Why Does Everyone Blame Everything On Bears?
I've now played Until Dawn myself for the first time! I've loved this game (while simultaneously hating it) for five years, but I'd never actually experienced it with a controller in my hand; I'd only watched Let's Plays, or made my friends play so I could watch.
And then Tem made me play so xe could watch. The tables have turned.
The experience was, unsurprisingly, extremely stressful. I had the advantage of knowing the game very well; I already knew all the points at which characters could die, and what decisions to make to get them out alive. But there are also points at which you can lose a character to a technical slipup, and I wasn't sure whether I'd be up to the challenge, particularly as the 'hold the controller still to hide' mechanic wasn't one I'd ever experienced before.
(My heart was beating agonisingly hard during the Matt-and-Jess portion in the mines. I was afraid my own pounding pulse would jolt the controller while I was trying to keep it still.)
I managed to get everyone through it alive, though! I'm glad; I love these awful kids.
Because he is my favourite character and I want to watch him suffer, I cheerfully rammed Mike's fingers into the bear trap, knowing full well that I didn't have to do that. He can't be allowed to keep his fingers; it just doesn't feel right!
I somehow got Mike's honesty down to zero, which I assume means he's physically incapable of saying anything true. If I'd maxed out another character's honesty, we could have set up a doorkeeper riddle.
This playthrough was curiously well timed! I finished on Sunday, and four days later Supermassive announced The Quarry, a spiritual successor to Until Dawn; here's the trailer. I'm going to absolutely hate playing this, but I'm almost certainly going to play it.
I need to catch up on the Dark Pictures Anthology, too; I've only played Man of Medan! The problem with Supermassive's horror games is that I'm both fascinated and terrified by them, so I want to play them, but it's hard to work up the nerve.
And then Tem made me play so xe could watch. The tables have turned.
The experience was, unsurprisingly, extremely stressful. I had the advantage of knowing the game very well; I already knew all the points at which characters could die, and what decisions to make to get them out alive. But there are also points at which you can lose a character to a technical slipup, and I wasn't sure whether I'd be up to the challenge, particularly as the 'hold the controller still to hide' mechanic wasn't one I'd ever experienced before.
(My heart was beating agonisingly hard during the Matt-and-Jess portion in the mines. I was afraid my own pounding pulse would jolt the controller while I was trying to keep it still.)
I managed to get everyone through it alive, though! I'm glad; I love these awful kids.
Because he is my favourite character and I want to watch him suffer, I cheerfully rammed Mike's fingers into the bear trap, knowing full well that I didn't have to do that. He can't be allowed to keep his fingers; it just doesn't feel right!
I somehow got Mike's honesty down to zero, which I assume means he's physically incapable of saying anything true. If I'd maxed out another character's honesty, we could have set up a doorkeeper riddle.
This playthrough was curiously well timed! I finished on Sunday, and four days later Supermassive announced The Quarry, a spiritual successor to Until Dawn; here's the trailer. I'm going to absolutely hate playing this, but I'm almost certainly going to play it.
I need to catch up on the Dark Pictures Anthology, too; I've only played Man of Medan! The problem with Supermassive's horror games is that I'm both fascinated and terrified by them, so I want to play them, but it's hard to work up the nerve.