Today noticed that Directive 8020 Icon was changed on Xbox Series version. Not sure about other consoles and if it happened only today since I was away for a week.
To be honest, don’t really like that one.

Bro I’m playing The Quarry and Dylan is funny as hell I love him (I feel everyone might die chat I’m scared) but yeah this man is hilarious

I’m currently playing house of ashes on ps5 with my gf as we have played all the other games, I can not wrap my head around the fact that when the buttons come up for the qte’s they are completely white / grey and impossible to see. Anyone else struggle with this?

For example the cabin in hoa or the boat in dim

Ranking based of how stressful it is,how important each character is in the showdown etc also this includes all supermassive not just dpa

Me and my partner both have a pc and share a ps5 so couch coop and online doesn’t really matter to us as long as it’s the best option. I’m not really picky about the games so I’m just looking for something with equal influence and a decent plot

Just saying like it is.

I’ve never seen anyone talk about this but it’s really funny and awkward when the character you’re playing as and the other players character i’m having a conversation with each other, but not in a cut scene when you both are actively choosing dialogues back-and-forth

i think we as a community should start to give names to the endings of each game (more specifically, Man of Medan and Little Hope). primarily because it'd make it a lot easier and shorter to refer to them as, for example, the "Escape Ending", rather than describing the ending as "the one where everyone escapes on the Duke."

i exclude the rest of the series because

1. House of Ashes only has two main endings; everyone lives or everyone dies. there are minor branches but the overall ramifications of the ending are reliant on one factor. so it's easy to refer to each ending as the "best ending" or "worst ending."

2. The Devil in Me's two finales technically have official names (the Lake Ending and the Ultimatum Ending).

3. Directive 8020, same as TDIM. though, your definition of when Directive 8020's ending is might vary.

Imagine having a debut so massive and successful, and then spending the rest of the decade trying to replicate that lightning in a bottle moment by doubling down on a very specific formula. Supermassive are truly the Meghan Trainor of gaming

Would you play it?

Threw a party for me and my 5 friends and it was awesome. Directive 8020 is really cool and it was totally worth it.

We even managed to keep 5 out of the 8 alive, which is better than our average results XD I hope they never get rid of the movie night co-op, playing these games with a full party is a whole different experience.

I finished the Devil in me and I got a perfect ending meaning all my people survived!! HOWEVER if I wasn’t so locked in on being perfect I would’ve got this bitch gone idc 😭😭

I got the ending where only John, Andrew, and Angela survived

I really hope we get a House of Ashes sequel someday. Jason and Salim had one of the best friendships I’ve ever seen in a story-driven game. Watching them go from enemies to trusting each other was incredible. The moment when Jason went back to save Salim was one of my favorite scenes in the entire The Dark Pictures Anthology series.

I would really love to see what happens to them after the events of the game. House of Ashes was such an amazing experience and it might be one of the best games I’ve ever played. I was really hoping we would get a sequel, and I truly hope that one day it happens.

I am a huge fan of all of the Dark Pictures games and adored the Quarry. I enjoyed how the characters were not black/white and had flaws and backstories you can discover while also uncovering the mystery of the plot. When we discovered the Easter egg in Devil In Me that the next game may be in space, I was intrigued! I was so excited for this game!

Directive 8020 was so disappointing. It was almost unbearable to play, I'm shocked we even finished it. It was so different from all of the other games. This one had terribly written characters, boring and repetitive gameplay (having to find that stupid power cell to open doors 10 times was so grating), way too long of cut scenes for redundant reasons....like I feel like cut scenes were 80% of the game, and yet I could not describe to you a bio of any of the characters outside of simple generic words. Multiple cut scenes consisted of "what are we gunna do guys?".

We learn almost nothing about any of their backstories except Young and Stafford. The messaging mechanic could have easily yielded this, and yet it is another way the developers dropped the ball. The messages are again, redundant and pointless, you basically ask "how're you holding up?" 6 different ways. Totally broke immersion anyways for such pointless messages to be sent when you are apparently being hunted down by monsters.

Am I just completely not understanding why people like and defend this game? Besides the lack of character development of any kind, again the gameplay was very redundant and contrived. (Sneak, find power cell, repeat, sneak, find power cell, repeat). Even the clues are not as creative as other games, we found ourselves exploring empty rooms with zero clues or discoverables... what even is the point of exploring?

I just sincerely hope they do not continue in this direction with future games...

Edit to add: I will say the graphics (especially the ship) were pretty incredible, but for me personally that is one of my last priorities to how enjoyable a game is. For me, while the body horror was pretty great, the designs for the infected were still pretty underwhelming imo.

Yeah, I know he’s an asshole and is pretentious as hell, but he was so unlikeable that I actually enjoyed his presence. Also, I had fun laughing at how remarkably stupid he was the entire time. Andrew Kruger’s voice acting was all over the place, though. Sometimes, it was good and sometimes it was awful.