This game looks and sounds unbearably depressing

[Dumpy the Dumpster Cat]

Am I wrong in this assumption?

[Patriarch]

The trailer depressed the hell out of me.

[Dumpy the Dumpster Cat]

Originally posted by Commissar Knives:

The trailer depressed the hell out of me.

Yeah... I was like "Why would I want to play this...?"

[himmatsj]

Originally posted by Belligerent:

Originally posted by Commissar Knives:

The trailer depressed the hell out of me.

Yeah... I was like "Why would I want to play this...?"

Cause you can die in a game, but not in real life.

[sevrl bats]

The game's about accepting the inevitability of death. "Melancholy" is pretty much the word.

[Dumpy the Dumpster Cat]

Originally posted by himmatsj:

Originally posted by Belligerent:

Yeah... I was like "Why would I want to play this...?"

Cause you can die in a game, but not in real life.

Yeah, well I might have played the game if I didn't already know hat it's going to end in my death. Kinda makes it completely pointless to play a game when the trailer tells you the end of it anyways.

[Seared Squawker]

Originally posted by Belligerent:

Originally posted by himmatsj:

Kinda makes it completely pointless to play a game when the trailer tells you the end of it anyways.

Not really, this game seems more like the journey is what you are after not the ending. It's like if someone comes up to you ands, "Spoilers: your going to die someday".

You don't just give up on life and say, "Welp now that I know the ending, there's no point in living"

Overall I feel from the trailer this would be a game of accepting or rejecting the enevitable, but always knowing there is no way escape it.

[Kerma]

This game isn't that depressing. You'd think it would be, but the music is usually way too upbeat and you have classic lines such as "give the necklace to the juggalo shrine to achieve true peace"

[Shadowspaz]

Originally posted by Belligerent:

Originally posted by himmatsj:

Cause you can die in a game, but not in real life.

Yeah, well I might have played the game if I didn't already know hat it's going to end in my death. Kinda makes it completely pointless to play a game when the trailer tells you the end of it anyways.

Well, that's kinda the whole point: Death is inevitable. Do you play games solely to see how they end?

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Belligerent:

Originally posted by himmatsj:

Cause you can die in a game, but not in real life.

Yeah, well I might have played the game if I didn't already know hat it's going to end in my death. Kinda makes it completely pointless to play a game when the trailer tells you the end of it anyways.

Well that's like saying it's completely purposeless to live if we're just going to die anyways. That's the point of the game, but you're welcome to kill yourself now if you want lol

[Dumpy the Dumpster Cat]

The excuses I'm hearing are hilarious. Comparing a game to life. Sorry, there's a big difference since in games you don't know if you're going to live or die or how the ending is going to go. I see this game as one of those "artsy" indie games that are pointles to play. I can just watch it in a youtube video lol

[Z-Nine]

Originally posted by Belligerent:

The excuses I'm hearing are hilarious. Comparing a game to life. Sorry, there's a big difference since in games you don't know if you're going to live or die or how the ending is going to go. I see this game as one of those "artsy" indie games that are pointles to play. I can just watch it in a youtube video lol

lol why read books when you can just look at a summary. lol. I don't need books to tell me about life because the book isn't real life. lol.

[Dumpy the Dumpster Cat]

Originally posted by Zolkowski:

Originally posted by Belligerent:

The excuses I'm hearing are hilarious. Comparing a game to life. Sorry, there's a big difference since in games you don't know if you're going to live or die or how the ending is going to go. I see this game as one of those "artsy" indie games that are pointles to play. I can just watch it in a youtube video lol

lol why read books when you can just look at a summary. lol. I don't need books to tell me about life because the book isn't real life. lol.

Keep up these awful examples/excuses please. They are pretty entertaining to read :)

[Patriarch]

Originally posted by Belligerent:

Originally posted by Zolkowski:

lol why read books when you can just look at a summary. lol. I don't need books to tell me about life because the book isn't real life. lol.

Keep up these awful examples/excuses please. They are pretty entertaining to read :)

What... my brain. Was he inferring people need books to tell them about real life? I don't even....

[Dumpy the Dumpster Cat]

Originally posted by Commissar Knives:

Originally posted by Belligerent:

Keep up these awful examples/excuses please. They are pretty entertaining to read :)

What... my brain. Was he inferring people need books to tell them about real life? I don't even....

I literally had to read it like 3 times to even semi-understand what he was going for there. Not an extremely intelligent post is all I can say lol

[Shadowspaz]

Originally posted by Belligerent:

The excuses I'm hearing are hilarious. Comparing a game to life. Sorry, there's a big difference since in games you don't know if you're going to live or die or how the ending is going to go. I see this game as one of those "artsy" indie games that are pointles to play. I can just watch it in a youtube video lol

This game is made to be comparable to life. It's a game about the fact that you will die, and the core structure of it is religious in nature (Collecting prayers). A lot is open to interpretation, but the overarching feeling is one of peace when confronted by death.

I am not religious, but the experience I had with my first run of this game paralleled the near-death experience I had a couple years back- An odd mix of peacefulness and panic. They nailed the atmosphere.

Why wouldn't you compare this to life, at least on some level?