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WaltherFeng posted:Sam Lake is too Finnish and I don't like it His real name is Sami Järvi
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 14:13 |
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Aw poo poo, AW2 doesn't really work properly for me. Got myself a new PC and it runs fine, but for whatever reason every single non-playable cutscene lags a little tiny bit at the beginning which throws off sound and/or video and they become mismatched. I liked what I've played of it, so maybe I'll lower the settings even more.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 16:45 |
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Whirling posted:I wish there was a mod for World of Horror where you could fight that jackass that shows up when you've exhausted your funds and forces you to give him Stamina or Reason or increase your Doom. Just let me be broke, jerk! Isn't he just Takashi-san from the lighthouse?
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 16:50 |
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Vookatos posted:Aw poo poo, AW2 doesn't really work properly for me. Got myself a new PC and it runs fine, but for whatever reason every single non-playable cutscene lags a little tiny bit at the beginning which throws off sound and/or video and they become mismatched. I don't mean to sound like a shill but if you've got a decent Ethernet connection, check out the Nvidia game streaming service. 10 bucks to run the game on medium/high settings is a lifesaver
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 17:17 |
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Vookatos posted:Aw poo poo, AW2 doesn't really work properly for me. Got myself a new PC and it runs fine, but for whatever reason every single non-playable cutscene lags a little tiny bit at the beginning which throws off sound and/or video and they become mismatched. if it makes you feel any better this is a known issue for some folks. Try playing with your settings a bit maybe? I'm not sure if there's a solution yet
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 17:49 |
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A Cool Video Game Too posted:if it makes you feel any better this is a known issue for some folks. Try playing with your settings a bit maybe? I'm not sure if there's a solution yet That's actually a relief knowing that it might not just be my PC. It does seem that the parts I bought are fine aside from CPU, but "can I run it" type sites do promise that both Starfield and AW2 can run at the very least on minimum, and yet both games kept making GBS threads themselves, with Starfield refusing to run without lag and music interrupting at 50% resolution with everything set to lowest. This is a reason I'm not mainly a PC gamer, but with consoles being what they are including their prices and games' prices rising, it's hard to justify not getting a PC these days.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 18:05 |
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Vookatos posted:That's actually a relief knowing that it might not just be my PC. It does seem that the parts I bought are fine aside from CPU, but "can I run it" type sites do promise that both Starfield and AW2 can run at the very least on minimum, and yet both games kept making GBS threads themselves, with Starfield refusing to run without lag and music interrupting at 50% resolution with everything set to lowest. Just curious, are you running them on an SSD? Starfield was one of the first games I've had on PC that was just unplayably laggy on a regular hard drive, but went perfectly fine after I moved it onto an SSD. Haven't put enough time into AW2 to really judge how it performs.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 18:07 |
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it does that on the xbox too, which is a SSD. i have a feeling it has to do with how it streams the video from the drive. hopefully they can fix it a bit, but thankfully there aren't *that* many really dialogue-heavy cutscenes that it affects
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 18:10 |
Vookatos posted:Aw poo poo, AW2 doesn't really work properly for me. Got myself a new PC and it runs fine, but for whatever reason every single non-playable cutscene lags a little tiny bit at the beginning which throws off sound and/or video and they become mismatched. Bought the Control Ultimate Edition for PC yo play AWE and I can't even play it because it crashes with a "device removed" error every time, remedy games tend to be kind of hosed up on PC
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 18:14 |
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A Cool Video Game Too posted:if it makes you feel any better this is a known issue for some folks. Try playing with your settings a bit maybe? I'm not sure if there's a solution yet On PC fixes are frustratingly few— the bug recommendation is swapping it to a SSD, which I did but still encounter the problem on any of the “driving to a place” cutscenes. It seems to be an issue with saving while it happens, if what I’m noticing is accurate, since the stuttering seemed to happen when the autosave icon popped up in the corner. It’s not game-breaking but it is real annoying.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 18:53 |
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OK I know Sam Lake loves House of Leaves but having a sequence where someone makes a documentary using motion-activated cameras is a bit on the nose
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 18:53 |
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mutantIke posted:OK I know Sam Lake loves House of Leaves but having a sequence where someone makes a documentary using motion-activated cameras is a bit on the nose There can never be a House of Leaves reference too on the nose
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 18:54 |
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Just got to the rock opera sequence. Guess we can add Peacemaker to the list of things Sam Lake really likes. Game Of The Century.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 19:52 |
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been replaying siren, one of the best series ever
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 19:54 |
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If any of you enjoy Phasmaphobia, I highly-encourage picking up a game called Lethal Company along with friends. Go in blind - much like Phasmaphobia it is VERY much a game that is more entertaining the less you understand of it. But don't loiter around the scrap kiosk.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 20:51 |
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just one more scrap then I'll leave I promise
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 20:54 |
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It's interesting to think about how Alan Wake and Control work while wearing their influences so openly, and the Bloober crap so very doesn't. The differences are stark.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 21:05 |
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mutantIke posted:Just got to the rock opera sequence. Guess we can add Peacemaker to the list of things Sam Lake really likes. Game Of The Century. I thought I was ready for the Poets of the Fall musical sequence that Sam Lake sticks in every game. I was not ready.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 21:26 |
Discendo Vox posted:It's interesting to think about how Alan Wake and Control work while wearing their influences so openly, and the Bloober crap so very doesn't. The differences are stark. There's a lot of comparisons you could draw but I think it mostly comes down to the idea that Remedy loves the things that it is influenced by whereas Bloober just sees it as a cow to milk. If the original Alan Wake dialed it's obvious fanboying by 1% then it would go from being sincere to derivative, especially when it comes to the frankly cliche "fighting darkness with light" concept. They just lean into it so hard that it becomes endearing rather than stupid. Same thing for Max Payne, if they put even one Marvel-style "well that just happened" pulled punch the whole thing would shatter into a thousand pieces. I think a lot of Bloober's problem is also that the things that it insists on copying are other games. Remedy loves games, but also books, movies, and TV shows. gently caress does Remedy love TV shows. It was kind of a flop in the end but I will say that I think that Bloober's strongest showing in recent years was Blair Witch, and I think that a large part of that was because they were trying to adapt a movie instead of just copying a game. There are some pretty good ideas in there. It's just that they get their heads stuck on mechanics from other games and replicating them "faithfully" and end up just making stupid sludge. CuddleCryptid fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:His real name is Sami Järvi I was joking but turns out his last name really is just "lake" in Finnish.
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Discendo Vox posted:It's interesting to think about how Alan Wake and Control work while wearing their influences so openly, and the Bloober crap so very doesn't. The differences are stark.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 22:05 |
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CuddleCryptid posted:There's a lot of comparisons you could draw but I think it mostly comes down to the idea that Remedy loves the things that it is influenced by whereas Bloober just sees it as a cow to milk. If the original Alan Wake dialed it's obvious fanboying by 1% then it would go from being sincere to derivative, especially when it comes to the frankly cliche "fighting darkness with light" concept. They just lean into it so hard that it becomes endearing rather than stupid. Same thing for Max Payne, if they put even one Marvel-style "well that just happened" pulled punch the whole thing would shatter into a thousand pieces.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 22:08 |
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Buck Wildman posted:just one more scrap then I'll leave I promise We didn't realize just how bad the wilderness could get after dark. There were no survivors.
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# ? Oct 29, 2023 22:17 |
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Bloober games are pure hackwork, but Remedy games are very much an aging product of the late 90’s — not just in their combat mechanics, but in the way that, like most every other nerd of that time, their takeaway from the commercial and critical success of Tarantino movies was that a deep knowledge of your genre referents was not just necessary to make something good out of them, but sufficient. Tarantino made elevated genre pulp look so easy that everybody who came after him fell headlong into reverent pastiche. Alan Wake is a great example. We’ve spent the last 20 years and change inundated by artists’ love letters to formative pulp influences. All the flavor’s chewed out of that gum, tbh. As someone who loves horror specifically I have well and truly moved on from giving anyone significant credit for expressing sincere love for the genre through the work. It’s no longer enough to be earnest. Earnestness is now a crutch used to wave away clumsiness. But what’s clumsy is very rarely good. Quite often people are afraid that going for good work — work which challenges or surprises the audience — will fail, so instead they aim for safe work, ingratiating art, which will get points for sincerity but lacks the juice to provoke negative reaction. What I find tedious about Remedy post-Alan Wake is that they fell in love with weird sci fi mystery, but they remain chronically incapable of the subtlety or withholding necessary to do those things well — they don’t write good X Files episodes, they write Chris Carter mythology episodes. The metafiction angle with AW2 is a cheap trick to try and get around / integrate the obviousness of Sam Lake’s writing — now whenever somebody plainly states what’s happening, they’re “casting a spell” or whatever, instead of being expository. But unfortunately, it’s all still expository. And you can’t escape the feeling that it’s all leading up to some Remedy’s Avengers cinematic crossover bullshit.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Bloober games are pure hackwork, but Remedy games are very much an aging product of the late 90’s — not just in their combat mechanics, but in the way that, like most every other nerd of that time, their takeaway from the commercial and critical success of Tarantino movies was that a deep knowledge of your genre referents was not just necessary to make something good out of them, but sufficient. Tarantino made elevated genre pulp look so easy that everybody who came after him fell headlong into reverent pastiche. Alan Wake is a great example.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Bloober games are pure hackwork, but Remedy games are very much an aging product of the late 90’s — not just in their combat mechanics, but in the way that, like most every other nerd of that time, their takeaway from the commercial and critical success of Tarantino movies was that a deep knowledge of your genre referents was not just necessary to make something good out of them, but sufficient. Tarantino made elevated genre pulp look so easy that everybody who came after him fell headlong into reverent pastiche. Alan Wake is a great example. Haha...But for real where did you quote this from?
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Basic Chunnel posted:Bloober games are pure hackwork, but Remedy games are very much an aging product of the late 90’s — not just in their combat mechanics, but in the way that, like most every other nerd of that time, their takeaway from the commercial and critical success of Tarantino movies was that a deep knowledge of your genre referents was not just necessary to make something good out of them, but sufficient. Tarantino made elevated genre pulp look so easy that everybody who came after him fell headlong into reverent pastiche. Alan Wake is a great example.
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CuddleCryptid posted:There's a lot of comparisons you could draw but I think it mostly comes down to the idea that Remedy loves the things that it is influenced by whereas Bloober just sees it as a cow to milk. If the original Alan Wake dialed it's obvious fanboying by 1% then it would go from being sincere to derivative, especially when it comes to the frankly cliche "fighting darkness with light" concept. They just lean into it so hard that it becomes endearing rather than stupid. Same thing for Max Payne, if they put even one Marvel-style "well that just happened" pulled punch the whole thing would shatter into a thousand pieces. One thing specifically to correct here: Bloober rip off a wide range of media, not just games. I think it was layers of fear 2 in particular that is just a series of remade items or scenes from other media strung in a line. A factor here may be that whatever their other defects, Remedy has a sufficient understanding of the source material to use it as a reference source without just copying it and pointing at it.
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Basic Chunnel posted:Bloober games are pure hackwork, but Remedy games are very much an aging product of the late 90’s — not just in their combat mechanics, but in the way that, like most every other nerd of that time, their takeaway from the commercial and critical success of Tarantino movies was that a deep knowledge of your genre referents was not just necessary to make something good out of them, but sufficient. Tarantino made elevated genre pulp look so easy that everybody who came after him fell headlong into reverent pastiche. Alan Wake is a great example. Source your quotes.
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# ? Oct 30, 2023 00:06 |
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Yeah but Alan Wake 2 is fun as hell to play, that should be all that matters.
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# ? Oct 30, 2023 00:39 |
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Fun hater goons
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Ineffiable posted:Yeah but Alan Wake 2 is fun as hell to play, that should be all that matters. I'm not sure what makes it so fun as hell because the actual gameplay is really simplistic but something about the atmosphere and writing and general vibe of the game just elevates it.
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# ? Jun 6, 2024 06:30 |
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Sam Lake 2 seems like a nice little game but excessive quirkiness, boring enemy design, and an undeserved crossover shared universe, that's 3 strikes for me. Maybe I'll pick it up in a steam sale in a couple years.
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