Forum Overview :: Dear Esther
 
I disagree that Braid ruined games by Vested Id 06/02/2013, 10:14pm PDT
I think it's a good thing designers are trying to invent correspondances between real life and games, but they also get way too much cred for just trying, even when it reveals their lack of life experience or imagination. Gaming enters another awkward age.

fabio wrote:

This reminds me of The Void, which I kept meaning to write something on. It too is a gorgeous indie game with such a theme. The gameplay was halfway interesting (first person resource management sim), and the story was what would happen if a white knight wrote the next Silent Hill game.

But fuck it in the end because it kept teasing you with the idea that some story was taking place but nothing ever does. It predates Mass Effect 3 for false multiple endings via color filter. Each end is the narrator reading some poem, an incoherent version of DE: Human Revolution Basically.


The only good game I've played of this type recently was The Unfinished Swan, and it's more or less a short, linear version of The Manhole.
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Is the coast clear by Vested Id 06/02/2013, 4:37pm PDT NEW
    Braid really did ruin indie games by fabio 06/02/2013, 5:32pm PDT NEW
        Oh yeah it's also by the guys who did Pathologic by fabio 06/02/2013, 5:40pm PDT NEW
        Wow, what's going on here? by pinback 06/02/2013, 6:45pm PDT NEW
            I've heard nothing negative against Dear Esther by Vested Id 06/02/2013, 9:47pm PDT NEW
        I disagree that Braid ruined games by Vested Id 06/02/2013, 10:14pm PDT NEW
            "ruined indie games", my bad NT by Vested Id 06/02/2013, 10:51pm PDT NEW
    Horrible NT by Roop 06/03/2013, 6:41am PDT NEW
        The cave sequence (chap. 3) is awe-inspiring and stunning, and if you don't agre by e then your soul has died, which it 06/03/2013, 1:47pm PDT NEW
 
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