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[lemonsandlions]

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Why Until Dawn should *only* be played with friends

Cast: Boi Big Chill Mad Dolphin Hunter Buttercup Chainsaw

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There are many ways to play a game and I believe one is just to watch someone else play and see their reactions to different acts.

So, when is the best time to interrogate your partner if they cheated on you? Boi Big Chill thinks it’s when they are hanging precariously off the ledge. Of course it was hilarious to the rest of us, mostly because he refused to heed to our words of retreating to safety. Things did not end well.

Until Dawn, the 2015 homage to survival horror movies of yore, is an eerily creepy game, and the only game I replayed immediately after completing it. But I realised the most fun I’ve had is when I watched others play this beautiful masterpiece.

As I watched my friends journey through the game I realised just how different we are temperamentally. With every choice they made the story branched towards newer areas, and even after having sat through three playthroughs I was seeing new things in the fourth.

I had read somewhere that the first choices that people make in video games are quite likely to the choices they would make in real life. (But then how often do you face the choice of sparing the life of an alien or kicking them out of the window? Yes, Commander Shepherd, looking at you!)

Maybe there’s no better way to understand a person than by the choices they make, possibly under duress. Yes, Commander Shepherd, you again, and Boy Big Chill, who let go of the character’s sister off a cliff, because he could not make a decision in time.

So while my utilitarian instinct was to try and save everyone in the lodge even though I failed to save myself, Buttercup Chainsaw - an Ayn Randian objectivist - believed in saving herself and that all individuals are responsible for their own well-being. In comparison, both Boi Big Chill and Mad Dolphin Hunter tried to save the ones they could, while not fretting over the ones they couldn’t.

There are many ways to play a game and I believe one is to watch someone else play and see their reactions to different acts and at times gloat silently in your knowledge of things to come. Until Dawn (2015) is a concoction best enjoyed with a bunch of friends.

[taffykate1983]

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[trucidate]

30 days challenge: game.

Day 01 - Your favorite game. Day 02 - Your least favorite game. Day 03 - Your favorite ending from a game. Day 04 - Your favorite music from a game. Day 05 - Your favorite character from a game. Day 06 - Your favorite online game. Day 07 - Your favorite arcade game. Day 08 - Your favorite moment ever in a game. Day 09 - Your favorite multiplayer game. Day 10 - A game you are addicted to. Day 11 - A game from your childhood. Day 12 - A game you found disappointing. Day 13 - A game you can beat most of your friends on. Day 14 - A game you wish you were better at. Day 15 - A game that you never completed. Day 16 - A game you thought would be good but turned out bad. Day 17 - A game in your collection you never play. Day 18 - A video game character you can relate to. Day 19 - The first game you ever bought. Day 20 - The most recent game you bought. Day 21 - The first game you ever completed. Day 22 - The most recent game you completed. Day 23 - The game you are looking forward to the most. Day 24 - The longest game you ever played. Day 25 - The shortest game you ever played. Day 26 - The easiest game you ever played. Day 27 - The hardest game you ever played. Day 28 - The cheapest game you ever bought. Day 29 - The most expensive game you ever bought. Day 30 - The most frustrating game you ever played.