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[Iamthatis]

I bought this shit sandwhich from the PlayStation store. It's not even a fucking game. You don't do anything other than walk around and watch scenes be acted out. It's so bad that it's painful. I've played bad games before but at least they were games. I'm posting this more as a PSA to warn others not to waste their money. It does have a beutiful environment that you can't interact with beyond opening a door or turning on radios. Seriously those are your two interaction options.

TLDR
it's some bizarre cross between a walking simulator and movie. The story is so contrived that you can just tell the writer smells their own farts.

 

[Quijibo69]

Too many walking simulators lately.

 

[cumrobbery]

So it's like a pretentious tech demo?

 

[Skeletor]

Recently picked this up as well as The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and got damn I have to vent: As an oldster who grew up on classic adventure games like Zork, Space Quest, Grim Fandango and etc. (powerlevel +1), this new trend of godawful indie adventure games that get phenomenal ratings is asinine. You wander around aimlessly hoping to trip over something that will trigger a snippet of a story that the player is uninvolved in. If you're lucky, there's a crappy puzzle of some kind. Devs need to stop making pretty games and go back to making old-school games with engaging gameplay where you have to figure out how to make a weapon out of a jock strap to defeat the Terror Beast of Labion.

 

[Strelok]

Recently picked this up as well as The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and got damn I have to vent: As an oldster who grew up on classic adventure games like Zork, Space Quest, Grim Fandango and etc. (powerlevel +1), this new trend of godawful indie adventure games that get phenomenal ratings is asinine. You wander around aimlessly hoping to trip over something that will trigger a snippet of a story that the player is uninvolved in. If you're lucky, there's a crappy puzzle of some kind. Devs need to stop making pretty games and go back to making old-school games with engaging gameplay where you have to figure out how to make a weapon out of a jock strap to defeat the Terror Beast of Labion.

These games are the modern equivalent of the adventure games in that era where you needed to figure out how to make a moustache out of cat hair, honey, and tape after forging a license with a moustache on it, instead of just forging a regular license. Inexplicably praised during their era, and then 10 years down the road will be pointed to as an example of why X genre is dead now. Right now "experience games" are that genre. Give it 2 years and I'm thinking "Squad based game where units level up and can die permanently" will be the one that goes through this process, and who knows what's 2 years after that.

And I'm going to question if "rub every item on item x to see if it works" counts as engaging, btw. Those older games just seemed like busywork to me.

It takes a few years for Sturgeons Law to start sorting through the mess to determine what is what.

 

[Skeletor]

Those old adventure games had their flaws, but I'm pretty sure aging dorks like myself have mostly fond memories of them, and you can't say the same for these walking simulators that will be forgotten in a year. You kids out there, go find an abandonware copy of Zork and tell me it isn't way more fun than Gone Home.

 

[Iamthatis]

These games are the modern equivalent of the adventure games in that era where you needed to figure out how to make a moustache out of cat hair, honey, and tape after forging a license with a moustache on it, instead of just forging a regular license. Inexplicably praised during their era, and then 10 years down the road will be pointed to as an example of why X genre is dead now. Right now "experience games" are that genre. Give it 2 years and I'm thinking "Squad based game where units level up and can die permanently" will be the one that goes through this process, and who knows what's 2 years after that.

And I'm going to question if "rub every item on item x to see if it works" counts as engaging, btw. Those older games just seemed like busywork to me.

It takes a few years for Sturgeons Law to start sorting through the mess to determine what is what.

If it were like what you are describing I would like it. I loved games like shadow gate, uninvited and kings quest you did stuff solved puzzles figured things out. This game has none of that. You can open some doors, some are locked forever no keys or way to open. Follow the lights listen to ghost dialogue and occasionally listen to the radio. absolutley no interaction beyond that and walking.

 

[Strelok]

If it were like what you are describing I would like it. I loved games like shadow gate, uninvited and kings quest you did stuff solved puzzles figured things out. This game has none of that. You can open some doors, some are locked forever no keys or way to open. Follow the lights listen to ghost dialogue and occasionally listen to the radio. absolutley no interaction beyond that and walking.

I'm not saying it's a good game, far from it, I'm just saying that if it wasn't this it would be something else, and refuting the other guy's nostalgia goggles.

 

[NumberingYourState]

The title they chose for it was specifically purposed to attract fundies.

 

[MrTroll]

Games like this are what happens when any idiot can license a pre-made engine like Unity or Unreal and crap out some minimally-interactive "experience" without having any real proficiency for game design.

 

[Pikimon]

I watched Kpopp (one of my fav youtubers) play through 1 video of it. It's a very pretty game, but you have no fucking clue whats happening. She kinda just commented on how everything is pretty and then abandoned the video and continued making hilarious playthroughs of the Desperate Housewives Video Game.