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

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Immerse yourself in the world of DEATHLOOP with the complete original game soundtrack. Experience 59 amazing songs with a total run time of over 2 hours. The soundtrack was created by a group of talented composers - Tom Salta, Erich Talaba, Ross Tregenza, Arkane Lyon, and Sencit Music.

Also listen and download here!
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2VNdSD...
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/deat...
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/18...
Epic Game Store: https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US...

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Chapters:
0:00 (Video Intro)
0:02 Splashscreen 01
0:08 Welcome to Blackreef
3:11 Menu - Break The Loop
6:42 Menu - Protect The Loop
7:55 Updaam
17:58 Space Invader (Charlie Montague)
23:02 Anonymous (Aleksis Dorsey)
27:57 Karl's Bay
38:52 Hazardous (Harriet Morse)
43:53 Fristad Rock
54:40 Delirium (Fia Zborowska)
59:49 A Band Apart (Frank Spicer)
1:04:51 The Complex
1:17:26 Paranormal Activity (Egor Serling)
1:22:23 Ubiquity (Wenjie Evans)
1:27:20 Final Confrontation
1:29:06 Déjà Vu
1:32:54 New Danger
1:33:06 New Milestone Reached
1:33:14 New Mystery Unlocked
1:33:24 New Conclusion
1:33:31 New Discovery
1:33:41 Splashscreen 02
1:33:46 Colt Gameover
1:33:58 Colt Win
1:34:06 Invasion Started
1:34:14 Invasion Updated
1:34:22 Invasion Ended
1:34:27 Julianna Gameover
1:34:41 Julianna Win
1:34:52 Lady S (by Frank Spicer)
1:38:34 You Have No Class (by Frank Spicer)
1:40:39 Ode To Somewhere (by Frank Spicer)
1:44:11 The Revenant (by Frank Spicer)
1:47:21 Splashscreen 03
1:47:27 Equality Gameover
1:47:37 Target Killed
1:47:49 Splashscreen 04
1:47:54 Eternal Deathwish
1:50:22 Carnival
1:53:16 Stuff Dispensers
1:53:50 Splashscreen 05
1:53:55 Heartbreaker
1:56:31 No Saints No Sinners
1:58:36 Sun Goes Down
2:02:04 Splashscreen 06
2:02:10 Madame K
2:03:26 Wrong Side of the Mirror
2:06:44 Safe Room
2:09:58 The Moxie
2:11:00 The Dahlia's Lounge
2:15:22 Automaton's Tango
2:16:59 Splashscreen 07
2:17:05 Time Flies
2:20:33 Candybar
2:21:25 Splashscreen 08
2:21:31 Rocket Man
2:22:32 Pitch Black
2:25:57 Down the Rabbit Hole

 

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[toughasnails]

Yes. It’s easily Arkane’s worst game, and I say that as someone who overall disliked Dark Messiah.

One things where it IS the weakest of their games, and where it lacks something that is characteristic for the rest of them, is the replayability or the lack thereof. Deathloop is much more polished, slicker game than Dark Messiah but the latter still gives you reasons to replay it.

 

[DemonKing]

Finally finished. Very underwhelmed for a "10/10" game. Systems are poorly explained and the UI layout is confusing and unintuitive. Story is a mess and hard to follow. AI dumb as dishwater and only being able to use a handful of powers at once limits the scope for emergent gameplay since your selection locks you into a particular playstyle. Having to replay the same maps over and over because you didn't do something in a particular way or got killed is not fun either. Also a lot of the story is told through outdated methods like audio blogs and notes left lying around.

I'd say it's probably a 6-7/10 game depending on your tolerance for some of the above issues/design choices. Not Arkane's best effort.

 

[mediocrepoet]

This game of the year contender is marking its massive success by being offered for 67% off (70% with humble choice discount) at the Humble Bundle store.

The price on this thing tanked faster than a Squenix game.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/deathloop

 

[Straight elf]

Gosh, this game is so ugly. Everything from the cover art to the gifs that are supposed to sell the game to me make me want to avoid it like a plague. Seriously, how delusional are the marketing people who thought this will make the product enticing for customers to buy? Its literally two ugly people holding weird guns and "die, die again". WTF?

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

There’s no question that, as with all Arkane games released under Bethesda, the marketing team did an awful job.

 

[LarryTyphoid]

Is there a single modern Arkane game where the characters aren't disgusting to look at? The protagonists of Deathloop are probably an improvement in that regard, melanin not withstanding. At least the woman looks like a black woman instead of the female black celebrities you see on TV who bleach their skin, straighten their hair, and generally look disgusting and uncanny.

 

[ADL]

/pol/cels need to get their eyes checked and stop seething.
Julianna is cute as fuck

 

[Riskbreaker]

I'd oppress her for sure.

 

[The Decline]

Gosh, this game is so ugly. Everything from the cover art to the gifs that are supposed to sell the game to me make me want to avoid it like a plague. Seriously, how delusional are the marketing people who thought this will make the product enticing for customers to buy? Its literally two ugly people holding weird guns and "die, die again". WTF?

To make that box art work the title should have been "Nig vs Nog"

 

[Nifft Batuff]

The art is interesting. Remind me the '70s and '80s action flicks.

 

[Echo Mirage]

Skill Up arrives late to the party to explain to everyone what they already know.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Skill Up arrives late to the party to explain to everyone what they already know.

Trying to fix his reputation? A bit late for that.

 

[Talby]

This is half price at the moment. Is it worth it?

 

[Alienman]

Trying to fix his reputation? A bit late for that.

Something happened?

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

This is half price at the moment. Is it worth it?

It depends on what you're looking for.
Most importantly: It's not an immersive sim (or whatever you want to label Arkane's previous games). It's an FPS with a strong focus on exploration and relatively non-linear progression. The latter parts of that work fine, the FPS part... eh.
It's extremely easy, or at least was when it launched. I've heard some rumors that the devs patched in added difficulty, but I can't confirm that first hand. At launch the game was the definition of game-journo difficulty.
The narrative itself is fine, but the narrative presentation is often aggressively annoying.

That said:
Soundtrack is awesome
Controls are tight
Central gimmick has tremendous promise
There are some neat Easter Eggs
Ran flawlessly at max settings on my 2 year old laptop

TLDR; I bought it Day 1 at $60. I liked it well enough, but not enough to finish it (I got within 2 or 3 hours of finishing it and then dropped it). I would say, knowing what I know now, the proper price point is right around 20 USD. Probably lower for people who don't care about exploration or higher for brain-dead morons who just want to pop moles.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Something happened?

He praises most games AAA or otherwise, he even called Watch Dogs Legion an open world immersive sim which caused me to lose my shit. Then I found out I was not the only one that does not agree with his "opinions". He's also called ShillUp. That's the reputation I was talking about.

 

[AW8]

Also a lot of the story is told through outdated methods like audio blogs and notes left lying around.

I'm curious, what do you consider a modern way to tell a story in a video game?
Dialogue choices? Environmental storytelling? Gameplay and story being more in sync?

 

[toro]

This is half price at the moment. Is it worth it?

No.

 

[DemonKing]

Also a lot of the story is told through outdated methods like audio blogs and notes left lying around.

I'm curious, what do you consider a modern way to tell a story in a video game?
Dialogue choices? Environmental storytelling? Gameplay and story being more in sync?

Half Life 2 over 15 years ago showed how to do it - great voice acting, radio messages, video calls and expressive and well animated NPCs. Deathloop has some good voice acting for the two main characters chatting over the coms but everything else is very lazy stuff with virtually anyone of consequence leaving diaries and audio monologues everywhere.

 

[El Presidente]

Skill Up arrives late to the party to explain to everyone what they already know.

34 minutes dancing around the elephant in the room: game was considered a 10/10 masterpiece by the press because it features blacks.

 

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https://bethesda.net/en/article/67D...ame-update-3-photo-mode-accessibility-options

1, 2, 3… Say ‘Wenjie’! Create stunning images to last for eternity with DEATHLOOP’s new Photo Mode, available now in Game Update 3.

Photo Mode makes it easy to bring your vision to life. Capture Colt in the middle of the action, snap a scenic panorama of Blackreef, or flex your portraiture skills shooting the Visionaries. With a wide selection of camera tools, character poses, filters, stickers, and frames, the possibilities are endless.

 

[ADL]

Deathloop: Death of the Outsider?

 

[vortex]

Deathloop: Death of the Outsider?

No, he said new title so it must be Deathloop 2.