Is this game too smart for me, or is it just overrated?

Is this game too smart for me, or is it just overrated?

It's merely artsy fartsy and pretentious.

bit of both desu.

Dibovski literally had no idea how videogames works when he started developing this game. But it's good.

the game is very simple, whats ur problem?

how's the remake? is it any good?

Too smart for you? Probably not, though I can see that the exposition would legitimately be beyond your average wanker.

You don't have the patience/interest to keep with it? Much more likely.

It's a slow burn pace a lot of the time, but it's like those songs you have to be in a really specific mood to listen to. At one point you may come back to it, stick with it, and ultimately find it quite rewarding.

not out yet

HD remaster is pretty good, fixes the translation but none of the other complaints like clunky combat, old graphics, snails pace etc
Hanging out for that running button in the remake.

>overrated
>3,5 autits knows about it, 1,5 played Bachelor route, only 1 completed it.

it's Tarkovsky of video games
you are either into this slow burn shit or not

How does The Void compare to this? It seems like a very slightly faster burn that takes place in an even more surreal world.

desu yo ne~

smoother gameplay mechanics, similarly punishing resource management system (if not worse, there was an difficulty reducing mod made for it, but I found it not too bad once you are aware of the mechanics and save at plenty of key decisions)

better graphics but the story is more like the Souls series, minimalism and inference rather than the huge expositions of pathologic.

I like pathologic for the intricacy of it's story but the Void is pretty evocative, creative OST and visual design, the end scenarios could probably have been better.

The Void will still feel slow unless you really get a kick out of walking around the admittedly well-done environments and autistically planning your colour harvests.

>Pathologic
>Overrated

You would be surprised

the void is way more inaccessible than pathologic for the average gamer

>female reviewer

not by a silly boss-is-on-my-back-gotta-meet-the-review-quota sounding lexical flatulence

ayy

Overrated and overlooked are not the same thing.

If only 1 person played a mediocre game but says it's the greatest game ever, it's overrated.

Polyhedron > Town desu

of course
future>status quo

Christ, I'm taking a look through her twitter feed. What a shithole.

only in a sophomoric sense in which something will easily be underrated and overrated at the same time because two people have exaggerated opinions about it.

No

There's nothing "smart" about this game, it's just very atmospheric. If you cannot appreciate the atmosphere, though, you might be genuinely autistic.

The atmosphere is great until I start to fall asleep when I have to drag my ass through the town.

I was very surprised at the characters and stories. The atmosphere was also great, seeing the town slip into chaos and then the army, it was all great.

The gameplay wasn't even too bad except for the fact that it was too slow. In the end I played through the whole game with the cheat that makes you run super fast and the fly cheat.