Which “small” indie game/film/book hit you harder than most blockbusters?
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Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/657/ and the reason I watched Primer in the first place. After dozens of watches I think that perhaps it's possible the graph is relatively correct (maybe)
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What does hit hard mean? Does it have to be emotionally impactful? Is positively surprised enough?
- Sheepy has great atmosphere (free)
- Halloween Hidden Capybaras with Orange and Pumpkins has great atmosphere, looks great (free)
I remember a game I played a long time ago touched me, but I can't find my review of it.
I found the VR title Surge was great, but it doesn't seem to be available in the Steam store anymore. I sat down and watched and looked around, and the music and visuals had great impact.
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Game no one's mentioned yet: Look Outside
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Love the Cube series, knew it was low budget, but not ‘that’ low!
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Love the Cube series, knew it was low budget, but not ‘that’ low!
I'm sure the others had a bigger budget, but yeah, the first one was hardly anything.
Of course they only needed to build one room, part of another, and then just change the lighting over and over.
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Honestly, all of them.
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Primer. Like $12k budget, mostly cost of film.
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Chappie might be borderline, but it goes so hard emotionally for a movie that basically had no critical reception.
I couldn't get past the crappy acting. It was like watching high schoolers try to make Tarantino dialogue work
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Games: INSIDE, We Happy Few
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Cuno hurt your feelings too, huh? I had to find health and recover after I spoke to him.
That fucking little rat, played this game so long ago but still remember his voice.
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Games:
- To the Moon
- Gris
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
- This War of Mine
- Inked: A Tale of Love
- Papers, Please
Movies (this list I had to think about for a while...):
- 50/50 (2011)
- Amour (2012)
- The Station Agent (2003)
- Columbus (2017)
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Books:
- The Bookshop
- The Lives of Others
Edit: spelling
gris froze for me at the bird fight, uninstalled because the game was unplayable
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Game: Who's Lila?
Film: Lake Mungo
Beat me to it. First thing to mind was Lake Mungo.
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TUNIC
It's a good game in general, but
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If you, as a kid, had to decipher an older sibling's notes in game manual, it hits that nostalgia right on the nose. And then turns it on its head.
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Primer. Like $12k budget, mostly cost of film.
Think it’s time for a rewatch thanks for the reminder
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Adastra.
I'm still infatuated with that dumb wolf.
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A game released in 2008 called Iji. At first glance, it seems like a simple platformer, but think again. It's an amazing blend of platforming and RPG mechanics. The game reacts to the decisions you make resulting in multiple endings.
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I just played about an hour and it's so beautiful!
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DELTARUNE.
toby's been changing my brain chemistry for 10+ years now -
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I remember feeling the feels when I first saw Garden State. I don’t know what it is about that film, but this quote:
Andrew: “You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your shit, that idea of home is gone.
Sam: “I still feel at home in my house.”
Andrew: You'll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it's gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It's like you feel homesick for a place that doesn't even exist. Maybe it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I don't know, but I miss the idea of it, you know. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people that miss the same imaginary place.”
This hits hard.
