Any similar games to TWD
Hi,
I just finished playing episodes 1 and 2 multiple times. I really liked them both and was curious if anyone has any recommendations for similar games?
Particularly games where your choices effect the outcome. Not really into shooter games. The small amount this game had was great for me.
I also enjoyed the social aspect of this series and the character development. I don't play alot of monster/anime, this game was kind of an exception due to loving the comic book/TV series.
I apologize if a similar thread was already created.
So anyway, any suggestions or ideas?
Much Thanks!
I just finished playing episodes 1 and 2 multiple times. I really liked them both and was curious if anyone has any recommendations for similar games?
Particularly games where your choices effect the outcome. Not really into shooter games. The small amount this game had was great for me.
I also enjoyed the social aspect of this series and the character development. I don't play alot of monster/anime, this game was kind of an exception due to loving the comic book/TV series.
I apologize if a similar thread was already created.
So anyway, any suggestions or ideas?
Much Thanks!
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Mostly I can think of RPG's but even they are not as good as they pretend.
In Bioware's KOTOR series for example it's basically whether you will choice the bad or good choice. Anything else does not matter. Most games are like that or the way where by asking you only learn information but you don't really respond.
The only 2 games that have a better dialog systems are Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines and The Witcher 1 & 2.
I really hope that Telltale will start a new genre with this TWD game. Hope more games like this one will emerge. I would personally love to see some Lord of the Flies/Lost survivor style with this dialog and story-telling system.
And the people consumed by darkness are scarier and allot more violent then zombie's.
I totally agree with Yami as well, would love to see a Lord of the Flies/Lost survivor style.
Thanks again all!
What else...well, I guess any WRPG fits the bill. The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, KOTOR, Mass Eff...wait, scratch that last one.
Deus Ex has a lot of focus on choice too. You said you didn't like shooter games, though, and while Deus Ex is more RPG than FPS, there's still a lot of FPS elements to it. If you do get it, though, remember this: The original and Human Revolution are good, but avoid Invisible War like the plague.
You might also want to try some visual novels. They're kind of light on gameplay (in fact, whether they count as games at all is debatable), but if you want your choices to affect the story I'd say they're worth a shot.
L.A Noire
I didn't play Heavy Rain but I've always wanted to play. I would suggest it too.
RPG's don't really work I think. They focus is on collecting gear and stuff not the choices. There was a time when I used to enjoy playing games that had gameplay 50 hours + but that time is gone now
Gothic III is quite a traditional RPG with 50+ hours of gameplay, closely comparable to TES: Oblivion, and nowhere near as story-driven as for example Mass Effect. It has, however, 3 distinctly different endings, and is filled with conflicting quests; completing one will eliminate the option of completing the other and will often have major consequences, as well as affecting your relations with the different factions in the game. Thus your choices will shape the game world, and with it being an open-world RPG, you can always return to see how.
However, the game does have a number of serious issues. It's very buggy by default, and the reliability is still below average even after applying all available fixes and patches. It also doesn't utilize loading screens for different areas, causing the performance lag to be a bit unreasonable taking into consideration the graphical quality and detailing. Also, the combat difficulty is dumbed down immensely from the prequel Gothic II, and both the expansion Forsaken Gods and the sequel Gothic IV: Arcania are simply awful.
If you don't put huge weight on the part about decisions and choices, a better bet would be Gothic II with the Night of the Raven expansion. Everything in the game is completely hand-made and the quality beats Gothic III in all aspects apart from the graphical one. The downside is you only have one possible ending, but you do get to choose between 3 distinctly different paths.
Well a lot of more of your decisions effect that game in ME than Heavy Rain. For instance
Indigo Prophecy sucked!
Ill find you! haha
Joking aside, Indigo Prophecy was great, though really limited and the story fell apart just before act three. Heavy Rain was better, but I think I have problems with the characters David Cage makes.
Telltale is doing far better work with the concepts, plus the women they write don't blindly run into danger then make you hit complex button combinations to keep them from getting themselves killed.
Plus with the fact that there are a vast amount of different endings/combinations (I think I read 21 somewhere? Never got all of them), plus I heard this was the first game to do this sort of 'choices choose your ending' type of thing.
Recommend 'Heavy Rain'.
...It's been at the top of my 'Please Release A Sequel' list, for a few years now!....Still hoping 😒