Do you guys think that genre deserves the bad rep some people give them?
Thoughts on walking simulators aka "First-person Adventure" games?
Logan Hall
Jaxon Garcia
People with no attention span have no business playing a trekking game. That is all.
Sebastian Hughes
The only good walking simulator is The Outer Wilds, which arguably could not be a walking simulator
Isaac Thompson
they have their own appeal
William Gonzalez
Potentially interesting genre that's been squandered by excessive kitsch and sociopolitical sob stories.
Logan Turner
outer wilds is amazing
Jacob Perez
Haven't played many but I really enjoyed Firewatch. The atmosphere made it pleasant to just wander around seeing the sights. It had a decent amount of interactivity to make it seem like less of a walking sim too.
The Stanley Parable was also a lot of fun even if it had fewer things to touch and play with than Firewatch. Quality humor too and I had fun discovering all the endings.
They definitely tend to be more "experiences" than actual games though so I get why not everyone likes them.
Matthew Ramirez
I usually hate them but the land of pain was pretty good. The story and setting was really interesting.
Adam Rogers
It's a genre that's generally crippled by the very nature of the people who make such games. I honestly don't mind playing a game with no gameplay as long as it makes sure to have a good story that can compensate. But the problem is anyone who thinks they're above having gameplay in their games are too pretentious to come up with a story that doesn't itself end up being pretentious.
Aaron Adams
I like most of them.
Dear Esther
Gone Home
Firewatch
Everybody's Gone To The Rapture
What Remains Of Edith Finch
Are all great.