The Witness has a minimum req of:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: 1.8GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 4000 series
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 4 GB available space
Which suggests it will run on any modern system. The only question is how pretty it will look.
Iv'e got the first two Fatal Frames for the oXbox. Didn't get very far in the first one, though. Probably because I'm not really one for survival horror that enforces limited player movement.
I liked what I played and rather lament they didn't make the BC list for the 360.
Good grief. Have you guys played the game Dread Out? It's pretty much a complete copy of Fatal Frame except instead of japanese ghost it's Indonesian and instead of a camera it's your cell phone.
that. . .is that legal?
Is it good? Because that sounds awesome...
if it's cheap and you enjoyed fatal frame then I can't see any reason why you wouldn't get some worth out of it.
Ugh got sick and did not feel up to playing much of anything this weekend with crazy sinus pressure so I watched a bunch of Deep Space nine in a haze.
But feeling better yesterday I reinstalled The Darkest Dungeon and started up an attempt at the final version. I'd only dabbled in it a bit previously.
I think I've lost three unfortunate souls so far. But have a few folks up to level 3 now. Except they stubbornly won't go on any of the quests that aren't also at least level 3 now.
I need to work on bringing up some other folks. Killed two bosses so far. Also randomly ran into an enemy that seemed sub-bossish. The Collector. That fight was kind of cool.
Still making progress on Book of Unwritten Tales 2 as well. So far that remains a very solid classic style adventure game.
Iv'e got the first two Fatal Frames for the oXbox. Didn't get very far in the first one, though. Probably because I'm not really one for survival horror that enforces limited player movement.
I liked what I played and rather lament they didn't make the BC list for the 360.
They're both on the BC list now, and if you dig into the menus a bit they both have improved control schemes so you're not stuck with tank controls. (FF2 has a first-person mode, for example, which is I think unique to that release) The Xbox versions were really very nicely improved.
Wait they added G&K but not BNW? I guess they still want to try and make regular money off of BNW for a while, despite a new Civ game + expansion being out.
Yeah there's a cavalcade of new games I'm hyped for in the next few weeks.
The Witness today, which by the sound of it is not a short game at all. Rise of the Tomb Raider on Thursday. XCOM 2 just over a week later. Firewatch the next week. And while not Steam related Fire Emblem Fates the week after that. That's a pretty packed January/February. Man, and while it's not released yet the new Torment beta just went up. So that's coming along. Still need to finish Pillars.
I'm a big Fatal Frame fan, so I gave Dreadout a go a few months ago.
It's ... Yeah, it's a pretty direct copy in some ways, but the Indonesian supernatural stuff was interesting and it had a charming degree of jankiness. It had a different vibe to it; it's more the group of kids walk into a horror movie sort of horror than the You Are Alone horror of the actual Fatal Frame games.
The combat was a little harder than Fatal Frame as well, probably because you're using a cell phone rather than a film camera so there's no limited ammo mechanic.
I put it aside because I got to a ghost I couldn't beat, and the developers confirmed that they'd accidentally made it unkillable in a patch, so I was waiting for the fix and then it just sort of slipped my mind.
It got top marks for atmospheric horror anyway. If it's cheap and they've fixed the bugs I'd say it's worth playing.
(Fatal Frame is still better, though)
Bugs notwithstanding this does sound pretty decent. I've missed Fatal Frame ever since the third game; hard to top the first in my opinion, since later installments kept reusing the whole "grotesque ritual sacrifice to seal a literal gate to hell" thing, but the first three games were spooky good times. Not sure how later installments ended up, heard mixed things.
It's weird, because the gameplay encouraged fighting ghosts rather than avoiding them (that's how you got points and upgraded your camera) and I once thought that would dissipate tension; y'know, forcing you to confront the things trying to kill you after the initial jump scare. But the games kept an edge to them well into the running time. The enemies really felt like supernatural threats that didn't have to play by your rules, man - pitiful but disturbing things that had complete freedom of movement and could attack from any angle, at any time.
Good times. I'd pay $morethanIshould for PC ports, but I may just check out Dreadout in the meantime if the bugs have been squashed.
(This is eerily well timed considering I just finished watching the Scary Game Squad play the first game. I'll never get tired of Davis shrieking over absolutely everything.)
That is not a spaceship. That is a building, a prison specifically, lodged in the side of a star. Intentionally.
Haha yep. I've been talking about this the last couple of days.
If you like these kinds of things buy it, it's good.
edit: And while TLF is pretty cool what they are really known for is their RTS, AI War: Fleet Command. Maybe a few of you've heard me mention that a time or two? Or Bionic Dues? I was cautiously optimistic about this little project of theirs. Bullet hell stuff requires demanding controls but they recruited a Touhou fanatic from their community to help them work on the game, and I think that move really shows in this release. The controls are thoughtful, work well on keyboard or gamepad and the bullet patterns are intense and interesting.
This reminds me of Bionic Dues in its approachability. It's even more approachable. Arcen's stuff is usually conceptually dense, with a ton of information the player has to assimilate correctly in order to play the game. If you've played AI War or The Last Federation you'll know what I'm talking about. Starward Rogue allows you to jump in and just go, and that allows you to experience their flair for rich procedurally generated content without the initial study that some of their other games present you with.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
Why, yes, GMG, I will take a 27% off Rise of the Tomb Raider coupon, thank you very much indeed. (Whilst also not asking how such a thing is possible without being at least slightly sketchy.)
27RISE-OFTOMB-RAIDER if anyone else wants it. Obvious ones like that are never account exclusive.
27PERC-OFFXCO-M2GAME as well, if you want 27% off XCOM 2.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
puns aside, it is called Project Zero where I am. and just Zero in Japan. because reasons....
people might know it, just not by that name.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
puns aside, it is called Project Zero where I am. and just Zero in Japan. because reasons....
people might know it, just not by that name.
I'm pretty sure Pixie is a PC-only gamer, so she's probably never run across the games under any name at all.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
puns aside, it is called Project Zero where I am. and just Zero in Japan. because reasons....
people might know it, just not by that name.
I'm pretty sure Pixie is a PC-only gamer, so she's probably never run across the games under any name at all.
That's exactly it. If it's not a PC game, forget it. And if it is a PC game but it's from the 90s (my non-gaming decade), there's a decent chance I never heard of it and a much greater chance I never played it.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
puns aside, it is called Project Zero where I am. and just Zero in Japan. because reasons....
people might know it, just not by that name.
I'm pretty sure Pixie is a PC-only gamer, so she's probably never run across the games under any name at all.
That's exactly it. If it's not a PC game, forget it. And if it is a PC game but it's from the 90s (my non-gaming decade), there's a decent chance I never heard of it and a much greater chance I never played it.
You are a rare breed, Pix.
And that's not a criticism. If anything, it's a compliment. There's a certain... for want of a better word, "purity" to your perspective on things game-related that I often find quite refreshing.
That said, to be a die-hard PC gamer who missed out on at least the lion's share of the '90s... you quite possibly missed a lot of very, very good stuff.
Honestly I'm not surprised if someone had never heard of Fatal Frame, I was just looking for an excuse to make a bunch of photography puns (in the Fatal Frame games you can't see ghosts unless you're looking through the viewfinder of a special camera).
Speaking of Horror games, I think tonight will be the night that I get pumped and fire up Alien Isolation again. The weird thing is, everyone seems to be afraid of the Alien, but the alien doesn't bother me much, it's those fucking androids that give me the heebie jeebies. When I'm hiding under a table and one of them calls out "How can I help you if I can't find you?" I just went BWAUUUUUUUHHHHH and stopped playing.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
Oh hi Dad, didn't know you'd gotten on the Internet.
Actually I am in awe of this post, every time I think I've gotten all the photo jokes I find another one.
I can't decide whether to resub or to throw the $15/mo at TESO or something else... maybe FF14. Decisions.
If you're going to throw $15 bucks at an MMO at least do it for one that you can't play otherwise. Not sure what the Tera sub gives you but you can always play it as F2P if you feel like playing a bit.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
puns aside, it is called Project Zero where I am. and just Zero in Japan. because reasons....
people might know it, just not by that name.
I'm pretty sure Pixie is a PC-only gamer, so she's probably never run across the games under any name at all.
That's exactly it. If it's not a PC game, forget it. And if it is a PC game but it's from the 90s (my non-gaming decade), there's a decent chance I never heard of it and a much greater chance I never played it.
You are a rare breed, Pix.
And that's not a criticism. If anything, it's a compliment. There's a certain... for want of a better word, "purity" to your perspective on things game-related that I often find quite refreshing.
That said, to be a die-hard PC gamer who missed out on at least the lion's share of the '90s... you quite possibly missed a lot of very, very good stuff.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
I have no idea what that game is. I'm with Pixie. consol what? I have an xbox 360. You know what it is used for? Netflix. It makes R2D2 sounds and is painted like the droid too. Fancy Netflix box.
On a TTS note, if anyone wants info on how to make rpg like maps in the thing, I learned a lot today. PM me.
Posts
http://store.steampowered.com/app/410820/
-TOTP edit-
That is not a spaceship. That is a building, a prison specifically, lodged in the side of a star. Intentionally.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
OS: Windows 7
Processor: 1.8GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 4000 series
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 4 GB available space
Which suggests it will run on any modern system. The only question is how pretty it will look.
I liked what I played and rather lament they didn't make the BC list for the 360.
if it's cheap and you enjoyed fatal frame then I can't see any reason why you wouldn't get some worth out of it.
But feeling better yesterday I reinstalled The Darkest Dungeon and started up an attempt at the final version. I'd only dabbled in it a bit previously.
I think I've lost three unfortunate souls so far. But have a few folks up to level 3 now. Except they stubbornly won't go on any of the quests that aren't also at least level 3 now.
I need to work on bringing up some other folks. Killed two bosses so far. Also randomly ran into an enemy that seemed sub-bossish. The Collector. That fight was kind of cool.
Still making progress on Book of Unwritten Tales 2 as well. So far that remains a very solid classic style adventure game.
They're both on the BC list now, and if you dig into the menus a bit they both have improved control schemes so you're not stuck with tank controls. (FF2 has a first-person mode, for example, which is I think unique to that release) The Xbox versions were really very nicely improved.
Much excite!
Steam ID: Good Life
I really should...
but the last one was so good...
Well, I mean... something like that. :razz:
🖥️Steam Profile
...Wait, there's new stuff coming out too? Let's see...
Eternal Crusade, yeah, knew that one already.
An RTS game with WH40k space battles? Okay, calm down... let's just wait until release and see how it is...
...A Talisman game based in the Horus Heresy? No, wallet - what are you doing, stop
Unfortunately you'd be stuck being a proud owner of X-Com Enforcer.
The Witness today, which by the sound of it is not a short game at all. Rise of the Tomb Raider on Thursday. XCOM 2 just over a week later. Firewatch the next week. And while not Steam related Fire Emblem Fates the week after that. That's a pretty packed January/February. Man, and while it's not released yet the new Torment beta just went up. So that's coming along. Still need to finish Pillars.
Bugs notwithstanding this does sound pretty decent. I've missed Fatal Frame ever since the third game; hard to top the first in my opinion, since later installments kept reusing the whole "grotesque ritual sacrifice to seal a literal gate to hell" thing, but the first three games were spooky good times. Not sure how later installments ended up, heard mixed things.
It's weird, because the gameplay encouraged fighting ghosts rather than avoiding them (that's how you got points and upgraded your camera) and I once thought that would dissipate tension; y'know, forcing you to confront the things trying to kill you after the initial jump scare. But the games kept an edge to them well into the running time. The enemies really felt like supernatural threats that didn't have to play by your rules, man - pitiful but disturbing things that had complete freedom of movement and could attack from any angle, at any time.
Good times. I'd pay $morethanIshould for PC ports, but I may just check out Dreadout in the meantime if the bugs have been squashed.
(This is eerily well timed considering I just finished watching the Scary Game Squad play the first game. I'll never get tired of Davis shrieking over absolutely everything.)
Now playing: Teardown and Baldur's Gate 3 (co-op)
Sunday Spotlight: Horror Tales: The Wine
Haha yep. I've been talking about this the last couple of days.
If you like these kinds of things buy it, it's good.
edit: And while TLF is pretty cool what they are really known for is their RTS, AI War: Fleet Command. Maybe a few of you've heard me mention that a time or two? Or Bionic Dues? I was cautiously optimistic about this little project of theirs. Bullet hell stuff requires demanding controls but they recruited a Touhou fanatic from their community to help them work on the game, and I think that move really shows in this release. The controls are thoughtful, work well on keyboard or gamepad and the bullet patterns are intense and interesting.
This reminds me of Bionic Dues in its approachability. It's even more approachable. Arcen's stuff is usually conceptually dense, with a ton of information the player has to assimilate correctly in order to play the game. If you've played AI War or The Last Federation you'll know what I'm talking about. Starward Rogue allows you to jump in and just go, and that allows you to experience their flair for rich procedurally generated content without the initial study that some of their other games present you with.
I don't mean to start a .tiff here, but I flashed on this post and honestly I'm having a hard time picturing how anyone could have never heard of Fatal Frame. Have you been living in some sort of dark room for the past decade? I mean I know that the series hasn't had a ton of exposure lately (and some of the reviews for the later entries in the series have been negatives), but the Fatal Frame games were excellent at developing a real sense of dread, going against the grain of the conventional horror games. If anyone here is ISO a horror series that hasn't been oversaturated by modern horror designs and that really focuses on giving the player a new and pretty novel way to combat ghosts than they should check the series out.
That said, I'm thinking of getting DreadOut, but I want to learn moire about it first.
I'm on a roll here guys
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Steam | XBL
people might know it, just not by that name.
Bravely Default / 3DS Friend Code = 3394-3571-1609
But 27% off. I'd be a fool not to take it. A FOOL.
I'm pretty sure Pixie is a PC-only gamer, so she's probably never run across the games under any name at all.
That's exactly it. If it's not a PC game, forget it. And if it is a PC game but it's from the 90s (my non-gaming decade), there's a decent chance I never heard of it and a much greater chance I never played it.
I can't decide whether to resub or to throw the $15/mo at TESO or something else... maybe FF14. Decisions.
You are a rare breed, Pix.
And that's not a criticism. If anything, it's a compliment. There's a certain... for want of a better word, "purity" to your perspective on things game-related that I often find quite refreshing.
That said, to be a die-hard PC gamer who missed out on at least the lion's share of the '90s... you quite possibly missed a lot of very, very good stuff.
Steam | XBL
That'd be Fatal Fury.
Speaking of Horror games, I think tonight will be the night that I get pumped and fire up Alien Isolation again. The weird thing is, everyone seems to be afraid of the Alien, but the alien doesn't bother me much, it's those fucking androids that give me the heebie jeebies. When I'm hiding under a table and one of them calls out "How can I help you if I can't find you?" I just went BWAUUUUUUUHHHHH and stopped playing.
Did you ever try GW2? It's not for everyone, but it is without a doubt my favorite MMO of all time.
Oh hi Dad, didn't know you'd gotten on the Internet.
Yep, played quite a bit of it when it first came out. Eventually got bored and every effort to play it since has gone nowhere.
If you're going to throw $15 bucks at an MMO at least do it for one that you can't play otherwise. Not sure what the Tera sub gives you but you can always play it as F2P if you feel like playing a bit.
I have no idea what that game is. I'm with Pixie. consol what? I have an xbox 360. You know what it is used for? Netflix. It makes R2D2 sounds and is painted like the droid too. Fancy Netflix box.
On a TTS note, if anyone wants info on how to make rpg like maps in the thing, I learned a lot today. PM me.