Quick recap if you have absolutely no idea what Adr1ft is. Remember Adam “Deal with it” Orth from Microsoft? Well after that fiasco he left – and shortly after began work on a game that acts as a metaphor for the experience of dealing with that type of anger. That’s turned into Adr1ft – an intriguing, utterly gorgeous first=person experience. And it’s out soon.
There really is a reason why I’ve been watching this game closely. Running on Unreal Engine 4, the emptiness of space is beautifully captured, with the horrific scenes of a mechanical disaster acting as a contrasting backdrop to it. It seems that survival is your main goal in Adr1ft – which could easily be mistaken for an adaptation of the movie Gravity.
First-person experience isn’t just a marketing term either, and I believe it after seeing the E3 trailer above. Adr1ft looks like a solitary experience about exploration and survival, and I highly doubt some foreign alien being is going to jump scare you and for some actual confrontation. Much like games like Journey, Adr1ft will probably bombard your senses and emotions with a flurry of psychological attacks – as you scavenge all you can to hopefully see some land again.
Adr1ft is making use of the Oculus Rift and supposedly Valve’s own VR Vive (they received a dev kit last week). It’ll be out sometime this September for PC, Xbox One and PS4 – and I do hope I manage to find it somewhere at E3 next week.
Last Updated: June 10, 2015
Valshen
June 10, 2015 at 09:39
+1 for music choice.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 09:44
This is how you do music 🙂
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 09:43
E3 the week of CGI game trailers and game news that anybody can find 2 weeks prior.
Gone are the days of The Megaton.
Why the hell did Bethesda release the Fallout trailer before E3? THAT WAS A MEGATON THAT INCLUDED A NUKE.
Alessandro Barbosa
June 10, 2015 at 10:02
Not CGI though. This is all in-engine, with final game assets 🙂
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:05
Downgraded 2 years from now 😛
Alessandro Barbosa
June 10, 2015 at 10:06
Out in September :O
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:07
For the five people who have VR 😛
Alessandro Barbosa
June 10, 2015 at 10:20
Nah it isn’t a VR exclusive – just has Oculus and Vive support.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:37
Cool, will wait and see how its received.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:12
Because Bethesda doesn’t play by the rules.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:14
Because the rest of their show is boring & it’s the only way to get everyone to come?
Pariah
June 10, 2015 at 09:47
This with VR. Holy shit I just got goosebumps. Holy shit.
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 09:47
good point!
Pariah
June 10, 2015 at 09:50
I can see me freaking the fuck out, throwing the VR unit down, taking a walk to calm the nerves, and putting it on again to carry on. The potential is intense.
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 10:56
Definitely, I’ll cling to my couch like that chick did to Stallone in Cliffhanger
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 09:47
George Clooney is DLC?
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 09:59
Hell, you just reminded me. The scene when Clooney enters the Chinese module while she is committing suicide, I had people behind me in the Cinema wondering how he left without all the air being sucked out 😛 Hell I now understand who the Transformer movies are targeted towards 😛
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 10:55
lol morons!
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 11:00
‘Commuting’ suicide?
Well, you are not wrong actually 😛
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 12:03
A trip from the Northern suburbs to Cape Town CBD in other words. 😉
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 09:50
The name of the channel is OSP – Only single player….@google-b3ba07f0835438e0c954c94031814a2f:disqus ?
Pariah
June 10, 2015 at 09:50
LOL!!
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 10, 2015 at 10:05
HAH
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:09
🙁
Hammersteyn
June 10, 2015 at 10:55
XD
BacchusZA
June 10, 2015 at 10:01
This looks like a game, that if done well in VR, will either make you find G_d, or need to change your shorts, for one, or perhaps both, of two different reasons…..
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:13
*insert both gif here*
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:09
To be serious, why did Alien Isolation tank in sales?
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:11
Not enough l4z0rz! PEW PEW IMA SPACE MARINE!
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:11
You know it.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:10
Before anyone thinks they’re clever because “ERMAGAWD NO SOUND IN SPACE LOL!”, shut up.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:11
Unless you fart in your space suit.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:12
Yes, excluding INSIDE THE SPACE SUIT. Chop 😛
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:12
But I thought the Mozart music was coming from Earth.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:13
It’s coming from the same place George Clooney did. 😉
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:13
lol
Lord Chaos
June 10, 2015 at 10:12
I’ve always had a problem with that statement.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:13
Thanks.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:14
I must say. Firefly (rest its glorious soul) got just the right blend of that.
Lord Chaos
June 10, 2015 at 10:15
You cannot say there is no sound in space, it’s semantically incorrect.
You cannot HEAR sound in space, but it can still travel through it.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:16
SCIENCE! 😀
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:12
Coincidentally I was just reading up about Adr1ft this morning. I saw a pic of it somewhere, didn’t know what it was about and had to check it out. Didn’t see this trailer though.
Count me intrigued.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:14
Still playing The Witcher 3, I have happy tunnel syndrome thanks to that game far exceeding my expectations, not even a Half Life 3 reveal would excite me.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:16
Same here.
I spent last night (for about 2 hours) just trying to find all the craft sheets of a specific set of armour.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:19
I now get PISSED off when I look at my clock and realize I need 5 hours sleep before another busy day at work. I look back at the game and go FOR FUCKS SAKE. Press save, bed 🙁
No other game in my LIFE has had me play till stupid o’ clock. Its been 3 weeks now and I am just as hooked as I was on day 1. Not even level 20 yet lol. Just taking my time and enjoying the sunsets. So darn beautiful. With the odd head rolling down the hill while taken another screen shot of the sunset lol
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:22
lol I feel the same way. I want to play the game, but I also want to read my book. Oh well, now I just go to bed later & go to work grumpier than usual.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:26
To think It took me 6 months to apply for leave during the first 2 weeks of March only to find out that the game was pushed back 🙁
I am glad I am not on leave actually, otherwise the landlord would find this corpse stinking out his flat thanks to starving to death with Geralt slowly growing his beard on the TV in the background 😛
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:27
Tuesday is a holiday & I took Monday off. Dedicated Witcher 3 long weekend, baby!
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:29
I couldn’t get Monday off. You lucky bastard. 😉
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:28
Same here. I even skipped the gym to get in more Witcher hours :/
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:31
Okay, I haven’t gone that far. But I have seriously considered doing the same thing heh.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:31
Just once though.
I used “dropped a weight on my face” excuse for it though 😉
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 10, 2015 at 10:21
I finished the Gwent cards quest in Velen last night, collected some Dragonroot because Elfroot is for hippies, and cleared a whole bunch of Nekker nests like a boss. I also ran away from a lvl20 Water Hag, that was less boss-like.
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:22
Elfroot is for hippies Bwahahahaha
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:26
Those water hags can be crazy difficult.
I got an achievement last night “Destroy all monster nests in Velen” 😀
Woohoo. Only took 65 hours.
Now to find MORE armour crafting sheets!
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:32
One lapse of defensive combat from monsters 5 levels below could spell the start of another long loading screen.
I still need to unlock this move 🙂
http://gfycat.com/CrispOffbeatElk
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 10, 2015 at 10:35
Exactly. Luckily the loading screen on my pc isn’t too bad between re-loads. It’s just the initial one that takes a bit to get into the game. Gives me a moment to realise that I’m actually still just sitting in my study and not really running around in Velen. 😉
Aries
June 10, 2015 at 12:14
That initial is slightly long, but for me between deaths it is actually short, guess the console guys have the issue
Aries
June 10, 2015 at 12:12
I started playing around 9pm and started feeling tired, checked the time and it was 2:30am, haha, was trying to level up for some of the high level side quests
FoxOneZA
June 10, 2015 at 10:14
Looks like that scene from COD:MW3
oVg
June 10, 2015 at 10:16
SPACE DOG, make it so.
Honey Vig
June 10, 2015 at 11:14
Thumbs up, looks like a great set of VFX effects is there.
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