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Is As Dusk Falls a bomba?
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Agree. Hopefully people with Game Pass who are a little put off by the art style at least give it a chance, I think a decent amount of skeptics would actually enjoy it. Personally I'm really glad to get these kinds of games on GP alongside more traditional gaming experiences, and hopefully it finds at least enough sucess for MS to keep financing them.
Basically feel the same. The general vibe of the game reminds me of Hotel Dusk in that it's kinda more of a grounded adventure game, but even though it's a DS game it's got an incredibly strong and distinctive art style which is immediately eye catching. As Dusk Falls aesthetic just doesn't gel well with the overall feel of the narrative, at least from the onset so at for me, I'm not at all even drawn to or interested in trying it out.
That visual style sure isn't helping ...
I'm going to play it because of the positive reception, and I thought it seemed interesting enough from the trailers, but again, unappealing visual style coupled with being in a niche genre and launching alongside a social media phenomenon in Stray ... the odds are heavily stacked against it.
I'm just glad these smaller projects get to exist regardless of sales expectations. Art ideally should be funded because the passion and the message and its cultural value is more important than the money it brings in. The medium would be boring and stagnant if the only projects that got any funding were risk-averse, homogenized, almost sure-fire sales successes.
I'm going to play it because of the positive reception, and I thought it seemed interesting enough from the trailers, but again, unappealing visual style coupled with being in a niche genre and launching alongside a social media phenomenon in Stray ... the odds are heavily stacked against it.
I'm just glad these smaller projects get to exist regardless of sales expectations. Art ideally should be funded because the passion and the message and its cultural value is more important than the money it brings in. The medium would be boring and stagnant if the only projects that got any funding were risk-averse, homogenized, almost sure-fire sales successes.
That sucks. I'm playing it with my girlfriend right now and it's not bad at all. The artstyle takes some time getting used to tho.
People say that was to be expected since it's a niche title. But these numbers are catastrophic even for a niche title.
Also VN on Steam (and Switch) actually perform pretty well normally. Doubt it will do much better on Xbox if you look for example at the sales of Ace attorney colection. Maybe PC Gamepass can save it.
People say that was to be expected since it's a niche title. But these numbers are catastrophic even for a niche title.
Also VN on Steam (and Switch) actually perform pretty well normally. Doubt it will do much better on Xbox if you look for example at the sales of Ace attorney colection. Maybe PC Gamepass can save it.
It'd be a shame if it doesn't reach a decent audience. I have really enjoyed what I've played so far (up to the end of chapter 3), and I've been anxious to get home to see more of it.
Art style probably turned a lot of people off and releasing the same day as Stray was a baaaad idea
It also just feels all around janky.
The floating cursor controlled by a joystick feels laggy and weird, the UI and general presentation feels like it is held together with duct tape.
And then you have this really divisive overall art style. On top of that, the way the 2D art style is integrated into the 3D environments is often very wonky.
Overall it's just a really mediocre feeling game.
The floating cursor controlled by a joystick feels laggy and weird, the UI and general presentation feels like it is held together with duct tape.
And then you have this really divisive overall art style. On top of that, the way the 2D art style is integrated into the 3D environments is often very wonky.
Overall it's just a really mediocre feeling game.
It's also a pretty bad story. The want to be "prestige TV" but it feels more like Tuesday night procedural episode 148.
The "story spanning across 30 years" is not there, it's borderline false advertising. It's a story happening in 1998 with a glorified epilogue 15 years later and hints of stuff happening before that you need to pay extra attention to (and play multiple different story branches) to get the clues of.
The "story spanning across 30 years" is not there, it's borderline false advertising. It's a story happening in 1998 with a glorified epilogue 15 years later and hints of stuff happening before that you need to pay extra attention to (and play multiple different story branches) to get the clues of.
It was shown on the recent Microsoft E3 presentation.. one of the biggest shows of the year. Lol.
Once again, if it's not an action game it is not considered a real game on Era.
Besides being part of an E3 Microsoft conference twice, being part of the Tribeca Festival stream, having a Kinda Funny launch day stream and being pushed by Xbox social media? Yeah. No marketing.
No we may not. It is just one among many examples of games launching well on steam and gamepass. The game did not do well on steam. As simple as that and it largely boils down imo to marketing.
I laughed because my favorite VN is a 120 hours family drama (Umineko)
Hmmm. I do remember seeing it in the xbox conference, then felt like the game just disappeared until release.
Stray on the other hand kept popping up in social media everywhere and in various games discussion i saw.
Weird.
Don't even remember it being there, guess that's saying something lol
I found the art style ugly back when they showed it at E3.
Games like Life is Strange, Until Dawn and Indigo Prohecy are cool, but legitimate visual novels where you're clicking through 2D backdrops aren't my cup of tea.
Basically if this was a Netflix show I probably wouldn't bother watching it. Only way I'm sinking time into a legitimate visual novel is if it's somehow the second coming of christ.
Games like Life is Strange, Until Dawn and Indigo Prohecy are cool, but legitimate visual novels where you're clicking through 2D backdrops aren't my cup of tea.
Basically if this was a Netflix show I probably wouldn't bother watching it. Only way I'm sinking time into a legitimate visual novel is if it's somehow the second coming of christ.
Don't know if we should be comparing one of the largest indie games in the past few years and this visual novel. :P
Thankfully more and more people - unlike you - are actually opening their minds to different varieties of game types. Seriously... what a closed minded comment.
Wait WHAT?
How is that possible? Does the entire game consist of uncompressed 8K PNG files? Kojima-tier uncompressed audio for every language? An indisidous psychological ploy to promote XCloud?
its 70 GB on PC (for some reason, I think with the HD textures and such automatically bundled). But yeah. Kinda redonk.
For what it's worth, the Xbox app shows 70gb but when it starts it's actually 20. I think it's 70 if you want high res textures or something
Strange, I had never heard of Stray until this week. As Dusk Falls was on my radar from the Xbox conference, but I forgot about it until recently.
I presume it has something to do with 4K art assets. The Series S version is 20 something GB I think? It's 70GB on Series X and PC.
Does it really matter? MS is all about diversifing thier GP portfolio and this is a perfect game to spice it up along with pentiment and a couple other rumored projects. GP is still in the growth stage.. doubt ADF not lighting up the charts bothers them as much as era members want it to .
This 100%.
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Did you watch like any of Sony's PS5 showcases? Feel like it showed up 3 times minimum
You it looks hideous from an artistic point. Narrative games are the worst IMO. I'd much rather read a novel or watch a TV show.
The visual style is so damn unappealing for me this is a very easy pass for me no matter how good the narrative is.
It's a game made by a small team, not a lot of marketing and probably had dev costs covered with the Gamepass deal. Calling it a bomb is just hyperbolic when we have no idea of expectations. Not like they would have expected it to be a massive seller immediately, and a narrative game is probably going to lean towards people using Gamepass for it.
The game is actually very good. I'm not into these style of games too and initially judged it by its art style, but I'm 2 of 6 chapters in and it's a really well done game. The voice acting is top notch and the story so far is extremely engaging. I'm sure more people will try it eventually, but it's running up some tough competition right now.
Honestly believe WOM did most of the heavy lifting for Stray.
Goat Simulator, Maneater, Life Of Black Tiger, Untitled Goose Game. People really like to get the animal experience.
That's wild. Does the Xbox App and Windows store still hold your storage space prisoner after uninstalling games? Kinda want to try this game eventually and some other stuff on PC game pass, but not enough to throw 70 GB into a potential void. Those horror stories have scared me away for years.
no I don't think it does. I've tested it plenty of times personally
Please, don't apply the Resetera micro-world to the whole "pc gamers" thing.
Seriously what the hell are these comments? Did I just step into a forum from 10 years ago?
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