01-21-2006, 12:49 PM | #1 |
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80 Days Review
Thanks for the review, Rob. I'm surprised - in a nice way - by how well the game appears to have turned out, and it's a game that I'm pretty sure I'll end up playing .
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01-21-2006, 01:52 PM | #2 |
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The review is making me reconsider getting it. The original demo left me frustrated, with load times and such. The controls were horrible, and the biggest issue for me. If they were more customizeable than they were, I'd probably get it. But they're not, so unless a patch is released that allows for changing what the mouse buttons do as well (I like to use the right mouse button for "forward", and apparently I'd also want to run most of the time instead in this game because the environments are so large), I don't think I'll be trying this one anytime soon. Maybe in the distant future, though.
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Too bad this game didn't turn out to be better than it was.
Damn, what was the last game that got 4 or more stars? Adventure gaming is dead! |
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Yeah, but they're old. I'm saying there hasn't been anything good lately.
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02-07-2006, 07:01 AM | #9 |
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Fahrenheit and Myst V appeared at the tail end of last year. That's not too bad...
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Who asked you Rlacky?! Eh?! Yeah! That's what I thought. What?! What?!
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02-07-2006, 08:18 AM | #11 |
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There aren't a lot of adventures released, period, so "lately" is kind of relative. Even so, two of our last five new game reviews scored 4 or above. (I'm not doing your homework for you, though.)
As always, though, scores can sometimes be deceiving. With 80 Days, I'll point out that it was really only technical issues that prevented THIS game from scoring higher. It definitely would have scored higher if not for bugs it HAD to be graded down for. That doesn't mean the overall game experience wasn't positive, though. Rob's pretty clear that it was. |
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Have you guys ever thought about changing your review system? Not that it needs changing mind you...but...ya know!
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Yeah, we've considered having trained monkeys write them, but they're all busy playing action games. What other change did you have in mind?
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I dunno. Things like...instead of stars, you use....Murray the skulls? Like...this game gets 3 out of 5 Murrays.
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I knew monkeys would factor in there somewhere! Anyway, there's no plan to change the current system, no. I won't say we don't consider other things, because we do, but no change for the sake of change is planned.
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I wonder what this site will look like in 5 years.
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Harsh dude. I love you!
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It's true, though.
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More quality contribution from the peanut gallery! What would we do without them.
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