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Gall posted...

It's funny that Ghost Trick and Red Dead got paired together, since after experiencing both their stories I'm not totally sure which one I prefer.

Yes, you raise an interesting point. I agree that there are valid reasons to prefer either story, so that which one a given person likes better might say a lot about what they value in narrative. I think I would agree that RDR has the "deeper" story, between overall more complex characters and themes that do a better job posing questions. The closest thing to a message Ghost Trick really has is that pets are the best and headphones suck.

Personally, I'd say without hesitation that I liked Ghost Trick better, and for me the main reason for that is that it was just much more consistently entertaining than Red Dead. Even if they do lack nuance, I think its characters are effective because they make the game more fun and therefore helped keep me invested in the plot, which I would agree is the most impressive part of the story.

Lightning Strikes posted...

The first two Dead Space games are absolutely the successor to the RE4 style of action horror, especially when you consider how far RE5 and RE6 leaned into action. Then of course Dead Space 3 got mandated by EA to be more action-focused to meet ridiculous sales targets it was never going to meet, it didnt, and the franchise got killed. Ah well.

Yeah, I've heard other people complain about the third game, both because it went too heavily toward action and because it was designed as a co-op game, which does a lot to make it less effective as horror. A shame, but yes, that's AAA game development for you.

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