devolutionary
No longer 7-less
So... fucking... GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!! AAAAARGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH *splodes everywhere*
God damn it's good.
God damn it's good.
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Well, the reviews are pouring in. After 40 reviews, it has a score of 96 on Metacritic, which is pretty damn glowing.
Apparently "the twist" in this game makes the "would you kindly" moment in Bioshock pale by comparison. I'm anxious to know what it is (I still don't).
Requires some suspension of disbelief moreso than the originals what with the logistics of a floating city in the early 1900s but its a video game, who cares
Started it up this morning, began fiddling with graphics and control settings then had to poop. That's where I am right now, get with the program colon I've been hanging to play this all week.
I'm still trying to work around this I think. Obviously Rapture wasn't based in reality, but there was something about submerging into an undersea city that felt...oddly plausible. Meanwhile, they haven't been as forthcoming with the history and purpose of Columbia, so I'm still running around wondering, "what the hell is all of this? Why is this here? Where did it come from?" I'm assuming it will all be laid out eventually (I'm only 2 or 3 hours in), but the less prominent backstory combined with how bright and cheerful Columbia appears has formed the basis for a world quite far removed from the dark, macabre atmosphere of Rapture.
These are my very early thoughts so far. Keep in mind I'm an explorer anytime a game allows it, and since Columbia is much larger and more "open" feeling than Rapture was, I'm enjoying checking out nooks and crannies. In the 2 or 3 hours I've spent so far, I'm not far beyond the initial "uprising" that takes place when they catch you at the fair. The last thing I remember doing before saying to myself, "oh fuck, it's 5 am and I have to work tomorrow," was killing the Crow-man-thing and taking his ravenous crows vigor.
It's definitely different from the first two, but I'm completely absorbed so far. The gunplay is fucking top-notch.
My one real hang-up so far: I play on PC, and as beautiful as the graphics are, the technical performance is lacking. I have a beefy ass rig that can run Crysis and BF3 cranked up to max, and while I can turn this up as well, my FPS fluctuates dramatically from 30 to 80 depending on what I'm looking at. On top of that, turning on Vertical Sync (what they call "lock framerate") creates a MASSIVE hit in frames per second. All of this with the Unreal Engine 3, which is pushing the line of becoming downright outdated, as good as it can still look. I mean shit, I can play UT3 with everything maxed out and get a stable 80 fps. This is the first and only game I've played so far where DX11 effects seem to bog down your entire system.![]()
I downloaded some nVidia drivers before playing the game that supposedly improved the game's performance, but I got those same frame drops you did at the spot you're describing. I found that particularly annoying, but it didn't really bog down the experience overall.Ahhh good call on the drivers. I thought it was odd, the one moment that killed my framerate was at the absolute beginning of the game. You were dropped off at the lighthouse and when you open the door and first enter, there's a lamp on a small table right in front of you. Looking directly at the lighting effects of the lamp made my framerate plummet from 80 to 20. Looking around large open areas doesn't do much, neither does having numerous people/enemies on screen at once. Turns out there was a driver update three days ago so I'll install that and see how it runs.![]()
I actually loved the Luteces and their ...quirks to be honest. I expected Elizabeth to be their child and all the experiments they were doing affected her genes hence why she could open tears; which is actually never explained now that I think of it.
The one thing that DOES annoy me (or perhaps make me go "Really?" is the idea that right after he gets the notice saying "Don't bet on #77" he pulls it on the first one and sticks with it. Like, he doesn't even remember or think about the note at all and is just like "Yeah, this one seems right."