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I watched some more Late to the Party(s) recently of: Layers of Fear, Fahrenheit (aka Indigo Prophecy), and Beyond: Two Souls.
I tried Layers of Fear because it's another Bloober Team game (like The Medium), and I wanted to see if it was scary or whatever. My verdict is that it isn't terribly scary, though I can see how certain things would spook me if I were playing this on my own. I like the mechanic of the rooms changing when you leave or enter them, but the whole corridor schtick is lifted wholesale from P.T. and I'm not just saying that. I saw some footage of P.T. just yesterday, and most of the corridors in Layers of Fear look like they've been CTRL+C CTRL+V.
(There is a LOT of the corridor stuff, as well, so you can't even say it was just an influence. The video I watched was 45 minutes long, and a lot of that was corridor based).
Also, based on what I saw, I 100% think that the artist killed his wife. It's supposed to be ambiguous, and you make your own mind up, but I don't know. Feels pretty clear cut to me.
I might go on to watch a full Let's Play but, then again, I also might not. (I won't be playing it myself as it's first person, and YAY NAUSEA! And also Bloober Team can go get in the bin for all I care).
Fahrenheit, I just clicked out of idle curiosity. I either had forgotten or didn't know it's a David Cage game. It looks terrible! Which is really all I have to say about it!
And then I clicked Beyond: Two Souls because I wanted to see why everyone on the entire planet, except for maybe three people, think it is a terrible game. Because that is literally the only thing I know about it.
(it is also a David Cage game, which is why I think it came up in my recs).
And honestly, I thought it was okay? It certainly looked more fun than Fahrenheit, although I imagine again, the first person sections would make me nauseous, esp because the camera seems to be drunk. But then I read up about the game, because that's a thing I do, and I discovered what a total creep David Cage was to Elliot Page and shit son, that put me off.
I also watched Aoife stream the start of Nioh, and I don't know if I would actually want to play it or not. I initially did because it has yokai, but then I was put off because people said it was like Dark Souls (I wrongly thought it was a Fromsoft game at first!), and then I changed my mind, and now I'm not sure at all!
I came away from the stream wanting to play an SMT game, but ended up not doing because I couldn't decide which one.
I also joined Board Game Arena and spent an afternoon playing Backgammon versus some random internet people (you can't play against CPU players apart from in your tutorial game). It was fun, if weird. Playing versus people I don't know is why I don't play MMOs (apart from I just don't find them appealing). Nobody talks to you unless they use the text chat, but of the people I played against, only one person did that. It reminded me how terrible I actually am at Backgammon.
I don't know how often I'll actually play stuff on there, but it's nice to have, I guess?
(I do actually like board/tabletop games a lot - I grew up playing them with my BFF and her mum - which is why I've been following Dicebreaker from the start, but I haven't had much opportunity to play them, especially not at the moment).
Yet again, I don't have a good conclusion for this post so I'm just going to end it awkwardly here.
I tried Layers of Fear because it's another Bloober Team game (like The Medium), and I wanted to see if it was scary or whatever. My verdict is that it isn't terribly scary, though I can see how certain things would spook me if I were playing this on my own. I like the mechanic of the rooms changing when you leave or enter them, but the whole corridor schtick is lifted wholesale from P.T. and I'm not just saying that. I saw some footage of P.T. just yesterday, and most of the corridors in Layers of Fear look like they've been CTRL+C CTRL+V.
(There is a LOT of the corridor stuff, as well, so you can't even say it was just an influence. The video I watched was 45 minutes long, and a lot of that was corridor based).
Also, based on what I saw, I 100% think that the artist killed his wife. It's supposed to be ambiguous, and you make your own mind up, but I don't know. Feels pretty clear cut to me.
I might go on to watch a full Let's Play but, then again, I also might not. (I won't be playing it myself as it's first person, and YAY NAUSEA! And also Bloober Team can go get in the bin for all I care).
Fahrenheit, I just clicked out of idle curiosity. I either had forgotten or didn't know it's a David Cage game. It looks terrible! Which is really all I have to say about it!
And then I clicked Beyond: Two Souls because I wanted to see why everyone on the entire planet, except for maybe three people, think it is a terrible game. Because that is literally the only thing I know about it.
(it is also a David Cage game, which is why I think it came up in my recs).
And honestly, I thought it was okay? It certainly looked more fun than Fahrenheit, although I imagine again, the first person sections would make me nauseous, esp because the camera seems to be drunk. But then I read up about the game, because that's a thing I do, and I discovered what a total creep David Cage was to Elliot Page and shit son, that put me off.
I also watched Aoife stream the start of Nioh, and I don't know if I would actually want to play it or not. I initially did because it has yokai, but then I was put off because people said it was like Dark Souls (I wrongly thought it was a Fromsoft game at first!), and then I changed my mind, and now I'm not sure at all!
I came away from the stream wanting to play an SMT game, but ended up not doing because I couldn't decide which one.
I also joined Board Game Arena and spent an afternoon playing Backgammon versus some random internet people (you can't play against CPU players apart from in your tutorial game). It was fun, if weird. Playing versus people I don't know is why I don't play MMOs (apart from I just don't find them appealing). Nobody talks to you unless they use the text chat, but of the people I played against, only one person did that. It reminded me how terrible I actually am at Backgammon.
I don't know how often I'll actually play stuff on there, but it's nice to have, I guess?
(I do actually like board/tabletop games a lot - I grew up playing them with my BFF and her mum - which is why I've been following Dicebreaker from the start, but I haven't had much opportunity to play them, especially not at the moment).
Yet again, I don't have a good conclusion for this post so I'm just going to end it awkwardly here.