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tomimt - 08 March 2014 10:19 AM

Well, I managed to play through the Darkstar. What an experience. The UI and the navigation are horrible and the game kept crashing on me almost like a clockwork every half an hour. But I still went through it because it was just so damned intresting.

It’s filled with bad game design and a lot of the acting is questionable at best, but it pretty much makes it worth it by very nice design and pretty insane (or stupid depends really) plotline marinaded with metal music. It definetly is one of the more ambitious FMV games out there.

yep this is darkstar. The games development started in the 90s and it shows. Simple changes would drastically improve movement and the interface (white arrow for everything..why?? And hotspots for travel are confusing). Also theres at least one potential dead end where if you save you have to start over. Yet in spite of all that theres something genuinely intriguing about the game. They do a good job of combining exploration with a plot that turns intense. Theres actually even some optional content (exploring the enemy ship), which is quite interesting but not vital to the main game at all. It is very ambitious.. and while it misses the mark for a modern audience, it has a lot of very positive ideas. 
I know this isnt simple at all but if they had managed to add the following: wasd movement, a demo, and a release on steam, their audience wouldv been multiplied multiple times.

FMV’s seemed to reach their peek in the mid 90s when I was in my middle teens.  Perhaps due to that timing I loved the genre even the bad ones.  Both Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Dracula Unleashed are two of my favorites.  I played DU on a Sega CD by repeadly renting it from Blockbuster.  The thought of playing the DVD version of the game to get better video resolution on a big screen is very tempting.  I cant help but wonder how it would hold up.  Maybe I should buy a copy from Amazon if it is not to expensive.  As I remember Sherlock Holmes had three volumes to it.  I was never able to get my hands on the first volume.  It would be great to play that I might have to pick that up too.  Suprisingly I have never played Tex Murphey Pandora Directive or GK2 which seem to be regarded as the two best examples of the genre.  Perhaps I should start GK2 this weekend?

Texas - 11 March 2014 11:03 AM

FMV’s seemed to reach their peek in the mid 90s when I was in my middle teens.  Perhaps due to that timing I loved the genre even the bad ones.  Both Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Dracula Unleashed are two of my favorites.  I played DU on a Sega CD by repeadly renting it from Blockbuster.  The thought of playing the DVD version of the game to get better video resolution on a big screen is very tempting.  I cant help but wonder how it would hold up.  Maybe I should buy a copy from Amazon if it is not to expensive.  As I remember Sherlock Holmes had three volumes to it.  I was never able to get my hands on the first volume.  It would be great to play that I might have to pick that up too.  Suprisingly I have never played Tex Murphey Pandora Directive or GK2 which seem to be regarded as the two best examples of the genre.  Perhaps I should start GK2 this weekend?

The dracula unleashed dvd is kind of rare now and would fetch a princely sum last i know.