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yuletide comm. I nominated Quantum Break for the yuletide exchange! >:3c
Title:
Quantum Break
Media: Video Game
Approx length: Approximately 8 hours for a full playthrough on average, in my experience; it's shorter (about 5 hours) if you look up a story-only or story-focused Let's Play on YouTube. I have some recommendations for good ones in a post on my journal, here, as well as a more in-depth pitch for how good this game is, lol.
Where to find it:
You can buy the game for Xbox One via Microsoft, or anywhere else you can order games online (Amazon, Best Buy, etc). It's also available for PC on Steam and a couple of other platforms. If you want links to Let's Plays or walkthroughs, I mentioned those above.
What is it, in summary?:
Quantum Break is a video game about time travel, and by extension, about tragedy and futility and choice and love. I have been obsessed with it since it came out in 2016, and it pretty much rewrote my DNA. The actual elevator pitch for it is that it's a story-driven single-player third-person shooter in which you have cool time powers and you can (to a degree) change how the story plays out by making different choices. But that doesn't really explain what's good about it, I think.
What do you love about it?:
The characters are all terrible people. I mean, not really- I think all of them are genuinely doing their best and think they're doing what's right- but they all make shitty choices (sometimes shittier than others, depending on how you play) and none of them can escape the mess they're in. The fact that Quantum Break's time travel operates on closed loop logic, where everything that happens will always happen and has always happened, even if you go back in time to try to change things, means that once you've seen how bad things get, there's no changing it. The end will come, no matter what you do or where in time you travel to, because it was always going to end. The drama of it all! It's so tasty. Also, the main characters are all hot. Living the bisexual dream with this game XD
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Pretty much anything featuring the protagonist, Jack Joyce, and his childhood-friend-turned-antagonist, Paul Serene. They are my OTP to end all OTPs! Well, not really, I'm a multishipper at heart, but I adore them and I'm always interested to see other people's takes on their relationship. I've been endlessly iterating on my own headcanons for them in solitude for so long that I think I've become a bit detached from canon in some places, haha.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: You can definitely just watch the shorter, "movie" style YouTube playthroughs of the game that only show the plot and cut out the gameplay stuff. The ones I linked (in the post I mention above) are around 5 hours long. If that's too much of a time investment, I can try to find you shorter ones, just shoot me a message or leave a comment or reply!
Content warnings:
Gun violence. That's the main one. It's a shooter game, so it's unavoidable. Even if you skip the gameplay sections and just watch the story stuff, there's still a scene where someone gets shot in the head. So if that stuff bothers you, this isn't the game for you.
Bonus: what are you thinking of requesting for this?:
The characters I've nominated are Jack Joyce (the protagonist), Paul Serene (the antagonist), Beth Wilder (an important character who helps Jack), and Martin Hatch (a somewhat mysterious man who works for Paul). I honestly ship all four of them with each other in any configuration, though Jack/Paul is the Classic Flavor™ to me. I'm also interested in seeing Paul/Martin (with Hatch pining after Paul, mostly, because Paul is too stressed to realize when people are flirting with him) and Paul/Beth (Homestuck Kismesis Flavor: They Kick Each Others' Asses). I'd be very open to character studies of individual characters as well, because again, I like seeing different takes on characterization than my own.
Another bonus: A link to the AO3 tag for Quantum Break, a link to my Quantum Break tag on my art tumblr, and a link to my Quantum Break tag on my personal/reblog tumblr.
yuletide comm. I nominated Quantum Break for the yuletide exchange! >:3cTitle:
Quantum Break
Media: Video Game
Approx length: Approximately 8 hours for a full playthrough on average, in my experience; it's shorter (about 5 hours) if you look up a story-only or story-focused Let's Play on YouTube. I have some recommendations for good ones in a post on my journal, here, as well as a more in-depth pitch for how good this game is, lol.
Where to find it:
You can buy the game for Xbox One via Microsoft, or anywhere else you can order games online (Amazon, Best Buy, etc). It's also available for PC on Steam and a couple of other platforms. If you want links to Let's Plays or walkthroughs, I mentioned those above.
What is it, in summary?:
Quantum Break is a video game about time travel, and by extension, about tragedy and futility and choice and love. I have been obsessed with it since it came out in 2016, and it pretty much rewrote my DNA. The actual elevator pitch for it is that it's a story-driven single-player third-person shooter in which you have cool time powers and you can (to a degree) change how the story plays out by making different choices. But that doesn't really explain what's good about it, I think.
What do you love about it?:
The characters are all terrible people. I mean, not really- I think all of them are genuinely doing their best and think they're doing what's right- but they all make shitty choices (sometimes shittier than others, depending on how you play) and none of them can escape the mess they're in. The fact that Quantum Break's time travel operates on closed loop logic, where everything that happens will always happen and has always happened, even if you go back in time to try to change things, means that once you've seen how bad things get, there's no changing it. The end will come, no matter what you do or where in time you travel to, because it was always going to end. The drama of it all! It's so tasty. Also, the main characters are all hot. Living the bisexual dream with this game XD
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Pretty much anything featuring the protagonist, Jack Joyce, and his childhood-friend-turned-antagonist, Paul Serene. They are my OTP to end all OTPs! Well, not really, I'm a multishipper at heart, but I adore them and I'm always interested to see other people's takes on their relationship. I've been endlessly iterating on my own headcanons for them in solitude for so long that I think I've become a bit detached from canon in some places, haha.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: You can definitely just watch the shorter, "movie" style YouTube playthroughs of the game that only show the plot and cut out the gameplay stuff. The ones I linked (in the post I mention above) are around 5 hours long. If that's too much of a time investment, I can try to find you shorter ones, just shoot me a message or leave a comment or reply!
Content warnings:
Gun violence. That's the main one. It's a shooter game, so it's unavoidable. Even if you skip the gameplay sections and just watch the story stuff, there's still a scene where someone gets shot in the head. So if that stuff bothers you, this isn't the game for you.
Bonus: what are you thinking of requesting for this?:
The characters I've nominated are Jack Joyce (the protagonist), Paul Serene (the antagonist), Beth Wilder (an important character who helps Jack), and Martin Hatch (a somewhat mysterious man who works for Paul). I honestly ship all four of them with each other in any configuration, though Jack/Paul is the Classic Flavor™ to me. I'm also interested in seeing Paul/Martin (with Hatch pining after Paul, mostly, because Paul is too stressed to realize when people are flirting with him) and Paul/Beth (Homestuck Kismesis Flavor: They Kick Each Others' Asses). I'd be very open to character studies of individual characters as well, because again, I like seeing different takes on characterization than my own.
Another bonus: A link to the AO3 tag for Quantum Break, a link to my Quantum Break tag on my art tumblr, and a link to my Quantum Break tag on my personal/reblog tumblr.
