I played the first one wrong then!
Hilarity is just the other side of tension!
Ok a non shitpost: the âplotâ of Receiver is explicitly fourth wall breaking and you are quite literally piloting around a digital representation in order to mentally train yourself to resist and receive (heh heh) certain psychic impulses. Fumbling with sixteen keyboard keys to reload your gun is a direct analogue to tank controls with no lock on in survival horror. Lovingly VRify it and youâve RE4âd it: it could still be fantastic, but it would be a different game with a different emotional experience to offer.
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That plot does great service for the game, but it ended them in a Portal space. Treating it to a sequel only literalizes the world, undermining the metaphor.
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But I want to press six keys simultaneously in more different environments
Why do you want to take this away from me, what do you have to gain
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They honestly donât look that different though? A little higher fidelity I guess but it still seems like creeping around office suites which are under construction
I mean fuck it, I am happy for you to have more of this thing you like. If it winds up really adding something to the experience of the first, please report back with your findings
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Did Receiver do extraordinarily well like Portal did?
nah but cuba bought it like 15,000 times
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Receiver was one of the best FPS experiences I ever had, so even if the sequel sucks, Iâm still going to buy it just to pitch more bucks at the developer
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I hesitate to call Receiver 2 a sequel so much as a remake. Itâs all the shit from 1, but upgraded. Itâs clear this was what they were aiming for in the first place.
cw self inflicted gun violence Just got my first mindkill tape that made me blow my own head off - including slowly turning the floating gun towards the camera so i can see straight down the barrel before the bullet rips through my skull - so thatâs fun
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Sure wish I hadnât clicked that spoiler!
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That literally happened to me yesterday, i was feeling so good grabing those tapes then i heard a message, and i thought âtime to pick my gun to shoot at dangerâ and wellâŚ
You can tell which are the mindkill tapes because the narration is significantly different and thereâs a low backing track. The solution, as expected, requires a lot of attentiveness.
cw self-inflicted gun violence You have to pause the tape by clicking while your gun is holstered, draw your gun, unload your gun, clear the chamber, holster your gun, then click to play the tape. Youâll draw and attempt to shoot yourself, but it wonât work
A significant portion of this game is about mental illness and cults so keep that in mind going in.
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did a match of ground war where we got spawn camped by snipers despite holding 75% of the objectives and this is just peak modern_warfare.txt
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if youâre keeping track of the âdoom eternal ost mixingâ saga:
turns out mick gordon threw idâs audio engineer under the bus because mick was unable to hit his deadlines. id gave him every opportunity to deliver the necessary tracks and extended the deadline multiple times and he was unable to meet them. and then, when id said âhey we need a full ost or weâre open to legal liability, weâll have our audio engineer mix the game tracks into the OSTâ, he didnât raise a stink until AFTER it released
what a fucking asshole.
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What has become unacceptable to me are the direct and personal attacks on our Lead Audio Designer - particularly considering his outstanding contributions to the game â as well as the damage this mischaracterization is doing to the many talented people who have contributed to the game and continue to support it. I feel it is my responsibility to respond on their behalf.
The public is not well-equipped to handle seeing the sausage
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i was pleased at how unusually honest that letter is. just in time for meltdown may!!
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When youâre a kid you think all the grown-ups are adults but when you grow-up yourself you realize all the other adults are just grown children like yourself.
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