Pikachu Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 Quote The Medium is a psychological horror game, featuring music by Akira Yamaoka and Arkadiusz Reikowski. Become a medium living in two worlds: the real and the spirit one. Haunted by a vision of a child’s murder, you travel to an abandoned hotel resort, which years ago became the stage of an unthinkable tragedy. There you begin your search for difficult answers. As a medium with access to both worlds, you have a wider perspective and can see more clearly that there’s no one simple truth to what others perceive. Nothing is what it seems, everything has an other side. Coming Holiday 2020 to PC & Xbox Series X. Stay tuned for the full reveal. Quote
crispy4000 Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 One of the oddest reveals I've seen in a long time. Next gen game debuted with a CG trailer followed by much more muted in-engine demonstration. This thread is incomplete without it: Supposedly it's next gen only. The CG trailer would have really sold that if it... wasn't. That transition at the end does look like something that could be easier to pull off with an SSD though. Quote
Keyser_Soze Posted December 22, 2020 Posted December 22, 2020 This is coming to game pass on the January 28th 1 Quote
stepee Posted January 20, 2021 Posted January 20, 2021 Can you combine two of the settings so you can play it at 60fps? Quote
Keyser_Soze Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 You can preload this right now, on PC at least, it's 24 gigs. 1 Quote
SoberChef Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 On 1/25/2021 at 10:06 AM, Keyser_Soze said: You can preload this right now, on PC at least, it's 24 gigs. Only 24 gB? Is it not a very large game then? Quote
Keyser_Soze Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 5 minutes ago, SoberChef said: Only 24 gB? Is it not a very large game then? The preload is 24 gigs that chart above says 50 gigs is recommended so more coming to download I reckon. Quote
Xbob42 Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 Damn, for some reason I had this coming out in months in my mind. Can't wait! Love the 30 FPS preset chart, whoever made it clearly knows exactly the info PC users wanna see: How can I get 30 FPS? 1 Quote
Bloodporne Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 So apparently reviews for this one are all over the place from what I just checked out. Metacritic is somewhere in the low 70s Quote
Best Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 At the end of the video they say it's definitely worth playing. Just expect a slower pace type game rather than an action 3rd person horror game. Quote
skillzdadirecta Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Bloodporne said: So apparently reviews for this one are all over the place from what I just checked out. Metacritic is somewhere in the low 70s It's an Xbox game... of COURSE the reviews are gonna be all over the place. Same game comes out for Nintendo or Sony and reviewers jizz themselves Quote
Bloodporne Posted January 27, 2021 Posted January 27, 2021 8 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: It's an Xbox game... of COURSE the reviews are gonna be all over the place. Same game comes out for Nintendo or Sony and reviewers jizz themselves The whole time I've been looking at this game and commented on it here it somehow didn't dawn on me that it's not even coming to PS5...oops. I was thinking of picking it up anyway but I guess that settles that, duh. Quote
stepee Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: It's an Xbox game... of COURSE the reviews are gonna be all over the place. Same game comes out for Nintendo or Sony and reviewers jizz themselves Yeah, I think this is a really bad example to try to make that complaint. This is a bloober team game, it’s scoring better than their last game and is about in line with the rest of their output. It’s a small budget thing that just happens to have a console exclusivity deal (probably timed), it’s scoring about what you’d expect and I don’t think the platform would matter. This does have the position of being looked at as the first example of a next gen only Xbox game so I think some people are expecting it to be this big AAA thing when really it’s just a game that would come out mostly under the radar under normal circumstances. Quote
BloodyHell Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 I don’t believe scores are lower because of platform. Apparently it has a lot of problems with controls and the story makes little sense. Either way, im looking forward to playing it. Quote
Keyser_Soze Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Scores are in line with a game that appears on game pass that anyone can play regardless of reviews. Quote
SoberChef Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Well I pre-loaded it prior to heading into work, look forward to scoping it out this weekend for sure. Quote
TheLeon Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 On 1/27/2021 at 7:06 AM, Xbob42 said: Damn, for some reason I had this coming out in months in my mind. Can't wait! Love the 30 FPS preset chart, whoever made it clearly knows exactly the info PC users wanna see: How can I get 30 FPS? Well, it's not called The High End. 1 Quote
Brian Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Horror reviews need a how scary rating. Anything above 3 out of 10 and I am out. Quote
johnny Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 21 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: It's an Xbox game... of COURSE the reviews are gonna be all over the place. Same game comes out for Nintendo or Sony and reviewers jizz themselves maybe because their games are better Quote
Mr.Vic20 Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Gampass says I don't have to care about reviews! Quote
crispy4000 Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 21 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: It's an Xbox game... of COURSE the reviews are gonna be all over the place. Same game comes out for Nintendo or Sony and reviewers jizz themselves One of the strangest takes I've seen in a while. Weren't you into Days Gone (7/10)? Ironically, Bloober Team used to be one of those mystery devs some Wii fans had irrational hope in. This game seems like it'll be good for anyone who digs the vibe. Plus, it legit does next-gen stuff. Sounds like a success to me. Quote
stepee Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 Bloober team just needs more staff or more time. They actually do some really cool stuff technically and have great artistic ability shown here and in Observer Redux, but the optimization is pretty bad and still have a good amount of jank. I feel like they could be on to something great eventually. Quote
stepee Posted January 29, 2021 Posted January 29, 2021 On 1/27/2021 at 4:06 AM, Xbob42 said: Damn, for some reason I had this coming out in months in my mind. Can't wait! Love the 30 FPS preset chart, whoever made it clearly knows exactly the info PC users wanna see: How can I get 30 FPS? So yeah, this is definitely a dlss saves the day game. I suppose now the chart is not taking dlss into account and doesn’t want to put in 60fps (nvidia only). Quote
Xbob42 Posted January 29, 2021 Posted January 29, 2021 I do believe we see some weird inflating of Sony game scores when titles like Horizon Zero Dawn or Ghosts of Tsushima are barely-a-step-up (and a step down in my opinion compared to recent entries) Ubisoft open world games. I always have to be extra skeptical of Sony exclusives because people overhype the fuck out of them. I still can't believe one of the counters to Horizon's bad combat was that I should enjoy setting it up so I can watch the AI fight each other, like a fuckin' video game bum fight or something. Good lord, just make the combat fun! Anyway, Bloober team makes good stuff, but not great stuff, so the reviews based on their history seem to be about what would be expected. Gonna dig into this game thanks to Game Pass, still not sure what to think of the solo split-screen stuff I saw in the Digital Foundry video (seems like a tech gimmick more than something important to the game, which is especially not something you want in a horror-themed title) but let's give it a shot and find out. 1 Quote
stepee Posted January 29, 2021 Posted January 29, 2021 27 minutes ago, Xbob42 said: I do believe we see some weird inflating of Sony game scores when titles like Horizon Zero Dawn or Ghosts of Tsushima are barely-a-step-up (and a step down in my opinion compared to recent entries) Ubisoft open world games. I always have to be extra skeptical of Sony exclusives because people overhype the fuck out of them. I still can't believe one of the counters to Horizon's bad combat was that I should enjoy setting it up so I can watch the AI fight each other, like a fuckin' video game bum fight or something. Good lord, just make the combat fun! Anyway, Bloober team makes good stuff, but not great stuff, so the reviews based on their history seem to be about what would be expected. Gonna dig into this game thanks to Game Pass, still not sure what to think of the solo split-screen stuff I saw in the Digital Foundry video (seems like a tech gimmick more than something important to the game, which is especially not something you want in a horror-themed title) but let's give it a shot and find out. Yeah but Ghost reviewed exactly the same as ubi games do, horizon is a little higher but it’s expansion reviewed the same as an ubi game, then Days gone reviewed like lower, so did The Order. Did that predator game get 90’s? I can’t remember. Idk it’s just a general thing you could throw out there like “reviewers are biased toward Sony”, it sounds good and seems plausible but when you start actually looking at it then it just falls apart. Quote
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