HammerFace
Banned
I have the game, I tried playing it once but it's pretty difficult.
It doesn't control very well tbh.
It doesn't control very well tbh.
Very good attempt at making a Thing game with some problems with the mechanics that others have already said, its worth checking out
The problem was that the systems felt like they were working against the attempt to tell a story. I did over all really enjoy it, but the first time I used a blood test on someone (tested negative) and they turned into a thing just around the corner, that really pissed me off.
Like, infect them at a scripted moment if you're going to storyline infect them, but don't just have them turn five seconds after I got a clean blood test.
The trust/paranoia and fear system worked really well, but the game didn't do much to exploit it. Basically, trust should have been something you had to work to maintain, not something you outright earned by giving someone some bullets or health...
because the things that could happen when someone didn't trust you were really cool, but it just didn't ever seem to happen organically.
I've bought it recently because I heard it was pretty good, still haven't played it yet.
Eurogamer did an interview with the lead designer a while ago, and he talks about how they had to scale down on the ideas they had for the game
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-04-the-making-of-the-thing
It was just too ambitious for its time.
OT but: what was that one movie similar to The Thing, but it was with highschool students, and they had to sniff cocaine to see who was infected because the monster hated it(lol)?
Sounds like The Faculty
A The Thing game by Telltale Games would be interesting. The concept seems to fit the style of an adventure game.