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| 20 JUL 2005 at 11:39pm |
TeoballIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | if you haven`t warmed up to it by now i don`t think you will. nothing extraordinary that is going to change your mind is going to happen the last couple of hours
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| 20 JUL 2005 at 11:58pm |
Gameman007Space Cadet
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Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | All I can say is this and Part 2 are 2 of my favorite games of all time!! Graeat story and totally mindblowing graphics!!! I also found charcters to talk to through the full length of both games. Is there more than 1 version of the game??? Seems like we're talking about 2 entirely different games.
Happy Gaming All,
Bill
PS Is there any way for a question mark to remain a question mark, rather than the "huh" smiley
Would the oceans be deeper if there weren't any sponges?&&If the world didn't suck would we all fall off&&&&Currently playing Secret files:Tunguska, Paradise, The DaVinci Code and Dreamfall
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 12:02am |
genci88Intergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 23 MAY 2005
Status : Online | Well i played the demo of Syberia 2 and found it really good. In fact I want to finish Syberia 1 just so I can play Syberia 2 and fully undersand it. Many people say that the second one is better than the first.
ATM playing Syberia and Silent Hill 2 and Half-Life 2.&&
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 12:08am |
TeoballIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By genci88 (21 JUL 2005 12:01am)
Many people say that the second one is better than the first.
Really? most people who loved the first one i`ve talked to doesn`t really like the second one at all
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 12:15am |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
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Joined: 22 OCT 2004
Status : Online | If you hate this one because of out-of-place puzzles, a glacial pace, and a lack of interesting characters to talk to, I doubt buying number two will be a wise decision. As the above poster stated, most people seem to feel underwhelmed playing S2, because you're essentially walking through snow for most of the game, only to end in a village where nobody speaks English.
Personally, I loved them both equally, but I didn't care much for The Longest Journey, so...
[size=10][b]Games:[/b] Europa Universalis III&&[b]Music:[/b] [i]Awoo[/i] - Hidden Cameras&&[b]Series:[/b] Dexter (S1)&&[b]Movies:[/b] The Prestige (8/10) Little Miss Sunshine (5/10)&&[/size]
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 12:59am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Location: US, Texas
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Enjoying Syberia 1 & 2 requires that you embrace a game that has essentially no main antagonist and a plot that does not involve saving the world or anyone in it from impending doom. It focuses almost entirely on Hans' whimsical, lifelong obsession with mammoths and Kate's transition from a rather mousy, dependant follower being manipulated by her overbearing mother, fiance, friends, boss and predictable social expectations in general into an increasingly bolder, more independent risktaker.
Along the way, the settings become increasingly less traditional and more fantasy based too as Han's amazing train and its wonderfully dry, singularly-focused, automatonic operator Oscar transport Kate further and further away from the safety net she had always depended on. The extraordinarily good, original musical score mirrors this personal metamorphisis perfectly and the overall attention to artistic detail makes the journey a pleasure from beginning to end.
Cheers, Terry
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 1:49am |
Gameman007Space Cadet
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Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Offline | Actually I liked Part 2 better. Got even moe immersed in the story and that ending was nothing short of Amazing!!!!
Bill
Would the oceans be deeper if there weren't any sponges?&&If the world didn't suck would we all fall off&&&&Currently playing Secret files:Tunguska, Paradise, The DaVinci Code and Dreamfall
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 2:58am |
kuddlesPrivate Detective
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Joined: 22 OCT 2004
Status : Online | Oh Terry,
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you missed your true calling in Public Relations. If those two paragraphs were in a press release for the games, every journalist in video games would be intrigued to talk about it.
[size=10][b]Games:[/b] Europa Universalis III&&[b]Music:[/b] [i]Awoo[/i] - Hidden Cameras&&[b]Series:[/b] Dexter (S1)&&[b]Movies:[/b] The Prestige (8/10) Little Miss Sunshine (5/10)&&[/size]
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 3:05am |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By kuddles (21 JUL 2005 2:58am)
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you missed your true calling in Public Relations.
I think he didn't...
I forgot my sig.
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 4:25am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By kuddles (21 JUL 2005 2:58am)
Oh Terry,
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but you missed your true calling in Public Relations. If those two paragraphs were in a press release for the games, every journalist in video games would be intrigued to talk about it.
I couldn't agree more. Terry nailed it with eloquence.
Chris
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 8:50am |
Chris.Schattenjger
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Status : Online | I also found it boring, but there's something there that makes you want to carry on playing...
...not to be confused with Keira Knightley
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 10:39am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | I loved Syberia 1 despite the conversation.
I hated The Longest Journey because of the conversation.
If it's not your cup of tea - don't feel bad. We don't all need to love the same stuff.
PS Terry could sell Evil Tea and make it sound medicinal...
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 5:04pm |
trudysgardenSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 19 JUL 2005
Status : Online | I actually fell asleep at the keyboard playing Syberia, but I managed to stay awake for Syberia II. The only other time this has happened was just recently when I played Moment of Silence. :
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 5:33pm |
jalexSchattenjger
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Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I thought it was a great game and I have to admit that I
wouldn't think twice about reading a book with that type of story line but I liked this game. For me AG's are different than movies and books and I can get into almost any kind of story.
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| 21 JUL 2005 at 5:33pm |
jamarchandSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By genci88 (20 JUL 2005 10:20pm)
I have ordered Nightlong but its taking a while to come.
Oh! If you guess GK3 too much hard.....you can't imagine what is waiting for you in Nightlong. : [smiley=scared.gif]
 &&&&[move]Actually playing SHIVERS and Rhem 2[/move]&&
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| 22 JUL 2005 at 4:15am |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I didn't like the first part of Syberia, but enjoyed the second part ... maybe being from Minnesota I didn't mind the snow.
My dislike for part 1 has nothing to do with the story, or the music. It's the going back & forth through endless screens that have no interaction available whatsoever ... or the only interaction is a door to click on, only to learn there is "no need to go down there." The cell phone conversations got annoying, too.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 22 JUL 2005 at 6:05am |
JoGuild Master
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Location: AU, Qld.
Status : Offline | Well I liked both games but preferred the second one, both on the easy side but I certainly wouldn't call either boring - don't recall many people saying that they were either, still, everyone's different - thank God!
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| 22 JUL 2005 at 1:40pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Location: AU
Status : Offline | Well there were some mysteries about Syberia 1 that I really enjoyed and which were never properly addressed in Syberia 2.
For instance, why was the man brushing up on the platform at Valadilene, whistling the song that Madame Helena sang?
Why was the same man, without his disguise as a janitor, lurking outside the university of Barrockstadt ready to accost Kate as she approached the stairs?
Was his mission really to hunt down and find Hans and get his hands on a Mammoth for his employer - a fabulous wealthy and very mysterious billionaire collector of curios?
Or was he a Soviet agent, trying to find Hans after he disappeared after helping the Soviets for years in their failed rocket project. You do know that's why half of Barrockstadt university was in ruins, don't you? Hans disappeared, presumed dead, in a staged explosion designed to aid his escape from the Soviets' clutches.
And what really happened to that barge at Barrockstadt.
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| 22 JUL 2005 at 10:55pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | I liked the first Syberia better. The places you visited were more interesting. The people you met were more interesting. There were some missed opportunities puzzlewise, but on the whole it was more interesting to play through, despite the annoying phone calls.
Neither Syberia game had very good puzzles, but the ones in the second game held up the game more. I like games with logical puzzles but I don't like "puzzles" that are primarily contingent on having to carefully search around for hotspots. Particularly obnoxious was having to locate hotspots in the Youkol village where everything looked the same, grey and coated with ice. And I remember being particularly frustrated that Kate wouldn't stick a certain long sharp object up through a grate in the floor of the boat to skewer one of the bad guys.
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| 24 JUL 2005 at 3:42pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Although disruptive by nature, the cell phone calls in Syberia served an important purpose.
They were the convenient, logical device Sokal used to periodically reveal more and more of what Kate's old life back home was like.
Her mother, fiance, best friend and employer (along with social pressures in general) were all manipulating her at every turn and she lacked any real sense of personal identity or direction.
Once away from their constant influence and faced with an unusual, new set of challenges in a very strange foreign setting, she quickly came to realize that simply following orders would not get her anywhere. So she took a few risks and acted outside the box, which soon resulted in some forward motion in her mission and a better sense of independence.
Well, she liked it and soon Kate was on her way across a majestic but mysterious landscape aboard Hans' oddly-crafted train in search of him and his long-lost mythical mammoths. Within the confines of the game, that made perfect sense to me.
Cheers, Terry
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| 25 JUL 2005 at 5:51am |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | They made sense ~ there were just too many of them. :
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 25 JUL 2005 at 4:30pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Originally Posted By Susan (25 JUL 2005 5:51am)
They made sense ~ there were just too many of them. :
Yeah, I would have preferred if the information conveyed in at least half the calls was handled with nice cut scnes (like flashbacks about Kate's former life back in America) and/or other devices. But Sokal used the cell phone pretty effectively to contain costs and simplify production to do the same job. It also served to remind us just how intrusive the modern world, society, family, friends, bosses, etc. can be. In that way, it really did help to sharply contrast the highly demanding, obligation-laden environment Kate was leaving and the more remote one she was headed for.
Cheers, Terry
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| 26 JUL 2005 at 12:57am |
JohnBoyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Syberia was a very emotional game for me. When I played The Longest Journey I thought I would never encounter another game like it where I would feel every human emotion possible. Well I did, and that game was Syberia. I enjoyed the second installment also but not quite as much as the first one.
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