Game Vortex writes: "Winter Voices doesn't do much to not look like a flash-based game. The animations are smooth, but have that kind of "shadow puppet" look to them. The backgrounds are lovely, but there's little interaction with them."
This week on the Games Only Podcast, Doc and HP hold down the show with a guest cameo from Sunny. HP talk about GTAV Online, as he was the only one able to get on the servers to give us the Scoop. Sunny and HP go into a robust character breakdown of GTAV and how the story telling is still top notch. Doc played the unique and very nontraditional tactical RPG adventure game, Winter Voices. We wrap up the show with a discussion about the Steam announcements and how it fits into the landscape of the next generation.
Gamers are very used to having it all: getting the girl, being the chosen one, choosing which kingdoms fall and rise at their whim, and most definitely, used to saving the world.
The author of this piece challenges that notion, however. How is this sort of power supposed to feel thrilling when it is the norm? What does that power become except mindless vapidity, yet another privilege we are granted in our voyage to become Orpheus, Zeus or Ares?
That article was awesome!
Can't say I agree 100%, but brings up some interesting points.
Think I may have to have a crack at winter voices.
Good article, I like games that give you some empowerment but has some morality behind it (Yakuza 3).
Can someone make an RPG about not saving the world? I know they're must be some out there, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
is that pic from the article a fan art of persona 3?
but yeah i feel that its always the same cut and dry save the world/nation/universe
what if you think your doing that but you end up being the villain and taking over/destroying one of those?
Let me preface this article by first telling you my overall opinion: this game is terrible. First, before I tear into why I think that is, I’ll tell you about some of the good stuff: why I bought it, how it should have been, etc...
I thought it looked really cool from the screenshots and everything, and when it was on sale on Steam for like 2 bucks, I decided to try the demo and see if it was worth that price. Demo was AWFUL. Definitely don't buy this game. I couldn't even go into what I hated about it so much, but it just Drrrrragged on, incredibly boring, and the controls sucked and it was very unpolished. Shame.
The name combined with the dramatic crow made it seem really cool. But then I looked at the screenshots...
How does isometric viewpoint in any way make you think its going to be like Diablo? There are hundreds if games with the exact same sort of view. Many of them slow moving adventures and rpgs. Admittedly most are pretty old now, predating diablo but the expectation seems unrealistic.
I'm not saying this is a good game though. :)
