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Assuming your game isnt totally abstract, another tack to take is to focus on theme/character/story rather than mechanics. Who do you control? What do they want? What obstacles stand in their way? What techniques are available to the player to overcome those obstacles? so for example: "In this game you play Chiseljaw Grimdark, elite spec ops operative for the hegemonic megacorp Invictus Biotech until they betrayed him, killing his family and leaving him for dead. Now he is out for revenge and will use cunning and megaviolence to visit murdery murder upon the army of cyberninjas employed by those what wronged him."

If you're talking about me, I was referring to the melodrama in the details of the story rather than in her performance. she does a good job with what she's given IMO.

oh apropos of nothing, and I only discovered this after 100% -ing the game

I mean I kind of feel where Stuart is coming from. It's partly the format (using FMV, "realistic" style police interview video) that plays against the melodrama by setting up a kind of naturalistic expectation and makes those moments of over-the-top-ness jump out more. Like if it was all pixel art graphics, I'm not sure I would even have noticed? I dunno, while it certainly could be more nuanced, I guess my expectations for that kind of thing from a game are low? So I still had no problem enjoying it overall.

I think there's several key clips that it checks whether you have seen. I don't _think_ a single clip is sufficient, although if it is a single clip I have a pretty good candidate which one it would be and know a search that will take you right to it, so it wouldn't take much effort to test that hypothesis.

PSA to anyone who hasn't played it yet: there are a ton of reviews out there that are super spoilery, some without warning even. In some forms of media (novels for instance), I am somewhat sympathetic to the notion that anything that was made worse by being spoilered maybe wasn't that good to begin with, but Her Story is good and it matters here IMO.

I'm with eot's interpretation, generally

Only 45 mins in but it's super great so far. I have all the notes. I am the truest detective. edit: ...and done. super great. if you're stupid like me and trying to get 100% unlock after the credits roll...

I feel like he maybe gets the wrong end of the stick when it's transcribed. Like I could totally see this as a gently incredulous "do you see the absurdity of what you're saying? these are just emotes, how do you even care without having seen them? maybe you won't like them." edit: which is not to say, that as the guy assigned to talk to press, he shouldn't have known better

I was a sunset backer and this is the terrible.

I basically turn it off when they get to news and emails. It does annoy me a bit on the rare occasions where they fuck with the order and those two aren't grouped together so they aren't so easily skipped.

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I feel like even if no one has successfully pulled it off, there must be some themes where obtuse mechanics are inseparable from the theme that's being explored, a more narrow version of "if I could write an essay about it, I wouldn't have made a game," and maybe in order to get there we need to see a bunch of bad games made where that's not the case (i.e. the obtuse mechanics are just there for no good reason).

I wouldn't even know where to begin deciding on what I wanted to see with metrics like that. Like how would i even decide what is a good max/min tweets/day?

Holy crap, I never even thought of that, is it possible to just run past him or do you just avoid that whole area?

I dunno, if it's "just" prettier Noctis I still think that's pretty neat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctis

ok added. I only really play multiplayer stuff on ps4 even though i put my steam id in there.

I am usually on sun through thurs 10:30pm to midnight pacific and am game for anything non pvp. If you see me during those times and I am not already fireteamed with anybody feel free to just hop in.

I backed the kickstarter but haven't downloaded or played it yet.

Did some of those Queen's bounty things over the weekend and they seem a pretty efficient way to rack up blue engrams (only managed 1 purp) although apparently they can't be decrypted until the dlc hits. Only whiffed once in not being able to find the chest (the randoms I was with apparently couldn't find it either), but the fights went down pretty quick because there were so many people trying them out.