[HN Gopher] A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem'...
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A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel
Author : mgl
Score : 82 points
Date : 2024-07-09 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (invinciblethegame.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (invinciblethegame.com)
| mgl wrote:
| Not everything everywhere is for us https://youtu.be/UA8DFsJg9Tc
| gambiting wrote:
| And it is honestly incredible. The Invincible is my favourite
| book of all time, and I remember thinking as a 14 year old
| whether someone could make a game out of it - and concluding that
| no, there's not enough "action" to make an interesting video game
| around the story. Boy, was I wrong - the game not only portrays
| the setting perfectly, the necessary creative liberties it takes
| to engage the player are "worth it" and I can only imagine S. Lem
| would have agreed to them(well, other than one of the
| endings....but it can't be perfect I guess).
|
| I'd write a lot about what I enjoyed, but nearly all of it would
| be spoilers. Go, play the game - or better yet, read the book, it
| has recently received a modern English translation, much better
| than the previous English-translated-from-German-Translated-from-
| Polish edition. And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.
| nfriend wrote:
| > And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.
|
| Unfortunately it seems like the audiobook has been pulled from
| Audible! (Unless I'm just searching for it incorrectly?) I saw
| this book recommended in another thread and have been checking
| over the last several months in hopes that it has been
| restored, but no luck yet. Tempted to just buy it from another
| platform.
| gambiting wrote:
| Oh no! You're right - I just checked and luckily it's still
| in my Audible library, but indeed, searching for it on the
| store yields nothing :-(
|
| I see it's available for sale here at least:
|
| https://www.audioeditions.com/the-invincible?sp=378507
| topato wrote:
| How bizzare, I expect this from streaming services, but I
| suppose I never considered Audiobook distribution
| "gatekeeping"... Delisting from Audible must be a massive hit
| to any audiobook's sales numbers
| tarr11 wrote:
| Kind of off-topic, but I always find it weird to see people's
| hands and arms in first person games like this. Like, if I _think
| about it_ , I know my hands are almost always in view, but they
| almost always fade away and I ignore them.
|
| Whereas whenever I see a first person game, it's almost all I can
| focus on and it breaks the illusion.
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| Does it bother you more knowing many FPS are just a pair of
| disembodied floating 3D arms noodling across the landscape?
|
| Best not think about it too much... lol =3
| squarefoot wrote:
| The graphics style gives some Fallout vibes, in a good way.
| Beautiful!
| izacus wrote:
| This is such a beautiful game that really channels the book. The
| Soviet retro futurism in the art style really sells it and the
| bleak mystery behind it makes you think in the best "classic
| scifi" way.
|
| I loved my time with this.
| SamBam wrote:
| Yeah, from the trailer at least the canyons exactly mirrored my
| image of the book. It's actually eerie how close the whole
| world and tech looks to how I pictured them.
| sigma5 wrote:
| while watching the trailer, I had a deja vue from the bioshock 1
| atmosphere which I recommend very much
| PlunderBunny wrote:
| Indeed. Bioshock 1 remains my favourite game - even after all
| these years, the parallels in the story between Rapture and our
| modern world remain as relevant as ever.
| adrianhon wrote:
| I call The Invincible a glorious failure in my review:
| https://mssv.net/2023/12/26/the-invincible/
|
| tl,dr: It looks _incredible_ , like no other game you'll see
| today, and it grapples with deeply interesting themes - but it's
| extremely annoying to play and suffers from a serious lack of
| editing. There's just too much friction to become truly immersed.
| Still, other games can only wish their failures were this daring.
| gambiting wrote:
| Out of curiosity - did you read the book before playing the
| game?
|
| I'm asking because as I said in my comment - I really loved the
| game, but I do wonder if knowing the secret of Regis, The
| Invincible and its sister ship made it easier to play and
| overlook some of the mechanical problems(which in my opinion
| really weren't that much of a deal, I think I got lost driving
| the rover once but like, meh).
| adrianhon wrote:
| I didn't, no. I've read a lot of Stanislaw Lem but The
| Invincible never quite hit my radar. I can see how knowing
| the story would've made it a bit easier to get on with,
| though.
| mgl wrote:
| You may want to check it again with the Voyager update released
| in May with 88% positive reviews on steam :)
| curtisblaine wrote:
| Today I learned that the "walking simulation" genre exists in
| gaming.
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| Gaming is literally the industry that coined the term.
| GeoAtreides wrote:
| > Not everything everywhere is for us
|
| Lies! the stars are mankind's birthright!
|
| Death to the xeno!
| rkagerer wrote:
| Heads up, the game's EULA[1] has some objectionable terms. They
| collect your story decisions and system information ("technical
| requirements of User's hardware and software"). There's also an
| indemnity clause (though not the worst I've seen). Can't anyone
| anywhere just let us have nice things?
|
| For those wondering, it should work on Windows 7 with the -dx11
| switch.
|
| [1] https://store.steampowered.com/eula/731040_eula_0
| mgl wrote:
| Can't really see anything objectionable there... it's a video
| game, they want to log game events and user config to reproduce
| errors, nothing new or concerning really.
| permanent wrote:
| This seems quite reasonable imo
| ziggyzecat wrote:
| airtight gaming rig vs the you-have-to-be-online-for-badges-
| medals-and-achievements-CaNdYmAn
| swatcoder wrote:
| It's pretty normal to do both those things in order to reflect
| on game design, monitor quality, and provide support.
|
| We don't have to like that it's the norm now, but it's a bummer
| to see a small studio singled out for something the whole
| industry is doing, especially when their game is being shared
| as something especially interesting
| Log_out_ wrote:
| Poland,the baltucs and chechia are by now the powerhouse in
| europe when it comes to games and software.
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| Title should really say which novel. The man wrote quite a few of
| them.[1]
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| [1]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Stanis%C5%82a...
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