Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How are you liking A Plague Tale? I have it on my docket for sometime this year.

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  • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It depends on your tastes in games, of course. It’s quite linear, it’s got some puzzle element, some boss fighting, but what it makes it good is the storytelling. Good characters, lovely scenarios, compelling writing.

    Feels a bit like Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, or the Amnesia series: there’s a story there, and some gaming elements thrown in to keep you going. I’m quite liking it, I want to know what happens next.

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds good to me! Is it difficult or just a “going along with the ride” type of experience? Trying to get a feel for when to schedule it in.

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      • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not hard. I loathe hard games, we used to have them in the 80s because, well, how much can you pack in 48 kilobytes? You had to kill the player over and over to get longer engagement time.

        Nowadays, with the amount of storage we have available, it makes no sense to make the game hard unless you are targeting the masochisticcompetitive crowd. You can use it to tell a good story, or pull the player into an immersive reality.

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