Playing as Anyone In Watch Dogs Legion
Added 2020-12-07 05:59:14 +0000 UTCHey all,
Here's a proper finished draft of the Watch Dogs Legion episode. Sorry it took so long to get out, but it ran a bit long. Let me know what you think! On to Descent!
- Chris
Comments
It's interesting that you bring up Spelunky and similar games as being systems-driven stories because I found myself thinking towards the end about a comment Joseph Anderson once made about how Subnautica and The Long Dark are experiences first, systems second whereas Don't Starve is systems first, experience second. This is despite those games being superficially very similar. In the same way I make a story about that time I almost survived winter but then a Deerclops came and killed me, Spelunky lets me make a story about how I killed a shopkeeper early on for his shotgun, but then three levels later the shopkeeper got his revenge. I became bored of Subnautica in the same way games like Watch Dogs Legion want me to experience their worlds but imagine the side bits. Subnautica just didn't have much of an emergent narrative to speak of. Instead it gave me great one-offs like when you see one of those massive leviathans for the first time. Eventually, even those become mundane. For something like Legion, I can imagine having fun with the faux-nemesis system and ultimately getting bored of the recurring kidnapping after the novelty wears off. Anyway, just some thoughts. Thanks for the great vid as always.
Zachary Fine
2020-12-07 18:36:19 +0000 UTCOoo. As in the spaceship in mine tunnels from the mid 90s Descent? hmu if you want any insider info on Descent 3/Mercenary. I did art and level design on those.
Josh Foreman
2020-12-07 18:30:02 +0000 UTC
