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Gone Home |OT| I ain't afraid of no ghost!
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Wok
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Spelunky was the top seller on Steam, and the game was already known for a year on XBLA. With this pricepoint, I do not expect this game to be that successful on the first day, so the cards will be more expensive. We will see.
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Deleted member 80556
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There was a thread here that said that this might be a horror story and I thought it was genius not to show anything scary until the game itself.
However, this is even more surprising! Will buy it when I can.
However, this is even more surprising! Will buy it when I can.
I watched the trailer with my wife and she's excited about playing it too. Then she made a joke about it being set in olden-times and how I should really relate to it. She also theorized that chronologically in 2 or 3 games AssCreed will be set in my childhood so that will really be special for me. 
I'll probably wait until the weekend, give me some time to think of a hopefully painless way to hook up my PC to the living room TV. I could find a long enough HDMI cable at work, but I don't have a wireless keyboard or mouse. I do have a laptop with HDMI out but while it plays SC2 and Dota on medium settings I'm not sure about how demanding Gone Home would be.
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Well, laptop gpu meets the required specs at least.
I'll probably wait until the weekend, give me some time to think of a hopefully painless way to hook up my PC to the living room TV. I could find a long enough HDMI cable at work, but I don't have a wireless keyboard or mouse. I do have a laptop with HDMI out but while it plays SC2 and Dota on medium settings I'm not sure about how demanding Gone Home would be.
Intel HD Graphics 4000
Well, laptop gpu meets the required specs at least.
Been looking forward to it for a while, but totally spaced on the release date. Will pick it up in the near to not so near future, just so I can hear Hot Scoops on Thumbs talk about the response (be it good or bad).
Olden times? Oh my...
I watched the trailer with my wife and she's excited about playing it too. Then she made a joke about it being set in olden-times and how I should really relate to it. She also theorized that chronologically in 2 or 3 games AssCreed will be set in my childhood so that will really be special for me.
Olden times? Oh my...
Yep. You and me both!
Messofanego
Banned
Well, then...
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Well, then...
Should I be worried, or elated about this Tweet?
Messofanego
Banned
You'll want to go in fresh with the game, without any expectations or potential spoilers, I think she's trying to say. She's a Gamespot reviewer btw.
JasonUresti
Member
You are the ghost in Gone Home, a digital ghost from the cyberpunk future of Gaynor's dark dreams.
Messofanego
Banned
Sweet, will have to do it in one sitting like Brothers which I need to get around to also. Although can see why people might not be up for that price point.
Andrew Korenchkin
Member
Sweet, will have to do it in one sitting like Brothers which I need to get around to also. Although can see why people might not be up for that price point.
Ha, nice! That's you on Twitter!
I'm probably going to take twice as long with this one.
Ugh, unlock on Steam already!
graywolf323
Member
same, so far I've been assured it's ghost free but are there any horror aspects?
maybe you're living the game, dun dun dun
Chris Remo
Member
No. It's dark sometimes and you're walking around in an empty house, but it's no more terrifying than that would be in reality.
This game sound like it was designed for you.
Gone Home comes out tomorrow around 6:00am and I can't decide if I wake up early and play for a hour or wait till after work. Either way work tomorrow is going to unbearable.
Just imagine you're Jeff Goldblum breaking into someone else's house, and going through their stuff. It's how I play Skyrim.
JasonUresti
Member
I've decided to save the twenty bucks and just break into my neighbors house while dressed in baggy jeans and a flannel shirt. I'll make a custom soundtrack filled with a ridiculously obscure/labeled genre (which we all know is just pop rock), and throw Remo's Thirty Flights of Loving soundtrack work on there to.
Everytime you pick up something Goldblum does his Goldblum laugh.
Eventually a Telltale Game has to feature Jeff Goldblum. Right?
Yeah, I love the idea of the game so I'll buy it and hope it is successful (reviews will probably help), but it seems a bit weird to release it without a pre-order and at the highest possible price point for an indie adventure game.
Brerlappin
Member
Yeah, ive been following this game for pretty much the last year or so. Dying to play it, then saw the price, and got hit with a load of bills this week on top of it all, and now im like shit, i cant really afford to spend that much on a game that can be finished in a few hours
Bruce Campbell87
Banned
I'm very interesting in this concept, but let be honest, releasing an indie game at 19,99 dollars, is not an opportunity anymore.
PC gamer has a lot of backlog, they always wait for a discount price.
PC gamer has a lot of backlog, they always wait for a discount price.
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Deleted member 59090
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Just imagine you're breaking into Jeff Goldblum's house and you steal his shoes XD
Sweet, will have to do it in one sitting like Brothers which I need to get around to also. Although can see why people might not be up for that price point.
I finished it in less than three hours, and I take forever to play games due to wanting to see/look at everything. It's not only possible to play it in one sitting, it's the only way you should play it. Really special game.
diggmcbadass
Member
This game begs for oculus rift support.
Just watched the quicklook of this game and honestly I'd love for someone to help me understand why this game is getting so talked up by basically everyone who has touched it.
Scanning in hand written notes and using royalty free Kurt Cobain photo as a fake magazine cover are little cute ideas but not enough for me to give a shit about the game.
A few hours of poking in fake drawers to learn a secret about a haunted house doesn't exactly sound amazing.
Scanning in hand written notes and using royalty free Kurt Cobain photo as a fake magazine cover are little cute ideas but not enough for me to give a shit about the game.
A few hours of poking in fake drawers to learn a secret about a haunted house doesn't exactly sound amazing.
Looks like this game isn't for you. I think it looks great.
bender
What time is it?
Thank you Brad. I was already looking forward to it but this seals the deal. Come on Humble Indie Store.
I'm going to avoid the QuickLook until after I finish the game.
I agree. Looking over a lived in house? Sounds great to me, I need a break from killing everything that ever existed.
Wok
Member
Is the game suitable for children?
How old are we talking? There's not much that you would find objectionable in a puritanical sense (though that's a grey area depending on the person), but the thematic elements are pretty mature and probably wouldn't resonate as much with someone who isn't at least deep into adolescence.
Wok
Member
My question was more: are there elements which might be shocking (either overly sexual or blood, guns, violence)? I feel uneasy about going in a stranger's house and opening the drawers. Finding souvenirs is okay for me, but I don't want to find some weird stuff.
Based on your answer, I understand the players has to be mature, but there won't be any shocking element. Not that I am easily shocked, but I want the game to stay classy.
Aw man, gonna totally buy then. Hopefully it runs ok on my kinda crap computer.
Hellsing321
Member
There may not be ghosts but Slenderman has to be in this, right?
paperboywriter
Member
maybe this is a dumb question, but this game isn't available for preorder right? they are selling this on steam and humble, right?
Incandenza
Banned
Can anyone speak to how this game runs on a laptop? Brad and Vinny reporting framerate issues on their PCs make me pretty skeptical of its running acceptably on lesser computers.