State of the Game

[Erei]

Word. Just got in now. I'm gonna track down every last poster who complained about Odyssey being too dark and go on an opinion poll style rampage on them. I'm blind just from seeing my cockpit.

Try me. I have a stealth grenade.

 

[Erei]

Also, the skybox is still too dark IMO.

throw grenade as distraction and sneak away

 

[Amy Pendergast]

But hey, it has a good side.
Out of frustration I bought half the steam sale and finally got around to try Alyx...

 

[Amy Pendergast]

Also, the skybox is still too dark IMO.

throw grenade as distraction and sneak away

The stealthiest position ingame is the rooftop jump.

 

[Erei]

But hey, it has a good side.
Out of frustration I bought half the steam sale and finally got around to try Alyx...

You didn't have to buy that many game just to try Alyx. Just sayin'.

 

[Fishy]

Seriously, I feel like I'm commuting home in winter when it's pitch black outside, and my stupid kids decide to turn on the light in the car because suddenly they need to read a book.

 

[Erei]

Seriously, I feel like I'm commuting home in winter when it's pitch black outside, and my stupid kids decide to turn on the light in the car because suddenly they need to read a book.

increase gamma
What did you say ?

 

[Sic Mundus]

I didn't mind the cockpit being darker especially out in space while maneuvering between different planetary objects. Honestly, they should have just added some form of option to play with that setting so everyone can scale to their preference. This is one of those issues where both folks on each end of the argument have a point. Darker because it's space but lighter because of what we're used to from Horizon. Which in this case, a slider/option would have been ideal.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

You didn't have to buy that many game just to try Alyx. Just sayin'.

I had 104 games on my wishlist. Now significantly less. Some people buy shoes, i vent my frustration buying games
Looks at pile of shame

 

[CMDR-ss47ply]

Seriously, I feel like I'm commuting home in winter when it's pitch black outside, and my stupid kids decide to turn on the light in the car because suddenly they need to read a book.

yep a switch would be wonderful it would make all happy

 

[Just]

same company it looks like

And the most interesting thing is, that SOMETIMES you meet someone random in the club, that seemed to be in the very same,
theoretically not existing outside of your mind place, talking to you about things that no one else should be talking about, because you were hallucinating after all.

Of course there was always a possibility, that you both just had one-way filters and were talking about something totally else,
and your minds were swapping this stream to something fitting the fairy tale it was feeding you already.

I guess constant awareness of all this spoiled "the fun" for me and my mind stopped trying to push me deeper into abyss of madness.
It's not easy to become genuinely mad if you have hardcoded part of brain that constantly labels all incoming information : "assumption" "cherry picking" "unverifiable" eventually classifying any "supernatural" experience you may have as "(censored), your brain is tricking you again".

 

[Fishy]

increase gamma
What did you say ?

Actually that's the funny bit. Generally, my comfort zone consists in pushing up a bit the gamma to play games a tad brighter than recommended. But here, ugh. If that's what Horizons was like, then no wonder my brain had blanked it out to spare me PTSD.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

I didn't mind the cockpit being darker especially out in space while maneuvering between different planetary objects. Honestly, they should have just added some form of option to play with that setting so everyone can scale to their preference. This is one of those issues where both folks on each end of the argument have a point. Darker because it's space but lighter because of what we're used to from Horizon. Which in this case, a slider/option would have been ideal.

I think it came down to the equipment of the users. I have two friends with normal non HDR monitors, for them it's pitch black everywhere, the others with HDR capable ones were okay(ish)

 

[CMDR-ss47ply]

I had 104 games on my wishlist. Now significantly less. Some people buy shoes, i vent my frustration buying games
Looks at pile of shame

I just started Control so far i like the twin peaks vibe to it

 

[Erei]

I had 104 games on my wishlist. Now significantly less. Some people buy shoes, i vent my frustration buying games
Looks at pile of shame

It's ok, I'm not judging.

As the song goes :

Those games are made for playing
And that's just what they'll do
One of these days these games are gonna play all over you

 

[Boomtrooper]

But hey, it has a good side.
Out of frustration I bought half the steam sale and finally got around to try Alyx...

Waaaaahhhh! Oooh, Amy.... Alyx in VR.... a.m.a.z.i.n.g.... look forward to hearing about it - keep us updated...

 

[Amy Pendergast]

I just started Control so far i like the twin peaks vibe to it

Control is cool, it's the same universe as Quantum Break and Alan Wake

 

[Sic Mundus]

I think it came down to the equipment of the users. I have two friends with normal non HDR monitors, for them it's pitch black everywhere, the others with HDR capable ones were okay(ish)

I have HDR myself but I leave it off because everything looks a bit too soft and a bit grainy in light. Maybe I'm not using the setting right but HDR off seems nicer for this game in general. I only use HDR for movies/shows.

 

[Erei]

Actually that's the funny bit. Generally, my comfort zone consists in pushing up a bit the gamma to play games a tad brighter than recommended. But here, ugh. If that's what Horizons was like, then no wonder my brain had blanked it out to spare me PTSD.

I really don't see your problem. I can't see the issue.

 

[Boomtrooper]

And the most interesting thing is, that SOMETIMES you meet someone random in the club, that seemed to be in the very same,
theoretically not existing outside of your mind place, talking to you about things that no one else should be talking about, because you were hallucinating after all.

Of course there was always a possibility, that you both just had one-way filters and were talking about something totally else,
and your minds were swapping this stream to something fitting the fairy tale it was feeding you already.

I guess constant awareness of all this spoiled "the fun" for me and my mind stopped trying to push me deeper into abyss of madness.
It's not easy to become genuinely mad if you have hardcoded part of brain that constantly labels all incoming information : "assumption" "cherry picking" "unverifiable" eventually classifying any "supernatural" experience you may have as "(censored), your brain is tricking you again".

I always believe ingrained empirical thinking is a good vaccine against irrational thinking...