Full Throttle Remastered first look trailer
I don't know what I expected, but I think the cleaner look that comes with redrawing is a disservice to the art style
Full Throttle Remastered first look trailer
Well I started Book of Unwritten Tales 1 and I am loving the humor at least
There was humor in the game?
The whole series was like it was made by aliens who tried and failed miserably at understanding what is funny to us, humans.
Or Germans.
I don't know what I expected, but I think the cleaner look that comes with redrawing is a disservice to the art style
There was humor in the game?
The whole series was like it was made by aliens who tried and failed miserably at understanding what is funny to us, humans.
Or Germans.
So. I've finally got to play all 5 King's Quest chapters.
I didn't like them. Actually, I hated them.
This is why I stopped buying anything from Daedelic.
Memoria is amazing.
They did release some very good games.
Also... book of unwritten tales is not Daedalic.
I wasn't a fan of Deponia, The Whispered World and one or two others. Great production values, annoying characters and writing. I must have grouped Unwritten Tales 1&2 in with their stuff because I disliked it for similar reasons.
So. I've finally got to play all 5 King's Quest chapters.
I didn't like them. Actually, I hated them.
The humour and the writing are cringeworthy; the interface is dumbed down, horrible, cumbersome and clearly designed to accomodate gamepads; there's lots of annoying walking back-and-forth for no other reason that to make the game feel longer and puzzles are terrible. Chapter 4 is especially bad. Terrible, preposterous story. Horrible dialogues. Harrowing humour. Super lazy puzzle design. It's a mess.
I don't know how I forced myself to play through them.
The art style is quite good, though.
I hated it so much, it could have been so good but it's such a gigantic wasted opportunity.
Looking great.
Zak next please? Or Monkey3
That said, maybe I should check out Memoria?
Don't start with Memoria, that's the second game in the series.
Chains of Satinav -> Memoria.
Both are good, probably the best games Daedalic made.
Logical puzzles, good story, great art, if you're okay with fantasy settings (both games use Die Schwarze Auge setting, aka German D&D) you'll love them.
Started Gemini Rue last night.. Not sure how I feel about it just yet, I'm not very far in it. The dual character story threw me off a bit though - for a very long while I thought the two characters were the same two people at different points in time..Or are they really?
This doesn't look bad at all.
Any reliable impression?
Thoughts on The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav? It's 90% off on Steam for the weekend.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/203830/#app_reviews_hash
Its sequel Memoria is 80% off as well but from what I read the predecessor should be played first.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/243200/#app_reviews_hash
Get them if you like good Adventure Games.
Don't get them if you liked Deponia and are looking for more of the same, those two have a) good story, b) decent puzzles, c) none or close to none toilet humor.
as a big Agatha Christie fan, I do enjoy it, its a huge grab bag of unofficial adaptation references.Played the first chapter of The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief last night.
I enjoyed it. It's a bit unpolished but it has a lot of charm and the characters are good so far. Looking forward to playing more.
Thoughts on The Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav? It's 90% off on Steam for the weekend.
Played the first chapter of The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief last night.
I enjoyed it. It's a bit unpolished but it has a lot of charm and the characters are good so far. Looking forward to playing more.
Played the first chapter of The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief last night.
I enjoyed it. It's a bit unpolished but it has a lot of charm and the characters are good so far. Looking forward to playing more.
Hello guys,
I participate in a small independent team struggling to see the debut title through the development and launched to the (hopefully) eager audience. Yesterday we released the first actual video of the gameplay so I finally decided to make a post here and draw everybody's attention to it.
Video is live on YouTube via following link: https://youtu.be/IcbiNvlsezI
Any thoughts, opinions and comments are greatly appreciated of course!
PS: If I break any rules by this blatant act of self advertising, please be so kind to delete this post and contact me personally. Thanks!
Looks awesome but sucks it's about 2-2.5 hours I hear. I'll wait until a sale for sure.
More about Silence.
I'll start stating (again) that I really liked The Whispered World.
And I really wanted to love this. I really, really, did. I tried to close both my eyes in front of its shortcomings.
But at some point, I couldn't anymore.
Gameplay is bad. There's no way around it. There's no inventory, just clicks on the scenes and move the mouse. It's super easy. Just click, no brain needed. No "classic" puzzles. You can even skip some puzzles by clicking a "skip" icon. In one occasion I had to choose between two roads: I chose the wrong one and a cutscene appeared showing the character choosing the other one. My imput was completely disregarded with no explanation. Dumbed down interface designed for gamepads. Why the hell are we fucking up potentially amazing adventure games so much just to accomodate them to consoles? Really pisses me off.
Every time you move from a location to another (and sometimes you have to do it quite often, repeatedly, to solve a "puzzle") there's a loading screen... and loading times are ATROCIOUS. They're WAY too long and happen WAY too often. It's exhausting. It's intolerable.
Game is quite slow. Like, annoyingly slow. You can't skip animations, and some of them (like the insect that flies on the mushroom at the beginning, or Spot that does an action that you may have to repeat many times to solve the puzzle) are kinda long and take control away from you for TOO MUCH TIME, it's extremely annoying. Which leaded to an exponential increase of the game's duration because I alt-tabbed A LOT out of sheer boredom... which only makes things worse because the game autopauses when you do it (I absolutely hate when games do this: *I* should decide when to pause). This also aggravates the already irritating issue of having a checkpoint only savegame. Because, guess what, if you quit after a cutscene you will have to see it all over again at your next load.
The good things... I love the setting. I'm really intrigued by the story. The characters are pretty interesting and fit the narrative quite well, the little girl is absolutely adorable. It's well written and the dialogues are pretty good. Artistically, I am really impressed by it. It's absolutely beautiful: the scenery is really amazing, the lovely 3D models are well designed and - astoningshly - don't feel out of place in the gorgeous 2D backgrounds (as a general rule, I still prefer 2D characters and animations, though) and the animations are smooth. It's truly a beauty to behold and it has a poetic, heartwarming quality on itself. I can't stress enough how beautiful it is.
Some characters (like Kyra and her bizarre head) do have some weird proportions, though.
The musics are also quite good. Voice acting can be extremely dull and toneless, like they're being read without understanding what's going on and going without passion, but most of the time it's okay-ish, with the little girl being the best one by far.
I love it for the story and the characters. I hate it for the gameplay.
I'm really disappointed. It could have easily been a masterpiece.