Wednesday 11 October, 2006

...Right now I'm totally confused.

While Facade has some great merit and genius put behind it, it as a game for a gamer... it fails spectacularly. Someone not so into the average gaming scene might benefit from this, but I find the scene spectacularly confusing, perhaps only if I lack the social graces to properly "play" the game.

For those of you who don't know, Facade has you pick a name and talk with a troubled couple as they degress into an argument. Unfortunately the game is tricky to figure out--the average gamer seeks a certain solution, and this story's open ended-ness seems to confound and confuse me. The situation itself doesn't help--it's way too tense but at the same time less that brilliant... the arguing sounds both too strained and... set up to seem believeable.

Maybe my poor playthrough might be one of the things that disjointed my game, but another playthrough later might suffice.

At least it was worth a laugh.

Laughing ain't bad. :-)

I played it a few times to try different things out. It usually works better for me if I have a certain goal in mind. I guess the main goal is to save Trip and Grace's marriage...though I've never been able to do that.