New Dear Esther released

Technology and Gaming
#41

Bottom line: Its a different way to tell a story, but its terrible as a video game. Its an interactive movie, and as such, it should have been released on the PS3 to avoid all this confusion.

#42

let me rephrase.

i control the player, in a video game. “game; 1. an amusement or pastime.”
the first definition of the word.

Dear Esther is amusement. visual amusement portrayed threw video game format.
so no matter how you put it Maxey. Dear Esther, no matter how little excuse of a game you see it as. its still. a game.

now that’s just my opinion, so this could go round in circles until black mesa comes out, but what you said previously i agree with still.

#43

What I gather from this is that you’re too old for this artsy and convention-bending shit.

That said, I’m going to bed because it’s almost 3: 30 am here.

#44

That doesn’t necessarily make it one. You can control a player in a lot of tech demos for engines but they don’t constitute as video games, just technology demos

#45

yes true. but this isn’t a demo its a released finished product. released threw the biggest gaming network on the interwebs.

but look i can agree with whats said but it maize well be 10 minutes in the past if im at all to change my mind now.

#46

sigh

I think it was enthralling. End of.

#47

Well your opinions are wrong.

#48

Well, you just threw what little credibility you had out the window.

#49

Just played it with my new eyefinity setup, pretty cool visuals. Not a game, more like walking around on a deserted island listening to a crazy narrator who keeps talking about a car crash, and the graphics look pretty much on-par with a 1080p video of IRL.

Source engine still the best OH YEAH!!!

#50

trololololol

#51

now don’t forget kids what you say on the internet always means your right and everyone else is wrong.

#52

I’ve never seen people try so hard to push their realities onto others. It makes for good entertainment. From what I hear, better than Dear Esther.

I will say though, there is no way in the world I would pay 10 bucks for a game with no story development from the original and with the only change being beefed up graphics. 

Shit, the black mesa devs are in the wrong business. All this hard work for no pay.

But these dear esther assholes are making a profit off of a transition from the original half-life engine to the source engine(From a MOD). Doesn’t add up to me and it seems like a fad that these guys are makin a quick buck off of.

 That's what I see.
#53

I’m pretty sure it was a source mod to begin with.

#54

Seems to me like someone didn’t get the lines involving transcendence.
Poetry and symbolism just isn’t for everyone I guess…

There were several times during this game/interactive story where I had to catch my breath. Especially during the cave segment. Seeing the source engine pushed to this kind of performance was refreshing.

I can however recommend, that people try the original mod before they spend 10$ on the steam release. Just so they know what they’re going into. This is certainly no Serious Sam or Duke Nukem, and I say HUZZAH to that!

#55

I stand corrected on that fact.

I stand firm on everything else though.

#56

I laughed. Hard.

#57

Why are you even discussing if it fits your definition of a game or not?! Are your minds so delimited that you have to go around telling people. HERP DERP THIS IS NOT A GAME AT ALL I PRESS BUTTONS AND NOTHING HAPPENS, LOLOLOL. I never played Dear Esther to enjoy it as any other conventional piece of automata. When I finished it I had the same feeling as I have finished a real good book. Now please don’t try to fit the whole thing into your categoric mind. It has elements of a poem, it has elements of a movie. It has elements of a videogame. Therefore making it a perfect something. It’s short? lol I don’t see people moaning about poems. “This is too short. This isn’t even close to a real book.” open your minds

If it’s only because of the price (I payed 8€). For some it may be too expensive for some quite right. That is a different discussion.

#58

I’ll buy it when:

  • They make you find a handgun with one bullet
  • You spend the entire hour of gameplay looking for Esther
  • Find Esther and shoot her in the head with said handgun and one bullet
  • Rename the game to Dead Esther

It’ll still be a shitty game, but at least it’ll be a game.

#59

My only complaint, it crashes when I enable mat_wireframe

#60

One does not simply enable mat_wireframe with SO MUCH FOLIAGE!

Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.