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Gamestop will be carrying it also. I’ve put this game on my games to get list for 2016.

Fanmade alternate ending that made me smile!

(Heavy spoilers obviously!)

Intense Degree - 01 December 2015 11:17 AM

Fanmade alternate ending that made me smile!

(Heavy spoilers obviously!)

Helluva ending,definately a game changer.

I just finished LS. One hell of a story and well crafted piece of interactive fiction. With this and Dreamfall Chapters it’s pretty obious that Telltale has been left behind in the genre and should start stepping it up.

I always find it amazing how different opinions on games can be. I hope you won’t mind if I give my views on some of your post Nomad, accepting at all times that just because my views may differ to yours does not make me right or you wrong!

Game does terrible job of writing characters, super corny and one dimensional caricatures which devs thought good enough to be dragged throughout the season with same hook of missing girl and Fraternity politics.
It would have not been much of a disaster if it werent for characters like Nathan, Kate, Victoria etc who felt so meh and corny from the get go.

Although they weren’t on a Gabriel Knight level, my view was that the characters were rather good and fit the setting well. Seeing as we are dealing with teenagers at some kind of art school (can’t say I understand the American school system based on this game!) the brash, showy, superficial front of characters like Victoria was spot on and (don’t know how my playthrough differed from yours) I actually found her to have some depth behind that front in her reactions to Max and to the death of Kate

Neither Nathan, nor Kate or Victoria felt corny to me. I can see that some people would call them stereotypes, but for me they were believable enough in their high school moulds.

The missing girl part I thought was rather good. As it has all happened after Max arrives at the school she isn’t really emotionally invested in the disappearance, other than some curiosity and sympathy at witnessing the end of the “missing” poster campaign, but Rachel Amber becomes her problem through Chloe and the other events. I thought it was nicely done.

Melodramatic padded emotions till great twist in the end of ep3, and then again right after ep4 first hour back to same Nathan, Madsen, Victoria cheese. Not much faculty so you dont have to overthink about whodunit?
Game doesnt throw much suspects, the main threat was Nathan, smh, who look straight up Sims preset model.

Regarding the suspects I really didn’t see this game as a “whodunit”, although obviously a mystery of that type was involved in the story and cleared up well before the “last page”. I didn’t need a Sherlock Holmes type investigative game, this was more of a David Lynch “Blue Velvet” or “Mulholland Drive” type investigation for me.

Personally I wasn’t at all bothered by the graphics, but I do agree the backgrounds were lovely.

Dialogues were so pedantic too, trying to sound clever, Mahatma Max, Stockholm syndrome, to every action there is opposite reaction, and it was all in ep5, where writing should have seen some development. And these are not choice quotes there are worse.

The dialogues didn’t sound pedantic to me, and although I agree that there was some “trying to sound clever” this was fitting enough for 2 teenage girls & friends of at least moderate intelligence I thought and was certainly nowhere near a Dawson’s Creek level of ridiculousness. For me the writing represented the teenage conversation of the characters and was not an attempt to sound clever in itself

TTG writers are way better, they atleast make good characters, even side characters

From the “recent” TTG I have played I can’t agree with this. They were given good characters for TWAU which was written well enough. In GOT they were bland and one dimensional enough. To be fair I haven’t played any TWD or Borderlands. Maybe Minecraft is where they shine!

And then there is this cutscene rewind simulator to fix your mistakes are actually ways by dev evaded what once achieved by Shadow of Memories better, except here its just gimmick to tell story in more linear way with main ending choice in the final ep, minutes before final cutscene.

Perhaps this is semantics, but for me the time rewind was less of a gimmick and more of a basis for the gameplay of the game. I liked it, despite some flaws logical and otherwise and in terms of “choice” in games I felt that it knocked anything TTG have ever done into a cocked hat, men against boys.

Another crap game design decision was to shoehorn stealth. Hell they thought how to fall in budget and recycled all padded events and environments,to go through again in last recycled corridor chase, how cool, then crappy stealth section of same old events , again.
Wait one more time go through william scene and lose novelty of it.

100% with you on this. Why on earth a stealth sequence, and if so why so badly done? I presume this was meant to be a clever sequence full of meaning and realisation but it fell completely flat for me.

Now someone else’s turn to deconstruct what I have said!

I`m really enjoying this game (playing episode 3 right now) and I hope we`ll see more games like this from DONTNOD Entertainment in future. Had to pre-order that juicy limited box version too

nomadsoul - 11 December 2015 01:41 PM

For existing properties TTG does better, you have less to play with.
Still, Kenny, Vaughn, Carver, Vasquez, Ramsey, Snow etc over side cast of this game.
Anyone can see the quality difference.

I have to disagree here. Personally I found GOT to be be bland and the characters were poorly written. The characters taken from the TV-series felt more like hastily written fan service who did pretty much what you’d expect them to do and nothing more. The new characters were also pretty one dimensional and as a whole the game had only one good and well written character, the sister (whose name evades me) of the Forrester clan.