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.

I just finished HOA, which was the last Supermassive game I hadn’t played yet, and I finally managed to have every character survive! I know the game isn’t exactly new at this point, but I’m pretty proud of it lol.

I’ve played all of the Supermassive games on Challenging difficulty, so I’m curious how many of you have gotten everyone out alive across any of the games, and what difficulty you normally play on.

Also, if you’ve done a full everyone-survives run across multiple games, which one did you find the hardest?

I just played D8020 from begining to end in one night, and I can't help but fathom at how out of place the Voice acting feels, its nothing like anything from the other games.

In situations of dire panic the characters are so utterly "calm"?

Do we know why this happened or is it some kind of bug that hasnt been fixed yet?

Besides the quarry, I’ve tried so many times to get into that game. I just don’t know it’s not for me. I just find the overall gameplay to get still super quick like yeah directive 8020 has a lot of stealth but I still feel like there’s so many other interesting things that they add to that game and they brought back like the branches from until Dawn, but even like the characters just almost everything about the game, they offend the people who love it just feels empty to me in the quarry.

Most folks find the end sequences of the dpa games cheesy with their fights- '2 v 1 on either the Cargo Hold or Catwalks in Man of Medan'

'John and Angela holding off their demons at the Burnt House in Little Hope'

'6 Minute Eclipse Holdout in House of Ashes'

'The Speedboat Fight against Du'Met in The Devil in Me'

And 'Shuttle Escape in Expedition 8020'

But the spectacle is pretty nice, and one last way to keep you on your toes. That isnt to say like..TDIM for example could have had more if they had enough time to implement scrapped content for that section. And having some past decisions help or hinder you.

Johns QTEs get harder if he has many locked traits, both air support called and radio were fixed making it death-proof (assuming the ancient ones been taken care of), Jamie and Mark can lose their weapons and have no means of defense causing an instant death, Mitchell sacrificing himself in one specific qte, or having an impostor onboard deterring the amalgamation.

I hope we get more elaborate ones in s2 with more punishments and 'rewards' so to speak.

What do you guys think though?

I want to purchase the game but i was told its not like in the others where you can play with a friend
Does anyone know if you can play it online or if not then when?

I feel like it's time the devil in me follows its predecessors and drops price down to 20 (or maybe 30 since it's the season finale) the game's turning 4 years old, man of medan went down to 20 after only 3 years. It is time.

I was given clay and access to a kiln so I made Jason and salim little figurines for my desk

my favourite characters of all time for sure

https://preview.redd.it/stulmrvvhzeh1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4a4318da7e624d1340fe705a2235f4da573e210

he’s such a funny guy felt so bad accidentally killing him on my first play through 💔

SPOILER AHEAD.

Just called it a night playing Directive 8020. On Chapter 6, and Stafford has a gun on all six shipmates (Williams revealed to be a mimic). After the events that have happened, I don't blame him.

Stafford ordered everyone gathered to step through the bio scanner to see who was human. I totally got John Carpenter's The Thing vibes from this, ie "Blood Test"

In order Anders, Young, Mitchell, Cooper and Cernan stepped through, all green. It was down to Stafford and Eisele. Just as she was about to go in, someone entered - Eisele!

Obviously, one was a copy...but which?

I struggled real hard to avoid spoiling myself on my PC.

When it came to the choice, I chose TEST. Forgive me for being cautious but if I ordered an Eisele through the scanner and it was the copy, no doubt I'd have doomed everyone on the opposite side.

Upon hearing an Eisele recall mentioning earlier "one person can't whistle a symphony".

I made a choice. I decided to shoot the Eisele that was with us and I was prepared to rewind if my choice was the wrong one.

After the shot was fired, dead center in the forehead - the Eisle that was with my group WAS the copy! I left out a major gasp and uttered Shaun from "Shaun of the Dead" "Oh, thank God for that!"

Boy the suspense from that event was - now THAT's why games like these are my kind of games.

Did anyone else had the same notion or feelings?

This is probably the stupidest question someone's asked in this sub but am I the only person confused by it? Is it supposed to be light brown-ish or gray? 😭 It's so confusing because her hair sometimes looks quite different in some scenes and I can't tell which color it is.