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on: October 17, 2019, 10:28:24 PM

Yes.
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Reply #1 on: October 18, 2019, 05:20:09 AM

You made a very compelling case, so I bought it. Lets see this weekend if your praise was warranted.  awesome, for real
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Reply #2 on: October 18, 2019, 06:16:39 AM

You made a very compelling case, so I bought it. Lets see this weekend if your praise was warranted.  awesome, for real

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Reply #3 on: October 18, 2019, 06:55:56 AM

I said this in discord about 5 minutes into the game.  This is the game that I wanted Torment (the new one) to be.  After a few hours now, I still stand by that statement.
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Reply #4 on: October 18, 2019, 08:49:44 AM

Get Underrail for free if you buy it on gog.

Also, yes. I generally dislike the drug/alcoholic/morose stuff that's pretty core to at least the initial experience, but it's so well done I can roll with it. I'm pretty sure I'll be thorooughly seeing the 'wrong' way to play, but it's interesting af.

As far as Torment, that game fell utterly flat for me and I'm already engaged with this one, so...yeah.
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Reply #5 on: October 18, 2019, 11:39:13 AM

IGN actually has a seemingly* decent review of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8llWcWrc0


* I haven't played it myself yet
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Reply #6 on: October 18, 2019, 01:17:49 PM

don't need IGN

"Yes" suffices.
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Reply #7 on: October 18, 2019, 01:45:21 PM

don't need IGN

"Yes" suffices.

"I want to have fuck with you".

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Reply #8 on: October 19, 2019, 08:46:24 AM

I think I'm stuck, feels like I jumped the plot. Somehow I ended up in the Harbour and can't get back to the original area. I wasn't lead there by the plot, I made some jump that looks like it was unidirectional.


Game's too new to find an answer online...kind of a bummer since the game is excellent, like hitting a brick wall though.
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Reply #9 on: October 19, 2019, 10:41:18 AM

Due to the art style, there's some areas where it's harder to see some of the paths. I'm pretty sure I know where you are, and there are some stairs in the area (near an NPC, who is sitting down) kinda southish I guess that leads you back near the start.
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Reply #10 on: October 19, 2019, 01:07:06 PM

I think I'm stuck, feels like I jumped the plot. Somehow I ended up in the Harbour and can't get back to the original area. I wasn't lead there by the plot, I made some jump that looks like it was unidirectional.


Game's too new to find an answer online...kind of a bummer since the game is excellent, like hitting a brick wall though.

I'm guessing the death is because of the uncomfortable chair? I took damage there too, but usually there is some skill check somewhere in the dialogue tree that lets you avoid damage. Did you try all options?
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Reply #11 on: October 19, 2019, 02:41:21 PM

I could probably get out of it, I survived the chair but he got me on morale. I could save scum it, but I don't want to roll like that.

I'll look for the stairs again, I tab the shit out of everything, surprised I missed anything!

Also, tab works like it should in these games, highlighting clickies. In case you guys haven't already done it out of habit :D
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Reply #12 on: October 19, 2019, 02:46:37 PM

In this instance tab wouldn’t help because the stairs are just a path, not something you would click on to go to another zone.
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Reply #13 on: October 19, 2019, 09:02:10 PM

Nope, my scouring of the level yielded the correct exit path. Dev comment I found:


So 2 more pro tips...

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« Last Edit: October 19, 2019, 09:10:36 PM by Sky »
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Reply #14 on: October 20, 2019, 08:30:55 PM

Fuck you guys for making me fire up my 'doze box for this.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #15 on: October 21, 2019, 08:15:03 PM

I have logged 4 hours.

This is a masterpiece. Fact. Period.
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Reply #16 on: October 22, 2019, 12:20:12 AM

I wish some of you would use some words to actually describe what it is and/or what makes it so good.  Schild describes the game as "yes".  Sky talks about surviving some chair and not being able to find some stairs.  Velorath goes on and on about the benefits of the tab button.

Guess I will have to watch a review or something.

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Reply #17 on: October 22, 2019, 12:39:34 AM

Noir Planescape Torment with a philosophical bent, with more text to read, even weirder and without D&D fights, basically.
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Reply #18 on: October 22, 2019, 03:12:59 AM

I wish some of you would use some words to actually describe what it is and/or what makes it so good.  Schild describes the game as "yes".  Sky talks about surviving some chair and not being able to find some stairs.  Velorath goes on and on about the benefits of the tab button.

Guess I will have to watch a review or something.

If you want to see what the game is, yeah just watch a video or something. Plenty of that stuff around. The reason most of us like it is ultimately the writing. Even in our Discord channel I've been trying not to read or post too much because I'd rather discover as much of it as I can myself.
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Reply #19 on: October 22, 2019, 06:39:45 AM

I watched about 30 seconds of a streamer playing on release day and bought it immediately.

"Yes" is an accurate review, unless you hate reading and rpgs. It's sofa king good.
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Reply #20 on: October 22, 2019, 07:43:02 AM

I wish some of you would use some words to actually describe what it is and/or what makes it so good.  Schild describes the game as "yes".  Sky talks about surviving some chair and not being able to find some stairs.  Velorath goes on and on about the benefits of the tab button.

Guess I will have to watch a review or something.
Blind Faith. Just go buy the thing. Every single person who has it is enthralled.

Also, Yes.
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Reply #21 on: October 22, 2019, 03:02:02 PM

Five hours in and I think I'm done.

This is just a pretentious book with an interesting character building system slapped underneath it.

I'm quite sure if you're loving it, you're loving it but I ain't loving it.  I'm bored.

Though it was alllllmost worth it for 'time to work in the shit factory.'  That was a damn good line.


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Reply #22 on: October 22, 2019, 09:15:13 PM

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Reply #23 on: October 23, 2019, 09:30:17 AM

I wish some of you would use some words to actually describe what it is and/or what makes it so good.  Schild describes the game as "yes".  Sky talks about surviving some chair and not being able to find some stairs.  Velorath goes on and on about the benefits of the tab button.

Guess I will have to watch a review or something.

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Reply #24 on: October 23, 2019, 10:47:57 AM

It IS interesting to see the divide this game causes.  It's getting rave reviews by and large, but boy, that minority that doesn't like it REALLY doesn't like it.  See it on the various message boards and in the few critical game reviews.

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Reply #25 on: October 23, 2019, 10:54:29 AM

I wish some of you would use some words to actually describe what it is and/or what makes it so good.  Schild describes the game as "yes".  Sky talks about surviving some chair and not being able to find some stairs.  Velorath goes on and on about the benefits of the tab button.

Guess I will have to watch a review or something.

Welcome to the other side of asking you about VR.

why so serious?

Yes

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Reply #26 on: October 23, 2019, 11:16:33 AM

It's fantastic. Period. The only criticism is that it's "just" a glorified Choose Your Adventure and so if someone misses more "game", fine. Their loss.

But with that said, when something is praised THIS much, it is inevitable and human to feel compelled to add a few extra dislike-points to any negative feeling.

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Reply #27 on: October 23, 2019, 11:57:58 AM

This is one of those games I'll watch a few clips of just to keep up with all you ruffians, but definitely not a game I would ever have any interest in myself.

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Reply #28 on: October 23, 2019, 12:30:29 PM

It IS interesting to see the divide this game causes.  It's getting rave reviews by and large, but boy, that minority that doesn't like it REALLY doesn't like it.  See it on the various message boards and in the few critical game reviews.

people who don't like it are wrong
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Reply #29 on: October 23, 2019, 11:10:29 PM

Well. That was a masterpiece. Now to play through it 20 more times.
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Reply #30 on: October 24, 2019, 09:43:31 AM

I got shivers multiple times while playing this. Most recent one, the intercom conversation. Before and after suceeding the Volition roll. What a masterpiece.

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Reply #31 on: October 25, 2019, 02:18:40 AM

I wish some of you would use some words to actually describe what it is and/or what makes it so good.  Schild describes the game as "yes".  Sky talks about surviving some chair and not being able to find some stairs.  Velorath goes on and on about the benefits of the tab button.

Guess I will have to watch a review or something.

It's hard to describe the game without spoilering a lot of it.
Mechanically it's basically Planescape: Torment minus all of the bits that sucked about that game (i.e combat) with a detective story (again telling you more would spoiler a lot) set in a retro (?) neo noir world with everything turned up to 11. The enjoyment of this game hinges on whether you are a fan of PS: Torment style walls of text. It's very well written text though.

You like noir, you like weird, you like the good bits of Torment then

Yes.
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Reply #32 on: October 25, 2019, 02:21:54 AM

Also, yes. I generally dislike the drug/alcoholic/morose stuff that's pretty core to at least the initial experience, but it's so well done I can roll with it. I'm pretty sure I'll be thorooughly seeing the 'wrong' way to play, but it's interesting af.

At least two members of the creative team behind this are recovering alcoholics/addicts and it shows.
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Reply #33 on: October 25, 2019, 04:00:13 AM

I never played P:T, so the reference is lost on me.  Still, I may give this a go when time permits.

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Reply #34 on: October 25, 2019, 06:46:17 AM

I never played P:T, so the reference is lost on me.  Still, I may give this a go when time permits.

It's P:T. P.T. is a silent Hill project.
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