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Malkav
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Sooo, played it for 2 hours and a half on PC. The begining of the game is definitely great, very oppressing. I know some people won't like the QTE, but once you're past the first 30 minutes, it's all better.
The game is beautiful. Runs great on Ultimate, except for a few CTD, but I suspect the Nvidia drivers having a few problems with the game (they just released new betas ones with support for the game, downloading them and gonna try them out).
Oh, and killing whole fields of bad guys as Lara Croft with a bow is just thrilling. Good interactivity with the environment too. Killed to guys by shooting on a oil lamp above their head, shit was funny as hell.
The game is beautiful. Runs great on Ultimate, except for a few CTD, but I suspect the Nvidia drivers having a few problems with the game (they just released new betas ones with support for the game, downloading them and gonna try them out).
Oh, and killing whole fields of bad guys as Lara Croft with a bow is just thrilling. Good interactivity with the environment too. Killed to guys by shooting on a oil lamp above their head, shit was funny as hell.
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Lenas
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I'm about 64% through the game and it's great. Almost like Uncharted meets Zelda. You get the cinematic play-throughs of areas, and you can travel back to them at any time (fast travel camp fires) after you've upgraded things like your bow or your axe to access new areas. Skill points and weapon upgrades come fairly often so you never feel stagnant with abilities. Oh, and the deaths during scripted sequences are pretty brutal. I've been stabbed through the face by sticks, shot through the throat with arrows and I'm pretty sure I got crushed under a boulder one time. Feels bad every time, man
Lenas
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Just beat the game. It does tell you when you're at the point of no return, and after you beat the game it'll tell you your completion percent (I finished at 70%) and says you can continue playing in order to complete any unfinished activities. I couldn't find an answer to if there's a postgame or not anywhere else so there ya go.
Dandai
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I'm a few hours in and enjoying it quite a bit. That being said, I'm playing it on "hard" and not too sure what the difficulty setting changed. I've never died outside of a failed QTE and my weapons/gear are as fully upgraded as they can be as soon as I acquire them because I have collected so many parts.
It's gorgeous on Ultra video settings and breathtaking on Ultimate (sadly it's an unplayable slideshow of 3-4 FPS for me).
It's gorgeous on Ultra video settings and breathtaking on Ultimate (sadly it's an unplayable slideshow of 3-4 FPS for me).
Vorph
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3-4FPS is generally a sign that you're trying to run TressFX on a nvidia card. Nvidia loves their proprietary shit (CUDA) and so their support for DirectCompute is an order of magnitude slower than AMD's.
I'm running PC/Ultimate with TressFX on and DoF off vs. PS3 side by side right now, and the difference is mind-blowing. The PC version is literally just about the best graphics I've ever seen in a game.
Great game too, I'm enjoying it a hell of a lot more than I did Far Cry 3, and I'd put it on par with Uncharted 2. My only complaints are "fuck QTEs" and that the game is a little too easy.
I'm running PC/Ultimate with TressFX on and DoF off vs. PS3 side by side right now, and the difference is mind-blowing. The PC version is literally just about the best graphics I've ever seen in a game.
Great game too, I'm enjoying it a hell of a lot more than I did Far Cry 3, and I'd put it on par with Uncharted 2. My only complaints are "fuck QTEs" and that the game is a little too easy.
Malkav
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Well, I'm playing with TressFX on a GTX670 and I don't have this kind of problem. Weird.
Lenas
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Yeah, game is gorgeous regardless of the platform you're playing it on. I'm sure PC is amazing, but even the PS3 had me dropping my jaw at a couple of scenes. The attention to detail when framing shots has a lot to do with it, I think.
I kept playing after I beat it and turned it off last night at 81% completion. Only things left are challenges (all of which are search and destroy) and GPS caches. Getting 100% outside of multiplayer trophies is probably only a 20-25 hr commitment.
Malkav
French Madman
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Oh, come on, after the first 30 minutes, you'll have like one QTE/hour if you rush the missions, not like it's every five minutes.
Except for the "Press X or you'll fall" moments, but seriously, it's not like it's hard, it's always the same thing, I don't even pay attention to them anymore.
ohkcrlho
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even 1 QTE is too much for me.
of course they don't exaggerate QTE like RE6 (what an awful game)
Lenas
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QTE aren't even hard. 95% of the time they're triangle, so it's not like you're waiting to find out what button you'll push. The other 5% is square and you just mash it to win or tap it once to grab a ledge. They make sense in the contexts that they're put in.
Being mad that you have to hit a button to counter attack an enemy or grab on a ledge after you've slid down a hill 100 feet sounds exactly the same as complaining that you need to push R1 every time you want to fire your bow or gun.
Being mad that you have to hit a button to counter attack an enemy or grab on a ledge after you've slid down a hill 100 feet sounds exactly the same as complaining that you need to push R1 every time you want to fire your bow or gun.
Vorph
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They aren't 'hard' in the sense that the timing is extremely tight, but the PC version doesn't make it clear at all which button should be pressed a lot of the time. I failed one of the early ones like 10 times before I finally figured out which fucking button it wanted me to press. I'm not totally against QTEs, but I really despise ones that involve mashing keys. At least the gamepad controls use the triggers instead of L-stick waggling; that shit is the absolute worst.
