Abiotic Factor

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Unagi
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Abiotic Factor

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Anyone else see this one?
I'm not far in, but so far it's got my attention.

It's EA, but it's entirely playable and getting Overwhelmingly Positive reviews.



I'm doing a single-player run, It's almost like a Half-Life/Sub-Nautica - with an interesting sense of humor.

It's also got a strong multi-player element, but I'll likely never experience it.
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It looks interesting, although the retro textures are a huge turn-off for me. I don't want to party like it's 1997.
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Blackhawk wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:50 pm It looks interesting, although the retro textures are a huge turn-off for me. I don't want to party like it's 1997.
This is why I failed to click with play 7 days to die.
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Re: Abiotic Factor

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I can be turned off by graphics, but I also don't automatically prejudice a game based upon them (save for an eyesore of a game, of course). Graphically, this game isn't (opinion alert) all that horrible.

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Re: Abiotic Factor

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GreenGoo wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 9:18 am
Blackhawk wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:50 pm It looks interesting, although the retro textures are a huge turn-off for me. I don't want to party like it's 1997.
This is why I failed to click with play 7 days to die.
7 Days doesn't bother me. It's got primitive geometry (intentionally), but the textures are clean. Intentional pre-3D accelerator style pixelation is a much bigger turn-off for me. It really bugged me on the System Shock remake as well, for instance.

And this is just my personal preference, not a condemnation of an art style.
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