Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 days agoNo problem, I love to espouse my opinions as I’m sure you can tell and I love talking about games in general. I especially love getting to recommend great games to other people, I get such second hand enjoyment from it every time.
To circle back to the very start of this conversation: I did eventually cave today and started NG+ of Mandragora. It’s so much more enjoyable than grinding out the last couple of areas of Blasphemous. Though now I worry my lack of discipline will lead to me never coming back and finishing it.
Very curious to hear your thoughts on Clair Obscur, for me it was one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had the past decade or so. It won’t beat Disco Elysium as my favourite game of all time, but it might well make a strong case for the number two spot.
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Disco Elysium is my favourite game from the last decade (maybe even beyond, but I have soft spot for old games).
To me, it is a case study of how well games work as a storytelling medium if done with the right mindset and people. Everything including the art style, music, game mechanics worked for the story, and it was a joy to experience that.
It is a shame what took place behind the scenes, and I wish there is a better way to show my support to the original developers.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 day ago
I actually often say - only somewhat facetiously - that Disco Elysium is barely a game. In many ways it’s more of a visual novel, but one that uses game mechanics as narrative devices.
Still, it’s story wouldn’t be told more effectively and its moments wouldn’t be as impactful if it was using any other medium, I think. So I guess that qualifies it as a game? I still feel weird calling it that since approaching it as a game is more likely to hurt your experience of it than help it.
The implosion of ZA/UM is a travesty, but apart from Kurvitz losing the rights to the IP I think for me Kurvitz and Tuulik falling out is the real tragedy. Knowing what they created together from teenage years to now it makes me sad to think they won’t collaborate anymore. We have a bunch of splinter studios now, but I’m not sure any of them will recapture the lightning in a bottle that was DE.
Yeah unfortunately Lemmy doesn’t let you follow individual people. But I post about whatever I’m playing pretty much weekly both here on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and on !gaming@beehaw.org in the weekly threads. And I don’t know that I’m all that worth following beyond that, anyway.
AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is well put. Thinking of it as a game with objectives to compete and making progress towards the end, is somewhat detrimental to the experience. Akin to watching a movie to complete it rather than experience it.
Noted. Thank you.