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Admittedly I haven't played this game, but from what I've seen/heard, it kind of reminds me of Lair. An interactive movie as opposed to a video game. Perhaps the interaction is a bit more than Lair and the story being told is more complex, but it is still more of a cinematic experience that just has some interaction to it.

I feel as though this shouldn't be called a "game" in the traditional sense, because after all, as the name suggests, a "game" is defined by its "gameplay", which should be the primary focus. The storytelling should be done through the gameplay or in segments within it, rather than the other way around. Perhaps this concept would have done better if released as a complete theatrical experience. But it's kind of stuck in this limbo where it feels like the developers didn't know whether to make it a movie or a game. Telling us that this is a "gaming" experience when its actually not may have lead to the disappointment.



 

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UltimateUnknown said:

Admittedly I haven't played this game, but from what I've seen/heard, it kind of reminds me of Lair. An interactive movie as opposed to a video game. Perhaps the interaction is a bit more than Lair and the story being told is more complex, but it is still more of a cinematic experience that just has some interaction to it.

I feel as though this shouldn't be called a "game" in the traditional sense, because after all, as the name suggests, a "game" is defined by its "gameplay", which should be the primary focus. The storytelling should be done through the gameplay or in segments within it, rather than the other way around. Perhaps this concept would have done better if released as a complete theatrical experience. But it's kind of stuck in this limbo where it feels like the developers didn't know whether to make it a movie or a game. Telling us that this is a "gaming" experience when its actually not may have lead to the disappointment.


The good thing is, we can play it via youtube. And don't have to pay for it



walsufnir said:
UltimateUnknown said:

Admittedly I haven't played this game, but from what I've seen/heard, it kind of reminds me of Lair. An interactive movie as opposed to a video game. Perhaps the interaction is a bit more than Lair and the story being told is more complex, but it is still more of a cinematic experience that just has some interaction to it.

I feel as though this shouldn't be called a "game" in the traditional sense, because after all, as the name suggests, a "game" is defined by its "gameplay", which should be the primary focus. The storytelling should be done through the gameplay or in segments within it, rather than the other way around. Perhaps this concept would have done better if released as a complete theatrical experience. But it's kind of stuck in this limbo where it feels like the developers didn't know whether to make it a movie or a game. Telling us that this is a "gaming" experience when its actually not may have lead to the disappointment.


The good thing is, we can play it via youtube. And don't have to pay for it

I did that for Heavy Rain lol.



Nintendo and PC gamer

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bubblegamer said:
I'm keeping my pre-order. Mixed reviews just mean the game is not understood by everyone. I only cancel when a game is universally agreed upon to be bad.


Are you serious? How can people not understand limited gameplay and QTE?

You answered your own question by obviously misunderstanding the game within the question.



More of a film than a game by the looks of it. £40 for a film? Think I will pass...



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walsufnir said:
bubblegamer said:
I'm keeping my pre-order. Mixed reviews just mean the game is not understood by everyone. I only cancel when a game is universally agreed upon to be bad.


Are you serious? How can people not understand limited gameplay and QTE? Really, just because a review has a low score for this game doesn't mean an idiot reviewed it. The game *is* controversal and if QD makes more of these games they will always be. You like it? Fine. But it has nothing to do with "understanding".


I know you might think i'm defending the game or something like that. But the truth is i am a big cinema lover and follower. I know that a lot of movies and games that we consider classics right now, were received quite poorly when they first came out.

I have played the demo and it was exactly like Heavy Rain, which like this game, some thought was not a game. 2 years after Heavy Rain you hear the same complaints arise.

No one liked Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Oddysey and they described it as a snoozfest. Look now, it's the movie that has built the bases for much of the last 50 years of Sci-Fi.



Hyruken said:
More of a film than a game by the looks of it. £40 for a film? Think I will pass...

A 10-12 hour film. Thats like.. 5-6 films!! xD



Aldro said:
Hyruken said:
More of a film than a game by the looks of it. £40 for a film? Think I will pass...

A 10-12 hour film. Thats like.. 5-6 films!! xD



A 10-12 hour film that you can rewatch for an alternate ending 23 times!



Hyruken said:
More of a film than a game by the looks of it. £40 for a film? Think I will pass...


Even IF it was a movie, it would stil be worth it. A gazillion people, inclusing me, paid 20 pounds for the Dark Knight Rises on Bluray and that was 2 hours long. So why would this one, with a much longer story not be worth it? Maybe because you're just biased!?



Seems like a love it or hate it type of game from the various reviews I read, which is more or less what I expected.