I've played it a few months back (not sure if it was the same mission/demo. I basically played the first 2 hours). If you like Frogwares previous titles, you'll love this. It has the same strong detective gameplay, where there is little handholding. (There are no objective markers for instance, if you hear a possible witness was wounded, you have to realise yourself you need to check the hospital if he's there. Another time I had to look up an adress in the city archives, then take the map to find the street and navigate there myself). The atmosphere is really cool too and it's pretty well-written as far as I could see. Only thing I hated was the combat. It's not only very weak, it feels very tacked on too.
I was quite interested until it went EGS exclusive. Now I'll bargain bin it at some point on Steam. I would probably have bought it day one but meh, can't support their business decisions.
I'm actually really looking forward to it. I don't expect anything more than a solid 7/10 type mid-tier title and hope it at least gets there.
I grew up on Survival Horror etc. with dreadful combat, so I'll manage. Would've been nice to hear it was at least serviceable but oh well. The world looks amazing and I love the no-hand-holding thing they keep reiterating.
It's releasing in 4 days I think so hopefully reviews drop soon.
To whom it may concern...
The Sinking City |OT| They're sinking cities with a giant squid!
Oh it's Dancrane212 who got the OT. You know what to do ;)Yes, but waiting for Steam here.
Also, reminder:
To whom it may concern...
The Sinking City |OT| They're sinking cities with a giant squid!
It might be confusion related to the Epic Games Store exclusivity. That version is due to come out on the 27th alongside the console versions but the Steam version isn't out until next year because of the EGS deal.Where are people seeing the PC version was delayed until 2020? As far as I can see it's still coming out next week on PC, along with PS4 and XBox One.
Nice reference, but not everyone will get it.
in the demo I got to play at PAX, the lines of questioning all revolved around different families/ communities hating each other and a resulting murder. if the stories stay grounded in character and social situations i think they might be able to do it. they just have to continue avoid any case of "xyz happened because a guy had a magic power you couldn't have known about."Fair-play mystery and the supernatural don't really mix well unless the writers are clever, but they may just be that.
HP Lovecraft's "the Stinking City"
There, I titled half of all the youtube reviews for this next week