Not to my knowledge, but he’s one of the A-list voice actors working today. It’s basically him and Nolan North that get the most name recognition.
Baker actually appeared in the Last of Us show, if you watched it. He was in episode 8 as James, the guy who was kinda the second-in-command to David, the preacher and antagonist of the episode.
Does the game play change appreciably? I’ve played it a bit, and it doesn’t feel like I’m really doing much of anything. Basically, I drive Indy around until something pops up that basically amounts to “Press X to win the game”. There doesn’t seem to be much actual skill needed, or inventiveness.
Where are you up to?
The main gameplay starts when you get to the Vatican.
That’s where I left off last night. Does it change considerably? So far, everything seemed to be on rails, with minimal options to do other things.
There are side quests. I still haven’t played a lot because my TV died, but I did a quest to save some kid and you meet a women who ends up being your sidekick for the main story. If you’re not getting much out of the stealth, wacking enemies over the head with a rake, and the puzzles, then it probably won’t improve much for you.
There are multiple paths to reach destinations and complete goals. You can be sneaky, you can find your way to rooftops, or you can just punch every fascist you come across and take your chances. There’s the main mission and several side missions, plus many things to collect.
Still playing this at a leisurely pace and enjoying it a lot. Even going into underground dark catacombs they are spacious, detailed, and well lit enough that you don’t get the nausea, disorientation, motion sickness effect. The story and characters are so well done that it doesn’t veer off into some overly complex convoluted storyline that so many games go into these days.
The voice acting, musical score, and humor is spot on Indiana Jones.
Just left the Vatican and am excited to see where this goes next.
I loved the priest guy dancing to the vinyl record.
They really do a great job with the characters.
I love that Indy doesn’t come across as a superhero because he wasn’t one in the films. He grunts and struggles to climb things, he gets tired easily carrying an unconscious person or running. It feels like you’re playing movie Indy, not video game Indy loosely based on movie Indy.
The puzzles are fun and I never get tired of smashing a fascist in the groin with a broomstick.
Played by Enrico Colantoni! If you don’t get to be in a genuine Indiana Jones movie, this is going to have to be the next best thing.
Damn, that Enrico Colantoni wiki page has no chill when it comes to spoilers.
I love reading updates. This game is next on my playlist after Metaphor Refantazio, especially since @Reply gave me a copy and I want to share the experience with them.
I am really enjoying this game so far. I have about 10-12 hours into it and have only just left the Vatican. I am taking my time exploring and trying to complete as many side missions as possible. It has been a nice distraction in the evenings to keep me from reading the news too much.
If you are planning on buying it for the PC, keep in mind that it has some pretty significant hardware requirements. I bought it over the holidays and only started putting a lot of time into it after upgrading my video card to one with 16 GB of ram. It is a memory hog and has requires ray tracing.
Finished this last month and it was really good. Comparing it to a movie you could say it had a lot of great set pieces. Various locations with a lot of detail put into them.
100%ed it after about 40 hours.
I’m vaguely annoyed that the achievements have some bugs–one of them should have unlocked when I collected all of a certain thing, but didn’t. Supposedly there’s a patch upcoming that will fix various annoyances, hopefully including this one. Also, a bunch of the item maps are broken in various ways–showing items that you already collected, not showing ones that you haven’t, etc. Sometimes there’s a difference between what’s on the map vs. the icon in gameplay. That made some collections more difficult. Sometimes it would be fixed if I exited and relaunched, or went to a different stage and came back.
I am in the final section of Metaphor: Refantazio and this game is my next play!
I see people have figured out how to get it to run on Steam Deck even though Valve is still working on getting it fully greenlit.
That is good news. I’m looking for a game in the style of Tomb Raider and Uncharted, both series which I loved, and this would fit the bill (don’t mind that it’s an FPS). As I don’t have a suitable Windows PC I’d need to play it on the Steam Deck. Hopefully they release it soon.
Jones definitely does his share of tomb raiding in the game. I wonder who tops the list in fiction of the world’s worst archaeologists.
It’s funny, because I used to work with a number of archaeologists in a previous job. A few of them loved Indiana Jones and kept posters and other items around their offices because he made their jobs look a lot cooler than it really was.
I should warn you, I loaded it up right now, only to the title screen. I think it’s going to be rough at best with the settings I saw.
Oof, you aren’t kidding. I just checked the steam page:
Minimum (1080p, low settings, 60 fps)
10700 or 3600
2060 SUPER or 6600
Recommended (1440p, high settings, 60 fps)
12700 or 7700
3080 ti 12 GB or 7700 XT (also 12 GB)
Good Lord those are nosebleed requirements.