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sauer kraut posted:I spoiled myself a little by watching a subpar 'superbestfriends' video of this, the wait was just too much. I'm sorry Hey man, don't "LP Shame", we've all done things we're not proud of.
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Benach posted:There's that, but there's also the incredibly jarring shoulders clipping into his armspits. That's what makes it next-gen 
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So, I take it, what with the comment about his 'leadfilled brain' as he downed the tequila, the magazine on brain damage and the scar in his head, that David's taken a bullet to the skull that nobody's pulled out yet? It fits well with how he seems to have been present at the scene his wife was shot (to hear her dying words), how he seems to have suddenly come over his paranormal abilities post-Peggy and why he keeps seeing memories of his dead wife. It's all down to those wacky neurons.
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sauer kraut posted:I spoiled myself a little by watching a subpar 'superbestfriends' video of this, the wait was just too much. I'm sorry I saw that they'd done it, and they did Deadly Premonition too, but they talk all through the cutscenes so there's not a whole lot of point unless you're already familiar with the game and want to see someone else reacting to it. Very glad I waited for this LP instead, much more the style I prefer! Thanks for this, SGF!
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Scribbleykins posted:So, I take it, what with the comment about his 'leadfilled brain' as he downed the tequila, the magazine on brain damage and the scar in his head, that David's taken a bullet to the skull that nobody's pulled out yet? I thought he directly said that the bullet in his head takes his memories or something like that, so yes.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I thought he directly said that the bullet in his head takes his memories or something like that, so yes. Scribbleykins posted:So, I take it, what with the comment about his 'leadfilled brain' as he downed the tequila, the magazine on brain damage and the scar in his head, that David's taken a bullet to the skull that nobody's pulled out yet? Those could be the case, yes... but think about the letter from Peggy "Little Peggy" Peggy we got. Remember how it implied he was worried about her not liking the new him? And it went into the him/her he is now/was/will be, etc. I'm thinking the bullet to the head was before the murder. He was worried that she wouldn't love him or something because of the (assuming here) brain damage.
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Shoeless posted:Those could be the case, yes... but think about the letter from Peggy "Little Peggy" Peggy we got. Remember how it implied he was worried about her not liking the new him? And it went into the him/her he is now/was/will be, etc. I'm thinking the bullet to the head was before the murder. He was worried that she wouldn't love him or something because of the (assuming here) brain damage. I think the more direct explanation is that she was psychic and knew that she would die and turn into a Force ghost.
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Always happy to see more sgf videos. Its a shame that the game seems to have lost its support during development. Focused on an abandoned doodad, no advertising, Microsoft seems to be trying to cut their losses on their exclusive. I hope it does okay. The main mystery of DP was a bit of a let down, but Swery seems really competent at making games that ooze style and charm.
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Praise be onto you. If you don't mind a question, I'm having a hell of a time placing your accent. It seems to swing wildly between Virginia/DC, midwest (Minnesota maybe?) and New York City.
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Ariamaki posted:Not relevant now, but kind of curious: What's the LP Subforum rule on episodic games? If D4 Episode 2 were to come out in the middle of this LP, would you be able to carry right into it, SGF, or would you have to wait for a while like with a new game release? It was mentioned, but the three month rule was lifted. Even so, if Season 2 came out, I wouldn't go straight into LPing it, as I'd need to prep for it like with Season 1. V!ntar posted:What exactly happens when you run out of stamina? Do you just get a game over? David collapses, and then wakes up on the couch. We can then recharge our stamina by eating food found round the apartment. I believe that if we run out of stamina during certain scenes, we also get an option to pay 1000 credits to try the scene again. Honestly, since the patch running out of stamina hasn't been much of a worry. Pre-patch though, it was real easy to forget about the stamina bar and end up collapsing. xoFcitcrA posted:Hmm.... Well drat. I'll guess we'll have to keep an eye out for Richter's floating head, but I haven't seen it yet. Wordnumber posted:One of my favorite things about D4 is it's visual style. A lot of the textures look like they were painted with watercolor, for example. My favorite effect is the way translucence is shown, most noticeable when David is looking at the tequila bottle: I do really like Access Games went for a much more stylized look for this. Swery has said that the main reason for it is that this kind of look will age better than more realistic graphics, and since there is the possibility that it will be quite some time before the entirety of D4 comes out, it would be important that people are able to go back to the early episodes without them looking terrible. AbstractNapper posted:The interface looks super restrictive though. Maybe because they wanted to utilize Kinect for every single action (?). It looks like they could at least allow free movement and free looking around, instead of walking into "nodes" and only turning in specific angles. You're correct that the intention is that the Kinect is supposed to be used for every single action. D4 was made to be a Kinect game, first and foremost. You're supposed to play it entirely with the Kinect, but they also put in controller support in case you wanted to use that. I would guess that the reason the game doesn't allow for free movement is because that would be far more difficult to control with the Kinect, as opposed to just selecting a direction to walk in. sauer kraut posted:Praise be onto you. My accent? I'm from New Jersey, but I don't know how much of that is in my voice.
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That was the strangest drat dinner I've ever seen. No way Forrest Kaysen is human after that.
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Kaysen reminds me of Philip Seymour Hoffman. I really hate David's accent.
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Ghostwoods posted:That was the strangest drat dinner I've ever seen. No way Forrest Kaysen is human after that. The poor guy has to eat for two. David seemingly survives on booze and chewing gum alone. heenato posted:I just hope Swery is smart enough not to keep typecasting his digital actor. I already like this Kaysen a lot better than the last one. He is kind of charming and not nearly as greasy.
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Ghostwoods posted:That was the strangest drat dinner I've ever seen. No way Forrest Kaysen is human after that. I liked seeing exactly how many crackers David needed.
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And More posted:The poor guy has to eat for two. David seemingly survives on booze and chewing gum alone. Gotta respect a man who can eat a quad-decker pizza slice. There do seem to be signs that he could be a baddie again, but I'll assume that's just swery playing with expectations we'd have. The "mentor turns out to betray you" trope aside, the weird over-the-folder look at David was like he's Dracula or something. Actually all the thread's theories may be coming together...
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I love how everyone, literally everyone's first reaction to teddy is "oh god, it this the same guy!?" I doubt he's THE Forrest Kaysen but that doesn't change the fact that he is A Forrest Kaysen and thus incredibly suspect. I'm sorry, sir, but we do not serve Forrest Kaysens at this establishment.
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Glory of Arioch posted:man david must be cracked if he is seeing a cat as a girl in a leotard Considering some of Deadly Premonition's characters, it's actually kinda more likely that she IS actually a girl in a leotard.
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Waffleman_ posted:Considering some of Deadly Premonition's characters, it's actually kinda more likely that she IS actually a girl in a leotard. This adds a lot of new implications with the cat crawling all over his wife in his flashbacks/hallucinations then.
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Waffleman_ posted:Considering some of Deadly Premonition's characters, it's actually kinda more likely that she IS actually a girl in a leotard. I'm waiting for the final shot of the final season to be Amanda sitting down on the sofa when a white cat with a bow jumps on her lap. 
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Watching the failure reel where David is avoiding Amanda reminded me of something:    Not sure if it's intentional, but it's a nice throw back if it is. 
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I'm guessing the "Thomsonville. MA" thing mean that room is a memory of that location. But that still doesn't add up with David saying he's spent all his life in Boston. Unless Maryland has some sort of weird nexus tragedy room that draws in wayward souls.
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And Thompsonville is a village of Newton, which is a suburb pretty much directly adjacent to Boston, so it checks out.
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I guess this game is to 'Memento' what Deadly Premonition was to Twin Peaks, they're laying the parallels on pretty thick. I hope it won't be that simple, it's sort of hard to tell with Swery.
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BottledBacon posted:Gotta respect a man who can eat a quad-decker pizza slice. There do seem to be signs that he could be a baddie again, but I'll assume that's just swery playing with expectations we'd have. The "mentor turns out to betray you" trope aside, the weird over-the-folder look at David was like he's Dracula or something. That was clearly five slices at once, not just four. I'm not really fond of seafood, though, so all I can say about clam chowder is that the white New England style is the only kind I see out here in the Midwest.
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Bobby The Rookie posted:I guess this game is to 'Memento' what Deadly Premonition was to Twin Peaks, they're laying the parallels on pretty thick. I hope it won't be that simple, it's sort of hard to tell with Swery. Well the dude from Memento couldn't travel into other people's memories, so it's not exactly a direct parallel.
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Artix posted:MA is Massachusetts, MD is Maryland. Oh jeez. I'm a doofus.
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Aw man, Swery is knocking it out of the park again. I can safely say when the game was doing the "Who could that be at the door?" bit, I did not even come close to guessing the correct answer.
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"Amanda" doesn't talk and isn't wearing a nametag; I'll bet David just calls her that because he's still stuck on Peggy's cat. When he said she sometimes brings food, I was afraid he was talking about the rat.
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I wonder if SWERY sent a team out to Boston to research details for the game like he did with DP. He's only needed to model one apartment so far but it's a really good portrait of an American apartment. Actually what other games have had ordinary "realistic" rooms that the player spends a lot of time engaging with? I can think of Silent Hill: The Room and maybe Heavy Rain, but it feels like D4 is charting unknown waters in apartment-based gameplay here. EDIT: about the Amanda situation: David is surprised to find white cat hair on his bed and apparently only remembers Amanda-the-cat during his flashbacks. Kaysen is also fine with a grown woman who can't speak and eats cat food but he might be really open-minded, who knows. There's is Bendigeidfran fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Jan 30, 2015 |
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Bendigeidfran posted:Actually what other games have had ordinary "realistic" rooms that the player spends a lot of time engaging with? I can think of Silent Hill: The Room and maybe Heavy Rain, but it feels like D4 is charting unknown waters in apartment-based gameplay here. Gone Home comes to mind. So does Life is Strange-- although you don't spend as much time in any one room as you do in D4 or Gone Home-- you still spend a lot of the game in various realistic rooms and living spaces looking at things or interacting with objects. Life is Strange also reminds me a bit of Deadly Premonition, although it might just be that they share Twin Peaks as a common ancestor.
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