Mchart
Supreme [H]ardness
- Joined
- Aug 7, 2004
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You are complaining about platforming in a platforming game?I'm about 17 Hours into the game. I restarted it so my buddy could see the intro. Frame rates at 4K, all settings maxed, have been nearly flawless. After disabling my E cores, the game has been almost perfect. That's not my problem.
My problem is that some of the jumping puzzles are so fucking unforgivable and insane that it doesn't matter what you have the difficulty set to. No save points in sight, I couldn't take a breather or I would fall to my death. There is a point on the laboratory moon where I started swearing, started yelling and swearing even more. Frame Rates were perfect, the FUCKING jumping puzzles are so absurd that you just wonder ho damn hard it would have been to just create a map that had normal traversal and great story. The greatest difficulty in the game is getting from point A to point B. I am having trouble typing this, my fingers are locked up, and after the last experience I will likely never revisit the game. Here's an example, you had to jump to one cable, then the next cable while in the air or you hit an electric spot that kills you, you have to do this frequently and if you miss you have to do it all over again. On the lab moon... You have to maintain a constant jumping, jump to pipes, jump to other pipes while being electrocuted and shot at run-jumping, grapple line, then wall run - jumping then opposite wall run jumping then back to other wall run jumping then other wall then grapple then wall run jumping and if you miss any of this couple minute sequence of hell you have to start it over. Thankfully there was an area I could get extra force shards at so I took a break, but restarting the sequence there is harder after you stopped to get the extras and there is no save point in sight. The end of this grapple, then jump to hope like hell you timed the jump perfectly your you fall to your death culminates in a perfect leap that forces you to wall jump back and forth to traverse vertically, only for you (as nearly as I can tell) hit steam vents every damn time and fall to your death before finishing the wall jump climb. There is no save point in this sequence of satan. I rage quit the game after playing for about 13 hours. Much of it was good, the jumping puzzles destroy your immersion in nearly EVERY area you encounter them in. Then there are the slippery slopes all over the game artificially barring you from going certain places until you finally realize you can subdue a mount (when they have been around you for hours)...
Only Cal has to do all the hard shit. Bode has a Jetpack and Merrin can fucking teleport...
Fuck this shit. Love the core gameplay and the story, but this shit is too much for my nearly 50 year old ass.