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So Dear Esther is a thing

Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's StockingNorth PoleRegistered User regular
edited July 2012 in Social Entropy++
Yeah I just sat down and "played" a "game" called "Dear Esther

It is basically a walk around an island, interspersed with monologue

it was very pretty and the music was very good, but the dialogue seemed overly flowery to me

plus where were the guns

nah but seriously check it out

in short

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVv99M1fqYg

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    has anyone else played this slightly disturbing and confusing piece of interactive fiction

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  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    The people who made Dear Esther are teaming up with Frictional Games (Penumbra, Amnesia) to make the Amnesia sequel

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CagMNLxa9M

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    I could see that working very well

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  • AneurhythmiaAneurhythmia Registered User regular
    has anyone else played this slightly disturbing and confusing piece of interactive fiction

    Yeah, pretty sure there was a thread. Orik even live streamed part of it at one point.

  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    @orikaeshigitae is the one who told me to make this thread!

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    they say my dick is a thing too

    words like revolution are tossed around as well

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    your dick is the french revolution

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    yeah my left tit hangin

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    I'm a bit stuck on the Buoy stage.

    Admittedly, I am only level 29, but the mobs around there seem incredibly tough and I don't know if a few more levels would really make a difference. Maybe I'm assigning my skill points wrong? I am a warrior, so I figured just pump attack and don't look back. I downed Donnelly without much trouble, so I figured just keep on doing what I was doing. But this fucking buoy stage, I die so damn fast.

    Am I just screwed here? It is early in the game, perhaps I should just reroll and be a bit more careful in how I spent my skill points.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Also, fuck seagulls. Why do they do so much damage?

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  • Lenore03Lenore03 Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    Does anyone else feel like the movement speed is too slow? Is there a run button I'm missing?

    Ive only played about an hour or so and I'm amazed at how unnervingly beautiful it can be.
    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    I'm a bit stuck on the Buoy stage.

    Admittedly, I am only level 29, but the mobs around there seem incredibly tough and I don't know if a few more levels would really make a difference. Maybe I'm assigning my skill points wrong? I am a warrior, so I figured just pump attack and don't look back. I downed Donnelly without much trouble, so I figured just keep on doing what I was doing. But this fucking buoy stage, I die so damn fast.

    Am I just screwed here? It is early in the game, perhaps I should just reroll and be a bit more careful in how I spent my skill points.

    Just growing pains. The birthmark won't fully dissapear until youre 6 or so.

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  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    I would guess the movement is deliberately slow

    if you could run the game would be over in like 20 minutes

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  • ZayZay yes i am zay Registered User regular
    a thing, huh?

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Lenore03 wrote: »
    Does anyone else feel like the movement speed is too slow? Is there a run button I'm missing?

    Ive only played about an hour or so and I'm amazed at how unnervingly beautiful it can be.
    You gotta find the Dash Boots.

    Blow up rocks if you can spare the bombs.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    Man, I loves me some Amnesia.

    But unless this next guy's also got amnesia, the title doesn't make much sense.

    As far as Dear Esther, I dunno about a game where I just walk around listening to narration. Depends on the story I guess.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited July 2012
    I heard somebody disparaging gulls up in here.

    Also The Void was a much more atmospheric game than this.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    How Art is this

    on a scale from Braid to The Passage

  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    Zay wrote: »
    a thing, huh?

    well it isn't a game that's for sure

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    your dick is the french revolution

    bloody and mostly pointless?

  • Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    your dick is the french revolution

    bloody and mostly pointless?

    so many beheadings

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  • Lenore03Lenore03 Registered User regular
    I saw the golden rule drawn in the sand. Was about to point it out to my criptic hiking guide, but then I realised he might not have taken art history. Didn't want to embarrass him. And also, he's just a voice in my head.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    your dick is the french revolution

    bloody and mostly pointless?

    so many beheadings

    Ah, yes, of course, of course.

  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    The guys behind this are apparently pretty big cheeses in our universities computing department

    I should go over and say hi sometime

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    This is a thing that i do not get at all.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Alex Navarro????

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    This is my favorite thing to happen from HL2

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    The ending for me was gorgeous and really touched on a lot of subjects I had been thinking about when I first played through the game; stuff like synchronicity, death, love, guilt, and so on

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • Lenore03Lenore03 Registered User regular
    Kadith wrote: »
    This is a thing that i do not get at all.
    Walk slowly around an island. Watch pretty scenery do pretty scenery things.

  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Registered User regular
    I thought this was fantastic and really beautiful, but the story didn't make sense to me until the end. Wish the voice overs were more focused and less flowery, as Kurbio said.

  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    Enjoyed it, it was a very pretty and very strange little short story that I partially ruined for myself by constantly expecting a 'gamey' thing to happen next.

  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    Shoe I saw from your tweets that you were playing this for the first time on Raptr and thought to myself "STEAM SALE", so went to the Steam sale and bought it. I have not played it yet, but when I have, I will have played it.

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  • Vann DirasVann Diras Registered User regular
    hey neat some kind soul gifted this to me out of the blue. looks interesting, gonna give it a go after i beat a thing and get some other games uninstalled to free up the space

  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    I played this

    I even made a little production about playing it, waiting until night time/when I could play it through uninterrupted and all that jazz


    gorgeous game, I think, it took me a few minutes to get past my preliminary gut atmospheric setting + slow movement = m-m-m-monsters!!! reaction but I really liked exploring the setting and I mostly liked the story it told and the way it told it

    so far I've only played it once though, I know that each run through is supposed to have differences in the narration but for me it was not an experience that really lent itself to reloading from the last save, as it were


    I am glad I got the thing though, and I am relatively sure what I will end up doing is reinstalling it every few months when I'm in that kind of mood

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    i played this last night. thought it was kinda slow going until i found the sniper rifle in the cave. Then the UFO's came and dropped zombies all around.

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  • Piggy ChimpPiggy Chimp Registered User regular
    Tube made me play this so I could learn to walk around in games and it was most lovely. I realised at the end that there had been little clues all the way through it and they were clever. Now I have sort of forgotten what the twist was but I am sure it was worth it (it might even have made me emotional). I remember I liked the sound you make as you walk and the fact that it was really hard to fall in the water and die. I really liked the inside of caves bit. And it was the first game I ever played in full so it will always be special to me.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    She spent like twenty minutes on that post.

  • BEAST!BEAST! Adventurer Adventure!!!!!Registered User regular
    I bought a game like this.

    In fact, it WAS this game.

    I have not played yet.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    She made me proof read it.

  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    She made me proof read it.

    this is wonderful.

  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    She made me proof read it.

    this is wonderful.

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