Firewatch | First Person Narrative Exploration Wyoming Simulator

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Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

I saw it pop up on my steam discounts emails and was so excited until I rediscovered that it's still a week away. :negative:

Preordering so goddamn hard and pushing to get my current project done by next Tuesday so I can binge an entire playthrough immediately after returning from class.

Goatse James Bond fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Feb 3, 2016

# ¿ Feb 3, 2016 01:59

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 08:13

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Today is the slowest class I've had in years because I am extremely excited about Firewatch. Prepurchased it as soon as I realized I could.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 20:07

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Hyper Crab Tank posted:

I do think it's similar to Gone Home, in that (spoiler for both games) it sets you up for an expectation that's far more interesting than what it actually delivers. It's fine to subvert the player's expectations, but only if what you give the player instead is something more interesting than what they were expecting. Giving them something less interesting just evokes a disappointed "Oh," which is what it did for me.

I think that's only part of it though, and it's nowhere near as bad in Firewatch as it was in Gone Home - I think the other big part, as I said, is that I just don't understand why Ned did any of this. I get it, he's a hermit with PTSD and his son's death hosed him up. Kinda. What the hell is with the complicated science experiment fakeroo? Why would he go through all that trouble faking reports, planting radios, and all that? I feel like none of it received an adequate explanation, the whole thing just... sputters and peters out.

He didn't want anyone finding the body, basically. He probably hoped that even if Henry figured out he was being observed he would take the science thing at its creepy face value and not investigate the cave.

I am fine with the ending and glad I got the game. Might do another playthrough later as rear end in a top hat Henry. Also I never found the turtle :negative:

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 01:41

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Accordion Man posted:

An even more subtle joke there is that she was the one who stole the Pork Pond sign. I loving love games that do poo poo like that.

"I know, right? It would look great in the den!

...Or... some other room, I dunno."

Also, I'm curious how many people found the most terrifying creature in the park: the raccoon. It even results in some really goddamn funny Delilah bits.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 01:55

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

PaybackJack posted:

I thought the better ending would have been to split the conspiracy stuff and the crazy Dad stuff into two different things. Have a group of psychologists actually be out there studying the effects of isolation, with only communication via Radio, and also have a crazy Dad who's been camping out in the cave trying to steer people away from finding his son's dead body. You could have come upon the researchers and been like "Hey, wtf! Are you studiying us?" and they would have been like "Totally! You agreed to it in your contract. Forest Service wants to make sure that this experience isn't psychologically harmful!"

That would have been much more believable to to me than 'Crazy Dad, breaks into and plants evidence on a deer research facility, on the off chance that you are able to break in and uncover it, only so that he can immediately burn it down afterwards then continue to break into your tower, and attempt to blackmail you into doing something not entirely clear, as he never outright tells you to leave.'

Now, this I'm on board with.

It's actually kinda what I thought the reveal was going to be (and I got Henry to ponder something to that effect in a brief moment of lucidity). You'd probably need to have some of the This poo poo Is Basically Innocent Reveal come through Delilah phoning her supervisors after you go poke around the research site, but that's fine both mechanically and thematically - she's your sole link to the outside world all game anyway.

Yuriki: There is exactly one jump scare. Good luck!

ymgve posted:

(Ending spoiler) As usual for indie games, they go to greath lengths to avoid modeling a human face.

Ending spoiler: That's not entirely true. Watch the entire credits.

# ¿ Feb 10, 2016 17:27

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 08:13

Goatse James Bond: Mar 28, 2010; If you see me posting please remind me that I have Charlie Work in the reports forum to do instead

Jet Jaguar posted:

Glad to see this news from Campo Santo today:

https://twitter.com/camposanto/status/702322523082362882

I do not regret my purchase and am curious what they do next.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2016 10:28

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