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Until Dawn - Review Thread
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Nice, doing Sony's job for them
I would trust the rating board far more than a Metro review:
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Sony is doing their job. They are marketing the game and just so you know, sending copies to those Youtubers and Streamers is marketing
Sony is doing their job. They are marketing the game and just so you know, sending copies to those Youtubers and Streamers is marketing
Correct.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
PewDiePie playing this is like an instant 1 million copies sold from his viewers alone. Massive win for the game! : )
Or... are they just going to watch all of the videos and not buy the game?
Sending those copies is the bare minimum of marketing, a one man team can do that. Just don't see it being advertised much compared to something like The Order.Sony is doing their job. They are marketing the game and just so you know, sending copies to those Youtubers and Streamers is marketing
Seeing as your decisions appear to actually have an impact, I see fewer people just watching it on YouTube compared to say a telltale game.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Not really. All it'll do is get the attention of young people that likely would have ignored it. His viewers aren't likely to buy it. It's 60 bucks and is plot heavy compared to something like 5 nights at Freddie that is cheaper
Impeccable
Member
One gained copy of someone would have have ignored it is one extra copy sold.
Jarod McChicken
Member
Speaking of sales, Until Dawn is at the moment #1 on Amazon.fr, #4 on Amazon.co.uk, #4 on Amazon.com (excluding PSN cards) and even in the top 10 on Amazon.jp
A few days ago, the game was much much lower, it seems like it's getting some late good momentum. Probably a combination of the good impressions, nice reviews and also a very decent advertising right now on Amazon.
Really hope the game will sell decently enough for Sony, Supermassive and also for the narrative genre in general.
Yep. This industry needs more survival horror games. It'd be a shame if it flopped like Alien Isolation.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
You're both crazy if you think PewDiePie playing the game won't give the game a good boost in sales. The more exposure that spreads through social media the better.
I didn't say it won't. Still, I'd imagine a huge portion of let's play watchers will do just that, watch those videos.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
You'd be surprised at how influential he can be. PewDiePie could play Sonic 2006 and people would go out in droves to pick up a copy. I don't remember the game he played, but after he streamed a few videos of it the company ended up producing more copies of the game because of the huge spike in sales.
Grimgrillz
Banned
This is the point I was making earlier. The game had some traction in EU but nowhere near the momentum the positive reviews have given it. As well as jumping to the top 5 Amazon UK and France. Additionally Until Dawn also leapfrogged on Amazon Italy #5 Spain #4 Germany #4
For reference on amazon Germany Until Dawn's monthly position is #27 and even yesterday it was barley ever in the top 30 hourly. But then the reviews hit and we can expect it's monthly position to change considerably.
Strong EU support and this can could quite easily crack a million.
I'm not surprised by this. Even if a very small portion of viewers end up picking up the game, the percentage is probably just as good if not better than other forms of marketing.
Sending copies to streamers was a smart idea (and maybe bit of an experiment) on Sony's part.
TheSlySoul
Member
Yeah, I think PDP covering it is a win for the game even if it doesn't add that much to sales. Any exposure is good (doing more than Sony is at least).
CryptoZookeeper
Neo Member
Really psyched to play this game. Question for those who've gone through it:
I want to play this game with a couple of friends, does it seem like it'd be difficult to have me holding the controller and inputting the actions decided by 2 friends who will be watching along with me (4 characters for each friend)? Are there a lot of split second QTE's or are the QTE's usually a couple of seconds each?
I want to play this game with a couple of friends, does it seem like it'd be difficult to have me holding the controller and inputting the actions decided by 2 friends who will be watching along with me (4 characters for each friend)? Are there a lot of split second QTE's or are the QTE's usually a couple of seconds each?
Fallout-with-swords
Banned
Why do people keep saying Sony isn't marketing it. I've seen ads for it online and on twitch. The PlayStation YouTube channel has been posting interactive trailers and new videos. Sony is the one who sent out all the copies to YouTube and twitch people. And apparently it even has TV ads. What do people want?
I've been reminded of this game's existence several times over the past couple weeks without trying.
Yep I dont get it.
LiquidSolid
Member
Are you kidding? Of course The Order is going to have a larger marketing budget, it's a much larger budget game.
Also, lol at "one man team." Forget one man, you could do it in an hour, m i rite?
I think the problem is, that many people didn't really care for the game before, so they just ignored the marketing the last few weeks. Since gamescom (it was Sony's main game there) they really spammed trailers for it and tweeted about it almost every day.
Imo it's kind of sad that it now just started to get some more attention, just because of some good scores.
I hate the importance of scores nowadays...
toastyToast
Member
Good to see that the game executed on its premise from what I can gather. Might be a fun movie night substitute
Super_Cobra
Member
Aside from a few negative reviews it looks like the game may do ok critically. I'm going to purchase it later this week.
TheSlySoul
Member
I would say they started doing more stuff within the last week.
Also I meant more the pre-release marketing. They showed it only twice before release. Everyone kind of forgot about it (myself included).
Guess all marketing cannot be like Super Mario Maker though. Also too much marketing can be an issue (Destiny).
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Truth bomb!
Omnistalgic
Member
Think that was more to do with the platform it was on. No doubt in my mind, especially earlier in the Gen SO would have sold much better with the PS audience. Until dawn also is hitting at a time where horror is making a comeback, a bit more trendy than Sunset Overdrive was.Yea, of course. It really helped Sunset Overdrive to sell millions of copys.
Lokimaru
Member
I don't get why this is a big deal, I once gotten so drunk that I woke up sleeping in the dining room table having no idea how I got there, would you consider that a plot hole for my life? I just considered it a good saturday night. People that have blackouts don't remember what they did while in that state so why should the player have access to that knowledge when Ethan does not? At no point in the Game are you the player given knowledge that the character your playing as doesn't also recieve. In other words Ethan's episodes are just as much a mystery to him as they are to you. That's not a plot hole in my eyes.
dragonbane
Member
Thats definitely not happening from just PDP lol Reaching Heavy Rain's sales would be a massive win already and I hope UD does it, but its not easy.
That is if their parents let them have the game.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Ok maybe I got carried away with the 1 million boost in sales bit, but it'll still give the game a nice decent boost. : P
UberTag
Member
I would avoid going to this one as it's rather spoiler-heavy.
Jim Sterling knows how to not ruin games for his fans so you can check his video commentary out without issue. Some minor spoilers but not anything drastic at all.
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
played for a few hours last night and its far exceeded my expectations so far, I can't wait to play through with different choices!
Thanks for the warning, mejin. Will avoid those.
Papacheeks
Banned
WTF are you talking about? Playstation Access did a quicklooks in June, July and August?
Playstation Access is their UK playstation Blog team, that cover and expose all these games on youtube. And post them on playstation Blog site.
Here's a video from E3 they did over 20 Minutes long in June
July Playstation Access
August 21st
Notice June and July have over 300,000 views. This is not including other publications which have similar coverage for June and July.
Add in the live action trailers sony has put out, and tv add's. It's a pretty decent Marketing campaign if you ask me.
IGN has a video from August with over a million views? SO I would say marketing is doing fine for a Niche game in a niche genre such as Horror.
dragonbane
Member
UD's marketing is pretty solid, but sadly its clear as night and day that the lion share is coming from SCEE/XDEV. They actually care about their productions, so they usually put a lot of effort into marketing, same with Heavy Rain and other titles.
SCEA...not so much. I swear a dev either needs a flawless track record or the game has to be an absolute flagship title to get any attention from them.
SCEA...not so much. I swear a dev either needs a flawless track record or the game has to be an absolute flagship title to get any attention from them.
Wasn't he solely responsible for Skate charting in sales charts so long after its release?
Publishers love him.
PositiveGamer
Member
For anyone with the game.. Is there an issue with the graphics?
It seems my copy runs at around 20 fps especially in cut scenes.. I expected a smoother looking game. I just started and I am staggered by this revelation. I expected at least a smooth experience like beyond heavy rain etc thoughts?
It seems my copy runs at around 20 fps especially in cut scenes.. I expected a smoother looking game. I just started and I am staggered by this revelation. I expected at least a smooth experience like beyond heavy rain etc thoughts?
Maybe you should restart your ps4? Could be a memory leak, no?
PositiveGamer
Member
Wait so this is not normal?
tioslash
Member
Thanks for the heads up!
Gotta admit, I was quite down on this game due to the developer's lack of pedigree and the undercooked way in which Sony was showing off this game. I am very pleasantly surprised by all the good reviews, and the bits in the Giant Bomb quicklook seemed really entertaining.
Will probably pick up the game before MGS:V shows up.
Will probably pick up the game before MGS:V shows up.
PositiveGamer
Member
I did the full restart. It actually runs better..not perfect like you said but way better. Originally it really looked like garbage! Lol
Bright-Light
Member
Is there any consensus on the control method? Do people enjoy the button presses or the ds4 motion options?