Playdate: Until Dawn: Part 01

GBE Playdate: Now with amazing in-sync audio.

Papa Vinny saves the day again!

The opening song is called oh death, its a real old song

What's wrong with the sync? Very bad. Stormare was very weird due to sync issue.

This is going to be great

@thallium: That explains a lot. I thought the game's animations were just god awful, but I couldn't be sure.

Comments got wiped so allow me to make this clear again.

#TeamEmily

Thanks Vinny, enjoy the holiday.

Spoiler: When Alex said Wendigo about 18 minutes into the stream I got confused for a hot minute, thinking "how does he know about the worst part of this game already?"

audio fixed?!! yay that was back up way faster than i thought

Oh my god, are they going to do a full playthrough? SO EXCITED.

I swear, GB has been AMAZING this year.

So glad this is the next Playdate! Perfect choice.

#TeamEmily

The sickest burns, the best fashion sense. She speaks to me on a spiritual level.

I thought gamespot also did this. It would be interesting to see how some of the branching path plays out. Wonder which one I should watch first tho.

Is it my video player that is doing poorly, or does the game have shit framerate?

Anyone know when/if Giant Bomb and GameSpot are switching over their streaming platform to something that doesn't require Flash?

Fun fact: there are 'teenagers' in this game that are older than Alex.

Awesome!

UNTIL DAWN REVISED TIER LIST

D-Rank:

• Ashley (she is the worst, trust me)

C-Rank:

• Matt (He is too bland to live, and an oaf)
• Chris (He would be lower for thinking that it was a good idea to prank someone in the same place where a year ago two people died because of a prank... but "You just got monked" redeems him a little)
• Sam (She is OK and would be higher, but too obvious of a Final Girl to be that interesting)

B-Rank:

• Jess (Pluses: Deadeye snowball skills. Minuses: Loses too many phones)
• Josh (He just wants to party like a porn star, who can blame him? Also an elite hacker)
• Mike (Dude managed to almost get laid in a creepy cabin after ripping the head off an elk)

A-Rank:

• Emily (You're an Emily hater? Sorry, I can't hear you over all that sluttiness)

S-Rank:

• Peter Stormare (Of course.)

When I played through this, Chris instantly reminded me of young Vinny. The entire time, I couldn't not see it. Loved every second of it.

Really liking these playdates. The format is great!

Without spoiling anything, just how bad can it get it you are unable to do the "hold the controller still" parts in this game? I have my PS4 placed to the left of, and hooked up to, my computer monitor, so my controller won't be in front of the PS4 while playing, meaning I'll automatically fail all of those, right?

That's just the game running at sub 30.

Oh boy, frame rate here is all over the place.

I gotta say it again, this game looks amazing lol

In which GBEast gets monked.

I'd totally watch Monk'd, by the way. Monk-themed chicanery is a woefully untapped market. Each week they could trade off between pranks done in robes and pranks done while impersonating Tony Shalhoub.

All I'm gonna say is that a girl was fully clothed in one playthrough and down to her underwear in another.

Sam is the only somewhat decent and tolerable person in this game and therefore an easy favorite. Mike started out as a total douche but got better as the game progressed. Chris also seems alright.

Ashley was ok on my first playthrough but on my second playthrough I made some choices that made her into a total bitch. Depending on how you play as Ashley she can either be a real symphathetic human being filled with regret or a totally cold and slightly annoying person who don't want to take responsibility for her past actions.

I seriously can't tell if you guys are joking or not regarding Emily. She is without a doubt the worst character in the game, even the actress playing her describes Emily as a bitch in the bonus features. I pretty much instantly wanted her to die. But of course she was one of the four people to survive my first playthrough. She didn't survive my second playthrough, though that wasn't intentional, I just made some stupid choices and a bunch of people died towards the end.

End game spoiler:

I actually didn't mind the Wendigo plot twist. I thought it was a fun little finale act twist.

End of spoilers.

Pretty close to have a perfect ending to this game. Luckily you can replay chapters because I messed up my second playthrough last night at the last possible minute and three people died instantly. I'm going to get that perfect ending no matter what dammit!

@aagaard: Almost all the videos play with their HTML5 player fine, though I think you have to be a premium member to use that player.

@soimadeanaccount: Mary was intentionally trying to kill people, Alex is doing the opposite...so they are going to play out way differently.

Yus! I wanted them to do this since the QL appeared and they delivered! Hopefully there'll be plenty more.

Also, the first time I saw that scene where Vinny mentions Nightmare on Elm Street, I was totally reminded of it as well. 'course that could be nothing, but I'm wondering if there's a whole lot of specific movie references in the game.

Also I really encourage people to buy this game if they enjoy this feature. Don't necessarily buy it at full price if you think that's a little too much, but atleast support this game when it's cheaper then. It's a really great game and it's fun to mess around with the different outcomes so even if you have seen the game played through once I would still say there is value in playing the game yourself.

I'm just worried that this game won't sell at all because it's released so close to MGS:V and it's a damn shame because I really want a spiritual sequel to Until Dawn. If Supermassive Games gets a chance to make a second game and fix the issues I have with this game, I do really love this game btw., they could make something truly amazing. They could flesh out the "butterfly-effect" system and make your choices have an even greater impact on the story. They could have the psychiatrist sections have a way bigger impact on the story and gameplay. There's lots of things they can improve on to make an amazing follow up.

I'm just worried this game won't sell at all so that will never happen.

(Live) streaming videos such as this one don't, unfortunately.

Might be time to buy a console.

Man I'm so glad they're playing this. I hope they go through the whole thing. I had a lot of fun playing through this with a buddy.

Hope they play through all of this. But I hope they move Vinnyvania to another day of the week.

The game uses the gyroscopes in the controller to sense motion not the actual location of the controller. So where it is does not matter.

@theveteran13: Wendigo part was awesome.

Audio still seems a bit out of sync to me which is unfortunate.

Absolutely love the GBE Playdate format, guys. Look forward to seeing more of this!

needed a little vinny to start my day today.

On second thought I think its kind of strange that this is in Canada but everyone's wearing their boots or shoes that are snowy and dirty in the house. Although maybe that's just a regional thing here too.

Until Dawn is a lot of fun to just watch and I think it would make for an excellent party game to show to people that usually don't play any games.

It's real solid.

This is great, watch Alex's reactions when he gets scared! Also to be fair I got just as scared (if not more!) in all the same situations.

This game was one of the biggest surprises I've ever had so glad to see Giant Beast tackling it as I think they'll appreciate it by the end. I felt differently about every single one of these characters by the end I think that's a pretty awesome thing for a game to accomplish.

That song (O Death) was used really well to introduce Death in Supernatural. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1EzU9sLQ6I

This was great and I really hope there's a new installment next week. After playing through the game for myself I've watched two full playthroughs (Mary Kish's on Gamespot and Geek Remix's on YouTube), and it's always fun to see other people's reactions to the funny dialogue, agonizing choices and gruesome deaths. Also, Emily for Character of the Year 2015...

I absolutely hate everything about this game, i attempted to start watching a playthrough from a youtuber i follow but 5 minutes in couldn't take it anymore, but GB different so i guess i'm going to have to watch this game... gah.

Man, with Alex in this one, I feel like I'm watching MST3K. He's got this riffing thing down!

Please, fix the archive, Vinny.

@xymox: It shouldn't. To my knowledge, the controller is measuring the axis, and doesn't need clear line of sight to the playstation itself. It's not like the PS4 has a little laser on the front, after all.

So glad you did thiss