Quote from: thorhugs on September 06, 2015, 06:23:14 AM
I was just playing Alan Wake last night, and I just finished downloading Life is Strange. Murder and missing people in my home state is apparently a theme for me, it seems.
I haven't played Life is Strange yet but I hear it's good. I loved Alan Wake, especially the interjections of his writing with the narrative itself. Sadly I played that right around the same time as Deadly Premonition so my memories of it are a bit overshadowed by the amazingness of DP.
I don't play games much anymore, but I absolutely LOVE horror games. Love, love, love. The darker the better. They need to be good psychological horrors though (the first four Silent Hills, Rule of Rose, Penumbra, etc), and not "jump out ooh scary I have a gun" like F.E.A.R., etc.
I also love interactive fiction/oldschool "adventure" games like anything put out by Quantic Dream, and last night my fiancee and I started Until Dawn and
omg I am so hooked. It's a horror game with branching plot choices and a gameplay system straight out of Heavy Rain, with lots of character interaction and dialogue. So basically it's a fusion of everything I like. I am seriously in love with it so far!
On another note, I did manage to play/finish Transistor recently and was totally blown away by the originality of the world, the way the story was told without exposition, and the way certain events played out against my expectations. Gameplay was fantastic, story was amazing, and I can't stop thinking about it. It leaves a lot up to the player's interpretation in the end, especially the nature of the game's universe/reality itself.
Bonus points because it contains a nonsexualized female protagonist, a gay married couple that doesn't even get a passing mention as something out of the ordinary, a background character who doesn't identify as male or female (and also doesn't get mentioned as anything unusual), and a genuinely touching tragic romance holding together the whole story.
Between Transistor, Hotline Miami, and Axiom Verge, I've become convinced that smaller game studios really have a lot more to offer than the big industry giants.
