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KickStarter Firmament - steampunk adventure from Cyan (Myst series, Obduction)
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Darkozric
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It looks like I will also need a bigger box for my internet to download all this ram.
Geisler
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The requirements are quite high for a title in this genre, but the recommended specs are hardware thats going on 6 years old now. That's not THAT bad is it? Also, it's not because you dip under the recommended specs that it will be unplayable. If you're not playing in VR it will probably be fine on anything that's isn't older than 10 years give or take. The RAM thing can safely be ignored, you'll be fine with 16, maybe even less.
obduction was pretty unoptimized too, one of the most unoptimized unreal engine 4 games in its early days
it was but they managed to fix it over time. IIRC their Myst remake wasn't that bad on launch.
Great Deceiver
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That song reminded me of Brendan Perry from Dead Can Dance.
Darkozric
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3 reviews on GOG, one is crying about the wasd controls, the second one is about shader compilation stutter, but the trophy goes to the faggot who's saying that you don't to have to click everything so this is relaxing (as if the rest of the Myst games weren't relaxing enough).
Also he recommends that if we want a challenge we should take a university course.
Yes, dats rite, these are the 2023 retards we're dealing with.
Also he recommends that if we want a challenge we should take a university course.
Yes, dats rite, these are the 2023 retards we're dealing with.
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I feel like they did a terrible job marketing this, if I hadn't been playing the Myst remake recently I would have had no idea this was coming.
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It's super short, I think I completed it in less than 4 hours.
It's also terribly easy.
Myst my ass.
It's also terribly easy.
I guess story in the end is some retarded commie stuff about the ship keepes being buttfucked by the ship owner or some shit like that, didn't bother much about it.
bionicman
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learn to code, bitch!
big cyan fan who backed the game so I ended up playing it... the game is shit, there are only 3 areas and each has about 2-3 puzzles in them. the puzzles are all basically large to very large set pieces where you use your gadget to move mechanisms in order to solve objectives either through the machines themselves or by using them to manipulate traversal options. everything is on a grander scale, bigger vistas, huge machines, but the puzzles are very simplistic and the game feels like a bad indie myst clone most of the time.
the final part (after completing all 3 areas) is basically just a walking simulator where they feed you the majority of the "story" which is more of just the premise. it's very mediocre. sad, coming off of the back of Obduction, which I thought was fantastic and would put up there with Myst/Riven in terms of quality. Firmament only took me 6.3 hours, while Obduction took me 17 hours (a couple hours may be added since it was buggy at launch and I restarted once it was patched)
still love cyan but I'll never back another project if they decide to return to kickstarter after this shit, especially when they had the audacity to delay this several times and made and released the myst remake instead of focusing all of their efforts on this game (and it shows)
edit: the AI shit is insubstantial and they basically only have two books you can read in the game that get copy-pasted around the various areas..
the final part (after completing all 3 areas) is basically just a walking simulator where they feed you the majority of the "story" which is more of just the premise. it's very mediocre. sad, coming off of the back of Obduction, which I thought was fantastic and would put up there with Myst/Riven in terms of quality. Firmament only took me 6.3 hours, while Obduction took me 17 hours (a couple hours may be added since it was buggy at launch and I restarted once it was patched)
still love cyan but I'll never back another project if they decide to return to kickstarter after this shit, especially when they had the audacity to delay this several times and made and released the myst remake instead of focusing all of their efforts on this game (and it shows)
edit: the AI shit is insubstantial and they basically only have two books you can read in the game that get copy-pasted around the various areas..
Darkozric
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I had the same experience but unlike you I never restarted it. I was distracted by something else at the time. However, I intend to return to it at some point.
In case you missed the news, Cyan confirmed that Riven remake is ready from start to finish, but it needs a lot of polishing.
I'm not sure how many years this translates into but at least we have something to look forward to, especially after the firmament fiasco.
Btw, I wasn't aware that you're a Cyanbro. Out of curiosity, when was the last time that you played Riven?
about 5 years ago?
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