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The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me is the Season Finale of Supermassive and Bandai Namco's series

modiz

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Hopefully the title isnt seen as a spoiler to House of Ashes, but if you want to play it and dont want to be spoiled about whats next then this is the warning.






Seems that in the end of House of Ashes there is a teaser trailer to the "Season Finale" named "The Devil in Me", this is the 4th chapter in the anthology, and I believe there was an article detailing that they have signed a few more games in this franchise but I cannot find the source for that right now.
 
Ashes of Dreams

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Is that Brian Bloom?

Well, either way, I want to play these games with my friends. I know the second one got less than stellar reception from some people, but they seem like a decent time.
 
Zebesian-X

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Oh so it's the season one finale.

I initially inferred from the thread title that they were cutting the series short but it seems like they will be continuing through for the full eight-game contract.

Interesting!
 

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modiz said:
Hopefully the title isnt seen as a spoiler to House of Ashes, but if you want to play it and dont want to be spoiled about whats next then this is the warning.






Seems that in the end of House of Ashes there is a teaser trailer to the "Season Finale" named "The Devil in Me", this is the 4th chapter in the anthology, and I believe there was an article detailing that they have signed a few more games in this franchise but I cannot find the source for that right now.
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I appreciate the warning, and personally don't care about knowing the teaser, but it's hardly a warning if the thread title is the spoiler ...
 
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modiz

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c bweezie said:
I appreciate the warning, and personally don't care about knowing the teaser, but it's hardly a warning if the thread title is the spoiler ...
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Yea, I wasnt sure of how to do it right, so I hoped that just the title and it being a season finale without the mention that it is something being shown in the game itself with footage would be enough.
 

OldMuffin

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I believe the original plan was 8 titles?
I assumed the games might not have been doing/ selling well, but as someone else mentioned, that thankfully isn't the case.
Im just going to take a shot in the dark and say it's end of season 1, probably because they going to take a break to work on other stuff and come back to it, so after this the next title might not release a year apart?
 
FolderBrad

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Kinda hated the first two. Are the better in multiplayer? They just feel so sloppy and disjointed. I hate that Until Dawn continues to feel like a fluke.
 
DrScruffleton

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FolderBrad said:
Kinda hated the first two. Are the better in multiplayer? They just feel so sloppy and disjointed. I hate that Until Dawn continues to feel like a fluke.
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I actually really don't like these games in multiplayer. They aren't split screen, so you have no idea what's happening on your partners side as you often get split up and are doing completely unrelated things. So the whole time became my friend and I explaining to each other what was happening on our respective sides.
 
Skatterd

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Supermassive did say on Reddit in the last month that they are still planning 8 games and they have teams working on 4, 5 and 6 already.
 
dusan

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Jigsaw this time.

Supermassive is making great job. If you haven't played it yet, you should absolutely experience these games.

I want the fifth game to be an Alien-style space horror game. It would be awesome.
 
Kalor

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Wonder if there'll be any actual difference in the future games to separate the different seasons or if its just a branding thing.
 
Kinthey

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The anthology model has been pretty fun as they can really explore wildly different settings. I kinda wish though that there was also a bit more experimentation on the gameplay side
 
Paquete_PT

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I applaud what they're doing and I wish more studios would do this smaller games and shorter releases re-using assets. I liked Man of Medan. It was not on the same level as Until Dawn but it was very entertaining playing with friends. I skipped little hope because other stuff got in the way, but house of ashes seems more interesting.
 
UglySofaGaming

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Have they fixed movie mode or whatever its called this time?

The mode where you select characters to play as with a ground of friends…

But spoilers, a character always dies almost immediately.

And sometimes other players are randomly given control of your characters in life and death situations.

And the ratio of playtime between characters is all over the place.

It's an incredibly frustrating experience.
 
TheFurizzlyBear

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UglySofaGaming said:
Have they fixed movie mode or whatever its called this time?

The mode where you select characters to play as with a ground of friends…

But spoilers, a character always dies almost immediately.

And sometimes other players are randomly given control of your characters in life and death situations.

And the ratio of playtime between characters is all over the place.

It's an incredibly frustrating experience.
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The game isn't balanced around it and it was them basically throwing a bone to people who played their games this way in the past. I wouldn't expect it to improve a whole lot since the game is in no way designed around it (nor should it be).
 
Tuck

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These games are fun to play with friends.

UglySofaGaming said:
Have they fixed movie mode or whatever its called this time?

The mode where you select characters to play as with a ground of friends…

But spoilers, a character always dies almost immediately.

And sometimes other players are randomly given control of your characters in life and death situations.

And the ratio of playtime between characters is all over the place.

It's an incredibly frustrating experience.
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Haha this is all very true
 
Laser Ramon

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I wonder if there will be any meaningful differences between season 1 and 2. Maybe a year off in between?
 
UglySofaGaming

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TheFurizzlyBear said:
The game isn't balanced around it and it was them basically throwing a bone to people who played their games this way in the past. I wouldn't expect it to improve a whole lot since the game is in no way designed around it (nor should it be).
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Well they should take it out and stop marketing the feature to sell the game then because it's trash.

Make it a pure single player again, and even better make the stories engaging like Until Dawn was while they're at it…
 
TheFurizzlyBear

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UglySofaGaming said:
Well they should take it out and stop marketing the feature to sell the game then because it's trash.

Make it a pure single player again, and even better make the stories engaging like Until Dawn was while they're at it…
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They ain't gonna take it out cus the people who know what it is enjoy it as such. The later part is subjective so not much they can do for you there.
 
Billdrew

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The thing with these games compared to Until Dawn is that they are so much shorter that there's no time to get to know any of the characters before the deaths start, so you just don't care about them. They feel like disposable caricatures.
Until Dawn was so great because of the build up to the action, it made losing a character feel more significant.
Also the endings for both of the newer games felt a bit rushed, and if they pull another ending twist like the last one I'll be super disappointed
 
Angie

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Billdrew said:
The thing with these games compared to Until Dawn is that they are so much shorter that there's no time to get to know any of the characters before the deaths start, so you just don't care about them. They feel like disposable caricatures.
Until Dawn was so great because of the build up to the action, it made losing a character feel more significant.
Also the endings for both of the newer games felt a bit rushed, and if they pull another ending twist like the last one I'll be super disappointed
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Until Dawn is so good.
I hated every single one of them at first, than I loved them all by the end.
It's so great.

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pbayne

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Billfisto said:
I'm really hoping they keep making these long enough to get around to cosmic horror.

Lost Hope? It's good right up until the very end, where it becomes offensively bad.
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I liked it more than the first one but I'm in the minority on this one.
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Seems a bit mixed on it lol
I thought man of medan was just ok, It probably suffered from misplaced expectations on my part thinking it would be until dawn 2 (in terms of scope).
 
Billfisto

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pbayne said:
Seems a bit mixed on it lol
I thought man of medan was just ok, It probably suffered from misplaced expectations on my part thinking it would be until dawn 2 (in terms of scope).
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Full disclosure, I actually enjoyed playing Little Hope far more than Man of Medan. Little Hope's premise and style was more in my wheelhouse, and the monster designs are actually pretty cool and well thought-out. It was fun and even intriguing up until the very last moment, when the game abruptly tripped and dropped its chili all over the floor.
 
SirKai

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Yay can't wait to finish this one and find out
there are no actual monsters or supernatural elements at all and it was just hallucinations or some shit.
 
Jawmuncher

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They probably have at least 3 games signed on. As in one of the titles where he's pulling out the books the games are based on I think there was a total of 7!
 
LycanXIII

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Season split is probably due to Covid. This one was likely far enough along to finish up, with the next one having to get delayed. But I could be wrong and it could still come out next Halloween.
 
Gol

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I played Man of Medan and though it was a sizable step down from Until Dawn. I might give the others a go but have been waiting for them to all come out and be put in a collection.
 
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