Developer: House House
Publisher: Panic
Platforms: PC/Mac, Nintendo Switch (reviewed)
Release Date: 9/20/2019
Price: $19.99
You know, I’m generally not really a fan of stealth games. I’ve tried both Metal Gear Solid and Assassin’s Creed, but couldn’t really get into them
Apparently, the way to get me into stealth games is to make the main character a goose.
So, E3 is a thing that’s happening, and, as is their wont, game companies are making announcements at it. This news, however, has piqued my interest more than the rest.
See, it turns out that Final Fantasy VIII is not only going to be re-released for its 20th anniversary, it’s getting a full-on remaster.
So, remember how Tellltale Games ended up whittling down their staff to a skeleton crew of 25 employees? Well, it looks like they’ve got that number down to 0 employees now, according to this article from Game Informer.
As of now, it doesn’t look like the higher-ups of the now apparently-defunct game developer have put out any kind of official statement as of this time. However, I can say that it’s a safe bet that these employees won’t be getting any kind of severance pay or reimbursement for overtime either.
And the whole situation still kind of fucking sucks. What makes it worse is the knowledge with how terribly TTG treated their employees before the closure, plus the fact that if any of these folks end up working with any other large developer, they’re going to run into the same issues they did with TTG.
Because the CEOs of these companies (and any company, really) simply do not care about their workers. And they will continue this pattern of behavior as long as it continues to make them money.
Like I said at the end of the last post, the tech industry needs to unionize. At this point, it’s probably about the only way that the workers in said industry will actually get what they deserve.
Game developer Telltale Games, best known for their The Walking Dead series of episodic games, recently laid off 225 of their 250 employees, leaving 25 employees currently to finish Minecraft: Story Mode before, basically, shutting down.
So, PC Gamer recently released an article talking about how some people have created mods in order to remove the combat element from certain games-particularly, in this instance, Alien: Isolation.
Well, now we’re on part 4, which I’m thinking should about wrap this up. This time, I want to talk about the game’s influences, as well as other versions and adaptations, as well as some other media I think are kind of like the game. Probably not so much in this post, but
Also, for a couple of items, I can’t really talk about their influence without spoiling the shit out of them, so there’s that too. Particularly the section about Jacob’s Ladder.
Last time, we went over the characters of the game and what makes them tick. This time, I want to take a look at two of the most important elements of the game: the fog world, the otherworld, and the monsters that reside there.
As per usual:
(Seriously, though, there is some discussion of sexual assault in particular that some folks may find triggering.)
In the last post I gave a rundown of the events of Silent Hill. For this post, I want to take a quick look at the game’s characters and what makes them tick.
The warning from the last post still applies here:
So, I’ve decided I’m going to try something new. Instead of posting game reviews (at least for now), I’m going to focus my gaming posts more on writing posts about games that are already pretty well-established, or that I just like for some reason. These will be more like analyses than game reviews, and will go under the Katie Play Stuff tag (which I used to use for game reviews, but I think it fits stuff like this more).
I’ve decided to start with one of my absolute favorite horror games: Silent Hill. Naturally, there will be spoilers (as much as one can be said to spoil an almost 20 year old video game, anyway). Also, there are a number of uncomfortable themes, such as abuse and the loss of a child (not to mention a metric fuckton of blood and random corpses), so if that kind of thing bothers you, you might want to sit this one out.
They aren’t kidding.
I’m going to split this up, otherwise the post will get ridiculously long, so I’m going to start with a summary of the game’s plot. As can be expected, there will be spoilers after this point (as much as one can spoil a popular, almost 20-year-old game), so I would recommend tracking and playing the game first if you can.
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