Octopus Overlords

Paradroid wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 6:59 am I was never going to buy this at full price but the current sale is good enough (£33 on Fanatical) given how curious I am about the game.

I've only "played" for an hour so can't make judgement yet. There's plenty to like, that's for sure. The UI is smart, the graphics beautiful and curiously undemanding on my system, the soundtrack fantastic. I like the setting and the sheer weirdness of it all. I'm curious about the characters and what their stories are. I'm definitely going to carry on.

However, and this is a big however: there are far too many cut scenes, and they are far too long. That's a big negative. My first hour of game time included only 10 minutes of actual playing.

Paradroid wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:47 pm I stand by my earlier assertion that this game is bloody stupid. It hasn't stopped me playing though!

For everything the game does right, it does something else wrong. It's infuriating. I'm constantly idly wondering what it would have been like if someone else had made it. However I'm really on board with the setting. The whole concept of the death stranding is pretty cool, in fact, thematically I'm almost always a fan of anything that discusses what might lie beyond the veil. Ice Pick Lodge's The Void being an excellent example.

I've just started chapter 3, and a conversation with one of the main characters and subsequent addition to my private room promises to really blow the game wide open. This is particularly welcome, because in the same session I'd just hit on yet another frustration. After reaching Port Knot City I was told on more than one occasion to make absolutely sure I was done in the region before moving on. So with a sigh, I turned back to clear up a couple of "important" missions. Reaching the bottom of the hill I'd just scaled, I saw to my extreme annoyance that the rope I'd used was now back at the top of the cliff somehow. Why?!

Also, thanks for the motorbike but it's not very useful in a largely mountainous area, where even the flat plains are strewn with large rocks. That lasted about five minutes before I gave up and struck out on foot again.

One of the things the game does very well is the asynchronous multiplayer. It's a superb implementation, and the more I read about it the more brilliant I realise it is. I really, really want to see more of this in games.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 9:16 pm That is easily the strangest 60 minutes I've spent at the beginning of a game. Easily - and I played through the prologue of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

stimpy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 1:50 pm Coming to Game Pass PC on 8/23.
Always thought it was too strange of a concept to make me want to purchase.
But I look forward to trying it.

Victoria Raverna wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 12:01 am

stimpy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 19, 2022 1:50 pm Coming to Game Pass PC on 8/23.
Always thought it was too strange of a concept to make me want to purchase.
But I look forward to trying it.

Is this the Director's Cut version or the original PC version?

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:35 am well crap. I'm going to uninstall then. i'll grab director's cut during next sale.

Kurth wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2024 8:58 pm I was about to necro this thread: I just started this, too. I knew it was supposed to be weird. It has not fallen short of expectations. So strange, but I'm also getting drawn in.

One thing that bothered the hell out of me at first: The controls are incredibly twitchy. No deadzone on either of the sticks leads to crazy amounts of stick drift for me. I only mitigated that issue by cranking up the deadzone to the max setting in the options. Anyone else have that issue with PS controllers that show no drift in other games?