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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

After finishing Alan Wake, I'm playing American Nightmare, which shouldn't take me long to finish. Then I think I'll move on to Quantum Break, which I briefly played when it was new but remember nothing about. I'm also playing Cronos: The New Dawn little by little, I like the atmosphere of the game and the story is intriguing. I'm thinking about playing some kind of RPG, but cannot decide on what exactly.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I completely forgot about Quantum Break. I remember playing it, no idea if I finished it or not but I did put a good amount of time into it at the time. I think it was relatively new when I played it. I think I enjoyed it? I certainly didn’t hate it or I would’ve remembered that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The only thing I remember is there are short live action episodes between chapters, so not much. It didn't leave a bad impression, but I'm 99% sure I didn't finish it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Ok, I just played the first chapter and the live action episodes apparently are not that short LMAO

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah that sounds about right. I thought they were rather long but I wasn’t 100% sure since it’s been so long.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Oh, they are in fact full length TV show episodes. They're surprisingly good actually, even production value too. I think Remedy learned a lot about live action work doing QB that they perfected in Control and AW2.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Props for actually playing American Nightmare, too many people skip it but it does pay off to actually play through the whole Remedy catalogue in order. And I actually think it has its moments, too. The live action moments in the TV sets has some really fun acting from Ilka Villi.

    Quantum Break is pretty fun, and the live action episodes are actually really well done. It's funny though that you can really feel how the game is a collaboration with Microsoft. Some of that patented Remedy weirdness is sanded off and it is more of a big budget blockbuster spectacle.

    Cronos I actually really liked. Played it last year. The atmosphere is great, it has some cool and interesting lore and story and the gameplay is just very tight.

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