Like if an immersive sim got caught in a teleporter accident with Uncharted. Some aspects of The Great Circle are weaker than others, but it joins Batman Arkham and Goldeneye in the god tier of licensed games.
An irresistible and immersive global treasure hunt, and far and away the best Indy story this century, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle doesn’t belong in a museum; it belongs on your hard drive where you can play the heck out of it.
It’s a fun story with some decent gameplay variety that’s authentically Indy. You won’t miss much by strictly sticking to the main quest, and in fact, your experience will be better for it. It’s a shame the rest of it falls so flat.
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle takes an unexpectedly stealthy and freeform approach, making for a faithful, rip-roaring adventure in which you truly embody the famous archeologist.
I stole this format from @[email protected], so I hope I got it all right. This game looks awesome!
I fully expect it to be a mediocre shooter with some good environmental puzzles and nice graphics, Starfield had 85+/100 reviews before coming out. We’ll find out once it actually releases, in two years with all of the hypothetical DLC included for 15€. Bethesda can fuck right off with their 50€ offerings.
I’ve had this thought that game devs should plant killswitches in their games so if they get mass lay offs the game just stops working and displays messages presented as being from the parent company that tell the user they are banned, and for the most idiotic reasons.
Realistically though if the game is successful by any metric a hacker or dataminer will find it first or it will be abused in some other way.
wow i did not expect such rave reviews. now im extra excited to try this out. hope my fucking shite internet allows the game to download and doesnt randomly stop every 5 minutes
update: yeah ill have to play this tomorrow night 💪😎🤳
Thing is after a certain point I can’t even tell the difference any more. I feel like the downloads are throttled from Microsoft’s side so I never quite get the full whack.
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So its actually good? Honestly surprised. The devs haven’t been canned either?
Same here. I thought it was going to be mediocre at best. Still not interested but happy for the people who like such games.
I fully expect it to be a mediocre shooter with some good environmental puzzles and nice graphics, Starfield had 85+/100 reviews before coming out. We’ll find out once it actually releases, in two years with all of the hypothetical DLC included for 15€. Bethesda can fuck right off with their 50€ offerings.
I’m surprised that folks here were surprised that the people behind those Wolfenstein games would make a good game.
Because we’ve seen time and time again where good devs go bad. Especially when they get bought out.
It was worse before the buyout, when Zenimax had an initiative to make everyone make live service games even when it was clearly a bad idea.
The devs haven’t been canned YET.
I’ve had this thought that game devs should plant killswitches in their games so if they get mass lay offs the game just stops working and displays messages presented as being from the parent company that tell the user they are banned, and for the most idiotic reasons.
Realistically though if the game is successful by any metric a hacker or dataminer will find it first or it will be abused in some other way.
I’m glad this game is good! Now for the love of God, let them make another Wolfenstein, Microsoft!
wow i did not expect such rave reviews. now im extra excited to try this out. hope my fucking shite internet allows the game to download and doesnt randomly stop every 5 minutes
update: yeah ill have to play this tomorrow night 💪😎🤳
I sat with 2mbps for a couple of years. It was quicker to unplug and take my XB to my parents house an hour away to download anything!
Keep the faith, I get 400mbps now and all I had to do was be a little patient, move to a different county and get into crippling debt.
But those download times 🤤
wow 400 🤯 most ive ever had was 200 but mine hovers around 90 now when it doesnt randomly stop
Thing is after a certain point I can’t even tell the difference any more. I feel like the downloads are throttled from Microsoft’s side so I never quite get the full whack.
it does cap at a certain point, but i forget the number
I’m always sceptical of critic reviews, considering
Meh I’m still skeptical. These reviews seem awfully generous compared to the gameplay footage I saw.
ACG review.
TL;DW He enjoyed that game but there were enough technical issues so just be aware of the limitations of the game and your rig.
https://youtu.be/rN5BrUQ9CrA?si=4i8zyVrwlP6_EALq
Just so PC owners are aware, it’s been confirmed that early access will not contain full ray tracing option.
I am very interested in how well various cards will handle the ready tracing options.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24314171/indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-early-access-full-ray-tracing
I think it’s interesting to look back at other game reviews. You sort of see how much they matter. https://lemm.ee/post/6176552
Let people enjoy their games
More power to them, I’ll stick to my hobby of schadenfreude while AAA burns.
Even a good AAA game that doesn’t have always-online shenanigans?
Who’s stopping anyone from enjoying their games?
That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw the scores, I’m not reading reviews of Bethesda’s games other than players’ reviews on Steam.