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Gone Home Coming to Consoles, Next Game won't be Gone Home 2
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LordBaztion
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cool, hope it gets to X1.
It's a pretty awful game, it attempts to be this grounded, meaningful emotional tale, but it's set to the backdrop of the worst adventure game imaginable.
I have no issue with 'experiential' games at all, Dear Esther is stunning, but Gone Home is weak.
GamingIsDead
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If this becomes a plus game i'm not resubbing.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'll buy this on PS4. Keep em coming indies, us consolers love ya.
Not according to Steve Gaynor, the director on the project.
The game requires 4 GBs of RAM in order to play because it immediately loads the entire game into memory on the first load with no streaming. The wii u only has 1 GB of ram allocated to games, thus Gone Home would not be possible on the Wii U without completely re-engineering the game to work with a fucking quarter of the RAM it needs. In case your math skills aren't good, that means it ain't happening guys.
Wibblewozzer
Member
I'll consider buying it again if it's cheap on a sale sometime. Loved the game but not exactly meant for multiple replays.
If they keep the quality of the voice acting up I'm all for more stuff from them. That's what really held my attention and got me invested into the story.
If they keep the quality of the voice acting up I'm all for more stuff from them. That's what really held my attention and got me invested into the story.
Considering the Steam minimum requirements say 2GB, I'm going to say no.
Just going off an interview he gave about the tech a while back. I'll dig it up if I can find it.
EDIT: Ah, it appears it was in fact 2.5GBs (2GBs general and 512 VRAM) not 4. Still well above what the Wii U can muster up, though.
http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/ne...ed-for-oculus-rift-consoles-a-good-match.html
Its a game that got a ton of praise for narrating a diary or 2 with voice actors as you wander around a house all while being $15. It deserves the hate. I find the praise for this game more bizarre.
I was thinking the Wii U had 2, but it only has 1GB available to devs it seems, so yeah, not even close.
Basileus777
Member
Thank God, no reason for a sequel. They told the story they needed to. Don't ruin a good thing
Yep, they can make another game in this style (hopefully a better one), it just shouldn't be a sequel to Gone Home.
Seems a little doubtful. Based on what Gaynor has said the only reason Gone Home was the way it was designed was because of budget limitations. Instead of designing a halfbaked Minerva's Den 2 they decided to work around their budgets and design something that while still compelling to play, was within their money range. Obviously budget probably won't be that big of a deal this time around considering how well the game did.
Nope.
Yeah, dont think Ill be double-dipping. Gone Home was one of those games that I initially liked as I was playing it and right after I finished it, but when I started thinking about it afterwards, the cracks really start to show. Its kinds funny though: For all the crying from the Arty Mc Indiegames out there about how people who dont like Gone Home should go crawling back to their dudebro shooters, if find it interesting that Gone Home (for me) actually had a lot in common with Bioshock Infinite, in that Hey that was cool until I start thinking about it for any length of time, then it kinds of fall apart sensation.
But hey, WTF do I know? My 2013 GOTY was a tie between Hate Plus and Mario 3D World.
But hey, WTF do I know? My 2013 GOTY was a tie between Hate Plus and Mario 3D World.
GravityMan
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It's got some issues with how the story's presented, but overall I really liked Gone Home. I'm not surprised at how polarizing the game is, though. I think there's a certain niche of people in their 30s that this game really resonates with. It's hard to say whether I'd recommend the game or not when it comes to consoles...depends on the price, etc.
I feel like the actual concept is fun though. It's not so much like a game in the traditional sense, but I like the idea of being put in a location that is 'lived-in' and being left to my own devices to explore and figure out the narrative, tie together pieces, do a little detective work.
There was also something I found incredibly intimate, even unsettling, about the way I was pouring through these draws of this family that wasn't even related to me. I never got that feeling in a game before, but it was as if I was eavesdropping on a conversation I never should have heard.
Basileus777
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I think the style is fine and has plenty of potential, you just need really good writing to pull it off, and Gone Home's writing wasn't particularly good.
GingerOfEden
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I strongly recommend this game to people that like story driven games.