Play firewatch and remember how good season 1 was.....
So I played firewatch made by Sean and Jake..... I tell you I was amazed at the job they did and it hit home how good season 1 compared to season 2 and this Michonne spin off.....
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I personally like S1 , S2 , and Michonne , but whatever floats your boat.
I'll be over here remembering how much I loved The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands.
And Thrones and, to an extent, Minecraft.
It was alright. I much prefer pretty much anything Telltale is making now, but hey y'know
Or play em all and enjoy the lovely entertainment.
It would be awesome if Sean and Jake could make a temporary return to work on The Walking Dead.
Firewatch had me feeling really bizarre by the time the credits rolled. A great story and premise but not enough dialogue options and conversations and the ending was really depressing. Still a worthwhile game, just not what I expected given that it was by the s1 writers. Looking forward to even better stuff from Campo Santo in the future.
The story started out strong and remained strong but it all fell apart near the end. The entire game was building up for something really big but it was all just an anti climax.
I 100% agree with you CiscoKidd81. Season 1 was so much better than season 2 in everything. The episodes were longer, more fleshed out, and for the most part the characters and story were more emotionally investing. I felt that the storytelling was tighter, more fluid and cohesive. Don't get me wrong now I loved season 2, its just that it negative aspect were a little on the heavy side. Less branching of story, less character building, too much character building (Kenny) ect. If each of the episodes in season 2 added at least 15-20 more minutes of character development for character's like Nick, Pete, Alvin, Mike, Bonnie, Sarah and even Jane I would have enjoyed the experience a lot more and season 2 could've been written better.
I think you mean made by Campo Santo, because those two guys didn't do all the work
At least thank the other devs that helped make the game what it was, not just two people
in cisco's world Sean and Jake are the only reason anything is good.
I actually saw a lot of similarities between Firewatch and The Walking Dead Season 1, which definitely reminded me of their writing.
A man (Lee/Henry) that is estranged from his unseen wife somehow (incarceration/dementia) forms a new bond with a girl over a walkie-talkie (Clementine/Delilah). Most of the game focuses on building this bond between them, with walkie-talkies being a major theme. Eventually the man learns that someone has been listening in on them through another walkie-talkie. Lee/Henry becomes paranoid over who it could be and how this could affect Clementine/Delilah who relies on the walkie-talkie to communicate. Eventually, the climax of the story is when it is discovered that the person listening in is a father who has lost his young son due to a fault of his own (Ned/Stranger) and has been keeping track of Lee/Henry and Clementine/Delilah through much of their time together as a result. It is at that point Ned/Stanger knows or learns of Lee/Henry's estranged wife and share their story before they are killed/leave. A distraught Clementine/Delilah can leave Lee/Henry alone during the last scene of the game.
That's a pretty good connection you got there.
Firewatch does seem to borrow writing cues from S1 The Walking Dead, now that I think about it.
Firewatch is good. Don't get me wrong. But this is not Sean and Jake's best work. The story is great. Gameplay is good and visuals are beautiful. But the story does build up to this huge anti-climax. And I know some people have compared it to 'Gone Home' claiming that story had an anti-climax as well. But with 'Gone Home' you could at least recognize and feel with the characters, and you are relieved but still shocked at the anti-climax which makes sense. It is a climax for the character but not in terms of what happened.
'Firewatch' dragged this out way too long but I am glad they did not go the boring 'Oh she wasn't real' plot thread but still. An okay game, I'd pick it up if you could.