I decided to get a month of Game Pass Ultimate in order to play the new Indiana Jones game (which is phenomenal so far!). I also decided to try out cloud streaming on Xbox and I can't believe how terrible it still is. At least they removed the 5-10 minute queue, still can't believe that was a thing a while ago. But yeah, I streamed Indiana Jones and the game looks absolutely awful. I tried streaming Final Fantasy VII Remake on PS5 just to get a comparison and that game looks much better when streamed compared to streaming a game on Xbox. In fact, I'd say that a streamed PS5 game looks about as good as an installed one. Both my consoles are wired to the internet and I have a 500 mbps internet connection, so there's no difference other than the hardware. So I decided to just download Indy and play through it that way.
@LtSarge You are not the first person i've heard this from. You would have thought it would be the other way round with Sony using some of Microsoft's tech and the latter company's big push for cloud gaming.
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@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, now that you mention it, I do recall reading somewhere that Sony is using Microsoft's servers for their cloud streaming. Really weird then that the streaming quality is worse on Xbox compared to PlayStation.
@JohnnyShoulder I fully switched to using Macs at home and Linux for work. I sometimes have to use Windows servers because some of my clients are set up that way and it's easily my least favorite part of the job
Hopefully PC gaming can manage to move away from Windows at some point, Steam Deck is a pretty good start.
From the outside looking in, I would say Indy has received more-or-less an overwhelmingly positive reaction. Doesn’t mean every one will feel that way though. Some people don’t like Mario, some people don’t like Final Fantasy VII… and ahem some people don’t like The Last of Us Part 2 (😉 @LN78)… it doesn’t mean that the majority of people in those cases are wrong… nor the minority as it goes 🍻
I’m about to beat Indiana Jones. I absolutely loved the game. With that said, I’m kind of bummed out because two achievements are bugged for me, stopping me from getting all 1000/1000 points. I hope there will be patches in the future to remedy this.
The first major area where you're just plopped in to work out things for yourself is really nicely crafted, and I think I found a total of 3 different ways to clear one "main gate"
There's a lot of fascists to navigate in this area which adds a little tension with the lack of autosave until you reach a certain point. But after I solved the first mystery
Nothing too complex, just finding the information about the bull paintings and a passage by a fireplace
It was clear that doing this sidequest had moved me past the gated area for the main quest (route 1)
I then decided to go back through the gate
I had picked up the guards key from the officer in the upstairs office to the left of the area earlier
as there was still facsits to take out and items to find, and it was here where I found route 3, which in essence was
climbing up some stairs to the left and then going up and over the roof and jumping down on the other side of the gate
And this route could have meant avoiding nearly every guard for that area completely, if that's more your style.
Very pleasing options. But my preference will always be to find as much as I can possibly find first time, taking my time and taking out everyone in an area where possible, and then have a good nosey round for any extra routes and collectibles that I might have missed before moving on.
I know i've probably still missed some things, too, as it seems like there will be all kinds of secrets, but I got a few skills, comics, chests of cash, and even noticed a lock box with no glow or icon, so I simply smacked it with a hammer and Voila, more goodies.
I like when devs make games this way. Options are fun, experimenting is fun, even when it's just little basic things like this, it adds something.
Side quests are actually quite long 😁 Instead of getting the camera with the money I already had hoarded, I decided to do one random side quest, as it seemed like a good way to "find the money" as it initially suggested, pretending I didn't already have it. The qiest I picked at random was freeing someone from a locked room, in essence. But I've been exploring for ages, knocking out all kinds of fascists, and now it's sending me on further adventures to dig sites and the like. Classic Indy.
The combat in Indiana Jones is just brilliant. It's a bit tough at first but once you get upgrades, such as dealing more damage with your fists and using your whip to disarm foes, then you'll become an unstoppable beast. Yesterday, I infiltrated a camp and took out like 15 guys in a few minutes using nothing but my fists and whip. I disarmed the enemies with my whip, picked up their weapons and took them out, and when they were too many I used my fists, which knocked them out after a couple of punches. It was absolutely spectacular.
It's also nice that there are guns in this game even though they're not that common but there's at least variety to the combat.
I played one side quest (sewers) one part of a main quest (tomb) and did some boxing afterwards and that was maybe 3 hours of entertainment right there. Taking photos and finding journals to unlock more story beats via internal dialogue and reading, with the exploring and collecting nicely woven in to what I was already doing.
Some of the conversations in Italian are pretty funny too, so it makes it worth going slow, taking it all in and having a listen/read to what is going on around you
It's quite a tactile game, so it would benefit from some proper haptics 😉
Bravo, Machine Games. I always liked the look of Wolfenstein, have seen friends play it, but I think this is my first actual MG game I've played properly myself.
@Ravix I think I've played it for over 25 hours now and I'm still not close to the end. It is indeed a long game and it can be even longer if you try to do everything.
The level design and gameplay loop are just so expertly interwoven. You explore huge levels with lots of things to collect and pictures to take in order to get adventure points, which you can use to upgrade Indy's abilities. It just meshes together so well. You're constantly rewarded for exploring and on top of this, exploration is so immersive in this game. The environments are so detailed and the places you explore are so fascinating. It's like I'm actually there and exploring them myself. I can definitely understand why the developer went for a first-person perspective, it just makes everything so much more immersive.
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