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The Medium: The First 18 Minutes on Xbox Series X
- Thread starter Theorry
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What a weird looking game. It kind of unintentionally looks like one of those C-tier Survival Horror games of the late PS1/early PS2 era, like Rule of Rose or something.
I can already sense that the enemy encounters will be pure Jank Central nonsense.
I can already sense that the enemy encounters will be pure Jank Central nonsense.
That's how I view it. I wouldn't buy it, but if they're going to give it to me anyway, sure why not. It's how I've discovered a bunch of games I didn't think I'd ever like but found that I do.
For whatever reason the capture process at IGN doesn't seem to be very good. They had issues getting good Dirt 5 footage, made everyone think that game looked terrible and then DigitalFoundry published theirs and suddenly it's a next gen experience lol.
Even the recommended spec sheet for PC only listed 30 fps targets for every level of quality. I think this one is going to be tough to get to 60 fps on most hardware.
Was not aware of the FPS difference. 3080 for sure then
Because Microsoft rewards practically made it free for me.
It really was an honest question. The Medium doesnt seem that demanding. So if it is practically the same i would prefer to play on the Series X because its easier than moving my Computer to the TV, and Quick resume. Or else i would play on my 38inch Ultrawide.
Man this looks rough, is it a budget title? Cause those animations and graphics are not very good even by last gen standards.
It was better on the first trailer, when the whole screen changed with an effect.
Seeing both the location at the same time is definitively not interesting. It especially makes it look gamey so it's not great for immersion.
The Medium had a budget of €7 million if I recall correctly.
Animations (face and character movement) seemed incredibly dated and stiff.
Cutscene work generally looked pretty nice, though.
Wait and see, I suppose. Story could make it worth playing for sure.
Cutscene work generally looked pretty nice, though.
Wait and see, I suppose. Story could make it worth playing for sure.
Looking really rough dead eyes and the blacks are off not something you want to see in a horror game, here hope they have some good puzzles for the two worlds being at same time
I skipped to the half way point when she started splitting realities and while it doesn't look amazing visually and has some animation jank, the music seems great , the VA seems solid, and the premise is pretty damn rad. im in to try it on release for sure
Whoever approved this for release at IGN obviously wasn't paying that close attention. The brightness is horrific and the audio syncing is really terrible which makes the animation look horrific.
Excited for this game, even though it is definitely going to kill my i5-6600k and RX480. Probably going to need to wait a month or two for when I get my XSX
Excited for this game, even though it is definitely going to kill my i5-6600k and RX480. Probably going to need to wait a month or two for when I get my XSX
I think I get what you are saying but nha, this is a moneyhat, not a game developed and/or published under MS, the game is kinda janky simply because it has a low to mid budget.
Just so you know, The Outer Worlds wasn't "made for Gamepass" it was funded pretty much entirely and published by a division of Take Two which emphasizes AA development. It launched on Gamepass because MS made a deal with the publisher, but MS wasn't really directly involved with much of the game and the scope of the game was limited by pre-acquisition limited funding.
So hopefully when we get first party games published by MS they won't be so limited and will be given the budget they need
Oooh...that movement looks rough, especially in the morgue and office parts with the super tight environments. Definitely a lot of Resident Evil vibes, but not in the way that I was hoping. It's on Game Pass though, so why wouldn't I at least give it a shot?
Not really. It's $50 if you don't have a Game Pass. So like $10 less than the full $60.
The Outer Worlds was not developed for Game Pass. MS didn't buy them until that was well into development. I doubt this was 'developed for Game Pass' either as Bloober Team is independent and the studio develops on a much smaller scale. This is actually their biggest title by a large margin and I think they said the overall budget was still under 10 million Euros iirc.
Outer Worlds wasn't even published by MS or made for GP or anything...
Mediocre is below medium. Medium would be average, mediocre would be below average.
Repeating from the second thread that will probably be locked, but...that movement looks rough, especially in the morgue and office parts with the super tight environments. Definitely a lot of Resident Evil vibes, but not in the way that I was hoping. It's on Game Pass though, so why wouldn't I at least give it a shot?
Yeah, hard to describe what I mean, sorry.
Could be the budget, yes.
Still exited to try it out for myself tho.
Maybe I'll like it. 🤷♂️
To be fair, this looks like the kind of AA game that doesn't really have a market left. You're interested in a scary third person action game, your $70 and 30 hours are going to go towards TLOU2. On Gamepass people will make some time for it to at least try out, and could become a sleeper hit that way. I would never pay money for this game, but am going to download it immediately when it releases. Like Netflix, nobody would pay money to watch Tiger King and yet it became a hit.
This. The vast majority of PC players thinking they'll be able to get a locked or stable 60fps are bound to be disappointed and seem to forget how demanding it will be whenever there's dual realities and it's rendering two worlds at the same time.
As in? The first reveal trailer or first gameplay? Because either way, nothing looks radically different to me. The first reveal trailer did focus more on the spirit world, but I mean, that's clearly here.
Unless you mean when they first announced it in 2011, but I don't know if there was any actual footage for it at that point.
Havent been excited for a MS game for a while.. this one is no different.. was lookin forward to it though.
None of those games were "made for GamePass", neither developed by Microsoft. The Outer Worlds wasn't even published by them. What are you talking about?
I'm guessing and really hoping so, but I don't actually know.
I have a 3090 with a Series X. I can tell you that Cyberpunk makes it scream like the PS4 Pro. It gets hella loud under load and it really bothers me while the XSX is damn near silent. I really like the X and PS5 for this reason. I got both because of GamePass but my PC is used a lot for machine learning/video processing.
I'll for sure alternate between systems when playing this. If my 3090 sounds like an 18 wheeler, then I'll be on the X.
