Let's enjoy the first half of Omikron: The Nomad Soul!

[SoupNazi]

... because apparently, the second half is pure suffering. But we're yet to see that. This is my first playthrough ever except for the demo, so it's very well possible I just abandon this once it becomes a piece of turd.

So as some of you will know, this game STEALS THE PLAYER'S SOUL and which is the game's main feature but also a frustrating gimmick sometime. When you give up your soul it travels into the protagonist's body or whatever and you take over.

If that guy dies, whichever person touches the cadaver first becomes your next vessel. To make things more interesting, I hereby declare that whoever reads this LP also gets their souls stolen!

Also it has a David Bowie soundtrack or whatever.



(also this is my first time so be gentle guises. i will probably TRY TOO HARD to be funny.)

I heard the game's combat is horribly bad and also hard as fuck, so I go for the difficulty that would make a good excuse for me to quit.

Let's do this, then. (Yeah, I realize you can see shit on these screenshots. Fortunately, I'll be transcribing most of the dialogues.)

For extra FUNNIZ, I pick a retarded meme name. FACT: It's the first and the last time this name is ever mentioned in this game. (I think)

The game starts as some wacko guy does a barrel roll out of the blue portal behind him.

For whatever reason, he's talking to someone as if he was talking to US.

: I have many things to tell you, and very little time. My name is Kay'l, I come from a universe parallel to yours. My world needs your help, you're the only one who cane save us.

: Looks like this chump is talking to us, indeed. The game hasn't even started yet and the fourth wall has already been breached.

: I succeeded in opening a breach between my world and yours. Through your computer, you can enter our world and help us.

: This is some wacky shit.

: But in order to do this, you must transfer your soul into my body. Do you accept? Press any key to say "Yes", but hurry... there isn't much time.

: wat.

(I actually tried waiting here for a minute or two to see if something would happen if I didn't press anything, but nope.)

: I accept.

: I knew I could count on you. Now you must concentrate...

: *goes off to get a coffee*

: You've done it. Now your soul occupies my body. This is the last time that we'll be able to speak together. Once you've crossed the breach, you'll be on your own. I will take over my body when you leave the game, and hold your place for you until you return.

: This shit doesn't make any sense, but okay, deal.

: That's it. You're ready. But remember, once you've crossed the brach, you're on your own. There's no saving and going back if you get into trouble.

: WAT? NO SAVING? I hope there's a solid cover system to make up for it then.

: You are entering a real world. If you make mistakes, you'll just have to accept the consequences.

: Clearly, this game has C&C, therefore it is the Codex' favorite game of ALL TIMES from now on.

: Now listen carefully. To begin your investigation, go first to my apartment. There's no more time to talk, you must cross the breach before it closes. Oh and one more thing... be careful with my body, it's the only one I've got!

: The Codex is not amused by this attempt at humor. Also, what investigation? What's all this about saving your world anyway? I've got like, a bazillion questions!

For some reason, Kay'l doesn't really hear that, even though I have a mic. Instead, he invites us into his world with this friendly hand gesture.

This is where Fable's fart attack originated. Kay'l showing off his our ass.

We travel through the portal for a minute or so. This is where Stargate got their wormhole effect from.

After a while, BARREL ROLL out of the portal into some kind of a ... warehouse? Storage room? Either way, we-----

: WHAT THE SHIT SON.

: I've been waiting for you...

: IT WASN'T ME I SWEAR. YOU'RE CONFUSING ME WITH THIS GUY WHOSE BODY I TOOK--

The guy doesn't really bother listening and whacks us around a little.

At this point, the monster starts sucking out something yellow & green (vomit) from our face, but I failed to get a screenshot.

Suddenly, THUMP THUMP THUMP. We hear mechanical sounds and stomps. The monster immediately flees, leaving us on the floor, possibly dead already. Looks like we can't even protect Kay'l's body properly

Whoever the mechanical guy is, he's stronger than Gunther Hermann, throwing these large crates around and shit.

IT'S METAL GEA--

: You have been the victim of a violent attack. Go home, eat and rehydrate yourself. If you experience mental disturbances, consult a Psytech. The Omikron Police thank you for your cooperation.

: This robot isn't a true BRO. Doesn't even check our vital signs, or help us on our feet... Oh wow. Not even call a cab for us? People have called cabs for us before when we were passed out on the floor, drowning in our own vomit.

Nope. The robot just walks out on us.

We try to get up, looks like Kay'l's body isn't dead just yet. Normally, in all other Quantic Dream games, this would mean a shitty QTE event probably. Fortunately, this game was created before the of video games.

What awaits us next? Can we get to some actual playing without getting devoured by another monster?

 

[lightbane]

Oh, I played this game (and finished it, the 2nd part is really shit), it's a flawed experiment that's more or less playable, filled with (wasted) potential (for example the soul-traveling thingy, everytime you use it you lose most of the items your character was carrying at that moment). What's more, after this game David Cage started his fall into the depths of insanity and popamole, ending with Heavy Rain, one of the most over-hyped pretentious piece of shit ever existed.

PS: There aren't any actual choices and consequences I think.

 

[anus_pounder]

Looks interesting. :3

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

It isn't that bad, even the second part of the game is ok next to later games. The second rate FPS sections were pretty poor, but the Side scrolling combat was amusing.

By the way, are you using any particular program to run the game? It still works on my PC, but the last time I went to replay it, opening the map in the "gold" city crashed my game everytime, making things more of a memory exercise than I liked.

Trailer for the game: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ipjd ... videogames

You cannot go through the game as the same guy though...as it shows in the trailer.

 

[SoupNazi]

Just running it under Windows XP, with Win 95 compatibility mode on. We'll see how things go, but so far everything has been working just fine.

 

[visions]

How do you get it to run properly on a modern system?

When I reinstalled it, I managed to get past the crash-to-desktop stage by unchecking the second cpu in task manager's affinity settings (it seems that if you have a multi-core processor, you have to uncheck all but one cpu's)
but the graphics in cut-scenes were still fucked up on both of the computers I tried it on and it acted glitchy.

I remember that even when I first played it on win 98 on an early 2000's system, bringing up the map was risky and could crash the game.

EDIT: oh, ok. didn't work for me iirc.

 

[SoupNazi]

I have a single-core processor on this laptop since my desktop is fried. Other than that, I didn't do anything extraordinary except for the compatibility mode... though we'll see, perhaps something can still fuck up in the future.

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Oh well, lets see how it goes on your system and we will take it from there.

One of the David Bowie 'Concerts' that you can find and go to ingame: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 888788107#

Another trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcmpW89F2vk

 

[Name]

What's the middle point you guys were talking about?
For me all shooting sequences are suffering... And it gets worse beginning from the Mideastern district.
And I lost interest after meeting with David Bowie and entering the Venetian district.

 

[SoupNazi]

god this was a really shit lp i'm glad i never continued it