Only 3 survived my first playthrough. Should have been 4 really, but...one of them ate it right at the last minute.
I will go back and save them all!
That's fair enough. You're right, it's a different prospect to games like Dead Space & Outlast, but I feel like it achieved what it set out to do, which was emulate the teen slasher genre in game form.
In fact, it did it so well I think it would have made a really entertaining movie!
SOMA looks very interesting - can't wait to see what Frictional games can do to follow up Amnesia. Great to see it come to consoles too, day and date.
Literally. I'm not sure I could take this in VR....the jump scares were intense enough sat 6 feet away on the sofa!
The game was a refreshing change of pace from the usual killing zombies and Nazis that we're so used to in gaming, but it wasn't perfect. Definitely a step in the right direction, and a great way to expand gaming as a medium, but very much early days. I'd love to be able to share these experiences with people who aren't traditional gamers, like you would a book or a film, but we're not quite there yet.
VR seems an expensive prospect, initially, but if it can provide that leap into the next stage of gaming, then it'll be worth it. I feel like the last major jump in gaming was going from 2D to 3D, and VR could prove to have a much bigger impact than that. I don't know where we'll end up with the tech, but it's going to be a fun ride finding out...
Looking at your list, I'm really pleased that a lot of them have made it to consoles. I know that the PC is the home of the genre, traditionally, but it's reassuring to see them make the leap to consoles. In fact, Rapture got a huge marketing push from Sony, comparable to a AAA title.
The more people that experience games outside of the traditional restraints of the medium, the better. Like I said earlier, they're not perfect, but I reckon with a little incubatin...
The term walking simulator isn't intended to be derogative - it's just the most recognisable term attached to this genre. I suppose as it's still early days for this time of game, the name does appear a bit too basic, but really, if you look at other more established genres, they all over-simplify the gameplay. Point and click, shoot em up, platformer etc.
Maybe we'll find a better way to describe these games in the future!
You're totally right - this was one of the main complaints in the podcast. These games create a stunning world, but the players interactions with it always seem to be so limited. Rapture is especially guilty of this.
I really appreciate the scope of these games, and the goal of creating something with a bit more worth than simply 'shooting bad dudes'. Gaming is still in its infancy, and I feel like walking simulators are a great way to show how mature it can be. In theory, it should be able to at least equal, if not surpass, film as a medium for story telling. However, nothing I've seen so far has convinced me that we're there yet.
They should totally do Jurrassic Park next.
Oh. Wait.
It's a formula that can be applied to literally any narrative. Marvel? Minecraft? Bridget Jones? If there's a story, you can make a TellTale game out of it.
As much as I like the Telltale games, they're slightly too 'on rails' for my liking. It would be great to see something more akin to traditional point and click games, but with that Telltale polish.
Hey TheGreatGamer,
The podcast is 45 minutes long. You listened to the first 5 and felt you had a full understanding of the content? Do you go to the cinema and leave 5 minutes in because you've already sussed how it's going to end? Is you house full of books with the first chapter forever dog-eared?
We're not anti-Xbox. That's a ridiculous statement. None of us are 12 and put any stock in siding with one particular multi-national corporation....
Hey,
The original post wasn't denied - we actually took it down ourselves after taking on board the comments about the title being 'click-baity'. I've seen worse get approved on N4G, but that's irrelevant.
In light of this we've tidied up the post, giving it what we think is a more suitable title, and resubmitted.
I don't think the new title is offensive or 'dumb', and it wholly relates to the subject of t...
I reckon a lot of people did the same. I know I did. It felt like a bit of a con to pay a premium for a game in the first week of release, and then have to go to YouTube to watch the 'real' ending, but I'd rather do that than spend countless hours collecting trophies that just aren't fun. If they had made the process a bit more enjoyable, I might have stuck with it - something like the agility orbs in Crackdown. Loads of them, but they were genuinely fun to collect.
I think whatever happens next, we're looking at a reboot for Bats. The Arkham series has given a very definitive ending here, for better of for worse. It's almost like Rocksteady don't want anyone else tackling their beloved series after Arkham Knight. Fair enough I guess, they made it what it was.
However, I can't see Warner Brothers just leaving it here. While I can't see how they could follow on this story, I could see them going down the Origins route ...
Did anyone actually find ALL the Riddler's trophies for the 'real' ending, and did you think it was worth it?
Blocking off ending content with what was essentially busy work left a sour taste in my mouth.
Is Rocksteady making it in conjunction with BeBop studios?
Some fun facts:
The film was set in New York, but was actually shot in South Africa.
Bill Paxton is the only actor to have been killed by a Terminator, Alien and Predator. Not Harry Potter though!