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[–] 117 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's great news. The game already runs great on Steam Deck, but sometimes the EA app is really difficult to get logged in to.

I highly recommend this to anyone with a dock and a significant other. My wife and I played a lot of it together, and I overheard her telling her friends that it was like we were playing a pixar movie together.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yep, a truly great game, deserves every award it got

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Me and my wife... Got really bored. The gameplay loop is supppperr trivial, and even though they add in stuff every now and again, eh...

    I dunno, it's okay - but I just don't get the hype. I wanted to pitch in because if someone is considering buying it I'd really recommend checking a Let's Play of it before trying it.

    It felt like a game specifically designed for a gamer to introduce gaming to their never-gamed-before partner. If you're both experienced gamers like we are, I wonder whether you'd give up on it too.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Me and my wife are both big gamers. We both enjoyed it a lot. I get what you’re talking about in the gameplay loop, but we play games for stories. The story was engaging and kept us interested. I did enjoy the gameplay though.

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  • [–] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    As a side note, EA has basically locked me out of my entire library and I gave up trying to fix it. Terrible launcher.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago*

    Fuck EA btw
    Fuck those greedy customer-hostile profit-extracting bastards

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    My wife found out about The Elephant Scene and refused to ever play it as long as she lives

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah... that was a fun surprise for us.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Yeah, that part was a distinct bum note in an otherwise enjoyable game. Why the developers thought it was good idea, I'll never know.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Thanks for the explanation, although I don't find it a particularly acceptable one. The sequence wasn't funny enough to justify the dramatic shift in tone in an otherwise family-friendly game, IMO. Also, making the protagonists unlikable in a game where you're supposed to find them sympathetic is a very weird design decision.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I’ve never played the game or even heard of this scene until reading that article and the sense he gives is so unsatisfying to me.

    I think if you view it as a metaphor for divorce, it could make sense. Something the parents feel they have to do for their own health and well being that is nonetheless catastrophic for many children. Their children’s life as they know it, their sense of security, is carefully and methodically being ripped apart.

    I could see that, but he didn’t really go there, it was just that the parents are so egoistic they just do whatever they believe is right.

    I mean, sure, but it could be a powerful scene if framed properly, but it really sounds messed up.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. After hearing the dev's justification I can see what they were going for, but it's really poorly handled in-game IMO.

    They way it plays out in the story feels neither darkly comic nor a poignant commentary on parents going though a divorce; instead it just comes across as unnecessarily cruel, and the player has no choice but to go along with it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    To take the devils advocate position: is conflict not necessary for drama, and effective conflict is one that affects its audience?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    The issue isn't the use of conflict as a dramatic device per se; it is essentially forcing the player(s) to perform a seemingly unnecessary and unpleasant action against their will.

    The fact that both main characters in the game appear to immediately decide that violently murdering their child's favorite toy is the only course of action and that no alternative is offered is really jarring. Giving the player some agency in choosing an alternative way to to go about it would have solved the problem completely.

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

    I'm curious about comparing this to say - the white phosphorus scene in Spec Ops: The Line, or the airport scene ("no Russian") in COD, rescuing Ellie instead of giving humanity the cure in The Last of Us...

    All things that are arguably a lot worse than pulling a leg off a stuffed Elephant and all require on-rails player action in a game.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting, I wonder how they wiggled out from the ea app requirement and if any other EA games have a chance.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is it The End Of Days?

    Is EA actually getting .. less shitty??

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    EA is continuing to do what they've always done - attempt to suck up as much money as possible. It just so happens that for once they think being less shitty is the best way to do it. Don't hold your breath about this being a trend.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Wow, literally just got my wife a steam deck to play this game with me and created her an EA account last week. Joining each other was annoying using the EA friend's list and the steam deck trackpad. Hope this update streamlines the process.

    Update: Invites using the Steam friend list was simple and worked well.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Great game, had a blast playing it with a buddy. I did not pay for it and there was no launcher either :)

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)
  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    No. It's two player cooperative gameplay.

    One of you will be doing one thing, and the other person something to help them, and it's always varying what you do.

    It's not like Brothers a Tale of Two Sons, or Kuri Kuri Mix.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Can you play it on a single computer or does it have to be two machines? If it's a single, do you need two controllers or how does that work?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Anybody know if this game is noob friendly?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Great, now do the rest of them

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    And I'm still not gonna buy an EA game. They burned themselves ages ago.

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