For someone who's played video games for 30+ years, this game was a breath of fresh air bordering on a masterpiece.
I wish there were more games of this genre. It's amazing to think what a game like this with more funding and more varieties of mysteries to solve could be like.
In 30+ years you never played a walking sim?
I'm pretty impressed old man.
it's a brilliant game. more in terms of atmosphere and storytelling than puzzle solving but i loved it. My GOTY, even though i'm a year late to it.
I thought it looked like artsy dicksucker shit when it came out and completely avoided it
The thing that randomly made me play it was some person the other day posted a tweet from some female game journo saying it was the #1 game she wished she could forget and re experience.
It's ok at best. It's a walking sim.
As a story, it's amazing.
Mostly, the "true ending" was infinitely underwhelming. All that fucking buildup and murder for "Oh I guess there was no horrific force inside the lazarette". Thanks for wasting my time.
As a game, mate, it's a bit shit. You look at the thing and fill in the list, and if you're not too braindead to notice the giant fucking numbers on the side of the hammocks you'll have it all within two hours.
Great story, incredible presentation, terrific OST, the art style works, absolutely recommend people to pirate it because $20 for a game you 100% in 2 hours is taking the FUCKING piss, wish it was in a game.
You can't 100% this game in two hours. Sounds like you used a guide.
I played it on release and you can. I know, because I did. I did, because I was really into it and scouring the ship, and then the real ending happened and now I'm sour.
The idea of using a guide for a game that flat-out tells you how to complete it is a bit sad.
It takes over an hour just to go through the memories for the first time, no way you can get 100% in 2 hours.
>OH MY GOD, BASED BASED THIS THIS THIS
"Fresh Air" don't mean anything, e.g. if all the dogs poop in the yard next to your window, then your "Fresh Air" smells like dog poop.
One of the most autistic things I've read this week.
I never got this meme, you could base a game's worth on the enjoyment it brought you, the emotions it made you feel, whether it was memorable. Not on how much time you wasted on it.
fresh air don't mean anything to you because you're 16 and video games are new and exciting to you
he's bullshitting and just trying to troll up the thread anyway
i played this with my gf and we both greatly enjoyed it. she woke up early for work this morning so she could watch the ending with me, she never does that.
i'm sick of most video games, even the ones that get hyped up as being creative or against the mainstream with good stories and shit that i used to like have worn thin for me (did not understand the love at all for disco elysium, for example). obra dinn is the only example i can think of in recent memory that actually deserved the attention it got, legitimately amazing game.
Did you play the demo or something?
Have you played Wuppo? It's a bit more similar to normal video games, but I've kept talking it up here for like 3 years now, because it really 'ad me 'avin a giggle.
never heard of it, i'll look into it though
it's a game that has some of the most varied gameplay i've ever seen in a side scroller/adventure game
tasks include
>eating ice cream without dripping it on the carpet
>beating up a guy for stealing your tv, or buying your tv back if you're a bitch
>riding the train
>getting a job
>hard as fuck bosses
Bomsoir, mes amis ! You like my Celtic tattoos, no ?
man, fuck this guy.
those aren't celtic tattoos, but they're obviously close.
i accidentally cheated for him after trying to google the tattoos and he came up because everyone else also googled him.
So everyone fucked up on him and french guy?
It's honestly kind of hard to tell some ethnicities apart in monochrome. At times I couldn't tell if someone was a fat Chinese or African.
I didn't fuck up on the french guy
Can be seen protecting his boss right before their deaths. Shirt is historically accurate.
I still think that this story could easily be turned into a movie.
got bored after like 2 hours. it's just the same shit all the time. go into a memory, try to figure out who a guy is, write in your book. also it makes my eyes hurt
I agree with you 100%. The only thing keeping me from finishing this game is that it causes my laptop to fucking overheat and shut down within half an hour of starting it.
Goddamn, zoomers are so used to tattoos that they consider that normal for english man in 1800-s?
>try to figure out who a guy is
Nice reduction, mate. It's like every game is same button presses again and again.
Yeah, I had the same feeling. It's a lot better than the sum of its parts.
>english man
Based retard.
>words
same applies for Disco Elysium
I mean, there is only one nationality in the crew list that fits ooga-booga stereotype. I silved him even before there was a mention of french guy.
>e not too braindead to notice the giant fucking numbers on the side of the hammocks you'll have it all within two hours.
As I remember the game, they aren't that helpful, you can't see most of the faces.
Why was one of the hammocks marked with an X instead of a number? It had no relevance to anything as far as I could tell and it didn't change any of the answers I would have given.
Maybe it's 10 in roman.
Most of the fucking crew were savages and lower-class French were always close enough to barbarians.
Play Infra if you like autistic details and hidden stuff.
Maybe, but they didn't have such hard on on tattoing themselves.
This right there isn't very similar to Obra Dinn, but it is some damn fine autism, can recommend.
Fucking crazy how a single man can craft masterpiece after a masterpiece by constantly uniquely reviving stale or dead genres. First Papers Please, now Return of the Obra Dinn. Puts most AAA devs in shame. How can you even stop him?
It remains to be seen if he can do it for a third time.
it didn't belong to a single person, there are two different people sleeping in it at different points.
I believe he halfway made the game to have a "hard mode" and abandoned it before release due to this single hammock.
We will see after 6 years.
Thanks for the rec, can't imagine shelling out 29.99 for it, will wait for steam sale.
it was so fucking kino, honestly one of the best video games I ever played. A modular "very short but god tier experience" to me. I've played AAAshit like monster hunter world and faggot souls for hundreds of hours, but I still think the few hours of Return of the Obra Dinn were alot more valuable, memorable and interesting than them. It was a masterpeice game. A very, very, very refined gem.
this game had "bossfights" in its own way.
Bought it for about 20€, Played it for 40 h and completed it. Still secret things to find and do, so I will replay it after the Summer I guess. It's quite the adventure.
What?
god damn learn to aim niggas
why were the formosans on the ship in the first place? how did the second mate discover the shell and decide to kill so quickly over it? was confused about that
>It's amazing to think what a game like this with more funding and more varieties of mysteries to solve could be like.
It was good because it did not have those things.
I disagree, I want something more complex and harder to solve, that punishes guessing.
like, the idea that immediately springs to mind is a detective game where if you guess too much additional people get killed or etc. want more fleshed out characters with stories and motivations and tendencies.
>learn to aim
I believe they missed intentionally.
This thread again? What gives?
This guy has plenty of previous developing experience, including some AAA stuff. that's why.