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 Art by twitter user @Awrysquare. Headers and update banners by fellow goon shadowmar. Indigo Prophecy (known as Celsius in Europe) is a cinematic interactive drama action-adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream, the soul-bound serfs behind visionary auteur David Cage. Released in 2005, it was met with intense critical acclaim, with reviewers describing it as "forward-looking" and "thoughtful" and many of its highest praises going to the story and execution thereof. The characters were given quite a bit of press as well, being singled out as "endearing". It was eventually remastered in 2015, which is the version we'll be playing for the thread. Becoming wildly successful, the game spawned an entirely new genre of "movie games", where you play the movies! Successes in that genre can be seen nowadays in the likes of Telltale Games (dead), Supermassive Games (alive) and Quantic Dream itself. Being a cinematic story game, most of its advertised selling points were about the innovation of branching storylines like the infamous choose your own adventure novels. Unadvertised selling points is that the gameplay is just Simon Says.  My name is FutureFriend and today we will be playing David Cage's breakout game Indigo Prophecy. I'm 99% blind on this game, so guiding me throughout Cage's master maze will be ChorpSaway, Madithen and a_raving_loon. The Let's Play itself is done live in front of an audience of just those three knuckleheads. Due to the cinematic nature of the game, we will not be providing cut and uncut commentary like we usually do.  Hey, this OP seems pretty reverent of David Cage? Weren't you one of those funny guys? I respect David Cage. Much like him, I also produce bad content people somehow like. Doesn't this game handle mental health and suicide in a tasteless way? This game deals with suicide and mental health in the dumbest manner possible; a bad phone call will land you in the insane asylum. It's the trashiest garbage and I can't help but find it funny in the same way as cinema classic The Three Stooges (2012). Are you going to show off all the endings? leave me alone  1. No Spoilers. This is a blind LP, buddy. If you ain't seen it in the video yet, it ain't worth talking about.                                                           FeyerbrandX shares with us what a classic character of cinema thinks about modern art.  Geemer shows me that I've missed out on a lot of new pokemon  FeyerBrandX proves that videogames and gaming are art.  FeyerBrandX sums up online (the villain, not the experience). FutureFriend fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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That's cool.
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Oct 16, 2018 23:04
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I don't remember which option is the right one for the true ending, 'Bob is SEXY' or 'Bob is NICE'.
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Oct 16, 2018 23:21
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David Cage sounds like a discount Tommy Wiseau
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Oct 16, 2018 23:25
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Holy poo poo, I'm excited for this.
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Oct 16, 2018 23:31
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FutureFriend posted:Indigo Prophecy (known as Celsius in Europe) I want to say that the game is actually called Fahrenheit in Europe, but I don't know if this is intentionally wrong so Futurefriend can call out all the nerds that bring this up (like me). edit: Turns out idiot nerds like me should probably watch the first 10 seconds of the video before looking the fool, huh? Trisask fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Oct 16, 2018 |
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Oct 16, 2018 23:38
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I kind of hate this game in particular, because I remember trying the demo with the opening scene and the whole thing seemed really interesting! It was a really intriguing and promising start back when it was coming out on PS2. But then I got around to playing the whole game and it was actually very bad and entirely idiotic. Thanks, David Cage.
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Oct 16, 2018 23:49
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Trisask posted:I want to say that the game is actually called Fahrenheit in Europe, but I don't know if this is intentionally wrong so Futurefriend can call out all the nerds that bring this up (like me). I just came here to laugh at you for falling for that silly trap.
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Oct 17, 2018 06:11
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XavierGenisi posted:I kind of hate this game in particular, because I remember trying the demo with the opening scene and the whole thing seemed really interesting! It was a really intriguing and promising start back when it was coming out on PS2. The opening is legit one of my favorite examples of interactive storytelling in games. The idea of a game where you play everyone involved in a murder investigation - both murderer, cops, and witnesses - experiencing the same scenes from different perspectives, is totally awesome. Then the rest of the game is nothing at all like that. Some day, I will make a game like that myself.
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Oct 17, 2018 07:58
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I see the "up next" algorithm is on point as always. What did you do to deserve this?
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Oct 17, 2018 08:29
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FractalSandwich posted:I see the "up next" algorithm is on point as always. Youtube's suggestion algorithm is based on maximizing view time and years of toxic gaming culture and people willing to make 30+ minutes on hateful topics have led to those suggestions popping up on the feed of anyone YouTube guesses is a male gamer. On a lighter note, this game is not David Cage's masterpiece, FutureFriend. This is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kFPbhjGoDk
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Oct 17, 2018 08:59
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FractalSandwich posted:I see the "up next" algorithm is on point as always. There's a submenu for each video in that feed that looks like three vertically-aligned dots when you mouse over the thumbnail. You can click on it, pick "Not interested", then "Tell us why", then "I don't like this video" and "I'm not interested in this channel". Not only does this block the channel from appearing in your feed in the future (as far as I know), but it also probably gives a bit of negative feedback to the algorithm, and that can only help, even if just a little.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:06
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FrankZP posted:There's a submenu for each video in that feed that looks like three vertically-aligned dots when you mouse over the thumbnail. You can click on it, pick "Not interested", then "Tell us why", then "I don't like this video" and "I'm not interested in this channel". Not only does this block the channel from appearing in your feed in the future (as far as I know), but it also probably gives a bit of negative feedback to the algorithm, and that can only help, even if just a little.  I'm super excited for more of this game, how do you manage to balance so much effort and yet so much shitposting FutureFriend? You're an icon truly. SimonChris posted:The opening is legit one of my favorite examples of interactive storytelling in games. The idea of a game where you play everyone involved in a murder investigation - both murderer, cops, and witnesses - experiencing the same scenes from different perspectives, is totally awesome. Then the rest of the game is nothing at all like that. Some day, I will make a game like that myself. Cage's problems are numerous, but occasionally a good idea squeezes out of the festering ooze in his writing.
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Oct 17, 2018 14:24
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This LP's so good I wish it would step on me
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Oct 17, 2018 16:44
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Entry ID: 69 Modified ID: 420 Very nice. I am looking forward to this 'video play-through' of this electronic entertainment! Also please maintain a piss counter tia
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Oct 17, 2018 18:22
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Once upon a time either the Machinima folks or the people at Rooster Teeth did a really lovely video series that was nothing but repeatedly doing the intro murder from the first release dubbed so the peeing guy was provoking the protagonist to murder him and him going back in time to try and not murder him. I only bring this up because those videos have probably aged like milk and yet are still probably better than any edition of this game.
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Oct 17, 2018 19:24
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I've done as asked and isolated "that's cool" Unfortunately lpix isn't letting me upload my mp3 because its not an mp3 file.
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Oct 17, 2018 20:03
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FractalSandwich posted:I see the "up next" algorithm is on point as always. i irony poison myself every day and for my hubris, god has cursed me to have insane tories also associate with it ishikabibble posted:Also please maintain a piss counter tia currently into a mad frenzy to edit my backlog to have this toilet signifier idea in Hostile V posted:Once upon a time either the Machinima folks or the people at Rooster Teeth did a really lovely video series that was nothing but repeatedly doing the intro murder from the first release dubbed so the peeing guy was provoking the protagonist to murder him and him going back in time to try and not murder him. I only bring this up because those videos have probably aged like milk and yet are still probably better than any edition of this game. dont spoil our finale, troll FeyerbrandX posted:I've done as asked and isolated "that's cool" upload it to youtube and become rich off the ad revenue solely gotten by synchtube groups annoying their friends with it
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Oct 17, 2018 21:21
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FutureFriend posted:upload it to youtube and become rich off the ad revenue solely gotten by synchtube groups annoying their friends with it Hi, I'm the one person you don't want to make suggestions like that to. Because I take things literally and put way too much effort into the dumbest of things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH7Lv2V_yo0
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Oct 17, 2018 22:53
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Making mad bank yet?
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Oct 17, 2018 23:29
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that's cool
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Oct 18, 2018 00:01
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I love this game
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Oct 18, 2018 06:51
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Trying to find something that I wanted to post in here. I could have sworn that one of the Quantic Dream games had an intro from a digitized David Cage sitting in what was supposedly a digital version of his office explaining how the game works. As the camera pans around the room is pauses for quite a bit on a shot where the word "EGO" (made up of letters displayed on the shelf at the back of his office) is hovering behind his head. I wanted to find a video of this but youtube is failing me. I thought it was from Heavy Rain but... can't find it.
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Oct 18, 2018 07:22
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Yeah that's Heavy Rain, his character was supposed to be a therapist.
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Oct 18, 2018 13:56
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That's a really good art. Good work, Awrysquare. Anyway, this is a good game to be blind on.
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Oct 18, 2018 14:08
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David D. Davidson posted:Yeah that's Heavy Rain, his character was supposed to be a therapist. "'Id' and 'Ego' are 'psychology' words, right?" "Yes, Mister Cage-" "Put those around my office - ooh, 'ego' sounds fancy, put it over my head!" "But Mister Cage-" "DO IT!" " ... Yes, Mister Cage."
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Oct 18, 2018 15:56
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LashLightning posted:"'Id' and 'Ego' are 'psychology' words, right?"
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Oct 18, 2018 19:20
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Personally I always imagined it was something the entire team snuck in without him noticing the significance of. Oh yeah, there's an LP here that I should comment on. Did you know it's possible to get all the way to the end of this game then suddenly have a character that's central to the plot show up, that you've never run into before, and become very very confused? That was my first run of the game. Spent the entire final level involuntarily repeating the word "what". RickVoid fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Oct 18, 2018 |
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Oct 18, 2018 21:18
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FutureFriend posted:Hey, this OP seems pretty reverent of David Cage? Weren't you one of those funny guys?
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Oct 23, 2018 02:08
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poo poo is stored in the toilet
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Oct 23, 2018 03:46
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So would this subforum or youtube be the toilet in this metaphor?
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Oct 23, 2018 04:43
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The subforum is the gross stall with all the writing on the walls/door and the busted lock that only works half the time. Youtube is the toilet with an unspeakable evil inside it, a broken seat that slides around and has a pool of mystery water around it.
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Oct 23, 2018 10:16
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we find more toilets in this update
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Oct 23, 2018 22:43
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Quick thinking of Lucas to say there was a dog in the room. I would have said that the door leads to a blind drop off the side of building
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Oct 24, 2018 00:15
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Does David Cage know what a massacre is? You know, since massacres tend to involve more than one death. It's either that or a commentary on the media reporting everything as worse than it actually is. I'm going to go with the former.
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Oct 24, 2018 02:03
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Epicmissingno posted:Does David Cage know what a massacre is? You know, since massacres tend to involve more than one death. It's either that or a commentary on the media reporting everything as worse than it actually is. I'm going to go with the former. describing a grisly murder scene as "a massacre" is perfectly cromulent. hell, ill say it, use it to describe any murder
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Oct 24, 2018 16:40
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The biggest massacre in this game so far is David Cage's epic takedown of the police, and how they'll give up any investigation under threat of large scared dog.
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Oct 24, 2018 16:57
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Imagine if you lost "health" any time you tried to open a locked door in a survival horror game.
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Oct 24, 2018 17:08
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this is looking to be the best 100% LP of this game
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That cop not wanting to bother a scared dog is the least realistic part of the game. American cops love killing dogs.
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