#It's wild that people call tdpa ugly and lifeless when my mum was blown away by how real it looks

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Retroactively decided to put this under cut for length but basically it's not until dawn and despite having the same gameplay more or less, the same composer and a lot of the same systems and even the same theme song. The quarry has a large star cast of 18-20 year old characters and a creative in common so it's the proper successor and the anthology isn't(yes I'm still salty about how people act like nothing or nothing decent came out between those two games)

It's not until dawn and it's way too easy to act like nothing could ever reach the heights of that first thing that got them hooked, although I suspect they'd be saying all the same stuff about until dawn if it came out now

I mean that's why people act like the quarry is better despite having most of its features ripped out and plot issues so big you'd need a bridge to cross them, but it is superficially like until dawn so it must be better(that's basically what all the marketing said after all)

But I'll stop being mean to the quarry now, point is if they don't feel the exact same way they did in the mid 2010s then it must be bad

And let's be real Man of Medan, although I've grown a liking for it, stumbled in places due to the anthology originally having a shorter development cycle(I can't even imagine what it would have been like if they stuck to the six monthly release schedule) and it's probably the furthest from until dawn out of the four

Little hope has the tragic death of family, a woodsy setting, the mental health aspect

House of ashes has real monsters and shooting(I know that sounds awfully shallow but that really is what it came down to, I love this game for so much more but it only mattered to this crowd that it "has real monsters like until dawn")

The devil in me has saw traps and a masked killer, I often say it's like if until dawn committed the other way

The first thing I did when the Man of Medan announcement trailer dropped was look into what it was based on so I knew what to expect but I would agree it's no until dawn and unfortunately because of game order people refused to understand how massively different Man of Medan and Little Hope are and by the time house of ashes came out there was a commitment to being against the series, maybe if little hope and house of ashes were switched things may have been different but who knows

Also there's the fact that people who dislike these games usually don't take the time to replay them despite multiple povs effecting your understanding of the story being a thing the devs were very up front about and there for they miss a lot and so it must be bad, sometimes there really is a point to actually engaging with something as intended, I mean there are a lot of games that just aren't for me because I prefer single player and I understand that that's a me problem

So to wrap up this rambling since I periodically have to say it, I love until dawn, it holds up, it deserves all the praise it gets but I'm not attached to it being number one forever whilst as far as I can tell a lot of people want only the exact moment of until dawn and nothing else will ever be good enough

And also people refuse to acknowledge that the anthology just doesn't have the budget or scale of until dawn and hold it to an entirely unfair bar of that, again, the series is very honest about what it is and isn't and instead of judging the anthology for what it is they judge it for what it's not

The Dark Pictures Anthology is fucking good and I legitimately don’t understand why almost all the comments and streamers are so negative about it