I quite enjoyed it, but I've never understood a) what all the fuss is about, or b) how those NPCs affected anyone's experience as I can't recall any interaction, just some extra prancing about.  Are we still spoilering this?..........They may as well have been AI, and the fact that they weren't made no difference to me past thinking 'that's pretty cool'.  I'm not knocking anyone's love of the game, but I don't get why the companionship in particular was such a biblical wow.  Am I even remembering it correctly, that the gamertags in the credits were a reveal of sorts?

If only you could talk to these creatures, then perhaps you could make friends with them or form alliances...Now that would be interesting, but as it is you can't even climb up each other's scarves to reach higher ledges.

When moot disagrees with elf is one of those rare moments that I can agree with moot

acemuzzy wrote:

When moot disagrees with elf is one of those rare moments that I can agree with moot

Sometimes we just do it force you into an opinion.  In this instance we'd already agreed to disagree.

It was biblical for me. Well. Maybe. I don't know what something being biblical actually means. 

But yeah. Companionship. A journey together.

I played one of the earlier Iso ones co op and yep, it was fun.

I really like the look of Rime.

It would be a crime not to find time for Rime.

No I won't, I need to be good with my money.

Have £175 of cex vouchers so I'll check local cex periodically in case they have it

I heard/read 5-6hrs.

Gamermike wrote:

Is Rime quite short? I'm looking for something to dip in and out of soon.

It's reasonably short.

Oh Edith has a bit of a non-plussed ending that kind of spoils it that's all.

It all looks the same.

Volume (PS4)

I was a bit fan of Thomas Was Alone, both in terms of narrative & simple gameplay - but this was just a bit shit.

The narrative was just boring.  Loads of meta nonsense, none of which grabbed my attention enough to really listen.  (I read some other reviews that seemed to say it was OK - but meh.)

And the gameplay was just a bit boring too.  Some fun gadgets but not enough variety in the 100 levels, and new stuff introduced at such a slow pace, and rarely mixed.  (You can only hold one gadget at a time, and rarely even have the choice of more than one.)  Slightly more interesting by the end of it, but I'd only say about 5 of the levels were actually "fun".  Checkpointing was too easy, aesthitics a bit too bland, and then annoyances that if there's an audio snippet when you interact with something it reloads the whole snippet - really poor way to handle it, leaving snippets effectively looping if you're interacting with lots of stuff.

Levels loaded fast at least - but the whole game loads with a screen saying "we're really proud of this game, please (advertise it for us and) stream it so all your mates can see".  Fuck off.  There's little to be proud of here.  The AI was literally the same as what me and Lazy Gunn hacked together for the pirate game a few years ago - i.e. utterly unintelligent.

So yeah, grrr.  Only a few hours, but I think i'm going [4] despite sevens and eights in mags.  I do not comprehend their generosity of marking.

acemuzzy wrote:

Volume

Cheers. Just read half the article. Will finish in morning.