Game Club is like a book club for games. We get together and play a game during a set period, from start to finish. You’ll get a badge to proudly display on your forum profile if you finish the game in time and discuss it in the forum.
We also sometimes chat on Discord in the evenings while we play. Buy the game (if you don’t have it already), play it, join our chats in the evenings, be happy and content with the world. The chats are optional, but posting in the forum is not.
Due to exceptional circumstances, I am trying an experiment and running several GameClubs in parallel. Hopefully I don’t cause a rift in the space-time continuum or something.
GameClub 15 is The Long Dark . Unless the Council of MEW (that’s all of you), decree otherwise (by arguing for/against in this topic), this GameClub will run until the end of July 2020.
My reasoning for running so many GameClubs in parallel is that A Plague Tale: Innocence is a relatively short game, and there appears to be minimal overlap between those interested in playing Batman: Arkham Knight and The Long Dark.
Right, so I finished the first chapter of the game over the weekend. Must say the game is so much different from when last I played it a few years ago. Like I didn’t know there are talking NPC’s in the game, giving you quests?
The rest of the thoughts will be tagged as spoilers for the first chapter:
So after moving through the wilderness after the plane crash, I got to Milton, and I have to say I was a bit disappointed in the pacing of the game. So early on you are given this haven where all resources are plentiful and dangers are easily overcome. I was ready for The Long Dark to be a gritty survival game, like the version of the game I played 3 years ago. I wasn’t expecting the loot-a-thon I had while running around the town.
But then again, I did enjoy the somber story told by the Grey Mother. It was so sad, and definitely caught me off guard. However, with the survival elements rather easy at this point, the game did feel nothing more than an elaborate fetch quest. But then again, with the mechanics of the game, what other kinds of quests can you expect.
Then there is Methuselah. Named after the famous Bible figure that lived more than 900 years and is considered to be the oldest person to live on earth. His character intrigues me. He is obviously placed as a all-knowing supernatural being, able to judge my actions and motivations. I did enjoy him chastising me for killing the convict in the farmhouse. Yes, I did take that option. Fuck that guy to doing all those awful things to the town’s people.
Overall I am really enjoying the game, and the story is a much better affair than previous iterations of the game. On to Chapter 2
I’m not going to read all your spoilers for now. Didn’t get to play as much as I wanted over the weekend. My biggest problem at the moment is not having enough space for everything I want to carry.
It was in the Humble Monthly back in January 2018 - if you were a monthly subscriber way back then, it may be in your keys collection (that was one of the best Humble Monthly’s imo.)
As mentioned, R175 on Steam at the moment:
Irritatingly, according to SteamDB, it was on sale just last week at -75% (R44), the lowest it’s been.
Right, chapter two and now we’re getting into the think of things. In my spoiler I complained about the pacing of the game. Well, chapter two changes that and now survival is the name of the game. I still feel overly prepared for the wilderness, but I can see resources are going to become scares from now on.
I finished chapter 1 and am busy with chapter 2. So far the biggest problem is still that I can’t carry around everything that I want to. I think that when I’m finished with all the story chapters I’ll try out the proper survival game.
So far the chapters have been a bit boring. I’m hoping that it will improve soon.
