L.G.C. |Reviews| — The Talos Principal

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Game: The Talos Principal
Webzone: http://www.croteam.com/talosprinciple/
Devel: Croteam
Engine: Serious Engine 4
Price: (This has to be a mistake) €19.99 or $39.99
In Euros: http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/?cc=pt
In USD: http://store.steampowered.com/app/257510/?cc=us

Someone tell me I’m not crazy!

Wazzat: The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam, the creators of Serious Sam, and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).

Makes with the Working

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Oh darn. Looks like the render boxen can’t play it.
Resolution options are completely busted.
prj_bAllowAutomatedBenchmark=true

J-

P-

Much like Venn’s MSI 980, my Asus 970 STRIX was not recognized – at first!
- The game would still play fine, but the message kept appearing.
  - Updating to the “Public Beta” depot made the message go away.
Latest patch merged the previous publicbeta in and fixed it.

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Shiny / Sounds

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Let us talk about the difference between frame time (pacing) and frame rate.
Rate is how many you gets
Time/pacing is if that frame fk all useful (smoothing shite out)
This game is all over the place.

J-

Ees purdy
Atmosphere is a big thing here. Croteam does a great job of making the place look familiar, but mysterious

P-

What the hell is up with the Shadows? This is Skyrim level BAD!
Frame times are all over the map. I blame the texture fuck-ups in the walls, which apparently happen on purpose.
But that is me having to actually look at all the minute details to find flaws.
In general, it looks amazing!
I’ll also admit to spending 20mins of game time just sitting at the intro sequence listening to the music and watching the broken scenery flash by.

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Control

V-

No problems but FK all ..enable gerbil smoothing

J-

Pretty standard FPS fare. No surprises here.

P-

Look, rebindable keys!
And a working mouse sensitivity slider!
Croteam, you spoil me.

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FUN

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It’s not portal
It is a slightly above average puzzle game
Things get hella repetitive with a quickness.
Keep in mind I cared FK all about the story (I play puzzle games for puzzles)
Nothing original here guys and goils. It’s moving boxes / guiding lasers ..the game.

J-

I unknowningly sank about 45 minutes of my life into this. It felt like maybe 20
Croteam! Why couldn’t you make Serious Sam 3 this fun! FUCK

P-

Good audio atmosphere
Very pretty graphics
There aren’t a whole lot of games coming for Linux lately that I can say are genuinely good!
- This is one of the exceptions.
Myst meets Portal.

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