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Has anyone else played Indiana Jones and The Great Circle yet? It's out now and is up on gamepass if you don't want to pay a hundred bucks for vidya, and it's pretty great if you are a fan of Indiana Jones.
It's an action-adventure game. That is the best way to describe it really. It plays like an im sim - in the Vatican level I caught myself considering using a water arrow on a light the thief vibes were so strong. But it has a lot more direction than most im sims and it is chock full of puzzles of varying complexity. It's no outer wilds or talos principle of course, and you can actually ignore a lot of the puzzles if you like, which makes sense in such large, detailed and open levels.
I don't know how much of my enjoyment is the actual game being good and how much is my love of Indy though so I'm looking for alternative opinions. It definitely feels really comforting to get a new Indiana Jones story that isn't bogged down by stupid fridges and whatever a phoebe waller bridge is supposed to be. The music is fantastic, Troy Baker mostly nails Indy's voice (the guy doing Marcus does a great job too) and it all actually feels like something Indy might have been doing between raiders and last crusade. And it's Tony Todd's last role and he's awesome in it.
Tried it briefly. Will wait until I have a 16 or 32 gb 5000 series GPU. My 8 gb didn't really cut it. Seemed like fun though!
Not sure if I'll play with kb/m or controller.
I'm playing it kb/m, but it was definitely built for a controller and then lazily ported to kb/m - rmb is right fist if you are unarmed but aim if you have a weapon, which is especially dumb since the combat is built around picking up and using disposable weapons mid fight. And you can lean (pressing z and c, not q and e because while the game has context specific controls they're shit - if Indy is looking at something and you open the map, pressing e won't tab to your notes it will exit the map and pick up the object) but only if you have a weapon.
But it's certainly a lot of fun.
Ok. I used my PS5 controller when I tried it. Seemed fine, even though playing anything in first person without a mouse used to seem sacrilegious to me.
It is sacrilegious my brother, listen to your heart. Maybe just keep the ps5 controller handy for the boxing ring bit, that's the only place I found it impossible to manage.
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