LCD, Please

Post by BaculumMeumEst » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 9:42 PM UTC

yayachiken wrote: post #61

anyfoo wrote: post #45

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Same here, and I also felt like I was missing out, since people were raving about it so much. But to me it really did feel like I had to slowly work on making any progress, and I mean "work" in its most tedious meaning. Though, I wonder whether, had I played past a certain point where my evidence book would have had enough "critical mass" for things to fall into place more readily, it would have been more fun. Not su…

I loved the game, but I can see where people struggle. You cannot laser-focus on the objective. Just get in character, you are on a mysterious ship, it's completely abandoned and somehow returned to harbor still. You are just trying to get a clue what the heck is even going on here, why would you care about filling in a puzzle book? Just enjoy the first part cinematically. Explore the ship and unlock the scenes. Abso…

Post by donatj » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 10:01 PM UTC

butz wrote: post #21

donatj wrote: post #15

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I think part of the reason nobody tests for it anymore is just because web standards have largely gotten so good. I don't often test in FireFox these days myself largely in part because it just hasn't been a problem in years. I'm old enough to remember the days when every change I made I had to roll through multiple versions of IE all the way back to 6, and different things would be broken in different versions.

It makes me shudder to remember when we had to include some outlandish workarounds just to make shadows work on IE6, not to mention custom web fonts.

Post by llui85 » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

capitainenemo wrote: post #8

[EDIT] If anyone is wondering why it is rendering poorly in Firefox with Resist Fingerprinting enabled, that's because this page seems to serve the game from a random CDN on a different host. https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/8469963/index.html in my case. Because the canvas is attempting to read pixels, which can be used for fingerprinting, Firefox is blocking this. But because it is being done in an iframe, there…

Post by thrillgore » Tue, Aug 08, 2023, 11:28 PM UTC

Post by dgant » Wed, Aug 09, 2023, 12:28 AM UTC

skeaker wrote: post #38

BaculumMeumEst wrote: post #26

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for some reason i just couldn’t get into it. i love the aesthetic, but i hated the pacing; the game's frequent unskippable walking sequences and menu transitions between puzzle solving felt like a slog. papers please is one of my favorite games of all time, though, and i enjoyed other first person puzzlers like the witness and portal.

I had a similar experience. It's unfortunate since I hear it get praised constantly for being a masterpiece and I am a big fan of puzzle games, but it just would not click for me. I think it's also to do with the nature of the puzzle being kind of abstract (and at times almost subjective since I think multiple answers can potentially be correct for some causes of death). The game tries to handle this with the evidenc…