ITT : Glorified Walking Simulators

ITT : Glorified Walking Simulators

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I know you're being mean but I love these games the most.

Bump for more suggestions for this genre.

Gone Home
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
The vanishing of Ethan Carter

Everything Sup Forums's hivemind has a had a hate boner for (for) years.

Gone Home is super boring, most of the other walking simulators aren't long games and worth playing (a few of them) if you dont immediately enter cardiac arrest while reading the term walking simulator.

The Stanley Parable
The Beginner's Guide
Also, pic related would qualify if it allowed you to walk around

dear esther was the most offensive waste of time i've ever experienced
i can't imagine a worse product

If it's a walking simulator, does it feature any legs? Like if you pan your camera down, can you see your character's feet?

This counts too i guess

Thanks just bought all 3.

Thanks bought all 3 too.

I only got this because I loved play hl2 mods when they were a thing and of course I got through original DE.
So when payed version came I wanted to see how it changed and what a good looking thing they made on source.

>he bought 6 non-games

I smoked a joint and played Dear Ester and had one of the best ""gaming"" experiences of my life.

I guess I just find games boring these days and instead want experiences.

So you buy pretentious garbage?

>DUDE WEED XD

I still play games. Arma 3 and GTA V. Dota 2 and Civ. None of those are very comfy though.

Soma

I don't know why you'd play it when you could get the same experience from watching a Lets Play of it

youtube.com/watch?v=ae8_rbIxjmE

It's "dying in the cold" simulator. Great game.

Surely you mean games that people screamed at for being aimed at a demographic that they aren't part of? May as well add in Gone Home fampai. Both execute what they aim to do exceptionally well.

If you want to complain talk about Machine for Pigs.

More like "that sean penn movie with the stupid guy dying in the wilderness" simulator to me

All are on sale ~$30 for what's probably going to be at least 12 hours of entertainment way more engaging than movies isn't that bad of a deal.

Pathologic is a de facto example of why walking sims are a flawed genre (note: not an actual genre).

>Also, pic related would qualify if it allowed you to walk around
lol'd

Memely Parable.

Do you family a favor and end yourself. You're an embarrassment to them user.

Me too brah. I toked dat dank herb and it was hella rad.

>you just don't get it!!!!!!

Firewatch is my GOTY. Stay mad little kids.

>"""""G"""""OTY

>The Beginners Guide
I wonder if Coda ever responded. Is he even real?

I enjoyed it and there's nothing you can do about it! ahahahah. I paid $20 and played for 4 hours and would do it again in a heartbeat.

No, he's not.

I've read greentexts more believable than TBG.

>tfw your first crush was called Esther
>wherever Sup Forums shits on this game it reminds you of her
Not that the game is good but yeah, life is shit.

vanilla wow

>!
>ahahahah
You were defending your opinion and thats nice really, its a nice game after all. Then you let your newfaggotry loose and fucked up. Please grow up.

>Both execute what they aim to do exceptionally well
Or maybe people screamed because of the disproportionate praise for games that can only be qualified as "good" if you put them in absurdly specific context of what they were "aiming to achieve"?

If you believe "you're not the target audience lmao" is an argument in favor of these types of games, you're genuinely stupid and it's no wonder you enjoy them.

not A GAME

How is it a "glorified" walking simulator? It's a straight-up walking simulator, it's not pretending to be otherwise.

I don't see why people have a problem with games like this, you're playing a story which gives you the freedom to explore the setting of them and make choices for the character.

They give you more freedom than a Telltale game lul.

Some idiots will just do anything to look unique

>Also, pic related would qualify if it allowed you to walk around

why are you such a dumbfuck

>which gives you the freedom to explore the setting of them and make choices for the character.
None of this is true.
>They give you more freedom than a Telltale game lul.
As someone who has so far disliked every Telltale game, Telltale pachinko machines are a thousand times better games.

Why do you care if the people who the game was targeted at were vocal about liking it? If anything it should be convenient for you as you can screen out critics whose tastes are incompatible with yours?

Certainly isn't any stupider than the
>le NOT a game
argument.

I guess OP meant that Dear Esther and other walking simulators get the GOTY threatment when they are not really games.

As a side note, the cave part of Dear Esther was neat as fuck, top comfy. And spoopy ghosts were a nice detail.

Honestly most games are just the same old minigames dressed up with fancy graphics and terrible storylines. It's all about atmospheres for me now. I'm over 30 though and I imagine that's a lot older than average here.

>le NOT a game
Except I didn't write that. They can be considered games, just very bad ones.

Gone Homo in particular, is the videogame equivalent of going to a cinema to stare at a black screen and listen to a narrator describe each scene. In other words - a "videogame" that doesn't utilize any of the strengths an interactive medium provides, is a bad "game", by definition.

>I'm not saying it's not a videogame I'm saying it's categorically bad because it's not enough of a videogame
Nice semantics though.

>A videogame without any of the components that, I and pretty much everyone else in the world agrees, make a great game, is great because it allows you to read the cliff notes of that one book I really like
I honestly don't give a rats ass that you enjoy it, it's just hilarious to see how videogame journalist hipster pretense has grown into contrarianism on Sup Forums.

>Pathologic
>not a game

If you don't give a rats ass then why are you still replying with shitty reiterations of
>no gaem i dun liek

You might also want to look up the definition of contrarian. Like it or not those games are generally well-recieved and you are the one with the opinion contrary to the norm.

That's not a glorified walking simulator, that's a pure walking simulator.
Something like Witcher 3 and most other modern AAA "RPGs" are glorified walking simulators.

>at least 12 hours of entertainment
probably not
>way more engaging than movies
definitely not

Honestly if you like walking simulators you should just buy some audio books or something. They're usually better written and preferring walking sims over them just means that your attention span is so shit you can't listen to a story without having pictures to accompany it.

Just admit it that it's a terrible game.

Instead of pretending that
>it's not not a game
is an argument to the contrary

No I'm more visually orientated I think. Though I do like talk radio. But audio books would be boring to me if I don't have anything to look at or do while listening.

Still replying?

Were going to have to agree to disagree.

It's incredible to see how you guys are delusional when it comes to defending these """"""""""experiences"""""""""" that are neither good games or movies or fucking whatever you call it

I like them is all.

Most games (without multiplayer) on the PS4

It's incredible to see the depths you'll go to trying to elevate your personal tastes to objectivity.
>I don't like it and only STUPID people disagree with me

It's starting to seem like you really care a lot about having me take you seriously.

>that just means that your attention span is so shit you can't listen to a story without having pictures to accompany it

That's true.

>multiplayer on consoles
glorified autoaim

Firewatch is pretty great. I think the ending is a bit disappointing but it's generally good.

Have you played it since that big update? Is it worth revisiting at all?

I walked around in the open world a bit. It was OK, not particularly amazing though.

Haven't tried the audio tour thing.

Ahh, so basically popular games that you don't like? Gotcha

The very definition of a walking simulator. I still enjoyed it for the architecture porn.

I don't understand, user. Why mention the weed at all? Does the game suck so much that you need to be high to enjoy it or do you just like telling people about your drug habit?

Just because it's a low-key type game and the effects of the weed are such that low-key things often feel good while you are under the influence. I'm not one of those in your face stoners. Most people that know me would be surprised to learn I used it (don't anymore).

>little kids
>wasting hours on walking sim with no payoff
How adult

What's your payoff? A new highscore or whatever?

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