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Monday, 30 December 2013

Saints Row IV - People glitching


http://store.steampowered.com/app/206420/

How to reproduce

Certain areas and or missions, the screen shots are from the island with the statue off the coast. While the other is from a defend a point mission

Description

Notice the model deformities. In the second picture one of the models is upside down

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Personal Notes

Now I cant really say that the Saints Row games have been the best of games, they are however enjoyable. Saints Row 4 however... is still to be decided. The premise is that you are now in a computer simulated world and need to cause havoc to help bring the world down. Which is all good and fun and you get to level you "Super Human" abilities with how much code ( -_- ) you pick up. However when ever you go on another mission to save someone or do a side mission you lose all your abilities. Its like saying, "Hey did you enjoy being awesome ? and how you spent all those points in those abilities ? Well tough you don't get to use them on missions or on anything that matters"

That really irritated me. The other thing is, due to how the world is now one big computer simulation, and you main aim is to bring it down in a heap with bugs. Actually glitches happen, so .. are these "glitches" or actually glitches ...

I hate playing a game, that is a game of me playing in a game. Game-ception ...

Max Payne 3 - Light shaft too vibrant

http://store.steampowered.com/app/204100/

How to Reproduce
- The how to reproduce steps for this is hard. As this has to do with  light shafts  in particular areas and even then I'm not sure if it isnt a visual setting to do with my laptop
Description
The light shafts are too vibrant to the point where you can see what it is lighting
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Personal Notes
I've haven't been playing many games recently.. Actually that is a lie, I've been playing more "Alpha" or "Early Release" games of late, and they come with a heap of bugs themselves to the point where it frustrates me play. However with the Steam summer sales on recently, and the my new gaming laptop for Christmas, I've been getting back into the gaming. So here is the first one.
Now this bug to me normally wouldn't mean much, and in most first person shooters where the aim is to clear a room and move on. However in Max Payne where there is a lot of cues from the the game to direct the persons attention to parts of the story this was particularly annoying. Like previous Max Payne games there is a lot of motifs and visual cues to direct the players attention to certain things. A lot of games now a days are doing this to help tell the story instead of just, go here - kill stuff - cut scene. But when you get a bug like this it makes it really hard to follow the story sometimes and I've had to guess at why these guys are bad, it makes the game more interesting if you understand why you are doing these things. In the end I did enjoy the game. Apart from Max's overly whiny(?) attitude, but the poor guy just couldn't catch a break