This week your intrepid heroes visit Indonesia, take pictures, and sequel like a pig seewwweee!
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Game: Dread Out
Webzone: http://dreadout.com/
Devel: Digital Happyness
Engine: Unity
Price: $/€ 14.99
Wazzat: DreadOut is a third person supernatural horror game where you play as Linda, a high school student trapped in an old abandoned town. Equipped with her trusty smart-phone, she will battle against terrifying encounters and solve mysterious puzzles which will ultimately determine her fate.
Makes with the working
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Where does this thing load from? Middle earf?
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Whulp, I get to enforce my new rule about screen resolutions
This thing loads way slower than any thing on SSD’s has a right to
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If I were to compare the loading times to an old 386 booting up, I’d be comparing two things which have only tangential correlation.
Even if that wasn’t case, the 386 boots a fucking hell of a lot faster than this game loads.
Running without the Steam overlay was the only way I could get decent enough frame-rates.
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Shiny / Sounds
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In all fairness you can tell a tonne of work went into level design.
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Nice intro song. Very Manos
Is it just me, or did they put a lot of work into this main character’s butt
Also, quite a number of graphical glitches
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Behold! The Uncanny Valley!
Ghost lady voice acting gets really annoying really fast.
Like the level design. The one “level” they have, that is.
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Control
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Gerbil movement is jerky as heck (4.5.2 fixes jerky movement on linux)
Everything works on the Xclone (no jerky movement) except for the fk mothering camera. Key mechanic much?
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Mouse is still a bit too sensitive
Walking is way too slow
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Mouse sensitivity is far too twitchy to be playable, though not as much as last week’s game.
Running speed in a mini-skirt is apparently somewhere between a steady walk and the worlds slowest jog.
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FUN?
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40min in and a whole lot of nothing has happened
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Pattycake-slap
30 minutes in and I’m being chased by devil-bacon
I don’t know. I don’t think I can take the game seriously after that. I mean, if it were me, I’d just try to eat it.
Honestly, I stopped playing at that point because I couldn’t stop laughing
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Blatant Silent Hill: Shattered Memories rip-off is blatant!
It would be exactly the same game, except while in Silent Hill you get the (fake) idea of actually exploring a town, this confines you to “generic derelict school” du jour.
Let’s make a list of similarities between the two:
Can be loosely defined in the Horror genre: check
Game starts with main character in a car: check
Main character goes unconscious at some point in intro sequence: check
Main character wakes up and goes looking for missing people with whom they previously shared car ride by going into decrepit dark building: check
Main character has no means of defense against monstrosities save for sprint function and phone with camera: check
Game ends on a stupid sort of cliffhanger, maybe, maybe not: check
Game would be better off not existing: check!
You know, the mainstream video games media likes to say that the Horror genre is dead. It’s games like DreadOut that really drive the nail in on that coffin.
Also: What the fuck have they been doing sitting on this shit they call a Linux version for the past months?
Making it run even worse?
I may be mis-remembering, but their Kickstarter Demo works a lot better than this supposedly “finished” ver
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