KickStarter Pathologic 2 (AKA Pathologic remake)

[Martyr]

how big is the steam download of this game?

 

[Solfear]

how big is the steam download of this game?

A bit less than 10 go.

I am day 2. So far so good. Everything is at least as great as in the first game (one of my all time favorite).

 

[Burning Bridges]

Gameplay, at 4:47 the Dead Item Shop closes directly before his nose.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Also why does anyone in town look like a hipster? Is there some secret message I don't get?

 

[Diggfinger]

I've owned the 1st game for years - will finally try to dedicate some time to it.

Looks like a strong narrative experience and this dude tatoo'd the game's logo on his back because he luvz it so much
RPS article

 

[Jenkem]

Gameplay, at 4:47 the Dead Item Shop closes directly before his nose.

clicked on the video and he's on day 3 at 6:30am and has all these icons on his map what the FUCK was he doing before this??

 

[Raghar]

Aside from some stuttering/loading when entering/exiting buildings (and one or two times when running around), I had no performance issues. Dialogue with NPC's reminds me of E.Y.E, in that I can't quite tell if the translation is bad, or if mild confusion/alienation is just the intended effect.

From what I seen on streams, translation is fine. They are talking like that.

 

[Raghar]

Also why does anyone in town look like a hipster? Is there some secret message I don't get?

Post some images, but from what I seen they look like normal people from socialistic era.

 

[Jenkem]

the only hipster is that dandy bachelor fuck

 

[Mikeal]

Speaking about Bachelor, is he still a manlet in remake?

 

[Alexios]

It really needs better optimization.

 

[Jinn]

Speaking about Bachelor, is he still a manlet in remake?

He's a goddamn city dandy and an asshole. It's great.

 

[GewuerzKahn]

Speaking about Bachelor, is he still a manlet in remake?

He's a goddamn city dandy and an asshole. It's great.

That's the reason I want to play him and not the Haruspex.

So I finished the game. It was really a unique and satisfying experience.
I really love the art style of this game. Are there similiar movies, games, art pieces, etc. with that style?

 

[Silva]

I really love the art style of this game. Are there similiar movies, games, art pieces, etc. with that style?

Don't know if it's exactly what you want, but I find most games from the eastern bloc have similar vibes and aesthetics: Stalker, Darkwood, Pathologic, This War of Mine, etc. I also find Planescape: Torment scratches the same macabre and surreal itch but you probably know that already.

 

[Jamma]

Wrekmeister Harmonies is definitely similar. It's good, but it's a very slow film, so it's not for everybody.

 

[Wunderbar]

Speaking about Bachelor, is he still a manlet in remake?

He's a goddamn city dandy and an asshole. It's great.

That's the reason I want to play him and not the Haruspex.
So I finished the game. It was really a unique and satisfying experience.
I really love the art style of this game. Are there similiar movies, games, art pieces, etc. with that style?

it's not very similar, but "Young doctor's notebook" (a very loose adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's "Morphine") reminded me about Pathologic.

 

[alyvain]

I really love the art style of this game. Are there similiar movies, games, art pieces, etc. with that style?

I'm not sure. Maybe you can try vaguely similar Russian films, such as Mister Designer. It doesn't have the steppe and more visceral aspects of Pathologic, but the general vibe is pretty similar, just look! Also, nice music. More similar to the original Pathologic though. Dybovskiy also really liked Aleksei German's films (to quote Wikipedia, My Friend Ivan Lapsin is a film about people 'building socialism' on a bleak frozen plain, their town's one street a long straggle of low wooden buildings beneath a huge white sky, leading from the elegant stucco square by the river's quayside out into wilderness). It is not magical realism though, it is gritty real, so it may be not the one you're looking for.

In general you have to check Russian symbolism and German expressionism and the works inspired by these movements.

 

[Jaedar]

Died for the first time in game.

In theory this "hey you fucked up, now pay the price" is a very good idea. In practice, the first penalty I got was rapidly diminishing health, basically making the game impossible. I feel there's not enough health recovery items in the game to keep up with the drain, let alone being able to afford them all.

Guess I'll treat this game similarly to HC PoE. On death, restart from the beginning.
In the games defense, it did say very clearly: "Whatever you do, don't die. No seriously, don't. "

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Died for the first time in game.

In theory this "hey you fucked up, now pay the price" is a very good idea. In practice, the first penalty I got was rapidly diminishing health, basically making the game impossible. I feel there's not enough health recovery items in the game to keep up with the drain, let alone being able to afford them all.

Guess I'll treat this game similarly to HC PoE. On death, restart from the beginning.
In the games defense, it did say very clearly: "Whatever you do, don't die. No seriously, don't. "

So IPL collected money to make an even more inaccessible game?

Based IPL.

 

[Jenkem]

You don't get rapidly diminishing health, your health bar becomes slightly shorter the first time you die, like half a centimeter less. Subsequent deaths make it even shorter, and also shortens other meters, it does NOT make your health tick down.

If your health is draining then you are either too exhausted, too hungry or infected.

 

[JDR13]

I've seen a lot of people complaining about the time limit. How bad is it? Do you feel rushed the entire time?

 

[Puteo]

I've seen a lot of people complaining about the time limit. How bad is it? Do you feel rushed the entire time?

That's not quite a simple answer; because yes, you do, but it is 100% by design. Pathologic is the complete opposite of most other games in that it is not a power fantasy; that is the real issue complainers have about the game. You are not an ubermensch who can fight everyone they want without consequences, you can't solve everyone's problems, you can't buy everything you want, not every quest has a net benefit, you can't steal everything without consequences, information is often deliberately withheld from you, and you cannot do every quest/event in a single day. You are supposed to feel rushed, you are supposed to feel some degree of impotence, you are supposed to feel creeped out, and you are supposed to feel stress sometimes. The game wants you to feel some degree of despair.

If you face the game like an experience to be appreciated you'll find it very enjoyable and quite novel. It is, imo, one of the best RPGs of all time and definitely by far the best RPG not in the general RPG discussion forums. If however, you face the game like spreadsheet simulator where everything must be min/maxed, you must succeed at everything you do and you take every missed event/setback/tragedy as a judgement on your own personal competence and worth as a human being; like most game reviewers; then you're going to have a bad time.

That said, for a purely mechanical answer to your question, I find I can generally completely 90% of the big main quests/events in a day if I really hustle (which I always am). There is a lot of extra stuff though that you can only find by either stumbling upon it or using a certain type of wine that will mark hidden events on your minimap.

 

[RaptorRex888]

But I play games to escape real life.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

But I play games for the story and anything that requires minimal effort distracts me from it.

 

[alyvain]

So basically you have to know that you may get fucked by this game (which is not a bad thing) and roll with it.