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:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
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
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I bring this up since the graphics are meh+ at best.
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Voice work is top notch for indie.
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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)
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The sounds are amazing, the atmosphere will suck you in like a $10 hooker.
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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.
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I too got the input flipout a few times.
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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.
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If this was a $4.00 title I would give it two chairs.
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Talk about a lack of payoff
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All the creepy atmosphere and for nothing? Bah!
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It’s a 90 minute movie you play through.
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Too short and not enough variety for me to give it a better score
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Verdict –