Jason Moyer on 3/10/2024 at 12:29
Towards the end of the first half of the game, when it started introducing some stress to the story, I immediately went
this is going to end up being some sort of illusion relating to Henry's own anxieties and possible mental illness isn't it and then right before the end there's a short radio conversation where he mentions that
maybe he's suffering from the same disease as Julia and I was like "oh, god, are you kidding me" so I thought it was awesome when that wasn't where the story was going. Don't get me wrong, I like a good plot twist, like System Shock 2 the first time I played it or Gone Home/Tacoma where the ending was sort of "oh my god, why did I not see that coming" but I don't like when I can guess what the twist is going to be before it happens.
Pyrian on 3/10/2024 at 20:52
It's very difficult to make a foreshadowed twist that's obvious in hindsight but not guessed before it's revealed - and you can never "get" everyone.
Tomi on 3/10/2024 at 21:58
By the way, Firewatch is on sale on GOG right now. For only €3.99 you can experience the totally (un)predictable plot twist and the "pretty good" ending yourself. I think it's definitely worth it! :)
Sulphur on 8/10/2024 at 05:21
I'm playing the Commandos: Origins demo on mouse and keyboard. Okay, it runs like dog doo. Expected. But this is a tutorial prompt:
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/dtTSngP.pngI have big hands, but this might be the first game that's made me wonder if they aren't big enough.
Also, the first thing I see on the settings screen:
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/yV6sg6a.pngI'm thinking maaaaybe it needs some more time in the oven. Or maybe I should get bigger hands. :(
henke on 8/10/2024 at 09:21
Wooow, that's pretty rough. Loved Commandos back then, but seeing as I haven't played/finished most of Mimimi's games I also think I might be over this genre.
Since it's the spooky season, I've been playing a bit of Conscript. WW1 survival horror. Looks great, good ambiance. Love how down to earth it is. No supernatural stuff. The real man-made horrors of WW1 are quite enough on their own. Sadly, the man-made horror of the checkpoint/save system drags the experience down a bit. The game gives you the option to enable unlimited saves at the start, but even with that enabled I too often end up dying and having to replay huge chunks of the game because of the sparse checkpoints. I dunno, man. Not sure I'll finish this one. For anyone in the market for a 2024 indie survival horror game I'd recommend Crow Country over this.
EvaUnit02 on 8/10/2024 at 12:31
Nearing the completion of my co-op playthrough of Gears of War 3 on Xbox Series X. I had never played this game prior, it's pretty great. Playing the series on Series X is like getting free remasters:- whole series bumped up to 60fps + resolution bumps too. (GoW2 = 4k, GoW3 = 1440p.)
It's funny, I used to clown on the Gears Xbox 360 games heavily back in the day. The utter lowering of the bar of Western AAA gaming's quality over the last 8ish years makes games from that era seem like utter masterpieces by comparison.
I think I'm coming on the completion of Diablo IV's Act 3. I learnt today that game has 6 acts in total, oh yawn. Still making my way through this boring game, playing 20-30 mins almost every day to farm MS reward points to redeem for free Game Pass subs.
WingedKagouti on 8/10/2024 at 13:47
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Also, the first thing I see on the settings screen:
The thing with the controls feels like they just mapped the keys to various controller buttons and ported it over, that tooltip just furthers my belief that they didn't really do much QA on the game.
Sulphur on 8/10/2024 at 15:45
I think you're right. It feels a bit gamepad-first. This is probably a demo from a press screening that they went live with, if I were to wildly speculate. It's not shipshape, and if this is the state of the actual game builds they have, they've got some work to do.
Neither left control nor right control worked for me to shoot the gun, by the way. I think the game was confused by my having a gamepad connected at the same time I was using M+KB.
EvaUnit02 on 8/10/2024 at 16:56
Diablo IV is noticeably better now! With the accompanying patch for the expansion's release they added two higher difficulties for first time runthroughs of the campaign. Playing on Expert difficulty now and I actually have to pay some attention to my health bar now + use healing flasks. I've actually managed to die a few times (prior I had never died). Enemies are also way more spongier.
My mount was unlocked from the get-go too, upon switching to Expert difficulty. Worked the leaping off horse into a ground pound move into my play repertoire already.
