"Atomic Heart" feels like a Soviet Union Duke Nukem Forever x Bioshock Infinite ripoff

[dragonhart6505]

The flavor text...the out-of-pocket dialog...the unnecessary attempted-humor during serious scenes. The gameplay itself is fine for a typical story-based shooter, but an hour in and I am already checked out of it after 

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the first few elevator sequences. Riding up to the office to get the car key...WHY IS THAT ELEVATOR SO FRIGGIN' LONG?! It's almost an entire minute of silence on the ride up just to leave after a 10 second interaction.  At least on the ride DOWN there's a conversation...but what was the point of that entire section being SOOOOOO drawn out?

 

That's just the FIRST elevator sequence. After another lengthy (but gorgeous) air ride cutscene that sets up the barebones "seen it before" plot (that I already have conclusions over because the story is predictable af), there's yet again an elevator that takes SOOOOOO LONG to crash!

And the character is literally just like *puffs cigarette* "ah, sh*t." I don't know if I'm gonna get into it and I haven't even fought a handful of enemies. I heard such good things about it, it looks absolutely beautiful and the mechanics are unique enough to add some kind of variety on an overall stale genre...but it doesn't play like what I expected and it's just a little too juvenile for my current tastes and it just might not be for me.

 

What are some other thoughts from you folks?

[Radium_Angel]

I can't help but feel the original trailer (from years and year ago) and original GFX were promising a much better experience than we got.

[dragonhart6505]

17 minutes ago, Caroline said:

I don't like games that place markers so you can find stuff in a few seconds.

Which I actually appreciate as a loot hoarder, but as with the other complaints I’ve had so far there is SO MUCH to search through in some areas that it feels like that’s all there is to do…hold F to vacuum…and they still somehow messed THAT up where you’ll be aiming directly at desks or lockers and they don’t open but a tiiiiny little bit because you glanced over them just a few pixels too fast. Then you hold L-alt looking for the satisfied job you did scanning the whole place just to see like 10 drawers that didn’t loot.

 

The game is frustrating in the wrong areas. Minor complaints to some that make a huge difference to the immersion for others.

[Jurrunio]

Never played the game yet but long rides in closed spaces are often used to load in new scenery of the game. You sure your system isn't the problem here? Esepcially if you install the game into an HDD, that upsets many new games.

[dragonhart6505]

2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Never played the game yet but long rides in closed spaces are often used to load in new scenery of the game. You sure your system isn't the problem here? Esepcially if you install the game into an HDD, that upsets many new games.

Nope…it’s on an SSD.

Ryzen 5600x

16gb Dual Channel 3600MT/s RAM

RTX 2080ti

 

It’s not loading, it feels like forced artificial filler.

[ToboRobot]

I was excited for this game, but it was painfully slow and boring.

[dragonhart6505]

21 minutes ago, Caroline said:

Nah the elevator scene is really long and if you noclip out you'll see the elevator moves very slowly up and down. Reminded me of old source engine maps where there were sections outside the regular skybox where you'd teleport in or ride an elevator to. It's done to reduce the clutter on a single layer and make use of the extra height.

 

Could be an engine limitation, if you make the elevator go faster the character could collide with it and take damage/fall off the map, who knows.

I initially thought this WAS a loading sequence, then you grab the key and just go back! There's nothing even intense going on up there. Yeah I get that it's a massive building but do you mean to tell me you crafted a futuristic mid-1950s alternative universe with floating cities, androids, holograms and sophisticated intelligence but haven't figured out a quicker way to get from floor 1 to floor 10 and back? I'd have done well with a simple cutscene like they've already done a dozen times before I even got into combat. There doesn't seem to be any constant to the fluidity of what's supposed to be an action packed story and I don't doubt there is plenty of action to be had later. I don't know if I have that kind of patience, and it took me 2 weeks to beat The Pursuer in Dark Souls 2 (judgement free zone xD)

[dragonhart6505]

56 minutes ago, ToboRobot said:

I was excited for this game, but it was painfully slow and boring.

It's very much a second-hand/second-rate experience in almost every aspect...the middle sibling trying to do all the things the big kids do but with the maturity and intelligence the youngest kid has. I thought this was gonna be a Bethesda game akin to Bulletstorm until I looked further into it and that description I gave pretty much suits this title. Clunky and slow melee combat, slower ADS than most base weapons in Call of Duty with the hit detection to match, poor and predictable scenarios, some of the cringiest dialog I've heard in a while with 0 environmental detail/occlusion (anything dialog related outside of phone calls sounds like I'm just listening to a podcast)...it’s all around a cheap feeling experience.

 

I regret uninstalling Halo Infinite for the storage space