This week your intrepid heroes pound the absinthe, remember our deceased daughters, and flap the bird.
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Game: Spate (WastedLand Too)
Webzone: http://spategame.com/
Devel: Eric Provan – Ayyo Games
Engine: Unity
Price: $9.99/€9.99
Wazzat: Fueled by absinthe hallucinations and haunting memories, Spate delivers a deliciously eerie adventure as the main character deals with the tragic loss and grim reality of the death of his daughter.
Makes with the working
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This game feels sluggish even on the “fastest” settings.
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The fix? Lower the res ಠ_ಠ
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aaaaand it makes the 770s’ run balls out
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CHoppy as balls on the steamboxen
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Runs well on the nvidia powered system
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Shiny / Sounds
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It looks like the standard Unity lot.
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This Christopher Walken on a budget wannabe narrator can DIAF
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I fired up the Slayer ..as is tradition.
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At first I was like “Yay! Voice Acting”
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…And then I realized this dude’s voice pisses me off
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Atmosphere leaves much to be desired
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Ended up listening to Rammstein instead
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Flickering graphical glitches and texture distortion on the open-sauce drivers.
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Taking a shot of absinthe to trigger the hallucinations stops the flickering from happening. I’m guessing it’s a vsync issue.
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Control
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Controls are muddy and glitchy *glares at jump button*
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Really. You would think something like jumping (for a platformer) might deserve a bit of focus.
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Suggestion sticks
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Venn’s right, you need d-pad
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I like the absinthe drinking mechanic, but it seems a bit silly
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Also, max fall height…
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Even after reassigning the controller bindings to something more sensible, in both the Unity launcher and the in-game controls menu, it still refuses to use anything but the default setting.
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Same goes for keyboard bindings.
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FUN?
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After muting the audio it turned into a LOTR walking sim.
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Achievements? Pffft!
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Very dull.
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It’s like LIMBO, only the child is already dead by the time you start. Where’s the fun in that?
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About 30 minutes in it forces you to play Flappy Bird.
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There aren’t a lot of games that make an hour feel like 2, this is one of them.
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Boring! So very drab!
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