Candidate For Best Modern Adventure Game: INSIDE

[Mandle]

I haven't actually played the game myself but I've watched the full playthrough by Jacksepticeye on youtube.

I posted a comment after the final video but it does a have a few minor spoilers so:

Slight Spoiler Alert:

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It looks like to me that a bunch of indie developers got together and said to each other:

"Let's just devote the next 2-3 years of our lives to making the best game possible so far without any language whatsoever to tell the story:

Let's just do the entire thing with the visuals, the gameplay, and the sounds..."

There are advantages in doing so:

One advantage is that you do not have to include any voice acting, and then the spawned advantage from that is that you have no headaches about translating the game into every other language on the planet...

Another advantage is that you do not need any other clumsy text subtitle interface for the hard-of-hearing or deaf players....

(AND the game even actually HAS visual clues for such aurally disadvantaged players when the "PULSE" sequence of puzzles comes up, where you can see the flash, and then the pulse rippling the air in the far background, and then arriving and blowing stuff up...So the devs even thought of that aspect when making their game...)

The disadvantages in creating a game with none of the usual voiced exposition:

It's incredibly hard to tell an interactive story in a game without an exposition narrator and any speech from the player character or NPCs...

The feedback from the game to the player must be INCREDIBLE: And Jack mentioned this when he said the chicks following you at the start prepares you for the later following mechanic...

BUT: In this game it never felt forced...There was no "obvious" tutorial...

Every mechanic in the game was introduced at a kindergarten level the first time it appeared and then just ramped up and up to harder levels later on...

The game feedback-to-player logic-loop in this game is a masterpiece that NEEDS to be studied at the college level...

Just watch how fast Jack knows what to do in most cases, even cold-playing this game...

That's a tribute to the wisdom of the devs of this game, and they could for sure take a lot of Triple-A devs back to school in many regards...

BEST GAME I'VE SEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME!!!

And one of the best Jack series I've enjoyed ("Papers Please" would have to be number one)

Cheers!

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I don't want to go into the further details of why this game was AWESOME, because it might spoil it for you guys...

But, despite what I just said, I'll just say:

MAJOR SPOILER ALERT:

Spoiler

David vs Goliath story but David becomes Goliath!!!

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HERE'S THE LINK TO THE FIRST EPISODE OF JACK'S PLAYTHROUGH

HERE'S THE LINK TO THE GAME'S PAGE ON STEAM

I wouldn't make a seemingly spam thread like this unless I was honestly excited about the game and what it means to the indie community, especially the adventure game community!

If anyone here plays this game in the future or has already played this incredible game please leave comments!

[luisdementia]

Limbo is one of my favourite games. I hope I can buy Inside soon.

[Mandle]

Limbo is one of my favourite games. I hope I can buy Inside soon.

Ah yes...

I forgot to mention that the game was from the creators of Limbo!

Thanks for the reminder!

[Danvzare]

I've seen a lot of people say this game is apparently the best game ever made, or at least the best game of the year.
But no one is ever willing to say why due to spoilers.

From the screenshots though, it just looks like a normal artsy indie platform game. And while I do love my indie games, and I have enjoyed quite a few artsy games, and I do sort of like platform games. This game just doesn't look interesting. At least not from an aesthetic point of view, since all I've got to go on are screenshots.

So what's so great about the game?
Is the gameplay to die for?
Is it the story?
If it is the story, how and why is it so great?
Tell me what makes this different from the dozens of similar looking games. (Some of which I have played.)

I mean, I think Lakeview Cabin Collection is the best horror game I've ever played. Period. And I could describe exactly why and how, without giving spoilers.
It also has a very interesting aesthetic, and the screenshots alone sold me on the game. Yet people never called that game "Candidate For Best Modern Adventure Game" and it kind of was like an Adventure Game as well. Kind of... sort of.

In short, what makes this game so special?
Because I'm getting a teeny tiny bit annoyed at how much this game is getting recommended. It's starting to sound like another FNAF or Undertale. Which are both decent games, but nothing amazing, and definitely not deserving of the amount of praise they did get (well not when compared to other better games).

[Cassiebsg]

Uhm... from the little I saw on the lets play, I would not call this and adventure game. This is an Action-adventure. At least to my definition of what an adventure game should be.
Better find another place to watch it though, that guy is just too annoying to listen to!

[KyriakosCH]

The mechanics (in Limbo, not this one ) seem reminiscent of Another World. But yes, i wouldn't call this an adventure

Looks very atmospheric, though...

[Mandle]

As for being or not being an adventure game, yes, that does depend on how wide or narrow that definition is.

I would include it at least crossing over into the genre because of some of the intricate puzzles later on in the game, some of which remind me of certain parts of Myst: Understanding how mechanical devices work and how they can be used to your advantage.

And yeah Cassie: Jack can be a bit noisy for some people...I believe Pewdiepie also did a complete playthrough. He is a bit calmer than Jackaboy...