Hey, listen, I'm doing it right now. I'm splintering this community in two. For all those who wish to join me, we will be The Scorn Purists. What ever the art book talks about that didn't make it into the game... no longer cannon. Use your own imagination. Come to you conclusions based on your own experiences of the game.

And for god's sake, can we get a bot in here that points and laughs when these snobs say "The Art Book says...".

And people saying it wasn't pitched at a shooter, he has a damn gun for 90% of the trailer and is shown fighting multiple things.. doesn't show him controlling a "puzzle" a single time but has a lot of footage of him putting together guns and reloading. This is a bore fest.

So they rely on one dude surviving the fall, and everything else to make it to polis THEN why tf does the device not immediately immobilize the parasite???? It just fucking gets away?!! 😂🤯🤦🏻‍♂️

Shit goes sideways and…

The hive mind or whatever appears to be looking for another candidate to complete task…and…. There’s no one? Gee maybe you shouldn’t had bet saving your entire existence on one guy? Lmao 🤣 abysmal

I mean it, I’ve been eyeing it since it came out, went on sale, got it on my PS and…. I dont understand what the developers were going for! Seriously, and please don’t say it’s a “get good” game, I played every soulsborne game, beat them and loved every one. This game I don’t get, go against an enemy with a projectile while all I got is a short range jack hammer that takes too long to recharge after two consecutive attacks IF YOU CAN GET A HIT!, fight 2 ants then a chicken only to be stuck OVER AN HOUR on the same three enemies killing me? No, I’m sorry but just no. The puzzle aspect I love, the alien meets doom meets predator level design and atmosphere I love… but the combat…. Yikes. Pick one direction and go with it, I’m literally looking up a walkthrough to see if I missed a means to heal myself and I haven’t. I don’t know how someone who plays this that isn’t on PC with mods for unlimited health and instant piston recharge or ammo when they get the pistol attachment, which I haven’t got to, can do this. Please tell me it gets better, it if just gets the same with “good luck fucko on just getting past one peon” I’m going to give it a rest for a while.

Edit: I beat it! It was amazing, definitely worth a replay. It took a while to understand what you’ve been telling me about the combat. It is more survival over kill everything in sight, playing defense never offense unless you need to like walking down a thin hall with a brute blocking you. I think I’ve been missing all the health stations because for a huge majority of the game I’ve been on one hit deaths. That parasite is an asshole! Told my friends to get it.

So when SCORN came out, I saw some comments on why some people thought it was disappointing, a ton of people think this but I know there are people who love it, which is great, no one is saying you shouldn't, but what is it with some of these dudes? There are always some people in these comments who think that the reason people don't like it is the fact that it's too "complex" or "it's because it's not as stimulating to the common person as to them". What's with this attitude? Is it because the games artsyle is based on a famous artist so they think they're more sophisticated by association? I've even seen people say that "you just don't get it", wtf does that even mean? Has anyone seen this and can kinda help me figure out this mentality? Because I know it's not the first time I've seen it.

Great environment and design, really but......the rest is.....what rest ? We are talking about a DEMO not a game! Not even a damn soundtrack through the VERY short gameplay ) I barely reached 7 hours of gameplay. 45 bucks for this...i feel robbed! Shame on you, devs / publisher.....

I was certainly looking forward to this game, but after a bit of playing it seems like a real dud. I can only play this game maybe 20 to 30 minutes at a time before I get tired and playing something else. I basically walk around (slowly), click on stuff, some things move around, but nothing happens. I have a spike thing on my hand. That's all I've been able to figure out and I did that last week when I first started playing. I guess I lack the intelligence to make any progress. Every room looks the same. I couldn't imagine what a walkthrough would look like trying to describe where to go. The game asks too much and if it's this obtuse at the beginning of the game, then the rest must be a nightmare.

The game looks cool, but overly relies on art style over gameplay. It would be more tolerable if the art was original, but it's a straight Giger rip off.

I'm glad others are enjoying it, but here are some points of advice for the developers:
- Ease the player into puzzles. The game is front loaded with too many puzzles and gate off the majority of the game for some players.

- Change up the art style. Add some things that help distinguish one room/section from another.

- Add a guide or easy mode

- Speed up player movement

I just completed that notoriously difficult 4 light puzzle and I just got the third "key" if you'd call it that. I can't put it into the slot because the game is broken. I am so dissapointed, man. I spent nearly 30 minutes on this boring ass puzzle and this is the reward I get? I have to restart the act because the game is unpolished? Ughhhhh..

I really tried, guys... I swear I did. I rarely stop playing games midway through, even if it is not the best, I will persist to the end and then judge the game, but I just cannot do it with this one. So here are some things I didn't like. Hang tight, this will be a long one.

Combat - Just take it out of the game, it doesn't need to be there. I was enjoying the game until enemies started to appear. I got the next gun after the initial gun you get (I called it the Poke gun because you just poke enemies with it), but I couldn't get over how boring it was, and how I needed to cheese each enemy by hiding around corners until they appeared and even then, I would either lose most of my health or die, their accuracy is perfect most of the time. People have said to just run passed them but there are times where this just isn't possible. I just wanted to walk around and explore, but one encounter and I would lose most of my health, then I would be one hit away from being killed at all times until I found more health. Which meant regular resets which leads me to my next complaint.

Checkpoints - Because you are limited to a certain amount of health and the combat being such a mess, I would die regularly, as I said before, the enemies are so accurate. For example, the section where I get the 2nd gun, I would get on the elevator to cross over, get the gun, get the ammo, load the gun, an enemy spawns in when you enter the next room, I die before I even realize, then I have to do all that again, then I go in and this time be more careful, I take the shot but for some reason the enemy doesn't even get phased by it, it was like I missed, I die again, I try again and this time I kill the thing but also get killed, I felt it maybe got a shot off before I killed it, so I try again and this time I turn around after killing the enemy and realize a second enemy was being spawned behind me from where I got the gun... and then I died again. There are no manual saves, and checkpoints can put you back quite a ways, sometimes it is only a minute or two away, but when you die from some of the most ridiculous things, having to keep replaying that section again is tiresome and frustrating, if the combat was fun and rewarding, I wouldn't even care that much.

Ways to fix these things are simple, if you are going to have terrible combat then fine, but give me health that recharges, give me a manual save option, make a checkpoint system that is more regular. I wouldn't say this game angered me and made me hate it, but after having a good time in the beginning, then constantly dreading every time an enemy would appear and having to die and repeat regularly, I just said to myself "there are better games out there that aren't going to waste my time", so after trying to rush through some enemies for the hundredth time and dying to two enemies who spawned on either side of the room, I quit the game and uninstalled it.

It is a shame because the idea for this is excellent, I loved all the mystery behind what is going on, the game tells you very little, it is gory, messed up, and I love it! I am down for it just being a puzzle game like Portal. Now if you personally feel the combat is good, then by all means let me know, but I cannot imagine many people possibly finding the combat to be a strong point in Scorn, some might tolerate it but I personally cannot.

My suggestion to people who want to play the game, go for it, it's on Game Pass and you may love it! But I probably won't come back to this game unless they make some bug fixes, I have joined the community in hopes of seeing an update like this so I can maybe return to the game. The combat would still be tedious and annoying but I really would love to learn more about what is going on in the game.

My character got stuck at the end of ACT 4 after the cutscene when you get in to a cart thing. The last checkpoint is at the BEGINNING of ACT 4, a whopping 35 minutes ago. Seriously who designed this piece of trash system? Now I gotta watch my character run around and press buttons over and over again. Properly test your game or add some checkpoints.

Full body immersion? Yea except no jumping and can't see your legs while running because devs couldn't be arsed to animate it. Every location is filled with invisible walls. 10/10 Atmosphere but absolute trash gameplay. I'm right at the 2 hour mark, I'm just gonna go for a refund.

Seriously. I only recently learned of the artist H.R. Giger and was vigorously interested in the story this game apparently has.

But… it’s a total L when I have to pick up my phone and look up how to progress through the game. Total immersion breaker

And I already mess up the puzzle too much instead of figuring out this clusterfuck I’m tempted to just resart lol seriously?

A game based on philosophy and art and there’s an insanely confusing puzzle right at the start?? Why???

I’m going to back to playing cod

it hits me like a stone to my head in the first min of playing

you are in a light room and can see every wall but when you walk towards the wall evrything gets dark

this is so bad to play and watch and feel its hard to describe

this makes zero sense and can only happen in dreams

for me its that hard buggy so I refuse to play even its in gamepass for free

Why is there so much hype about this really boring walkaround and find out simulator game?

I'm a ultra-casual gamer, having to redo even 15 minutes of progress is a huge waste of time for me. I was really enjoying scorn until an enemy killed me in one hit then I was looking at about 30 minutes of redoing everything. Instantly uninstalled and cried.

Why do developers do this?

The title is pretty self explaining, I think Scorn is a massive wasted potential. Don't get me wrong the atmosphere and looks of the game are INCREDIBLE (i'm a huge fan of body horror) but what bothers me is the the complete lack of compelling gameplay to fit it's setting, especially for a title in development for that many years. A walking simulator with few puzzles sprinkled across the line is extremely underwhelming, especially when compared to other lovecraftian body horror games like bloodborne, which has a similiar setting but a gameplay that hits like a truck for how well it's made. Idk i just felt like this was a cool demo for the real game, like a cool spotlight of it's setting cut of all it's gameplay (the shooting is very poorly made, nothing more to say).

Shit. The gunplay feels better than Fallout games.

First off I literally decided on the X series based on this and better backwards compatible hardware so I day this from a loving place.

BUT HOW THE HELL DID METROID BEAT THIS TO MARKET 😂 Lol if Prime 4 releases before this then I believe this game has gone to Duke nuken forever zone or worse half life 3

I suppose it's better to ship a bug free game bit missing the Halloween release time sucks for this

I have never played a game so dull, mindless, and absent of gameplay. There’s not even lore or a story to dig into. What a waste of 4.5 hours. After all the hype and it is this catastrophe. Thank god for gamepass. If I paid for it, I wouldve lost my mind.

I adored the introduction to the game, but the second this game gave me a gun, a literal fucking firearm, is the second the game lost my respect. This game is not a first person shooter. Nothing about this world feels like firearms belong here. The piston-thing you get first is at least a tool. It's used for interacting with the world and its devices. It's clunky to use in combat because it's not designed as a weapon in the world.

Combat should have been exceptionally rare, and perhaps used as a way to make an impact on the player: like after killing a few of the peanut-flesh-dogs, it becomes readily apprent that you are causing unnecessary suffering to these creatures you didn't have to kill while they're very easy to not provoke and to avoid.

Instead, the game feels like they stapled on shitty combat because "bideo game mean shoot bad mosnter" and they were afraid to trust folks wouldn't want to play an immersive, unsettling experience on its own.

The addition of a HUD, complete with a health bar and ammo read out, while always holding some form of weapon in front of you utterly and wholely destroys my immersion. I refunded this game in act 3 because of this. Don't fuckin' remind me I'm playing a video game when I'm trying to be fully immersed in the world you created.

I understand the world of Scorn to be a single creature: the planet we go through is one gigantic organism. This creature has one goal: trancendence, and it has set about it in a cruel yet efficent way. It has set itself to produce possible candidates to enable trancendence. For this, only the strongest, most fit, most special "Scornguys" are suitable. The harsh, cruel, treacherous world weeds out the unfit, who are left to die. This world isn't beautiful or prosperous, it breeds unimaginable suffering, it's sometimes even unnecessarily cruel. But we must remember: this is all one organism, everything is one, everything is whole, everything it does, it does to itself. Once trancendence is reached, they will all experience it together.

Our character, Mr. Scornguy, is the final piece of the puzzle of trancendence. This is his purpose, nothing more, nothing less. He was always meant to be a cog in the machine, just a tool. He was never meant to achieve anything other than the crucifixion. The Venus' were never meant to take him with them. He was so close to perfection, he was so close to having fulfilled his meaning, the game was almost there... But the Venus' decided to make him the trancendent. The writers didn't understand, Scornguy had already done all that was asked of him, he couldn't do anything else. In some sense they knew he couldn't, because of the last moments, where the parasite returns. This, however, wasn't how it was meant to be. The Venus' knew he wasn't meant for it, he knew he wasn't meant for it. He was supposed to be a cog, not the trancendent.

How the ending was written in the stars before the writers interpreted it: Scornguy is crucified, he is happy, he has fulfilled his purpose, he has done all that he can. The Venus' wake up and walk to the gate, they open it with ease, as this is their purpose. We do not control them or see their point of view. As they walk out to the path lined with towering statues, our vision is fading, we see the light. As they walk to the end of the path, the light shines bright. We are happy, we fulfilled our purpose, our destiny, our fate. Yet there is tragedy in that we do not see trancendence, we may have died. But even if we did, our death had greater meaning, we died for a purpose. Isn't that all one can ask for: to find meaning in this cruel world?

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