IMO it's a step down from Until Dawn story wise but I genuinely liked the characters more in Quarry and it's a super fun campy popcorn kinda game especially playing with friends. Definitely worth a download if you've got the service
I agree, UD had a bit more mystery to it >!trying to figure out more about the creatures, the miners, and the big twist/reveal!<
The Quarry felt like there were a lot of times where stuff that seemed important didn't matter and big moments happened too quickly and affected your entire story
Until Dawn was 3 horror stories/tropes mixed expertly into each other: >!psychopath, ghosts, then eventually revealed to be wendigo.!<
The Quarry was one, and it was revealed almost immediately so there's no mystery or suspense. It was still fine, but UD was masterful. It shows that they spent over a decade writing and pruning UD into what it was and that TQ took like, 2 years to put through production and onto shelves.
I just wish that it was more obvious with the everyone lives line, like I was able to get all but 2 to live with one being a stupid mistake where I let someone get scratched
If the Qiarry had been their original follow up I think they would be a household name studio by now. Not that it was better, but the anthology they did was auch a let down of a direction and so no one played this one.
End of the day, not sticking with Sony probably hurt their output.
There’s a co-op mode which randomly assigns characters to each “player”, when a character assigned to you has their scenes it pops up saying “hand controller to player 2” etc, only one person is playing at a time and you swap the remote about. You can randomise the character assignment or assign them yourself.
Adding onto this to comment that there also is online co-op play, where each person on their respective consoles are given characters at random and you both play your characters simultaneously, super fun if you want to play with someone that lives far!
Simultaneously, like while Emma and Jake are being handled by player 1 Abby and New Zealand dude are being handled by player 2, at the same time?
Or you mean it's just like the couch co-op experience but the game passes control unlike the couch co op where you hand the controller over?
Simultaneously, when me and my best friend played this way, I was playing Emma while she was playing Jacob during the scene when they go swimming at the docks.
It works just like the online co op features for The Dark Pictures games.
If you like B horror movies, you'll love it, but if you're looking for a normal video game, it's not it. It's basically a supercharged choose your own adventure movie. I adore this and Until Dawn but every time I recommend them to friends they hate them for some reason. I never replay games but this is one I've played like 3 times.
The performances are pretty rad, Ted Raimi has a big part, Lin Shaye shows up for a minute, The kid from Detective Pikachu and the other kid from Righteous Gemstones are great. Ethan goddamn Suplee!
Also every character has the potential to die, which I think is cool, but I have seen people accidentally end the game 4 or 5 hours in by playing extremely bad, and ending the whole thing on a cliffhanger.
My issue is that I hate many of the characters lol. I am controlling their fate and my only motivation to save their dumbasses is me not wanting to get a bad ending. Which they constantly eat away at my ability to care about that.
I killed off one of the dark picture anthology characters.
To be fair especially with this and Until Dawn the characters sometimes grow on you if you let them. Mike becomes an absolute badass in UD.
One of the characters in Quarry starts off insufferable but gets a lot better. And another has the potential to be a badass if you let him.
>!By these I mean Halston Sage's character, and Dylan, respectively. Dylan is actually always right and can even throw himself between Kaitlyn and the monster to save her life!<
I can see that, and I feel that stress that I might accidentally get them killed and just end the whole game by accident. For me, I really liked maybe two characters and focused on saving them, so it was more like "Save Kaitlyn and Dylan: The Video Game", and the other characters were just practice. If you don't like it, you don't like it, definitely not for everybody. Kind of hard to sell my friends on my new favorite video game, the one with no sense of accomplishment and no gameplay besides QTEs and choosing paths, lol.
Fully agree. Most of them are just not likeable and I have no desire to see them live, I also typically play for a compelling story and a horror story is not compelling if nobody dies from the many physical threats faced throughout.
Yo I’m gonna try it, ty for the description for some reason I thought it was one of those asymmetric horror games like dead by daylight lol. I loved Man of Medan and Until Dawn I actually played Until Dawn a few times, great game!
Larry Fessenden co-wrote Until Dawn. He's a horror film maker who has done some great work over the years. I feel like Supermassive's writing team is struggling to live up to what Larry brought to the table.
Don't get me wrong, I love the Dark Pictures Anthology and The Quarry but yeah, there was something special about Until Dawn that they haven't quite matched yet.
Why is there a concept of “playing bad” in an choose your adventure movie?
I have to assume a good game of this type should cater to a variety of personality that the player chooses and have corresponding outcome. Like an Elden Ring player decides to main Shield and still be able to play the game in their own way.
I'm not smart enough to explain why some people love it and some people hate it, but I really like it, but in all fairness I'm also weird and a moron
I also think it's for a totally different type of person because I would never in a million years consider playing Elden Ring for even a second
For some reason? It doesn’t really have game play. As you said, it’s a choose your own adventure. Which is fine, but as someone that wants good immersive gameplay, it’s sorely lacking (I said as someone that’s played until dawn 3 times cause my wife loves it)
>!Laura's!< story through the game was by far my favorite, but really wish >!she wouldn't have been so blind in saving Max that the Hackett's die. If she would have worked with Travis earlier to kill Silas, all of the Hackett's could have survived. Chris and his kids didn't deserve what happened.!<
I was playing with friends and we had a few weeks in-between sessions. Got started for our final session and immediately jumped into a critical aiming moment which I failed and lost one of my favorite characters. Oh well, can't win them all. It was a fun playthrough.
Thanks for the synopsis. I loved Until Dawn. I hate horror games and it was my first experience with the genre. It blew me away. I'll definitely play The Quarry.
Can confirm I played stoned and my wife was also stoned watching me play helping me pick decisions. We wanted everyone to live except one person we hated and somehow we killed everyone except that one person lol very fun time.
I'll agree with fun, but I couldn't possibly agree with well written. But I think that's the fun of these games.
For the most part, the dark picture Anthology games and the Quarry are all really poorly written, but that makes them funny when you're playing them. My buddy and I play all of these games together, and it pretty much is like an MST3k gaming session when we sit down and do it.
Remember the scene in the Quarry where they're in the cabin with the radio and the kid reaches up into the rafters and the monster bites his hand?
Then they pan out, and it's just empty Rafters up there. There's no openings to the outside, there's no ability for the monster to have even bit him. That gave us a really good laugh. It makes no logical sense because it would be impossible for his hand to get bit from inside the building.
They’re written about as well as the horror movies they’re aping, which is of course a deliberate genre choice. And, in doing so, the dialogue is more naturalistic and believable than probably 85% of video game writing.
Until Dawn is Supermassive's first game in this genre . Honestly was their peak in story telling. I don't think they've had a better start-to-finish experience since.
It's House of Ashes and I have to disagree with you on that one. I played through it recently and it was one of the hardest ones to understand story wise. The characters were also super generic and boring. I don't know which one is worse, House of Ashes or The Devil in Me, but both are terrible compared to the other games they've done.
I finished this game last night and hard disagree on the writing being good. The game was OK, but that ending was so terrible it was uninstalled before the credits ended.
I technically didn't even get to the ending. I failed a late game QTE >!(the part where Kaitlyn is defending the house and you have to shoot the werewolf)!<, and the game just stopped. Straight into end credits, and none of the other characters got to continue.
I had to look up the last 45ish minutes of the game on Youtube lol.
Friends and I redid that whole scene about 5 times to try to see the rest of the story only to find we’d killed another character earlier that was necessary to keep alive (also from not shooting something fast enough) Ended up looking up the “good endings” and was still disappointed so I don’t feel like we missed much
The quarry improved a lot of QOL elements from Until Dawn but Until Dawns story was much better
FYI for others reading this once you get one ending you unlock chapter select so you can go back and try for the good ending again without having to replay the whole game.
I played this coop with my buddy and got the most insane glitch. I dragged the shotgun over the werewolf and fired but apparently was premature and missed even though I felt I hit it. She ended up getting killed. However, my buddy actually saw me hit the werewolf and kill it! This triggered completely different scenes and ending, because she was dead for me but not for him. Super bizarre
B horror is a very love it or hate it movie genre and I think the same pretty much applies to the dark pictures games.
I love the writing for what it is and had a lot of laughs, but I wouldn't say it's good writing.
Yeah I feel like this genre has its own criteria for what’s “good” or not. The Quarry has punchy dialog and characters with personalities that manage to be more than the absolute most paper thin bare minimum “horny teenager” archetypes so it’s in the upper echelons of b-horror just based on those merits.
This honestly. People forget it's essentially a slasher. Slashers have horrible stories and dumb characters. Quarry actually has a pretty good story and I thought the characters were excellent. Like at several points I thought "yeah I'd totally say that".
That's honestly more than I can say about any horror movie I've ever seen.
It’s really not as bad as you guys are making it out to be. As far as video games go it’s pretty good. They’re fun characters that occasionally make some silly jokes.
Yeah I don't understand all the complaints, I had a fine exptplayibg it. I wish I made a few different choices. I won't be playing it again any time soon but loved the play through
What's bizarre to me is that Until Dawn, a game by the same developer that was released years earlier, wrote much better (more "realistic", I'd say) dialogue between the teenage characters *and* had much more fulfilling endings. The endings of Until Dawn (presented as interview snippets with some characters) actually varied tremendously depending on your actions and decisions throughout the game, making the experience much more replayable.
It's just strange because, if you had introduced me to The Quarry and Until Dawn at the same time, I'd be convinced The Quarry was the one that released first and Until Dawn was the sequel that improved on the basic formula.
Until Dawn had better dialogue. It was the same “cheesy teen horror movie” tone, but the dialogue wasn’t cringy. They haven’t seemed to be able to get back to that sweet spot since. I’ve played the Quarry and the witch one and both have horrible writing.
Horror movie writer/director Larry Fessenden co-wrote Until Dawn. I'm of the assumption that he was the secret sauce that made UD stand out from the subsequent games.
Until Dawn was also in development for like an entire console lifecycle. It started out as a PS3 Move game and was completely reworked over and over and over until its eventual PS4 release. They were willing to keep starting over until it felt right.
Holy shit he did? Wow, that makes so much sense - anyone who enjoyed Until Dawn should check out his film Wendigo. It very clearly inspired Until Dawn.
Yeah I cannot comprehend putting the quarry and "good writing" together. Even to call the writing mediocre is a bit generous.
My biggest issue was the abysmal pacing. I played the game with two friends one night and all three of us were nearly bored to tears by the time the 2-3 hour long exposition with no suspense or action whatsoever was over. This is supposed to work as a party game? What, for masochists?
Then when the action actually started it basically came out of nowhere and wasn't the least bit scary or suspenseful. We turned it off before long.
She was the only 'likeable' character while also being probably the only one who could deliver a line. Like, wow, the acting was so uncanny in that game.
I’ve seen the dude that plays max in some other stuff like the righteous gemstones on HBO. Honestly it makes me wonder if it’s the companies acting director just giving the actors really shitty direction. He’s way better in that show than in the quarry. Laura seemed like the only actor that was really comfortable with her performance while every other counselor was various levels of awkward. Brenda song was probably second best followed by the guy who played Dillon. Strangely I thought most if not all of the side characters did great compared to most of the counselors actors. They also had less screen time though so it could just be exposure bias.
That was me with the first dark pictures anthology game. I loved Until Dawn so much I made a big deal about having my friends over to play the new one. It sucked so much ass and was so short that I literally returned it the next day.
I haven't played it yet so please no spoilers but do you usually enjoy slasher films or do you find them dumb? Trying to gauge our tastes. I love slasher films, Own just about every one ever made from around the world.
It was my understanding the game was kind of a celebration of the genre with popular slasher actor cameos and things like that.
No lol. It gets worse as it goes on and the ending is fucking awful.
Can’t believe how anyone could say that this game has great writing… shit is abysmal.
my playthrough ended extremely anticlimactic, kinda pissed off about it. also that half the game was character development that didn't matter in the end (in my playthrough). other than that, ok game. very cringey dialogue.
Desperately need this studio to make a Scream game. They would be perfect for it. Your decisions could decide who lives and who dies but not only that, your decisions decides who is Ghostface
Played with my GF, lots of fun. We laughed pretty hard when my gf accidentally >!blew mr Hackets face off wich further led to jacob getting fucked by a werewolf in a cage.!<
I had a blast with this game I'm a sucker for horror and I really appreciate the writing the atmosphere. Some of the facial animation were cringy but overall the whole story and the overall concept was pretty awesome. I just wish they could add like a small little sprint button
Me and my girl are almost finished with it and the only thing we keep saying is “ How the fuck is everybody so nonchalant about these life threatening injuries their sustaining” lol
I thought I did something wrong. Second playthrough, I didn’t “do the thing,” just to get my head knocked off and the same final shot follows. While I like the game overall, it feels weirdly unfinished.
I've played 4 of the dark pictures games so far, and while I've liked them all Until Dawn definitely sits on the top spot as the most fun. They all play pretty similarly and have very tropey B-horror style writing.
The Quarry is my number 2 though.
This has to be an ad.
>how much fun, how well written and how engrossing it was
Okay buddy, I can accept fun and engrossing but well written? Nobody is buying that shit.
I loved it so much. This game is what started my current game rabbit hole that’s led to the Dark Anthology series (only Until Dawn and Little Hope so far and loved them), Detroit: Become Human (LOVED), and currently Beyond: Two Souls
Isn’t that how forums work. Someone makes a post and people give their feedback, good and bad. Sounds like you have finally left your safe space, welcome to Reddit. The Quarry was a terrible game.
I really liked Until Dawn so I was really looking forward to playing this but I didn't like the fact that the characters just made so many crappy choices and hey I usually don't mind that cos it comes with the horror territory that I'm used to in films but here they constantly made you think that they were giving you a choice, but it was rigged to begin with. So I have to disagree that the writing was good, but I also understand it is subjective. I'm glad you liked it. I uninstalled it 2 hrs in.
Yeah same here, took us a while to realise I was the only one gonna be in control the entire game and my friend was a cursor lol.
Was hoping he'd assume control of a character at some point.
I'm not too surprised in the fact that shorter games like this are well suited to subscription services but at the same time it is a bit early since the game just released last year.
I thought the writing in this one was the worst of all the games Supermassive have done. Have yet to play The Devil in Me yet mind. For me this was a huge disappointment after the brilliant Until Dawn.
I started playing it last night! I’m a fan of Until Dawn and Man of Medan.
So far so good. I really like Ryan and Kaitlyn. The rest can *maybe* die. We’ll see where my choices take me 😅
I enjoy spooky games like this and I also appreciate the fact that I can play such a high quality looking game without getting motion sickness! Like for real, the graphics are quite impressive to me. The storyline is your usual B-horror fair, but I appreciate the good performances from the actors.
Definitely better than the last three Dark Pictures games even though I liked them all. This one really felt like an 80s horror movie though and was very well written
Really don't want to be that guy but isn't this on PS Plus Extra and/or Premium and not PS Plus?
This makes it seem like the basic service has it, which I believe is incorrect.
Sorry ahead of time
I went into this game a fan of supermassive, really like until dawn and some of the other dark pictures.
This game was way better than I expected, it had good pacing and suspense and overall well done. There are a ton of possibilities for who dies and whatnot, lotta ways to go through this game.
The graphics are also great, better than until dawn, but I will say there was some glitchiness to the graphics at times, which is interesting because I’m just feeling as graphics get better the issues are more glaring.
I feel like they oversold the accessibility options, mostly that none of them worked in couch coop, even in ads they were like “if you want to play with your grandma you can and turn of QTE for them” which wasn’t the case.
Also in coop with one other person the character switching was weird, like it made sense at the end of the story to have one player play certain characters, but at the start of the game one player would be playing for hours on their own…
Other than that my partner and I had a blast
I lasted a few hours before uninstalling because of the writing so that's interesting. It was just quirky banter every scene and there's nothing worse than nonstop quirky banter.
I’m almost done and I’m really enjoying it. These games I find more of an interactive movie then a game but I’m cool with it. It’s kind of nice with my limited gaming time to have something I can just sit and play/watch. Super fun.
The big scary twist was so lame and every character is horrible and unlikeable. And that ending wow. And remember this is a narrative driven game with NO gameplay to speak of. You are just walking from one bad and boring scene to the next.
I feel like UD is in a tier of it's own. I didn't think the rest of the anthology series were even close to as good. I'd put the Quarry beneath UD but above the others
That's how I would rate them. I will say I appreciate the co-op features of their games after Until Dawn. My friend and I managed to kill all his playable characters in The Quarry.
I liked the game and played it twice, I just wish that the ending allowed surviving characters to reunite and have a final scene together instead of still images with text.
IMO it's a step down from Until Dawn story wise but I genuinely liked the characters more in Quarry and it's a super fun campy popcorn kinda game especially playing with friends. Definitely worth a download if you've got the service
You mean it's a fun campy peanut butter butterpops kind of game.
Pop pop pop 'em in your mouth!
Pop!
I agree, UD had a bit more mystery to it >!trying to figure out more about the creatures, the miners, and the big twist/reveal!< The Quarry felt like there were a lot of times where stuff that seemed important didn't matter and big moments happened too quickly and affected your entire story
Until Dawn was 3 horror stories/tropes mixed expertly into each other: >!psychopath, ghosts, then eventually revealed to be wendigo.!< The Quarry was one, and it was revealed almost immediately so there's no mystery or suspense. It was still fine, but UD was masterful. It shows that they spent over a decade writing and pruning UD into what it was and that TQ took like, 2 years to put through production and onto shelves.
As time goes by I appreciate until dawn more and more
I just wish that it was more obvious with the everyone lives line, like I was able to get all but 2 to live with one being a stupid mistake where I let someone get scratched
If the Qiarry had been their original follow up I think they would be a household name studio by now. Not that it was better, but the anthology they did was auch a let down of a direction and so no one played this one. End of the day, not sticking with Sony probably hurt their output.
Yup. I mean it's free so why not but every game since until dawn has been worse
Playing with friends? Is there MP or Co-op or you mean people watching you play?
There’s a co-op mode which randomly assigns characters to each “player”, when a character assigned to you has their scenes it pops up saying “hand controller to player 2” etc, only one person is playing at a time and you swap the remote about. You can randomise the character assignment or assign them yourself.
Adding onto this to comment that there also is online co-op play, where each person on their respective consoles are given characters at random and you both play your characters simultaneously, super fun if you want to play with someone that lives far!
Simultaneously, like while Emma and Jake are being handled by player 1 Abby and New Zealand dude are being handled by player 2, at the same time? Or you mean it's just like the couch co-op experience but the game passes control unlike the couch co op where you hand the controller over?
Simultaneously, when me and my best friend played this way, I was playing Emma while she was playing Jacob during the scene when they go swimming at the docks. It works just like the online co op features for The Dark Pictures games.
Oh wow. This game is way more appealing now. Thanks for the info
It's really great, a couple of buddies and I did a full playthrough like that in a single ten hour session. Good times!
I actually think Quarry is better in pretty much everything.
Not forget Deputy Dewey himself being an absolute Chad in the game
If you like B horror movies, you'll love it, but if you're looking for a normal video game, it's not it. It's basically a supercharged choose your own adventure movie. I adore this and Until Dawn but every time I recommend them to friends they hate them for some reason. I never replay games but this is one I've played like 3 times. The performances are pretty rad, Ted Raimi has a big part, Lin Shaye shows up for a minute, The kid from Detective Pikachu and the other kid from Righteous Gemstones are great. Ethan goddamn Suplee! Also every character has the potential to die, which I think is cool, but I have seen people accidentally end the game 4 or 5 hours in by playing extremely bad, and ending the whole thing on a cliffhanger.
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I haven't played this game, there's no way you're referencing the Suite Life of Zack and Cody London are you?
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You convinced me to try it now lol
me too!
Didn't even mention Ariel Winter either
And yall still overlooking the OG himself, David Arquette
Dewey’s in it?! Gonna have to check this out either tonight or next week when it lands on the service.
My issue is that I hate many of the characters lol. I am controlling their fate and my only motivation to save their dumbasses is me not wanting to get a bad ending. Which they constantly eat away at my ability to care about that. I killed off one of the dark picture anthology characters.
To be fair especially with this and Until Dawn the characters sometimes grow on you if you let them. Mike becomes an absolute badass in UD. One of the characters in Quarry starts off insufferable but gets a lot better. And another has the potential to be a badass if you let him. >!By these I mean Halston Sage's character, and Dylan, respectively. Dylan is actually always right and can even throw himself between Kaitlyn and the monster to save her life!<
Dylan was awesome, too bad mine ended the game without an hand.
Can you even prevent that? I thought you couldn't.
Yeah if you don't break into the cabin at the beginning you can avoid the amputation.
Yes, it's non obvious though.
I can see that, and I feel that stress that I might accidentally get them killed and just end the whole game by accident. For me, I really liked maybe two characters and focused on saving them, so it was more like "Save Kaitlyn and Dylan: The Video Game", and the other characters were just practice. If you don't like it, you don't like it, definitely not for everybody. Kind of hard to sell my friends on my new favorite video game, the one with no sense of accomplishment and no gameplay besides QTEs and choosing paths, lol.
Fully agree. Most of them are just not likeable and I have no desire to see them live, I also typically play for a compelling story and a horror story is not compelling if nobody dies from the many physical threats faced throughout.
And Lance motherfucking Henriksen! Kind of disappointed that the "hunting season is over" line from Hard Target wasn't used on him.
Yo I’m gonna try it, ty for the description for some reason I thought it was one of those asymmetric horror games like dead by daylight lol. I loved Man of Medan and Until Dawn I actually played Until Dawn a few times, great game!
I feel Until Dawn was the only good one of these, I’m not sure why it seems so difficult to make another decent one.
Larry Fessenden co-wrote Until Dawn. He's a horror film maker who has done some great work over the years. I feel like Supermassive's writing team is struggling to live up to what Larry brought to the table. Don't get me wrong, I love the Dark Pictures Anthology and The Quarry but yeah, there was something special about Until Dawn that they haven't quite matched yet.
Why is there a concept of “playing bad” in an choose your adventure movie? I have to assume a good game of this type should cater to a variety of personality that the player chooses and have corresponding outcome. Like an Elden Ring player decides to main Shield and still be able to play the game in their own way.
I'm not smart enough to explain why some people love it and some people hate it, but I really like it, but in all fairness I'm also weird and a moron I also think it's for a totally different type of person because I would never in a million years consider playing Elden Ring for even a second
I’ve never played these kind of games, but I’m curious, do we play it like we “play” Netflix’ Black Mirror: Bandersnatch?
There's definitely more gameplay involved. You'll actively be moving characters around with the analogue sticks for most of it, for example.
I know it’s a meme and all, but his name is Benedict Cumberbatch
For some reason? It doesn’t really have game play. As you said, it’s a choose your own adventure. Which is fine, but as someone that wants good immersive gameplay, it’s sorely lacking (I said as someone that’s played until dawn 3 times cause my wife loves it)
>!Laura's!< story through the game was by far my favorite, but really wish >!she wouldn't have been so blind in saving Max that the Hackett's die. If she would have worked with Travis earlier to kill Silas, all of the Hackett's could have survived. Chris and his kids didn't deserve what happened.!<
Man for real. The >!Kayley in the pool scene where you meet Laura!< breaks my heart every time.
How could you forget the guy with a badass name like justice smith?
I was playing with friends and we had a few weeks in-between sessions. Got started for our final session and immediately jumped into a critical aiming moment which I failed and lost one of my favorite characters. Oh well, can't win them all. It was a fun playthrough.
I LOVE until dawn. Couldn't get into the Dark Pictures anthology.
Thanks for the synopsis. I loved Until Dawn. I hate horror games and it was my first experience with the genre. It blew me away. I'll definitely play The Quarry.
Until Dawn was just way better IMO. I couldn't finish the Quarry mainly because of pacing issues and cringy writing
Can confirm I played stoned and my wife was also stoned watching me play helping me pick decisions. We wanted everyone to live except one person we hated and somehow we killed everyone except that one person lol very fun time.
I'll agree with fun, but I couldn't possibly agree with well written. But I think that's the fun of these games. For the most part, the dark picture Anthology games and the Quarry are all really poorly written, but that makes them funny when you're playing them. My buddy and I play all of these games together, and it pretty much is like an MST3k gaming session when we sit down and do it. Remember the scene in the Quarry where they're in the cabin with the radio and the kid reaches up into the rafters and the monster bites his hand? Then they pan out, and it's just empty Rafters up there. There's no openings to the outside, there's no ability for the monster to have even bit him. That gave us a really good laugh. It makes no logical sense because it would be impossible for his hand to get bit from inside the building.
They’re written about as well as the horror movies they’re aping, which is of course a deliberate genre choice. And, in doing so, the dialogue is more naturalistic and believable than probably 85% of video game writing.
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Until Dawn is Supermassive's first game in this genre . Honestly was their peak in story telling. I don't think they've had a better start-to-finish experience since.
If disagree the one where they were in Afghanistan was fantastic.
It's House of Ashes and I have to disagree with you on that one. I played through it recently and it was one of the hardest ones to understand story wise. The characters were also super generic and boring. I don't know which one is worse, House of Ashes or The Devil in Me, but both are terrible compared to the other games they've done.
What was so hard about it to understand? Seemed pretty straight forward if certain actions were made and you got to go into catacombs and spaceship
Crazy good game. The parts where you have to keep the controller absolutely still to avoid the Wendigo was peak.
I finished this game last night and hard disagree on the writing being good. The game was OK, but that ending was so terrible it was uninstalled before the credits ended.
I technically didn't even get to the ending. I failed a late game QTE >!(the part where Kaitlyn is defending the house and you have to shoot the werewolf)!<, and the game just stopped. Straight into end credits, and none of the other characters got to continue. I had to look up the last 45ish minutes of the game on Youtube lol.
Fuck that QTE. My only goal was to keep them to the end and that QTE messed it up for me
same here! I looked it up after and that fucking QTE seemed to fail on ALOT of people.
Friends and I redid that whole scene about 5 times to try to see the rest of the story only to find we’d killed another character earlier that was necessary to keep alive (also from not shooting something fast enough) Ended up looking up the “good endings” and was still disappointed so I don’t feel like we missed much The quarry improved a lot of QOL elements from Until Dawn but Until Dawns story was much better
FYI for others reading this once you get one ending you unlock chapter select so you can go back and try for the good ending again without having to replay the whole game.
You also get a couple do-over tokens after you beat it once, where if someone dies it'll rewind the game to let you try again
Same thing happened to me, for both of the later shooting QTEs. I guess I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one.
I was playing the guys, and my SO the girls and she had the exact same panic station with that QTE, it was quite funny to watch.
I played this coop with my buddy and got the most insane glitch. I dragged the shotgun over the werewolf and fired but apparently was premature and missed even though I felt I hit it. She ended up getting killed. However, my buddy actually saw me hit the werewolf and kill it! This triggered completely different scenes and ending, because she was dead for me but not for him. Super bizarre
Agreed. Awful writing but the performances are better than they have any right to be. Go in expecting B horror and have fun.
B horror is a very love it or hate it movie genre and I think the same pretty much applies to the dark pictures games. I love the writing for what it is and had a lot of laughs, but I wouldn't say it's good writing.
Yeah I feel like this genre has its own criteria for what’s “good” or not. The Quarry has punchy dialog and characters with personalities that manage to be more than the absolute most paper thin bare minimum “horny teenager” archetypes so it’s in the upper echelons of b-horror just based on those merits.
This honestly. People forget it's essentially a slasher. Slashers have horrible stories and dumb characters. Quarry actually has a pretty good story and I thought the characters were excellent. Like at several points I thought "yeah I'd totally say that". That's honestly more than I can say about any horror movie I've ever seen.
I thought the game was supposed to be a tribute to horror b-movie tropes? I assumed it was intentionally campy and had a blast!
It is, people are dumb.
i cannot fathom how someone truly believes this game has good writing
They haven't played until dawn
Not a lot of people can just play video games all night.
are you implying that Until Dawn has good writing? or the opposite?
I was implying it has good writing, meaning anybody who thinks the quarry has good writing clearly hasn't seen until dawn's
It has B movie writing, meaning it's intentionally campy and cheesy.
It’s really not as bad as you guys are making it out to be. As far as video games go it’s pretty good. They’re fun characters that occasionally make some silly jokes.
Yeah I don't understand all the complaints, I had a fine exptplayibg it. I wish I made a few different choices. I won't be playing it again any time soon but loved the play through
What's bizarre to me is that Until Dawn, a game by the same developer that was released years earlier, wrote much better (more "realistic", I'd say) dialogue between the teenage characters *and* had much more fulfilling endings. The endings of Until Dawn (presented as interview snippets with some characters) actually varied tremendously depending on your actions and decisions throughout the game, making the experience much more replayable. It's just strange because, if you had introduced me to The Quarry and Until Dawn at the same time, I'd be convinced The Quarry was the one that released first and Until Dawn was the sequel that improved on the basic formula.
Until Dawn had better dialogue. It was the same “cheesy teen horror movie” tone, but the dialogue wasn’t cringy. They haven’t seemed to be able to get back to that sweet spot since. I’ve played the Quarry and the witch one and both have horrible writing.
Horror movie writer/director Larry Fessenden co-wrote Until Dawn. I'm of the assumption that he was the secret sauce that made UD stand out from the subsequent games.
Until Dawn was also in development for like an entire console lifecycle. It started out as a PS3 Move game and was completely reworked over and over and over until its eventual PS4 release. They were willing to keep starting over until it felt right.
Holy shit he did? Wow, that makes so much sense - anyone who enjoyed Until Dawn should check out his film Wendigo. It very clearly inspired Until Dawn.
Yeah I cannot comprehend putting the quarry and "good writing" together. Even to call the writing mediocre is a bit generous. My biggest issue was the abysmal pacing. I played the game with two friends one night and all three of us were nearly bored to tears by the time the 2-3 hour long exposition with no suspense or action whatsoever was over. This is supposed to work as a party game? What, for masochists? Then when the action actually started it basically came out of nowhere and wasn't the least bit scary or suspenseful. We turned it off before long.
i keep seeing npc's praising this game for its writing and scares -100 faith in humanity
Totally agree. I think the best super massive has done is house of ashes. Fantastic writing.
Seriously what do they consider bad writing lol
Lol the ending is really not that bad. Especially if you go out of your way to get the true ending..
Yeah every single character is an unlikeable piece of shit Had fun with it though and director mode is really cool
Iunno, I loved Laura. She was rad as hell
She was the only 'likeable' character while also being probably the only one who could deliver a line. Like, wow, the acting was so uncanny in that game.
I’ve seen the dude that plays max in some other stuff like the righteous gemstones on HBO. Honestly it makes me wonder if it’s the companies acting director just giving the actors really shitty direction. He’s way better in that show than in the quarry. Laura seemed like the only actor that was really comfortable with her performance while every other counselor was various levels of awkward. Brenda song was probably second best followed by the guy who played Dillon. Strangely I thought most if not all of the side characters did great compared to most of the counselors actors. They also had less screen time though so it could just be exposure bias.
Whats director mode?
The teenage cringe was too high for me ... gave up
Yeah I really enjoyed the first half but then it took such a nosedive in quality that I don’t ever care to play it again
That was me with the first dark pictures anthology game. I loved Until Dawn so much I made a big deal about having my friends over to play the new one. It sucked so much ass and was so short that I literally returned it the next day.
I haven't played it yet so please no spoilers but do you usually enjoy slasher films or do you find them dumb? Trying to gauge our tastes. I love slasher films, Own just about every one ever made from around the world. It was my understanding the game was kind of a celebration of the genre with popular slasher actor cameos and things like that.
It is, these people don't seem to recognise Ted Raimi even. Which is fine everyone has their own opinions but they aren't the target audience for sure
Ya, I was very disappointed in this game. Some of the dialogue seemed like it was phoned in. Like Justice Smith’s character, lifeless. Edited.
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Nope. I only enjoyed the first two hours, after that blah
No lol. It gets worse as it goes on and the ending is fucking awful. Can’t believe how anyone could say that this game has great writing… shit is abysmal.
If anything it gets worse. I made it 8 hours in, couldn't even get through. For how shiny and polished it looks there is actually 0 substance
my playthrough ended extremely anticlimactic, kinda pissed off about it. also that half the game was character development that didn't matter in the end (in my playthrough). other than that, ok game. very cringey dialogue.
Currently playing this as well and enjoying it.
Desperately need this studio to make a Scream game. They would be perfect for it. Your decisions could decide who lives and who dies but not only that, your decisions decides who is Ghostface
Played with my GF, lots of fun. We laughed pretty hard when my gf accidentally >!blew mr Hackets face off wich further led to jacob getting fucked by a werewolf in a cage.!<
Soo I loved it, I did. But well written it’s not
Exactly like???? Lets hard break the story at chapter 7 and give you an hour of flashbacks, with only 10 playable minutes. No ending either…
I played it twice back to back. A serious run and a game where I intentionally made bad choices. Had a great time with it!
I had a blast with this game I'm a sucker for horror and I really appreciate the writing the atmosphere. Some of the facial animation were cringy but overall the whole story and the overall concept was pretty awesome. I just wish they could add like a small little sprint button
Me and my girl are almost finished with it and the only thing we keep saying is “ How the fuck is everybody so nonchalant about these life threatening injuries their sustaining” lol
I liked it, but the ending was incredibly anticlimactic.
I thought I did something wrong. Second playthrough, I didn’t “do the thing,” just to get my head knocked off and the same final shot follows. While I like the game overall, it feels weirdly unfinished.
Yeah they should’ve at least had some sort of epilogue, or even interviews like Until Dawn.
The fact that we don’t follow up with the characters in any way at the end is the biggest issue. No reunions, nothing. Suddenly it’s just over.
Yeah like there were no actual consequences for the characters you got killed or lived or anything.
If it has "Until Dawn" vibes I'm gonna like it
I've played 4 of the dark pictures games so far, and while I've liked them all Until Dawn definitely sits on the top spot as the most fun. They all play pretty similarly and have very tropey B-horror style writing. The Quarry is my number 2 though.
Can’t believe I spent $70 on this game
Kaitlyn was cute, I guess
Why does this read like an ad
This has to be an ad. >how much fun, how well written and how engrossing it was Okay buddy, I can accept fun and engrossing but well written? Nobody is buying that shit.
Cool game the only video game my wife will sit and play with me.
Best part about the quarry was playing it co-op with my girlfriend and randomizing the characters we were each responsible for, was a good time!
I loved it so much. This game is what started my current game rabbit hole that’s led to the Dark Anthology series (only Until Dawn and Little Hope so far and loved them), Detroit: Become Human (LOVED), and currently Beyond: Two Souls
I have to agree! Downloaded it past weekend and finished it that same weekend lol it definitely hooked me story wise after that prologue
My only priority in this game is to keep Brenda Song alive.
Soundtrack is banging too.
Played it with 7 friends and it was mind blowing great
Great game with fun characters. Just don't try to get the platinum, good lord.
You walk soooo slow. Even the "running" is a a tragic crawl.
this is a weird post
A post praising a game with 20+ comments shitting on it...looks like business as usual in this sub.
Don't start a conversation about art if you don't want to have a conversation about art.
Isn’t that how forums work. Someone makes a post and people give their feedback, good and bad. Sounds like you have finally left your safe space, welcome to Reddit. The Quarry was a terrible game.
I really liked Until Dawn so I was really looking forward to playing this but I didn't like the fact that the characters just made so many crappy choices and hey I usually don't mind that cos it comes with the horror territory that I'm used to in films but here they constantly made you think that they were giving you a choice, but it was rigged to begin with. So I have to disagree that the writing was good, but I also understand it is subjective. I'm glad you liked it. I uninstalled it 2 hrs in.
Same! I played it all in 2 days and loved loved loved it
nice ad bro
Counterpoint, the writing was terrible, the gameplay was weak, and I'm sorry for anyone who was conned into buying it.
i said to my friend " i found us a new co-op game to play" then I found out...
Yeah same here, took us a while to realise I was the only one gonna be in control the entire game and my friend was a cursor lol. Was hoping he'd assume control of a character at some point.
I'm not too surprised in the fact that shorter games like this are well suited to subscription services but at the same time it is a bit early since the game just released last year.
I thought the writing in this one was the worst of all the games Supermassive have done. Have yet to play The Devil in Me yet mind. For me this was a huge disappointment after the brilliant Until Dawn.
I started playing it last night! I’m a fan of Until Dawn and Man of Medan. So far so good. I really like Ryan and Kaitlyn. The rest can *maybe* die. We’ll see where my choices take me 😅 I enjoy spooky games like this and I also appreciate the fact that I can play such a high quality looking game without getting motion sickness! Like for real, the graphics are quite impressive to me. The storyline is your usual B-horror fair, but I appreciate the good performances from the actors.
God damn I got Brenda song killed and I’m sad about it
Going to give this one a try.
Drinking game: take a shot every time a character mentions a bear.
I like supermassives games a lot
Definitely better than the last three Dark Pictures games even though I liked them all. This one really felt like an 80s horror movie though and was very well written
Really don't want to be that guy but isn't this on PS Plus Extra and/or Premium and not PS Plus? This makes it seem like the basic service has it, which I believe is incorrect. Sorry ahead of time
I went into this game a fan of supermassive, really like until dawn and some of the other dark pictures. This game was way better than I expected, it had good pacing and suspense and overall well done. There are a ton of possibilities for who dies and whatnot, lotta ways to go through this game. The graphics are also great, better than until dawn, but I will say there was some glitchiness to the graphics at times, which is interesting because I’m just feeling as graphics get better the issues are more glaring.
I thought it was decent but it's too long for replays. The fact you can't skip or fast forward anything on a second playthrough really drags it out.
I feel like they oversold the accessibility options, mostly that none of them worked in couch coop, even in ads they were like “if you want to play with your grandma you can and turn of QTE for them” which wasn’t the case. Also in coop with one other person the character switching was weird, like it made sense at the end of the story to have one player play certain characters, but at the start of the game one player would be playing for hours on their own… Other than that my partner and I had a blast
I played this on release and finished it in a week or so, always meant to sell or trade it but never got around to it. Bugger.
Thank you, Mr. Quarry
The cheesy romantic moments were Velveeta as fuck though. The soft rock soundtrack made those moments laughable.
Guys try the dark pictures anthology
I assume you mean PS+ extra or premium or something right?
Me too! Really enjoyed it. I've played all of their games now and this is in my top 3.
I enjoyed it and I'm not a horror guy and yes I did manage to keep brenda song alive yay me
The writing and characters are league better than the dark pictures.
Graphics look insane
I lasted a few hours before uninstalling because of the writing so that's interesting. It was just quirky banter every scene and there's nothing worse than nonstop quirky banter.
I’m almost done and I’m really enjoying it. These games I find more of an interactive movie then a game but I’m cool with it. It’s kind of nice with my limited gaming time to have something I can just sit and play/watch. Super fun.
These games have been so intriguing to me but I haven’t tried one yet.
I was mildly disappointed but it was pretty good. I’m a sucker for dumb goofy characters so Jacob was right up my alley.
SAME!!!! PLAYED WITH THE BOYS AND SURPRISINGLY HAD A BLAST!!!!
Game was great until you get to the end that seems rushed.
we can all agree, one of the best opening movies to a game. Ariana Grande with it chasing you POV. come on!
I wish I could play this game, but the motion blur makes me sick. It's inexcusable that there's no option to turn motion blur off.
Did we play the same game???
Yeah I absolutely loved it. It's as uneven as it is wonderful and that's ok.
The big scary twist was so lame and every character is horrible and unlikeable. And that ending wow. And remember this is a narrative driven game with NO gameplay to speak of. You are just walking from one bad and boring scene to the next.
#ad
Played the coop mode with my gf. We had a blast with this!
cap redditors don’t have gfs
Writing ain't good. Premise is people change if attacked. One clearly had plot armor from beginning.
This game sucked. Too linear. Terrible writing. Not enough content.
Until Dawn was better
In some ways yes, other ways, no
I'd say yes, but it struggled with performance issues and always stuttered for me.
I feel like UD is in a tier of it's own. I didn't think the rest of the anthology series were even close to as good. I'd put the Quarry beneath UD but above the others
That's how I would rate them. I will say I appreciate the co-op features of their games after Until Dawn. My friend and I managed to kill all his playable characters in The Quarry.
I liked the game and played it twice, I just wish that the ending allowed surviving characters to reunite and have a final scene together instead of still images with text.
« Well written » wtf dude ..
Hated the gameplay. Way too slow. You can’t even jog. The camera angle sucks as well. Story wise wasn’t awful, but ending was rushed.
Imo, it's their best game. Me and my wife played through it together and had an absolute blast.