it just becomes a run-based game. If you just played through the story once and didn't touch it after that I can see how you felt ripped off

>>723800948
>from that point onward it just becomes
Thanks for conceding. All the roguelite shit is entirely superfluous
A run-based game should not have you play 10 times first to randomly unlock the chance to unlock a potential future upgrade

Jesse a cute.
>>723800270
>Your weapons are all kind of shitty
I never switched from the Pierce form during my playthrough.

>>723800582
>Take Control was pretty great, though
Agreed. I wish there was some more segments like that scattered throughout the game.

>>723801013
>A run-based game should not have you play 10 times first to randomly unlock the chance to unlock a potential future upgrade
That's every roguelike

>>723787884 (OP)
It's a journo game

>>723801186
Roguelite*
And yes, normal roguelites have good upgrades to unlock or buy between runs. This doesn't
100% of your power comes from the gun level on your run. The roguelite shit just pads out the game and lets you get "10% damage while having a malfunction" kinda shit. It should have been cut entirely
Again, good game with great combat, completely let down by devs shoehorning in dogshit to chase a trend

>>723801324
>Roguelite
nobody says that

>just ran out of arguments and is blatantly baiting now
k

>>723801324
>Some players and developers sought a more narrow definition for "roguelike" as variations on Rogue introduced new concepts or eschewed other principles that they felt moved the games away from the flavor of what Rogue was.[13] At the International Roguelike Development Conference 2008 held in Berlin, Germany, players and developers established a definition for roguelikes known as the "Berlin Interpretation".[16][17][18] The Berlin Interpretation set out a set of high-value and low-value factors, basing these lists on five canon roguelike games: ADOM, Angband, Linley's Dungeon Crawl, NetHack, and Rogue. The Interpretation was designed to determine "how roguelike a game is", noting that missing a factor does not eliminate a game from being a roguelike, nor does possessing the features make a game roguelike.[16][18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roguelikes

The developers of Rogue have said that the purity testing for the genre is retarded by the way

>>723800551
Thanks anon.

I like to boot it up from time to time to wreck havoc in that huge vertical open map with two tall trees in the middle
game has great environmental destruction and vfx (sparks, volumetric dust and smoke)
remedy still cant into facial expressions tho, but at least is not as bad as first alan wake

>>723787884 (OP)
nah it was fun but too autistic at times, like just let me go and shoot bad guys with cool gun and powers instead of being stuck in a maze

>>723802490
>sparks, volumetric dust and smoke
That stuff looked great. Made everything look a little washed out but still once you're used to it, it looks really cool. Levitating stuff and blasting it across the room was the best part.

>>723787884 (OP)
Yeah...
>>723793112
No. It's the most PR-friendly version of the foundation that I've ever seen, to the point that it makes you wonder what was even the point.
The storyline especially deserves a mention:
I don't know who in the writing team got the idea that the MC should be able to stand along eldritch gods, but it's painfully stupid when you're trying to have themes of cosmic horror.
To be clear, I don't mind the director of the FBI making deals with Cthulhu, hell, that should be expected in that kind of setting, but if the foundation can just strongarm gods into doing what they want then what's the point of playing as them?
They should be making pointlessly evil sacrifices in exchange for lesser magical services, not get good deals that help humanity. You can even have the MC partially fix what they did in the past, but you can't "fix" the balance of power when things being outside of humanity's control is half the point of the genre

>>723800270
either you didn't play it or just watched someone play it poorly because the game does have a map and the weapons work well if you hit sensitive spots or use the right weapons on the right enemies

>>723787884 (OP)
Remedy lucked out with the first Max Payne and ever since it's been downhill starting with Max Payne 2 which was dogshit.

>>723802490
>>723804329
when i upgraded to 3060 long time ago my first game was control and played it with ray tracing and it looked so fucking good and cool
atmosphere of this game was pretty good

>>723796894
You suggesting a overhyped souls game instead is laughable.