Worst game I ever played

[>_o]

My conclusion is that modern gamers are so starved of culture that they will give something like this a good review. They don't watch TV anymore so haven't seen any good dramas or even melodramas, they are too busy texting in movies and only watch things like Transformers anyway, and music is obviously terrible now. So when a game does something a bit different and presents itself as a thoughtful and meaningful experience with a story and some twinkly music, modern gamers go crazy for it because they just don't have any frame of reference.

That is the only way I can explain all the good reviews. I completed the entire game in one sitting, something like 4 hours or so. It is short, it is boring, it has a very weak story, it has virtually no gameplay at all, and it has a lot of boring pointless repetition - running back and forth along the same few trails and collecting a lot of virtual junk that has absolutely zero use. The dialogue is well acted, but it isn't interesting. The only thing the game really has is a story, and it just isn't a good one or an interesting one.

It's a shame because the presentation was pretty good for an indie game, and it had me excited at first when it had me making various choices like a text adventure. But they are completely meaningless, as is everything else that you do in the game. I am amazed at how bad it turned out.

[flunky]

"Very weak story" really? I'd have to disagree on that. The story was very tense and such.. it was the ending that was garbage and yea we had to walk back and forth but then agan you could also try to free roam and walk around

[>_o]

The difference with other free form games is that you put up with the mindless walking because it is in between epic battles or car chases or whatever else. This game has nothing, it is just walking. And the tension is all fake. At first I thought some X Files story was about to play out, but nothing at all plays out. Just a mildly interesting tale you could tell someone in 2 sentences. I played games 25 years ago that were far bigger and far better and had amazing stories compared to this.

[Radical Accelerationist]

People like something you don't like so their taste is awful?

[Whitebeard]

Well, it is a sort of walking simulator. It isn't about action, it's about story. And about how people in isolation can see plots within plots as the paranoia builds. Then, at the end, it is seen for what it is. The story works, and we know it works, because all the complaints are about it turning out less than expected. How many times in your life have you expected much and ended up with very little? This is a slice of life like that.

I notice the OP has been banned. It isn't because of this post is it?

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

I don't watch TV anymore, that is true. Because of all distractions it causes. And frankly, how much did I miss? I used to watch Nat Geo WIld and some scince stuff, but don't have time and desire any longer. The only thing I use tv for is The Walking Dead series, which kept going so violent that I can hardly enjoy it.

Firewatch gave me the best gaming experience for the past few years and I enjoyed it so much. Yeah, the plot is different and may not be the epic story to tell, but virtualbill explained it quite well here, the story works, and works well. People tell good things about the game, people tell bad things about the game. In both case that pretty much mean the only one thing - they care.

Oh, and I would rather go here with books comparison rather than tv shows. This game provides emotional choices, even though they may seem small and insignificant, they actually give you a good picture of characters, and every time you play you may with different personality. That reminds me of a good book, with pretty sweet visual :)

[unresfriado]

really you are idiot you just think on kills and action but its very nice graphics and a very nice story but not so large anyway good game you can explore a forest without typical monsters

[anger.fades]

Sure are making a lot of assumptions and generalizations about gamers....

[Hoother]

Why does a story have to have monsters in order for it to be interesting to you? Multiple times I was guessing at what was going to happen to the main character. And every time I was wrong, with something even more twisting than what I had thought. Until the end. But I think that's what made the game so interesting because the Developers used the players imagination to add a ♥♥♥♥ ton of tension. But then we have people like you that think its stupid because of the walking. You say modern gamers are making this game out to be way to good. And that they don't have any sense of drama or melodrama. Well look at you.

[LTH]

i think the ending was just weird

[flunky]

How come?

[Dr. Gumbo]

I think that it is a wierd ending, coming from someone who loves this game. But thats what makes the ending so good. The fact that it simply is what it is, there is a lot of build up but then it simmers down. The ending isnt flashy it's small and I think how lackluster it seems to be compaired to the buildup is what makes it fit with the realism of the rest of the story.

[Giof]

"The difference with other free form games is that you put up with the mindless walking because it is in between epic battles or car chases or whatever else." vs "they are too busy texting in movies and only watch things like Transformers anyway" the irony..

[DuhJuiceBox]

I don't understand how people can say the ending is acceptable. The trailer and 80% of the game build up some mystery story only to give you a boring, rushed and awful one.

[Toni 'Bō' Jones]

A very true and real life ending.

[Arachnade]

I do agree the ending was weak and the whole thing with the girls was weak as well. All that was built up to find out it was basically nothing. Not even nothing the guy had no reason to be paranoid about this but was out of his mind with no real explanation.