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Re: Game of thrones the game: The good the bad and the ugly

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From: Werner Punz
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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