ModPlay - Dear Esther :: Gameplay P1 (HD)

[MuFa5a]

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[comfortjjc]

feb 14 2012 wtf. iv seen this forever ago.

[SheepFreak2]

i was hoping for myst

[0polle]

is this a game or just a mod?

[Feedmelols]

wtf this game looks so boring..

[Flubly]

@Feedmelols It's an experiment in interactive storytelling, not an attempt to make an entertaining and commercially successful game. It entertains me, personally, because the writing and world immersion are interesting to me. If I want to have traditional gameplay, there are plenty of alternatives. We need innovative experiments like this to push the envelope and discover things that will make it into mainstream games. You can't have progress without risk and experimentation.

[Elcosomalodelamuerte]

Dear Esther... When the hiss hisss hissss hiiizzz hisss over the water hisssss hisss his hissssssssss could not find the hissss hisss hisss blip! blip!

[XxCade00xX]

so its on garrys mod cool

[gabba1gabba1hey]

a walking simulator. okay.

[Zombies239]

If I download the F2P Team Fortress 2... Can I play this game?

[Ovenlord3]

@Zombies239 No. It requires Halflife 2.

[DoctorNuriel]

@Zombies239 I believe so, yes

[liberate29]

I guess the big twist in the remake will be that Esther was a Strider all along, and the narration was giving clues and hints on how Gordon Freeman killed her.

[ffinfinity1]

@beretta92fstactical you should play the Stanley Parable, it narrative driven just like this and has 6 different endings. IMO it the best mod that I'VE ever played.

[99blackhorse99]

do you need half life2 to play or can you have half life 2 episode 2?

[antonio342100]

be a boss and view this in HD

[MrAustinGman]

so far it seems a lot like an H.P. Lovecraft novel

[gameaddicts1]

can someone tell me how to play it after downloading it?

[Android2137]

Is anyone else getting a hissy/tinny/jingly quality to the sound?

[bretknoxx]

@Android2137 yep.

[romeedee]

@Android2137 I'm getting it, too.

[calendarul2008]

which is the goal of this mod?

[Suka917]

@calendarul2008 There is no goal. But some say it is to get to the beacon

[caod27]

I think I just saw a symbol for an isolation transformer and a semiconductor diode.

[Spartanz1170]

6:00 was that a person in the distance?

[zePippin]

what is the plot to this game ???

[theothercommentguy]

You forgot to put "gameplay" in quotes.

[elemenz888]

2:00 headcrab jumps behind the rock GRAA-EEEEEEEEEEE!!!

SHIT BRICKS THEN SMACK IT WITH A CROW BAR!!!!

[Burzhuy32]

I love source engine

[mbe102]

@PerishableItem Those are mods made from the use of the source engine themselves. If you own Portal, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 1 and/or 2, or say... Half-Life 2 Episode 2, then you own the newest version of the Source SDK and things necessary to play Mods. I'm not sure if, by owning Half-Life 2, or Episode One you may get it, I know those games are updated, but, I can't say for sure, so don't want to lead on ya on. Hope that helps :D.

[akim213]

Can anybody tell me how much if any backtracking is there in this mod?

[unimoggie]

The markings on the cliffs are the electrical symbol for an induction coil, a diode or one-way diode, and the thing drawn on the beach is a 'divine proportion' spiral, with each of the lines in the 'golden ratio' to one another. Whatever all that means. The narrator appears to be going psychotic though, so it may be meaningless.

[DeltaKLMPilot]

Were do I get this mod? 

[dessertmonkeyjk]

Reminds me of the Myst series in some way. First-person puzzle adventure?

[yestri]

C2H5OH at 1:11 = ethanol = alcohol = vodka.

Someone in this house is doing something for his own :D

We call it in Poland Bimber!! ;D

[yestri]

C2H5OH at 1:11 = ethanol = alcohol = vodka.

Someone in this house is doing something for his own :D

Bimber!!

[ThereOnceWasAGirl98]

CAn I get it on the xbox?

[westsidepride69]

@ThereOnceWasAGirl98 No. Go get it on the pc.

[MrBoBoTom]

@ThereOnceWasAGirl98 Fuckoff console nub, just die.

[aaron5364]

Can't wait to play the 2010 reboot on December 19!!!! It's going to be so gorgeous!

[HL2Life]

@PerishableItem Those are not Valve Source Games.

[hjk105]

@HL2Life He doesn't mean that Insurgency and Zombie Panic Source are Valve Source Games but whether Dear Esther would work, if Insurgency and Zombie Panic Source work. So the question is: Is HL2 content used in Dear Ester or is only the Source SDK Base needed?

[Escmymind]

@HL2Life I think he meant the same situation that Insurgency and ZPS have, i.e. not needing HL2 per se?

[ZedekOfLP101]

@HL2Life I don't think PerishableItem is implying that they are. He was asking "Does Dear Esther require Half-Life 2 specifically or is it compatible with all Source engine games developed by Valve in the same way that Insurgency and Zombie Panic: Source are?"

I think you misunderstood him and thought he was implying that Insurgency and Zombie Panic: Source were official Valve games. As far as I can tell at least.

Just thought I'd shed some light on the sentence structure.

Fun game.

[ThePewk]

@HL2Life

He meant that those games are compatible with all source games.

[higorfelipe97]

@HL2Life but, are they though?

[fromagelatin8]

@HL2Life You realize this is not what he meant, right ?

[2Fawkes]

I always thought that it's about some guy who was like andrew ryan and wantyed a place that would be free of "parasites", and what finally tipped him over the edge was his wife Esther being in a car accident. So he takes her to the island, and she thinks he's fucking crazy, so she gets a lifeboat from the run aground ship and gets the hell out of there, which is why he keeps saying "come back esther" and why he built that little boat on the lost beach and sank it.

He also got syphilis from her.

[WoodenPotatoes]

Is it better for me to wait for the december 2010 version or just get this one?

[terminator847]

Just take a few hours to make a random poor quality island map in you mother's basement, add in some recording you found on the net, and bam! you have an award winning mod!

[terminator847]

Anyone know how to install a mod on Half Life 2 without Steam? I have a cracked pirated copy of HL2 that doesn't need steam to run, but I can't play any mods!

[schfiftyfivehundydoo]

@terminator847 lol serves you right asshole

[conorlydon]

i wish there were more FPE games "first person experience"

[zalan26]

omg this soudn and this background makes me wait for a little girls appear and start crying with scary face liek in scary maze game xD im fuckign scared about that

[superbad42]

@zalan26 thats the best part about this mod, it doesnt need obvious jump cares...to well...scare you, your own mind fills in the horror of this mod and the thought provoking mystery keeps you wondering and filling in those horrifying gaps

[zalan26]

@superbad42 very true :D awsome game and everything awsome :D nice graf awsome sound awsome story :D

[banshee1231]

You want to know what makes this mod creepier? The website is completely down...

[imcrispywuuut]

Note: Don't bunny hop, it breaks the dialogue :)

[juxtapoz98]

beautiful mod.

[DMonicProductions]

Can you download this on the 360?

[jaranu]

@DMonicProductions

no.

Pc only. Sorry.

[reeb69doog]

do you need HL 2 for the mod to work?

[hax0rman101]

I converted these to Mp3 and made a big long track. It's nice listening to the storytelling :)

[mrplow321]

Why does it keep telling me to go back!

[ownerwithaboner1]

@mrplow321 your walking along the beach? do you need to go up the side of the cliff to your right?

[Zlagie]

@ownerwithaboner1 I also find the "Go back!" sort of hauntingly part of the story. Makes me feel sort of sad..

[akku95]

This mod seriously is greate...

[hax0rman101]

You guys. You can't watch this mod being played. you need to actually play it and got through by yourself to get the feel.

[RCT3FAN100]

This gives me the chills

[eateroftheflame]

My only problem with this mod is that the music sometimes gets too loud for the speech to be audible and altering the music volume option doesn't seem to work.

[C0DZ0R]

Touching.

[supersupermario765]

from what i see if you turned off the sound to a game with no action and had a second guy read from a stephen king book it would be kinda the same but because this game has no action you pay attention to the finer details and notice things you would overlook completey playing through 4 times i guess i wouldnt like this mod since im looking for a mod thats a stealth game like splinter cell but also has stuff like- sorry getting off track XD this mod is good for guys who want a change of pace

[Rambowjo2]

A very impressive story and very good storytelling. I'm very excited for the remake!

[SkyDiver17]

have you seen how amazing the remake looks?It's surpassing Valve's standards by far.

[r0galik]

turn Steam Friends offline when recording ;)

[mankyman6]

Parts of the mod seem to be poorly constructed, there are parts where two different textures seem to clash without a third texture fuzzing the two together.

it's an awesome mod but it could have been better. I'm glad there a remake being produced, from the screen shots of it so far, the island looks more calming. It helps, in my opinion, give the message the dialogue was trying to give you.

[jancom777]

@mankyman6 That's just the map, not the mod itself.

[mankyman6]

@jancom777

I know that's the map...

[jancom777]

@mankyman6 Then why comment on the looks and call it the mod.

[animakerdrag]

that was fixed

[ColonelWatts23]

Simply beautiful.

[Rohan2300]

2:50 or so....isn't that a Fibonacci circle?

[StarongBahd]

Everyone should really have their own interpretation as to what the story told by this mod means (it also somewhat changes with each play-through though not drastically). I won't say mine as that would probably spoil it for others. :)

[FrozenSnake999]

I fell in love with this mod.

[zackhanscom]

why chinese room? none of the devs are chinese. they're all middle aged brits.

[Pestoolio]

The "Chinese Room" is a philosophical argument having to do with artificial intelligence.

[frumpy10182]

i hate stupid people...

[jackiechanrpm]

Methyl-ethyl alcohol?

[cikamatko]

ethanol.

[jackiechanrpm]

I knew that. >:O

[cikamatko]

haha :D

[r0galik]

There is no such thing.

[vortigauntfan]

this is the best mod I have ever played. my only complaint is that the walking speed is slow, but thats only to get enough time for the narrator to talk. This mod is awesome, in a completely opposite way from any other game. there is no combat, but this game is a must have for ANYONE. get it, download it, make it work, it's worth it.

[ugonnalikethis]

Vortigauntfan can you help me? i hearing so much talk about this and i really want to freaking play this. but i forgot how to use winzip. -_- can you just send me instructions? as a matter of fact can anyone help me? please!!!

[vortigauntfan]

yes.

all you have to do is highlight all of the files for dear esther, sometimes you have to double click on the first file to actually get to all of the files, but highlight them, click the extract button and that will bring you to a window that wants to know where the files go. send them to Cdrive/ Program Files/Steam/steamapps/sourcemo­ds and then hit extract. sometimes the folder 'Steam' is under Program files.

Have fun with the mod, because I certainly did! also it's kind of creepy...

[agentbaybob]

ime downloading it right now, and DAMN! it takes forever to download.

[frumpy10182]

i think there should be more.... maybe longer

[Rambowjo2]

This is more of an interactive and graphical novelle, than an actual mod, which is why it's very interesting to some people, and rather boring to others. I had trouble with 2 sequences of speaking sometimes overlapping each other, and sometimes the music was too loud, which made the story a bit confusing, but overall this mod is worth the 30 minutes it takes to complete.

[Rambowjo2]

There is one thing I never quite understood though. What's with the diagrams on the walls? My knowledge about circuits is limited, so I couldn't make much sense of the diagrams, but most of them looked somewhat advanced. Anybody got an snwer?

[FolstrimHori]

They actually aren't supposed to mean anything.

[mophead656]

how do you put this into steam? Please help!!!!

[gahu101]

extract the file you download, put it into source mods after extracted

[Hawdkoah]

Something Lovecraftian about this mod, and yet it stands entirely alone, unlike anything I've seen. Very beautiful.

[ewok100]

best mod i have ever played.

great music

[silvereye27]

Id play it if it had a sprint button!

[StarongBahd]

Lol if you want to run just type "bind shift -walk" into the console. That will bind shift so that you run with a normal speed. Not sure what the command is for sprint though.

[bankaikun94]

im playing this game and the narrator isnt speaking...

[gamefan1997]

damn you bad graphics card!!!!!!!!!!!

i wish i had gmod

[kaheli100]

this mod is like a good book

[pyro13guy]

This mod.... its simply amazing.... im playing it right now, and so far im just awestruck with its wonderful and mysterious story. Its just like a great book, just in a first-person perspective, and the storyline alone is enough to make this one of my all-time favorites. i definitely reccommend this to anyone who loves a good mystery.

[Tajarnia]

I know, tell me about it. I actually feel like using complete sentences now! :O

[Tajarnia]

This mod... I can't begin to explain it. It's beautiful and haunting at the same time. It's poetic, mysterious, and thought-provoking. The tone is reflective, yet also bitter. It's a masterpiece which shows that video games can certainly become forms of art.

[jimjamrocks]

hey, you, shad up

[rilij55]

Dear Esther, I sometimes feel I have given birth to this island.

Somewhere between the longitude and latitude of the split opened up, and beached remotely here. No matter how long I corelate, it remains a singularity, an alpha point in my life that refuses hypothesis. I return each time leaving fresh markers that I hope and the full glare of my hopelessness will have blossomed into fresh insight. Great mod very mysterious one also.

[xyphious]

Just finished playing this mod, its interesting to say the least. One of the most trippy, thought provoking experiences i've had in gaming for a long time, worth checking out (if you like guns and action avoid tho)

[Rotaermel]

It's absolutely awesome! I can recommend everyone to play it!!

[20FlashAnDSpank00]

wow

[HL2Life]

Ok, here's what it is:

It's like Mirror's Edge, a new type of "fps", where the "s" is thrown away. All you do is walk around, listen to the narrator and try to understand the story. It's a type of mod that makes you think and gets you addicting to know what will you see later. It's a mysterious mod.

[zeplynrulz]

thats cool i guess

[unbrokenjack]

@HL2Life Now the funny thing is that it's being redeveloped by one of the mappers who worked on Mirror's Edge, Robert Briscoe.

[xXxFireFox255xXx]

@HL2Life ME was a fps just less shooting

[musicpimp2000]

@zeplynrulz It's a mystery Mod.