Arkane Deathloop - first-person action game from Arkane set on a time loop island

[Echo Mirage]

It must have one hell of a soundtrack if they are asking that additional price for it.

 

[Zeriel]

Well judging by the sales numbers, it turns out there aren't that many socialist comrades willing to shell out.

 

[SharkClub]

Since people are just freely posting /v/ shitposts:

Spoiler

 

[Immortal]

Since people are just freely posting /v/ shitposts:

Spoiler

To be fair, I'm posting my /v/ shitposts.

I'm a very busy & important shit poster, I have a streamlined system.

 

[flyingjohn]

Name your game Daethloop.
Make your game piss easy so you can't die.

 

[Ibn Sina]

Game releases tonight.. Not even in the top 10 of best sellers for Steam..?
Looking for threads or 4chan discussion, almost nothing other than the occasional racist shit post..

This is a AAA Arkane title right? It's releasing tonight Right???

Why is it being outsold by Warframe and fucking Red Dead Redemption 2 on the night of it's release...?
Am I misreading something?

<3sRichardSimmons better whip out your wallet.. you got a few more copies to buy to save this..



https://steamdb.info/app/1252330/graphs/

Hopefully this Score / Player Count improves.. a lot.. otherwise...

Chinese, East Asians, Arabs and East euros are becoming slowly but steadily a large base of steam users and most of them do not like black protaganists.

 

[deuxhero]

Just saw this on the Steam main page. They couldn't be assed to make the animated banner actually animated. That's just pathetic.

 

[Riskbreaker]

The users of this turd have spoken.

Goodbye Arkane.

So, going thru these, I struggle to find any negative user review that ISN'T about Denuvo and/or performance.

I do wonder, btw, where this thread will go once the folks here actually start playing the thing.

 

[Immortal]

So, going thru these, I struggle to find any negative user review that ISN'T about Denuvo and/or performance.

Few Things:

Yes, this is true, a large majority of the reviews are related to stuttering / performance issues.

The reality is.. anyone who was put off by the trailer, likely didn't buy the game and rightly so, can't review the game.
So the Mixed review is literally coming from people who actually -wanted- this.

(That's pretty dismal)

And that leads to my next point..

I do wonder, btw, where this thread will go once the folks here actually start playing the thing.

I don't think you need to worry about this ..

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Yeah, performance on pc seems to be poopy even with the day 1 driver updates.

I actually wanted this to succeed because of the novel concept, hope it recovers. Oh well, maybe it's time for the sjw crowd to put their money where their mouth is and save it. Gamers are dead, after all.

 

[racofer]

Deathloop more like Deathflop amirite guise

 

[CyberWhale]

The users of this turd have spoken.

Goodbye Arkane.

So, going thru these, I struggle to find any negative user review that ISN'T about Denuvo and/or performance.

Truly amazing they didn't learn anything from the Resident Evil Village Denuvogate. Of course, reviewers (read: paid shills) and developers have already started writing shitty pamphlets and berating gamers because they aren't acting in their usually sheep-like manner. Fuck them, fuck Arkane Studios and fuck their employees.

 

[Lutte]

But it felt liberating to break free entirely, to have executed such quiet devastation. By the end, I was left in awe at the precision of Deathloop’s focus, the liberty and respect afforded to me as a player, and the minimization — though not complete removal — of frustration in a game entirely centered around repetition. The success with which Arkane pulled this all off is a testament to the studio’s incredible talent and intelligence. No other studio makes you feel quite so smart, and no game of theirs has done it better.

I would be highly suspicious of any game that can make a polygon writer "feel quite so smart"

And what I've seen of the AI on ACG's video review.. I would say, it would make a 4 years old feel pretty smart indeed.

 

[Immortal]

Of course, reviewers (read: paid shills) and developers have already started writing shitty pamphlets and berating gamers because they aren't acting in their usually sheep-like manner.

Uhm...? Archive / Link that shit you fucking tease.

 

[baud]

Just saw this on the Steam main page. They couldn't be assed to make the animated banner actually animated. That's just pathetic.

no, it's a size optimization, videos are usually lighter than the equivalent gifs

 

[deuxhero]

It's not the file format, it's the virtually non-existant animation contained in it

 

[Infinitron]

This is already Sawyers GOTY.

Spoiler

 

[baud]

It's not the file format, it's the virtually non-existant animation contained in it

ah, my bad. But I'd say it's by design, the front page banners on Steam are rarely heavily animated, no?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

what's up with the system requirements?

this is apparently for 1080p btw
https://bethesda.net/en/article/4mVL7pSx3tYuwe9HPfEPmm/deathloop-pc-specs-launch-details

Ultra 4K Specs: 4K / 60 FPS with Ultra Settings
OS: 64 bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher
Processor : Intel Core i9-10900K @ 3.70GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
Memory : 16 GB system RAM
Graphics : Nvidia RTX 3080 (10GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16GB)
DirectX : Version 12
Storage : 30 GB available space (SSD)
Recommended Specs: 1080p / 60 FPS with High Settings
OS : 64 bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher
Processor : Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Memory : 16 GB
Graphics : Nvidia RTX 2060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8GB)
DirectX : Version 12
Storage : 30 GB available space (SSD)

It looks like generic FPS game #407 with average graphics, not some cutting edge tech demo semi-game.

 

[Siel]

what's up with the system requirements?

this is apparently for 1080p btw
https://bethesda.net/en/article/4mVL7pSx3tYuwe9HPfEPmm/deathloop-pc-specs-launch-details

Ultra 4K Specs: 4K / 60 FPS with Ultra Settings
OS: 64 bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher
Processor : Intel Core i9-10900K @ 3.70GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
Memory : 16 GB system RAM
Graphics : Nvidia RTX 3080 (10GB) or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (16GB)
DirectX : Version 12
Storage : 30 GB available space (SSD)
Recommended Specs: 1080p / 60 FPS with High Settings
OS : 64 bit Windows 10 version 1909 or higher
Processor : Intel Core i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Memory : 16 GB
Graphics : Nvidia RTX 2060 (6GB) or AMD Radeon RX 5700 (8GB)
DirectX : Version 12
Storage : 30 GB available space (SSD)

It looks like generic FPS game #407 with average graphics, not some cutting edge tech demo semi-game.

Theses are retarded because I'm playing the game on my GTX 970 with zero issue

 

[Riddler]

Is anyone actually playing this? Is it available on gamepass?

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Is it available on gamepass?

Sadly not. Thought it was going to be which is why I didn't D1P but apparently Bethesda signed a deal with Sony before Microsoft bought them so it likely won't be on game pass until 2022. Fortunately I've got access to it via Gaben's sanctioned Steam piracy but I'm already balls deep on Pathfinder and Hedon so I really shouldn't be firing up another big fucking game.

 

[Immortal]

Is anyone actually playing this? Is it available on gamepass?

No annnd... No.
Was a good run though. 8/10 Thread.

brb Pathfinder.

 

[Zombra]

Is anyone actually playing this?

<3sRichardSimmons bought the game and pledged to post impressions soon.

 

[gerey]

Chinese, East Asians, Arabs and East euros are becoming slowly but steadily a large base of steam users and most of them do not like black protaganists.

That's what I was thinking, and just goes to show in what kind of bubble Western developers live in.

The whole of East Asia, India and the Middle East, and large swathes of South America - which basically makes up 7 billion out of the 7.9 people living on the globe - do not like blacks, do not like to be around them and do not like to see them in their entertainment (the somewhat infamous version of the Chinese the Force Awakens movie poster comes to mind). In one poorly thought-out move motivated solely by virtue signaling they've basically alienated a huge costumer base.

There really was no reason why the game couldn't have featured a character creator.

And all of this is ignoring the fact they've likely also alienated large parts of what should have been their main target demographic - white men - who are by and large the most loyal and most supportive costumers of Arkane and the kind of games they make.

We can all sit here and debate why Dishonored 2 and now Deathloop are stinkers, but I guarantee you one of the main reasons they sold poorly relative to budget and marketing is the fact the focus on the former was on an ugly dyke, and of the later on two moon crickets.

For whom was this game even made? A non-existent SJW crowd that plays immersive sims? If they had wanted to pander to those degenerates they should have just made a dating sim and called it a day.

Arguably, the choice of protagonist also signifies a deep identity crisis for the game. Besides the race of the protagonist, what makes it stand out? It seems to me that Deathloop is by far too weird for its own good, and the Arkane of today lacks the raw talent and laser focus of Ice Pick Lodge to make weird work. Trying to evoke 60s and 70s blaxploitation is also extremely bizarre, since their target demographic likely doesn't even know something like that exists, let alone has any sort of nostalgia for the genre.

Compare the marketing of Deathloop to that of Dishonored and Prey. Dishonored managed to easily convey the main focus of the game - supernatural assassin on a quest for revenge - and the same goes for Prey - immersive sim in the vein of System Shock 2 - but after watching a bunch of trailers for Deathloop it just came across as some cheap NuWolfenstein knockoff.