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Hobo Clown posted:How does it compare to Firewatch or Life Is Strange? I've played through the former & enjoyed it, my girlfriend wants to get the latter. I'm unfamiliar with Gone Home. It shares a lot of DNA with Firewatch. Both of those games were created (in part) by various members/ex-members of the Idle Thumbs podcast, and Chris Remo is the composer for both games. There are a few Gone Home references in Firewatch, too - Good Ol' Christmas Duck appears in Firewatch, and some of the books you can find in Firewatch were written by one of the characters in Gone Home.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:I liked Gone Home but some of the handwriting bothered me too. Luckily there's an option to overlay it with typed text, and then reading it is no problem. I really wish that I had noticed that, maybe I would have bothered to read at least one page of anything. And another thing about the story is like, most of the intrigue of "what happened to these people?" dies out because within the first two rooms you find out that oh, the parents are just on vacation, but then the rest of the story doesn't elaborate on anything further other than telling you about the lovely sister until the very end, where it reveals that she's gone home spit on my clit fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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Jun 11, 2016 18:19
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BillmasterCozb posted:And another thing about the story is like, most of the intrigue of "what happened to these people?" dies out because within the first two rooms you find out that oh, the parents are just on vacation You don't find this out that early on, it's part of the mystery, and it's not the whole story. Don't spoil things. Faux Mulder fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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Jun 11, 2016 18:56
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Gone Home is Good.
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Jun 11, 2016 19:20
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BillmasterCozb posted:I played Gone Home, and it is probably one of the most pretentious games I've ever played. Walking around was oh so slow, the narration was just constant droning in the same monotone voice, the one "puzzle" i can think of was just ridiculously trivial (Oh look a safe, in the father's basement. i guessed that the combo on it is 1963 because that's the year JFK got assassinated. it was correct.) 
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Jun 11, 2016 19:22
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You can use that against literally any criticism these days. edit: 
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Jun 11, 2016 19:29
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BillmasterCozb posted:You can use that against literally any criticism these days. no it is specifically for when someone writes antagonistic dog-poo poo criticism against something they personally didn't like. I get the feeling you're fakeposting anyway but it's still dumb, also you're dumb
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Jun 11, 2016 19:52
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Faux Mulder posted:no it is specifically for when someone writes antagonistic dog-poo poo criticism against something they personally didn't like. I get the feeling you're fakeposting anyway but it's still dumb, also you're dumb "Other people than me have different views on this game, they must be fakeposting!" nice logic, and nice av/post combo
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Jun 11, 2016 19:54
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No one plays Farmville in 2016, it just doesn't add up
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BillmasterCozb posted:"Other people than me have different views on this game, they must be fakeposting!" nice logic, and nice av/post combo alright, if you're actually dead serious about suggesting The Stanley Parable as an alternative to Gone Home then more power to you I guess. They're not remotely similar experiences in tone, content or intent, though. Tempo 119 posted:No one plays Farmville in 2016, it just doesn't add up and yet it's so believable that he still lives with his mom Faux Mulder fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Jun 11, 2016 |
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Jun 11, 2016 20:14
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^^^ Get with the times grandpa, living with your mom hasn't been a nerd stereotype since the housing market got hosed.Tempo 119 posted:No one plays Farmville in 2016, it just doesn't add up Moms are different.
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Jun 11, 2016 20:16
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If you wanted your "criticism" to be in any way valuable, you would have had to elaborate a bit more on why exactly you considered the information on the sister "worthless" and why it didn't add to her "in any meaningful way". Now your post basically boils down to "I didn't find the game or its story interesting", which is perfectly fine of course, but not really the fruitful critical piece you're advertising it as.
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Jun 11, 2016 20:17
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I walk slowly because I am pretentious
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Jun 11, 2016 20:24
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I want a Kojima walking game
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Mayor McCheese posted:I want a Kojima walking game Plot spoiler: At the end of the fifth game you'll find out you were running all along.
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Mayor McCheese posted:I want a Kojima walking game  Wish granted. *vanishes in a poof of smoke*
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BillmasterCozb posted:I really wish that I had noticed that, maybe I would have bothered to read at least one page of anything. Did you sleep through the game or something?
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Ones enjoyment of Gone Home really depends on how interested you are uncovering stuff through exploration and really just taking in every bit of information you find. If you're the type that, let's say, doesn't bother reading a single note in the game then I think it's safe to say it's not for you because that is the game.
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Mayor McCheese posted:I want a Kojima walking game MGS5 had multiple missions like this
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I haven't played Gone Home but if it's short and to the point I think I'll enjoy that more than Stanley Parable, which features a ton of different "routes" to take that all basically say the same thing for a purpose that I can only imagine amounts to "content." I will say that I think that games like Gone Home, good or bad, are probably what benefit most from the idea of games as a service. The only way we'll really be able to experience things in a way we can divorce from notions of value is when we're paying for them as part of a package deal. I imagine an arthouse game that lasts an hour and makes you feel some interesting things is much more satisfying an experience when you're not judging it based on how many afternoons you can spend with it (which is an unfortunate but completely understandable metric). I think this recent trend of major distributors going with game subscription services will end up being responsible for the exposure of some really interesting ideas.
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Tempo 119 posted:No one plays Farmville in 2016, it just doesn't add up I "played" some of it the other day while waiting for a process to finish. I had several thousand unplanted trees in my box, I planted about five before I went "gently caress this poo poo" and closed it
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Oh yeah, surprising no one, Andrew "Who's in Da" House on interview with Gamasutra mentioned how the Neo is based on the smartphone cycle, and also that it won't be shown on E3 because no games currently take advantage of it.quote:We want to ensure we have a full range of the best experiences on the new system that we can showcase in their entirety.
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I don't understand what a smart phone cycle is and what exactly are they talking about there. Isn't the Neo just a PS4 that running for 4K Tvs
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Sinners Sandwich posted:I don't understand what a smart phone cycle is and what exactly are they talking about there. Isn't the Neo just a PS4 that running for 4K Tvs Smartphone companies come out with new models pretty much every year, but it's a bad comparison since people actually need phones to some extent and buy and pay for them in a different way than consoles, which is a flat $400 for another black slab every time.
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Dewgy posted:Did you sleep through the game or something? It was hard to stay awake playing it. 
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That's pretentious
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Well I like it, I'm sorry it wasn't the same experience as me. I don't know your game tastes but I could recommend some other games I like
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Well I like it, I'm sorry it wasn't the same experience as me. Yeah, that'd be nice
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BillmasterCozb posted:I really wish that I had noticed that, maybe I would have bothered to read at least one page of anything. it's kind of amazing how little of the story you actually got right
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Motto posted:Smartphone companies come out with new models pretty much every year, but it's a bad comparison since people actually need phones to some extent and buy and pay for them in a different way than consoles, which is a flat $400 for another black slab every time. The fact that consoles take up a lot more space is a good point, not to mention that the most demanding mobile apps (i.e. games) target the lowest spec phones they can for the sake of reaching a wider market. New phones can't really rely on App Store software to push their sale and instead tend to focus on perks the manufacturer can guarantee (e.g. a better camera or 3D touch), whereas the PS4K will seemingly be entirely reliant on third-party software to demonstrate its value. I think if anything pushes the PS4K for people who just got PS4s 1-2 years ago, it'll be some kind of backwards compatibility exclusively available to the PS4K. Or maybe people really are into the idea of more incremental console upgrades and I am just totally out of touch, I dunno.
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BillmasterCozb posted:Yeah, that'd be nice I'm playing Fallout New Vegas right now and it's really cool and I like the story, if your interested be sure to pick up the Complete version with all the dlc because theres a lot but it's all really good
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Liking Gone Home depends on how much you like all the little details, such as the comments your character makes when you find the the condom in your parents room and the porn magazine in your sisters room. . Also, if you didn't like finding the cool cat snes cartridge I don't know what to tell you.
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Sinners Sandwich posted:I'm playing Fallout New Vegas right now and it's really cool and I like the story, if your interested be sure to pick up the Complete version with all the dlc because theres a lot but it's all really good New Vegas is one of my favorite games, in fact I played it again after Fallout 4, and was astounded just by how completely awful 4 is in comparison (and in general)
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rabidsquid posted:I felt like New Vegas was loving amazing. FTFY. I still can't believe that it's metacritic score was so low and that the contract for obsidian possibly making fallout 4 was based on the metacritic score.
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Motto posted:Smartphone companies come out with new models pretty much every year, but it's a bad comparison since people actually need phones to some extent and buy and pay for them in a different way than consoles, which is a flat $400 for another black slab every time.
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homeless snail posted:Not to mention that there's zero actual reason to upgrade your phone more than once every couple of years, and constant iteration has totally hosed backwards and forwards compatibility for phone apps forever. Its not really a model to aspire to. I'm half-convinced that the reason why mobile games are so wretched despite a huge market and years of progression is because (aside from the whole "no one will pay for it" thing) anything remotely complicated will break every update.
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BillmasterCozb posted:I really wish that I had noticed that, maybe I would have bothered to read at least one page of anything. Well technically they're on a couple's retreat because they're having marriage problems as they're living in the house the father was molested in in 1963 and the mother is possibly cheating. The safe you find isn't the father's, it was the uncle's. The father keeps writing JFK fanfiction in which someone goes back in time to stop a terrible event because of what happened to him the same year Kennedy died. I mean on a surface level sure that's right, but I thought it was great with its storytelling without being explicit about anything.
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I enjoyed Gone Home maybe it should have had been little longer even when you explore everything, but now I can only see that guys mom yelling "This is not a game!" behind his back while playing Farmville. If you don't get that the "game" is about piecing together a story while exploring the house and reading everything you find then frankly you're just being pretentious.
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Soft Shell Crab posted:I enjoyed Gone Home maybe it should have had been little longer even when you explore everything, but now I can only see that guys mom yelling "This is not a game!" behind his back while playing Farmville. If you don't get that the "game" is about piecing together a story while exploring the house and reading everything you find then frankly you're just being pretentious. nice I'm gonna try that NBA game later, I've heard some ridiculous stuff happens in it even just after the character creator. That and I wonder how it'll play, for a basketball game.
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