Re: HumbleChoice May 2024

On 5/7/2024 8:24 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

 * Steel Rising
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1283400/Steelrising/
    In essence: Dark Souls in revolutionary France with a
    bit of steampunk thrown in. Beautiful map design; somewhat
    shoddy gameplay mechanics and pacing. Still, there's
    something oddly appealing about this one. I think I need to
    give it a chance.

I was actually looking quite forward to sampling this one, it seemed like a nice kind of game in an interesting setting.
I have now installed it.
It's playable.
But Jesus Christ why is this game 60gb? There is no reason why a game like that should take that amount of storage space. In my opinion this looks worse than e.g. Assassin's Creed 2 from 15 years ago. And I don't mean the resolution, the whole design looks artificial and lazy in parts.
Frankly it looks like a game from the mid-2000s for which someone just upscaled the graphics.
Also it doesn't even seem to have any other voice acting besides English, which sounds like a lost opportunity for a game set in France. And the dialogue keeps dropping in French words to show that yes, we are in France, just to translate them right afterwards anyway.
In other words: not impressed so far.