Doc will be playing The Quarry today if anyone is interested...

he played it for 20 minutes and is hanging it up already

I watched the stream for 10 minutes and I didn't see one second of actual gameplay. Just time-dragging dialogue.

I realize that was a small sample but it made me feel like the devs should have just made a movie instead of a game.

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I realize that was a small sample but it made me feel like the devs should have just made a movie instead of a game.

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Have you played Until Dawn? Interactive movies are basically what these games are. There is a little exploration where you can gather supplies that might help or hurt your chance of survival, but those times when you actually control the character yourself are really just short moments to get you from one cut scene to the next.

Action sequences are QTE events. So even when your character is running for their life from a threat, you still arent controlling them directly.

So yeah, youre really just watching a movie where your decisions are what determines who lives and dies. It isnt for everyone.

I'll give you an non spoiler example of the type of choices you have to make. I am only a couple of hours in, so I dont know how this decision plays out: one of my characters comes across boxes of fireworks. Do you take them? I chose no. These are idiot kids trying to throw one last party, but as the gamer I know once night falls that shite will hit the fan. I figure fireworks would attract unnecessary attention for my group, so I chose not to give them fireworks to shoot off. But now I am kinda regretting it - those fireworks could maybe be used as a flare later in the game if there is help along the way trying to locate a character. Or it might not be crucial to the story at all since not every decision is a huge plot point. But I do know it will alter future cut scenes at some point later in the game, I am just not sure to what extent. But I might be in hour 10 and one of my characters dies a gruesome death because I didnt grab fireworks in the first 1.5 hours of the game and now he cant alert help. We'll see...

Now when you stack 100+ decisions like that from multiple characters points of view, to me it is fun to see how it plays out.

Not sure why you got down voted for giving a decent explanation on how the game plays.

Would you say there is more or less active interaction than a Telltale game?

I played it but its entertaining but not as good as Until Dawn or the Dark Pictures games.

Wait till they price comes down, its not worth 70 bucks.

$70?

Yeah, I’ll wait. I’ll probably end up with a free copy of this in Humble Choice in six months.

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Wait till they price comes down, its not worth 70 bucks.

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I don't think any game is worth $70 when you can usually wait 3-6 months for the price to drop by half or more.