Thread: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle |OT| Fortune & Glory


One of the most technologically impressive games of the year, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is one of the few games that requires hardware accelerated ray tracing in order to function. Looking good on everything from Xbox Series S to the maxed-out, path-traced RTX 4090 experience, RT takes centrestage. Alex talks with Machine Games about the technology behind the game.
 
So apparently Disney is happy with the revenue Great Circle has brought in, and I'm glad in a way. Microsoft was the only console company to have an actual bona fide holiday game release. It felt great waking up with a new game to play on the current gen consoles that wasn't a remaster or some piece of woke shit squeezed out of some asshole's brain cavity. I give Microsoft a lot of shit for not understanding the console market, but they know that having a big holiday release still means something. I mean, if I didn't have a Series X or PC I'd have had my dick in my hand for Christmas. Props to Microsoft for actually following tradition.
 
Just subscribed to Game Pass to give this a try and I'm quite enjoying it! Still only 4 hours in and exploring the Vatican, but it's been very entertaining for me. The lighting is quite impressive maxed out (although the performance is not great and there are some weird visual glitches). Loving the setting and story so far and the exploration has been quite satisfying. The combat and stealth mechanics are pretty laughable and it's kind of insane how much jank there is with the NPCs, but I'm approaching it as if it were a modern point-and-click adventure.
 
Just subscribed to Game Pass to give this a try and I'm quite enjoying it! Still only 4 hours in and exploring the Vatican, but it's been very entertaining for me. The lighting is quite impressive maxed out (although the performance is not great and there are some weird visual glitches). Loving the setting and story so far and the exploration has been quite satisfying. The combat and stealth mechanics are pretty laughable and it's kind of insane how much jank there is with the NPCs, but I'm approaching it as if it were a modern point-and-click adventure.

How's the enemy AI?

Is there even any?
 
I just finished the game! The ending was amazing, the whole sequence was mighty impressive. Easily my favorite game of 2024, I have very few nitpicks that are not even worth mentioning. I literally 100% the game and I never do that. If there's a sequel I'm there day 1.
 
Just finished The Vatican story and moved on to Gizeh. I was initially worried that I would lose out on the few side tasks I still hadn't finished, but it turns out you can just teleport back and forth between the areas with the Travel tab. Awesome! You can even use new tools you got in later areas.

Combat and some jank aside, I'm really having a blast with this game.
 
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Are you ever going to actually play this game?

After all the wait and path tracing excitement, I finally played it! Meaning I launched it and checked it out for 3min before it got too late and I had to sleep.

Game looks great, but I hate the Xbox app. Can't launch it via Steam, have to use the fucking Shit Xbox shit I hate hate hate it all.
 
After all the wait and path tracing excitement, I finally played it! Meaning I launched it and checked it out for 3min before it got too late and I had to sleep.

Game looks great, but I hate the Xbox app. Can't launch it via Steam, have to use the fucking Shit Xbox shit I hate hate hate it all.

I 'found' it near launch and played through the first act. It's without a doubt the only game of value on the gamepass app. I don't know why they didn't lean heavily into advertising gamepass as the singular reason vs buying full game
 
I 'found' it near launch and played through the first act. It's without a doubt the only game of value on the gamepass app. I don't know why they didn't lean heavily into advertising gamepass as the singular reason vs buying full game

They do heavy marketing around GamePass and it's in every trailer for every Xbox game "included on GamePass" etc. but I feel that there wasn't any real excitement around this game. It came and went, can't imagine it being a big success.

I get the impression that Xbox games in general suffer from this nowadays. Even if they're good, not many people seem to care. I think it's the combination of Xbox destroying their brand, Xbox consoles not being popular anymore, PC gamers not liking the Xbox ecosystem and preferring Steam, the "value" of the games being destroyed by being on GamePass and them also coming to PlayStation later.
 
I feel like the IP is catered more towards old fuckers like myself that remember when these movies were good. If your only exposure is Dial of Destiny, you're probably going to wonder why the fuck you should care.

That being said, I actually pre-ordered the PS5 version. This is one of the few games I've been looking forward to lately.
 
This fucking dumb ass games doesn't even have a photo mode. Had to mod in stuff to remove the HUD, you can't even toggle it or turn it off in game. Then cheats for noclip. So dumb I hate it.

Still, it looks really good, the lighting is so nice.

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Might bite on this. Honestly, I'm a little worried whenever I see Bethesda these days since the inhouse games they do, I tend to remember them as filled with a lot of bugs and such. (PS3 Oblivion as an example...)

That said, that was a long time ago and this looks to actually respect the legacy and source material better that even the last film so... Maybe I'll give this a shot later this year when I'm on holidays or something. First person kind of scares me for an Indy game but the impressions here seem to be pretty positive.

I'll keep an eye on this one.
 
Might bite on this. Honestly, I'm a little worried whenever I see Bethesda these days since the inhouse games they do, I tend to remember them as filled with a lot of bugs and such. (PS3 Oblivion as an example...)

That said, that was a long time ago and this looks to actually respect the legacy and source material better that even the last film so... Maybe I'll give this a shot later this year when I'm on holidays or something. First person kind of scares me for an Indy game but the impressions here seem to be pretty positive.

I'll keep an eye on this one.

So far, it's polished and well made, I like it. It's not like a super triple AAA effort, it's a good mid tier game. Good atmosphere.
 
Surprised this wasn't announced for Switch 2. Maybe some sort of Sony deal where it has to launch there first
It got some good feedback on the S version so I think a Switch 2 version could probably look pretty good
 
Sounds like they putting it on single layer Blu-ray to cut costs as much as possible.

Yep. Rather then put the game on two discs they used the cheapest disc possible and put whatever data they could on that.

Not really any different from the Nintendo key card thing. The owner gets a physical copy of put on the shelf and can sell it later. But the copy is useless from a game preservation perspective.
 
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Yep. Rather then put the game on two discs they used the cheapest disc possible and put whatever data they could on that.

Not really any different from the Nintendo key card thing. The owner gets a physical copy of put on the shelf and can sell it later. But the copy is useless from a game preservation perspective.

Curious if they put Microsoft logo on it
 
To Avoid the same people that shit on the Switch 2?

I don't see how only having to download 85% of a game is much better than having to download it all. If they didn't want to pay for multiple discs they could have just put a full playable version on disc and made people download the texture packs or whatever they could cut to shrink it down.