Steve is a media veteran and a gaming enthusiast. Naturally, with such a dual identity, he has articles published by well-known game media from time to time, and his ID in a well-known game forum is also relatively famous.

On this day, Steve had just finished today's manuscript, made himself a cup of coffee and opened the game forum he frequented.

"Huh?"

Steve put down his coffee cup, moved his mouse and clicked on the hottest post.

In fact, there are a lot of game advertisements in this kind of forum, or some enthusiasts take the initiative to Amway others, or some game companies ask people to write advertorials and so on.

Generally speaking, such articles, although there will be some echoing voices, are generally difficult to arouse the interest of the general public. Even if it is too explicit, it will be deleted and banned by the management of the forum.

However, the post that Steve clicked on was completely different from other similar posts - it was only 2 hours since this post was posted, and yet it got thousands of replies in such a short period of time!

You must know that the most popular posts on the forum are usually only three or five hundred replies, and I don't know how many days have been liked. It's been a long time since Steve has seen a post like this that rushed to thousands of replies in a short period of time.

The poster said relatively simple, just said that he recently found an indie game with explosive graphics, and asked if the recent indie games have been so strong? A few pictures were attached.

The pictures are very beautiful, the performance of forests, grasslands, skies, and oceans is very realistic, and some pictures can even be used as a desktop for landscapes.

To be honest, this kind of graphic expression can already be compared to some movie-level CG, if the picture quality in the game is really like this, it must require a powerful hardware platform to bring it up. And considering that this is an indie game, there are also some concerns in terms of game optimization, and it is obviously a high probability event that the actual configuration requirements will exceed the famous "Graphics Card Crisis".

I casually flipped through the comments, and the first few comments took a long time from the post, and as long as they were mainly questioning.

But as time goes by, the frequency of replies becomes shorter and shorter, and some of them come back to continue Amway after downloading the trial in the early days, and there are also screenshots of beautiful pictures attached to the post.

As the popularity of this post grew, others like Steve clicked in out of curiosity were either amazed or questioned.

In this way, the number of replies to the post is increasing, from a deserted post to a hot post with hundreds of replies, and then the popularity has increased steadily, until it was highlighted by the forum management an hour ago, and the popularity exploded, and thousands of replies have exploded in just one hour.

After taking a sip from his coffee cup, Steve was ready to close the post.

That's not enough to be in the news, it's just an indie game with better graphics. Such a game that is only eye-catching in one way every year is not enough to get Steve's attention.

However, a sentence he saw inadvertently made him hesitate and stay in the post.

"Why does my picture look so much worse than yours?"

Underneath this reply, there are a few images of the game that seem to be from the last century. Although the graphics are better than a famous online game, Steve's professional eyes show that the number of polygons in the close-up alone is enough to see the essence of the game - at most the number of polygons at the level of Half-Life.

False propaganda?

When Steve saw this image, the first thought that popped into his mind was this - that's right, this kind of picture is in line with the identity of an indie game.

But...... What was the previous cinematic CG? Could it be that so many people used to talk about money?

Steve deliberately flipped through the people who had posted praises before, and a few of them were even familiar faces, so they probably wouldn't do such a thing.

"Funny ......"

The corners of Steve's mouth curled, and as a media person with professional qualities, he seemed to smell the big news.

Climb aboard your own steam platform and find this game.

“…… $34.99......"

Regardless of the quality of this game, at least its price has caught up with the triple-A blockbuster.

Payment, download.

Taking advantage of the download time, Steve went back and flipped through the forum posts again, and the recovery of the previous hot post was approaching the 10,000 mark. In any case, at least to set off such a huge amount of public opinion, this game is indeed worth paying attention to.

When a cup of coffee is finished, the game is ready.

Steve pressed the start button.

The dark hole**, the old voice recounted the story that had been told countless times......

Ten minutes later.

Steve sat in his chair with a bewildered expression, staring at the devoured corpse on the screen in a daze.

For Steve, who has money and leisure, he is like a mobile phone enthusiast to a mobile phone, and the computer configuration is updated with each generation of flagship products. So, by the time he played the game, the graphics in the game were already comparable to Hollywood blockbusters!

The extremely realistic scene even gave him the illusion that he was really better than the aliens, and even hunted by the ferocious bugs.

“……”

After sitting silently in front of the computer for a long time, Steve came back to his senses, lit a cigarette for himself, and all kinds of ideas collided and fermented wildly in his mind, and he opened the software with a cigarette roll and began to crackle.

Soon, the prototype of a great game review was complete.

Although the cigarette in the corner of his mouth has not yet been smoked, it is almost burned to the end, Steve casually crushed the cigarette butt in the ashtray, stood up and was about to pat the cigarette ash off his leg, suddenly remembered the previous post with very low quality.

Steve, who had already played the game, naturally knew that this was not the case, could it be that those pictures were smeared by competitors? Impossible, right...... After all, if you want to verify the truth, you only need to be on the game, and what kind of capital does an independent game author who has never heard of a name have?

With such doubts, Steve clicked on the post again, and scrolled down from the questioning post, and sure enough, someone posted his own game screen to refute the previous post.

Further down, you can see that many people have posted screenshots of their own games and sneered at the doubters. The previous skeptic quickly couldn't take it anymore and opened the video to record his gameplay:

It's true that the close-up of the game in the video is still visible on closer inspection, even though the textures are very detailed, but Steve noticed that the quality of the mid- and long-range shots in the game doesn't drop too much......

What's going on?

With this doubt in mind, Steve dialed a friend's number......

(I'm sorry, but I can't write about the cold in the past two days.) ）