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Topic	how do you feel about games that are episodic and you buy the chapters?
ParanoidObsessive 05/08/18 1:47:11 AM #19:	NightMareBunny posted... How do you feel about games that are episodic and you buy the chapters? I don't buy them, period. The only reason I own any Telltale games at all (many of which ARE very good) is because they usually release a full-season disc version of their games after every chapter has been released separately, so I can buy them all at once and (in theory) have a physical copy of them rather than having nothing but a season pass and digital downloads. If a game doesn't have that full release at some point, I will never buy it. Ever. Hell, that's what guaranteed I was never, ever going to play Dreamfall Chapters in spite of writing an extremely glowing review of its predecessor for this very website. The moment they announced it was episodic I was pretty much like "Ha, ha - fuck that noise." And it's one of many, many reasons the FFVII re-release has always looked like a custerfuck of hot garbage to me. Though honestly, even if an episodic game GETS a full release at some point, I still dislike the format in general, because I feel like it makes for worse in-game storytelling. It's disruptive to narrative flow in a lot of ways, and can lead to disjointed plot. For games that do it well, this is mostly a minimal issue, but there are certainly games out there that almost definitely suffered from being a single game chopped into smaller chunks. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:900981299] in how do you... [t:76582938]...</cite> <quote><cite>NightMareBunny posted...</cite> <quote>How do you feel about games that are episodic and you buy the chapters?</quote> I don't buy them, period. The only reason I own any Telltale games at all (many of which ARE very good) is because they usually release a full-season disc version of their games after every chapter has been released separately, so I can buy them all at once and (in theory) have a physical copy of them rather than having nothing but a season pass and digital downloads. If a game doesn't have that full release at some point, I will never buy it. Ever. Hell, that's what guaranteed I was never, ever going to play Dreamfall Chapters in spite of writing an extremely glowing review of its predecessor for this very website. The moment they announced it was episodic I was pretty much like "Ha, ha - fuck that noise." And it's one of many, many reasons the FFVII re-release has always looked like a custerfuck of hot garbage to me. Though honestly, even if an episodic game GETS a full release at some point, I still dislike the format in general, because I feel like it makes for worse in-game storytelling. It's disruptive to narrative flow in a lot of ways, and can lead to disjointed plot. For games that do it well, this is mostly a minimal issue, but there are certainly games out there that almost definitely suffered from being a single game chopped into smaller chunks. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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