GWJ Conference Call Episode 473

Halo 5, AC: Syndicate, Life is Strange Complete, Hearts of Stone (Witcher 3), Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Dreadhalls, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, Dragon Quest Heroes, Downwell, Our Knitting Games, Your Emails and More!

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This week Julian Murdoch, Allen Cook and Shawn Andrich are joined by the real power behind GWJ, Jeff Beeman!

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Comments

Marchantia wrote:

Doesn't the last Sherlock Holmes game match the criteria of the open mystery game? As far as I remember there isn't a "solution" to the cases.

I think so. While there is one "correct" solution, you have the ability to solve the mysteries in several different ways.

Clue was made into a videogame. I have it on the DS Lite.

Jonman wrote:

Yup. Marvel Puzzle Quest is a deep old timesink, and I'm champing at the bit for the imminent release of Magic: The Gathering Puzzle Quest....

I was a huge fan of the original Puzzle Quest. Though I haven't tried the Marvel Puzzle quest, I have Adventure Time Puzzle Quest and I haven't been impressed with it.

If the MTG version is anything like that, ehh...

YMBAB just takes the game to such a Zen level already, I don't know if I'd want to complicate it.

doogiemac wrote:

My tap-tap knitting games are: Heroes Charge, Final Fantasy Record Keeper, and (occasionally) Marvel Puzzle Quest.

Maybe I haven't spent enough time with FF:RK, but it really just felt like I was hitting "attack attack attack" over and over and then sitting through a long cutscene.

Just like a regular FF game

MrDeVil909 wrote:

Even my favorite mmo, Guild Wars 2, demands engagement as dodging and positioning are critical.

Funny you should mention that...

I totally came here to post that GW2 is my knitting game. I've played that game so much (getting close to 1k hours now!), my mind just goes on autopilot. I don't even have to try. It's just click, click, click, click, see red circle, click, click, click (yes even my keyboard clicks now... awwwww yeah...).

Was great to have Doogiemac on the show! Good sir, we never thank you enough when things run smoothly, so thank you for all your hard work!!

Eleima wrote:

Was great to have Doogiemac on the show! Good sir, we never thank you enough when things run smoothly, so thank you for all your hard work!!

Aww, shucks. Thanks, Eleima!

I thought it was funny that you had the knitting game topic not long after the whole crew seemed to dismiss the Warriors games. They were designed to emphasize this style of play. You run and chain combos until you don't really think about it anymore.

The description of Halo 5's Warzone mode sounds so much like a MOBA to me it isn't even funny. It's neat seeing a lot of games are adapting that style of multiplayer for their own purposes, to mixed effect.

I'm looking forward to Keep Talking coming out on PS4. Don't really have a gaming capable PC at the moment, so that might be the way for me to get into VR.

That's about as far as I made it this morning. More on the way home!

ConsonantQ wrote:

I thought it was funny that you had the knitting game topic not long after the whole crew seemed to dismiss the Warriors games. They were designed to emphasize this style of play. You run and chain combos until you don't really think about it anymore.

Good call. That's sort of why I gloss over them, but if the idea is stuff you can mentally check out for, they're a great mention.

wordsmythe wrote:
ConsonantQ wrote:

I thought it was funny that you had the knitting game topic not long after the whole crew seemed to dismiss the Warriors games. They were designed to emphasize this style of play. You run and chain combos until you don't really think about it anymore.

Good call. That's sort of why I gloss over them, but if the idea is stuff you can mentally check out for, they're a great mention.

Yep, very accurate. Maybe when things slow down a bit and I go back to Dragon Quest Heroes on PS4, it'll become that for me.

doogiemac wrote:
Eleima wrote:

Was great to have Doogiemac on the show! Good sir, we never thank you enough when things run smoothly, so thank you for all your hard work!!

Aww, shucks. Thanks, Eleima!

Don't worry we'll be back to screaming at you the next time something goes wrong.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Danganronpa when it came to detective games. While the evidence collection is hunt-the-pixel a bit, you can't miss a piece of evidence, once you have all of the evidence it moves on to the trial. The trial is all about evaluating the evidence and people's statements to find inconsistencies in what people are saying. You're not figuring it out on your own, but the other characters are guiding the discussion and you have to use what they're saying to push the discussion forward and figure out the truth. It's not as self-guided as sherlock holmes, but still pretty good.