The Quarry

I got given a key for this, and it's basically an uber creepy Telltale like adventure/story based game. Excellent atmosphere and sound, and some good graphics, but very simplistic gameplay. The voice performances and writing are very good, but the facial animation looks off in places.

The prologue in particular really nails the creepy, unsettling horror movie vibe.

I knew almost nothing about the game beforehand so these are my honest first impressions after having played an hour or so.
 
My wife and I love these types of games on the PS5, I think the last one we played was House of Ashes, and Until Dawn before that. Certainly not a game I'd play on the PC by my self, these types of games are much better with some popcorn, a partner and some drinks. Choose your own terrible B rated horror movie outcome basically.
 
agnes said:
My wife and I love these types of games on the PS5, I think the last one we played was House of Ashes, and Until Dawn before that. Certainly not a game I'd play on the PC by my self, these types of games are much better with some popcorn, a partner and some drinks. Choose your own terrible B rated horror movie outcome basically.
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Yeah. They are better with two people
 
agnes said:
My wife and I love these types of games on the PS5, I think the last one we played was House of Ashes, and Until Dawn before that. Certainly not a game I'd play on the PC by my self, these types of games are much better with some popcorn, a partner and some drinks. Choose your own terrible B rated horror movie outcome basically.
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I think this has co-op right ?
 
Won't be getting my money even though it looked like a cool experience from the demo.

It is inexcusable that they deliberately didn't bother to properly support 21:9. I say deliberate because it is clearly obvious. You have full 21:9 resolutions in the settings, yet the game entirely displays in letterboxes on 16:9, and on a 21:9 you get a 16:9 frame with pillarboxes tacked on the sides.
 
mrk said:
Won't be getting my money even though it looked like a cool experience from the demo.

It is inexcusable that they deliberately didn't bother to properly support 21:9. I say deliberate because it is clearly obvious. You have full 21:9 resolutions in the settings, yet the game entirely displays in letterboxes on 16:9, and on a 21:9 you get a 16:9 frame with pillarboxes tacked on the sides.
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I mean it’s supposed to be like playing a bmovie horror. I’m surprised they omitted widescreen options. Puzzling.
 
There are a lot of cut-scenes in the game so maybe they'd have had to lock off the sides for those anyway? Seems like the aspect ratio would have been changing pretty frequently.
 
The reason that cutscenes are often letterboxed on wide aspect ratios is that often characters and objects that appear in the cutscene are placed outside the visible area before they are actually used, or a wider screen will show areas that either haven't been modelled or loaded.
 
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