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[Shadenuat]

 

[Heresiarch]

Regarding the Steve Jackson's Sorcery! 2 game I've been playing on...

WTF I'VE REACHED THE END OF THE GAME AND IT TOLD ME I WAS STILL MISSING ONE CLUE TO SOLVE IT AND IT WAS LOCATED AT ONE THIRD OF THE GAME BUT THE BUILDING CONTAINING THE CLUE I CAN'T GET INTO IT WHEN I TRIED NOW I MUST REWIND THE GAME LIKE HOURS BACK OR I COULD FINISH IT BUT WITH A HUGE "CHEATER" ON MY HEAD

IN A RAGE I JUST RESET THE WHOLE SHIT BACK TO PROLOGUE THUS REPLAYING THE WHOLE THING AND HAVE WASTED HOURS

C&C, hardcore, oldschool text adventures. Best, game, ever.

 

[Melan]

C&C, hardcore, oldschool text adventures. Best, game, ever.

Oh yeah. Welcome to Fighting Fantasy!

In the Hungarian edition, released many-many years ago, you couldn't legitimately finish this book, because the translator missed that one of the clues hinged on some kind of English wordplay. Good times, good times.

 

[warpig]

Killing before breakfast

I hate it when they do that!

I like the "Mechwarrior's Journal", just a little bit of text between the missions but it really makes the game feel more "alive". No need for hours of hollywodian cutscenes.

There's no running from LRM's

 

[Suchy]

Outlast. Seriously fucked up and way more fun than Penumbra games.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I really like scripted jumpscares.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Hey, let's try Vox!

 

[sser]

Spoiler

The Silencer materializes.

Mr. Scientist turns around. He lowers his clipboard and utters a poorly chosen set of last words: "Hey, you're not supposed to be here!"

The Silencer, for a brief moment, pauses over the bodies. His benefactors worry that their killing machine has started to contemplate the morality of his actions.

A sigh of relief overcums them all.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

 

[Night Goat]

What game?

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

What game?

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy

 

[Suchy]

 

[Clockwork Knight]

:D

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

I really like scripted jumpscares.

Still better than the last Amnesia.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I really like scripted jumpscares.

Still better than the last Amnesia.

I guess. They both have the quality of being mercifully short, at least.

 

[Cyberarmy]

:D

Best DRM ever.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

I just can't understand why Frictional gave away their best selling title and lifebuoy to developer who doesn't know anything about a proper gameplay. "Updated my journal", something weird going on. "Updated my journal", there is a monster, I must run. "Updated my journal", turn the wheel that's in front of you. Bleh.

 

[Cowboy Moment]

I just can't understand why Frictional gave away their best selling title and lifebuoy to developer who doesn't know anything about a proper gameplay. "Updated my journal", something weird going on. "Updated my journal", there is a monster, I must run. "Updated my journal", turn the wheel that's in front of you. Bleh.

Because they wanted money, and didn't have the resources to develop two games at a time, is my best guess.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

If you hire a bunch of Ukrainians to make a game about Doritos consumable crap... well...

Sometimes it turns out to be a decent clone of American McGee's Alice.

 

[RK47]

 

[Clockwork Knight]

"A little girl was raped. Arrest those women."

"Sir, I'm pretty sure the culprits had to be males beca-"

"...hopw roewur ne..."

"Y-y-y...YES SIR! At once!"

 

[Darth Roxor]

Yoooweee, ancient Mayan temples and shit

Complete with commie colonels getting cooked by conquistador corpses!

One ugly-ass dessicated mummy larper

I ain't drinkin' with them soviets again

Give me back muh guns, zombie rapists!

 

[Nim]

 

[sexbad?]

I just can't understand why Frictional gave away their best selling title and lifebuoy to developer who doesn't know anything about a proper gameplay. "Updated my journal", something weird going on. "Updated my journal", there is a monster, I must run. "Updated my journal", turn the wheel that's in front of you. Bleh.

Because they wanted money, and didn't have the resources to develop two games at a time, is my best guess.

They actually really like thechineseroom, and imho Dan Pinchbeck is in some cases a quite nice writer, so maybe it seemed worth the risk. If I remember rightly (this is explained in one of Frictional's blog posts, I think), thechineseroom was the party that introduced the idea of an Amnesia spinoff, or if that's not the case, then both developers started talking about it with each other at roughly the same time.

Frictional had previously done a blog post that attributed some amount of game design competency to Korsakovia (bahah), and Thomas Grip at one point tried to reason with me that listening to and interpreting the narration in Dear Esther could be considered gameplay, so before Pigs was announced I had figured Frictional and TCR were buddies in some capacity.

I think they were hit by the allure of "experimental," since it's a word that everybody uses to describe TCR's shit, and horror is all about confronting the unfamiliar. However, with TCR, "experimental" means stripping a product of anything that isn't basic and then presenting it funny. With Korsakovia, I suppose they wanted to strip out fun to make something that felt hectic and desperate, when it was really just annoying. With Dear Esther, they took a step backward in storytelling by making the story even less interactive than in most games. With Pigs, they ended up making the same fucking game as Amnesia with the same systems and plot, but without any of the substance that made Amnesia interesting.

 

[Renegen]

I love how you play the Gaians and have Boreholes and forests everywhere.