On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:28:18 +0000, JAB wrote:
On 10/11/2022 00:54, PW wrote:
On Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:11:26 -0500, Zaghadka wrote:
Looks like anything from a walking simulator with robots to an
exploration/resource adventure game.
What am I saying. It's free. You can fire it up and find out for
yourself.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/phoning_home
3.2/5 Not bad for a free game so I took it.
I can't stand trailers. They rarely have anything to do with the real
game.
Yep it's one that annoys me. If I've come to your Steam page to see if I
like a game what I want to see is real gameplay not some stylised
version of it.
Studies have shown that you're not alone in this. When people shop for
PC games, if they watch videos, they typically scrub ahead to the bits
showing actual gameplay, skipping all the nonsense titles and
cinematics until they see game interface. It's one of the most
important parts of your store-page. If your video doesn't have a good
amount of gameplay in it, it's pretty much wasted effort and money.
People won't watch it and may likely leave your page to look at a game
with more informative videos.
Fortunately, most Steam games have multiple videos; the first is
usually the traditional 'announcement' trailer with the epic
soundtrack and the favorable quotes from reviews and all that
nonsense... but two or three videos later you'll find one with a good
amount of gameplay. It's still a lot of wasted effort, but it's better
than /just/ the announcement trailers, I suppose.
This is one of those games that - whenever I see it being given away
for free - makes me think, "I should give it a try", but immediately
forget about and ignore the next time I', actually /looking/ for
something new to play. I'd probably - grudgingly - have some fun with
it, but there's nothing about it that screams "Play Me!" so I skip
over it when searching through the thousands of other games.
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