This post was written by Dark_Sage. He is Dark_Sage.
I am pleased to announce the release of the game that will likely be at the top of everyone’s “Best Games of 2013” list: “deep”.
What is deep
Well, deep is deep. More simply, deep is a game that contains no gameplay. In fact, deep does not even exist. That’s the point.
This is all entirely in the service of deep’s lessons, and not because I’m lazy or incompetent at all.
Who is deep’s intended audience
Well, every intellectual, of course! If you aren’t a genius, you simply won’t get deep. But if you are, deep will be the game that appeals the most to you. That’s just how it’s built.
Why deep
deep provides an experience like no other: it will confirm every single one of your biases, while refuting anything that disagrees with your worldview. Do you think ___ is bad? deep will show everyone how right you are. Do you think ___ is good? Let deep guide everyone’s paths toward the land of righteousness you dwell in.
That’s right, whatever you believe, deep will deliver. Because you are right. After all, if you weren’t, deep wouldn’t exist. Truly, everyone needs to understand what deep really is: you.
Where to buy
deep is not an experience that can be purchased with tangible, capitalist goods. Rather, deep can only be experienced through the concept of its own existence. That’s part of what makes deep the product it is.
You can also find it on Steam™ for $9.99, starting right now.
Gone Home does not deserve a single accolade it has been given.
Stop whining.
2deep4me.
I still laugh whenever people call Evangelion “deep” without it being in jest.
Hell, even if it’s in jest.
It’s deep <:3c
hahahahahahahahahahaha
It’s psychological horror.
More like “it’s a psychologist’s horror”.
Er…
I went to Steam and was sorely disappointed.
LITERALLY SORE NOW.
what
Deep is Portal.
yeah, those portals are pretty deep, man
especially if you manage to put one inside the other
I thought they were only 9 levels deep.
Deep is just a poor man’s copy of Depth I’m afraid. Simply not up to muster.
D_S are you high?
No, just deep.
Help I don’t get it
Since this is an anime blog, I also decided to take the piss out of fans of series like Monster, Texhnolyze, Mind Game, and Ghost in the Shell by association. Not that I would expect fans of those series to ever understand when they’re being made fun of.
You made me look it up on youtube so I clicked a let’s play. Seems like one of those recent exploration games that are more or less kinetic novels. It wasn’t very long, but the guy playing was a faggot, so yeah. I’m sure it’s interesting, but not twenty dollars interesting. You can get any good paperback for five bucks or so.
Gone Home? It’s pretty terrible.
It’s an interactive media thing that prides itself on “using the video game medium to tell a story” yet spoon-feeds the entire story through text and you’re basically reading books and text and shit in drawers so it didn’t really do it that well at all.
The main narrative of the game is terrible, GH gives you no reason to care about the side narrative(which aren’t that much better) and they make the “story puzzle” thing with those incredibly easy to figure out, if there’s any real difficulty at all with that.
When a “game” makes “No Puzzles, No Combat,etc” a feature it uses as a /selling point/, that’s when it’s gone too far off the d33p end.
“the guy playing was a faggot”
Must have been that wanker, pewdickpenis.
Megas zinger.
I was going to defend the games, then I realised I hadn’t played either of them.
I don’t think anyone but idiots trust your taste any more, though. It’s a proven fact that most people have shit taste, you and I included.
From what I’ve seen so far, Gone Home is basically a visual novel.
Positive reviews: “It’s better than other games because it doesn’t have any real gameplay!”
Negative reviews: “It’s not a game because it doesn’t have any real gameplay.”
…
Papers, Please is a game where you play as an immigration officer, checking up on the documents for people trying to move to your country to make sure there are no discrepancies.
Positive reviews: “Graphics suck. Gameplay is monotonous. The concept sounds stupid. I’ve never played anything like it. It has such tough moral decisions to make! 10/10”
Negative reviews: “The graphics suck. Gameplay is repetitive. Concept is pretty dumb, but I’ll give a few points for trying something unique. 2/10”
…
I think you meant to say “I was going to defend the games, but I couldn’t find anything worth defending in them.”
I actually think Papers, Please is pretty fun.
The gameplay requires you to organize and quickly be able to search for an increasing number of variables to make sure that they match. And you need to do it fast, otherwise your family dies.
Which ends up making the gameplay fast and furious as it grows ever more challenging. And that challenge is actually pretty fun.
Some people got so caught up in the narrative’s premise that they just attributed their perception of the job to the gameplay, without actually letting themselves for an unclouded opinion of the gameplay itself.
So what your saying is that your uninformed opinion is better than my uninformed opinion? Wow, that’s me told.
… Well, it wasn’t my opinion, just the distilled essence of a number of different opinions from people who played the gamed. If I were to express my own opinion in response to your statement…
…I’d say that I think you’re a well-used twat for replying to an opinion about a few games with “I don’t know anything about these games but your taste sucks”. If you don’t have something constructive or at least amusing to say, don’t say anything.
Is it OK if I like the GitS franchise for the action, the characters and their interactions and the animation?
Because I don’t care how pretentious or not the story is, the Major is a badass, Batou is endearing as no other guy with cylinders for eyes can be, the action scenes are really cool, and the movies look gorgeous
It’s okay for you to like whatever the hell you like. It’s when people start ascribing their preferences to being in service of objective quality, that I take issue with it. And when people start throwing around “I like ____ because I’m smarter than you” seriously, they’re pretty much just begging for whatever flak comes their way.
God, I fucking hate Monster. Pretentious, melodramatic nonsense.
the last caption, first I read it as derp. how come?
It’s because your mind exposed you as the person you really are.
10/10 would deep again.
Can’t wait for the anime adaptation.
You know what’s deep? YOUR MOM’S-
yeah, no. just no. nu-uh nope. no.