Which speaks volumes to the optimization the developers put into this game. I had a butter smooth experience front to back on my old laptop. The game will most likely run, and run well on your PC, or laptop.
#REDNECK RAMPAGE REBOOT PC#
One of the best aspects of Dusk is whatever limited PC hardware you have. Who is to busy counting how many pixels are within their character’s hair, then how dynamic the gameplay is. With all this atmosphere there has to be some serious gameplay to back up this game? This is absolutely correct, Dusk may seem very “low res” to your modern gaming snob. It has some of the most bizarre but completely brilliant level designs I have seen in my many years of playing FPS. The emphasis on the occult aspects of the game really begins to hit their stride. In the 2nd act, you begin descending into depths of a military compound filled with demonically possessed soldiers. Who give off heavy Texas Chainsaw Massacre vibes in a big way. The game throws you right to the dogs at the beginning with you being locked in a room with 3 chainsaw-wielding masked men. The sheer variety of locations within the game was phenomenal. From the open sprawling fields to tightly enclosed cave networks. While Dusk may not be a “real” place, the levels were so genuinely designed it was easy to believe it was. The game is set in a town called Dusk, in rural Pennsylvania. Who is still to this day known as “DoomGuy”. Which for those not familiar with the Doom series, is a throwback to the main protagonist of that series. In Dusk, you play the main protagonist who is simply called “DuskDude”. While combining this with some of the cleanest gameplay of any PC shooter I have played in recent years. Dusk managed to find a way to have low poly graphics, and still feel completely fresh and original. It was not a simple replica or a throwback to the past. It immediately took me back to the 90s with its aesthetic and its ability to not take itself to seriously. Within the first 5 minutes of booting the game up, I was in love all over again. I threw caution to the wind opened up my Steam account and dropped $22 CAD and dived right in. With a ton of memes and references to throwback games, I hadn’t thought of in a long time. I ended up browsing my Twitter feed one afternoon and saw a man by the name of Dave Oshry talking about a game called Dusk. I needed something that felt truly “fresh” again. A lot of the games felt either uninteresting or were massive 100-hour experiences. There were no games that were really pulling me in. Now fast forward to the summer of 2019 I was in one hell of a gaming rut. The love of competitiveness in these games led me to play Halo on Xbox, in which I eventually began pursuing e-sports during the Halo 3/ Halo Reach era of the games.
FPS quickly became like home to me, it led me into playing Unreal Tournament, and Counter-Strike. From Wolfenstein 3D, I moved onto Doom, Quake, Half-Life, Hexen, Dark Forces, and many more. But it introduced me to a whole world of games that would form what I loved in games. Was Wolfenstein a game that a 4-year-old should be playing? Probably not. My first gaming experience was when I was 4 years old in 1997 when I played Wolfenstein 3D for the first time. In addition to my father, my two uncles were also huge into PC gaming during the late 90s when I was growing up. My dad played a huge role in me developing my love for PC gaming. I had a very different upbringing when it came to my accessibility to games. While many kids grew up on Nintendo or PlayStation, falling in love with Mario or Crash Bandicoot. However, no one was able to scratch that old school FPS vibe that made me fall in love with the genre. While developers like Arkane have created some of the most immersive worlds with games like Prey (2017). ID Software’s reboot of Doom and Titanfall 2 instantly come to mind, in terms of fast-paced action. There have been many games that have done high-quality FPS gameplay stunningly this generation. Viewing the world from the eyes of the character you play, is one of my all-time favorite perspectives. FPS (First Person Shooters) can be one of the most immersive and kinetic perspectives in which to play a video game.