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author=Sailerius

author=Nightmargin

author=Pizza

author=Nightmargin

author=Pizza
The only one of these games that I've played is Oneshot... And I thought it was total trash.

I am the worst sort of person, it seems.

k, what needs fixing?

It's not that anything needs fixing. I'm confident that this is more of a matter of personal taste and experience, since everybody sings praises about the game, and I do believe that it deserves the good reception.

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Personally I just didn't enjoy the central gimmick of the game. While it's incredibly impressive that you guys were able to pull off so many things with 2k3, I thought that the idea of only being able to boot up the game once was a hindrance, especially in an Adventure game, a genre that benefits from being able to take time off and stew on stuff, think about puzzles, etc. To me being forced to sit there and play what most definitely isn't a short game in one sitting was sort of like putting the need to innovate above the player experience.

In addition to that, I thought the game suffered from the same pitfalls most other adventure titles do, namely being confusing and non-direct with player objectives. Putting the solution to a puzzle in the My Documents folder of a player's computer sounds really cool in concept, but the game offered no real hint that it operated outside the boundaries of the "game world", or that I should search around my own computer for answers. I wasted a lot of time looking around the world for the code, only to discover it by accident when browsing through stuff on my PC.

Besides the inherent problem with putting the code there, it brought up a question in my mind: What else did the game hide in my computer? It's not a good feeling to think that a game is screwing with your personal stuff, and it's not like 2k3 games have an uninstall option that would get rid of everything. Again, I think this is an example of putting the need to be innovative and new above the experience of the player.

I didn't make it past the first "blue" section of the game. So call me out on not giving it enough time if you want, maybe I'm just stupid for not being able to get past it, idk. I'm generally not very good at Adventure titles anyways.

Anyways, I hope I was clear about it. I didn't like it, and that's that. Perhaps "total trash" was a bad choice of words, so I'm sorry if I offended you by saying that, as it wasn't my intention.

tl;dr I'm a stupid asshat GO ME

just personal preference then? nothing's broken? good.

Well, aside from it not running on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10, but that's 2k3's fault.

author=Gibmaker
What was the water machine?