What are you playing?

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:28 pm

Just been playing Call of Cthulu - never heard of it before but it sounded quite interesting.

Turns out while the concept is interesting the execution is terrible. At least I know where Amnesia got the idea for 'sanity' from - although the fact that it's a fucking terrible idea is clearly shown by this game, so I don't know why Frictional decided to adopt it for Amnesia. I lost about 15 minutes progress because I had a 'sanity failure' trying to find the right position for a pedestal, because you have to save at specific points which are both infrequent and hard to find.

Quite a lot of bugs, too. But then it was published by Bethesda.

Jaedar · Post by **Jaedar** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:44 pm

I thought it was a pretty nice game. But I ran into a gamestopping bug as soon as I get to a police station. People say the game is kinda downhill from there anyway, so not the biggest deal, but even so. Never died due to sanity failure, but maybe it gets worse as you go on.

Cybernetic pig · Post by **Cybernetic pig** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:54 pm

Cthulhu is a brilliant game and I love the sanity system. I recommend seeing it through to the end. Its a little unpolished yes but it's a grand adventure overall. Also save points FTW.

Cybernetic pig · Post by **Cybernetic pig** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:00 pm

Jaedar wrote:I thought it was a pretty nice game. But I ran into a gamestopping bug as soon as I get to a police station. People say the game is kinda downhill from there anyway, so not the biggest deal, but even so. Never died due to sanity failure, but maybe it gets worse as you go on.

By people I assume you mean Thief fans? Because for me it only gets better once you get to go guns blazing.

Post by **Jonas** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:34 pm

DaveW wrote:At least I know where Amnesia got the idea for 'sanity' from - although the fact that it's a fucking terrible idea is clearly shown by this game, so I don't know why Frictional decided to adopt it for Amnesia. I lost about 15 minutes progress because I had a 'sanity failure' trying to find the right position for a pedestal

You can't actually fail due to insanity in Amnesia. It's all visual effects and freaky sounds when you're out of your mind, but you never get a game over.

VectorM · Post by **VectorM** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:36 pm

I think he was talking about that Cthulhu game.

Post by **Jonas** » Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:42 pm

I know, but he was comparing it to Amnesia, and I felt the need to clarify that the insanity mechanic is not used in the same way there. It's not exactly obvious what's going on in that game

Mr_Cyberpunk · Post by **Mr_Cyberpunk** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:38 am

Most of us will also agree that you wouldn't want popcorn for dinner or steak as a cinema snack.

err... err... umm... in Australia we have that... ... .... yeah we actually do.. they only do it on certain days, can also get alcohol.
As for popcorn as dinner.. well 1 week a year that pretty much happens- called Royal Show week.
STRAYA!

bobby 55 · Post by **bobby 55** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 4:05 am

Mr_Cyberpunk wrote:
Most of us will also agree that you wouldn't want popcorn for dinner or steak as a cinema snack.
err... err... umm... in Australia we have that... ... .... yeah we actually do.. they only do it on certain days, can also get alcohol.
As for popcorn as dinner.. well 1 week a year that pretty much happens- called Royal Show week.
STRAYA!

And an ice-cream cone with real strawberries in it for dessert. \o/

Borderlands 2: I started a playthrough 2 for the Gunzerker but I want to try the Assassin Class as Zero. I believe it can be pretty challenging in the levels 10 and above.

kdawg88 · Post by **kdawg88** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 5:24 am

Lego Racers demo. Just because.

Mr_Cyberpunk · Post by **Mr_Cyberpunk** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 6:21 am

I'm playing Mechwarrior Online.

shadowblade34 · Post by **shadowblade34** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 6:51 am

Mr_Cyberpunk wrote:I'm playing Mechwarrior Online.

You've just broken the NDA.

Mr_Cyberpunk · Post by **Mr_Cyberpunk** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:25 am

At this point the NDA means fuck all, they basically made this Open Beta now thanks to PC Gamer (full open beta starts in like a weeks time). Besides its not like I told you guys anything other than I'm playing it.

DaveW · Post by **DaveW** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:08 am

Mr_Cyberpunk wrote:
Most of us will also agree that you wouldn't want popcorn for dinner or steak as a cinema snack.
err... err... umm... in Australia we have that... ... .... yeah we actually do.. they only do it on certain days, can also get alcohol.
As for popcorn as dinner.. well 1 week a year that pretty much happens- called Royal Show week.
STRAYA!

Bloody Australians.

Jaedar wrote:I thought it was a pretty nice game. But I ran into a gamestopping bug as soon as I get to a police station. People say the game is kinda downhill from there anyway, so not the biggest deal, but even so. Never died due to sanity failure, but maybe it gets worse as you go on.

Yes, it's definitely downhill from there. You get guns in the police station and it turns into a generic puzzle-FPS in the vein of Half Life, rather than the sort of detective-mystery it was up to that point (albeit with a tonne of jumping puzzles). Sanity failures only happen with the monsters you encounter later.

Cybernetic pig wrote:Cthulhu is a brilliant game and I love the sanity system. I recommend seeing it through to the end. Its a little unpolished yes but it's a grand adventure overall. Also save points FTW.

The problem with the sanity system, in both Cthulu and Amnesia (although I wasn't aware the Amnesia one doesn't kill you - I thought it did) is that it's a cheap and artificial "horror" mechanic. If the game developers have done their job properly I should be feeling scared myself, the game shouldn't have to tell me "oh, by the way - what you're seeing right now should be scaring you." By making you play according to the sanity system, I think it makes you play it as a game rather than an experience which isn't the point.

I wouldn't mind the unpolished elements if I could save where I want to. But save points mean I can't open or close the game when I want (or alt-tab, since that crashes the game) and also means that hitting a bug or a stupid situation where you die through no fault of your own means losing a lot of progress. There was a bit where you climb down a cable of an elevator shaft - but the "I'm scared of heights" visual effect comes on which completely distorts your view. For some reason as I was going down, my character decided to leap from the cable and throw himself down the shaft. I'd missed a save point at the top somewhere, so I lost about 15 minutes of progress.

Just let me fucking quicksave.

AEmer · Post by **AEmer** » Sat Sep 29, 2012 1:12 pm

I'm also in that BETA mr. cyberpunk. #feelsgood

"Most of us will also agree that you wouldn't want popcorn for dinner or steak as a cinema snack."
Unfortunately true.

Steaks are fucking delicious and you should be able to get them anywhere.

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