I restarted my machine and did everything I could think of to keep the game moving, but at some point it slowed down so much it stopped responding to my button presses and my character died. Unfortunately, because of my janky set up, I only made it through the first part of the game, where you run around a shiny golden "sun temple" cutting monsters with a big sword before the game started lagging. So my experience with Godfall-Epic > Steam > Remote Play > Apple laptop > PS4 controller-may be slightly different than yours.īy the time I got everything set up to finally start playing last night, I was pumped to see what the hell this game is all about. ![]() And because I hate playing with keyboard and mouse, I used Bluetooth to connect my PS4 controller. However, because my gaming PC is such a useless brick, I ended up playing the game on my Apple laptop. ![]() Then I logged into that Steam account and used Remote Play it play it on my computer. To play Godfall, I downloaded the game from the Epic store on a second computer and added it to my Steam library. Because I was able to put together the most bootleg way to finally play it. Thankfully, I never had to tell the nice PR person who gave me this game that I was a total idiot. Step 3: Start playing the game the night before your review is due The shame of admitting you could be getting the same (or very close to the same) experience on a console would be too great.Īnd if you're so attached to playing with a mouse and keyboard, just connect one to your PlayStation or XBox. They spend a minimum $1,000 on a machine to play the same games other people are playing on consoles that cost half as much (or less!).Īfter sinking that much money into something, you have no choice but to defend it with your life. I understand now why diehard PC gamers are such pricks. I tried finding a more experienced reviewer at the site to help, but they also didn't have powerful enough machines to run it. So I now had this free, brand new game, but nothing to play it on. ![]() My PC has maybe 1GB of RAM and the kind of stock graphics card most gamers would throw in the trash. My gaming PC is about as powerful as an old Nokia cellphone, and I stupidly assumed it could run a game that requires 16GB of RAM and a $700 graphics card. However, because I'm such a n00b, I didn't realize my computer can't actually handle running Godfall. And because I have to do a bunch of stuff on this website during the day, that really meant I had two nights to play the game and write the review if I wanted to get it out in time with other reviewers' reviews (which if you look at the timestamp on this post, you'll see I failed at by a few hours).īut putting in hours at night to play a free video game and blab about it is fun, so I got nothing to complain about there. That gave me two days to play as much of the game as possible and try to write a comprehensive review. The game doesn't officially release until tomorrow, November 12th, and I was told I could publish my review today, November 11th, but unfortunately I wasn't going to receive my access code until November 9th. Later that day I got a reply from a guy at a PR firm working for the game's publishing company, who said I could indeed receive an access code for Godfall. " But his email address wasn't listed online, so it took me 30 minutes to figure out the email address format for the company before sending him a message. In this case, I found the name of the contact person pretty easily by Googling "PR contact at. ![]() The trickiest part is just finding the right person to email. It turns out PR people at video game publishing companies are really friendly and easy to get a hold of, and if you tell them you work at a relatively well-known website, they're happy to let you play their games for free. If you want a summary of all the rating scores for Godfall, the new "looter slasher" from Gearbox Publishing and Counterplay Games, click here.īut if you want to know how this game actually feels to play, and what reviewing a video game looks like from the inside, let's go step by step through this funny process to see what it takes to write your first video game review. I've reviewed other things, but declaring whether or not a $60-or $70 on PS5-game is worth your time and money is new to me. I'll be frank, this is the first video game review I've ever written.
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