Microsoft Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - update (12/21): "The Ray Tracing Breakdown" (Digital Foundry)

[thewhyteboar]

Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures - Wikipedia

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I played the hell out of this when I was a kid.

 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

 

[stepee]

I’m a little disappointed it’s not third person but it does look really good so I’m sure I’ll get over it after playing it. I loved TNC so I trust them to make a good game here, but I had just pictured a third person indy game this entire time.

[Best]

Looks phenomenal. I agree I'd definitely prefer it in 3rd person but either way I'm hyped. When the theme song came on I got goose bumps. 

[Mr.Vic20]

4 minutes ago, stepee said:

I’m a little disappointed it’s not third person but it does look really good so I’m sure I’ll get over it after playing it. I loved TNC so I trust them to make a good game here, but I had just pictured a third person indy game this entire time.

I think that if MachineGames attempted to make a 3rd person game, the world would implode...in first person of course. 

[stepee]

1 minute ago, Mr.Vic20 said:

I think that if MachineGames attempted to make a 3rd person game, the world would implode...in first person of course. 

 

I do suppose it should have been obvious given the developer

[Best]

I know Indy rarely used guns but I hope in this you can use a gun throughout. The whip might get to repetitive. 

[crispy4000]

I'm cool with this.  Leans into their pedigree, just hope the whip is fun in 1st person since I hope that's the crux of the game.  I asked for not-Uncharted, and this does look different.

[AbsolutSurgen]

The coolest part of Wolfenstein 2 was the wacky over-the-top story.  I ended up turning the difficulty down to easy, just because I liked the traversal/story more than the combat.

I don't know how I feel about what I saw.

 

Do the graphics have a slightly last-gen look to them?  There was something that looked "overly sharp" about them.  And the lighting looked "off" to me.

[Kal-El814]

Cool looking Indy game? Executive producer Todd Howard?

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

1 hour ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Do the graphics have a slightly last-gen look to them?  There was something that looked "overly sharp" about them.  And the lighting looked "off" to me.

 

I absolutely thought the same thing as well.

 

It definitely ain't a "looker", but that's far from a deal-breaker for me!

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Personally, I appreciate that this game is set between the only two Indiana Jones movies ever made!

[Dre801]

My concern is Todd Howard's involvement 

[Mr.Vic20]

1 minute ago, Dre801 said:

My concern is Todd Howard's involvement 

We’re all concerned, but we’re banking on the terrific lads and ladies over at Machinegames to pull through for us! 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

3 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

The coolest part of Wolfenstein 2 was the wacky over-the-top story.

 

Wolfenstein II certainly "went places" narratively speaking! 

[Bacon]

I have standard Bacon opinions about what I have seen. Not a fan. Tho I never have any interest in movie IPs anyway.

[AbsolutSurgen]

11 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Wolfenstein II certainly "went places" narratively speaking! 

The head transplant scene is unforgettable. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, AbsolutSurgen said:

The head transplant scene is unforgettable. 

 

That's EXACTLY what I was referring to 

[AbsolutSurgen]

2 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

That's EXACTLY what I was referring to 

Most memorable scene in gaming. 

[Paperclyp]

The Troy baker Harrison ford impersonation had me lol’ing

[Brick]

"The Great Circle" isn't exactly the greatest title.

[Keyser_Soze]

20 minutes ago, Brick said:

"The Great Circle" isn't exactly the greatest title.

 

Better than "The Dial of Destiny"

[Brick]

21 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Better than "The Dial of Destiny"

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Yes, the 'Great Circle' in the new Indiana Jones game is a real thing: Let's go down this conspiracy rabbit hole together | PC Gamer

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What is the real Great Circle, and what can it tell us about the new Indy game?

 

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"Throughout history, mankind has built sites of great spiritual significance. If you were to draw a line through these ancient sites around the globe, you get a perfectly aligned circle." At the end of the trailer, Indy discovers evidence of the "protectors of the Circuli Magni: The Great Circle."

 

It's a great premise for an Indy game—a global circle of ancient wonders and a secret society that protects them—but it wasn't just made up by MachineGames: The Great Circle is an actual semi-obscure internet theory that's been kicking around for decades. What is the "real" Great Circle, and what might it tell us about the Indy game? Get your map pins and conspiracy yarn out and let's investigate.

 

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The "real" Great Circle theory

 

The specific Great Circle we're talking about comes from a blogger named Jim Alison (at least, he's the earliest reference I can find for the theory online). Sometime around 2001, Alison published an article that charted 17 ancient sites, including the Great Pyramid of Giza, Machu Picchu, Nazca, and Easter Island, that happen to align near-perfectly on a single great circle. We know Indy makes a stop at the Giza pyramid from the trailer, so that's a solid clue we're talking about the same cricle here. Not every site aligns exactly with the circle, but each one listed is no more than 5-25 miles away. It's kind of a neat observation:

 

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Does the Great Circle actually mean anything?

 

Perhaps the Great Circle's inherent mathy-ness is what's held it back as an internet conspiracy. A few fringe science sites have cited Alison's blog in their summaries of the Great Circle and there's an odd video about it here and there, but it hasn't left a big impression on the conspiracy community. Maybe it's because it's so easy to dismiss: you could draw a line around the globe anywhere and make thin connections between the historical places that align with it. A comment on a 2013 Reddit thread about the theory from user Vietoris sums it up best, I think:

 

"Any line going around the Nile delta or the valley between Tigris and Euphrates is bound to cross some very ancient landmarks. Surely if it weren't the great pyramids, Petra and Persepolis, it would have been the great library of Alexandria, Abu Simbel, Thebes, Mount Sinai, Babylon, Jericho, …"

 

 

 

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The highest-profile appearance of Alison's research came in a 2019 TEDx talk from self-described "inventor, researcher, filmmaker, skeptic, story teller and explainer" Roger G. Gilbertson, who used Alison's Great Circle as a call to action for scientists to search Earth's seabeds for yet-undiscovered ancient civilizations. A note from TED added in the description of the YouTube upload flagged the talk for sharing claims that "only represent the speaker's personal views which are not corroborated by scientific evidence."

 

[Keyser_Soze]

"It's real!"

 

"Dumb name"

 

We are at unobtanium status again.

[MarSolo]

Ugh, I don’t want to buy an XBox and I don’t necessarily game on my PC anymore so I’m going to have to break somewhere.

[Kal-El814]

3 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

Ugh, I don’t want to buy an XBox and I don’t necessarily game on my PC anymore so I’m going to have to break somewhere.

 

What would Indy do? Steal what he needed.

[Keyser_Soze]

44 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

Ugh, I don’t want to buy an XBox and I don’t necessarily game on my PC anymore so I’m going to have to break somewhere.

 

Subscribe to game pass and play it on the cloud. EZ

[SaysWho?]

58 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

Ugh, I don’t want to buy an XBox and I don’t necessarily game on my PC anymore so I’m going to have to break somewhere.

 

Just hope it sucks and you won't have to worry about it.  

[skillzdadirecta]

I REALLY don't get why this game is in first person but if anybody can pull it off it's these guys. I just don't understand why you would take a character as iconic as Indy and make a first person game with him.

[Mercury33]

3rd person makes this an automatic pass for me. If it was an evolution of Uncharted/Tomb Raider I’d be excited. But it’s not. So fuck it. 

[Brian]

25 minutes ago, Mercury33 said:

3rd person makes this an automatic pass for me. If it was an evolution of Uncharted/Tomb Raider I’d be excited. But it’s not. So fuck it. 

It’s in 1st person bud 

[Keyser_Soze]

6 hours ago, Brian said:

It’s in 1st person bud 

 

I think he meant NOT 3rd person, which would follow up with the rest of what he said.

[Mercury33]

On 1/21/2024 at 4:56 PM, Mercury33 said:

3rd person makes this an automatic pass for me. If it was an evolution of Uncharted/Tomb Raider I’d be excited. But it’s not. So fuck it. 

I could edit it this. But I have chosen to live with my shame. 

[Dexterryu]

On 1/18/2024 at 4:12 PM, best3444 said:

I know Indy rarely used guns but I hope in this you can use a gun throughout. The whip might get to repetitive. 

 

I actually kinda hope the opposite. There are TONS of FPS games out there. The fighting in the movies was mostly fist fights and/or smartly taking advantage of the environment. Rarely was fighting just about fighting... it was about rescuing/chasing/obtaining someone or something. Overall, I hope the combat in the game has some plot driven reason vs just mowing down the bad guys.