Salty Catfish
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I feel like the Obvious Twist for Firewatch is SO obvious that it can't possibly happen, or at least be delivered in a way that isn't fairly predictable.
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I'm with you. This island is totally uninteresting. I also definitely prefer figuring out weird machinery over doing line puzzles over and over again.
Hell I prefer all 3 the Room games to the Witness.
Well don't worry, because the people who think the voice acting is bad are clearly crazy.
I think Firewatch seems actually way more approachable, just because there's much more of a story focus.
Either way it's apples and oranges.
Oh, you mean that it's clearly alien ghosts dreaming that the main character was the demons all along in a snow globe in limbo that sent in the zombie bears?
Because I think there's way too many different directions they could go with this setup for there to be an obvious twist. A cliched twist maybe.
you must be German
Sleeping Lesson
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Agreed, both!
If nothing else, I'm really looking forward to being in that world, that's something that goes really far in my enjoyment of games.
ratcliffja
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you ARE the faya!
No you were dead the whole time and this job is purgatory.
Glitchesarecool
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I put Firewatch in my wishlist, I'll think about it before release. It's in there with Oxenfree, DMC4SE, Dark Souls, and Subnautica right now.
Speaking of steam, thanks to the sale today I discovered that I actually own the Tomb Raider reboot. Apparently I bought it in 2014? Somehow I missed it every time I went down the list of games. Kinda scary when something like that happens.
Speaking of steam, thanks to the sale today I discovered that I actually own the Tomb Raider reboot. Apparently I bought it in 2014? Somehow I missed it every time I went down the list of games. Kinda scary when something like that happens.
Hell is 1989
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was boring the shit out of me so I decided to just read up on how the rest of the story plays out and I couldn't be happier that I quit. I will be very disappointed if Firewatch goes with the predictable twist ending. Why can't it just be a game about a guy starting a new job and walking around in a beautiful forest while trying to ruin the fun of teenagers that just want to get naked and shoot off fireworks?
nckillthegrimace
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Firewatch is going to be great, I exclaim as if to reassure myself.
Salty Catfish
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YOU are the
naked teen. On fire
Hell yes, I did this too in the second mission and felt like a samurai god. I'm going to cling to that memory as the bodies pile up.
giant_frying_pan
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XCOM seems to be running okay for me. 1920x1200 at medium-ish settings.
Running up to a mind control alien and slashing with a sword to relinquish mind control of your guy *and* kill the psi zombie is pretty awesome.
Running up to a mind control alien and slashing with a sword to relinquish mind control of your guy *and* kill the psi zombie is pretty awesome.
I wish I could run it. I genuinely hate that there is no console port. I bought the last game 3 times. PS3, iOS and then PC once I had a new Mac.
TheMrPliskin
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I really enjoyed it for like 4 of the areas but I've quickly lost interest and it feels like I'm pushing myself through the remaining areas.
stump sock
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haha yeah the sword stuff in this one is super satisfying in a way the melee attacks in the last one never were. I've got the ability on my one sword lady that keeps her hidden even after detection and I just maneuver her around behind the action and sword someone to death when they aren't looking
also those titty snakes don't fuck around
This is what I hope to get from Firewatch as well. I'll enjoy it if their is some type of twist, but I would love it if they just played it straight. Sadly, I don't think we'll get that though
For me that feeling settled in after 3 areas.
Same here.
And I actually bought it 4 times because I got Enemy Unknown and later on Enemy Within on PS3.
Firewatch looks nice and I enjoyed the writing in the QLEX. But I'm somehow still not interested in playing it. Maybe someday.
Witness is nice as long as I have single clue about one of my yet unsolved puzzles. I'll continue with it over the next weeks/months. (3 cleared areas so far, some partly, some clueless)
I have some very cool speculation about people possibly being in SF and weddings. I'm bursting but doesn't feel right to guess around publicly :/
I finished SMB 3 on 3DS VirtualConsole last weekend, using save states. I appreciate the fresh level ideas and was surprised by the creativity. But I never got used to the movement, it sometimes felt so bad as if the VC emulation makes it really sluggish. That's probably different if you learn it as a kid and haven't fallen in love with SMW controls yet.
Witness is nice as long as I have single clue about one of my yet unsolved puzzles. I'll continue with it over the next weeks/months. (3 cleared areas so far, some partly, some clueless)
I have some very cool speculation about people possibly being in SF and weddings. I'm bursting but doesn't feel right to guess around publicly :/
I finished SMB 3 on 3DS VirtualConsole last weekend, using save states. I appreciate the fresh level ideas and was surprised by the creativity. But I never got used to the movement, it sometimes felt so bad as if the VC emulation makes it really sluggish. That's probably different if you learn it as a kid and haven't fallen in love with SMW controls yet.
Enemy Within I only have on Steam. Picked up the complete thing on a sale.
TheMrPliskin
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They really don't. One of them tried to grab me while I was pretty far away and missed and I assumed I was just out of range, on the next turn I found out that my assumption was wrong.
I feel like I'd rather have that than where it's probably heading. Turn it into "Her", the game, only Scarlett Johansson is a real person and she leaves and you get with Amy Adams instead.
stump sock
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you actually just learn to love
yourself
yourself
Then I'm on board.
shortsFortallPeople
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I think Firewatch could use Dark Souls's combat myself
I want to play Firewatch to look at it, but nothing about the bits they've shown have me interested beyond that.
The dialogue comes through as trying a bit too hard to evoke an approximation of 'natural' conversation. The performances come across as overly smarmy/sarcastic (yet unfunny) people who would drive me crazy to interact with in real life.
The dialogue comes through as trying a bit too hard to evoke an approximation of 'natural' conversation. The performances come across as overly smarmy/sarcastic (yet unfunny) people who would drive me crazy to interact with in real life.
Death Metalist
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Firewatch is also fuck tons more cheaper. You know exactly what you're getting so it's a fools errand to hope it's more than what it is, an interactive story experience. I'm there day 1.
That's how you get the true ending.
BreezyLimbo
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Firewatch is a prequel to The Witness.
the witness is about you witnessing this society that burned to its core because it couldn't handle the FORBIDDEN LOVE between the firewatcher and his radio, from firewatch
TheMadMan007
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I agree with the overly sarcastic writing with what I've seen so far, but hopefully it'll lighten up as the game progresses. I just bought it after watching the QL, so I'm not horribly dissapointed. I usually can look past small stuff like that. The guy was playing a bit fast though (since he's the dev and I'm sure has demoed that part thousands of times by now) so that might have had something to do with how the dialog flowed
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