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It's only one review and dosen't represent all the aspects of the game.
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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Apr 2006 15:45 Post subject: |
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I don´t consider that 7.4 is a bad game. It´s just not an awesome game like we all wanted, but it can be a nice game to play. In gamespot, a 7 mark is a good game.
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Grees
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Apr 2006 16:12 Post subject: |
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Seems like it ain't gonna live up to the hype, which is too bad, but it still can be an enjoyable game and I agree, 7,4 is not a bad score at all.
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Apr 2006 17:03 Post subject: |
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I enjoyed syberia. Lets hope the review was wrong. but adventure games are so rare and when they're sequels to very good ones, the hype often doesnt correspond to the real stuff.
I just can't understand why the devs decided to introduce light action/stealth elements when the game was known for its story&puzzles goodness.
I guess another proof of submission to console kiddies...
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Apr 2006 17:24 Post subject: |
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its the 4.0 they gave the gameplay that bothers me. It could have the greatest story ever written but if it plays like shit it takes the fun away
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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Apr 2006 18:59 Post subject: |
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The release date hasn't changed. I wish game publishers could get their shit together and have a firm release date for their products--you don't see music or movie releases that say Monday when they really mean Wednesday or Thursday. Music and movies come out on Tuesdays, and every store that sells the stuff has it in stock on that day, pretty much without fail.
The IGN review was done by an xbox editor whose only previous adventure game review was Fahrenheit. At least he said that he'd played and liked TLJ, but I still take his review with a massive grain of salt.
Gamespot's review should be up soon, and it will be written by Greg Kasavin who is one of their few good reviewers in my opinion. His initial comments on his GS profile:
| GregK wrote: | I just finished Dreamfall, which ships this week. Considering the quality of the story and presentation of The Longest Journey, its predecessor, I went in with fairly high hopes. I wasn't disappointed. Last night, in fact, I had pretty much become convinced that the game was just utterly amazing. Normally when games have spoken dialogue and subtitles, I honestly tend to skip through a lot of the speech. But this game's dialogue is so good, I did something I've never done in a game before: I turned off the subtitles and just watched and listened. Dreamfall is first and foremost an amazing story. But, man, I wish it went on...
Anyway, I need to play the PC version more (looks even better on the PC but couldn't resist playing on a bigscreen TV) and still need to gather my thoughts before I commit to a review. But here's some informal advice on the side, and what I expect the review is going to boil down to: If you appreciate games for their storytelling ability, you need to play this game. It's exciting, moving, dramatic, funny, scary, touching...seriously.
And yet...damn it. Give me five more hours. |
So I'm expecting around a 9.0 or so from his review based on that. I can't see it getting a higher score than the original game (which was a 9.3), but anything 8.5 or higher should mitigate whatever damage the IGN one caused.
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X_Dror
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Apr 2006 19:21 Post subject: |
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Sounds good palegod, thanks for the info! Now i really can't wait!
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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Apr 2006 23:14 Post subject: |
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| baardhimself wrote: | | its hard to take any one of the big review sites word on adventure games, the reviewers probably sit down to each new adventure game screaming "wheres the aliens?!!? how do i shoot?!" the best reviews of adventure games come from the adventure game sites themselves, who understand how they work, although it sucks that adventure games suffer because these big sites review scores can put off the casual gamer |
Exactly my point!
The GregK comment looks promising, but at the end we all have to make our own Score. |
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 00:30 Post subject: |
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| KrutojPoc wrote: | Its 7,2 GB. Games are huge these days. Damn no space i need to delete all porn  |
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javlar
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 02:11 Post subject: |
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Never played the first one, totally missed it. Seems ok i guess but pictures such as this really gives me doubts.
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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 03:02 Post subject: |
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Greg Kasavin review is out! 8.1 Great.
That´s good!
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The gameplay is pretty light, but it does a good job of not obstructing the story. It makes sense in the context of the plot, and it's varied enough to stay interesting.
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 03:37 Post subject: |
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I'm sure it definetely dumbed down for console noobs who don't like puzzles or don't have any brains.
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 05:44 Post subject: |
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It's been so long since I played this game can someone de-brief me on the storyline of the last one?_ It's a complete blank at the moment I only remember the start bit on the beach (wasn't it) damn. I would d/l it again but it'll have me hooked again for 20 hours until I complete it >_<
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 10:19 Post subject: |
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http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/dreamfall/702029p1.html
GAMESPY gives it an incredible 5/5
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Pros
Incredible storyline; strong dialogue; phenomenal art direction; some fun mini-games; good gamepad controls.
Cons
Stealth sections; poor fighting system; clunky keyboard-and-mouse controls.
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quote of the bad things found:
"There are a few things that detract from the Dreamfall experience. First, there are the controls. With the move to a full 3D presentation, the controls have been changed to an awkward keyboard-and-mouse system that makes it difficult to properly orient the camera and use inventory items. On the bright side, all of these problems go away when using a proper control pad. Second, there's the addition of a poor fighting system that's nothing but a confused button-mashing affair, and some "stealth" sequences that are even worse than the fighting system. Fortunately, these action-adventure sequences make up a very tiny portion of the game, are mostly optional, and are usually short and easy -- only one unavoidable section in the Necropolis was frustrating, requiring a few deaths and reloads to get things right."
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 10:44 Post subject: |
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on game spot review:
"The game is of a decent length and will probably take you about 10 hours to finish the first time, but you'll feel like there was enough material left on the cutting-room floor for at least another five hours or so"
what the.. 10 hours for 7.2gb??!
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 11:02 Post subject: |
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Stop whining about those gigs, it's year 2006 and we have 500GB hdds.
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 12:11 Post subject: |
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| Glottis wrote: | | Stop whining about those gigs, it's year 2006 and we have 500GB hdds. |
i was complaing about the reported short time of completion compared to the amount of game data. Thx for reading carefully what I write, it's year 2006 and we have glasses.
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Grees
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 13:26 Post subject: |
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Same thing with Tomb Raider Legend, 8 hours of gameplay and near 8gigs of data on install.
Hopefully it wont become a trend
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 13:41 Post subject: |
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Thx,
I feared that it was a DVD9 release...
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Apr 2006 13:58 Post subject: |
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it should be cds, unless you get the funcom european release which will be dvd
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