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Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Regy Rusty posted:

I kicked the guy off the wall and stood up repeatedly after punching every Whitehall possible in the face. It's great.

I took my time with britt, he didnt die well. I was gave the whitehalls alot of poo poo and punched gryff but I backed down after a while. If the forresters are going down, they are gonna take the whitehalls to hell with them.

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Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Doctor Reynolds posted:

Great episode. I like how everyone's more or less split in the middle decision wise, too. Political scheming be complicated, yo!

My choices screen never showed, and it isnt in the choices menu. but my saves are intact. gently caress.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK
nice to see dany is as unlikable and stupid as she is in the show. why would she care if beskha kills her former master. also glad i got to break gryffs face. and now i cant wait to send both him and papa ludd to hell. but i am sure ramsay will quash that dream

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Buzkashi posted:

Granted I'm only getting a secondhand account of it from my girlfriend, but it really doesn't sound like it's moving past the teen poo poo. Plus it sounds like this last episode of it completely negates everything else you've done/discovered thus far.

I have been watching the super best friends play through of it and while i find the mechanics cool, i cant stand anything else. the dumb teen poo poo, the lovely,awful rear end in a top hat of best friend that is Chloe, they annoying hipster motif and constant internet/meme/reference humor. Sucks because there are alot of cool ideas and concepts that are explored ( The suicide attempt ) Tell tale has alot of issues when it comes to choice and actions but they are great at making choices feel great in heat of the moment scenes.

Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 02:35 on May 28, 2015

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Athropos posted:

This game is full of moments where the antagonists are like: "I'm glad your father and brother died, they were filth and filth deserves to die! Scrub my boots Forrester dog!"

1. We're sorry that by dying and gushing blood everywhere they soiled your boots, Lord Whitehill. We will definitely make it up to you and will die in a less messy way in the future.
2. We should talk this through with a cool head.
3. SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE.

*punishes or makes the player feel guilty for picking option 3*

Do they honestly expect anyone to try and placate the loving Whitehills when litterally the first thing Lord Whitehill says when coming in your halls in episode one is basically that he's happy half your family got murdered? There's no nuance or depth to this game, none of these grey caracters you should expect from a game of thrones game. I still like the voice acting and overall scenario, but I will echo what a lot of you said here in that I reached a certain threshold where I stopped trying to use a middle of the road approach. As soon as the game gave me the power to do SOMETHING Getting the 20 elite guards I just went ahead and put all these assholes in jail, and stabbed Gryff's eye with my cane just because I could not stand seeing people get beaten and humiliated anymore.
Yeah i did the same. gently caress the whitehills, if my house is going down, so is theirs. Its also some what encouraging to see how small the immediate whitehill family is. the mother is dead, as is one of the brothers. the other brother is at the maesters training academy which rules him out of the political game. one brother is in dreadfrort with the boltons so he might come into play, but other then him its just ludd and gryff.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK
I picked asher to live. He is a warrior and not wounded and he has respect of an bunch of sellswords and my honest guess of the ending is both houses will die horribly.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

So It Goes posted:

The trailer for the telltale minecraft thing looks absolutely awful. Like, that art style is just hideous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnRtMEDrvU

yeah. it doesn't look that great, i might pick up the first episode, but other then that ehh. i want telltale to pick up more franchise or maybe a new IP. GoT is alright, it has a decent amount of gut punches, the obvious problem is the amount of plot armored show/book characters that appear in the game. my honest guess is that it they are gonna end it on a cliffhanger for a possible season 2.

Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Jul 22, 2015

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Ekusukariba posted:

It's basically just playing a Minecraft Machinima? So is this game for like kids rather than the normal older fanbase that telltale games have? and does anyone recognize the female voice? sounds really familiar, Ellie from Last of Us?


I hope there is no season 2 because that guarantees that the surviving brother is for sure dying. I can think of a few franchises that could be interesting games but I don't really trust Telltale to make them

maybe. My honest guess is the all the families will kill each other to the last person.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

ghouldaddy07 posted:

I'll bet money on Ramsey coming back to kill the Victorious family.

seeing that this games a massive erection for Ramsey "eunuch maker" Bolton, your probably right.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

cool. I hope it ends up interesting.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Max posted:

Here's the funny thing about the Tyrion scene, and I hope this plays out in episode five (it probably won't because it isn't a very well written game): Right at the beginning of his scene, he says that he was expecting Bronn. Hopefully there's an option to tell Cersie that he is expecting help from him, which would be cannon, since she then bribes him with a lordship.

thats what disipoints me about the GoT game. It never really does anything. i mean gently caress, tell tale made a loving borderlands game that had actual humor and characters, not lovely memes and drooling retards. So its disappointing to me that they havent done poo poo with the GoT universe. I found the first few episodes pretty good, but i feel like they wrote themselves into a corner just like they did in wolf among us. it espcialy sucks because much like Walking dead 2. you can see the narrative walls and constrictions plain as day.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

I kept hearing about that game from various people, Some i respect and some i don't. I think it looks interesting, but i am afraid it will go down the "gone home" road and not have anything interesting or horror related happen.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Spikeguy posted:

One thing I've heard about the Minecraft one from a friend of mine is that his kids LOVE it. And it's probably for the same reason that Tycho said on Penny Arcade, that these kids who play Minecraft might not be used to storylines in their favorite game so getting one was just so different that it made a big impact. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the game is a big hit for younger players.

yeah, i played the first episode and it wasnt too bad. it had kinda of a goonies feel.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

Karnegal posted:

The issue was working in the middle of an established IP, but also needing to bring in a million well-known characters. In WD you get early cameo of Glen, but then he's gone. In Wolf Among Us, they clearly had a lot of latitude in what they did with characters and it was a rich setting for adding new ones. GoT suffers tremendously from characters having plot immunity and the player knowing what's about to happen to them. Why cut a deal with Tyrion when he's about to get jailed? Obviously Dany won't give you teh second sons no matter what, etc.

I think if they had made a game like set farther back in westorosi history. like the hedge knight stories in A knight of the seven kingdoms. It could have been great.

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

bobjr posted:

So who wants to be on the ending being Gareth reaching the North Grove, and looks into a shining light as it ends on that as a cliffhanger


RBA Starblade posted:

I'm going to go with everyone dying.

these. the first 3 episodes were good, but then it starts to falter around 4 and falls flat at 5. see with walking dead, the narrative "walls" were less obvious at least the first time through. this was mostly because it was all original characters who were well written. same with borderlands one. Game of thrones has just to many plot armored characters and non choices. all the choices basically end with a main character from the show walking up, saying gently caress you(maybe nicely or rudely) and you kind then just meander down a linear story. I personally think the first 3 and half episodes handle it alright. the whole garret killing brett thing is good example. but the pay off sucks. no matter how you played it, you never get to say, "i killed him in self defense" and even is chad or biff agree with your statement, drill seargent still fucks you over. thats where the game starts to take a downturn. then with the second appearance of Ramsay, it shits it self. I dont mind choices being false to an extent, but don't make it so transparent.

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Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

by HopperUK

RightClickSaveAs posted:

Telltale games have always been that way, sure, but for Game of Thrones your lack of choice is even more transparent and that's the main issue with it. Take any scene with Ramsay Snow for instance, anyone who knows the show (and books I'd assume?) realizes that you can't even pretend anything you do in those scenes matters one bit. Usually their games are a lot better at hiding that fact and you can buy into the fiction of player agency on some level.

Even Episode 3 as another example, because I'm replaying it again despite my earlier declarations (I am shameless and unprincipled, I'm going to play the whole thing after all), you have the "choice" there to either stop Gryff's men from going into the Great Hall or let them pass. Stopping them does nothing, it's a useless gesture, they go in anyway because it needs to happen for the story. I'm a big fan of Telltale's games and have played most of their stuff at this point, and there's usually a little more effort to create consequences for the decisions, especially with the binary "Do Something / Do Nothing" options, or at least dress them up a little more so the meaninglessness isn't so up front. That's the problem I think a lot of people are having with it, is it really shoves it in your face how little you can do.

thats what me and others have said. you have the entire history of westros, do adventrues of Sir dunk the tall and egg his squire. or do the make up some new side story in another time.

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