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A little perspective anyone?

$15 dollars is about the cost of one meal.  Something I eat once and then SHIT OUT LATER.  And the people who made it didn’t spend a year of their life doing it.

I’m surprised at what people expect to pay for things today.  I think $20 for a game is more than reasonable.

Bt

I think $20 bucks for a video game that’s going to give me many hours of interactive entertainment value is not just reasonable, it’s downright cheap.  I pay more than that for a new movie on Bluray, and that’s what?  A two hour non-interactive experience plus extras (which are usually crappy gimmicks?)

I spent $10 on a latte and a pastry this afternoon at my local coffee shop.

and the sad thing is that iOS and Android users will ignore it until it hits $0.99 on a special week

wilco - 09 May 2013 05:03 PM

and the sad thing is that iOS and Android users will ignore it until it hits $0.99 on a special week

Quoted for truth!

Bt

wilco - 09 May 2013 05:03 PM

and the sad thing is that iOS and Android users will ignore it until it hits $0.99 on a special week

I believe people find the quality apps and are willing to pay for quality.

Managed to blow through the beta in a couple of hours. I only hit one real snag and it was more a matter of not knowing how to tell the game what I wanted to do than not knowing the solution to the puzzle.

It’s kind of a LSL Hard Mode. All the old puzzles are there, but there are also new ones and new complications to the old ones. Other than making death inconsequential, it doesn’t seem like they really went into it looking to smooth out the rough spots as much as just expand the game a bit. It’s pretty faithful, right down to some of the stuff that probably should have been cleaned up (like the pointless cheap deaths for merely walking off screen, and the having to wait around for certain characters to randomly appear).

The writing and voice acting are really good, though. The whole game has been re-written, and almost everything you do has a unique response, and the writing in general is very funny. For hardcore adventure fans like most people here, that’s probably going to be the bottom line. It’s just maybe not the best game for newcomers.

Frogacuda - 16 May 2013 08:31 PM

The writing and voice acting are really good, though. The whole game has been re-written, and almost everything you do has a unique response, and the writing in general is very funny. For hardcore adventure fans like most people here, that’s probably going to be the bottom line. It’s just maybe not the best game for newcomers.

You always make very good points, and I’m interested to know what you think should be improved upon in Larry 2 Reloaded after playing this one. I only took the smallest peak at the Beta (want to wait for final), since I was very curious to hear the narrator, which I was very happy with.

Anyway, I assume you think the rough puzzles should be cleaned up a bit more.

What I’d really like to see is better, smoother animation. It seems too jerky and unpolished in Larry 1 Reloaded. May have been due to limited budget. Also would like more NPC’s filling up the screens and walking around, so the world doesn’t seem so desolate. Also, a longer intro and conclusion and more cutscenes would be good.

As for the writing: excellent. There is so much great dialogue and narrator description (and I have only seen a small portion so far).

I’m surprised that they didn’t clean up some of the more archaic aspects of some of the puzzles.  Especially given the way Al Lowe AND Josh Mandel have both previously lamented that type of puzzle design in some of the old games.  Unless I’m remembering the last 10 years or so’s worth of random interviews wrong…