Been playing:

Started and finished Firewatch. Not sure what I think of it yet.  Then re-started Doki Doki Literature Club (it hs no cloud saves so had to start again on Steam Deck).  I have remained spoiler free for this game for years, but know there is a twist and I think I'm about to get to it.  It better be good as for now, this game is DULLLLLLL.

I about 90% of the time that annoys me. You think a game is coming to a natural close then.... surprise 12 more hours. TLOU 2 was a memorable example.

Aspro, I wanna hear some Firewatch impressions. I really enjoyed it, for the story.

travo said:

Tax season is coming up...yay? I'm debating whether to do my own or hire someone.

travo said:

Aspro, I wanna hear some Firewatch impressions. I really enjoyed it, for the story.

I will settle on my impressions, probably in a podcast. For now I am unresolved on it. But here are some notes. SPOILERS AHEAD EVERYONE.

- I don't think they dwelt on the emotional drag of his wife's malady to give sufficient currency for his action to take the job.

- They undercut, then never resolved something that happened early on, when the friend on the radio did not realise she was still on and said."... no he has no idea about it at all"


- As a result I never trusted her, which took away any emotional link they were trying to develop between the characters.


- They built up the grand consiracy pretty well, then deflated it and sort of ended it by going "Oh well, I guess that's that"  They set up so many opportunities for a grand let down -- a great end would have been she was in on the conspiracy (and that it existed) and that the helicopter was not coming back for him and he burnt up as fast as a Malibu holiday house.


- Then when you do go, well that was a waste of time, and at least hit on her to see if the relationship can go somewhere she's like "Nah I got shit to do, call me maybe"

So I guess in a nutshell that's my problem with the narrative.  Then from a gameplay perspective -- it's a walking simulator.

So I felt like when you go to a fine restaurant, because it looked like a top notch meal with plenty of craft and thought, but when I was done I was like -- that's it? No desert?

travo said:

robio said:

Yep, I think we were all kind of gamespot refugees. After that controversy with Kane and Lynch, The forum took a big hit. Plus if you like the Wii, there wasn't a lot of great conversation to be had there. So I think that's the reason most of us found a path over here.

It wasn't Kane and Lynch that drove me away but when GG left.

There was a lot of stuff going wrong with gamespot by the time I left. I think when they blew up the Unions that was the final straw.

As a joke I tried to get us all to go and flood the GGD a few years ago and start posting actively as a troll, I think on AC helped out. Joke was on us, it was completely dead. Like tumbleweeds rolling thorugh, stray dogs and shoeless bloated children staggering around asking if we had seen a moderator, and surely the moderators were real and would come back...

I wandered onto internet fora somewhere between Star Wars the Phantom Menace showing in cinema's and the launch of the GameCube.  I first started reading GamesRadar a year or two prior, but ended up at Gamespot and a Eurogamer a while later.  I made an account at Gamespot back when posting something actually took what seemed like several minutes and a lot of people still used their actual names.  I always stuck to the GGD, although I ended up with the Virtual Underground quite some time after they introduced Unions.  I thought that the whole idea of user created boards was a bad idea as it would drain quality forumites from the main boards.

aspro said:

As a joke I tried to get us all to go and flood the GGD a few years ago and start posting actively as a troll, I think on AC helped out. Joke was on us, it was completely dead. Like tumbleweeds rolling thorugh, stray dogs and shoeless bloated children staggering around asking if we had seen a moderator, and surely the moderators were real and would come back...

Yup.  Now you made me check the place out again darnit.  I'm too melancholic of a type to look back at such things!  I looked at my user account and it says I joined 24/02/2003, but I was there before, only all of that data has been lost in time.  Browsed through the list of users I followed or who followed me.  Man it's really been a long time.

edit: I've also made more posts here at the VGPress than that are recorded at GS.  Huzzah for commitment.

aspro said:

How about discord? They make it easy and the way I see it it's the primary mode or game streaming? I'm not even a casual expert on the mater though.