DeepEnigma
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Oh word? That just sold me a copy!
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High on Life | Review Thread
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twilo99
Member
Yes and the devs deserve even more credit for sticking to their vision.
I am actually surprised MS was on board with it since they are leaning heavily on the w side
Secret of Evolution
Banned
Pretty big fan of R&M so I’ll be playing this for sure. Thanks gamepass!
Stafford
Member
I'm one of those people that likes to read all there is to read and listen to everything there is to listen to. But the talking gun starts to talk about something and in the middle of the sentence basically interrupts himself and starts talking about something else.
Known issue?
Known issue?
Punished Miku
Gold Member
The Gamepass app is legitimately great. The Xbox app is not as great.Why is the Xbox mobile app such complete dogshit?
Went to add this game to my wishlist and you can't even do that. In fact, you can't do much of anything on this app.
Stafford
Member
For those that used to play adventure games like Sam and Max Hit the Road and others and loved to exhaust dialogues by clicking on the same thing repeatedly to see if new stuff would be said....High on Life has that and I love it. It's the small things, the extra bit of attention to things.
I tried to jump the counter in the store and the shopkeepers react to it, do it again and they say something new. I just love that kinda shit and they have done that for us, haha.
I tried to jump the counter in the store and the shopkeepers react to it, do it again and they say something new. I just love that kinda shit and they have done that for us, haha.
intbal
Member
Since Digital Foundry canceled their coverage of this game, here is an analysis video from a good youtuber, with power consumption metrics included.
High On Life
Edit: It seems off-site playback has been disabled. The link goes to the video.
High On Life
Edit: It seems off-site playback has been disabled. The link goes to the video.
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Stafford
Member
Dialogue is fantastic here.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
It’s crazy how much this game rewards gamers to just sit down and listen to things happening around them.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
I wouldn't describe the humor as politically incorrect, as much as dark, crass, and absurdist. I haven't heard any reviews complaining about the content or subject matter of jokes, just whether or not they found them funny. These things are perfectly subjective.
Worse still, if the humor doesn't click these thing can become actively grating given how chatty the game is.
I would say the gameplay, graphics, etc are kind of mid. Although it gets a lot better as more abilities open up. It's definitely an impressive step up for the studio but it's not a stand-out on gameplay alone.
Some places definitely do. But I don't think this game is really slaughtering any politcal sacred cows, man. I'm definitely left-leaning and I don't find anything in it even slightly offensive.
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MatrixReloaded101
Member
This game is funny but it might be the most broken game I’ve played in awhile.
Running into so many bugs and this is after downloading the patch.
Running into so many bugs and this is after downloading the patch.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Member
Unfortunately I think you're right WRT Harry Potter. We know there are journalists who frequent ResetERA who are going to being overly critical of the game and try as a hard as possible to push a negative score just out of spite. Punishing a game unfairly that was worked on by hundreds of hard-working people just to foolishly think you're "sending a message" to a woman who created the franchise but otherwise had little to zero involvement in the game itself, is just pathetic.
But it's gonna be funny if people are only now considering that maybe some of these reviewers aren't worth trusting; I was saying that back in February looking at some of the HFW and Sifu reviews and the double-standards afforded to Elden Ring in comparison to those games. If it takes this game and Harry Potter for more people to finally accept that maybe the reviews process industry-wide (and the aggregation process on places like MC) needs a fix-up, fine.
I would just say, leave politics and culture war crap out of it altogether. The reviews process & aggregation process can be fixed without dipping into those poisoned wells. Like other people were say, take this game: maybe the humor isn't to your taste, but you should at least be able to acknowledge that it looks good, runs pretty well, has good writing, good controls, good mission structure, variety etc. (going by what others are saying about their experience). A couple of jokes you didn't find funny shouldn't suddenly drag a game down into yellow territory.
twilo99
Member
Considering their background, writing is indeed the strongest point..
GHG
Member
Literally everything they hate I seem to like these days. Him and his crew are so jaded, they are pretty much anti-gamers.
twilo99
Member
Maybe I rushed my writing comment
kotaku.com
horribly written article, maybe they should use AI
Rick And Morty Creator Used Controversial AI Art, Voice Acting In New Shooter
High on Life co-creator Justin Roiland explained AI art makes the game feel like a 'strange alternate dimension'
kotaku.com
horribly written article, maybe they should use AI
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
This is probably the most voice acted game I've played lol. It rivals, if not exceeds, Red Dead 2.
ElRenoRaven
Member
I did the 1 dollar gamepass this month just to play it. I've honestly enjoyed the hell out of it. Only had it crash once when loading back to the house from a portal. I have no doubt this is gonna be a purchase when on sale for me. Doesn't surprise me though. I loved Trover Saves the Universe too.
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Beat the first boss. It's fun. Im not laughing my ass off but Im not disliking it either. It's nowhere near AAA tho.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Genuinely, what is there in this game that will upset people who you consider Woke?
Freeman76
Member
Woke people get upset about literally fucking anything so your question is irrelevant
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
What does woke mean?
TrebleShot
Member
I’ll give it a go, what’s this anyway? What does it do? Bork something else?
winjer
Gold Member
Defines which occlusion system is used.
0: Hardware occlusion queries (best for NVidia GPUs)
1: Use HZB occlusion system (best for AMD GPUs)
Duchess
Member
Seems that it's an Xbox exclusive. There's been other games that have eventually made their way to PS5, but I'd suggest you'll need to wait until sometime in 2023 to find out.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's perfectly fine on console, but for PC you're probably good waiting for a patch. I don't know it this studio is big enough to do a pre-compiled shaders patch or something for so many different GPU vendors tho..
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
Just lazy not wanting to record two versions I think, since the main character can be either.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I think you need to do the challenges to unlock more, there's details in the achievement detail page here:
Mods Please Ban achievement in High On Life
How to unlock the Mods Please Ban achievement in High On Life: Unlock every post in the Bounty Hunter forums. This achievement is worth 60 Gamerscore.
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Bumblebeetuna
Member
You have to do specific challenges. It should tell you what unlocks each “thread”.
TheDuskwalker
Member
It was announced as "console launch exclusive" so it sounds timed, but who knows.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
Nope they're all just red and locked like at the start of the game. Broken I guess. Oh well guess I'm not gonna platinum this one.
This game really did ship about two or three weeks early. They've addressed a lot of the stuff in the patches but stuff like this is really frustrating.
People talks about the "humor" of the game as if you're watching stand-up comedy, it's more complex and also more digestible than journalists make it look, no matter what your tastes regarding humor are. Unless you're really triggered by it, i see no point in being contemptuous like they are (because they're not just saying they didn't find it very funny, they write pages to explain how it's unfunny, with vague but brutal slanders sometimes).
It's a video game made for straight fun. Why compare it to Rick & Morty in the first place ? The game tries to be fun, more than it's trying to be funny. It plays on the interactions and situations, not just on delivering a funny line.
If that's really so inoffensive to them i really don't see why someone would write a paper to explain that High on Life is a really unfunny game, or give it a 3 out of 10. Makes no sense when it is just a game where you get to experience funny situations and that definitely has its own originality that we do not see elsewhere, whether you like it or not.
intbal
Member
Yes, people in the comments at twitter mentioned that this was broken for them. I expect another patch within a week.
Robb
Gold Member
The TV commercial for the stand up comedy show was pretty fantastic. They’ve really done a great job with all the side stuff, I always stop to just watch the TV’s. It’s like an extra episode of inter-dimensional cable in R&M.
I’ve enjoyed pretty much all of it thus far, some pretty solid platform of in this game as well which surprised me. The bosses have been a lot of fun too.
I’ve enjoyed pretty much all of it thus far, some pretty solid platform of in this game as well which surprised me. The bosses have been a lot of fun too.
PontiusFeeb
Member
Twice, characters called other characters “racist” for things which had nothing to do with race as a joke, thus making fun of people who call everything racist as their main form of communication. It was pretty funny.
Mobilemofo
Member
We need more adult games in terms of humor. Essentially a "Conker for the 2022".
MarkMe2525
Member
I have only made it through the intro, and I must say that if it continues in this direction, I am going to really like this game.
Topher
Gold Member
That kind of humor isn't going to raise any eyebrows though. I think there is a big gap between politically incorrect and "woke". Either way, still no evidence that I'm seeing that reviewers are punishing the game for anything related to politics. Some of them just don't think the game is funny. That is ok.
lukilladog
Member
The game is awesome... do you get to see the whole t-rex movie? (hilarious). I've been missing games like this one, and they actually did some reasonable regional pricing, $26 usd for me at Steam, unlike the types of EA or other tyrants who are asking $82 in third world countries lfmao. Also I installed to one of my HDD's just because I don't want to fill my ssd's unless I have to, and there has not been a single hiccup (i3 12100f/rtx3050).
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