If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the
FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to
register or
login before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
| 2 SEP 2006 at 8:07am |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | at nearly 600Mb that is some demo size.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
|
| 2 SEP 2006 at 8:22am |
RobDSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 382
Joined: 30 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Haven't finished it yet, but it looks outstanding. No budget title here. Excellent graphics, voice acting,
character animation, and background sounds, a good meaty story, and no pixel hunting! (you can click
an icon to reveal all hotspots and exits)
|
| 2 SEP 2006 at 11:34am |
RecklessJourneyman
Posts : 962
Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Certainly looks damn good - it's only £16.99 from Amazon UK which is very cheap - assuming your not in the US and expect all games to be $20
[url=http://leisuresuitlarry.dyndns.org/]Leisure Suit Larry Archive Site[/url]&&[url=http://www.adamhearn.co.uk]Hearn Garage[/url]
|
| 2 SEP 2006 at 3:16pm |
KsandraSchattenjger
Posts : 2459
Joined: 2 APR 2003
Status : Online | Just tried it to see how it compared with the German demo. Ye gods, but Nina's voice was annoying (the others aren't so bad, though).
|
| 2 SEP 2006 at 3:17pm |
sg7Sorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 213
Joined: 8 JUN 2004
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Just finished the demo ,brilliant much better than bs4 demo ,now have it on pre-order ,roll on the 8th Sept UK ) also noticed Amazon has runaway2 and barrow hill so there on pre order as well
Playing ME3-Citadel ,TOMB raider ,Skyrim Dragonborn
Waiting fot journey down episode 2 ,Dragon AGE 3
|
| 3 SEP 2006 at 12:10am |
friedmonkySpace Cadet
Posts : 178
Joined: 10 APR 2005
Status : Offline | Here is another site to download the English demo from.
http://www.3dgamers.com/news/more/1096485754/
*edit - Filefront has it now also.
http://files.filefront.com/SecretFilesTunguska+Demo/;5467734;;/fileinfo.html
Rusty
|
| 3 SEP 2006 at 9:30am |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | That was oodles of fun.
Best demo i've played in a while. Roll in Friday (UK release supposed to be 8th September)
Shame about what you did to the poor Cat. [smiley=lol.gif]
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
|
| 3 SEP 2006 at 9:59am |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Ditto. I liked it. Lots to do, great graphics, story seems pretty mysterious, etc. I tried the German demo and boy was I off on translations... After playing the English one there was lots of forehead slapping as I realized what I was supposed to do as opposed to what I thought I was supposed to do because of bad translating.
|
| 3 SEP 2006 at 11:12pm |
BazzaLBPrivate Detective
Posts : 512
Joined: 27 AUG 2005
Location: AU
Status : Offline | This looks promising.
It was crashing upon startup until I disabled ATITrayTools (Obviously not compatible) and I have to run Software Cursor or else there is a thick black horizontal band that follows the cursor position.
This game looks good even when full screen is upscaled on a 1600x1200 LCD monitor.
|
| 3 SEP 2006 at 11:59pm |
Melanie68Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 83
Joined: 20 JUL 2006
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Lucien21 (3 SEP 2006 9:29am)
That was oodles of fun.
Best demo i've played in a while. Roll in Friday (UK release supposed to be 8th September)
I was perusing the web and on Amazon.com they have preorder deliveries going out on Sept. 4 and I looked on the Best Buy site to see if it was in their stores and they had a date of Oct. 4!! :-? I checked a couple of stores today (Sunday) for grins and none of them had it.
Shame about what you did to the poor Cat. [smiley=lol.gif]
At least they were kinder to the cat than the game developers were to the rat in NiBiRu.
What I resist, persists and speaks louder than I know.
|
| 4 SEP 2006 at 12:41am |
slydosIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 39
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | As the game has been released on September 1st in Germany, we've already published our
review on this fine game and now can provide the English translation of it here:
http://www.adventure-archiv.com/g/tunguskareviewe.htm
Adventure-Archiv&&http://www.adventure-archiv.com
|
| 4 SEP 2006 at 1:57am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By slydos (4 SEP 2006 12:41am)
As the game has been released on September 1st in Germany, we've already published our
review on this fine game and now can provide the English translation of it here:
http://www.adventure-archiv.com/g/tunguskareviewe.htm
I've played the demo, read previews and reviews, read the Tunguska threads at several forums. Everone is so excited, everyone praises the game skyhigh. It may be just me, but I don't understand why. Sure, the graphics are absolutely gorgeous and the cut scenes were terrific. On the other hand, the voiceacting was in my opinion average. Not bad, not at all. But nothing outstanding either. The dialogues were a bit bland. The demo was too linear for my taste. Example: [spoiler midtext]I had to go back and read the plan of the museum or whatever it was *again* before I could turn the music down. The puzzles... well, some of them felt contrived. I did things because I could, not because I understood what I was doing. I blame the linearity of the game. [spoiler midtext]Hey, there's a cat. Let's feed it. Now what... Let's try something... Is there really anyone who *figured out beforehand* that adding salt would make the cat thirsty enough to go inside and drink water?
|
| 4 SEP 2006 at 3:11pm |
qriousPrivate Detective
Posts : 524
Joined: 8 AUG 2003
Status : Offline | name a 3rd person point n click pure adventure game demo you liked better in the last years
[b][size=19][url]www.adventureadvocate.gr[/url][/size][/b]&&[b][size=10]The biggest adventure source in Greece[/size][/b]
|
| 4 SEP 2006 at 4:54pm |
KsandraSchattenjger
Posts : 2459
Joined: 2 APR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Betje (4 SEP 2006 1:56am)
The demo was too linear for my taste. Example: [spoiler midtext]I had to go back and read the plan of the museum or whatever it was *again* before I could turn the music down.
Hmm, I didn't have that problem. Sounds like a bug to me.
The puzzles... well, some of them felt contrived. I did things because I could, not because I understood what I was doing. I blame the linearity of the game. [spoiler midtext]Hey, there's a cat. Let's feed it. Now what... Let's try something... Is there really anyone who *figured out beforehand* that adding salt would make the cat thirsty enough to go inside and drink water?
I agree with you on the cat puzzle, but I thought most of the others were pretty good. I like puzzles that actually make you think a bit, as opposed to the stuff that passes for 'puzzles' in many recent adventures ("Oh look, here's a Big Red Key. I wonder if it opens that Big Red Door a couple of feet away?"
|
| 4 SEP 2006 at 7:31pm |
slydosIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 39
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Hi Betje!
Looks like you don't know that it's incumbent on every ambitious German adventure game developer
to at least once in his life cause a greater deal of discussion with a puzzle containing salt and a cat?
Adventure-Archiv&&http://www.adventure-archiv.com
|
| 4 SEP 2006 at 8:52pm |
PoyntenklikSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 201
Joined: 25 AUG 2005
Status : Online | I really enjoyed that demo. It was a bit easy though. I presume/hope there will be more challenging puzzles in the full game. I wish they had put a tick instead of a red cross when you correctly combine something, just because the cross looks like you did something wrong. As it stands, I'd put broken sword 4 in a slightly more difficult puzzle category. Not by much though.
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 3:37am |
KAPIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 64
Joined: 25 AUG 2004
Status : Online | Can't say I was impressed really. The demo looked good but the dialog was TERRIBLE! I understand it was not originally an English title but...damn.... Gotta agree with Ksandra as well. Very linear demo and the contrived puzzles were not encouraging in the least. Really the only possitive thing I can say about it was the cutscenes and the visual production values....Music was good too I guess. Maybe I will play the full version but as of now...I am gonna move this down the list a bit. :-/
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 3:42am |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | I liked it.
I thought the puzzles were nicely structured to ease players into the game and keep things moving. The last thing you want in a demo is for people to get stuck early on and give up. Story seemed interesting with enough hooks to make you want to continue. Productions values were high, as expected.
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 9:12am |
KsandraSchattenjger
Posts : 2459
Joined: 2 APR 2003
Status : Online | Here's an English review at Adventure-Archiv.
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 12:43pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By qrious (4 SEP 2006 3:11pm)
name a 3rd person point n click pure adventure game demo you liked better in the last years
I liked Al Emmo very much.
Demos aren't everything. I'd pre-ordered Moments of Silence and regretted it when I played the depressing demo (the one in the prison). Huuuu! But then the game arrived and I loved it. It's in my top 40. The Dark Fall demo didn't do justice to the game, although I can't pinpoint why. Atmosphere probably.
I'm definitely interested enough in Tunguska to buy it. I'm just not as excited about it as most other people. Especially at AG. It's a mystery to me, really. They beat the Al Emmo demo to death. :
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 12:45pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Ksandra (5 SEP 2006 9:12am)
Here's an English review at Adventure-Archiv.
Heh. That's the link Slydos posted. She's behind the Adventure-Archiv. 8-) Great site, always up-to-date too, I visit it often.
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 12:53pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By slydos (4 SEP 2006 7:31pm)
Hi Betje!
Looks like you don't know that it's incumbent on every ambitious German adventure game developer
to at least once in his life cause a greater deal of discussion with a puzzle containing salt and a cat?
It did remind me of the infamous cat puzzle in Gabriel Knight, yes.
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 1:04pm |
IviniaGuild Master
Posts : 4459
Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Betje (5 SEP 2006 12:43pm)
I'm definitely interested enough in Tunguska to buy it.
Betje, I kind of assumed that you were an avid collector of AGs and pretty much tried to get every one that you could. o you ever pass on any? (No, I'm trying to be funny here.)
|
| 5 SEP 2006 at 1:27pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Ivinia (5 SEP 2006 1:03pm)
Originally Posted By Betje (5 SEP 2006 12:43pm)
I'm definitely interested enough in Tunguska to buy it.
Betje, I kind of assumed that you were an avid collector of AGs and pretty much tried to get every one that you could. Do you ever pass on any? (No, I'm trying to be funny here.)
Eh... not quite sure what you mean. I don't want every single adventure that has ever been made. There's a lot of crap out there.
Currently I own 226 adventures, including about 70-75 unplayed oldies. : That's a lot to catch up with, but I'm getting there, slowly. No need to hurry with the good ones.
This year I've played Stupid Invaders, The Dig, Midnight Stranger (an obscure Interactive Movie hybrid, I bet you've never heard of it), Space Bar (not finished yet), Gene Machine, Curse of Monkey Island (the only one of the MI series I hadn't played), Discworld Noir.
Plus the more recent ones Nibiru, Keepsake, Barrow Hill. Started on 3 Skulls of the Toltecs.
Plan to play Al Emmo, Tunguska, Phoenix Wright and finish Mission Critical (technical problems) and Connections.
Not sure what you mean about "passing on any" either. : I've been doing giveaways for years at all the forums I frequent as the spirit moved me. But I'm through with giveaways, I'll never do another one.
|
