DarkChronic
Member
I cannot get enough of how cool this entire experience has been.
Seeing forums ablaze with wonder and excitement over this thing, picking it apart sequence by sequence, trying to find clues and tricks to trigger the ending - it's fantastic. It reminds me of when I was young, playing Super Mario 64 and trying to "unlock Luigi" while scouring the Internet looking for clues or ways to unlock this. Or in Pokemon Red/Blue, trying to catch Togepi by using the item finder 100 times in a certain cave. Silly, crazy rumors like that. You can see that stuff present in the demo thread - people trying to figure out how many steps it takes to trigger certain phenomenon. It's fun, it's exciting, it's fresh. All of us trying to solve this huge mystery.
There is a sense of wonder to this demo that no games seem to have anymore. A game comes out and almost everything about it is online in a few short days. And here we have this teaser game, that's essentially one hallway, that is churning up countless pages of discussion.
This is so much more fun than a teaser trailer. It feels like we're part of something again, uncovering secrets and hidden meanings.
Not only that, but the game looks gorgeous. Yeah, say what you want about the jump scares, but the atmosphere is tense, creepy, and certainly has that sense of terror - that something is horribly, horribly wrong.
So what do you guys think? Opinions on Hideo Kojima aside, what do you think about this reveal process? I just can't get over how freakin' cool it is.
Seeing forums ablaze with wonder and excitement over this thing, picking it apart sequence by sequence, trying to find clues and tricks to trigger the ending - it's fantastic. It reminds me of when I was young, playing Super Mario 64 and trying to "unlock Luigi" while scouring the Internet looking for clues or ways to unlock this. Or in Pokemon Red/Blue, trying to catch Togepi by using the item finder 100 times in a certain cave. Silly, crazy rumors like that. You can see that stuff present in the demo thread - people trying to figure out how many steps it takes to trigger certain phenomenon. It's fun, it's exciting, it's fresh. All of us trying to solve this huge mystery.
There is a sense of wonder to this demo that no games seem to have anymore. A game comes out and almost everything about it is online in a few short days. And here we have this teaser game, that's essentially one hallway, that is churning up countless pages of discussion.
This is so much more fun than a teaser trailer. It feels like we're part of something again, uncovering secrets and hidden meanings.
Not only that, but the game looks gorgeous. Yeah, say what you want about the jump scares, but the atmosphere is tense, creepy, and certainly has that sense of terror - that something is horribly, horribly wrong.
So what do you guys think? Opinions on Hideo Kojima aside, what do you think about this reveal process? I just can't get over how freakin' cool it is.
