Also, this is one of the best COG games I’ve played, with a lot of replayability , significant choices, great character development, and more. If anyone is looking through the comments trying to decide whether or not they should buy it- I’ll add my recommendation to all of the others- BUY THIS GAME! If you liked it, you should also rate it so it gets more visibility and more people can experience its awesomeness.
I have one question though:WHO SET THE STUDIO ON FIRE? I was never able to find out. Am I missing something?
It was your old boss . But I got the implication it may have been an accident.
But he said that it wasn’t him, didn’t he? And he stopped smoking before the fire was lit and that was the only reason we considered him the prime suspect, right?
Ooo maybe not then? ‘strokes beard’
This game is awesome! I must admit that I actually go for games with a lot more length but I must say this was worth the money because it knew how to work with so little length without making it feel rushed.
If anybody here would like to know… the best movie I have made (In my opinion) is an action packed western adventure that is bold, brainy and trailblazing called: Tin Star Yes, you read that right I made a movie based in Tin Star (My playthroughs) that had all it’s qualities over 75% while having a stress of 37% and priotizing people over the project CoughI ended the game with 15% over budget Cough while dating the grip, without selling anyone out, without being blacklisted and making my niece learn to write which makes me think this is my best playthrough so far.
So… Has anyone been able to figure out who started the fire? No one seems to know and it’s driving me insane!!
I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be a cliffhanger but in my humble opinion it was either Fish Grundy or Herr Creed I mean Creed is like a pain in the flipping ass through the game. And he doesn’t seems to like us that much.
My review for it. It seems the quality of the script is decided by how much stress is on the cast and crew. There’s a small bar that lets you know how the stress level is combined with higher stress less quality it will display. It does get expensive very quickly to produce a movie.
It’s a well written. I wish thought it had choices instead of stress level. That decided how good of a movie it actually was. It feels like I’m doing a balancing act. Which is fine. I’d rather my choices have a more profound impact Such as who I picked for my lead. I could see more story attached to them.
It’s almost just looking at numbers on a spread sheet balancing it out. I liked choices to have bigger impact. I liked to have an emotional investment. I really didn’t feel I got to banter or really meet cast or crew. Still a good game though.
I echo this sentiment. It felt like the game was more about min/maxing your stats to the best of your ability than it was about the relationships you formed with the cast and crew. Which was still fun! But it made the storylines attached to those characters feel less important, or less earned. There was a part in the story where I had to choose between friendship and something that improved my career, and I honestly felt there was no penalty for choosing my career over that person. That doesn’t make it a bad game, but I wouldn’t consider it a social game by any means.
Exactly. It would been a perfect time to casually meet the the actors, perhaps one had a very dark twisted past. Maybe the girl you like is into some different stuff. It would been nice to extend on that. It felt like I met a ton of people. I didn’t get to know them. Two groups of people cast/actors. It would been nice to go in depth to learn about them. The more emotional invested you get into their past. The better story it is.
I also feel like it was a missed chance to discover the culture in Hollywood. The script was solid. It would been nice to go to nightclubs have a chance to meet shady people in the underworld. Perhaps a loan shark or seeing a corporate guy who wanted give you bags of money to put his product in.
I still liked the story. I felt it would been a better game without trying to balance the stress and that impact the quality. Choices could made more impacts without the bar balancing. Overall. It was a good script. Interesting choices.
Downloaded this game as soon as I knew it was out, and boy howdy did it exceed my expectations. Everything is era-appropriate, all of the actors and director choices are amazing, and there are so many ways to fine-tune the movie.
This is exactly what I wanted this game to be; I keep starting over to see all of the options, and as a result I haven’t even gotten my film out of prepoduction yet.
Speaking of which, how many A-List directors are there? I counted six(?) but I could be wrong. I’d name the ones I got, but I don’t know how to do spoiler tags on my phone.
Has anyone got the ‘honored’ achievement yet because no matter how hard I try I just can’t get it? Thanks in advance to whoever answers!
You literally do what the achievment says. You have to make a good film and stick to your ideals. I personally find it easiest with a horror movie and saying no to creeds ideas
Saw this and thought it was interesting
That’s truly fascinating, I love how approaches to gender have changed, even in my lifetime.
I’ve played through a few times and I do like this game. Probably my biggest complaint is more with CoG’s philosophy on railroading (you almost always get the same scenes, perhaps with a detail changed): Unless I’m mistaken, unlike with Choice of Robots (where there were obvious “modules” which dramatically increased replay value) this is all more or less the same no matter what.
Two things jump out to me as ignored:
-If you hire Fish for the film, there should probably be a scene where you can try to push him to testify (or back him up in not testifying). If nothing else, hiring him for the main movie fundamentally gives you an employer-employee relationship going into that. This might have some knock-on implications in the committee hearing scene as well…but the inability to have a little “Come to Jesus” talk with your big star over getting blacklisted? That feels like a glaring oversight.
-I think your politics ought to get sorted at the start of the story to at least some extent and also play a role later. As a good example, while I know the Communist Party was rather compartmentalized (it had more in common structurally with a spy ring or a terrorist organization than it did with a conventional political party), I also find it pretty hard to believe that if you character is/was a member that you wouldn’t know about his membership. Again, this isn’t a matter of a major plot branch…but it is a detail that does stick out.
The other thing, and this is somewhat of a nitpick, is that it would be nice to see a bit of variation on a few scenes if you get the right director/actor combos (the brawl comes to mind). Yet again…it’s a minor detail, but Easter eggs like those are what make for the best replay value. Likewise, it would be good if your location shoot did customize to the movie details (e.g. I have a comedy based in a New York department store but I don’t have an option to location shoot in New York, just a “foreign metropolis”). Most of the details wouldn’t change (I think two scenes might need a tweak as a result) but it would be a nice touch.
All of this being said, it’s a fine game…it just feels a bit thin on some of the replay elements vis-a-vis some of the other games.
Hi! First of all, thank you for an entertaining game. I really loving it. Just want to know how to get the “You All Along” achievement? I can’t seem to get it.
I think that might be the one where you romance your assistant.
@Lys tried some of the choices but there’s no clear indication, unlike The Grip and The Actor. I might be missing something though. (^^;;
It’s relatively easy actually. Romance either the Grip or the Actor and when you’re ij the premiere, turn them down and then you’ll get the romance with her.