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[–] 59 points 2 years ago (1 child)

An interactive storytelling adventure/mystery. Some walking required.

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

    Falling down and climbing up are also simulated

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

    It sounds like this game might be a bit too intense for me then.

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

    Is there, like, a rocking chair simulator I could try?

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

    I had always interpreted the Walking Simulator label as a pejorative and never paid any attention to games described this way. Recently though I got The Invincible because some of the screenshots reminded me of old John Berkey paintings and I'm a total sucker for that kind of stuff, and I just absolutely loved it. I'm looking forward to trying out Firewatch.

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

    Death Standing got this label, but I loved that game. Id walk anywhere in Sam's shoes any day. Gotta keep on keeping on

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think the label originally was pejorative, but then fans of the genre took it as their own. Personally I like walking sims and I think it's a hilarious way to describe them, but yes it was originally some neckbeard complaining about how as a genre they're barely even games

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

    Didn't the devs pull some shit with dmca notices?

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

    This was years ago, but IIRC some youtuber used the N word while playing one of the studio's games. The developers found out and sent the youtuber a dmca takedown notice for all their games, because f*ck racism and racist sh*tbags

    Edit: source from 2017

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    I agree with the premise of why the devs did it, but DMCA abuse is still DMCA abuse, and the letter of the law matters. They should have 100% found a different mechanism to make them pull the videos down.

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

    Yeah but it was kinda shitty from the devs, because they explicitly (on their webpage) gave everyone permission to post gameplay videos, and then dropped the DMCA on pewdiepie because he said the n word in a different video.

    Not defending pewdiepie, but the devs shouldn't have proceeded that way. At least they should've asked him to take the playthrough down instead.

    Edit: people downvoting didn't read this because they're upvoting the shorter comment saying the same thing lol.

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

    Bit of a non sequitur, but I really miss the Idle Thumbs podcast :( hope those guys are doing well, I know some of them ended up at Valve

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  • [+] -12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)