Well I saw it, being that it is some sort of high school drama sim with magic this is probably the game I want to play the least this year (or possibly any year).
Life is Strange - Just Wow.
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I've never played the walking dead but from what I know of games like this there is no real gameplay?
It looks like a great story but I'll probably just watch it on youtube if you just walk through a story Dear Esther style rather than play a game.
Clarification anyone?
It looks like a great story but I'll probably just watch it on youtube if you just walk through a story Dear Esther style rather than play a game.
Clarification anyone?
Umm... actually, Telltale only charge you the one time.ninja666 said:
Buying any episode in a Telltale game (the release price is usually about $25) gets you all the episodes released up to that point and then you get the rest as they come out without having to pay more.
I'm not a fan of Telltale's episodic release model, but there's nothing wrong with the pricing.
You seem to be operating on amusingly false information.
Still nope.ninja666 said:
I bought TWD Season 1. It cost me $23.99 AUD if I recall correctly. That was shortly after the release of Ep3. I then got Ep4-5 as they come out for no further cost.
If this price you supposedly saw was for all the TWD-S1 episodes then it must have been after I bought the game. But Nothing has changed in their pricing since then.
So I still have no idea how you reached the conclusion that you did.
It's pretty much a story focused game, yeah. There's not a lot of traditional game in there, though the time control mechanics do add a little more to the puzzles (and dialogue) and environmental interaction than you usually get in a game like this. The first episode does have a couple of "action scenes" but they're not really anything compared to a traditional game.Trippy Turtle said:
Most of the appeal in the game does revolve around the dialogue and character/world interaction. I'm not sure if you've played any of the Bioware RPGs, but it's sort of like playing through the dialogue bits of those games with some added light puzzle solving and a neat time control mechanic that allows you to rewind the conversations/your actions. Making your own choices in the game (or unmaking them) and seeing how they end up is very interesting to me, but if it isn't for you then maybe a Youtube video would honestly be fine.
Doubt it a lot, wasnt it some pack with all the other series like Sam and Max, Back to the Future and The Wolf Among Us?ninja666 said:
The pricing was never an issue with it never going over the price of a normal game per season since a season is to be seen as an entire one game.
Yea, come to think of it, I guess my memory pulled a prank on me with this one. Now I remember that it was actually something around 40 euros, but when converted to my currency, it gave a cost of 120-something, which is a full retail price for AAA titles, where I live.josemlopes said:
Uh...can you elaborate on what this is supposed to mean?T_ConX said:
I mean there was that negative steam review that said the game contained "at least three feminisms". Is that the kind of thing you're alluding to? Not that I have any idea what that was supposed to mean, either.
As I said, the dialogue can be a bit..."twee" at times. But it's more this...
...than anything. I could sort of understand the criticism that Gone Home was a "social issues" game, as it was primarily about a young girl coming to terms with her sexuality, but Life is Strange doesn't share much in common with Gone Home save for the age and gender of its protagonist.
Telltale games are always something like $25 USD for the entire run when the game is newly released, and between $6-12 during sales. The only game I can think of offhand that has that kind of excessive "episodic" pricing is The Sims.ninja666 said:
Just played it and yeah. Wow indeed. It's a bit of a "Teen angst: The Game", but it has the potential to be on par with Telltale. Not sure if anything can match The Wolf Among Us though. But we'll see. And it makes 26 year old dudes like me stay in touch with what teens are like these days without having to actually go through the torture of talking to them. Very cool game. I see a lot of replay value in this one. I like the art style too. The lighting in this game makes for some pretty amazing visuals.
I'm feeling very old these days. I can't decide what's worse, the past where emo and goth kids wrote bad poetry and prose on Live Journal, or the present where otherkin and headmates on Tumblr cry about ableism in farmville.ninja666 said:
I'm gonna go with this. I like the concept of episodic gaming, but in practice I just don't think they work quite yet. The wait between episodes is just too long and they can't resist the urge to leave every episode on a cliff-hanger.BloatedGuppy said:
I remember thinking "I would be so pissed right now if I had to wait several months to find out how this plays out" so many times when an episode of The Wolf Among Us finished.
This game seems right up my alley, but I'm going to wait until the entire season is released. Cue the next 6-12 months of carefully tip-toeing around every thread that so much as hints at the game so it doesn't get spoiled.
I'm sorry, but from the lengthy videos and streams of the first episode I've seen, this seems to me like David Cage does tumblr. I literally want to murder ever single character in that school, including the protagonist herself (who just has poor man's Ellen Page written all over her)
It's just the nature of the setting. The game doesn't shy away from classic teenage drama cliches at all. It's not something that's explored a lot in video games, and I don't watch those types of movies either, which is why I can ignore it and enjoy the rest of the game.ninja666 said:
I play through just an hour ago. The biggest problem I have is the "entirely too clever" way the kids talk. Max does it in her internal monologue, too. In real life, clever puns and memes happen once a sentence at most. But this game really packs-in the "clever" teen-isms. It happens even when the kids are sad or serious. The few adults talk convincingly, though.
I'm still ready for more, though, I really liked it. I hope Max works up the guts to use time-rewinding for some actual havoc.
I'm still ready for more, though, I really liked it. I hope Max works up the guts to use time-rewinding for some actual havoc.