Just bought this, I see the memes about how its communist propaganda, but I don't give a fuck, I just want a good vidya to play.
So is it fun, worth my time? Additionally can I soft lock myself in the game, and is there a time limit? It looks like there is a day and night cycle. I hate time limits.
You chose a funny time to buy. They just announced The Final Cut, a (free) update that adds full voice acting and more quests. I would just wait if I were you tbqh.
Wow, holy shit. What bad timing. Well fuck.
Don't worry, user. I think you get a free upgrade when it comes out.
why are you asking about it AFTER buying it?
And what kind of cop are you bucko?
>Additionally can I soft lock myself in the game
It's possible, but very unlikely.
>and is there a time limit
No, although the characters imply there is. Before you make it to the second quest hub, there's a sort of time limit because you need to pay rent, but then you're given free housing.
its not commie propaganda. Enjoy user, its a masterpiece. Dont worry about any time limits, they dont ruin anything. Just play it and enjoy.
dont worry about soft locking yourself
You have to be a big Time Dumbass to actually get there, and failing can be fun
Just dont over do it
And dont shoot the kids
You already bought it, go fucking play it. And everything is communist propaganda according to the fat trumpanzee retards who somehow still browse the board.
>Additionally can I soft lock myself in the game, and is there a time limit?
No and no
it's going to be a free update user, worry not.
you can shoot kids in the game? like without having to get mods?
Yeah, but you'll lose your badge and get a game over.
I dont know can you?
You fucking pig child killer
"F****t"
>shooting a kid loses your badge
Unrealistic
Two days after I beat it they announce full voice acting and a lot of extra content.
It'll be fun to go through as a different kind of cop in a few months, i guess.
Unlike America, Revachol isn't a cop regime.
Yet.
Nah, they're white.
...
but they're gingers
Does it matter retard? You bought it anyway
It makes fun of every political stance pretty evenly, almost to an obnoxious extent
can you at least punch em? wasn't that shown in the trailer or something?
As others said, its a free upgrade, and the game has a lot of replay value. Just play it now and when the update comes you can have just as much fun.
>You can actually shoot cunoesse
I saw the option to point it at her but never thought you could actually shoot.
Those kids deserve it, though
Yeah you can punch one of them to assert your dominance and piss of your straight-laced partner.
Looking forward to having Cockney children cursing me out again in full audio.
Sure you can, but dont make it obvious, that little runt has been trough enough adult beatings to see one coming from a mile away
>has a lot of replay value
As of now, it really doesn't. I just finished a second playthrough expecting to be able to solve the case in a meaningful different take, but the whole route boils down pretty much exactly the same. Kind of a let down.
Hype for the directors cut though.
Yeah you can shoot her. She deserves it way more than Cuno though. Cuno tells you that she's killed people before and one of my skills implied she'll probably kill Cuno eventually.
Are you guys sure you can't softlock yourself?
What if you've done all sidequests you can, failed most of them, and fail the you-know-what check?
>Killing a junior cop
No one is dumb enough for that
Unless you save scummed the first time the optimal way of solving the case probably will remain similar. Side quests can vary differently though. What makes the game fun to replay are all the different character options. Playing as a superstar cop hustler versus a doomsaying communist is a very different experience.
>Mandatory shivers check in the end
Made me REEEE. I intentionally was trying to beat the game as a very down-to-earth, more or less normal cop, and then the game forces me to use the sixth sense to solve the case.
What do your skills *know*, anyway? Baseless conjecture most times, educated guesses at best. Best ignore it all.
I really loved going with 6 in PSY, 2 in every other stat. Gets you a nice balance of being an underdog but also so much extra description on every shift in social situations.
you can still get more than enough XP from menial bullshit to unfuck the whole situation
That is unless you've been shoving your head under the river
Again
Yeah, that check is actual bullshit, and I hope that they fix it in the final cut. There should be an alternative way to find her, especially through investigation.
I thought the kids were the most depressing characters in the story once you delve into their actual home-life. Even if they are little shits.
>can I soft lock myself in the game, and is there a time limit
It's too railroaded and it has nothing you the player can actually fail at
It's basically a Telltale game pretending to be a RPG
>voice-acting
Who wants voice-acting in a dialogue heavy game? You're only ever going to hear the first 2 words as you skip because you've already read the paragraph.
It’s a short and unfinished piece of shit. I got the full best ending and it was still super short. Barely any sidequests, barely any actual consequences, tiny map with nothing fun to do.
I guess you’re supposed to replay it to try a different build but I never did. Was just too disappointing the first play through.
Inland Empire is always right user.
The skills are all insightful and biased in their own way. They're good for understanding certain things about the world but can't be taken as gospel.
Same, dude. I tried to do "an autistic boring cop" playthrough, mostly putting all spare points to Visual Calculus, but it was kind of a bummer how the game rail roads towards the end.
>Just bought this
>is it fun, worth my time?
I think you did and asked those things in the wrong order m8.
The voices are useless! Dismiss them at once if you know what's good for you.
It's one of the best games ever made.
Inland Empire run is the sequel to playing as a Malkavian in VTMB that I always wanted.
>I just want a good vidya to play
So why did you buy a point and click adventure game in 2020?
Wait. There's not a time limit? I can take my time and do multiple days?
Bro! You just posted cringe.
My only playthrough was high int and I definitely felt like Schizo Cop.
I did pass a lot of inland empire checks, so between that, my high drama, and the more "logical" passive checks (logic, composure etc.) my inner thoughts were a civil war half the time.
they're scouse you deaf spacker.
But Half Light is my friend
He told me so
Just dont take Too long
Shit is bound to hit the fan, and it WILL catch you with your undies down your feet if you let it
Yes, the only thing to keep in mind is that time passes with dialogue. So every line of dialogue can make the clock move forward. If you end up in a situation where you can't sleep anywhere, if you have a certain journal at this point of the game, simply read through it a bunch of times to advance time.
Monkey Island is a classic, but it came from an era where these kinds of games were still top notch in terms of immersion
And roleplaying as Tequila sunrise isn't inmersive?
You aren't really disco are you?
Communist propaganda aside, it's a shit game.
There are no time limits, and the way they solved the day / night cycle is probably the only creative thing about the game, so don't worry about that.
Still, it's a shit game where every part of the story is resolved in the same way regardless of what you choose and how you do on the random dice rolls.
It's supposed to play like and point and click adventure, but there are no puzzles whatsoever, just dice rolls. People who say it's a VN are essentially right.
And since it's a VN, the only appreciable things about it are the art and the dialog, both of which suck.
It might sound deep if you're stoned off your ass, the devs sure were when they wrote it.
>a point and click adventure game
>implying
You can speedrun DE by holding down the 1 key and clicking on NPCs with zero thought
There's a lot of words I'd use to describe Monkey Island, but immersive?
High empathy and high inland empire was my defining run. I liked being the psuedo-philosophical depressive sack of shit who was following his trail of mistakes and apologizing every step of the way while lamenting how the world was going to fall into chaos soon anyway.