Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Isslander

Isslander

Gordon's alive!
3 August 2003
Iceland
Liverpool

It's under Bethesda now so it could be Xbox exclusive, or at least Xbox/PC only. That wouldn't be great IMO but I will take any Indy game at this point. Just hope it won't be first person.
 
Doesn't give much away at the moment, but if they can completely rip off the Uncharted games but with Indiana Jones, then that would be a much better proposition.
Story is absolute key though.

As felt Uncharted 4 was better than the Tomb Raiders, even though I thought the Tomb Raiders had better gameplay and combat.

There is only one Indy game though worth playing and still great fun even today:-
 
bsmaff said:
Doesn't give much away at the moment, but if they can completely rip off the Uncharted games but with Indiana Jones, then that would be a much better proposition.
Story is absolute key though.

As felt Uncharted 4 was better than the Tomb Raiders, even though I thought the Tomb Raiders had better gameplay and combat.

There is only one Indy game though worth playing and still great fun even today:-
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LucasArts point & click games were amazing!
 
It's no Fate of Atlantis, a game I revisit regularly to this day, but I quite liked the Emperor's Tomb when it came out. It looked like absolute ass (ps2), seriously, it looked horrendous, but it had a fun fighting system, especially hand to hand combat, and the atmosphere was excellent.

It also had this level, which is infamous as the hardest part of the game.

You can see the icon on top right, the game had this for basically everything you did, so the trick was to set the game to hard to remove it, and then the game wouldn't hold your hand the whole way through. Don't think I would recommend it today, but it was fun about 16 years ago.
Fate of Atlantis I can recommend 'till the end of time.
 
Isslander said:
It's no Fate of Atlantis, a game I revisit regularly to this day, but I quite liked the Emperor's Tomb when it came out. It looked like absolute ass (ps2), seriously, it looked horrendous, but it had a fun fighting system, especially hand to hand combat, and the atmosphere was excellent.

It also had this level, which is infamous as the hardest part of the game.

You can see the icon on top right, the game had this for basically everything you did, so the trick was to set the game to hard to remove it, and then the game wouldn't hold your hand the whole way through. Don't think I would recommend it today, but it was fun about 16 years ago.
Fate of Atlantis I can recommend 'till the end of time.
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This was really a great game, i enjoyed it a lot.
I remember having trouble getting past that giant squid. The hand to hand combat was very nice, so was the platforming.
Fighting was a nice combination between using your fists, gun and whip.

Sweet memories.
 
December 9 for Xbox/Steam and Spring for PS5!

Another Xbox exclusive gone timed! Should be around 6 months, I was expecting a year at least.

 
Personally think it looks really good but not played it too much just the first 5 minutes.
As trying to get an FPS counter to work in the game as nothing is working for it.

Here is a quick vid of first 5 mins.
PC Supreme settings with full path tracing enabled and no DLSS - So full native 4K.
It is great to see that my PC isn't running the game that great with some obvious drops in FPS.

 
bsmaff said:
As trying to get an FPS counter to work in the game as nothing is working for it.
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RTSS is working fine here, but the game also features quite elaborate in-game statistics you can switch on somewhere in the graphics options.
 
Badger Mushroom said:
I'm going away for Xmas and now considering buying it before even though I've got zero time to play it....god damn you all for praising the game!!!
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Not played it yet - I am praising the game for being brave and developing it for the future.
It kind of cripples even a 4090 in supreme settings and full path tracing switched on.
This is what I want from games to push graphical boundaries and not cater to the poorest system - I am really glad my 4090 is now actually being used.
 
bsmaff said:
Personally think it looks really good but not played it too much just the first 5 minutes.
As trying to get an FPS counter to work in the game as nothing is working for it.

Here is a quick vid of first 5 mins.
PC Supreme settings with full path tracing enabled and no DLSS - So full native 4K.
It is great to see that my PC isn't running the game that great with some obvious drops in FPS.

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Afterburner worked for me.
I also have the habit/urge to need to know. 😂

Nearly flatline 60fps even without locking to 60. when I thought to notice some hiccups, it wasn’t the frametime, just some uncanny cutscene transitions… not an expert here… so I’ll leave that to you.

I’m playing 1440p on ultra. That’s fine for my old system.
Edit: …and my old eyes. 😂
 
Had some pretty enjoyable 2 hours but now it looks like the game ends for me due to a game breaking bug. I'll put it in spoilers for those who aren't there yet.
I'm in the Vatican and
bought the camera from Ernesto but can't equip it. Sometimes the camera symbol appears but it's not in my inventory and not on my d-pad. Can't do nothing.
 
Got frame counter to work this morning..
Game completely maxed out in settings with Supreme - Path Tracing.
My 4090 managed to get an average of 33FPS and minimum of 28 - No wonder at only 33FPS the game felt choppy and wrong.

Messed with some settings and now running at over 100FPS but visually made a noticeable difference.

When I finish work next week for Christmas will actually be able to play the game properly.
 
Game is good/very good. MachineGames stayed faithful to recreate the atmosphere of the older movies. It feels like Chronicles of Riddick but they need to fix the AI which is average at best. Story and presentation is x1000 times better than the last Hollyweird movie. No wonder Hollywood is done and dusted for good. Good riddance.
 
Loving the f*ck out of this. It's like a culmination of Dishonored, Thief, Condemned, Riddick and Uncharted and I'm yet to even leave the Vatican after ~11 hours. Given that pace it's probably gonna take me 19437492 hours to finish this one. One if not THE most wonderful gaming experiences in years for me. All bells and whistles enabled also doesn't give me any technical issues either, so it's kind of a rare breed on that front, too. I even kinda miss the feeling of having to wait for several hotfixes to fix blatantly broken stuff first.
 
Finally started playing this now and currently in the Vatican - About 2 hours in.

The game hasn't really captured me yet, but then neither did the Last of Us till you got to Pittsburgh.

There are some stealth bugs where I have found blind spots in plain site when I been spotted by a couple of captains.
The frame rate on Supreme with Full RT on averages at 52 in the Vatican so much improved over the forest, so having to run the game in DLSS quality mode for over 60FPS.
They really need to patch cut scenes though as on PC they run at 30FPS and it looks so choppy so this needs to be fully addressed.

Digital Foundry have also done their PC RT report:
 
Took a while but just finished the Vatican and now in Gizeh.

Some of the puzzles are ok, if a little easy and pretty much all self explanatory so wish I probably played on a harder skill level at this point.
The combat is OK and the stealth elements I am finding pretty awful as the CPU pathfinding is bonkers.

So far the story is driving it more than the actual gameplay - as the gameplay in the words of my daughter is 'mid' at best.
TBH I am struggling to understand why all the great reviews it is a goodish game but certainly not a 9/10,
 
Bit of a strange one, this. In many ways it is a very old fashioned sort of game and some of the movement feels dated. A lot of the stealth is just "stay crouched". Enemies either have the eagle eye vision of... an eagle, or the perception of a horse with blinders and acute glaucoma. They don't give a flying fudge if you break a padlocked box right in front of them with a massive hammer but they will freak out if you grab the contents when they are looking. You do only get to do stupid shit in front of them if you have the right disguise on, hitman style. The arrow up down menu is a bit whatever and I frequently open it in mid fight panic. The whole part with eating bread and fruit is fairly redundant as well.

But then there are the puzzles, the mood, music, and the whole "being Indiana Jones" of it all. The game nails most of these in an impressive fasion. Last night I almost panicked as I thought the game was taking me away from Gizah to the next area, when I had so much left to do, but there was no need and it will probably warn me to finish things up like it did in the Vatican area. I just love to roam around the place, doing Indy stuff, finding stuff on the side, solving "mysteries". And the story is very promising, Already I have seen some great cut scenes and laughed out loud many times.

So I would say, know what you are getting into, but Indy fans (Raiders is my all time favorite film) will get their money's worth.

edit: Just to add, the game looks fine on the Series S, but is nowhere near being some kind of a graphics powerhouse, understandibly. But it runs quite smooth.
 
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Isslander said:
Bit of a strange one, this. In many ways it is a very old fashioned sort of game and some of the movement feels dated. A lot of the stealth is just "stay crouched". Enemies either have the eagle eye vision of... an eagle, or the perception of a horse with blinders and acute glaucoma. They don't give a flying fudge if you break a padlocked box right in front of them with a massive hammer but they will freak out if you grab the contents when they are looking. You do only get to do stupid shit in front of them if you have the right disguise on, hitman style. The arrow up down menu is a bit whatever and I frequently open it in mid fight panic. The whole part with eating bread and fruit is fairly redundant as well.

But then there are the puzzles, the mood, music, and the whole "being Indiana Jones" of it all. The game nails most of these in an impressive fasion. Last night I almost panicked as I thought the game was taking me away from Gizah to the next area, when I had so much left to do, but there was no need and it will probably warn me to finish things up like it did in the Vatican area. I just love to roam around the place, doing Indy stuff, finding stuff on the side, solving "mysteries". And the story is very promising, Already I have seen some great cut scenes and laughed out loud many times.

So I would say, know what you are getting into, but Indy fans (Raiders is my all time favorite film) will get their money's worth.

edit: Just to add, the game looks fine on the Series S, but is nowhere near being some kind of a graphics powerhouse, understandibly. But it runs quite smooth.
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It's a (quite) modern Chronicles of Riddick and that's it. This is absolutely fine by me tbh. Unfortunately modern devs have a lot of trouble coding some very good AI which is a bit strange when you see very old games like F. E. A. R having more advanced AI.
 
Isslander said:
Bit of a strange one, this. In many ways it is a very old fashioned sort of game and some of the movement feels dated. A lot of the stealth is just "stay crouched". Enemies either have the eagle eye vision of... an eagle, or the perception of a horse with blinders and acute glaucoma. They don't give a flying fudge if you break a padlocked box right in front of them with a massive hammer but they will freak out if you grab the contents when they are looking. You do only get to do stupid shit in front of them if you have the right disguise on, hitman style. The arrow up down menu is a bit whatever and I frequently open it in mid fight panic. The whole part with eating bread and fruit is fairly redundant as well.

But then there are the puzzles, the mood, music, and the whole "being Indiana Jones" of it all. The game nails most of these in an impressive fasion. Last night I almost panicked as I thought the game was taking me away from Gizah to the next area, when I had so much left to do, but there was no need and it will probably warn me to finish things up like it did in the Vatican area. I just love to roam around the place, doing Indy stuff, finding stuff on the side, solving "mysteries". And the story is very promising, Already I have seen some great cut scenes and laughed out loud many times.

So I would say, know what you are getting into, but Indy fans (Raiders is my all time favorite film) will get their money's worth.

edit: Just to add, the game looks fine on the Series S, but is nowhere near being some kind of a graphics powerhouse, understandibly. But it runs quite smooth.
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This is why I said the gameplay is 'MID'.
The story is decent and it is great being Indy Jones.

But the gameplay just feels kind of dated and the AI is awful.
You can crouch right in front of an enemy sometimes and they don't see you.
If an enemy is on a different level like up some stairs they can't see you if your on the level below.
If the stealth parts start to annoy you don't worry you can run to the next checkpoint and everything is reset.

I am now nearing the end of Gizeh and now getting into the game and enjoying the story and the puzzles are pretty decent although a little easy to work out.
The game certainly improves once your out of the tutorial (Vatican Level).

Another gripe is playing on PC the controls could of been a lot better - 2 for lighter and camera / 3 for all the food.
The PC is clearly an afterthought as they do realise a PC has more than 8 buttons?
 
It probably has something to do with environments being tighter but after I left Gizeh I have been very impressed with the graphics and overall look of the game (Playing on the Series S).
 
bsmaff said:
This is something that really bugs me:

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That jerky motion from the deep water to the shore also looks off.

Yeah the AI is very non-aware of the surroundings, I was crouch walking around a nazi who turned around, I managed to follow him the right way so I suppose it's possible he would miss me, but the thing was that Gina was behind me and of course the AI just flat out ignores companions, so she was just crouch walking right in front of this dude who couldn't give two schnitzels

Some thoughts about a VERY SPOILERY moment which happens not long after Gizeh:

A very emotional moment when Gina finds her dead sister on the sub, and also right after she ferally attacks the first nazi she sees and effs him up. Stuff like that really shines in this game.
 
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