Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit

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So, there's a new adventure game coming out, about a month away.
And there's a demo out too!
http://www.gamershell.com/news/23515.html
Here in Yurop, its Fahrenheit and across the sea it's Indigo Prophecy, for reasons unknown.

This game can be summed up with one word. ATMOSPHERE.
It starts with you having just stabbed a nerdy guy to death in a diner bathroom, and having absolutely no fucking idea why.
The demo contains only a single scene, where you have to escape the diner, in one way or the another.
I really can't explain it more, try it you freaks.

EDIT: fuck that spelling looked like i used a shotgun instead of a keyboard
 
Hey, a choose your own adventure computer game!

Having played the demo, I have to say that this game is very awesome. I can’t wait until it comes out. :D

I really hope this starts a revival in a new style of Adventure games.

Basically, it's an interactive story by the same people who made Omikron. You can do different stuff like hide the body, mop up the blood, ect or not, and it has consequences. The guy also has a "mood meter" that makes him depressed when it's low, and can make him less and less anxious and fearful as it goes up. Stuff like hiding the body or washing the blood off with effect it. Also, the game sometimes has a split screen so it shows two different perspectives at once, like a stylistic movie. (I.E. One camera follow a cop as he walks to the washroom, and another follows you as you walk out of it.) The game is really atmospheric. I can’t wait to get it!
 
I want to strangle the inventor of the progress bar that changes based on the amount of arrow clicks.
 
Per said:
So, did you play an indigo child character?
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Nope. You get to save an indigo child, though. And then to take it to some obscure place where it whispers some really awesome words in your ear so you receive REAL ULTIMATE POWAR!!11!1 And you also get to have some wild uncensored sex in between (not with the indigo child, though), which is totally cool 'cos you're a zombie by this point and have w00t SUPAH POWARZ!!1

The idiotic control system killed it for me.
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Really? I thought the action sequences were way too easy with the keyboard on moderate difficulty level.
 
It was supposed to be an adventure game, not a shitty console twitchfest in the first place. If I want to test my hand-eye coordination and 1337 reflexorz skillz I play N4S Most Wanted...

And the keyboard control of the character a la resident evil sucks big Godzilla balls.
 
Ratty said:
Nope. You get to save an indigo child, though. And then to take it to some obscure place where it whispers some really awesome words in your ear so you receive REAL ULTIMATE POWAR!!11!1 And you also get to have some wild uncensored sex in between (not with the indigo child, though), which is totally cool 'cos you're a zombie by this point and have w00t SUPAH POWARZ!!1
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Don't you love that? You play through some 80% or more of the game, and in that last section, everything goes out the window. World-controlling secret societies (and the secret society of bums and tramps that oppose them), the secret of the universe, megalomaniac AI constructs, resurrection (and despite constast comments about how cold the character is after his resurrection, he seems to be good as new), the freezing of the planet, magic pools, magic powers, slow-motion flying battles (a la the Matrix), and all the rest. I thought I was playing a murder mystery adventure game with super-natural elements. I also wonder what happened to the black cop, poor abandoned character, no room for him at the end.

Though Quantic Dream went down a similar route with Omikron: The Nomad Soul. For all the science fiction elements of the game, you end up fighting a giant demon with a mystic sword.
 
Aaah, so this is that game that was all over the news by the guy who says that all other games than his suck because they contain no interactivity.
 
Per said:
Aaah, so this is that game that was all over the news by the guy who says that all other games than his suck because they contain no interactivity.
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I just started playing the game, and the approach to gaming is really refreshing. Using the mouse to simulate moving your hand to open doors is an interesting concept, for instance. As is the fact that almost all actions have some consequence, like having someone turn on the music making someone else flip, and become more stressed. Or that taking a leak reduces stress.

I also like the fact that you start out playing two people with opposite goals. The guy you play wants to escape the police and find out why he murdered someone, the two cops you play want to catch him.

So far, I'd say it's an original and atmospheric adventure game.
 
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