The Medium Official Thread
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Positives: the environments are beautifully detailed and look photorealistic. The dual world game mechanics are quite clever. Concept of a character that straddles two worlds is fascinating.
Negatives:
Regarding the graphics, despite the incredible environments, the characters' faces are not animated well, if at all. They maintain the same, blank expression. Some of the camera shots in the cutscenes are terrible, backfocusing, or otherwise leaving the character's face out of focus (perhaps intentional to hide the lack of facial animation). There are areas in the game where all you do is walk and the narrative plays out. I'd rather just watch an extended cutscene than relive a Mass Effect 3 type of gameplay. The story is fairly convoluted and requires you to read every single collectible to fully grasp it (or maybe I just lost interest). Lastly, on my powerful PC (5900x/3080), the ray tracing would choke the frame rates to single digits at times. Completely unacceptable, so I had to turn off ray tracing. And this was only at 1440p with DLSS.
Negatives:
First off, there needs to be a trigger warning re: sexual abuse of children. I know this game is fiction, but having worked in the legal field in this area, even fictional stories are difficult for me to see. I understand however not everyone shares that sensitivity towards that topic.
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On point with everything except ME3, a perfect blend of interactive cutscenes and gameplay imo.
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Tagged the spoiler.
The graphics aren't going to blow anyone away but for a less than 7m budget I though it was fine.
The main thing was always the split screen feature.
It also has a warning at the start of the game about sensitive subjects
The graphics aren't going to blow anyone away but for a less than 7m budget I though it was fine.
The main thing was always the split screen feature.
It also has a warning at the start of the game about sensitive subjects
Maybe go play a NES console? According to your standards, that's the last time a true next gen console was released.
"Sensitive subjects" is too general. The devs did something similar with Blair Witch,
where they had you carry your dying dog forever while he was whimpering.
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Yeah it's going to be a subject many would prefer to do without.
But they don't show anything just give you the clues.
Bit odd...
But they don't show anything just give you the clues.
Bit odd...
that some are saying they try to make you feel sorry for the abuser. The show he feels bad and had an abusive childhood but it didn't make me feel bad about what happened to him
And some even saying Thomas ended up abusing Lilianne in a sexual way which clearly isn't the case
And some even saying Thomas ended up abusing Lilianne in a sexual way which clearly isn't the case
Dude, how hard is it to use spoiler tags?
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I have no issue with the subject matter of the game. It's tough but essential to the story.
As far as the ****** in Blair Witch? As an animal lover it was tough listening to that but as weird as it may sound, it drew me closer both of those characters.
As far as the ****** in Blair Witch? As an animal lover it was tough listening to that but as weird as it may sound, it drew me closer both of those characters.
fixes that come with it:
- Performance optimizations across the whole game
- Eliminated gameplay bugs in various locations
- Eliminated known game crashes
- Eliminated game bugs reported by the community
- Graphical bug fixes across the whole game
- Improvements in camera operation and settings
- Scene lighting fixes in various locations
- Fixes for reported crash issues when loading saves
- Improvements in interactions with in-game events and characters across the whole game
- Raytracing optimizations across the whole game
- Game sound fixes
Many thanks to everyone who gave their feedback!
Woah.....Wait, they didn’t released a physical version?
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The game looks meh but if it's free on ps+, I'll give it a try.
I was pleasantly surprised for Control, just beat it yesterday and had some fun with it. If it was not on PS+, I probably would've skipped it.
I was pleasantly surprised for Control, just beat it yesterday and had some fun with it. If it was not on PS+, I probably would've skipped it.
Nope. Just many didn't realise it was a walking Simulator going in.
Solid story and characters carry it though especially Troy Baker's The Maw. But it had the issue of being a timed Xbox exclusive so was dismissed by some.
Goes both ways, Xbox gamers who swore up and down it was going to be amazing will now say "no big loss" lol Either way it has always looked mediocre, they got peoples attention with that initial trailer that had no gameplay in it but once they actually showed the game it was clear to me it wasn't going to be good, the walking animations alone looked like something from the PS1/PS2. I wasn't interested in it when it was timed exclusive and I'm not interested in buying it now.