I am currently of two minds about Post Script, an exploration-based episodic mod for Half-Life 2: Episode Two. You can get the mod here.
Mind number one says, "this is great -- it's an atmospheric exploration-based game where, not unlike Small Worlds, the player isn't strung along with pointless trinkets or combat." Mind number two wishes the text-based narrative were gone, or at least less on-the-nose, so the player would have to work harder to figure out exactly what each of the locations meant.
Then the first mind wants to know how the hell anyone could call the story "on-the-nose," because neither minds know what the heck is going on in this first episode, and only one of them thinks things will get clearer in subsequent installments. The other mind thinks Post Script plays like Diet Dear Esther, and wishes he could have explored the inside of the church. The first mind thinks the second mind is stupid.
Regardless of my own schizophrenic ambivalence regarding the thing, Post Script is definitely worth checking out for those who are into unconventional games.
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1:40 PM on 12.17.2009
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The idea of this guide who has a love/hate relationship from you is just felt lifted from the HL2 mod, Minerva. I mean that's fine if you've got anything else to add to that kind of character, but here it's just same thing. Okay, I know these kind of faceless narrators/guides are due to a lack of voice over budget or inabilty to code NPC reactions, but there's not much else you can do with it.
For example, I knew before I even picked up the brick to smash the window, some text would pop up proclaiming 'oh, you're a bit violent aren't you.' Then I just thought, 'well, yeah, there wasn't much of a choice other than to turn the game off.' Also, when a game comments that it has bad puzzles, that's not witty writing. That's just saving face.
The ending was really unnerving along with some of the music, so I'll come back for episode 2, but I'm not really expecting much.
This is completely off-topic, but what difficulty did you play MGS3 on for the RevRant you did concerning difficulty in games? I ask because I've been playing MGS3 on extreme difficulty (I've been meaning to do so ever since I saw that rant, only now got around to it) and it still feels way too easy. The CQC takedowns still knock soldiers out, the enemy AI is still dumb as fuck, and Snake can still take a couple dozen bullets to the chest before dying. Were you perhaps playing it on European extreme?
I was doing it on regular extreme. Of course, that difficulty level doesn't solve the CQC problem, but I (personally) had to do a lot more thinking and sneaking else I die horribly. Snake still takes a lot of damage to kill, but nowhere near as much as he would in other modes.
The only difference between euro extreme and regular extreme is that you get a game over the second you get an alert/seen by the enemy. The rest is identical.
Yeah, I played it more last night and I'm starting to feel the challenge. When I posted that message I had just only beaten the Virtuous Mission prologue, but now that I'm playing the main game it's starting to get interesting.
@Dan CiTi
Oh, really? I thought the alert-triggered game overs were just an addition to what I assumed was a tougher overall experience than extreme. Thanks for the info.
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