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14 Minutes of The Medium Gameplay
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Vasto
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"Take an extended look at the gameplay of The Medium, a one of its kind horror game where you can play in the real world and the spirit world at the same time. Travel to an abandoned and haunted hotel resort to discover a mystery only a medium can solve. Coming to Xbox Series X|S and PC on January 28th, 2021. Discover a dark mystery only a medium can solve. Explore the real world and the spirit world at the same time. Use your psychic abilities to solve puzzles spanning both worlds, uncover deeply disturbing secrets, and survive encounters with The Maw - a monster born from an unspeakable tragedy. "
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Does it have raytracing
Vasto
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The Medium Interview - Bloober Team on Exclusivity, Ray Tracing Support
We've interviewed Bloober Team to pry out some additional tidbits on The Medium, the upcoming psychological horror game due later this month.
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GrayChild
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Holy shit...
Just the first 3 minutes, and it's already the closest thing to the Japanese PS2 era survival horror I've seen in the past 10 years.
Everyone who's bitching about the modern day horror games, put your money where your mouth is and get this. God knows if we'll see anything even remotely similar to this any time soon.
Just the first 3 minutes, and it's already the closest thing to the Japanese PS2 era survival horror I've seen in the past 10 years.
Everyone who's bitching about the modern day horror games, put your money where your mouth is and get this. God knows if we'll see anything even remotely similar to this any time soon.
Captain Toad
Banned
I'm not watching, because I like to go into games as blind as possible, but I'm happy to hear it looks good.
Magog.
Banned
Not really? There is no combat so it is more similar to a Nu Horror game like Outlast.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
Where did you read that there isn't combat?
GrayChild
Member
A large portion of Forbidden Siren didn't have any combat. There are segments in Fatal Frame where you're also defenseless.
Other, horror games from the 90s like "...Iru!", "Echo Night", "D" also lack any combat system. Stuff like "Clock Tower" and "Haunting Ground" is 95% running and hiding from enemies.
The whole "if doesn't have combat it's an Amnesia/Outlast clone" thing is just stupid.
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Magog.
Banned
On this forum after the first gameplay reveal.
metareferential
Member
Looks really interesting. You can see it's an old-gen project ported over to next-gen, so it still has "legacy" graphical features (like hair rendering), but it's looking really good.
I love the use of DOF and the camera angles. Thank Phil for gamepass.
I love the use of DOF and the camera angles. Thank Phil for gamepass.
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Hayabusabruh
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Looking forward to this, but don't think it we'll score higher than a 6.
Captain Toad
Banned
6? I sure hope not. On the modern gaming rating scale that is basically shovelware.
Thicc Enigma
Member
This actually looks good. Will definitely check it out. Seems creepy af
PooBone
Member
I liked Blair Witch. Loved >Observer_. Layers of Fear 2 is the only one of theirs I'm not real crazy about.
The fact that Akira Yamaoka is composing for it would sell me even if it were $70 instead of a game pass game.
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martino
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Are you still doubting review score is gaming equivalent to investors share reactions to even dumber news/social trend and doesn't tell a lot about how appreciable (or real value in case of investors) the thing can really be ?
Hayabusabruh
Member
Wait. What happen? Lol
DonkeyKong
Member
Looks interesting.. on gamepass to (i think..), will definitely give it a go
xrnzaaas
Member
Blair Witch wasn't bad imo, but it was disappointing. I feel like Bloober Team didn't have a good idea how to make a game based on the license, even a short one that's going to last 4-5 hours. I mean characters in the movies walk around lost in the woods for hours / days, but how is that going to translate into interesting gameplay? Not to mention they went overboard with the cheap jump scares in the finale. At least the scene with
standing in the corner and trying not to look at the witch
Rean no Kiseki
Banned
The Layers of Fear guys?
PooBone
Member
Once you find the campsite, the game jumps up in creepy quality, but once you first see that house, I thought it got downright terrifying.
Agnostic2020
Member
Looks great will check it out on ps5 once it releases there and if it has metacritics score above 75
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
First Layers of Fear and Observer, I think Observer in particular was excellent.
saintjules
Member
It's like a few dashes of Resident Evil, Control, and Heavy Rain (?) sprinkled in. Just the vibe of the atmosphere I got.
I was intrigued by this since the reveal. Will go for it on Gamepass.
I was intrigued by this since the reveal. Will go for it on Gamepass.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
They took their guaranteed money its on them.
MiguelItUp
Member
Looks really cool, and I dig a lot of the throwback influence. I, too, just can't help but assume it'll be average if anything. I'm always gonna hope for more than that though!
DrumNBassDanTTV
Member
Woah it looks a lot better than i expected....
fallingdove
Member
Those are the 14 minutes they chose to show? This is definitely one of the less impressive next gen games I have seen so far.
TheDude108
Member
Animation looks pretty janky in parts, especially walking down the stairs in the bottom frame around 7:15. Weird to show this kind of footage.
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Arachnid
Member
No combat definitely kills hype. It's a walking simulator (or run/hide, I guess) with puzzles. Not a surprise, since that's all these devs have ever made (Layers of Fear and Blaire Witch were both awful).
That said, the atmosphere and score are fantastic. Hopefully it has a great story to match. I'll give it a go just for the SH influences.
EDIT: My god, that fixed camera and the tank controls
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That said, the atmosphere and score are fantastic. Hopefully it has a great story to match. I'll give it a go just for the SH influences.
I read the same. It's from a dev interview a while back.
EDIT: My god, that fixed camera and the tank controls
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WakeTheWolf
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Honestly looks amazing I hope the draught is over and we can get a nice steady release of xbox exclusives
Nemesis Prime
Member
always wanted to try one of these old school horror type games. it looks really good, wish I had a series x or decent PC to play
Fredrik
Member
Yup, western game devs are too scared of social media reactions to create anything else now, most boring era in gaming since I don’t know when.
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Magog.
Banned
Yeah not exactly the graphical showcase the Series X could use
Fredrik
Member
This isn’t an exclusive afaik, just timed.
I’ll try it for sure but it looked better in the trailers than in gameplay for me. I have so little time to play games that any game that does things too slow is instantly getting me stressed. I started fastforwarding this video, that’s not a good reaction.
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