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  • 5 years ago
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    Neat. Dialogue's brilliant.
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  • 5 years ago
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    I was thinking about buying this, but I already watched one playthrough. The story sounds utterly depressing. The cartoonish(?) polygon graphics look so cheesy, in contrast to the dialogue with a sexy girl voice (seriously?). And murder and...uh...The only reason I might play this is...nature! It's just like walking through the real Yosemite, only...it's just not the same. Man, the hype sure died quickly for this game.
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  • WoodrowShigeru wrote his opinion about Firewatch
    6 years ago
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    I hate this game so much.

    The early story is told in with in-game "this is how you walk", "this is how you interact" mini-segments that alternate with text-adventure-style texts and prompts. Which is okay, I guess. It kinda felt annoying and interruptive the way it was done, if you ask me. I don't really know why.

    But more importantly: the first prompts already gave me options that I couldn't sympathize with *at all*. So what do I choose: bad option A or worse option B? AND THEN the game has the nerve to sort-of tell me: "Uuh, you chose to give your girlfriend the small dog instead of the big one. Well, guess what: she's gonna get mugged in the streets and live the rest of her life with an ugly scar on her leg-or-whatever. Nice job, asshole." … or some such shit. Great way to do "choice in games". Idiots.

    There were further prompts and texts but at that early point already I was so anti-interested in that story of theirs that I kept skipping the text until the actual gameplay began.

    And then what did I get? A visually colorful and beautiful landscape that encourages explor-- but with lots of invisible walls and other gates; an unlikable protagonist that got more and more unlikable over the course of the game when I heard him talk about the shitty life decisions he made during the shit I skipped; and a fairly linear story.

    And it's empty. Visually empty. Empty! Basically no animals, no other people, no jack! The story is full of bad guys allegedly but you never really see one. I counted one character model in the entire game. Apart from bad cut-out silhouettes, sound fx and plenty of voice over stuff, the game provides a pretty weak illusion of immersion.

    Why bother making an open-world game when it's so restrictive and linear? At least you got to live the life of a firewatch- / forester-adjacent-person. That was kinda interesting to me.

    Ugh! Garbage.
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  • 7 years ago
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  • Gries He wrote his opinion about Firewatch
    7 years ago
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    Well that was unsatisfactory
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    • Axersia
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      Editing … Isn't this an SJW game, though? I don't know why but that's the word on the street. Seems like it should be your cup of tea.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … That's disappointing. But then, with everything else there is to play, I will probably never get round to trying this :P
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    • free fall
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      Editing … It's a good 'get it on sale' game imo.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … I'm thinking a good 'get it on #PlayStation Plus' game :P
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    • Dr Eggnog
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      Editing … "Isn't this an SJW game, though? I don't know why but that's the word on the street." Everything that bothers people these days it's SJW. It's the other autistic. Those two things have replaced gay.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … "These two things have replaced gay" - You can thank the SJW's for that.
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    • Gries He
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      Gries He
      Editing … The game is about Spoilera boy who got killed by his dad. That's literally it. So no, I wouldn't call it a SJW game at all. There's no agenda or anything to it
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Editing … Oh FFS, my notification told me what was in the spoiler tags! I give up!
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    • Gries He
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      Gries He
      Editing … I think I might play the Vanishing of Ethan Carter next, get it over with. Stupid boring walking simulator garbage
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  • 7 years ago
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    Yesterday I downloaded Firewatch and Soma for my PS4
    can't wait to play them :)
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  • Leo Barbosa wrote his opinion about Firewatch
    8 years ago
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    Best gaming surprise in years.
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  • 8 years ago
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    We need a Most Anticipated DRM-Free Versions list.
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  • 8 years ago
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    Hey! This is out, downloading now. Probably won't crack into it until tomorrow though.
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    • Nodley
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      Nodley
      Editing … The video I just watched looks alright, It's now on my watch list.
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    • Bob GutSmasha
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      Bob GutSmasha
      Editing … I'm waiting until Wednesday to hopefully get it. I's in a 6 day intensive for school atm so I'm too burned for games in the evening.
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    • Nodley
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      Nodley
      Editing … It's only 15 quid :)
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  • 8 years ago
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    This game essentially looks like what I want to do in real life.
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