Somerville - new game from Inside / Limbo Team

Tomous wrote:Better for the consumer, I meant.

I'm not surprised some devs like a big pile of cash before their new game goes on sale.

Well it is better for consumers who have Gamepass no?

And yeah it's guaranteed income for your newly released game, no bad thing for start ups.

Photek wrote:
Tomous wrote:Better for the consumer, I meant.

I'm not surprised some devs like a big pile of cash before their new game goes on sale.

Well it is better for consumers who have Gamepass no?

No-exclusivity doesn't make any difference to consumers who already own Gamepass.

Exclusivity doesn't but, we were discussing it might not actually be exclusive and more a time thing with new devs.

But yeah, exclusivity doesn't help consumers, although, I wouldn't have bought this if I'm being honest and I will give it a go...

Had spotted this on Gamepass but hadn't realised it was from the team that made Inside and Limbo. Definitely looking forward to giving it a play, and I know next to nothing about it as well, so will hopefully be a pleasant surprise.

I started this last night. Now that's the way to do an intro. Wish I had my headphones on - bet it would have been awesome.

Anyway, this seems much more my sort of thing than Inside and Limbo, where the impact of the story was heavily compromised for me due to being killed by something / someone every 30 seconds.

And I can certainly see those Another World similarities now.

First few chapters done tonight. I like it so far. I was worried at the start that I’d be playing the whole game as that weird-walk toddler. The world-eating things are very reminiscent of Stephen King’s Langoliers.

rinks wrote:First few chapters done tonight. I like it so far. I was worried at the start that I’d be playing the whole game as that weird-walk toddler. The world-eating things are very reminiscent of Stephen King’s Langoliers.

I almost uninstalled at this point.

I'm still enjoying this, but it is bloody janky in places. One of the puzzles was absolutely infuriating due to the physics.

Also, the scene seems to judder almost every time the camera pans. Desperately needs a patch - its genuinely intrusive.

But despite this i am still enjoying this more than Limbo and Inside. I think it's because it seems to be set in the UK and so some of the vistas seem a bit quainter or more emotive than I am used to.

It's a bit like the universally adored Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Finished this last night. It was ok. I did not understand the story at all (as is so often the way for me it would seem). Something about aliens I think?

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Anyway, this seems much more my sort of thing than Inside and Limbo, where the impact of the story was heavily compromised for me due to being killed by something / someone every 30 seconds.

I thought that was the whole point of limbo

Gutted I can't play this yet - probably my most anticipated game this year.

Glad it reviewed nicely though. Guardian gave it a nice review ('only' 3 stars when they've been given out quite a lot of 5 stars lately but reads like a 5 star review if you're into this sort of game) and yeah it does sound like a nice game to play in the winter!

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/ ... c-jumpship

Finally got to play this (on playstation not Switch

). Loved it.

In general one of the most enjoyable gaming experience in years bar two negatives;
1) It's not Inside. Played loads of games from whatever you call the subgenre Limbo/ Inside created; Silt, Toby, Stella, Black the Fall to name but all of them. Inside seems like an easy formula to replicate and Somerville is the best of the rest by some margin, but nowhere near as good Inside (but that is more a testament to how great Inside is). Somerville is more ambitious in scope, seems to have a higher budget, had really cool set pieces and was more of a production but just not quite as special
2) About a quarter of the game was set in a boring (pun?)mine. It's a short game and maybe a quarter of the game was set in a generic (could be any game) disused mine. Felt like padding and if they wanted to pad (and wasn't necessary for them to do so) there definitely more investing sections for them to do so. I don't consider this game a puzzle game, mine section had lots of little too easy to be challenging but annoying enough to slow momentum of the game mini puzzles.

In general really nice dialogue free told entirely through gameplay story (that gave away a little more than Inside), it looked really pretty plus there was something very cosy and comforting about it. Reminded me a little of the film Signs, world shattering event but seen through the eyes of very ordinary people and how it effected their little corner of the world, but the English country side young family Sunday Autumn night equivalent and oh how it was English.....

Loved the open countryside, trekking through abandoned roads and music festivals, quaint little town, coastal walk paths etc.

Somerville - new game from Inside / Limbo Team

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