FEAR 3

drunkenmaster · 23 Jun 2011 at 15:47

Seeing loads of people complaining about FOV already with seemingly no way to change it, I seem to be becoming increasingly bad in terms of eyes and headaches and really bad fov's really are making a difference now.

The stupid thing is, FOV's are SO easy, it should be a bog standard option in every game ever made, even more important if its a console game ported to a PC, FOV is quite catagorically both important and really does feel massively different on a screen 2 ft away or 8-10ft away on a TV. Its so painfully lazy it winds me up no end, and apparently motion blur isn't removable, which is the second thing I'll try and disable on 99% of games after fixing the FOV.

You're talking about minutes of work, that has been done for decades, why it isn't the first thing sorted when porting a game I don't know.

arc@css · 23 Jun 2011 at 17:12

I'll still buy it as planned, but only when it's quite a cheap purchase.

Pohly · 23 Jun 2011 at 17:51

is the new fear actually any good cant seem to find any reviews

Mark1989 · 23 Jun 2011 at 18:07

IGN gave it an 8

Rybo89 · 23 Jun 2011 at 20:10

Graphics are very average. It is a rubbish port though, i have a GX660R laptop and it is struggling to get decent frame rates on high settings. Which is mad considering this laptop as eaten everything i have threw at it from crysis 1-2 to Dirt3.

Game play is the same, though still fun.

I would have waited till it was in the bargain bin if i didn't already pre-order it, to late now.

Spook187 · 23 Jun 2011 at 20:28

my copy should be here off coolshop in the morning,having played all the others its a must

James J · 23 Jun 2011 at 21:28

Spook187 said:
my copy should be here off coolshop in the morning,having played all the others its a must

Lucky you, my bee.com preorder doesnt appear to even have been dispatched yet -.-

Just my luck with preorders

Spook187 · 23 Jun 2011 at 21:35

James J said:
Lucky you, my bee.com preorder doesnt appear to even have been dispatched yet -.-

Just my luck with preorders

I have used a site like that to order MW2 as it was the cheapest on preorder,1 week later i got it,thats really bad for shops to send pre orders that late,didnt use them again

James J · 23 Jun 2011 at 21:44

Spook187 said:
I have used a site like that to order MW2 as it was the cheapest on preorder,1 week later i got it,thats really bad for shops to send pre orders that late,didnt use them again

Ouch -.- Might cancel it then and go elsewhere

Edit, cancelled and just bought it via steam. Too late to get it from a store for tomorrows delivery now and ended up buying that divinity 2 game as well which is on special atm lol. Looking forward to playing this though.

chaotic_uk · 24 Jun 2011 at 01:06

just seen this has dx11 support , how much support we talking ?

Purdy · 24 Jun 2011 at 01:40

Quite a few on the steam forums seems to be enjoying it, multiplayer included.

James J · 24 Jun 2011 at 02:04

This is the smallest dx11 game download I've seen so far at 4.3gb on steam. Most other modern titles are twice that lol

chaotic_uk · 24 Jun 2011 at 03:00

just had my first system freeze/crash with fear 3 , had to reboot with the reset switch . no errors given either

djshauny1 · 24 Jun 2011 at 03:52

dont like the 3rd game. just beat it and was dissapointed

James J · 24 Jun 2011 at 15:38

djshauny1 said:
dont like the 3rd game. just beat it and was dissapointed

How many intervals are there? I'm on the 3rd and its taken me and hour and 20 mins to get that far.

Nexus18 · 24 Jun 2011 at 15:52

Played the first mission and a bit of the second, enjoyable but it does feel very console like

rolleyes

the movement, controls, FOV etc.

Graphics are good enough, although I have to turn the AA off and shadows and 2 other things to high or medium (can't quite remember

) in order to get around 50-60FPS on my 4850 512MB at 1080

EDIT:

Also no manual saves either :mad:

arc@css · 24 Jun 2011 at 16:45

I wonder what the devs would have to say about this; to give their perspective on why things are / aren't included or tacked on?

Gerard · 24 Jun 2011 at 16:47

Nexus18 said:
Also no manual saves either

Annoying that, apparently coding 2 key presses for save\load is evil these days

drunkenmaster · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:41

chaotic_uk said:
just had my first system freeze/crash with fear 3 , had to reboot with the reset switch . no errors given either

Seems to be crashing a LOT with dx11, people switching to dx9 to stop crashing, still no fov fix, its just so unbelievably lazy. 95% of PC game buyers have no clue what dx11 is, they see a trailer and judge graphics on that, nothing else and theres still not many people who wouldn't buy a game because it looked awful, Duke Nukem being the obvious example.

But fov, to fix the fov so people don't feel sick/get headaches or just feel wrong throughout a game, you really are talking about seconds of work in general, and not even making it an easy config file you could at least change yourself.

Though I guess I like that even less, why are people buying less games on PC's and consoles doing, well, the same game will feel "right" on a console with the right fov, and play it on the PC and while it's smoother, higher def and looks better, it feels "wrong" due to the dodgey FOV and just makes you feel uncomftable and weird, it does make you think if they do it on purpose. I mean Borderlands, one of the weird/worst FOV games around, how many normal pc gamers wouldn't know how to change the FOV, most of them, so how many are missing out on the "perfect" experience of the game.

James J · 24 Jun 2011 at 19:45

The "creep" enemy has made me jump a few times lol. Its not as scary as the first game but does have some very eerie environments on it. Currently enjoying it, although the checkpoint system is pretty crap and annoying as you can lose a lot of ground if you get killed.