tommib
Member
I wonder if it will be consider for best graphics of the year. It’s not near HB2, sure, but still that quality mode on PS5 looks tremendous. Some of the best graphics I’ve seen recently. Can’t even imagine this on a beast PC rig.
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Still Wakes the Deep | Review Thread
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Luipadre
Member
quality mode is incredibly choppy and the motion blur is awful so you better off playing without it
Luipadre
Member
performance mode, motion blur off and 110 fov.
tommib
Member
Quality. It’s a walking simulator. Keep the motion blur. You want maximum image fidelity for this. Don’t listen to anyone else on this thread.
thatJohann
Member
haven't played this yet ,but when I do, I'm doing Quality mode. It's a walking sim, you want the most fidelity. you don't need to do parries or counters or anything requiring 60fps.
tommib
Member
Thank you for your sanity.
tommib
Member
Which console?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I would think if it was longer and added more "gameplay" like stuff, that it could have gotten a higher score. Like in the low 80s.
Luipadre
Member
Nah. These type of games doesnt need to be longer. 4-5 hours is a perfect lenght. Gameplay is fine for what it is
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
True, but that's why the final score will be in the 70s. I 100% loved their last game "Everybody's Gone to the Rapture", but it got a 78 on Metacritic. I'd give that game an 8.5, but I understand why their games don't score in the 80s though.
The limited scope and lack of that extra "gameplay" like stuff will keep their games scoring in the 70s. Which isn't terrible by the way.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Oof, the motion blur in this game fucking sucks. Especially if you're playing at 30 Quality.
Turn that shit off asap.
Turn that shit off asap.
SimTourist
Member
Good game, the setting kinda reminds me of Cryostasis if anyone else even remembers that game.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Bit of a photo-dump.
Enjoying my time with the game so far. The voice acting is fantastic. Everyone on the rig talks to each other incredibly naturally, it feels like they were all in the recording booth at the same time.
^ No idea why he has baby hands, but it is what it is.
Enjoying my time with the game so far. The voice acting is fantastic. Everyone on the rig talks to each other incredibly naturally, it feels like they were all in the recording booth at the same time.
^ No idea why he has baby hands, but it is what it is.
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SpearHea.:D
Member
Finished it, loved it. Amazing game. Perfect length, voice acting and like the body horror. The lift section rising up was wowser. Ignore the reviews and play it guys.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I checked us out on YouTube and the game looks great. Very Lovecraftian.
I love games like this.
I love games like this.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Got a good PC so I'll be maxing this at 4k. Screenshots look amazing. Downloading thourhg GamePass PC
Anyone recommend mouse or controller?
Anyone recommend mouse or controller?
Luipadre
Member
controller imo. more comfy
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Fanks, will use dualsense and lean back for this one.
Bloobs
Al Pachinko, Konami President
lol what. It looks alright. Im playing on SX in performance mode and a lot of effects are still 30 which look real stupid and ugly.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Unless the PS5 version looks notably better, the SX Quality Mode just looks alright to me. IQ is kinda muddy and character models are early to mid PS4 gen at best. Some nice graphical effects but nothing here that I would put in a top 3 graphics of the year, personally.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Bruhhh .. there's an achievement for beating the entire game with the language set to Scottish Gaelic, lol.
Bloobs
Al Pachinko, Konami President
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
And done. Neat little game. Needed to do 2 full runs through the game, as there are achievements for playing through the game start to finish with the Scottish Gaelic langauge *and* there's an achievement for beating the entire game without sprinting more than 10 mins, which I paired together for the second run.
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John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
Are we allowed subtitles?
Hydroxy
Member
Nice, I enjoyed the game. Thankfully ended just about when I was getting tired from going from one location to another. I played on easy mode so missed a lot of the creatures stalking you. Nice voice acting and atmosphere, but story was nothing special and didn't really like the ending much. Overall still very good option for horror fans. Not many horror games coming out nowadays.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Just rolled credits.
One of the very best games I’ve played this year. A new masterpiece in the genre, alongside games like What Remains of Edith Finch and Firewatch.
9/10!
One of the very best games I’ve played this year. A new masterpiece in the genre, alongside games like What Remains of Edith Finch and Firewatch.
9/10!
What's the genre? Non-game?
35$, 3 hours long non-game, to be exact.
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analog_future
Resident Crybaby
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
I'll get this on deep sale. I mostly can't stand walking sims and on-rails haunted house horror "games" but the setting and aesthetics makes me wanna try this anyway. And I just got rid of Game Pass...damn.
Connxtion
Member
Completed it a few hours ago, what a game!
Hats off the the devs and as a fellow scot it’s a breath of fresh air to hear my lingo in a game
Horror games never scare me or even bother me, but twice in the game it gave me the fight or flight feeling
can’t say any game has ever gave me that feeling before.
The audio is something else, screeches, weather sounds & the deafening roars of the rig moving etc…
Though I did get some scratchy/crackling audio at certain places, moving at one point on a ledge and you need to jump, kept jumping off the ledge. Don’t move quickly (L3) and it works as intended & a thrown object got stuck midair 
but other than those there were no other issues.
Hats off the the devs and as a fellow scot it’s a breath of fresh air to hear my lingo in a game
Horror games never scare me or even bother me, but twice in the game it gave me the fight or flight feeling
can’t say any game has ever gave me that feeling before.The audio is something else, screeches, weather sounds & the deafening roars of the rig moving etc…
Though I did get some scratchy/crackling audio at certain places, moving at one point on a ledge and you need to jump, kept jumping off the ledge
. Don’t move quickly (L3) and it works as intended & a thrown object got stuck midair but other than those there were no other issues.
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coffinbirth
Member
WRoEF is goated in my household, so you just set the bar for this game much higher than it appears to be.
Negotiator101
Member
Well it's an entirely different dialect so yeah, it's similar to Welsh or Irish Gaelic in that it's their native tongue.Are we allowed subtitles?
tommib
Member
It’s like the opening for half-life but extended to a full narrative experience with high quality acting and graphics. It’s excellent. Lots of half-life vibes and a true horror game. We don’t get many of those.
Negotiator101
Member
Half Life 2?
Bojji
Gold Member
I fucked up
I meant Hellblade 2, no idea why I didn't use "HB2". But Half Life 2 is something else, I completed it and EP1, 2 in 2007. Amazing games, so sad that we will never see continuation (as long as ip is in valve hands).Narrative games like SWtD are among my favorites. They also usually get scores around 7/10, industry is discriminating against them for some reason.
tommib
Member
This is nothing like Hellblade 2.I fucked up
Narrative games like SWtD are among my favorites. They also usually get scores around 7/10, industry is discriminating against them for some reason.
Negotiator101
Member
I was thinking what year is this?I fucked up
Narrative games like SWtD are among my favorites. They also usually get scores around 7/10, industry is discriminating against them for some reason.
You know what I haven't long finished HB2 and I really enjoyed it, it's a solid 7/10 if you like narratively driven games. Still Wakes the Deep though is a brilliant game IMO and a phenomenal horror experience with a surprisingly human back story that connects you to the protagonist. Both games share something in common and that's a headset is a must, unless you have some amazing speaker setup going on. Anyway hope you enjoy both.
Negotiator101
Member
Agreed but both have incredible audio.
Bojji
Gold Member
Both are story driven and around the same length. Gameplay is completely different but there are some similarities. I love games like that, Amnesia, Soma, WRoEF etc.
I was thinking what year is this?
Still Wakes the Deep though is a brilliant game IMO and a phenomenal horror experience with a surprisingly human back story that connects you to the protagonist. Both games share something in common and that's a headset is a must, unless you have some amazing speaker setup going on. Anyway hope you enjoy both.
It's also very solid when it comes to graphics, lumen is doing magic here. I played for like 10 minutes after downloading it, too bad GP version is gimped compared to Steam so far (no DLSS).
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
I LOVE the scottish accents! It adds so much flavor.Hats off the the devs and as a fellow scot it’s a breath of fresh air to hear my lingo in a game
I turned on the subtitles to understand the lingo
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
WRoEF is goated in my household, so you just set the bar for this game much higher than it appears to be.
WRoEF is one of my favorite games of all time, and Still Wakes the Deep isn't at that level, but I'd put it in a similar tier of best games that represent the walking simulator genre.
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