Anyone else been reading RockPaperShotguns three parter on the Russian game Pathologic? It's an incredibly flawed and amazing game, which I definitely wouldn't recommend to everyone (though I only played the first part before I lost my copy years ago), but I'd definitely recommend reading the article. It's very well written and insightful - showcasing exactly why I play a lot of the games I do. Part 1: The Body Part 2: The Mind Part 3: The Soul - beware of spoilers in this last one. The game itself won tons and tons of awards for the way it breaks the fourth wall and involves player in a horribly beautiful world. More to the point - if anybody does have it, do they know if it works on Vista? I may have to buy a new copy...
I've been following it, it looks amazing, personally i'm not that fussed for graphics but i hope the gameplay isn't as messed up as everyone says it is, i haven't touched my copy of the witcher since the first combat scene, i nearly threw up it was so counter-intuitive. Also quite annoyed that i read that last article, i'm sure he could have finished it without giving the end away
hang on, you asked if it works on vista? i think you mentioned somewhere that you had xp at home so does this mean a review is on the way?
My girlfriend has XP at home, while I have Vista - unfortunately, she has learned not to let me go anywhere near here PC, which has been sat on the floor in pieces these last few months.
Smart girl! EDIT: I just read through the entire pathologic review and , erm, wow, sounds fascinating! on the one hand I'm very tempted to try it and on the other it sounds like something i would get horribly frustrated with in a hurry. Interested to hear what your take on it is.
Well, my views are in the RPS comments - but basically, yeah, it's a frustrating game. I got sent the review code when I was freelancing in my pre-BT days and never wrote a review because I found it pretty unplayable. I couldn't follow the plot very well and the gameplay is very masochistic. There is a LOT of awesome stuff in there though, some great ideas which are peaking above the tide of broken stuff. Basically, it's cheap and, if it sounds like the type of game you'd be interested in looking at, it's probably worth picking up and looking at. Don't expect to finish it through - and you'll probably never finish the game with The Devotress character. The ideas are worth sampling, but if you think you'll get further than that then you're kidding yourself. There's a demo out there somewhere with one day of gameplay for The Bachelor character.
Has anyone actually confirmed you can't finish with the devotress character? The trinity is mentioned so strongly elsewhere in the game that having one character (and inferentially associated building) be a dead end seems unlikley. Do you have a source for the game?
Well, I got it working on Vista, but in compatibility mode for 2000 and I couldn't get my onboard sound working. Luckily, I had an HT Omega Striker delivered recently, and it worked fine after I used a sound patch I found in a torrent. The translation was the killer for me. I liked a lot of the game, though the trekking got old and the combat wasn't satisfying (though I managed to find a pistol in my first two hours of game time, which made things easier). In the end though, I couldn't understand half of the dialog and missed a lot of important plot elements. In the end, a lot of the story I got from the third review, because the game became unplayable quite quickly.
I have no source unfortunately, but I believe the Devotress becomes playable after the first two campaigns are finished. As for her ending, I'm afraid I have no clue. It's a big mystery for me what her ending is, one I'd very much like to solve. As for Call of Cthulu - now there's a game which effed me up with fright. Unfortunately, another game I never 100%ed too, so I haven't seen the expanded end of that either. I just found the later levels far too hard even on the normal skill levels.
A couple of my coworkers use uTorrent a lot and they said it's available on there. Maybe in another lifetime when i have more time I'll try it
