Jan 21, 2023 - Day 21 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 27
Game: Quantum Break
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Sept 30, 2016
Library Date: Jan 1, 2018
Unplayed: 1846 days (5y20d)
Playtime: 40m
I'm in two minds about games that use the likeness of the actor they mocapped as the in-game character.
Having actors performing the lines and playing the part generally brings something extra to a game that's missing when it's the devs and their friends doing the voices.
However, if you already associate the actor with something else, it can be somewhat distracting. It's a fine balance.
I went into Quantum Break almost completely blank. Two things occurred:
1: "Oh, it's that guy, from the thing, and the other thing!" (Shawn Ashmore, X-Men, The Boys)
2: "This feels a bit like Control."
With good reason; turns out that Quantum Break was the game Remedy released before Control.
I'm a big time travel nerd. If it involves time travel, I'll get into it, and can get lost thinking about implications and causality.
This is a third-person action/adventure-kind-of-shooter, by Remedy, involving time travel. So far, I'm really enjoying it, and just wish I hadn't waited so long to play it.
...and apparently there are TV episodes involved somehow? I guess I have to keep playing.