Hello and welcome to the podcast, I’m Alex and in this post I’d like to talk about my impressions of The Quarry 30 minute game.
I’m very impressed with it I’m very impressed with it I love it I want to go into a little bit more detail it looks great and it’s very much the spiritual successor to Before Dawn that I wanted I’ve always been very critical of these guys at Supermassive but it’s been tough love and I’ve said that probably in every article that I’ve done.
I love Before Dawn, it’s one of my favorite games, and then you know, McDonald’s Men and Little Hope weren’t good enough, and House of Ashes was definitely a step in the right direction, and now you have Quarry and My Demons, so you know it looks good, and I hope they can get back to being a top developer, or at least get to where they are now with games that I’ve watched for 30 minutes and jumped round, like when they’re walking around in the forest, or when she’s walking around in the forest there’s some parts that I don’t think you have to watch straight through, I don’t want to spoil it for myself, but I watched it anyway, I watched it for the content, and to be honest, uh, here we are, by the way, I said 30 minutes of footage, or should I call it 30 minutes.
You know, in Ign’s article, it got quite a few negative votes, a lot of the comments were positive, I hardly saw any negative comments, or any super negative comments, but there were quite a few negative votes and I think the negative comments were all saying the same thing, where’s the gameplay, just the cut scenes, just the clips and I think you know I agree, I think that’s fine, that’s definitely a point of view and you have the right to have it that’s what these games are about yeah they’re not very heavy games you have to make some decisions you have to do some quick events in those 30 minutes there’s some searching and clue finding activities the rest is literally these games aren’t for everybody these games won’t appeal to everybody I think that’s totally fair that’s why you know I think you have to have the right perspective when you’re looking at it the right perspective and I think you just look at it with a different perspective and yeah it looks great visually it looks great it’s an evolution of what we’ve seen so far these games were never behind the times I think up until the dawn, the pre-dawn games still look good now in my opinion you can tell it’s getting old but at the time I mean it was in terms of I guess you know the motion capture and capturing the expressions of these people is very good and none of the last three dark picture games have really taken a step forward and I don’t know if they all released the game as magnificently as Before Dawn and I don’t think they were ahead of the curve like Before Dawn but they still look great and I don’t think this game is going to be an exception it has the same style yeah, the same aesthetic but it looks really good and then in terms of what you actually do, I mean it hits all the notes that I want to hit which is it’s very much like Before Dawn yeah, I don’t want I won’t spoil it, in fact I won’t even show the ending it’s like the last 5-10 minutes, maybe 5 games, if you want to watch it you can watch it, if you don’t want to watch it I won’t spoil it but it has a very similar pattern until dawn is what I’m going to say, I’m just leaving out the spoilers.
That way you can know, like oh well, they’re like you’re jumping back into this place and it really doesn’t feel like an untold story, but you know, if you make Until Dawn basically an anthology instead of a Dark Pictures anthology because they’re smaller.
What would Until Dawn look like if you made the size and scope of Until Dawn like this? It would be like this, it would be like this two characters that are well acted and well characterized and you’re going through a lot with them and you’re making decisions and I would say that I have a downside as far as the visuals are concerned and that is more like uh, like the UI, like the way things actually look and I don’t know if I like t
