>>1419123
I played it. It's weird I just randomly thought of it yesterday and discovered there was a demo. As someone who did kind of like Telltale back in the day I was interested. If it captures the tone of Tales From the Borderlands I figure it could be a good time. I liked it to a degree. It's pretty obvious the story parts are just webms. There's no actual rendering of characters going on nor will there ever be a section where you can walk people around (which even Telltale games had). This is probably how the game has such a tiny file size. It's just a bunch of movie files, voice clips and the dispatch interface. This does make dialogue choices feel a bit more awkward than old Telltale. Many times I felt the timer was too fast for me to process the choices and also pay attention to what the characters were still saying and I definitely think that's down to this just being video files. They want the animation to stay fluid and cinematic but the old system allowed for some lingering pauses that give you a bit more time to consider options. Maybe later ones will feel less awkward.
The game itself seems kind of fun. Kind of a super hero version of This is the Police but with more established characters and story. I found it weird there were actual stat and level up mechanics and I kind of wonder if this will factor into the story at all or if it will just be window dressing. The demo stops right before you're about to get a story dispatch and I feel like that was a mistake. They probably should have shown at least one of those to get a more complete feeling of the game flow.
Overall I'll probably pirate it. I wasn't
too annoyed by anything in yet. Yeah, Chase says "fuck" too much but I like Jeffrey Wright as an actor and his delivery is good. The youtubers are playing the comic relief characters who seem to have the overall least to do with the plot, so whatever. There wasn't too much current year stuff just one or two things. Most of the women seem attractive with the traditional blond hero girl seemingly being the main love interest going by the trailer. The demo, I feel, probably didn't give as clear a picture of the game as it should have but for all we know it'll be like five hours long so I guess we'll see. I'll pirate it when it comes out and stop playing if it annoys me too many times.