we had these when i was young, they were called choose your own adventure and i always died horribly unless i searched for the good ending and worked backwards
I used my fingers to mark decision spots so I could backtrack when I died and effectively read the entire book. I'd run out of fingers pretty fast so my goal was usually to die so I could close off timelines and free up fingers.
people will really try to min-max every game
lol same
If you're interested in a choose your own adventure video game, then try 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors and its sequel Virtue's Last Reward. Not to spoil too much, but switching between timelines is a game mechanic and important to the plot.
Also play the DS version of 999 because the ports suck (the dual screens matter)
and its still the best video game ever made
This is Outer Wilds erasure
Another game I’ve suggested to literally anyone I can. I’m glad I played it with another friend without an attention disorder bc otherwise I would’ve dropped it like 10 times over in frustration, and it ended up being my favorite game in a really long time
So does it have a solid ending? I've never played it, hearing that they were working on a sequel for so long, and now that's been canceled.
hm, I was kind of disappointed at first, but over time I realised the ending I got, which was the main one (there are many endings I think), made perfect sense for harry as a character and for the story as a whole. Its a very sweet story with some very bitter moments, I dont think any media made me cry before I played this game. Its genuinely life changing, youre not the same person when the credits roll, I place it up there with Dune.
Depends on what you're looking for in an ending. It's not a cliffhanger or anything that makes a sequel necessary. Your mileage may vary on how satisfying you find the ending, but a lack of traditional narrative satisfaction is for sure an intentional artistic choice. It's thematically appropriate to leave you feeling a bit shitty at the end.
Pre-voice-acting (C|J)RPGs were basically visual novels with some fighting between the pages. DE is among a respectable and noble class.
I swear capitalism has brainwashed people into hating reading.
I blame adverising.
Advertising and social media (see advertising)
infocommunism.Gamers WILL play the communist game, they WILL read the fancy words, they WILL do introspection :dig-the-fucking-coal: (why is this not an emoji yet?!)
I tell people it's my favorite game, but I do warn them that it is basically an interactive book.
Ine of the most beautifully narrated audio books ever made
Reading never hurts, it has pictures too at least, an upgrade over those text rogue likes I'd play as a broke child.
This is more than a video game to me, it changed the way I view the world.
"Do you know how to read, you ignorant fuck?"
I appreciate how sad that little guy is at being handed a book
That's a higher word count than Homestuck, too.
We won, folks
Jokes on you G*mers! I fucking LOVE books!
It would've been better as a full-on visual novel imo, it's probably the best written game I've ever played but the gameplay is kinda tedious. Walking around the map is sluggish, the interactions with objects feel janky and I really dislike the RNG skill checks. I could never get through a whole playthrough because of that. But despite all that, it's still undeniably a masterpiece.
and I really dislike the RNG skill checks.
I disagree, I think the skill check enhances the character building, failing them often produces more interesting outcomes than passing, and passing them can create brief moments of victory for Harry. On my first play-through I was failing shit constantly except my build was pretty good for things directly related to the investigation, so it kind of worked for an RP were Harry was a washed up mess but he had been a good detective, so his past skills were shining through his amnesia and failure.
I really dislike the RNG skill checks
Same. That's pretty much my one complaint about the game.
I just want all the dialogue man
With most games I'd agree with you, but for some reason the music and atmosphere in DE really worked for me
It helps that very, very few of the skill checks (two or three, I think) actually need to be "passed" in order to progress. Failing actually helps build the narrative, and almost never locks you out of progressing. You can play it so that you savescum in order to pass every check, but you're missing a significant amount of content that way, and the experience is arguably better if you just roll with it. The failed rolls almost always lead to something fun.
Ruining your relationship with Kim because you yelled a racial slur at him vs a fun time dance party is the only one where the RNG thing can fuck right off
Damn, if this was on my list before, it's now moved up to must play soon.
An audio book, yeah.
I wish it was just a book
I tried playing this; the point where decided to put it down was after the MC had a novella's worth of thoughts before he'd even had the chance to exit the building you wake up in.
When they release a 'finished therapy' edition, or bat-to-the-back-of-the-head edition, then maybe I'll think about picking it up again; then again the lord of the rings trilogy had less text than DE did just by the time you were done getting something from the bathroom a minute into the game. If someone stuck Harry's head under water he'd still rattle off a full ten volume encyclopedia's worth of text before he blacked out.
Internal monologs and intee character dialogue is the gameplay. Those are the battle equivalents. Without it, it's Kings Quest
It wouldn’t be the same game at all if Harry wasn’t so absolutely neurotic, lol. I get why it not easy to get through, though. I tried starting it like 5 times before burning through the whole game in a week (thanks adhd)
Literally me, it took me two years of starting over to get past the first day. Then I finally burned through it a couple of months ago.
It's a good book too
