This is a great game. I beat it a bit ago but I just now completed it. I’m really glad I revisited it. This is a fantastic game, the art is amazing and the story is great. I had to stop for a bit because I get nervous easily and oh boy. Without spoiling the game, you really, really should play it. If you take a look at my screenshots (I don’t know if I can put them on here, but they are on my profile.) You can just get a small taste on how great this game is. I recommend looking at a guide for some of the achievements, simply because one or two are a little difficult to find or even know about on your own.
The only fault I have with this game is that it wasn’t longer. I wish I knew what happened to four particular people when the game ended.
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Firewatch
14 hours playtime
10 of 10 achievements
I absolutely agree! This game was very beautiful and made me feel very strong emotions, especially how tense the ending got.
How did you feel about it? I thought it was very realistic, but not very satisfying. I overall very much enjoyed the game, but felt just as sad, let down, and lonely as Henry probably felt. I go back and forth about whether this was a good artistic decision (these emotions ar real, after all!) or a bad one (leaving an audience with negative emotions is risky, and it did marr how I felt about the game for a bit).
sorry for the late response.
If you are asking me how I felt about the ending, I felt like it was unfinished, like I still had something left to do. I wish it went more in depth about everyone’s relationship. I wish I knew what happened after the helicopter. I want to know why Ned Goodwin stayed. Why didn’t he report his son died? Why not bring him home for a funeral? Why not give him a funeral? Why did he make it seem like someone was watching Henry and Delilah? Why did he trap Henry in the cave? He didn’t want Brian to be found, why? Why did he set the soil experiment/tent on fire? There wasn’t really anything to hide. Just take the papers he left, no need to burn the whole place down.
That’s a very valid point! To put it nicely, I think in the pacing and the emotionality of the game, you’re not meant to think that hard about it. To put it less charitably, if he did that then there wouldn’t be a plot in the game (or the plot would then have to be something else).
It made enough sense to me, though, that for a man like Ned, just Disappearing would be the easy option, and he’s a shitty enough dad/selfish enough man that he could accept that would mean leaving Brian to rest where he fell. If he alerted anyone about it, he certainly would have been arrested and charged for endangering Brian. So would Delilah (but I doubt Ned would care about that, beyond using it as another point of justifying hiding).
I agree with the scientist tent fire point, though. I think it was just there as a tense plot moment - which it was! - and the justification of ‘Ned was spooked so he did something desperate’ is flimsier than I would like it to be.
While I understand Ned made bad decisions, I think he just had trouble connecting with his son because he had PTSD. I don’t believe he was that bad because he brought him out into the wilderness and tried to teach him caving because that was something he genuinely enjoyed and wanted to teach that to his son. Even though Brian was against it, I doubt he went spelunking before, and at least wanted Brian to try it before decided he didn’t like it. and plus, just going out it the woods and fishing with his kid to connect and do manly things might have been what his father did to him. I think it was supposed to be a father-son bonding moment that went wrong. (there is a fishing pole in the tower that I’m pretty sure was there before Henry was. like the ogre map and dice.)
I agree with you about the fire, he might have just freaked out and gotten nervous. But I don’t understand why he wanted to hide Brian’s corpse. It might have been because of jail time, but it still seems weird to me. I think he might have left the body there because he blames himself too much and doesn’t want to confront the fact that he thinks he killed his son, that he didn’t teach him right, so it’s his fault, rather than viewing it as an accident. I just don’t know why he hid himself away for three years and tried to hide it. Maybe he was depressed? I hope the fire and the three years he spent out there made him re-think his decision and rejoins civilization. I hope he didn’t go deeper into the forest. It’s just so sad.
Yeah, loved this game. And it was an SG win. :)
One thing I like to mention when people finish the game, is if they noticed that when you get into the helicopter at the end, the game shows whether you brought your wedding ring with you, or left it in the cabin. I thought that was pretty neat. :) And yeah, I totally wanted to see Delilah in-game.
I realize this is a tad bit late. (sorry.)
I always ended up bringing it with me because it doesn’t feel right to just leave it. It’s not Her fault she forgot you.
I brought it the first time, but it seemed so prominent in the endgame that I wanted to see if it made a difference, and it did. :)
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“I don’t know if I can but them on here”
if you wanted to you could copy the links to them and put them in![]()
tags
like this
“ <img src=”https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/891014597778418576/5E3493DCF48B6F16D6CF0DF207985D506C9894CF/”> “
It’s not showing up in preview, could you show me how to put them up step by step?
okay
well you’ve already managed to add the bottom info for the game so you know that BLAEO supports html
if you want to embed a image personally I just like using image tags but I just remembered it also supports markdown
so if you want to paste an image all you need to do is copy its url and the embed it.
aaaaa how do I say this without including any jargon.
basically go to your screenshots and copy the image link (make sure its the image link and not a link to the page but a link to the image
then use either markup or html to embed it into the post/reply/whatever