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Post by bad guy™ on Jul 9, 2018 13:57:53 GMT -5
Heavy Rain is my favorite video game ever, looking forward to finally playing this Better than Heavy Rain to be honest, though that story was intense. |
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Post by punksnotdead on Nov 30, 2018 12:38:28 GMT -5
Picked this up on BF and started it last night. Pretty good so far. I just started the chapter where Minka Kelly tells Markus to look around Jericho. Definitely has a cool Blade Runner vibe to it, albeit a little too futuristic looking imo. It has almost a sterile feel to it. Heavy Rain had that gritty hook to it right out of the gate and that is missing with this one for me. Clancy Brown is great. I liked the opening scene with Connor a ton but nothing with him since has really lived up to that moment. He's felt like kind of a shell since that scene and Hank even projects on him as more of a tin can than cerebral machine, which I think is the total opposite of who "it" is in the opening scene. I'm sure he'll continue to grow, because they are hammering you over head with that theme.
This is obviously something that needs to be replayed. I've made a few decision mistakes by pressing the wrong button and I didn't really understand the interrogation mini game with the stress until it was too late. I get that the robots are slaves and they're becoming sentient, a tale as old as time, but nothing feels important. I don't know what's on the line, and we've seen plenty of robot revolution stories. So I'm hoping this starts to break new ground as the story progresses.
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Post by punksnotdead on Dec 3, 2018 14:38:24 GMT -5
Finished it. I went with the robot romance ending to save the day. I kept Kara, Alice, Connor, Markus, North, Josh, and Hank alive. I shot Simon on the rooftop and lost Luther to the cop. I started to go back and poke around different scenarios, primarily to get the magazines I missed. I had Kara rob the store and stay in the motel, when I slept in the car originally.
I liked Connor's story the most. We saw him fullfil his mission as programmed to start the game, meet Hank, their friendship struggles as they feel each other out but then grow, and then we see Connor break out (or choose to do so) over the course of the game as he finally meets Markus. I got the buddy hug after the credits, which I thought was kind of cool. The callbacks to Sumo and Cole were perfectly inserted into the double Connor scenario. I thought the last ditch Amanda effort was a great element as well. I'm going to let him kill Markus, but I haven't done it yet.
Did anyone else think it was weird we were playing Kara's scenario and she absolutely wasn't necessary for the entirety of the story? Like she crosses paths with Jericho but she could have died in the house, not met Markus, and not made it to Canada and none of it would have mattered, at all. I thought her story fell on its face when you find out Alice is a robot as well. Like it's a fun twist, but then you go, "oh, so it doesn't matter if Alice is left alone or not."
Overall, it's a generic robot revolution tale imo. It doesn't ask the hard questions like Blade Runner, and it doesn't push the ethical and moral limits of something like Westworld. So while I do think it's a fun game, and worth the experience, it wasn't even in the same neighborhood for me as Heavy Rain, which tore at my soul with every decision. It didn't even have the pulse pounding elements of Indigo Prophecy where you're on the run the entire time. It lacked the originality of Beyond Two Souls, or the prospect of war to come. It's pretty much a flawless mechanical story for this genre. The interactiveness and the pace at which it moves is great, but I just wasn't really invested into any of the characters outside of Hank, and by extension Connor. I was rooting for Markus to bag North because every hero deserves a Minka Kelly, but I was just under whelmed.
7 out of 10 I guess? With the 7 largely being for Connor's story. There were the obvious themes of slavery, and it mirrored Trump's war on immigration quite a bit, but I just kept waiting for it to feel special or unique or hit me with something challenging emotionally and I never felt it take that next step. Maybe I would have felt differently had I gotten one of the bleaker endings, which I'll aim to get on replays as I jump around the flow charts. I wanted a great story, and all I got was truisms.
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Post by Henchmen4Hire on Dec 3, 2018 19:32:32 GMT -5
What's this game about? The title makes it sound like a Robocop-becomes-human-again simulator. I really hope that's what it is lol
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Post by punksnotdead on Dec 5, 2018 11:44:51 GMT -5
What's this game about? The title makes it sound like a Robocop-becomes-human-again simulator. I really hope that's what it is lol It's about a society in 2038 who lives amongst androids. The androids were designed to do tedious work humans don't need to waste time on like cleaning your house, picking up stuff from the store, or making your meals. There are 3 main story arcs, each different. Some of the androids have been breaking out of their programming/becoming sentient, called deviants, and the story intertwines around three characters as they journey that narrative. Connor is a hostage negotiator who works with the police to try and hunt down the deviants. Kara is a home model who saves a little girl from a bad environment but is on the run, in a very Underground Railroad style. And lastly we have Markus, who was owned by a great owner but loses his home and is on the path of leading an android revolution. It's a pick your ending adventure/story game. So if you like Telltale games like Walking Dead/Wolf Among Us, Until Dawn or any of QD's previous games (Indigo Prophecy/Heavy Rain/Beyond Two Souls), then it's the exact same format. I'd argue this is probably the best of the bunch in-terms of playability and functionailty, even though it's not my favorite story of the group. It's a Telltale game on steroids. You could kind of argue Connor's story is RoboCop becoming human again, assuming you choose that route, but I wouldn't say it's exactly like that haha. I grabbed it for $20 on Black Friday and it was definitely worth it. |
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