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Playdate: The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes (Part 3)

WE'RE FINALLY HERE!

The crew of Giant Bomb invites you to join us for some fun times with video games.

Dec. 1 2021

Cast: Jan, Jess

Posted by: Jan

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Woo, this game goes places cant wait to see your reactions

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Screw meetings, play videogames!

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Woo, this game goes places cant wait to see your reactions

Does it get better than until dawn. Feel that was the peak. The one on the boat put me to sleep by the time i got to the boat. I watched it in fast forward on youtube and it was not great. I just wiki'ed the story for the other one and it was a bit better, still until dawn seems so good. Why cant they atleast make another like that. Say what you want about those games (heavy rain, human, beyond two souls, etc) they are trying to be crazy and different, and most dont put me to sleep cause their so off lol. hope this one is good.

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hell yeah, team jan+jess

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@topcyclist: I think a lot of it is just timeframe/budget. Until Dawn was in development for at least 3 years, and I think also had a much bigger budget.

Whereas these games are basically episodic and they committed to 8 of them in interviews around the release of the first one. I worry they're gonna have the same problem Telltale had where the schedule and cadence of release builds up a huge tech/quality debt that can never be relieved.

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@topcyclist: I think a lot of it is just timeframe/budget. Until Dawn was in development for at least 3 years, and I think also had a much bigger budget.

Whereas these games are basically episodic and they committed to 8 of them in interviews around the release of the first one. I worry they're gonna have the same problem Telltale had where the schedule and cadence of release builds up a huge tech/quality debt that can never be relieved.

Yeah, everything gets a short fuse these days even if something is a success. People always wonder why a surprise hit first season of a show has a drop in quality in the second even when they expect bigger budgets or something. Sometimes companies tell you to do twice the work in half the time and with the same or lower budget be danged if you did well the first time. Telltale is interesting cause their really good game tales of the borderlands which is snuffed by many who even play the shooter and think the shooter is lacking in story and gameplay, tales has a great story and game but had hell being made and was finished out of the passion of the creators and crew, just working for free at times and scrounging together what they could and it worked out. Other games like their game of thrones felt mandated and lost. I hate being so down on peoples work for that reason and think they are nice short stories (wish they were movie-length 3 hours so i could play with a group) but as a long experience theirs just too much nothing and the acting isn't (more like animation) what I'm up for, but i think id enjoy it all more if i didn't play until dawn. Maybe if it was my first then I graduated to until dawn. Haven't played this newest one so who knows. I remember my friends loving tales stories even when they seemingly came out so often, and i never told them the choices don't matter so they role-played without the disillusionment people have over those games. Even then, walking dead much like the series got tired after the first game season. Hope they come back big.

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OOH RAH!

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Pipe > bat > knife

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I don't mind it going over an hour. In fact, I like it! I just pause it when I want to, and resume later. :D

I really enjoyed this Playdate series. Now, I kind of want to play the games in the DPA series. Thank you, Jess and Jan!

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why not play coop?

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It's nice of Jess to acknowledge the difference between languages.

Iran and Iraq are neighbors each with thousands of yrs of history. Each has its own poets and authors. The diversity of culture is fascinating!

I wish all of us could show candor and humility when we made honest mistakes.

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Strong finish for the series. This was better than Man of Medan and I've only heard disappointing things about Little Hope. Thanks for powering through, Jan and Jess.

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No joke, my dad's name is Richard Sacks.

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@topcyclist said:

@timcredible said:

Woo, this game goes places cant wait to see your reactions

Does it get better than until dawn. Feel that was the peak. The one on the boat put me to sleep by the time i got to the boat. I watched it in fast forward on youtube and it was not great. I just wiki'ed the story for the other one and it was a bit better, still until dawn seems so good. Why cant they atleast make another like that. Say what you want about those games (heavy rain, human, beyond two souls, etc) they are trying to be crazy and different, and most dont put me to sleep cause their so off lol. hope this one is good.

I'm not sure which YouTube video you watched, but I'd recommend Drew and Vinny's playthrough for anyone interested in how the co-op works.