Chuck Berry
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle |OT| Fortune and Glory, kid. Fortune and Glory.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I don't know what's the consensus about the combat feeling and I couldn't care less.
I freaky love its weight and physics:
That's some good animation work.
PropellerEar
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If you've seen the opening of Raiders of the lost ark, you know there are some impaled people.Thats my thought as well. My daughter really dislikes cut scenes where folks are dying (note to self, stop playing COD6 in front of herand definitely will not like it if you are hurting dogs. But my son loves puzzles and knows how much I love Indy, so this could be a fun bit o'dad bonding time if you can pop in, solve some stuff, and pop out without the need to mow down hordes of nazis or deal with jump scare mummies or whatever.
I shot a guard dog, it died single shot.
Tested mugging the dog handler too, dog just kind of poofed in the air and disappeared.
So I guess that's an option
, but probably a bug.You can/need to mug ton of people to death depending on play style, very cheesable fights so far, killing whole level of guards by just running around with any stick, or a blunt object. Nothing that bloody.
Didn't get to any real puzzles, Im not that far in the game yet...
adamsapple
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kevboard
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I really like it so far. still at the Vatican, did a lot of the side missions, photographed some cats etc.
the only thing I really dislike are the typical modern AAA faux game mechanics. where button promts are there for the sake of button promts and not to offer any interesting gameplay mechanic or choice beyond hitting the button that's displayed.
but other than that it's a fun mix of old school adventure games, with a bit of Riddick, and a bit of Dishonored mixed in, and that's basically exactly what I wanted tbh.
the only thing I really dislike are the typical modern AAA faux game mechanics. where button promts are there for the sake of button promts and not to offer any interesting gameplay mechanic or choice beyond hitting the button that's displayed.
but other than that it's a fun mix of old school adventure games, with a bit of Riddick, and a bit of Dishonored mixed in, and that's basically exactly what I wanted tbh.
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Dusktildawn48
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This game runs insanely well on my 9800x3d and 4070 super PC. Dlss balanced 4k, everything maxed except texture pool at the 2nd highest due to vram.
is the side stuff easy to find or do you have to hunt for it?10 hours in.
This is a terrific Indy simulator (and personally I enjoy every second of it) but with some huge caveats and you'll need to calibrate your expectations accordingly to properly enjoy the game. For this purpose, I'm writing this review about what the game is not and what it truly is, because to me Microsoft and Bethesda presented the game poorly, inflated some expectations and misled people about the core stuff.
- First of all, Uncharted it is not. These are games in different genres. Uncharted is a bombastic world-tour romp with non-stop action and pristine production values, when Indy is a wonky game about exploring where you can easily spend 6-7 hours in your first location meticulously looking for secrets, clues and causally working with your notes and files. Where Uncharted is an action-adventure, Indiana is a Lucas Arts-inspired adventure-quest with immersive-sim overtones.
- Indiana is at its best with exploring, puzzles, sense of mystery, story and everything that it revolving around treasure hunting. This game goes above and beyond to show you how cunning Indy and you (player) are. This is the closest thing to a proper AAA adventure game that you will get, Lucas Arts fans! Levels are huge and full of truly smart secrets, tombs, side-quests and puzzles.
- That being said everything else that is not related to puzzles and exploring feels like an afterthought. Fistfights? They are Naked Gun-level comical and crude. Punches are random and weightless and you can incapacitate an entire military camp within a single door chokepoint. AI is nonexistent too, it's very basic and cheap set of scripts without any proximity awareness, so it's easy to unleash (sorry) a genocide on the whole map without any issues just with a single wooden club.
- There is no shooting in this game. Just hide the gun and pretend it not here.
- Stealth is so basic and bye-the-numbers (throw-a-bottle-rinse-and-repeat) that I would've gladly pay extra for DLC that removes it altogether.
- Platforming is serviceable, but that's the kindest word I can think about. Constant (and sudden) 1st/3rd person perspective shifts can confuse your timings and sense of depth a lot. That can result in some hilarious fails during the jumping puzzles. Stamina meter during climbing serves no purpose whatsoever, it just slows you down.
- Production values are sometimes comically off. Game could look terrific in one room and the completely fall apart to PS3-levels when you enter in the adjacent area. PT won't change much either. Some assets are clumsy, some animations are plain bad and even texture resolution is in the state of flux. That being said it works surprisingly fine without any bugs or broken scripts, but I'm on 4080 so my words mean very little.
If you can overlook said things and accept The Great Circle as a perfect adventure quest, then this is your GOTY by far. It is a game of a dying breed: true adventure exploring puzzler with proper production values, so I can overlook gameplay-related downsides. Thankfully there's not that many fights, elaborate jumps and stealth sections to be upset about, so you can enjoy your archeology quest in relative peace.
P.S. Kudos to MG/Bethesda for proper Cyrillic fonts. a very rare thing to see in a Western game.
Dang, M$ isn't letting mw buy the dig upgrade pack on my X. I have the gamepass version downloaded. Is the digital pack not supposed to be layered onto the gamepass version or is this some M$ bug?
Nevermind, it was a M$ bug. Their storefront is a little wonky. Its bought and running now.
Nevermind, it was a M$ bug. Their storefront is a little wonky. Its bought and running now.
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Chuck Berry
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Downloading 
Clintizzle
Lord of Edge.
If anyone wants to laugh.
adamsapple
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RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Goodamn! As an old bastard who grew up with Indiana Jones being the coolest of fucking dudes ever (joint with Solo tbh) it's soo great to see this game be an absolute knockout and hopefully it invigorates the franchise and we get more Indy games, man imagine a Fate of Atlantis done by these guys...
As for Harrison, we all know he's far too old to be reprising his Indy role for the movies and lets face it, he's irreplaceable, whilst I've enjoyed the last 2 geriatric outings, they're not a touch on the originals so if this is the only way we get to see new Indiana Jones adventures then so be it and Troy Baker has absolutely fucking nailed it voice acting wise, Christ the side by side on the DF review is nuts, the tone is just pitch perfect
Mattyp
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Honestly still surprises me anyone still pays full price for any gamepass game on steam.If anyone wants to laugh.
dem
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It really goes to show you the fomo some people are a slave to.
Like.. you have to wait 3 days. Get it together.
digoutyoursoul
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If anyone wants to laugh.
I’m hoping that’s simply a blue tick engagement grift and not a serious take from a middle aged man who eats deep pan pizzas whilst taking a shit.
BouncyFrag
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Why post fanboy garbage?If anyone wants to laugh.
At least wait till the real fucking launch.
Chuck Berry
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Performance has been rock solid on the S so far. I think it looks damn fucking good too.
The game already feels pretty special, especially if you’re a hardcore trilogy fan.
The game already feels pretty special, especially if you’re a hardcore trilogy fan.
fudgybrownie
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Is it not inclusive enough for Greg Miller?
Buggy Loop
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The xbox app is, last I tried it, pretty crap.. There was a bug back then that made it so you couldn't delete some games, stuck on SSD, had to format. I'm sure it's fixed by now (?) but yeah...
Chuck Berry
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adamsapple
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RIP Tony Todd
Amazing to see him actually mo-capping the character, not just his facial likeness.
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Mattyp
Not the YouTuber
I’m yet to have a single issue with it personally for anything digital, downloads game plays it tracks achievements, just Xbox front end in an app pretty much,
The xbox app is, last I tried it, pretty crap.. There was a bug back then that made it so you couldn't delete some games, stuck on SSD, had to format. I'm sure it's fixed by now (?) but yeah...
If you give it a look now you shouldn’t have any issues at all.
ManaByte
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He complained that the exploration was boring.
FeastYoEyes
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Pretty blown away frankly. Feels like a genuine Indy movie, even when you are just exploring. Hope it holds this the whole way through.
adamsapple
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The game director for this, Jerk Gustafsson, has had lineage all the way back to Riddick, which explains why it feels so close to those games.
Topher
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DF praised the graphics pretty highly.
adamsapple
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Digital Foundry were fans. Pushes RTGI on consoles, flawless performance, good IQ etc.
When the PC version's Path Tracing patch comes out, it's probably gonna get a notable bump.
FunkMiller
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Sigh. Can’t decide now whether to punt through this for a fun 12 hours before starting PoE 2, or leave it for later on down the line.
vaibhavpisal
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You decide:
-60 fps
-RTGI
-1800p on Series X/ 1080p on S. (high native res)
Usually games do 2 of these. This game somehow does all 3.
phant0m
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All bangers save for Old Blood. The Darkness slaps btw, don’t sleep on it if you have the opportunity to play it.The game director for this, Jerk Gustafsson, has had lineage all the way back to Riddick, which explains why it feels so close to those games.
Buggy Loop
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Bodes really well for Doom dark ages. Also image quality is up there even on consoles. RTGI typically will have a fuzziness/grain to it. This has removed almost all my annoyances with UE5 performances and image quality.
Never underestimate ID tech engine. Microsoft might be doing a mistake switching Halo to UE.
adamsapple
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FoxMcChief
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Dude!!!!!!The game director for this, Jerk Gustafsson, has had lineage all the way back to Riddick, which explains why it feels so close to those games.
He worked on The Darkness too!!!!!!
God damn!
My hype just intensified seeing his history.
GymWolf
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Din din din din, people prefer to pay full price than dealing with pc gamepass/xbox app.
The xbox app is, last I tried it, pretty crap.. There was a bug back then that made it so you couldn't delete some games, stuck on SSD, had to format. I'm sure it's fixed by now (?) but yeah...
Moses85
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Alfred Molina looks strange in the Game.
vaibhavpisal
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Well, I just watched trilogy for first time. To prepare for this.
RPS37
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TheSHEEEP
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I can only congratulate you on your discovery and choice to not bother with the newer ones.
vaibhavpisal
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They disappeared once this was out.Yall been feeding them trolls the crow?
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