Qiao Liang was also an old player of Game Designer. He had been playing this game ever since it came out.
In order to produce a new episode of Products of the Gods, Qiao Liang had run through almost all the endings. He was familiar with all kinds of forks in the road as if it was his own backyard.
However, after entering the game this time, he realized that Game Designer seemed to have some obvious changes compared to the past.
The most obvious thing was that it had changed from a standalone game to a standalone game with online gameplay.
The previous downloadable content of this game had only been updated with new dubbing and new scenes. There might be a lot of updated content, but there was not much improvement in terms of gameplay.
Strictly speaking, this game was only fun at first sight. After playing for a period of time and knowing all the endings, it could only be used as a collection.
However, after this update, some online gameplay was added to the game.
The online gameplay was not the main fun. It was just icing on the cake, but it was enough to surprise people.
There was a new message board function in the game. By default, it was turned off. It could be turned on after clearing the game. After turning on this function and entering the game, one could see the words left behind by other players in various rooms, corridors, and doors.
Qiao Liang also tried to write a message. He realized that these messages were not randomly typed. Instead, they were pieced together with some ready-made words. They could only express some relatively simple and vague meanings.
This might be because they were worried that the accurate meaning would cause too many spoilers and reduce players' enjoyment of the game.
Using such pieced together messages could easily create a 'reverse guidance' effect for players. That was because making the same choice under different circumstances would result in different outcomes.
That way, not only would new players have to battle wits and courage with the voice-overs, but they would also have to battle wits and courage with malicious messages. There would be more obstacles on the road to success.
The second new gameplay was the contrarian mode. It could also be activated after clearing any ending for a week.
In the original default mode, players would not say a word the entire time, and the voice-overs would talk to themselves the entire time. Before players made their choice, the voice-overs would come up with bad ideas. After players made their choice, the voice-overs would make sarcastic remarks. In the end, when the ending came out, the voice-overs would be sarcastic or stubborn.
In short, it was mainly to attack players' mentality.
However, after activating the 'contrarian mode', the positions of both sides immediately reversed!
In the 'contrarian mode', the players were no longer defenseless. Instead, there would be a 'bickering assistant' who would counterattack the voice-over.
Before making a choice, the voice-over would come up with a bad idea. The little bickering assistant would remind the players of the drawbacks of choosing that way and the benefits of choosing another option.
After making a choice, the voice-over would make sarcastic remarks, and the assistant would retort, leaving the voice-over speechless.
When the final ending came out, the little bickering assistant would comfort or congratulate the players. At the same time, she would activate the crazy bickering mode and mock and despise the voice-over in all aspects.
The narrator was rendered speechless and angry, but there was nothing he could do about the bickering assistant.
Apart from that, if players followed the voice-over's instructions in the contrarian mode, the little bickering assistant would mock the choices made by the voice-over, just like how the voice-over mocked players back then.
At first, Qiao Liang was not very interested. However, after playing for a while, he realized that it was quite intoxicating!
"Actually, the so-called bickering assistant is nothing more than another arranged voice-over that can be triggered. This is all a pre-arranged program."
"However, why does it feel so good to hear this little bickering assistant rebuke the voice-over?"
At first, Qiao Liang felt that the voice-over was not a real person. What was the point of rebuking it?
However, on further thought, the voice-over was not a real person. However, players would also be angry when the voice-over criticized others!
When the players played for a week, they were basically fuming with anger because of this voice-over. Now that there was a little bickering assistant scolding back and making the voice-over speechless, they felt secretly pleased.
What's more, this little bickering assistant could be considered to have pointed out the pros and cons of various choices for players. Even though it did not directly point out what the right choice was, it still gave players more reference information when making a choice. It was quite friendly.
The only pity was that the little bickering assistant's voice was an emotionless electronic voice. It did not sound as annoying as the voice-over, but it was not much better.
When clearing the level, the little bickering assistant would tell players its name: AEEIS. Other than that, there was no other information.
There was also a new way to play, the new player care mode.
Qiao Liang experienced it and realized that this thing could be called a paradise for reverse roles and fishing enthusiasts.
In theory, the correct way to play this game should be when new players did not understand the game. Old players could guide them to make the right choice, and the new and old players would be happy.
However, when he really played it, he realized that it was not the case at all!
After the baptism of the voice-over, the old players had long become eccentric people. All of them had their own tricks up their sleeves.
Some old players would deliberately lead new players onto the wrong path.
Some old players did not know anything. They would only start mocking the players after they had already made the wrong choice.
There were also some old players who had said good things at the beginning to cheat the trust of new players. In the end, they said that they had made the wrong choice at the crucial moment.
The scariest thing was that this mode was not one-on-one. At most, four old players could enter the same new player's game. Their avatars would be displayed in the four corners of the screen, and the content of their words would be displayed in the form of text bubbles.
Some of the four old players were telling the truth, and some were lying. They were either undermining each other or working together to deceive others. In addition to the original voice of the voice-over, new players could experience five times the joy.
Apart from that, the most annoying thing was that there were many people pretending to be new players to fish!
Many players had already cleared the game many times, but they deliberately opened a game to pretend to be new players. They tricked the old players in and then pretended to be novices who did not know anything. They fought with them with their wits and courage, leading them around in circles.
"These new modes are quite interesting. Ordinary players should be able to play for two or three days without getting tired of it. If it's a drama expert player, he should be able to play a relatively good show effect, right? "
"Perhaps there will be UP Masters who specialize in 'fishing in Game Designer' in a while."
Qiao Liang played for a while and felt that it was quite interesting.
After these two games were added to the online mode, they could be considered to have found new fun for old players. They had originally been thrown into the game library to collect dust, but they had been dug out after the update of the downloadable content.
After these changes, the content of the game, which had become boring after playing it many times, could be played a few more times!
After playing for a while, Qiao Liang looked at the gamers' thoughts on the forum about the updates of these two games.
"Holy sh * t, Tengda is simply the conscience of the industry! How long has this been an old game? The main body is already free. Why are they still updating it? "
"Compared to the content of the downloadable content, the price is still cheap. I seriously doubt if they can even earn back the money."
"It's so worth it. I can just buy it brainlessly!"
"I've finally beaten up the voice-over in Game Designer. I don't have to be mocked by him anymore. Thank you to this little bickering assistant called AEEIS!"
"There's too much fishing in the online mode! They're all old players. Why are they pretending to be newbies? I'm speechless! "
"However, the two downloadable content this time seems to have buried some Easter eggs. For example, there was a spacecraft and an alien scene in The Lonely Desert Road. Does that mean that Tengda's next game is a sci-fi themed game?"
"Is it a 3A FPS game? That's great! "
"The Easter egg of Game Designer should be this little bickering assistant, AEEIS, right? Are these two Easter eggs for the next game? What is this AEEIS for? "
"Er … the robot teammate of the protagonist in an FPS game?"
"I'm not sure, but I suddenly feel like I'm looking forward to it! After all, there are too few sci-fi games in the country at the moment. It's always Xianxia and Wuxia. I'm sick of it. "
"That's because sci-fi games are technical work. All sorts of details are very important. It's not as complete as Xianxia and Wuxia themes. I don't know if Tengda can do it well."
"Tengda's products must be top-notch. I think there will be no problem! "
Qiao Liang flipped through the forum and realized that the gamers were basically praising it.
After all, Tengda was still working hard to update some unimportant old games after such a long time. It was really rare to pay attention to the gaming experience of old gamers.
Most games companies did not value the interests of old gamers at all. They would not do anything that was not profitable. They would even do things that would hurt old gamers for the sake of profits.
However, Tengda was the exact opposite. It might not earn much money from maintaining these old games, and it might even lose money, but it was still constantly updating downloadable content.
What kind of spirit was this?!
Gamers expressed that they were deeply touched. Wasn't it just downloadable content? Buy it!
With new gameplay, new content, and sincere downloadable content, would they still be human if they did not buy it?
They could not let Tengda's sincerity towards old gamers go to waste!
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