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Article #351130Re: Game of thrones the game: The good the bad and the ugly
From: Werner Punz
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:44
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:44
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Am 11.02.15 um 08:52 schrieb Werner Punz: > I just finished episode 1 of Game of Thrones with mixed feelings. > > First the good, the artwork is amazing as well as the story, Telltale > got the feeling from the books and the movies exactly right. > > The bad, the game is a mixture of QTEs (fortunately only a few of them) > and dialog branches. > > The ugly. Telltale seems to have abandoned adventure games entirely in > favor of interactive movies, there literally are no puzzles anymore. The > game plays like this. Dialog answer under time pressure another dialog > answer under time pressure scripted movie sequence, QTE dialog another > timed answer, rinse and repeat. Gone are the puzzles. There are exactly > zero of them in episode 1. I personally think while TTG has become > lighter on puzzles over the years they nailed it perfectly right with > Walking Dead Episode 1, since then it has gone downhill. But (ok I have > not played Episode 2 and Wolf among us) this is a new low at least for > me who loves puzzles in adventure games. > > So to sum it up, is it good enough that I will play the game through. > Probably yes since I paid for it and i love the story. Will I buy > another TT game again for the forseeable future. Probably not unless > they change their ways and stop producing purely interactive movies. > > > Werner > Ok Just finished part 3 (another 2 hours roughly), the story again is very good, however the game again is lacking, at least there is a little bit of a game underneath the interactive movie, with two qte sequences and two timed search sequences. Again no puzzles. Lets sum it up, if I had the choice between Dreamfall Chapters and this game I would prefer Dreamfall Chapters for being a game, and a very good one. Werner
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