Firewatch

[MrBehemoth]

Anyone else excited about Firewatch? The art style is subtly stunning and the quality of the writing and narrative look like they're shaping up to be very immersive. From what I can tell, it's going to have more of a latent horror vibe than they're letting on.

Pics, trailers and previews here:
on Rock, Paper, Shotgun
on Kotaku

[J.R.S.S.]

Very interesting, thank you for the information. I will say, I'm glad to see a revive of more adventure style games. I still miss the days of old playing the Myst series.

[Kappa048487127]

God those first person models look fugly...

Anyway it looks like it could be good, but I'm not sure if they're going for a survival aspect, or what.

[J.R.S.S.]

I don't see why you would say it looks "fugly" but even if so, it's still pre-release footage/screenshots.

And from reading up on the actual game, it fits into the adventure game category, and it would seem to not really fit in the survival genre. It's a mystery game; the point being to solve an overall mystery while partaking in (it would seem) a huge amount of character development and exploration. Survival doesn't seem to be the case. But alas, we must wait for more information.

[MrBehemoth]

Yup, it seems like a character driven adventure with horror aspects. I think the viewmodels aren't meant to be realistic, they're in the same kind of comic book /painted style as the environment.

[Chrysler]

Firewatch just got released on Steam and PS4. I'm a few hours into it and loving it so far! It is definitely not a horror game but for anyone interested in games focusing on story telling, make sure to check it out.

Edit: I just finished it and still think it's a good game but it feels a bit short (5-6 hours) and the story somehow left me untouched.

[Kimetic]

I'll definitely be playing this at some point!

[MrBehemoth]

I liked it - and I enjoyed the story and the ending no matter what anyone says. It ended just the way it should of (at least the ending I got).

I heard today that there are rare story branches you can get, such as if you refuse to talk to Delilah at all.