Given your Halo reference I thought the discussion was mainly about gameplay freedom and not story branching. Maybe Hellblade 1 is a better example. It’s extremely short, completely linear and fully prescriptive - there is really only one way to play it and no customization. Yet many people find it compelling and worthwhile. I just don’t think the reason 1866 failed was that it was over prescriptive. I think it was just not a very fun game.
Even games that are purely quick-time events like Until Dawn seem popular enough, and there’s not much open-endedness or freedom in that gameplay design, you just execute the prompts. I haven’t played The Order 1866 myself, but I’d wager the problem was that it wasn’t fun to play, not that it was short and prescriptive in its gameplay.
I don’t know that it needs more than one prescribed way to play, it just needs to be “good”. I know that’s a vague term though. But a short, cinematic well executed game sounds pretty appealing to me to be honest. But maybe I’ve just been playing too many lengthy CRPGs lately. I find myself longing for something short and sweet.
Interesting. Fans of good racing are similarly “very concerned” Mexico City might remain on the calendar. Let’s just ax it and call it a win-win, what say you?
What the fuck is “Magazines”
This but unironically. I could never get over it with Kbin and still can’t with Mbin. It’s a bad name for a community/sub and I’ll die on that hill. You can never get me to call a meme shitpost an “article” in a “magazine”.
Not sure, but I’d also like to know. Sounds like a great feature!
Thank you for keeping Lemmy lore alive, you’re doing god’s work.
I also deeply dislike the phrase for much of the same reason as the other replies. It’s a phrase that evokes high-functioning TikTokers looking to quirkily stand out from the crowd and in general downplays the reality of many neurodivergent people and their very real, very tangible struggles.
Thank god GOG allows you to turn off auto updates and/or do easy version rollbacks.
I played Hellblade last year and found it a worthwhile experience. There was some hype for the sequal, but from what I garner it largely threw away what made the original interesting and compelling narratively, so I have heard most people who liked the first game dislike the second. It looks stunning though.