This isn't the right forum to ask for help, but if you post your progress bars I may be able to help.
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on an unconnected note I'd just like to add how much I enjoyed some of the subtle (and some not so subtle) in-jokes. looked at the towel in Sam's bag? keeping that in mind what time did the second event take place? Spoiler: |
I moved the few hint/help requests to a new thread in the Hint forum.
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Can people post their system specs along with how the game runs on their computers?
My Pentium 4 w/ 64 MB GeForce Ti4200 probably won't cut it...:( |
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I guess 77/100 is not bad. How is that magazine with AG? |
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@jamiehavok
Hannes is just talking bull. The game can't be downloaded yet. |
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Seems to me Gray Matter has seen some of the most mindbogglingly incompetent marketing practices in the history of computer games. Actually makes me a little bit angry considering the anticipation and possible sales. It's depressing. Glad the game seems to live up to expectations though.
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Honestly it's a great game. I just finished it. The graphics are fine (honestly i don't understand what's to bitch about, it's an adventure game, not Crysis), I haven't noticed any bugs, or crashes to desktop so in that aspect it's quite polished.
The game starts off a bit slow (althou i was immediately hooked and that's not an easy thing to do) but once the story starts kicking in it's great. To be honest the puzzles are easy, maybe even a bit too easy. I don't mind since i'm more story oriented, and nothing pisses me off more than being stuck for a long time. I'm not much of a puzzle gamer, so if i get stuck i use a walkthrough, but here i had no problems. I just asked on a forum for help twice and even then it was more pixel hunting then anything else (can be avoided with the use of the space key). There's also a lot of help in the game itself. Locations are lit up if you still need to do something with them and pressing the "P" key brings up the progress bar. So yeah, maybe a tad to easy. I know some people were really hyped about this game. I wasn't paying much attention so i had no expectations about the game whatsoever and i enjoyed it a lot. I have some pacing issues with the game but that's for some other discussion. I'd give the game 8/10 looking at it as a story-driven adventure game. EDIT: It could have been 2 chapters longer i just thought... for story sake... Took me 9 hours to finish and i'm not the most able person in adventure games... |
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The characters were a definite upside. But nowadays I have noticed that I often like characters that other people seem to dislike. I hate the goody-two-shoes they feed to us and I always try to remind people about Gabriel Knight and his behaviour. And Gabriel Knight is a fantastic character. Sam and Styles are both very well fleshed characters that feel real and their chemistry is great. They work so well that I chuckled several times just to one word or a tone of voice when they said something. In-jokes and jokes in general were just super. And it didn't cheapen the overall plot or mystery at all. The game wasn't a comedy. --- And seriously, Lost Horizon 87pts? The game was very average in every aspect. Only thing better than average was the overall smoothness, which is nice but hardly gamebreaking. Gray Matter or TLJ are imo 90+ games no matter how you look at them. I consider Gray Matter better than Dreamfall, Still Life or Culpa Innata which are the only adventures I've given 4,5/5 or 9/10 after 2000. (Noir and TLJ are 5/5 and 10/10 and from 1999) |
Gray Matter can be legally downloaded at
http://gamerunlimited.gamesplanet.co...r-2194-14.html Price: 39.95 euros. My first impression of the game is not altogether positive, I'm sorry to say. That contrived intro in the cheap graphic style of the now so popular casuals! And those non-descript descriptions come straight out of the adverage cookie-cutter adventure: "someone must read a lot" and "the fireplace hasn't been used in ages". The Gabriel Knight games grabbed me from the start, this one doesn't. But it's a Jane Jensen game, so I'm waiting for the story to kick in. :) |
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Ok, here my impressions of chapter 1 and most of chapter 2:
+ love the art style of the movie sequences + amazing soundtrack, and I love both vocal songs I heard so far + nice background graphics + good voice acting + interesting story + original magic system/puzzles - chapter 1 is very slow, lots of people will get turned off because of this chapter - lots of static backgrounds, need more animations to make them alive - average character animations, and Sam's walk is un-natural - subtitle box takes too much room, sometimes even blocking the characters performing important actions - delay in hotspot descriptions - Sam only runs for a few steps and then return to normal walking - magic system is a bit out there, I'm still getting used to it |
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