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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - It's FOLKING marvellous! 360/PS3/Steam

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  • pricerpricer Registered User regular
    edited December 2013
    Double success, as I bought Brother on sale and got the PS3 controller working at a workable level (http://forums.pcsx2.net/ - motioninjoy had limited success). I'm still playing through, but the game is inherently good at world-building:
    it was a totally normal world right until when the trolls appeared, but my reaction was like "well, why wouldn't trolls exist here", rather than "trolls?!"
    Secondly, the way the game imparts both independent persona's of the brothers through gestures and actions is great. This is shaping up to be my GOTY alongside Gone Home; I've just started TLoU (not really feeling it yet), I'm so bad at DOTA2 that I've gone back to playing SC2, while Papers Please makes you feel horrible (note: they are all great games).

    Though does anyone else find that unless the older brother is on the left-side of the screen, your brain flips?

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    pricer wrote: »
    Though does anyone else find that unless the older brother is on the left-side of the screen, your brain flips?

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  • pricerpricer Registered User regular
    Archsorcerer wrote: »
    pricer wrote: »
    Though does anyone else find that unless the older brother is on the left-side of the screen, your brain flips?

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    yes, that's me! :)

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    Okay, haven't read this thread for fear of spoilers, but how the fuck do I get it to use my 360 controller (I'm on PC of course). The Steam store page says "this game requires a controller" but all the controls default to keyboard and mouse and I see no way to change them so that's... weird.

  • mere_immortalmere_immortal So tasty!Registered User regular
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    Okay, haven't read this thread for fear of spoilers, but how the fuck do I get it to use my 360 controller (I'm on PC of course). The Steam store page says "this game requires a controller" but all the controls default to keyboard and mouse and I see no way to change them so that's... weird.

    Should just be useable right away as long as it's plugged in.

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    Well that's exciting. The rest of my games detect my controller just fine but this one doesn't.

  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Taking a break, got mildly stuck and died twice at the bit where
    a buncha dudes are sacrificing a lady. I thought I was supposed to piggy back on Big Brother and walk up to em, as the idol showed outside, like they were summoning me, but I guess not :P

    Also holy shit this entire chapter has been something else. From the implication of Giants with the big ol' castle to straight up fucking Giants laying there, recently dead. Amazing moment with the Little Brother cheering when we headshot'd the Giant with the crossbow, and Big Brother admonishing him for it.

    Oh brilliant
  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Beat it! I'm dumb.
    So that was 3 hours buildup to one button press. When I pressed the Big Brother button to start swimming. Woooow. What an amazing game.

    Oh brilliant
  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    It was very clever.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    TychoCelchuuu wrote: »
    Well that's exciting. The rest of my games detect my controller just fine but this one doesn't.

    Did you manage to get it working?

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited January 2014
    Game is available for 6 bucks on Amazon for those interested in the current sales: Link.

    EDIT: Sorry, link to the game.

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  • Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    So I finished this yesterday and teared up, it was brilliant and will be one ofthose games I will play every year.

  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 So Raven Registered User regular
    Just finished it, what a lovely game. :) Beautiful the whole way through.

    Feels.

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  • Kaboodles_The_AssassinKaboodles_The_Assassin Kill the meat. Save the metal.Registered User regular
    edited January 2014
    I just finished it as well. I must say I hated the ending.

    (big spoilers!)
    I was perfectly willing to just leave the horrible spider lady alone once I got her down to 2 legs, but the game wouldn't let me! So when big bro got gored trying to pluck off her last leg, I felt cheated, and basically spent the entire ending sequence angry at the game for not accommodating my weird pacifist tendencies. The whole journey felt kind of pointless by the end. I think the father would have far preferred to die than to lose his son. I did like how the game had you use LT at the end to complete tasks that big bro normally did.

    Horrible spider lady was such a fun character before the cave, too. I thought it was pretty neat that the damsel in distress character was so competent, what with the 30 foot flying leap and front-flip dismount off the fallen tree bridge. Her body language at the entrance to the cave totally gave her evilness away though.

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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    edited January 2014
    Yeah, I finished this ages ago when it first came out, and
    I wanted to spare her too once she was no longer able to threaten me. But it seems the lesson is that the world the brothers inhabit is not merciful. It's a pretty obvious hint (and foreshadowing) that the woman is not (or something other than) who she pretends to be, once she demonstrates super-human abilities.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Friendly neighborhood spider lady she wasn't.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    Wait you didn't find the
    30ft jumps to be telling?

    When that happened I knew something was amist.

  • InvisibleInkInvisibleInk Po,OrRegistered User regular
    When the two brothers tied a rope around their waists and then swung and dangled in midair it began to break reality for me and I had to start suspending my disbelief big time.
    By the time I got to
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    I just took it as more absurdity from a magical world.

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  • Kaboodles_The_AssassinKaboodles_The_Assassin Kill the meat. Save the metal.Registered User regular
    Once I saw
    big bro shimmying around the ledge holding what must have been a 200 pound log with little bro hanging from it for about 2 minutes straight, I figured people here were just made of sterner stuff. The crazy rope swinging part only cemented that idea.

    When I saw spider lady front-flip over the log and leap 30 feet across that gap I just thought "Wow! She's really athletic! That's pretty neat." and moved on. When I saw her eagerness at the entrance to the cave, I was pretty bummed, expecting that she would betray you somehow, though not anticipating the way she does it.

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  • RT800RT800 Registered User regular
    edited February 2014
    Just finished the game. I really enjoyed the mechanics and the puzzles and the scenery was beautiful. A good game for screenshots.
    That ending sure was a bummer though. The whole thing was a pointless tragedy.

    I guess you could argue that it resulted in personal growth for the younger kid or whatever, but I'm sure he'd still much rather have his brother.

    I knew right away somethin' was off with that girl when she just jumped the canal in the wintry city.

    It did take me a few seconds to figure out you could still use the left side of the controller even after the older brother had died. Bit of a nice touch, that. Made it feel like he was still there in spirit.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    None of them expected the journey.

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Game is on sale on XBLM: 4 bucks

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  • Wraith260Wraith260 Happiest Goomba! Registered User regular
    Archsorcerer wrote: »
    Game is on sale on XBLM: 4 bucks

    just come in to post the very same thing. if for any reason you haven't played this yet, now is the time. the game is an absolute steal at that price.

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    Payday 2, Brothers help Starbreeze to historic profit
    Payday 2 and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons have helped Swedish developer Starbreeze turn around its financial fortunes.

    A new financial briefing from the company has revealed the success of both games and Starbreeze's plan for the future: more Payday 2 content and a continued focus on owning its own brands.

    ...

    Brothers, meanwhile, has now turned a profit, and sold well over the last quarter due to its inclusion in Steam sales and its appearance on multiple 'best of 2013' lists.

    It's a far cry from the developer's fortunes in 2012, after it teamed with EA to release the poorly-received Syndicate reboot.

    "We now have a large cash reserve, have created a stable cost structure, a modern business model," Andersson concluded. "We have continued full control of our own brands and have placed ourselves into a position where we have three games [including the original Payday] that generate royalties every single day."

    Payday is their biggest source of revenue.

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  • Wraith260Wraith260 Happiest Goomba! Registered User regular
    just in case there's anyone that still unsire about this game, it'll be available for free through PS+ in Europe in March.

    http://www.joystiq.com/2014/02/27/tomb-raider-brothers-head-up-europes-playstation-plus-lineup-i/

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    edited March 2014
    I think the game is on sale at Steam. Can someone confirm?



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  • Wraith260Wraith260 Happiest Goomba! Registered User regular
    Steam is showing it as 67% off in the UK making it £3.99. well worth it at that price.

  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    http://www.vg247.com/2014/03/13/brothers-a-tale-of-sons-creator-working-on-something-that-hasnt-been-done-before/
    “I’m moving on to the next thing. I have my next idea ready, it’s super cool. It’s very different,” he said. “I can tell you this – if I tell you the idea now, you’d say, ‘I haven’t played something like this before’. I can’t tell you more. But definitely something that hasn’t been done before.”

    Fares suggested the title will be created at his own studio instead of Starbreeze, which is focused on Payday at the moment.

    “Yeah, I think that’s what’s going to happen,” he said. “We’ll see what happens… I can’t talk too much about this.”

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular
    From Joystiq: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/03/13/brothers-a-tale-of-two-sons-director-on-next-project-those-con/
    Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons director Josef Faras is working on a new project, but it isn't with developer Starbreeze. Speaking to Digital Spy during a roundtable interview, Faras said, "I can tell you this: If I tell you the idea now, you'd say, 'I haven't played something like this before.' I can't tell you more. But definitely something that hasn't been done before."

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  • ArchsorcererArchsorcerer Registered User regular

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