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[Orbital2060]

Watched the ending scenes last night, wow what a great game. There are some points of critique to be made, but overall this is a great achievement. A great adventure game, and one of the best additions to the Indiana Jones story so far.

52 hours played.

I had to leave a lot of stuff undone, though - because there is so much stuff to dive into. Sukhothai is probably the biggest area? Ive got a ton of puzzles and things to do, since I ended up focussing on main quest and field work. And Im wondering if the Order of Giants story will be accessable from within the game, or be a separate savegame.

 

[adamsapple]

Compared to the dishonored killing compilations this looks basic af.

(Since people continue to consider this game akin to dishonored)

Dishonored has magical powers, I don't want Indy to be able to summon a rat swarm, he already has snake trauma.

 

[SpearHea.:D]

Just saw the voss and dr jones meeting for the first time cutscene. Fuckin brilliant, the whole fighting encounter is exactly what i expect from a indiana jones movie.

Bravo machine games, a big thank you from a indy fan. That stuff was hillarious .

 

[BossThen1880]

The original trilogy, fate of atlantis and the infernal machine were the best Indy media prior to this game, it's now firmly in the mix with the prior in my opinion.

Still wish we'd gotten the whore of the orient game though

 

[rofif]

I finally sat down and finished the last level.
Yeah that was a great ending. Even got teary eyed on credits music!
The nature of this being between movie 1 and 2 means that there are no stakes. you know nobody will die etc etd... so it is what it is.
But it was a very good game. Some slow pacing around 3rd open world level but it's ok.
Somehow steam shows 24 hours. Didn't seem like that long!

 

[jason10mm]

I hope this game does well enough that Machine Games can hire Graham Hancock and some of the other "lost civilization" guys and give us a really good "pre-history civilization" using Gobekli Tepe, Nazca lines, Tellingers work on the site near Maputo in Mozambique, etc for a really cool story that isn't quite so reliant on religion and gods (and aliens).

I'm also curious if they got some engineer to really figure out those cogwheel puzzles and stuff an dif there is ANY historical precedent for those types of traps. The Chinese emperors tomb drowned in a giant lake of mercury would be another good story setting.

 

[RAIDEN1]

I hope this game does well enough that Machine Games can hire Graham Hancock and some of the other "lost civilization" guys and give us a really good "pre-history civilization" using Gobekli Tepe, Nazca lines, Tellingers work on the site near Maputo in Mozambique, etc for a really cool story that isn't quite so reliant on religion and gods (and aliens).

I'm also curious if they got some engineer to really figure out those cogwheel puzzles and stuff an dif there is ANY historical precedent for those types of traps. The Chinese emperors tomb drowned in a giant lake of mercury would be another good story setting.

Well even Ancient Egypt would be fascinating in of itself, the Giza plateau is far older than what we've been told, and then this video gives you an insight into how BIG an area of subject this is:

Meanwhile I'm yet to download the Indiana Jones game, but I plan to, just too many in the back-log to explore!

 

[metareferential]

Finally installed the game and it just crashes when I set the graphics options (memory allocation problem).

I've read that newer Nvidia drivers have issues, but I'm not on the latest one.

I have a 3090, so vram should not be an issue. Now I get the GP related complaints.

 

[Big Baller]

Made it to the snowy mountains. Im liking it, game can look real nice at times (SX) but Egypt already started to feel a bit repitive with the combat and stupid AI. I do think they nailed the whole Indy vibe, it reminds me of the good ole Lucas Arts days.

 

[ChoosableOne]

Hdr is not working. Gamepass pc version, 3060ti, 1 month old drivers. Any solutions?

Stealth is boring so I'm playing it as Shovel Knight; it's not great but presentation sucks you in. I'll play it some more.

 

[analog_future]

On the last couple hours of the game now. It's definitely a gem. I think Silent Hill 2 is still my GOTY but this is a close #2.

Few more of my shots:

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

The nature of this being between movie 1 and 2

1 and 3

 

[Orbital2060]

I just noticed the digital art book that came with the premium upgrade - its in the owned games section as a 6-7 GB install.

 

[sono]

This is a surprise hit for me, out of nowhere.

Digital foundry also gave it best graphics of 2024.

PS owners have to wait to 2025 though

 

[adamsapple]

1 and 3

Correcto-mundo.

2 is a prequel.

 

[analog_future]

Just finished this. Man, I don't know, this might be my GOTY. What a fantastic last hour. Truly the best Indy story outside of the original trilogy.

My final few shots:

 

[Panajev2001a]

Hahahahhaha…. Of course they had to add the Holy Grail Easter egg… if you shoot your own plane’s tail out you will be asked ”what happened?” and Indy’s answer is “Aah, they got us!” .

 

[ChoosableOne]

The game is good, the graphics are nice, and I’ll probably enjoy the story as well. However, I don’t understand why someone from the newer generation would want to control such a character. Even as a Gen Y? person, I found the character boring. With Uncharted, ND managed to create a dynamic, funny and younger alternative to Indy. Why would I want to play as Indy after that? Since I played the Uncharted series before the Indiana Jones films, I don’t feel like watching the movies either.

I don’t think this series will ever be as popular as it once was. Sorry, my older friends, but Indy is not cool anymore.

 

[Reaseru]

Got gamepass for this game.

5 hours in and it plays great. Gina seems a very cool and funny character.

Troy Baker also almost sounds like Harrison Ford, such a great performance. What a voice actor.

 

[ManaByte]

The game is good, the graphics are nice, and I’ll probably enjoy the story as well. However, I don’t understand why someone from the newer generation would want to control such a character. Even as a Gen Y? person, I found the character boring. With Uncharted, ND managed to create a dynamic, funny and younger alternative to Indy. Why would I want to play as Indy after that? Since I played the Uncharted series before the Indiana Jones films, I don’t feel like watching the movies either.

I don’t think this series will ever be as popular as it once was. Sorry, my older friends, but Indy is not cool anymore.

 

[Crm114]

The game is good, the graphics are nice, and I’ll probably enjoy the story as well. However, I don’t understand why someone from the newer generation would want to control such a character. Even as a Gen Y? person, I found the character boring. With Uncharted, ND managed to create a dynamic, funny and younger alternative to Indy. Why would I want to play as Indy after that? Since I played the Uncharted series before the Indiana Jones films, I don’t feel like watching the movies either.

I don’t think this series will ever be as popular as it once was. Sorry, my older friends, but Indy is not cool anymore.

Don’t be that word we can’t say anymore dude.

 

[WX3]

Finally installed the game and it just crashes when I set the graphics options (memory allocation problem).

I've read that newer Nvidia drivers have issues, but I'm not on the latest one.

I have a 3090, so vram should not be an issue. Now I get the GP related complaints.

I uninstalled for the same reason. I've been enjoying it on the console but what little I did play on the PC was brilliant looking. Then the driver update happened.

 

[adamsapple]

analog_future

What platform are you playing the game on? Console or PC ?

 

[analog_future]

analog_future

What platform are you playing the game on? Console or PC ?

PC

 

[Big Al]

Finally installed the game and it just crashes when I set the graphics options (memory allocation problem).

I've read that newer Nvidia drivers have issues, but I'm not on the latest one.

I have a 3090, so vram should not be an issue. Now I get the GP related complaints.

That amazing feeling of turning a console on and the games just work.

Not even selling a kidney for a 5090 tops it

 

[Denton]

Finished it today.

It has things to nitpick, like repetetive structure in the three open maps, ugly LoD pop-in on vegetation, perhaps a bit too blind enemies, too many collectibles.

But overall it is a great Indy game, so the flaws are fairly easily excused.

Worked perfectly on PC, gamepass, no crashes, had only one bug (though annoying, fell through the ground).
Path tracing looks great, shame it is so demanding on CPU, in open areas framerate drops below 60 even when GPU is fine.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Have they said when the dlc will release?

I'm really missing this game and I 1000g it.

Just amazing. I might start it again but I never do that....damn

 

[IYAOYAS2019]

PLayed the entire game with it installed on a 7200 rpm HDD. LOL Had no issues at all.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Well I just rolled credits. For me it's a solid 7/10, and that's not an insult. I play a lot of 7/10 kinda games.

Pros: voice acting, graphics, story, puzzles
Cons: combat, stealth, 1st person, few bugs, some mechanics

This is basically the exact inverse of how I feel about Outcast A New Beginning. I think it's also a solid 7/10, but that game I loved the combat and wanted to do it all and got the platinum, but it's presentation is lacking. This game's presentation is top notch but I wanted to finish the story and didn't want to do the side missions because of the combat. Both are worth playing imo.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Man, is it just not for me or what? I gave the game another chance and gameplay-wise and based on the Vatican, it's boring as all hell cuz all you do is run around through the same locations a dozen times, talk to NPSs, solve some puzzles and punch nazies in the face. And you're doing side stuff for one purpose only - to get perk books which you don't really need tbh even on the Hard difficulty. That's a complete opposite of an exciting and memorable adventure game to me when you combine all this together. Why in the world are they making people stay in the Vatican so much? It's unbelievable.

I thought that I'm almost done with the place given that I spent almost 8 hrs there already, but nope, there's even more stuff there left to do, it keeps piling up and I just can't force myself to care. Also, not a fan of 1st person view at all, not to mention that it takes too long to climb things be it a whip, a ladder or something else. I mean, I've nothing against the story, writing and everything else cuz it's really good, but when the actual game is so boring to play with so much completely unnecessary downtime.... Ugh, it's just totally not what I wanted from an Indy game.

What a shame, really, but oh well, plenty of other games to play, as well as replay Tomb Raider and Uncharted games at some point.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Finally finished the game and it was a disappointment from a gameplay perspective, not a huge one, but still was. 'Poor man's immersive sim' is the best summary I've read somewhere else. On one hand the game wants to give you some freedom and encourage creativity, but on the other hand it limits you in a lot of the situations. It's also unacceptable to encounter invisible walls (like part of the train tracks in Gizeh), non-interactive potential climbing locations or ideal spots where Indy somehow can't use his whip. And it doesn't help that the AI is braindead - this applies to both enemies and civilians not reacting to stuff like visible bodies. I don't know, maybe it would be better if it didn't try to take anything from the immersive sims, at least I wouldn't be pissed about all the restrictions and limitations. Or wasted potential.

From a story and characters perspective it was much better. I thought that Gina would boss Indy around 24/7 and she ended up okay and didn't even hide some of her vulnerabilities (although she still had to make fun of Indy's fear of snakes on multiple occasions and tell him at least once she didn't need saving ). The main story was good enough to be turned into a movie, the final location was pretty cool (although the final boss fight sucked) and Voss was a very decent antagonist. Maybe they exaggerated with his evil character in some scenes, but still - not that much to complain.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Man, is it just not for me or what? I gave the game another chance and gameplay-wise and based on the Vatican, it's boring as all hell cuz all you do is run around through the same locations a dozen times, talk to NPSs, solve some puzzles and punch nazies in the face. And you're doing side stuff for one purpose only - to get perk books which you don't really need tbh even on the Hard difficulty. That's a complete opposite of an exciting and memorable adventure game to me when you combine all this together. Why in the world are they making people stay in the Vatican so much? It's unbelievable.

I thought that I'm almost done with the place given that I spent almost 8 hrs there already, but nope, there's even more stuff there left to do, it keeps piling up and I just can't force myself to care. Also, not a fan of 1st person view at all, not to mention that it takes too long to climb things be it a whip, a ladder or something else. I mean, I've nothing against the story, writing and everything else cuz it's really good, but when the actual game is so boring to play with so much completely unnecessary downtime.... Ugh, it's just totally not what I wanted from an Indy game.

What a shame, really, but oh well, plenty of other games to play, as well as replay Tomb Raider and Uncharted games at some point.

It’s a more linear movie experience after the Vatican. I’d skip side content. Still not the best at being a “game”. Combat doesn’t change.

 

[RJMacready73]

The game is good, the graphics are nice, and I’ll probably enjoy the story as well. However, I don’t understand why someone from the newer generation would want to control such a character. Even as a Gen Y? person, I found the character boring. With Uncharted, ND managed to create a dynamic, funny and younger alternative to Indy. Why would I want to play as Indy after that? Since I played the Uncharted series before the Indiana Jones films, I don’t feel like watching the movies either.

I don’t think this series will ever be as popular as it once was. Sorry, my older friends, but Indy is not cool anymore.

You shut your dirty whore mouth!!!!

 

[Agent_4Seven]

It’s a more linear movie experience after the Vatican. I’d skip side content. Still not the best at being a “game”. Combat doesn’t change.

In that case I'll give it another chance at some point.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

In that case I'll give it another chance at some point.

There’s only like 1 or 2 other hub areas that even have side quests. And there’s still about 6 locations to go. I skipped all side content until you need to do a specific one later to get more money.

 

[Exentryk]

Finished this last night, and what a surprisingly amazing game it turned out to be. I only did the main quest btw.

Pros:
- Voice acting
- Cutscene Direction
- Graphics
- Book-style pages art choice
- Variety in environements
- Pacing after Vatican
- Setpieces

Cons:
- Combat (might be worth considering third person view)
- Stealth (hate stealth in games, and dreaded every single one here)
- Slow climbing (leans towards more realism, but for a game that has as much climbing, it should be faster)

The game had some amazing set pieces and the pacing after Vatican was really good. Vatican was too long and slow and the game was boring there, but after that it's pretty great. The cutscenes are like watching a movie, so excellent work there.

Overall, a very good game/movie, but I do hope they improve the combat in their next game (perhaps consider third person view), and remove/minimize stealth.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

There’s only like 1 or 2 other hub areas that even have side quests.

WTF were you thinkin' MachineGames?

 

[vaibhavpisal]

WTF were you thinkin' MachineGames?

That doesn’t changes anything. Its still same game made to be explored, at those locations.

I was also finding it to be too slow paced. After some 4-5 hrs, it clicked. And now am playing it non stop, thinking about it even during COD sessions.

 

[jason10mm]

Well even Ancient Egypt would be fascinating in of itself, the Giza plateau is far older than what we've been told, and then this video gives you an insight into how BIG an area of subject this is:

Meanwhile I'm yet to download the Indiana Jones game, but I plan to, just too many in the back-log to explore!

The theory that the pyramids are actually power plants would be AWESOME to explore. These games have the resources and budgets to really take a look at how it might have actually been a legit thing.

I'd like for some ancient 'technology' to be sought after by the Nazis, only for it to turn out to have ZERO military applications and be just a beneficial thing. So far everything Indy finds (other than the Dial of Destiny I suppose) kinda protects itself so Indy being there really only accelerates the bad guys plans to exploit it (and then their inevitable doom).

 

[Alan Wake]

Man, is it just not for me or what? I gave the game another chance and gameplay-wise and based on the Vatican, it's boring as all hell cuz all you do is run around through the same locations a dozen times, talk to NPSs, solve some puzzles and punch nazies in the face. And you're doing side stuff for one purpose only - to get perk books which you don't really need tbh even on the Hard difficulty. That's a complete opposite of an exciting and memorable adventure game to me when you combine all this together. Why in the world are they making people stay in the Vatican so much? It's unbelievable.

I thought that I'm almost done with the place given that I spent almost 8 hrs there already, but nope, there's even more stuff there left to do, it keeps piling up and I just can't force myself to care. Also, not a fan of 1st person view at all, not to mention that it takes too long to climb things be it a whip, a ladder or something else. I mean, I've nothing against the story, writing and everything else cuz it's really good, but when the actual game is so boring to play with so much completely unnecessary downtime.... Ugh, it's just totally not what I wanted from an Indy game.

What a shame, really, but oh well, plenty of other games to play, as well as replay Tomb Raider and Uncharted games at some point.

If you expected Wolfenstein: Indiana Edition I can see why you're disappointed. The Great Circle is not an action game. I loved the exploration and spent way too many hours in the Vatican.

 

[sainraja]

Man, is it just not for me or what? I gave the game another chance and gameplay-wise and based on the Vatican, it's boring as all hell cuz all you do is run around through the same locations a dozen times, talk to NPSs, solve some puzzles and punch nazies in the face. And you're doing side stuff for one purpose only - to get perk books which you don't really need tbh even on the Hard difficulty. That's a complete opposite of an exciting and memorable adventure game to me when you combine all this together. Why in the world are they making people stay in the Vatican so much? It's unbelievable.

I thought that I'm almost done with the place given that I spent almost 8 hrs there already, but nope, there's even more stuff there left to do, it keeps piling up and I just can't force myself to care. Also, not a fan of 1st person view at all, not to mention that it takes too long to climb things be it a whip, a ladder or something else. I mean, I've nothing against the story, writing and everything else cuz it's really good, but when the actual game is so boring to play with so much completely unnecessary downtime.... Ugh, it's just totally not what I wanted from an Indy game.

What a shame, really, but oh well, plenty of other games to play, as well as replay Tomb Raider and Uncharted games at some point.

If you keep at it, you'll grow to like what makes this game different than Uncharted/Tomb Raider. It is slower paced in comparison and the gameplay is fun in its own way. I do think some Xbox fans are overselling it (I am choosing not to go into the specifics of that) but it is a solid game. I would have preferred third-person as well and after playing it, I maintain that but I am still enjoying the game. It has made me play through UC4 again though, lol. So when I start feeling like that, I just switch.

 

[RAIDEN1]

I'm in the process of downloading it, so I'm very much interested to see how this game pans out

 

[Arsic]

I think this is the most slept on game of 2024.

If it had come out in October it would have absolutely swept more awards.

I'm only a few hours in and just FLOORED by this. I was expecting it to be "ok", but the game excels in so much. Cannot wait to play more tomorrow!

 

[adamsapple]

I'm in the process of downloading it, so I'm very much interested to see how this game pans out

If you're a fan of the three original movies, you're gonna have a blast. Hell, you might have a blast even if you're not a fan of the movies, nostalgia aside, it's a very solid playing game as well.

 

[TheAtomicPile]

Hdr is not working. Gamepass pc version, 3060ti, 1 month old drivers. Any solutions?

Stealth is boring so I'm playing it as Shovel Knight; it's not great but presentation sucks you in. I'll play it some more.

I played on PC Gamepass and every other session, either HDR, DLSS, or frame gen would act up. Toggling them all off and then back on again seemed to do the trick for me.

 

[ChoosableOne]

I played on PC Gamepass and every other session, either HDR, DLSS, or frame gen would act up. Toggling them all off and then back on again seemed to do the trick for me.

Issue resolved on its own. Sometimes the game launches in windowed mode and the resolution changes and such. Something strange happens every time.

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

And done, took about 40 hours, had a lovely time with it, very good looking and smooth on XSX, it's a solid 8 for me, can't quite reach the heights of Dishonored and Prey imo, mainly because of the lack of powers and the fact you are limited to whip and random melee weapons, but still i'm happy they made this game, MachineGames are awesome and i can't wait to see what comes next (Wolfenstein 3?).

 

[Roberts]

Even though I finished the story two weeks ago, I still come back to it once in a while to find all the optional stuff. That barely ever happens to me.

 

[adamsapple]

Never heard of this guy before, but he did a fantastic job as Voss.

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

Voss is a cool villan, also Locus was very good and my fav.