Ya I'm very excited for this. The art director is a younger graphic designer who I've followed for ages. He used to just make minimalist style movie posters so it's cool to see him work on something like this

Rose why'd you watch LP's are you nuts

KC @ 10/2/2016 9:48

Huh. You being done the same day you downloaded it leaves me really worried about dropping $20 on it.

She probably played for 18 straight hours to be fair

Yeah the biggest complaint seems to be the length. Mostly everything else is pretty positive

lollawsuit

Finally started. Might try to play one day at a time since it's so short? Maybe one day every IRL day? I have no idea how many days there are tho. Do you guys recommend spreading it out a bit or just plowing through it?

Day 1

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Visuals are really great. OLLY MOSS MUH BOY! The opening story was pretty sad, RIP Mayhem. Mayhem over Bucket all day. I dunno how twisty the story gets, but I feel like Henry's wife's dementia could come into play maybe. Like maybe it's actually Henry with dementia or something. Maybe the lady on the walkie talkie isn't real. I DUNNO! There's not much hint to the story yet other than the place getting ransacked at the end of the first day, so I have no idea where things are going which I'm really glad about Voice acting is great, I love that we're Harry Crane. Exploration is fun enough but I'm not sure how much I should've been exploring at the start there. I didn't wanna go too far off the trail because I figured I'd be back in those areas at some point but I'm not sure GG SO FAR

Day 2

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The second day ended as I wanted to stop anyway. Might do a few together next time I play Getting increasingly curious about what's happening. The fenced in area, the missing ranger's pack, PTSD Ned who seems important, the girls and their destroyed tent, and especially Delilah's side convo that she forgot to turn off her walkie for. I DON'T TRUST DELILAH. I also feel like the convenient trail of beer cans was staged, either that or it's just the game going way too easy on players to lead them around. Henry kept mentioning that they had way too many beers for just the two of them tho so I think it was planted. But I rly have no idea if the story is going in that direction. Maybe Henry is actually a nut and really did attack the camp

DONE

Spoiler

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Oh the days uh...really do jump ahead. I thought it took place over just like 7 days or something I think I really liked it??? I definitely had a lot of fun playing, and I knew the story/ending/lack of payoff was the most critiqued part of the game so I was able to manage my expectations a lot which tbh probably made it a whole lot more enjoyable for me The entire game/story almost feels like an inside joke. The amount of theorizing I did was RIDICULOUS! I thought Delilah was getting on the helicopter without me and was gonna tell them that she was the last one so that I'd stay behind and die because she needed to tie up that loose end since I knew her secret about Brandon. I thought Delilah was drawing me that one day because she was sketching a missing persons poster like that other one and was gonna make sure I got trapped down in the cave or something. I thought Delilah wasn't real. I thought my wife wasn't real. I thought Henry actually was crazy and was behind everything. I THOUGHT A LOT OF THINGS But that definitely seemed like the point, and maybe my stupid mind wandering all the time (along with Henry's) was more satisfying than any actual explanation they could've given for everything. I really liked that we were just paranoid all along, both the player and Henry, AND Delilah who I was surprised to discover was in on absolutely nothing (wait but who was she talking to on that other line!!) It was an original way of doing things at least, I kinda dug it. Loved the touch with the pictures at the end, that played out PERFECTLY for me and showed my paranoid in reverse. I started by taking really nice pictures of the scenery. Then I got paranoid and used it to take pictures of evidence, mysterious things, the body, etc. Then the final picture after Brandon's body was a pic of the Pork Pond sign that it turns out Delilah herself had stolen, which was a perfect final picture to come after all my paranoid ones because it showed that things were never as serious as I was making them out to be. PRETTY COOL Apart of me really wishes there was a perfectly brilliant twist that involves me being some sorta Desmond/Dharma employee character who is being watched by the people who hired me, but the other part of me is surprisingly satisfied with the way they took it Pretty great/original game overall. Will never play again (:

http://www.firewatchgame.com/

The website is different. I might like this version even more. I can't stop scrolling up and down

Oxenfree thread is locked and the last video game you played thread just won't do so I'll post about Life is Strange in the Firewatch thread instead of the Life is Strange thread

Also you're wrong Life is Strange is great not good