Posted on Tue 21 February 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
I’ve thought about a little piece to sum up what can be learned from Deadly Premonition. So far I’ve arrived at the following conclusions:
“Tank controls” are outdated. You don’t want to use them for controlling a person. You actually don’t want to use them …
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Posted on Wed 15 February 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
I think my biggest issue of yesterday’s experiment was the fact that I don’t want to like Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.
From the very first moment I saw a video preview on that particular title I disliked the visual style it uses because it …
Continue readingPosted on Mon 23 January 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
To be honest I was tempted to start this post with the same “Welcome back to Let’s play Deadly Premonition” that supergreatfriend always used in his videos. Though I figured that a) might be kind of mean and b) I already did that in the last post. Anyway I …
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Posted on Wed 18 January 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
What was that talk about the Nightingales sticking together? What was all that “we need our combined strength to defeat Mercer”? Were you lying to me, Karliah? Why haven’t you been honest to me about your motivations, Brynjolf? I feel disappointed. After all we have accomplished together? Rebuilding the …
Continue readingPosted on Wed 18 January 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
Welcome back to the 4th part of this mini-series about supergreatfriend‘s Deadly Premonition LP. Again, there will be notes and comments about the LP. This is not the final article about what can be learned from DP. That one will be released as soon as I’m through with …
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Posted on Tue 17 January 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
Recently I’ve completed watching the Deadly Premonition LP. Of course I haven’t sat through all remaining 26 parts at once but I came around it during several days. Since bullet points are inherently evil I will try to reduce their usage in this post. Of course, dear reader …
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Posted on Thu 12 January 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
The following paragraphs are quoted from an interview that gamesradar did with Michel Ancel and Gabrielle Shrager (Rayman):
Continue readingGR: What, if anything, do you think is wrong with the games industry right now? Or right, for that matter?
MA: It’s very hard to emit an opinion on what’s …
Posted on Tue 10 January 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
Back to a second and third session of Deadly Premonition it was. I have now progressed as far as having watched part 10 of the LP and got to enjoy a kind of special service of this LPer for his viewers: You see, the hero, Agent York, references quite a …
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Posted on Sun 08 January 2012 • Tagged with Video Games
I’ve just started watching the Deadly Premonitions Let’s Play and was surprised that I was instantly reminded of Alan Wake, another Let’s Play I’ve watched quite some time ago. This impression was probably caused by the fact that they both base characters and other things on …
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Posted on Mon 19 December 2011 • Tagged with Video Games
A study done by Vertical Slice and published on Gamasutra about horror games and their effects on players lists the following amongst its findings:
Continue readingThe closer a game resembles film, the more casual players are scared. Conversely, the less scripted a game is, the more the core players are scared …