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fus-ro-dammit · 2 years

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New hyperfixation unlocked

#until dawn #the quarry #until dawn 2015 #the quarry 2022 #supermassive games

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seaside-writings · 1 year

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I mean, Until Dawn essentially is just an interactive movie

True, but it would be so cool to see how much more horrifying it could be if it had the budget that Avatar has.

Plus, they could pull a Clue with the different endings!

#until dawn #until dawn 2015 #until dawn endings #thank you for the ask!

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crimescrimson · 4 months

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"Understand The Palm Of My Hand, Bitch."

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criminey-christmas · 1 year

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i don’t know why i still remember this but back when until dawn first came out, i watched mark and jack’s playthroughs first. when it got to josh having his breakdown when mike and chris were tying him up in the shed, they were both kinda laughing and being like why are you being so weird

then i watched emma blackery’s playthrough and she said how sad the scene was. and i just remember thinking how true that was. we were watching a kid’s mental breakdown; watching his mask fall and seeing what he was actually thinking and going through after losing his sisters. his delusion of power and perception of reality was broken and seeing how quickly he declined mentally was heartbreaking. and it’s only made worse later in the game when we find his transcripts from his therapists and see him experience auditory and visual hallucinations

it’s just interesting how the scene hits completely different to people who have faced mental illness than to people that haven’t

#no shade to mark or jack of course #for all i know the devs did what this moment of levity in a judgemental ‘look how psycho josh is’ kind of thing #considering his name when hes playing the killer is literally psycho for all i know it could be #it was 2015 mental health awareness wasnt exactly at its peak #but that scene always left me feeling uneasy and just sad #idk this moment has just always stuck with me #and then the game theory episode exploring if hed been misdiagnosed and let down by the mental health system makes it doubly worse #it showed that hed been potentially misdiagnosed with depression (and maybe ptsd i cant remember)#when the symptoms he displayed lined up more with schizophrenia #and now wonder his mental health deteriorated when he was being given antidepressants that did nothing and therapies that didnt help #exploring if the therapists were just taking the easier way out diagnosing him with depression #instead of working harder to find out what was actually wrong with him #idk josh in general feels like a misunderstood character when you dont know to look at him through a mental health lense #well that’s content #until dawn #until dawn josh #josh washington #markiplier #jacksepticeye #emma blackery #game theory

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percyderolo · 3 months

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as an ashley brown defender, the until dawn movie is going to bring something feral out of me

#i had a blog dedicated to this shit in 2015 #i was in the trenches #new fans better not speak on her!#until dawn #bethany.txt

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hannahwashington · 3 months

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remember when the original game randomly got patched like a year or two ago and it was genuinely the most exciting thing to happen in the fandom in Years? take me back i want OUT of whatever's happening now

#i am NOT eager to experience a resurgence of 2015-era discourse as someone that managed to miss it #until dawn

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swampythesweetsketch · 9 months

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Is it just me or does anyone else wish there was a Until Dawn sequel where the survivors (idk maybe a everyone lived ending) have to get their eyes viciously ripped open to the underbelly of mythical and paranormal activity that plagues their world and such become unwilling agents to another monster of the week due to their exposure to the wendigos?

#Until Dawn #sorry for those who do not like using the W word for the monsters #this game came out in 2015 #if anyone has an issue with me using the W word then I'll substiute with another name

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everygame · 6 months

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Until Dawn (PS4)

Developed/Published by: Supermassive Games Released: 25/08/2015 Completed: 04/10/2023 Completion: Everyone survived. Trophies / Achievements: 80%

It’s spooky season, so I thought I’d play some scary games and for whatever reason Until Dawn happened to be the one that bubbled to the top first.

I think when I was a kid who loved graphic adventures, I think this is what I thought video games would be. Cinematic experiences where you’re constantly making choices that have a meaningful (or not) effect on how the story goes forward. With Until Dawn, the tropes of horror are a perfect setting to ensure this kind of design doesn’t get out of hand: you can limit things almost to: who lives? Who dies?

Of course, there are still, simply, limitations to the form that I don’t think I was thinking about when I was 8 or whatever. Even if you stick close to the traditions of horror and make your cast an interchangeable group of arseholes who the player will be happy to see get offed, there’s only so much branching you can do, and then you also have to put in some stuff the player actually… plays. Which usually means… quick time events.

Isn’t it weird how they’re a thing? They’ve essentially existed since Dragon’s Lair in 1983, where you had to make a (barely) educated guess about which direction to push or which button to hit, and the main (only?) innovation in the last 40 years is that you know get told exactly what to do. And that happened literally about a year after Dragon’s Lair!

Does anyone like them? For me, they’re just an annoying bit where I have to remember which button is where on the controller. In an action game where succeeding at them matters, they are legitimately the worst way to engage me with the action–I’m not watching the cut-scene, I’m waiting for a horrible pop-up–and in a game like this, I think… why not just replace them with more choices? Choose if character A manages to perform the task or not because you want to see the story go one way or the other.

(And while you’re at it, only offer me the choices that are interesting. There’s a hilarious amount of climbing involving QTEs here to stretch things out.)

When I think about QTEs, I think it's telling that this was originally more focused on motion controls; I can imagine QTEs being more successful by actually going back to being more like Dragon’s Lair when played with (say) modern VR controllers. A character leaps to grab something, you throw your hand up and grab. Like Dragon’s Lair, though, that becomes complicated when there’s more than one option (do I do the motion to unsheath his sword, or run away? etc.) and here you just get stuck with Heavy Rain-style “Push R2 to open this door” and then you watch your hero awkwardly move their hand towards the door until you slip off R2 and they stop, creating the world’s most unconvincing human behavior.

Anyway, outside of QTEs, the play here largely features you… walking about slowly, usually following another character, and optionally picking up lore items (if you find them). Also something that feels like it could be almost entirely excised!

The thing about Until Dawn is, though, that the junky plot of “teens go to a cabin in the woods where a tragedy had previously occurred” is easily understandable and, dare I say it, enjoyable. The archetypes and tropes are all on show, and it’s actually fun to try and maneuver through the plot which is never really that surprising, but you don’t really need it to be. In fact, if if wasn’t for all the bits where you actually have to play it rather than making choices it’d be such a breezy wee experience; unfortunately, rather than going for a nice movie length it’s somewhat over-extended into ten episodic chapters, and I was disappointed when I finished it to have absolutely no hunger to play it again to see different things happen.

I suppose also, probably, because seams of the branching become a little too apparent towards the end. There’s a couple of characters who seem destined to die simply because the plot doesn’t do anything with them, and in the final sequences there’s only one character that really matters.

This is still pretty fun for a single run through though, and I imagine it’s much more so if you play it with a group and just see what happens. There’s a lot of jump scares, comedy gore and even a few moments of actual tension.

Will I ever play it again? I won’t, but I’m already considering running through The Quarry, which isn’t supposed to be as good, but there’s something enjoyable sometimes about playing games which are so “low effort” (well apart from the bloody QTEs.)

Final Thought: I wrote about Supermassive Games’ Hidden Agenda six years ago and gave it an absolute kicking–a game which I did play with a group. Should have played Until Dawn back then instead…

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#gaming #video games #games #txt #text #review #ps4 #playstation 4 #until dawn #supermassive games #2015

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cowardlycowboys · 1 year

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thinking about until dawn

#cinema.....(is a video game from 2015)#omg kiera no one cares #until dawn like weddings is always in the back of my mind waiting to be let out

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angeltannis · 8 months

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It’s been 8 years and still every time I hear The Greatest by Ellie Goulding I think of my old headcanon that it was the Until Dawn kids’ graduating class song

#that album came out in 2015 so it’s irrevocably linked to UD for me LOL #but TELL ME Jessica didn’t upload graduation pics to Facebook captioned ‘NO ONE KILLS IT LIKE WE DO!! ✨💋🎓🍾’#until dawn

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opulentdeckchair · 1 year

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me skipping the sanitorium scenes every time i watch an until dawn playthrough

#love u mike but i'm not watching an hour of Walking Simulator 2015 #until dawn #chatter

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connorinabeanie · 1 year

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Are there more games like Heavy Rain and Detroit Become Human that you can recommend? I'm not much of a gamer, just got myself a PS4 for distraction, but I really enjoyed those two games.

Hi! Also sorry for the delay on this one too omg I never get asks and then I get two at a time when I wasn't doing fandom stuff for a bit pffff ♥

BUT YES, I do have at least one major recommendation: Until Dawn. It's a PS4 exclusive so it's perfect that you're looking for PS4 games. UD was the first of the big choice-based story games that I played (before DBH, and definitely before Heavy Rain) but it's in a similar style, where it's mainly wandering around, making choices, and then doing QTEs in action scene. Supermassive handles their QTEs and choices slightly differently from Quantic Dream, but they're similar enough that you shouldn't have much trouble getting used to them if you've tried DBH and/or HR.

Without being spoilery, I do have to say that UD is a horror game, so it's much more violent and there's graphic blood, gore, etc. It's set up to play with horror tropes, so knowing that going in is helpful in terms of understanding why the characters might be acting like idiots (but they're a lot deeper than they seem and develop in interesting ways.) Choices don't matter quite as much as DBH and HR, but they do have an impact and you're in real danger of characters dying, so there's high stakes.

If you do like UD, Supermassive has several more games and I think a lot of them are available on PS4 (House of Ashes is my favorite of their other games, and leans more toward action than horror if you're not big on horror, but opinions vary person to person on which games from Supermassive' catalog are better than others.)

Outside of Supermassive and Quantic Dream I haven't played too many story games and I'm not totally sure what's available on what platforms. However, I've heard really good things about Life is Strange, I know people like Telltale's games even though the choices aspect is generally considered to not be that strong, and I've heard Oxenfree is fantastic and I really need to play it.

I hope this helps!

#ask and answer #my main tumblr was like #totally devoted to until dawn for quite awhile #and it's what got me into the idea of playing detroit #I can't recommend it enough #as long as horror is okay #great characters and cool plot #and the graphics hold up despite being from 2015 #also the aesthetic and music and all that #so good

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crimescrimson · 4 months

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evildeadgf · 2 years

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so hypothetically if i were to remake some of my old jossam au edits from my old blog would y’all be here for that would y’all fellow jossams want that. and perhaps a new playlist would that be good

#jossam #josh x sam #until dawn #text #prob talking to myself here but. hi #that old anastasia au from like 2015 had 800+ notes and i'm like .. looking back it was so ugly i could remake it so much better now

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witchblade · 2 years

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my strange insistence on never giving supermassive any amount of money ever

#i rented until dawn i wartched the inpatient i stealed™ tdpa and now i rented the quarry #its not even intentional or targeted its purely incidental. i dont even rent games lije that #this might acthally be the first video game ive rented since i rented ud in like 2015 #my special practice just for them

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rabidhiss · 2 years

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If I knew that #peterstormare was in #untildawn I would have gotten this game faster than you can say “Stormare”. Now playing (and very impressed with Peter’s digital counterpart) the choose-your-fate slasher by #supermassivegames #2015 #ps4 These are just #screenshots taken while the movie game was rolling.

#until dawn #supermassive games #peter stormare #ps4 #2015 #screenshots #interactive movie slasher

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