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CONTROL |OT| Welcome to This Oldest House of Leaves
- Thread starter nihilence
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Hah, just had a fun little gameplay moment with the raytracing. Had finished up a combat sequence but the combat music was still on. After about 30-40 seconds of some meandering, and looking for the guy...
...I manage to spot him sneaking up on me, with the window's reflection!
That's actually awesome.
STILL no key from Humble
This is now on the page when you try to view your purchase:
This is now on the page when you try to view your purchase:
So outside all the performance talk, can anyone tell me:
1. About how long the game is supposed to be.
2. How enjoyable would this be for another person to watch someone play? Alan Wake and Quantum Break felt like actual TV shows (one actually was technically), my partner likes watching me play horror video games but only if they don't have TOO much downtime. How would this be for that sort of activity?
1. About how long the game is supposed to be.
2. How enjoyable would this be for another person to watch someone play? Alan Wake and Quantum Break felt like actual TV shows (one actually was technically), my partner likes watching me play horror video games but only if they don't have TOO much downtime. How would this be for that sort of activity?
- Yowza does this one have amazing presentation.
- Story is intriguing. I'm genuinely curious to know what this place is and what happened here.
- Glad to see Remedy alumni Poets of The Fall, Courtney Hope and James McCaffrey back again.
- The reflections - holy shit lol. Beyond what I expected for a PS4 game. Almost feels like a next gen experience.
- Framerate seems to be a solid 30 on my Pro so far. Would definitely feel better at 60 but there's no way it could happen with these graphics.
- My initial impression is this is the most Remedy game Remedy has made so far, or will be once I find a power that slows down time.
- Story is intriguing. I'm genuinely curious to know what this place is and what happened here.
- Glad to see Remedy alumni Poets of The Fall, Courtney Hope and James McCaffrey back again.
- The reflections - holy shit lol. Beyond what I expected for a PS4 game. Almost feels like a next gen experience.
- Framerate seems to be a solid 30 on my Pro so far. Would definitely feel better at 60 but there's no way it could happen with these graphics.
- My initial impression is this is the most Remedy game Remedy has made so far, or will be once I find a power that slows down time.
Can't decide if this is worth trying instead of astral chain. The combat looks fun, but also really basic. Having the same gun(albeit modified) and mostly just throwing junk seems like it would get old
I'm definitely picking it up later tonight after everyone's impressions.
I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying it. Era was in general a bit on the negative side pre-release.
Curious, 5 seconds or less is what i've experienced so far on my 5+ year old HDD. Then again i'm only around 3 hours in.
Playing at 4k Max settings all Ray tracing options on. Dlss 1080p locked 60 and it actually looks really good. Best dlss implementation I've seen.
I was literally looking to see if you made any more gifs yet 😂
No, I'm not creepy, actually.
I feel like this forum is usually like that for AAA stuff that's not made by naughty dog
I don't know if it counts as AAA, but at least Astral Chain has been very positively received since E3, at least.
I honestly can't tell because the page in the Epic Store doesn't seem to have a ton of detail, but does this game have cloud saves on PC?
It does! I was surprised to find the option after installing it this morning before work. They really should make that more clear.
Just wanted to pop in an say on a 2080 TI this thing is fucking nuts. Amazing game. <3 Remedy.
In what senses does this take inspiration from House of Leaves?
And --- I heard that it's partly based on some SCP stories; is that true?
And --- I heard that it's partly based on some SCP stories; is that true?
It is very slick and stylish early on, and fairly story heavy. Good pacing too, where just as it feels like you want to actually chuck a couch at an enemy, one appears.
Appreciate the reply! I bought a key this morning and didn't have a chance to install it yet. I have a gaming laptop I take on the road with me and was wondering if I could pick up where I left off on my gaming desktop. Glad cloud saves made it in.
Anyone here rocking a 1060 playing the game at 1080p? I'm curious as to how it runs. I really want to buy it on my Pro but I'm scared about how the shooting feels on it. Is there crazy input lag/bad deadzone on consoles or does it feel good?
I am happy I didn't pre-order it. I will just for the PS5 to play it. If publishers and studios are gonna release games like this on the base consoles they might as well make them X and PRO exclusive.
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You must have a speedy HDD, because mine was easily double that or more, although some folks are saying DX12 makes a difference?
I'm about two hours in and absolutely loving it so far. Story is intriguing, combat is fun and not too difficult so far, and the destruction physics are insane. It's so much fun just to go around destroying everything.
The entire game is set in a building that is basically the house from House of Leaves - bigger on the inside than out and keeps rearranging itself.
And the worldbuilding and lore are heavily inspired by the whole SCP style of writing. Lots of redactions for mystery or creepiness, lots of bureaucratic names for cataloguing the supernatural. Even the idea of SRAs from SCP are basically rebranded here as "HRAs."
All your powers are basically obtained from a variety of (original) anomalous objects with their own SCP-style writeups and backstories.
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What's the level design like in this game? Is it strictly linear, or does it have exploration/mertroidvania elements as well?
It's surprisingly hard to find reviews that even mention the basic structure of a game.
It's surprisingly hard to find reviews that even mention the basic structure of a game.
This is nitpicking because I'm really enjoying the game. After the dry, flavourless trudge that was Quantum Break it's great to be back with batshit crazy, surreal, funny Remedy. But why oh why doesn't changing the gun form have a sound effect? It's crying out for a satisfying clunk/click/whirr but it's completely silent. Strange oversight.
Installing this now on base Xbox One and I'm already worried... hope there's a performance patch coming
Gonna queue up for my WoW classic realm and then play this game and probably forget about my queue lol. It looks so good.
Absolutely gorgeous. Can't wait to dive in tonight when I'm done with work.
I've been looking for something that's moody so this fits perfectly for me. I usually enjoy Remedy's games.
I'm going to go for the Xbox One X version only because I associate Remedy with Microsoft.
I'm going to go for the Xbox One X version only because I associate Remedy with Microsoft.