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Appreciate the wild galaxy brain thinking here. Gameplay felt so dull I was looking forward to the TV segments. Shits itself at the end but the occasional glimpses of brilliance are enough for me to not write it off.

I'm a total sucker for time travel stories and this has a couple neat ideas and moments but the surrounding story and writing is mostly just ok.
The gameplay is in a similar boat, lots of interesting ideas but wrapped in a kind of mediocre package. The move to Uncharted-esque climbing and "puzzle solving" to fill time between battles feels like a swing and a miss and it feels like too much of the challenge comes from limited access to your power set, whether through the slow cooldown timers or more annoyingly enemies that can just negate them. There's also a big lack of polish to the technical side, the art direction and cutscenes can be very good looking yet at the same time massive bugs can crop up, like a weird stutter to the in-engine cutscenes or one trigger not activating forcing me to restart the chapter, and it's clearly the first game made on this engine with some very spotty reconstruction artifacts (even at the higher res on Series X) and screen space effects.
It's also all tied to a live action "show" played in between acts that has the vibe of a D-tier NBC drama. Bless Lance Reddick he is acting circles around Aidan Gillen's awful American accent here.
It's a massively important game in Remedy's history, laying the technical foundation for Control and Alan Wake 2, and overall worth playing as there is still fun and some great bits to be had here, but it's Remedy's weakest game by a large margin imo


Quantum Break isn't interesting enough for it's own gimmicks and it's gameplay is too weak to patch up the holes.

RIP Lance Reddick, we’ll miss you forever…

Remedy has to stop giving all their "good stories but half-baked gameplay" IPs to Microsoft because this game is just begging for an Alan Wake 2-tier sequel. There are a few moments where the otherwise standard (but very well-written) time travel plot veers ever so briefly into rad as hell territory, but those aspects of the narrative never get their proper moment in the sun and are largely left for us to speculate about. I would love to see what Sam Lake and his merry band of madlads cook up with those concepts now that the foundation of this world has been firmly established, but alas, Quantum Break is likely locked up in the Recycle Bin alongside Internet Explorer for the foreseeable future. Ah well, at least we've got legally distinct Tim(e) Breaker and Warlin Door now.

I'd give this a solid "check it out" even if I can only muster to rate it "good", because there's a wonderful sense of ambition on display here. Like, love it or hate it, you're not gonna find another game that plays full, live-action TV show episodes with dynamic content based on decisions you made in the gameplay segments in between its narrative chapters. Most people would call that very concept absurd just due to simple logistics, but Remedy will not be dissuaded by such mundane troubles. Sure, the episodes are shot like the digital display ads you might find in a dentist's office between fillings, but goddamn I'll give them props for going for it all the same.

Of course, it helps that Lance Reddick brings his best to every scene he's in, because that's just how he rolls. Rest in peace, man - gone too soon for real.

I sure love having 1h to play games and spending half of it watching a bad Netlix series

remedy doesn't disappoint, but even they can hit mid sometimes.

not a bad game at all, in fact the combat is super fun, i don't know if i didn't explored as much but it felt a bit lacking in that cheeky remedy style that they have throughout the game ( i didn't find sam lake), the cast is rather interesting and i like the plot twists they throw on you, there isn't a character that i didn't grow to like by the end of the game.

still, plot taking too long to get steam, the game being optimized by ducktaping and prayer and the cutscenes having to reach for a streaming service in order to play (why..) prevent me from loving it as much as i love the other remedy games, but thats not to say i dislike it, on the contrary, i wish other mid games i played were as fun and plot whack as this one, it just doesn't get to a alan wake level

Jogo bem medíocre. Poderia ter sido bem melhor, mas a história vai se perdendo no decorrer do jogo. Acho que a única coisa que se mantem satisfatória é a jogabilidade

Rip Lance Reddick :(. Decent super power game

Just some awesome high-concept sci-fi action. Remedy has quickly become one of my all-time favorite studios. The games they make might not always land flawlessly, but they are constantly putting out stuff that feels fresh and high effort. These guys are always doing something outside the box.

Quantum Break really worked for me. My main, and pretty much only, gripe with it is the TV show aspect. It’s such a weird decision, and as I stated these come with the Remedy territory, that doesn´t really work. It simply is extremely less interesting and compelling when compared to the “game” section of this game. It feels and looks like cheap TV, the things that happen in it have no real impact on the game, and the game itself has no real impact on it, even though the game constantly tries to tell you that it actually does. These 4 episodes add up to about an hour of fleshing out very minor characters that barely show up in the game. It doesn't help that these handful of characters are extremely paper thin, and their respective performances are, as I said before, straight out of a cheap TV show.

These episodes are to be endured rather than enjoyed. I also find it extremely bizarre that the game, at least on PC, streams these episodes from some Microsoft server that will one day be inevitably shut down. There’s no option on steam to download these episodes, and if you play offline, you simply aren’t able to watch them. This adds to the idea that these poorly executed, extra-long, live action cutscenes, are just non-essential filler that could simply not be there at all without impacting the overall player experience.

I do believe that the whole “live action interludes that are affected by in-game decisions” concept could work if more budget and care went into it. And if they were actually developed in a way that complements the gameplay sections instead of as an addon that feels more like an afterthought.
At least the game itself, removed from the “TV show”, is a banger. The story is pure dumb fun sci-fi, with just the right amount of science mumbo jumbo, compelling characters, interesting macguffins and awesome set pieces. I didn’t really care for the “decisions” you can take in between acts, but it ties well into the whole time-travel/multiverse concept that the narrative goes for. Overall, great writing, great performances from a well-known cast, pretty much perfect pacing, I had a blast with it.

Graphically it’s a spectacular game. It looks gorgeous and way ahead of its time, especially the facial animations of the main cast. But it’s the overall visual design that really stands out here. Every location feels like a real space instead of a combat arena, populated with little dumb things everywhere to really sell them as real. The whole visual language they developed for the fractures and “time powers” is simply gorgeous looking and adds a lot of punch to the action. Great architecture and lighting too.

The gameplay is so much fun that it’s kind of a pity that combat encounters feel so short and few and far between. It feels as kinetic and engaging to move around and shoot as it did in Max Payne. Some of the powers available here are clear callbacks to the bullet time shooting present in those games. Everything here pushes you to zoom around the arena, evading baddies and just wrecking them. A blast to play through, I just wished there were more combat opportunities in it.

One other very minor gripe. While it is very much improved here, and there’s a little puzzle aspect to it, Remedy should really cool it with the platforming sections. Not their forte.
Great game brought down a peg because of the terrible “TV show” addon. Honestly, I’d say to skip them altogether when playing if the first couple of minutes don’t grab you, because the game is very much worth seeing through.

Remedy writing one of the best time-travel stories in not just video games, but fiction overall more than makes up for the generic gameplay. Also may not be enjoyable for those who have to pay attention to something without touching a button for more than 20 minutes.

Terribly underrated and even a little too hated from what I've seen on Steam. It's not perfect but none of the game's flaws are real deal breakers unless you have Beth Wilder's ever dwindling level of patience. Gamers whine about everything these days and can't simply have fun anymore without constantly feeling the need to overly scrutinize every single pixel they come across.

I mean, come on... you can manipulate time in this game (!!!), it has some genuinely impressive level designs, you get a fun little TV Show with Lance Reddick and Aidan Gillen (who unintentionally turns out to be kind of hilarious as Paul) and while the writing fluctuates and strays a bit from "peak Remedy" it has some really great moments. Which are especially present in the details, aka. all those scattered notes, emails and documents.

Some of you guys just need to take a step back and approach games with a little more whimsy again because that is what gaming is essentially all about! :)

(oh you died to the boss 50 times on hard? stop crying on the internet, thats a skill issue. get good. hop on a souls game and then we'll talk. nerd lmfaooo)

Quantum Break offers a fantastic blend of gaming and live-action storytelling that had me hooked from the start. One of the first things that struck me was how well the visuals held up for a 2016 release. I feel that usually games that opted for more realistic graphics at the time suffer when looking back at them, but this was not the case here. Aside from eye candy; the game boasts an impressive cast that brings depth and authenticity to the characters.

The narrative is where Quantum Break truly shines, seamlessly weaving together gameplay and live-action episodes to create an immersive experience. It seems like it was a love or hate thing, but the risk of using live action episodes between each act really worked for me. I also enjoyed the gameplay of mixing gunplay with time-bending abilities a lot more than I thought I would.

However, the game isn't without its flaws. While I appreciated the rich lore and environmental storytelling scattered throughout the world, I often felt rushed to move on by other NPCs, even when I wanted to take my time to explore and absorb the details. This tension between wanting to delve deeper into the lore and the pressure to keep moving forward sometimes detracted from the experience, although it did improve towards the end of the game as I became more comfortable with the pacing.

Additionally, I encountered occasional issues with repeated dialogue during exploration, which broke immersion and pulled me out of the experience. Despite these drawbacks, Quantum Break remains underrated in my opinion.

Bonus points go to the soundtrack, which features a track from Paramore. And of course, a special shoutout to Beth Wilder, who has my whole heart.

Not bad, not great. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the Remedy games I’ve played up to this point but this one is easily the weakest. It’s kinda difficult to follow the story as it barely makes sense, and making half of it a loosely related series of live-action “TV episodes” was a questionable choice that did not really aid my confusion. The gameplay at the very least is pretty enjoyable. It is mostly a standard third-person shooter but I did think the time powers were a pretty fun way to make it a bit more interesting.

Time travel meets Jack Reacher.

I want to preface this by saying I played on PC Gamepass and it ran like absolute ass for some reason (Alan Wake 2 ran well on my set up for reference) so my judgment might be clouded. But even with that in mind, I think a lot of my problems aren't necessarily with the gameplay. Gunplay in this one can be really fun, and messing around with the time powers zipping around and using time powers is fun. But this suffers the fate of being an early eight generation game with a lot of ambition on its plate. Every interesting decision is really undermined by how undercooked everything is. When you aren't doing pretty decent third person shooter arena fights, you're going at a snails pace as characters in the game say "Hmmm, I wonder if theres an entrance round here."

The timeloop is well fleshed out, but its really hard to care about that when most of the characters are very one note, only elevated by mostly decent performances. With Aidan Gillen (I'm CIA) and Lance Reddick (Rest in Peace) picking up slack. Anytime they were on screen I perked up, but the writing in this one feels so flaccid in this one. Not helped by the fact that the optional written text/audio in emails and radio is mindnumbling long in this one. Anytime I bothered to read it felt like I was completely distracting from game flow. And that is to say nothing of the well-shot but ultimately very uninteresting television aspect of the series (of which it wouldn't load properly on PC Gamepass, this was a Microsoft funded project).

I think there are cool things in this game, but a lot of them can be found in other Remedy works before and after. Might be worth your time if you think it'd be up your alley, but I'm glad Remedy has made more interesting works after this one.

This is pretty much the textbook definition of a 6/10 game, but I wouldn't be surprised to see many lower scores from other players. The gameplay is incredibly basic for a third-person shooter with a few extra abilities added in for some spice, and it's clear that Remedy was more focused on the story and cinematics. Four episodes of a live action TV show that tell part of the story may have been a novel idea, and I applaud them for being so bold as to do that in the first place, but...well, I'll just say this: thank goodness they decided not to do that again in their later games. I know Microsoft approached them to make this one, so maybe it was their idea? It would fit with the philosophy of the marketing for the Xbox One at the time ("it's not just for games").

At the end of the day, I found this to be a satisfying experience, albeit the ending feels really anticlimactic. It's interesting to see the various aspects that the devs would expound upon for Control and Alan Wake 2, as well.

quantum break… alan wake… sam lake… giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake

A great game with good narrative and unique gameplay, but the live action series during the gameplay is very boring and skippable.

СЭМ ЛЕЙК, БЛЯТЬ, А КОГДА БУДЕТ СИКВЕЛ?

Remedy постепенно становятся моими любимыми разработчиками благодаря их уникальному подходу к созданию игр. Их проекты отличаются кинематографичностью, с жестким акцентом на историю и персонажей, при этом с однообразным геймплеем (что, вероятно, будет исправлено в будущих играх, судя по отзывам о Alan Wake 2) и впечатляющим визуалом, и ещё немалым количеством достоинств. Они стремительно пытаются стереть грань между кино и играми, каждый раз пытаясь переплюнуть себя, даря необычное игровое кинцо. И в Quantum Break они решили расширить границы, сделав частично и сериал, и игру.

В основе сюжета легла научная фантастика о путешествиях во времени, и игра очень внимательно относится к различным феноменам из мира квантовой физики, создавая интересный и уникальный концепт путешествия во времени, и на первый взгляд может показаться, что подобного мы видели миллион раз, но если углубиться в происходящее, можно заметить очень много необычных подходов к сценарию и детальной проработкой событий, которые создают интересное поле для исследования временных парадоксов.

Кроме того, здесь, в лучших традициях крепко написанного сценария, центральной темой являются не только вопросы о квантовой физики и времени, а идеология двух играбельных персонажей, которые сталкиваются друг с другом, представляют диаметрально противоположные точки зрения о том, как управлять судьбой и чужими жизнями, отчего каждый для себя может по-разному трактовать поднятые темы. Но, к сожалению, на геймплей тут подзабили настолько, что его отодвинули далеко на третий план, и вроде играть было не скучно, но из-за небольшого набора оружия, врагов и повторяющихся драчек казалось, что Quantum Break не предназначен для прохождения, а скорее для просмотра.

И отдельно скажу, что ещё меня сильно удивил движок Northlight, который был создан специально для этой игры и для игры 2016 года он просто недосягаем. Благодаря ему удалось создать впечатляющие эффекты, физику и дать игроку возможность управлять временем, хоть и в обрезанном виде, создавая сложные и детализированные сцены

Not really feeling like finishing it...

This review contains spoilers

Remedy's most ambitious game but sadly their worst.

If I can give anything unanimously postive for QB it'd easily be its visuals, with the time effects remaining pretty impressive almost a decade later (this is the first game on Remedy's Northlight engine and it really shows). Performances are also pretty solid around the board, with Shawn Ashmore and Lance Reddick being the standouts. Gameplay is also pretty fun throughout, with the time powers making for combat that remains good (though I do wish the powers were spread out better).

If i had to say the biggest issue with QB it's one of the standout features: the TV show. After the end of every act (besides the finale) you will play as the villain and decide what choices they will make. This concept is really interesting because it allows you to actively control just how smart/incompetent the villians are and these choices translate well into the game portion. The main issue is all the episodes are extremely terrible and feel written from a different team. Cheap looking throughout with incredibly stilted performances (besides Lance Reddick who is wonderful) make sitting through them all an absolute chore. The game pass version also suffers because you have to STREAM the episodes in game which is completely borked (also some graphics make things seizure inducing so avoid at all costs). I would say the in game story makes up for the shows shortcomings but it's not much better, with the entire time gimmick being a cool backdrop but not utilized to the extent it needed to be. This is mainly because besides Jack and Beth the rest of the cast is really fucking boring, with Paul Serene being an absolutely dogshit villian that doesn't do much. It also feels way too short, with the ending feeling extremely abrupt with so much unresolved (an obvious sequel bait but with how its looking for Remedy I don't see that happening). I praised the combat earlier and while I still stick to that the puzzles/exploration needed some serious work, mainly because the platforming feels like absolute shit and some time powers feel clunky to use leading to repeated deaths (checkpoint system is terrible). This culminates in one of the absolute worst final bosses I've had the displeasure of fighting, with a bullshit instant kill that makes you have to reset from the very beginning. Its such an odd difficulty spike because the rest of the game is piss easy and possibly the easiest Remedy game.

I had somewhat middling expectations going into Quantum Break but at the same time I still felt let down. To end this review on a more positive note it was neat to see things like the implementation of live action be used much better in Control and Alan Wake II (alongside the Northlight engine looking insane). Would only reccomend this for super cheap or if you're a Remedy superfan and want to see how things improved.

4/10


um 8 sólido. ótimo jogo e uma das melhores histórias de viagem no tempo em jogos, a ideia do jogo é bem criativa e basicamente tudo encaixa bem perfeitinho. é de se esperar que jogar esse jogo depois de Control e Alan Wake 2 dê a impressão de que ele é bem inferior mas ao invés disso prefiro dizer que ele é um protótipo criativo, que começa sim no primeiro Alan Wake mas é nesse que começam a aparecer os primeiros detalhes ala Remedy no jogo. a lore é boa porém acho que parte do conteúdo é jogado apenas em gigantescos textos algo que deixa o jogo um pouco chato (caso claro você queira saber da história), isso de ter uma série no meio achei inovador mas ao mesmo tempo tem 2 problemas: 1. que é a quebra de momento, geralmente você está numa empolgação em fim de capítulo e tem que assistir 25 minutos de uma série sobre outro personagem que existe no universo. 2. (spoiler) apesar da série ser super bem feita ela tem uns problemas de roteiro e uma ideias um tanto quanto estranhas, fora o fato do liam burke (o que tem mais destaque nos episódios da série) parecer um super humano quando quase sempre está sem proteção e provavelmente ferido, pra no fim bem, boa parte disso ser jogado fora do nada. Cliff hanger do final foi do caralho e novamente a história aqui destoa muito do resto, de longe a melhor coisa. a gameplay, assim como os outros jogos da Remedy peca demais, tem seus momentos ainda mais no final mas fica chato, se não fosse o jogo durar pouco provavelmente eu iria coringar, são poucos inimigos, armas genéricas e uma gameplay extremamente repetitiva. Ótimo jogo, tirando a gameplay e alguns detalhes. RECOMENDADO FORTEMENTE. que pena que não deve ter continuação, o jogo deixa no final um gostinho de quero mais.

this rate is for game pass version not the game which is run like shit 10 - 20 fps at the best i don't know if the problem from me or no

Jogo com história muito boa e jogabilidade interessante, porém a série live action não é muito boa e não agrega ao jogo.

DO NOT PLAY THE GAME PASS VERSION, IT DOESN'T WORK

Although the gameplay tended to fall a bit flat, and even at sometimes felt like sort of an afterthought, I genuinely had a great time with this game.

The combination of third person shooter and TV show wasn't something I thought I would enjoy but every actor involved brought their absolute A game, especially the late and great Lance Reddick. As always Remedy delivered with the world-building and story, and the different branching path choices literally made me stop and think about what I would do vs what Paul would do. Although it falls out of the Remedy connected universe of Alan Wake and Control, I could easily see how this game could be incorporated into the CU.

This game genuinely got me excited for Control and AW2 because now I can see what Remedy is able to do with a modern engine. Only 2 more games to go in the Remedy Rampage, Control and AW2.