Dear Esther

Coming out on Steam on Feb 14.

Gotta say, I'm... curious.

I'm interested too.

It better end with everyone getting shot repeatedly, with Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek playing in the background.

But in all seriousness, that looks really interesting. The world looks amazing, too.

Damn, that looks great.

edited 6th Feb '12 10:32:51 AM by ThatOneGuyNamedX

Y'know, I hate these kinds of trailers. I know absolutely nothing more about that game than I did prior except that it is apparently a thing.

Could someone actually tell what the hell this thing is? I refuse to justify this kind of advertisement to research myself.

Agreed. Where's the information on the gameplay? What IS the gameplay?

This mod is more conceptual than a regular mod. It's designed as more of a storytelling mod than others out there. And it has a lot of Scenery Porn.

You can find the older version of the mod online. I'm waiting for this one to come out, as I have played Korsakovia (which I recommend downloading first) before, oh boy.

Here's the older version of Dear Esther. And here's Korsakovia.

edited 6th Feb '12 10:53:33 AM by totlmstr

I actually liked that the trailer was different than usual. Like I said in The Witcher thread today I hate te trailers that consist only of epic sounding music with characters don't pseudo-badass things and don't show anything else. I prefer conceptual trailers like this or trailers based on the story. One can know the gameplay by looking at preview/review videos or whatever.

oh sure, but you like trailers consisting of beautiful music with landscapes doing nothing and dont show anything else but a bunch of words describing how awesome this thing is, but not what this thing is.. thats so much better =O

From what I can tell the trailer doesn't look too far off from the game itself. The site says it's a ghost story, and it involves you exploring the area in first person and hearing bits of letters to a woman named Esther.

edited 6th Feb '12 11:11:09 AM by Bur

It's a first person adventure game. Simple as that. Makes me think it's like that indie game The Path.

Actually, it makes me think of that indie game Dear Emile. (Though I suppose that at least had a form of survival gameplay.)

edited 6th Feb '12 11:36:37 AM by feotakahari

Yeah, I gotta agree with hating these sorts of trailers. They tell me absolutely nothing about the game.

Still... it looks beautiful.

Actually, this trailer tells you everything about this game. :D

So it's just a bunch of walking around listening to some old British man talk?

... That doesn't sound fun.

I don't think it sounds fun either, but I do think it sounds enjoyable.

See, to me, those are one in the same when it comes to video games.

Ever heard of adventure games?

I can't help but get the feeling that this game isn't helping the whole "story vs. gameplay" discussion. That this game lacks gameplay almost entirely kind of reinforces the misguided belief that story comes at the expense of gameplay. Ugh, wonderful.

@Jaf: Yes. But I wouldn't describe them as "Walking around while an old British man talks," if that's the comparison you're getting at.

And the trailer does nothing to imply this is anything like an adventure game.

"walking around while an old british man talks"

...so this game is The Stanley Parable ?

Pretty sure it's by the same maker, so yeah.

Unfortunately I have to give this game the completely unfair comparison to Myst because of similarities. You guys are better off tracking down Myst.

I have to wonder why thechineseroom wanted to make this a paid game.