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[fart town usa]

I know Spiderman 2 is the game of the week but anyone getting 7th Guest VR?

I'm so stoked for this game. I remember looking at the PC Box at Babbages as a child and being so curious and intrigued about the game. It just looked so damn spooky and mysterious. I finally did get to play it when it released on GOG but by that time I had already been made aware of the ending so it wasn't anywhere near as impactful.

This will be the 7th Guest experience I always wanted as a child and I'm curious if the ending is altered at all? Hopefully not but I hope it contains new twists to throw you off.

The original game is known for it's use of FMV, the VR version runs with that concept and introduces volumetric video. Basically full 3D FMV scenes so you can effectively walk around the environment while the ghosts go through their "scenes" and it's full 3D, not a flat image.

Anyone else hyped for this??

 

[Magic Carpet]

Got this sucker in my wish list. Also dug out my original box copy from way back that probly requires a dos box.

 

[Rien]

Good luck with the cans puzzle

 

[fart town usa]

Got this sucker in my wish list. Also dug out my original box copy from way back that probly requires a dos box.

Hell yea, that's awesome!

 

[Markio128]

Looking forward to it, but it may have to wait a couple of weeks because I’m stacked.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Good luck with the cans puzzle

I wonder if it will be the same imposable to say phrase. This seems to be more a total re imagine based on the original game. So everything might be different.

 

[ThatOneGrunt]

I used to love these games. Never finished this one. Never finished any of the them because I was too young and dumb. I remember playing Myst by just clicking on things and hoping something would happen. Played Myst recently and beat it, and was so proud of myself. Looking forward to trying this one again. The production values look great. And I'm always looking for more things to do in VR.

Remember Treasure Quest? I think that was it. Where whoever solved it first got a million dollars? That one was fucking hard. Again, too dumb to play it when it came out.

 

[fart town usa]

I used to love these games. Never finished this one. Never finished any of the them because I was too young and dumb. I remember playing Myst by just clicking on things and hoping something would happen. Played Myst recently and beat it, and was so proud of myself. Looking forward to trying this one again. The production values look great. And I'm always looking for more things to do in VR.

Remember Treasure Quest? I think that was it. Where whoever solved it first got a million dollars? That one was fucking hard. Again, too dumb to play it when it came out.

I do remember TQ but that was another one I didn't have access to.

By the time we got a PC the adventure game trend was kind of out the door but I did catch up on most that i could fine online. Abandonware sites back then were great, games weren't even that old but full downloads all the same. 56k modem working overtime.

 

[Crayon]

Good luck with the cans puzzle

Did you ever hear they word "tryst" again in your whole life? I did once.

 

[DryvBy]

I am hyped for this. I hope we get a physical copy too.

 

[rofif]

Myst2. got I want myst 2.
There is obuction and new cyan game in vr tho

 

[jshackles]

Looks pretty cool, I might have to check this out. Seems like a good Halloween game, but I'm worried I'll probably know all the puzzles and story beats since I've played the original about a dozen times. Gonna wait for impressions I think.

 

[TexMex]

Buying day one

 

[DenchDeckard]

Quest 3? Or psvr exclusive?

 

[jshackles]

Quest 3? Or psvr exclusive?

Not exclusive, also on Quest

The 7th Guest VR on Meta Quest | Quest VR Games

The iconic mystery game, The 7th Guest, has been brought back to life with cutting-edge VR technology, that delivers an atmospheric story like no other. Explore the foreboding mansion, solve challenging puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets. The 7th Guest VR is the ultimate mystery adventure...

www.meta.com

 

[intbal]

Just gonna copy/paste my post from the previous thread about this game:

Well, good luck to all the PSVR players, I guess.

You're going to spend 500 hours staring at this:

 

[Magic Carpet]

Quest 3? Or psvr exclusive?

I'm getting it on the quest 3.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Good luck with the microscope puzzle

FTFY

 

[Paperboy]

Does anyone know what the retail price will be?

 

[DenchDeckard]

OK, quest 3 it is! Awesome. Thanks guys.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Does anyone know what the retail price will be?

I was going to guess 30 bucks but then Sonic Superstars wants full price.....so, shoulder shrug.

 

[Minsc]

This game is going to be such a fun trip down memory lane, really looking forward to it. Curious what the differences are between the platforms, will pick it up after a few impressions from each and decide if the OLED panels matter much and how high-res / high-framerate the PSVR2 runs it.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Got this sucker in my wish list. Also dug out my original box copy from way back that probly requires a dos box.

I have it on my iphone. Also have the old PC disc..and.....I still have the strategy guide.

 

[Magic Carpet]

I have it on my iphone. Also have the old PC disc..and.....I still have the strategy guide.

I can't remember if I have a strategy guide or not. While digging through the closet of old boxed games I ran across many strat guides but did not think to look for the 7th guest.

Edit: Just found the strat guide. Right next to The Return to Zork strat guide.

 

[Crayon]

The have got to make some of the puzzles easier....

Anyway this is actually kind of a big month for psvr2 releases. I think vertigo 2 and journey to foundation are coming.

 

[fart town usa]

Quest 3? Or psvr exclusive?

It's on all headsets I think. Definitely not a PSVR2 exclusive.

 

[fart town usa]

Does anyone know what the retail price will be?

It's probably 30, maybe 35 or 40. Price isn't on PSN yet but VR rarely gets higher than 35 for indie titles.

 

[cyberheater]

Quest 3 for me. I hope the graphics have a bump compared to Quest 2.

 

[BouncyFrag]

F**k all those puzzles.

 

[fart town usa]

Quest 3 for me. I hope the graphics have a bump compared to Quest 2.

The 7th Guest VR: An Interview With Director Paul van der Meer and Lead Artist Jeoren Backx

Vertigo Games' Paul van der Meer and Jeoren Backx discuss rebooting Trilobyte's iconic 30-year-old CD-ROM adventure for Virtual Reality with The 7th Guest VR

www.heypoorplayer.com

That's a good recent interview. Sounds like Quest 2 is easily the worst, developers are pretty forth coming. Seems like PSVR2/PCVR will look great. I'm sure Quest 3 will as well but can't remember if there's a Q3 version available at launch. Hopefully!

 

[rodrigolfp]

What year has 19 months???

 

[Valonquar]

That chess puzzle with all knights was the worst shit ever in OG 7th Guest.

 

[fart town usa]

What year has 19 months???

October 19th, this Thursday.

 

[R6Rider]

Never played the original.

Puzzles seem fun. Something about a can puzzle?

I will surely ace it.

 

[fart town usa]

Never played the original.

Puzzles seem fun. Something about a can puzzle?

I will surely ace it.

The puzzles in the first game are brutal.

This one is gonna be dumbed down for sure, developers even confirmed as much.

I expect it to make you think and be fun but the devs were saying they had to take into account that they can't expect people to take notes and stuff while in a headset, and there's also coins to collect that will help you solve puzzles but even those are limited so you can't abuse it.

It's definitely gonna be streamlined but I think it'll have a good balance of being engaging but not overly frustrating. I'm most excited for a Clue type horror/mystery. It's gonna be spooky, developers said they aren't trying to full on scare people because they don't want people to feel rushed while solving puzzles.

 

[Rien]

Never played the original.

Puzzles seem fun. Something about a can puzzle?

I will surely ace it.

Not so surely.

 

[Games of Today]

Now, see this is a really cool and unique concept for VR.

I reminds me of the Haunted Mansion at Knoebels theme park in Elysburg, PA.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

My uncle had it on his pc in the mid 90's and he let me play it. The graphics were so good but I was only 11 or 12 years old, so I didn't get far.

My uncle just passed and seeing this game get a VR release feels like a sign lol. I'm definitely going to play it when my backlog is smaller.

 

[Evil Calvin]

I can't remember if I have a strategy guide or not. While digging through the closet of old boxed games I ran across many strat guides but did not think to look for the 7th guest.

Edit: Just found the strat guide. Right next to The Return to Zork strat guide.

I actually returned my SNES to Toys R Us and went and bough a 486 Packard Bell PC around 1993. Traded in a bunch of SNES games (Link, Contra, Star Wars, Mario.....) and bought The 7th Guest and the Strategy guide. I also bought a few other games like Frogger, Myst, Xcom, Magic Carpet, Descent, Doom in 1994. Also Duke Nukem 3D in 1996. Don't really regret the trade. The early/ mid 90's PC gaming was great. But it did evolve quickly and I wasn't able to upgrade until maybe 1999. Also got an N64 and PS1 in the late 90's so I didn't abandon console gaming (and Dreamcast in 1999).

 

[Magic Carpet]

I actually returned my SNES to Toys R Us and went and bough a 486 Packard Bell PC around 1993. Traded in a bunch of SNES games (Link, Contra, Star Wars, Mario.....) and bought The 7th Guest and the Strategy guide. I also bought a few other games like Frogger, Myst, Xcom, Magic Carpet, Descent, Doom in 1994. Also Duke Nukem 3D in 1996. Don't really regret the trade. The early/ mid 90's PC gaming was great. But it did evolve quickly and I wasn't able to upgrade until maybe 1999. Also got an N64 and PS1 in the late 90's so I didn't abandon console gaming (and Dreamcast in 1999).

I remember the computer we had was unable to play the 7th guest. The video card would only show striped lines across the screen. It was my first time doing an upgrade on a PC. I got to open up the PC and take out the video card and replace it with another. I think it was an S3 something. Then the game worked. Fill rates! Glorious Fill rates.

 

[Rambone]

Looks like a blast from the past.

 

[marjo]

Depending on impressions, I might pick this up for PCVR. I love a good puzzle game, though the ones from the original 7Th guest were often too difficult for my feeble mind.

 

[nkarafo]

The original game is known for it's use of FMV, the VR version runs with that concept and introduces volumetric video. Basically full 3D FMV scenes so you can effectively walk around the environment while the ghosts go through their "scenes" and it's full 3D, not a flat image.

Wait, what?

I don't get any of this.

How is it possible to roam around freely if the graphics aren't real time 3D?

I must be missing something.

 

[cyberheater]

I’ve heard there will be specific Quest 3 updates coming out shortly after launch.

 

[fart town usa]

Wait, what?

I don't get any of this.

How is it possible to roam around freely if the graphics aren't real time 3D?

I must be missing something.

The graphics and environments are in 3D.

I'm talking about the FMV scenes with ghosts. In the game there are "scenes" that play out, glimpses of the past from people who were invited to the mansion. In the original game these were just flat FMV scenes. In the VR version it's full 3D so you can look at it from any angle, basically like you're interacting with an actual ghost.

It's kind of a "big deal" because it's footage of real actors, it's not videogame graphics for the character models. It's just something that hasn't really been done before in the VR space considering most games stopped using footage of real actors decades ago and it's absolutely what you would want in a VR remake for this game because real actors being in the FMVs of the original game is one of the things that really turned heads.

 

[nkarafo]

I'm talking about the FMV scenes with ghosts. In the game there are "scenes" that play out, glimpses of the past from people who were invited to the mansion. In the original game these were just flat FMV scenes. In the VR version it's full 3D so you can look at it from any angle, basically like you're interacting with an actual ghost.

Ok but that also sounds weird to me. How can you look at an object from all angles in real time if it's pre-recorded? Did they record 1 billion possible frames from any possible angle? Surely not so what is this sorcery?

 

[jshackles]

Ok but that also sounds weird to me. How can you look at an object from all angles in real time if it's pre-recorded? Did they record 1 billion possible frames from any possible angle? Surely not so what is this sorcery?

They film the live action scenes from multiple angles with full 3D cameras. When the player's perspective in the free roam 3D environment moves to a different angle in the scene, the angle of the video changes. I'm curious to see how well it's done, because ideally you'd have something like 16 different angles in full 3D to make a complete composited full motion 3D video sequence. Any fewer angles than that, and it'll be really jarring (think how Paper Mario looks weird having 2D models in a 3D space).

They have the added benefit here of most of the real time video taking place in small spaces without the actors moving around much. Ghosts pop up, do their dialog, then fade away without really moving about the stage much. This probably made it a lot easier to film and build a composite fully 3D video.

 

[fart town usa]

Ok but that also sounds weird to me. How can you look at an object from all angles in real time if it's pre-recorded? Did they record 1 billion possible frames from any possible angle? Surely not so what is this sorcery?

Yea, it's basically the bullet time filming technique from the Matrix films. 360 degrees of cameras in a green screen room and then made into a 3D hologram scene that you can insert into the game.

I posted a link to a interview up above, it's pretty cutting edge stuff what they're doing cause there's really never been a need for a game to incorporate this technique before.

Acting might end up being shit but I think the overall effect is going to be awesome to experience.

 

[nkarafo]

Ok, can't say i'm not impressed.

I wonder how much space all these pre-recorded frames/videos will take up.

 

[mitch1971]

I remember getting this on phillips cd-I (please don't judge, me), and getting close to the end I had to navigate a maze. I thought bloody hell this is probably going to take a while considering some of the puzzles I'd had to work out. My girlfriend then decided it was the right time to start talking about her day. So, I did the usual man-thing, nod where appropriate, say hmm a few times, look shocked when needed - all the while pressing random buttons on the controller and not even looking at the tv. Few minutes late I was met with 'ah so you finally mastered my maze!'. What?! The power of turning my brain off!