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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The guy who voices the main father, he totally sounds like Adam Jensen from the Deus Ex games.
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As Dusk Falls | Review Thread
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Punished Miku
Member
It's not the kind of game I would buy. It's not the kind of game I'd necessarily recommend enthusiastically.
But I honestly really enjoyed the first chapter, and thought the art style was really interesting and original. Doing chapter 2 tonight. I would 100% take another game from this team on Gamepass. Seems like a great addition to the service.
But I honestly really enjoyed the first chapter, and thought the art style was really interesting and original. Doing chapter 2 tonight. I would 100% take another game from this team on Gamepass. Seems like a great addition to the service.
I've played it twice now, and it is an absolutely brilliant game I had no thoughts about one way or another going in.
I pity you your narrow minded tunnelvision. All the stuff you must be missing out on. Sheesh.
That's because it's him
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Negotiator101
Member
It's actually pretty decent, I'd not let that put you off. Obviously these types of games are not for everyone but this is a fine game in this genre.
I do hope MS nails the marketing but doubt it. They need to spend $$$ on ad spots that doesn't typically hit gamers.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I *LOVE* how detailed the post chapter breakdown screens are.
It's the kind of granularity I've always wanted Tell Tale and Super Massive games to have.
Paints an exact picture of all the key decisions you made and where ever there are branching pathways.
It's the kind of granularity I've always wanted Tell Tale and Super Massive games to have.
Paints an exact picture of all the key decisions you made and where ever there are branching pathways.
Punished Miku
Member
Yep, it's great. Even has the community percentages so you can see if your choice was unusual or not. It's very well done.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I'm looking at the chapter 2 screen and the decisions I've made to end it have still left almost 80% of the chart un-mapped lol. This is gonna require a couple of play throughs to see everything.
Robb
Gold Member
Sure, I’ll give it a shot since it’s on GamePass. I just find the style really jarring and kind of annoying to watch.
Punished Miku
Member
For sure. I'm not there yet, but hopefully the new game+ options are easy and don't require seeing a ton of the stuff you already saw. If I can pop in and see the alternate paths easily, I probably will. I'll have to wait and see how that goes.
Ansphn
Member
No thanks. So many game i can play. I rather read a book if i want an experience like that. Why would i want to play a book? I rather play games that allows me to move around with the controller.
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Punished Miku
Member
This is definitely not for you then.
Orbital2060
Member
Game is awesome. Some talented folks behind this 
getting some heavy Breaking Bad vibes, in the best of ways.
getting some heavy Breaking Bad vibes, in the best of ways.It is nothing like reading a book. Not gonna push you into anything, but you're missing out on a lot of great experiences if you're gonna allow that limited view of what games should be to rule your day.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I think I'm enjoying this a lot more because I just played another amazing game like this, The Quarry, so my brain is more receptive of it.
Ansphn
Member
I already looked into this game. You dont move the character all all. They give you 15 seconds to give a multiple choices answer in a given situation and what you select will prompt a different outcome. Its like a book with choices because you dont control your character. This game could be played on a Smartphone or TV with a TV controller.
People shit on QTE games like Until Dawn and Man of Mudan but at least they let you control the characters.
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Magic Carpet
Member
Does this game have a time limit?
I just downloaded Escape Room and I saw that time limit and just deleted it without looking to see if I could turn it off first. (I maybe should have checked the options).
I just downloaded Escape Room and I saw that time limit and just deleted it without looking to see if I could turn it off first. (I maybe should have checked the options).
I've played this game, twice, thanks, I think I know how it works.
And I repeat, it's not like reading a book, at all.
You talk like someone who's never played anything but third person games.
Ansphn
Member
I play every type of game except strategy over the top view and games like this.
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Your loss
No idea why you bother arguing about something you're not gonna give a shot anyways.
Punished Miku
Member
There's lots of options and I think most time limits can be extended or removed.
Kagey K
Banned
From what I've seen you can just jump back to the decisions you've made and choose a different one to see how it plays out.
Punished Miku
Member
Great. I'll probably watch all of it then.
Just in that first major encounter, things really went a different way than I intended lol. So I'm curious.
Yeah, no.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
What is 2022 nonsense ?
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Anyway. Despite the game being 50 fucking gigs, and what looks like everything is just video files, there's still very visible macro blocking in some scenes.
See the right half .. it looks like I'm playing the cloud version, but no this is the fully downloaded one.
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Punished Miku
Member
Yeah, I was surprised by the art style as well. There's some 3D modeled parts of buildings from the look of it, but then they stick the flat character images over it. It's an odd, but very original approach.What is 2022 nonsense ?
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Anyway. Despite the game being 50 fucking gigs, and what looks like everything is just video files, there's still very visible macro blocking in some scenes.
See the right half ..
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The art is fine, I'm just a little miffed that video compression is so easily visible. Should have used a better compressor I guess.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Mine at the end of chapter 2
only dale died, and then I see in the chapter stats that michelle reveled the affair, I didn't get any kind of revelation from the chat they had at all lol.
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
Breaking Bad you say?Game is awesome. Some talented folks behind this
Downloading now
Hari Seldon
Member
How does the multiplayer work for this?
Punished Miku
Member
Group voting. Each with a few limited overrides to use. Free mobile app controller
DaGwaphics
Member
Agreed. The story and the choices were good for this type of game. I'll probably run through it one more time and try a couple different things.
Calling 911 Melts Beams
Banned
game needs more glory kills but is otherwise fine
Hari Seldon
Member
That sounds like a good time for some drunken discord tomfoolery.
Punished Miku
Member
Finished chapter 2. Man this game is really good.
Its basically watching a TV show. But its like an actually legitimately really good TV show with a ton of twists that make the choices very compelling. Art style is gorgeous too. The more I see it the more I'm into it. This might be a 9/10 for me. Story and acting are super solid. Music is great too.
Its basically watching a TV show. But its like an actually legitimately really good TV show with a ton of twists that make the choices very compelling. Art style is gorgeous too. The more I see it the more I'm into it. This might be a 9/10 for me. Story and acting are super solid. Music is great too.
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CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
I so feel like this is not a game for me, but it seems like an awful lot of people on here are enjoying it. I thought I saw yesterday that it doesn't have xCloud integration. Is that true? I like to try it on steaming first and see if I want to download it.
Kagey K
Banned
It does have xcloud, and native touch controls for mobile (which are apparently very good)
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CatLady
Selfishly plays on Xbox Purr-ies X
That's great thank you. It makes it much more likely I will check this out.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I see the xcloud option on my dash, I think one user was having a weird one off experience before.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Considering there's literally no waking around element like the tell tale or supermassive games, this game lends itself really well to touch based devices from the get go.
Kagey K
Banned
That's how the nonary games feel on xcloud too.
Honestly a better experience than trying to play with a controller.
Punished Miku
Member
Well they were DS touchscreen games made for a stylus.
xion4360
Member
This game is great! I'm enjoying it a lot more than The Quarry, I game I paid like 84 dollars for. 
and I get this on GamePass
I always do multiple playthroughs with these games and on my second of The Quarry I basically do the opposite of what I did on the first playthrough and the game barely played out any differently...Like I still went though all the same scenarios just with small variations of who was present or what was said...In general it all still felt like going through the same ground. It was pretty disappointing considering its a full priced game and they hyped up the possibilities with the 200+ endings thing.
With As Dusk Falls there are MAJOR differences so far on my second playthrough...entire scenarios are completely different. yeah, it eventually funnels into a scene that's common to any playthrough but with variations...but the fact that there are truly different branches that show you entirely different scenes is exactly the kind of thing I was expecting from The Quarry and didn't get.
I love the art style too! once you get used to it you see that actually everything flows together much better when you aren't seeing the scenes adjust to your decision making in real time..and your brain kind of constructs what you don't see in between the frames for you. It's really a very clever way of doing it and no doubt makes it easier to do a wide variety of things on a low budget.
Honestly I'm hyped to see them do a Book 3 continuation or just a part two or whatever
and I get this on GamePass I always do multiple playthroughs with these games and on my second of The Quarry I basically do the opposite of what I did on the first playthrough and the game barely played out any differently...Like I still went though all the same scenarios just with small variations of who was present or what was said...In general it all still felt like going through the same ground. It was pretty disappointing considering its a full priced game and they hyped up the possibilities with the 200+ endings thing.
With As Dusk Falls there are MAJOR differences so far on my second playthrough...entire scenarios are completely different. yeah, it eventually funnels into a scene that's common to any playthrough but with variations...but the fact that there are truly different branches that show you entirely different scenes is exactly the kind of thing I was expecting from The Quarry and didn't get.
I love the art style too! once you get used to it you see that actually everything flows together much better when you aren't seeing the scenes adjust to your decision making in real time..and your brain kind of constructs what you don't see in between the frames for you. It's really a very clever way of doing it and no doubt makes it easier to do a wide variety of things on a low budget.
Honestly I'm hyped to see them do a Book 3 continuation or just a part two or whatever
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Lognor
Banned
Oh damn. I gotta play this thenGame is awesome. Some talented folks behind this
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
Completed Chapter 3. The Art style reminds me a lot of Disco Elysium.
The "gameplay" is much more fluid than I expected, you make up the missing bits with your imagination and the voice acting is top notch.
Of course the story's also vurrry good
The "gameplay" is much more fluid than I expected, you make up the missing bits with your imagination and the voice acting is top notch.
Of course the story's also vurrry good
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It's not *THAT* breaking bad but yes definitely has the vibes.