From Dust

So is anyone else really excited for From Dust? (Yeah, I know, it's already out on Xbox, but I'm not buying it twice when I can get a hat for buying it on the PC! )

I played the demo on Xbox Live and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's an interesting concept, too, and apparently well-executed.

edited 1st Aug '11 2:42:05 PM by Firebert

DRM issues from Ubisoft.

Dont get the PC Version. DRM and the controls are absolutely god awful. No AA, and zero graphics customization.

Apparently Steam is offering a refund to people who bought it under false pretenses.

That's a lot of happy Demomen.

What to make of this, then...

-_-

OK, now I'm just glad I'm not caught up in this debacle. Sucks, though. I sort of heard good things about From Dust.

From Dust is a good game ruined by a bad publisher.

Exactly. If it was made by any other company, From Dust would be fantastic.

I still like the game, though. Then again, I love both the God Game and terrain manipulation, so it might just be my cup of tea.

And look on the bright side: At least it's better than the port of Assassins Creed Brotherhood.

I really have to wonder what Ubisoft was thinking. Really, how much benefit do they expect from their DRM scheme, which already has horrible PR. . . when applied to a 15 dollar budget title?

It's not much of the DRM scheme as they LIED to customer...

I'm wondering if anyone's gonna sue Ubisoft for this...

Hell, reading several people's reaction to the game, I think the PC version is not even worth pirating...

edited 19th Aug '11 8:13:52 AM by onyhow

Not to mention that the DRM was pretty much useless a day after the game came out.

I recommend it. It's challenging, but fun.

currently on the high tides level

it seems impossible...and after 2 hours on it...i had to give up and move onto bastion.

still, its a fun game, control issues aside. and the annoying requirement of having ot be connected to the internet to play a game that doesnt do anything online in the first place...

high tides is impossible (or extremely extremely difficult) on the PC.

Normally the tides will recede, allowing you move along. But the PC version doesn't do that, meaning its unwinnable unless you luck out somehow...

God I cant stand Ubisoft.

It's possible. Where did you get stuck?

And remember, in that level, that the ability to jellify water (and therefore stop the tide from sweeping away your village before you can get the knowledge to repel water) is your best friend.

And the tides DO recede. Well, for me, they did.

edited 19th Aug '11 9:37:46 AM by Thnikkafan

I've heard from people that they dont. And you can't even get to jellify water if the tides dont.

well the tides do recede, but not for long enough.

but the problem is getting to the jellify water totem pole

ive tried making a path, but again, the water level doesnt stay low enough for the people to cross it.

all ive been able to do is move the starting village up the mountain next to the engulf all totem, and move that totem back to the starting point (by accident, i meant to move it to just a little bit further from the mountain, which is higher and has less water engulfing it at regular intervals), and started trying to gather soil to rise the endless earth totem out of the water (i almost made a crossable bridge while doing so, but it didnt work out)

edited 19th Aug '11 9:45:53 AM by Tarsen

-sighs- Just hearing about that backdoor DRM debacle made me cringe, which is a real damn shame because this game really looked like a great idea.

And I thought Ubisoft was heading the right direction by not giving AC:B the strict UbiDRM and scrapping the draconian elements in that of AC 2, but apparently I stand corrected.

Something tells me that not only is Ubisoft openly spiting the PC market, but thinking up excuses to pull out of it altogether.

edited 19th Aug '11 1:35:24 PM by EarlOfSandvich

So, anyone playing it on XBLA?

*raises hand*

Its a fun game, though it can be hard. And as near as I can tell, some of the challenge maps are just plain not fair.

Well I feel better about not preordering it off Steam, now. And I was looking forward to this game, too. :(

PS. I felt like the Brohood port was perfectly fine, but I guess that's just me.

At least you folks HAVE played your copies. I can't even get to the title screen on my computer.

It's a good game, a REALLY good game, but it's still a PC port of an Ubisoft game.

I guess I should probably get it on my xbox and not PC, then.

I also had a really big problem with High Tide. I had to lower the resolution to the lowest level to even get a chance to build a bridge using every single drum of dirt I could find.

As some sort of revenge, I unleashed my inner Dutchman by building big-ass dykes and turn the tiny island group into one big-ass island of reclaimed land. Because I could.