Gone Home dev is making another first-person exploration game - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595381][B]If someone with a neckbeard and a MLP t-shirt walks by me on the street it's not going to take more than two seconds to figure out that that guy is [I]probably[/I] a tool.[/B] The same thing applies to that pic, even if I knew nothing about this game or the developers the only thing I would still see in that picture after a quick glance is two ungrateful douches.[/QUOTE] this is the most painful red-herring compression i've seen this week and it's only monday you know they were asked to pose in that picture, right?

[QUOTE=meppers;45595375]Sorry that was too harsh :\ Post edited[/QUOTE] like if you don't want to play a video game about someone who's transgender you're free not to play it. I don't see how the concept is without merit because the internet has convinced people that this nonsense: [quote]Nature-valera, the trans-queer that identifies as a mandarin orange.[/quote] represents anyone on planet earth and not just a collection of fakeposts that people pass around in credulity

'tumblr-tier fagfest starring shondra, the trans-queer that identifies as a mandarin orange.' hmmmm this seems like a valid criticism, almost as valid as the 'douchey look' on the developers face in that picture. i guess gone home did suck

[QUOTE=Mr.95;45595209]It's not the LGBT couple thing that people find dumb, it's the story(the aspects not the lgbt bit HOLD YOUR HORSES), presentation, 90's saturation, and the fact that you can beat it in about two minutes and its definitely not worth the money. That and we're just getting to a point in general where indie 'art' games are starting to be seen as more and more pretentious. That would honestly be gold[/QUOTE] I think the real problem is people think anything that requires more than 30 seconds of critical thinking is automatically deemed "pretentious artistic shit." It's the same reason Hollywood does nothing but churn out superhero action movie after superhero action movie, and it's the same reasons people who know nothing about art think all performance art is pretentious.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595426]There's nothing in Gone Home that requires any critical thinking skills, the gameplay is practically just a straight line and the story is incredibly obvious.[/QUOTE] The emotional connection between the characters and the commentary the game makes on the struggles of LGBT youth in their coming of age aren't worth more than 30 seconds of your time to think about?

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;45595437]The emotional connection between the characters and the commentary the game makes on the struggles of LGBT youth in their coming of age aren't worth more than 30 seconds of your time to think about?[/QUOTE] That would be fine, for a $2.99 app on iOS/Android given it has nothing else to offer. $19.99 on Steam? Get real.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595426]There's nothing in Gone Home that requires any critical thinking skills, the gameplay is practically just a straight line and the story is incredibly obvious.[/QUOTE] "the only critical thinking i need to do in a videogame is in constructed predefined challenges"

[QUOTE=Korova;45595501]That would be fine, for a $2.99 app on iOS/Android given it has nothing else to offer. $19.99 on Steam? Get real.[/QUOTE] people sometimes spend 50-60 dollars for a outing (going to the movies etc). if people feel like they got their money's worth from a 20 dollar experimental computer game then why bother to groan on about it. do you have a source of income?

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595529]Yeah because walking around is so thought-provoking am I right?? Get over yourself.[/QUOTE] have you actually bothered to review the game more in depth instead of being weird about it. yeah the gameplay isn't for everyone but the plot isn't something to sneeze at if you look under the hood

All I know is that it better have Goku and Spongebob.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595426]There's nothing in Gone Home that requires any critical thinking skills, the gameplay is practically just a straight line and the story is incredibly obvious.[/QUOTE] ok 1. don't play it if you don't like it, no need for the dumb circlejerking about it 2. just described 90% of games and yet i rarely see this level of hatred directed towards those... wonder why!

There is nothing wrong with games having a linear story. You can say the story is shit but bringing up linearity as a down side is silly. None Linear stories are incredibly hard to make, and even harder to make good and engaging.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595637]Because we've experienced those games and discussed them a thousand times before, there's no point in calling out Call of Duty 27: Moon Warfare over it's linear story-line & game-play because anyone with a functioning brain can tell you that it's bad. Not that the story in Gone Home is bad per se.. I've just heard it before and am not interested.[/QUOTE] if you're flat-out not interested, then why are you continuing to be melodramatic about the game itself?

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595529]Yeah because walking around is so thought-provoking am I right?? Get over yourself.[/QUOTE] if you thought the walking was the thought-provoking part then , well

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595720]Two reasons: 1) I'm bored 2) Monday night & there's nothing to do There's no better way to spend a Monday night than getting myself stirred up in internet discussions I mean I guess I could fight world hunger or rob a bank but.. nah[/QUOTE] you're being overly obtuse and your only excuse is "nah i'm bored i'm just twiddling my thumbs". read this out loud to yourself, and hopefully, you'll realize how banal and rude this sounds

[QUOTE=Ownederd;45595741]you're being overly obtuse and your only excuse is "nah i'm bored i'm just twiddling my thumbs". read this out loud to yourself, and hopefully, you'll realize how banal and rude this sounds[/QUOTE] Could be worse. Ragekipz doesn't even have half a good excuse for being as mad about the game as he is in the other thread.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595770]I read it out in my head before I posted and it sounded fine.. still sounds fine now[/QUOTE] how does the fact that your posts are rude and obtuse go over your head in a gone home thread of all places

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595637]Not that the story in Gone Home is bad per se.. I've just heard it before and am not interested.[/QUOTE] i would argue a lot of people [I]haven't [/I]heard it before in their games, or at least not with the level of normalcy that it's treated with in GH there's a reason that it struck such a chord with the people who liked it [QUOTE=Atlascore;45595770]I read it out in my head before I posted and it sounded fine.. still sounds fine now Sorry that I was having fun chief, I'll turn in my gun and badge[/QUOTE] some people take this seriously cause they really care about games, kind of rude to just waste people's time when you didn't really care in the first place. i mean thats your prerogative but just be prepared to be called out for it

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595856]Hey in the grand scheme of things my posts in this thread were like a 2/10 on the rude scale. I mean I'm not one of those creeps that irrationally hate LGBT people, and I think the massive number of guns in America is actually kind of bad.[/QUOTE] ok? i didn't even talk about this when i was talking about you? i was talking about the game itself. maybe you should stop creating red-herrings that just detract? aska49 has it down pretty well why no one in this thread is going to treat your argument seriously

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45595720]Two reasons: 1) I'm bored 2) Monday night & there's nothing to do There's no better way to spend a Monday night than getting myself stirred up in internet discussions I mean I guess I could fight world hunger or rob a bank but.. nah[/QUOTE] is this what the average gone home internet critic is like? pretty lol

[QUOTE=Zeke129;45594849]They should have been the ones to do the Amnesia sequel instead of the Dear Esther devs[/QUOTE] There'd be no monsters, and in the end you find out the machine is a water heater, which you fix so the shower won't be cold.

i hope you guys know you're dealing with top-level contrarians here if everyone liked gone home then you can bet your ass they'd be hating on it

im guessing now instead of a leasbian lovestory, it'll be a homoerotic story involving guys

[QUOTE=Korova;45595278][t]http://thefullbrightcompany.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/vgx_lording.jpg[/t] I know you can't judge a book by its cover but come on, what's the first thing you think when you look at these people? First impressions alone?[/QUOTE] Well they make a better first impression than Gabe Newell does and he's gaming jesus.

[QUOTE=Banned?;45595769]Could be worse. Ragekipz doesn't even have half a good excuse for being as mad about the game as he is in the other thread.[/QUOTE] "It's literally not jesus, therefore it sucks" I'm not even paraphrasing that much.

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;45595055]I don't get all the circlejerking, Gone Home was a great game. It's not the developers fault that people think a video game needs guns, explosions, and no meaningful story.[/QUOTE] I rather play other adventure games, fuck look at Stanley and papers please. both display a good story and setting without being pretentious as fuck and incorporating game play.

[QUOTE=codemaster85;45596160]I rather play other adventure games, fuck look at Stanley and papers please. both display a good story and setting without being pretentious as fuck and incorporating game play.[/QUOTE] so does the Last of Us but neither stanley parable, papers please, gone home, and the last of us are comparable to each other these comparisons are awfully reminiscent of Like Skyrim with Guns

[QUOTE=Juniez;45596180]so does the Last of Us but neither stanley parable, papers please, gone home, and the last of us are comparable to each other these comparisons are awfully reminiscent of Like Skyrim with Guns[/QUOTE] The Stanley Parable and Gone Home are directly comparable because they're both games about walking around a mundane environment and having things happen. It Gone Home the things are incidental like seeing what the tastes, thoughts, and problems of the family are. In The Stanley Parable the things are narrative jokes and commentary on the meaning of choice in videogames.

[QUOTE=Juniez;45596180]so does the Last of Us but neither stanley parable, papers please, gone home, and the last of us are comparable to each other these comparisons are awfully reminiscent of Like Skyrim with Guns[/QUOTE] No they can be compared especially stanley parable. Those three games all share a purpose of telling a story and not really focused on the gameplay it's self. Stanley has superb writing and choices, while papers has morally questionable actions you can do to set up the dreariness of the setting and story. Gone home is literally just going from point A to point B and clicking/looking at objects with no choice at all. It has a cute story but its not nearly as immersive due to the player not having any real input to the game. You could say Last of us is the same, but there's acting and actual challenging gameplay at times making it still more immersive.

i don't understand why people defend gone home in general, considering that it really didn't have much going for it story-wise anyway. if the same story were conveyed through any other medium, would it have sold nearly as well? probably not. it was just the fact that they used such a medium to convey the opposite of one would expect in it, thus causing many to view it as an artistic and unique approach, which it was, admittedly. ultimately, i think it became important because socially we hold barrier breaking work in high regard. through a critical lens, it falls flat.