The L.G.C. Weekly crew slap sleuthing hats on our head organs, investigate a house, and throw some chairs.
About:
Investigate the Greenbriar family’s house. Discover the story of what’s happened to them. Go home again.
Scale:
Game: Gone Home
Webzone: thefullbrightcompany.com
Devel: The Fullbright Company
Engine: Unity
Price: $19.99
Makes with the working
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Shiny / Sounds
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Holy unoptimized bluntman! This thing is full-metal herky-jerk on MAX and HIGH
I bring this up since the graphics are meh+ at best.
Voice work is top notch for indie.
First time I ever told rain to STFU.
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Holy Choppy Batman! I wanna take the stairs and not enter bullet time
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I disabled VSync and Anti-Aliasing , pushed everything else to 11 and the game ran smooth on my calculator. (If Oblivion has taught me anything is that Bloom and AA don’t get along)
The sounds are amazing, the atmosphere will suck you in like a $10 hooker.
1.4GB for a 90 minute “game”, those are some High Res textures.
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Control
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It controls well enough but had the gerbil input flip out once or twice while running about maniacally screaming “here’s johnny” while slinging shite around the room putting things down.
J-
I too got the input flipout a few times.
Slowdown while climbing down stairs are
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Finally, a Unity game that comes pre-configured with the directional arrows and the mouse sensitivity settings actually work!
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FUN
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This game is a real tearjerker. I wanted me a suicided teen up in that basement but nooooo. Happy, fk, mothering, ending. I was in tears ..of rage.
If this was a $4.00 title I would give it two chairs.
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Talk about a lack of payoff
All the creepy atmosphere and for nothing? Bah!
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It’s a 90 minute movie you play through.
Too short and not enough variety for me to give it a better score
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Verdict –
