Goldenroad
Member
Great game. Should have probably been up for GOTY. It will very likely make my personal top 5.
Her Story |OT| Type M for Murder
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One of the few games to get awarded twice on stage. Outstanding, and absolutely deserved. I'm proud that the jurors were able to look past the AAA obvious picks and choose this game for both awards. It really shows that this industry, slowly but surely, is getting to the point of actual arts criticism. Bravo.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Waiting to see that well deserved sales spike graph.
As much shit everyone gives for video game stories being shit and even criticising Her Story for being mundane of all things, I do think it deserved an award and definitely recognition for being so different from the competition that it had to win. Especially when the most common complaints about 'story-driven' games that you're simply playing through a movie as it unfolds with varying amounts of playing choice and related consequence branching built in.
The gameplay is basically typing keywords so...but it will run on any potato PC I think.
Denton
Member
For anyone interested what this game is about, this is a great article about it:
http://www.theastronauts.com/2015/08/what-her-story-tells-us-about-the-current-state-of-video-games/
I am not surprised it won narrative award at all.
http://www.theastronauts.com/2015/08/what-her-story-tells-us-about-the-current-state-of-video-games/
I am not surprised it won narrative award at all.
PetriP-TNT
Member
Played this for couple of hours and still tons of things to unfold. Great so far!
Here's my notes up to the current point if you want to see them:
Here's my notes up to the current point if you want to see them:
cj_iwakura
Member
Played this for couple of hours and still tons of things to unfold. Great so far!
Here's my notes up to the current point if you want to see them:
Wow, impressive. I never used any.
InaudibleWhispa
Member
Taking notes was part of the fun for me. Closest a game has made me feel to being an actual detective.
PetriP-TNT
Member
"Finished" the game, 100% of database found. Had to bruteforce the last ~5% though
What a great experience and a truly well written and interesting story!
Here's the final version of my notes
how do you get the "Yes" and "No" videos for the lie detector part without the admin_random code otherwise?
What a great experience and a truly well written and interesting story!
Here's the final version of my notes
TetraGenesis
Member
Yeah, she's not great but she has her moments. (I think Her Story is really, really great regardless.) I'm glad she got Best Performance though, the performance she gave was more vital to the game she was in than any other actor in any other game this year.
I can see that, even if I didn't really like her acting much. I feel like this will be a game I look back on fondly even though my feelings aren't super high on it in the moment, if that makes any sense.
PetriP-TNT
Member
I though the actor was great ¯\_(ツ
_/¯ She aced
, giving
_/¯ She aced
both personalities
them both distinct features but didn't fall into overstating some key differences just to point out "this is now Person X"
Remembrance
Member
Only by searching for "yes" or "no" enclosed in double quotes.
Anything you search for in quotes will match only full sentences.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Someone needs to section you, heh"Finished" the game, 100% of database found. Had to bruteforce the last ~5% thoughhow do you get the "Yes" and "No" videos for the lie detector part without the admin_random code otherwise?
What a great experience and a truly well written and interesting story!
Here's the final version of my notes
RedAssedApe
Banned
on sale for 1.99 for iOS.
Here is my two cents on Her Story:
https://essentialperspective.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/her-story-review/
https://essentialperspective.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/her-story-review/
Sorcerer
Member
I though the actor was great ¯\_(ツ, givingboth personalitiesthem both distinct features but didn't fall into overstating some key differences just to point out "this is now Person X"
I second your sentiment.
Viva was great (especially for a first role). I think she played it as close to real life as possible
without resorting to angel/devil cliches, making it nearly impossible to figure out if she is one person or a twin.
RedAssedApe
Banned
think im gonna bite. any issues with playing this on ios? are there cross saves or would i have to start over between ipad and iphone?
Messofanego
Banned
Metroid Prime, Spec Ops The Line, and now Her Story with the best use of face reflections in firstperson view of videogames. Love that the lighting changes (like police siren red and blues) based on the content of the clip.
Finished the game, loved it.
Finished the game, loved it.
cj_iwakura
Member
Metroid Prime, Spec Ops The Line, and now Her Story with the best use of face reflections in firstperson view of videogames. Love that the lighting changes (like police siren red and blues) based on the content of the clip.
Finished the game, loved it.
Scared the daylights out of me the first time.
From her acting, you can't figure it out, but from the hints, and the concrete evidence, it's pretty clear there is a real twin sister :
- Eve has a tatoo, clearly not Hannah. You can see Hannah's arm clear enough on
- The cop clearly speaks about many unidentified fingerprints that do not match with the
single person with personality trouble disorder.
- Hannah has a bruise, and one day after, Eve has nothing on her face.
Plus, when you watch all the videos from the steam folder, it's pretty clear that the twist was that Eve and Hannah were twins.
- Eve has a tatoo, clearly not Hannah. You can see Hannah's arm clear enough on
- The cop clearly speaks about many unidentified fingerprints that do not match with the
single person with personality trouble disorder.
- Hannah has a bruise, and one day after, Eve has nothing on her face.
Plus, when you watch all the videos from the steam folder, it's pretty clear that the twist was that Eve and Hannah were twins.
Very overrated game imo, the idea was great but I felt that the interraction with the game was very... minimal. I thought you could interact with the game more, like click on evidence on the video for exemple, pause at a crucial moment to watch elements you could have missed... Do what a true detective do in those kind of situation. But all you can do is watch the video, and all you have to do to understand the story is watching the person talking about her life. The story isn't that complicated and since you're free to type whatever you want on the search tab, you can find the truth pretty easily at 50% of the game. Fans of the game made it convulted as fuck with
the PTD false theory
It has a direct ending, though you can play after it. Not sure exactly what triggers, if it's just a specific scene, a certain percent (not 100 for sure) or just a certain amount of specific videos, but most people will see it.
I got the ending thing after finding like 1/3 of the database so I think it has to do with finding the right number of important scenes. Which can unfortunately (or fortunately?) happen earlier than it should.
Salty Catfish
Member
80 minutes in, I was loving it, and then I made the mistake (which apparently many others have) that the "clear session" button would clear the user session videos and not just detonate my savegame. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
opticalmace
Member
What an awesome game. It was nice to have so much agency in putting together the narrative.
I thought the actress did a fantastic job, too. If I had played this earlier it would definitely be on my top 10 list for 2015. Just so different from everything else I've played.
I thought the actress did a fantastic job, too. If I had played this earlier it would definitely be on my top 10 list for 2015. Just so different from everything else I've played.
Finally got around to playing the game last night and finished it in one sitting. I loved it. Going to keep it installed in my laptop to play with non-gamer friends if the opportunity ever comes up.
Question about Hannah's parents:
Question about Hannah's parents:
Is it canon that they were deliberately poisoned by Eve? It feels ambiguous based on the videos I've seen so far but in my head Eve is a sympathetic character so maybe that's making me biased.
Finished it after a couple hours (but still have quite a few videos to try to access though), but even though I loved it I have to say that it really pushes the boundary of what might actually be called "a game".
In essence, it is not really different from having a Youtube session and typing keywords relating to an event/ person you want to know more about I think.
In my humble opinion thus, it is not a videogame and rather a story you have to piece together, but I guess ymmv on that notion and obviously others disagree with me.
Great job by the actress (actually a British singer).
PS: the damn song is stuck in my head...
In essence, it is not really different from having a Youtube session and typing keywords relating to an event/ person you want to know more about I think.
In my humble opinion thus, it is not a videogame and rather a story you have to piece together, but I guess ymmv on that notion and obviously others disagree with me.
Great job by the actress (actually a British singer).
PS: the damn song is stuck in my head...
Triggerhappytel
Member
I started playing this yesterday. I've watched maybe 50 or 60 videos so far. It's really clever and engrossing.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Man, I've just worked out (I think) that there's two ladies. At first I thought she was schizophrenic, but it actually looks like two identical twins. One (Eve) is dressed always in white, doesn't wear a wedding ring and always has a blank wall behind her when being interviewed, while the other (Hannah) wears many different outfits, has a wedding ring and looks to have shelves or something behind when she's being interviewed.