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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 2:17:43 GMT
Released this year, August 8, 2017. Apparently very quietly, as I have totally never heard of it until today. Purchased for $30, and I think it's been that price since it's release. I'm dealing with Life Stuff by binge playing video games. I wanted something with a Strong Female Protagonist and/ or romance options ala Bioware (or, minimally, Spiders). When I clicked on the tag, Strong Female Protagonist, I found this game as a suggestion. It is described on wikipedia as "a dark fantasy psychological horror action-adventure video game". The trailers for it are excellent
remind me of Horizon Zero Dawn. I've read that the game can be very short, seven hours. But people also said Technomancer could be finished in 12 and it took me 38 so... I don't know how differently I play than the usual gamer, but I'mma guess it won't take me 7 hours. It's different for me to play a psychological thriller horror puzzle game. I usually hate puzzles, but I did watch 10 minutes of gameplay on youtube, and they are the sort of puzzles I can handle. Another reason it reminds me of HZD is these things called "lore stones" that supposedly give you story. I don't know if it's text only, or audio, but the IDEA reminds me of Aloy finding all those data files. if you haven't played HZD, I suppose you don't know the reference. And if you have a PS4, you should totally play HZD. So ya, drawbacks I know about in advance. Set non custom protag (but female!~). Short (supposedly 7 hours). Puzzles. No romance because no companions (although, from trailers alone, her mind isn't doing too well due to lover's recent death so dating would have been inappropriate). Pretty much no role playing, as I don't think there are choices. But I enjoyed HZD a LOT in spite of these things. I think it was even hinted that there is very limited dialogue by the PC as well (although lots of voices in her head.) It says to play with headphones to increase the effects of the whispered voices, but I hate headphones, don't have them, and will play without. I may try to upload pics but it's usually hard enough to give all the moment to moment texting of what's going on in mostly real time without just plain stopping to upload images to imgur. I will try to pick at least one from each gaming session? tagging only once, so I won't harass you again:
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Post by smilesja on Nov 30, 2017 2:22:36 GMT
Hellblade..... Heard of it but never played the game. Have fun!
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 2:32:10 GMT
Gentle narrating voice with harsh frightful whispers...
Senua already doesn't look too good.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 2:35:29 GMT
Ha, weird. Narrating voice almost invites you to be one of the voices.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 2:51:23 GMT
My first Photo Mode Shot ever. That's pretty neat feature now that I understand what it does. playing with Photo mode and figuring how it works for PC has been my whole 15 minutes. I'm using FRAPS. Apparently if I were on PS I would just "share" button to capture them, but on PC, you have to have a recording program somewhere. this is the starter area with some photo mode effects Alright, onward to actual game play.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 2:58:41 GMT
!
I don't know if this is a Lore Stone? You can see it in that picture.
A male voice with an awesome accent pretty much told me where I need to go in a sort of Foretelling Foreshadowing way.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 3:48:55 GMT
Photo Mode; I was feeling pretty eerie round this part. Natural Scene; the voices are always about that level of optimistic. Natural Screen shot; Pretty. Photo Mode; liked her hair in this one. Natural Screen Shot; I'm already wondering if these runes are real or just her imagination. Photomode: I really like all the options of tints. Photo mode: you can pause during battle! And I especially adore this one; Photo mode mid cut scene. She looks so damn resolute and determined.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 4:02:44 GMT
Hey, hope you enjoy it! I read the description at some point, and decided it was not my cup of tea because if you make too many mistakes you have to restart the game over, and I just know I will never play a perfect run & well, it is rather just about watching the story, rather than living through it via choices.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 4:16:26 GMT
These are all photo mode shots as I'm walking along: So all these runes are essentially telling you celtic mythology, at least so far. The most recent rune made a joke, though. See spoiler if you want to ruin it. So, the Rune Voice talks about how ice met fire, made water and made a Giant. And blah blah serious myth stuff. Then it said, "and it happened again and this time...it made a cow, to feed the giant milk." I say to my husband, "What?! a cow?" The voice says immediately after what I say, "Didn't expect a cow, did you?"
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 4:20:04 GMT
Hey, hope you enjoy it! I read the description at some point, and decided it was not my cup of tea because if you make too many mistakes you have to restart the game over, and I just know I will never play a perfect run & well, it is rather just about watching the story, rather than living through it via choices. It hadn't come up in my hour of gameplay so far, but I've only done one battle. Essentially, you get... infected? with "the darkness" and every time you die, "the darkness" works it's way up your arm. If it gets to your brain, you permanent death and have the start the game over. That said, I still don't know how harsh the game is, nor how sad I would be. I know I've moved like a sloth so far because I've seen none of this before and I'm playing with photo mode, but once you know the puzzles and don't feel the urge to stop every 3rd minute to take a picture... it probably really is the 7 hour game they said. It's still weird not to hit the same button myself, it auto saves very frequently.
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Post by dazk on Nov 30, 2017 5:33:48 GMT
Hey thanks for tagging me phoray I watched the trailers a while ago and it really isn't something I'd play but I look forward to following your Lets Play Pretty sure cmoe is or has played as least some of this. Cheers
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Post by Heimdall on Nov 30, 2017 12:32:21 GMT
I’ve played it, it’s pretty cool. Some of the visual puzzles take awhile though.
Ninja Theory did this in part to prove that mid-size linear games are still profitable, and they recently announced that they did in fact turn a profit on it. So that’s cool.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 13:41:35 GMT
Hey, hope you enjoy it! I read the description at some point, and decided it was not my cup of tea because if you make too many mistakes you have to restart the game over, and I just know I will never play a perfect run & well, it is rather just about watching the story, rather than living through it via choices. It hadn't come up in my hour of gameplay so far, but I've only done one battle. Essentially, you get... infected? with "the darkness" and every time you die, "the darkness" works it's way up your arm. If it gets to your brain, you permanent death and have the start the game over. That said, I still don't know how harsh the game is, nor how sad I would be. I know I've moved like a sloth so far because I've seen none of this before and I'm playing with photo mode, but once you know the puzzles and don't feel the urge to stop every 3rd minute to take a picture... it probably really is the 7 hour game they said. It's still weird not to hit the same button myself, it auto saves very frequently. Yes, that idea that you have to restart the whole game was really a big "no-no" for me, as well as the emphasis on puzzles and the overall depressing feel of it/no choices. You know me, I am all about bright, flashy, fun, fast and get through while looking gorgeous kindda gamer. But, like dazk I am interested to see your PT.
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Post by Pounce de León on Nov 30, 2017 13:50:49 GMT
Haven't yet bought it, but I am interested. It's norse mythology I heard? Like Niflheim and Midgard and such?
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 13:52:00 GMT
Yes, that idea that you have to restart the whole game was really a big "no-no" Well, before she was infected with Darkness, I died 4 times. And I don't really know why. The only in game hint was one of the voices said that I shouldn't go slow. Something about obsessing over slipping would actually make me fall. So when I fell practically immediately from easing over this pole bridge, I thought, "oh, that's what they meant." Now Senua can only walk and jog, not run. SO the second time I hit the pole at her jog. Then, when it seemed she was about to teeter off, I stopped moving, thinking that'd get her to regain her balance. But she fell to her death anyway. and I was like...huh. So the third time I didn't stop, fell off anyway. And the fourth time hitting the pole at a jog, I just got across. She wasn't infected with the Darkness at this point, so I guess I got 3-4 "freebie" deaths. And I couldn't understand what I'd done differently. Walk and stop got me killed Jog and Stop got me killed Jog and not stop got me killed Jog and not stop got me across The latter two being exactly the same. So now I wonder if that part is more a tutorial about how easy it is to die? and surely hope the rest of the game won't pull that on me.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 13:53:27 GMT
Haven't yet bought it, but I am interested. It's norse mythology I heard? Yes. She's a celtic pict warrior and so far the Lore Stones have just been telling me Norse Mythology in a "you're going to encounter this" sort of way.
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Post by Heimdall on Nov 30, 2017 13:53:43 GMT
Haven't yet bought it, but I am interested. It's norse mythology I heard? Sort of? Really it’s about a mentally ill woman fighting both inner demons and real vikings/maybe monsters. The line between reality and hallucination is never really clearly defined.
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Post by Heimdall on Nov 30, 2017 13:55:33 GMT
Yes, that idea that you have to restart the whole game was really a big "no-no" Well, before she was infected with Darkness, I died 4 times. And I don't really know why. The only in game hint was one of the voices said that I shouldn't go slow. Something about obsessing over slipping would actually make me fall. So when I fell practically immediately from easing over this pole bridge, I thought, "oh, that's what they meant." Now Senua can only walk and jog, not run. SO the second time I hit the pole at her jog. Then, when it seemed she was about to teeter off, I stopped moving, thinking that'd get her to regain her balance. But she fell to her death anyway. and I was like...huh. So the third time I didn't stop, fell off anyway. And the fourth time hitting the pole at a jog, I just got across. She wasn't infected with the Darkness at this point, so I guess I got 3-4 "freebie" deaths. And I couldn't understand what I'd done differently. Walk and stop got me killed Jog and Stop got me killed Jog and not stop got me killed Jog and not stop got me across The latter two being exactly the same. So now I wonder if that part is more a tutorial about how easy it is to die? and surely hope the rest of the game won't pull that on me. Actually you c an go as slow as you want, I think. You just have to lean in the opposite direction when she starts teetering. Unless I’m misremembering.
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Post by Pounce de León on Nov 30, 2017 13:56:16 GMT
Haven't yet bought it, but I am interested. It's norse mythology I heard? Yes. She's a celtic pict warrior and so far the Lore Stones have just been telling me Norse Mythology in a "you're going to encounter this" sort of way. Celtic? That's different then. interesting.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 13:58:06 GMT
You just have to lean in the opposite direction when she starts teetering. Lean? o-o
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Post by Heimdall on Nov 30, 2017 13:59:45 GMT
Yes. She's a celtic pict warrior and so far the Lore Stones have just been telling me Norse Mythology in a "you're going to encounter this" sort of way. Celtic? That's different then. interesting. The premise of the story is that her lover died in a Viking raid and she’s trying to save his soul by journeying to the Norse netherworld to confront Hel.
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Post by Heimdall on Nov 30, 2017 14:00:29 GMT
You just have to lean in the opposite direction when she starts teetering. Lean? o-o Move in that direction.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 14:02:37 GMT
Celtic? That's different then. interesting. Yes. And the Lorestones have been telling the story in like a welsh/irish kinda accent. The voices in her head have different accents as well. I've heard american, british, and then a welsh one got added. What's been really interesting about these voices.... is that usually they're super distracting and disorientating. at the very start, they had me freaking out about going through some water. "They'll get you," they said. "He's dead, stop trying." "She's trapped!" *voices laugh* "She's dead!" "Run! Go! Turn around!" But they also give you clues, and later, when battle comes up more, they will tell you someone is behind you. So they can be intermittently helpful and supportive, but half the time they're mocking you and casting doubts on you.
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Post by phoray on Nov 30, 2017 14:03:12 GMT
With the walking toggle or the camera toggle or both?
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Post by Heimdall on Nov 30, 2017 14:04:34 GMT
With the walking toggle or the camera toggle or both? walking toggle. It’s been a few months since I played though. I think you can rebalance her that way.
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