| 12 MAR 2008 at 1:17am |
Pirate NeilsouthIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Bought it with a USA proxy and had to give location Non us , Country Canada...
Oh well
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| 12 MAR 2008 at 4:36am |
darklingroomIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | The Lost Crown will make it to UK shelves. Being the author, I would like nothing more than to go to a shop and see the game on an actual shelf. Obviously, nothing can happen all at the same time, so I guess patience is a virtue. As a fellow adventure lover, I can happily say that we seem to have more adventures on the shelves than ever (even here in small old Blighty), so hold tight...
Jonathan Boakes
[url=http://www.darklingroom.co.uk]Darkling Room[/url]
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| 12 MAR 2008 at 9:24am |
Pirate NeilsouthIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By darklingroom (12 MAR 2008 4:35am)
The Lost Crown will make it to UK shelves. Being the author, I would like nothing more than to go to a shop and see the game on an actual shelf. Obviously, nothing can happen all at the same time, so I guess patience is a virtue. As a fellow adventure lover, I can happily say that we seem to have more adventures on the shelves than ever (even here in small old Blighty), so hold tight...
Jonathan Boakes
Can you tell me why they have refused the digital download for people outside the us? , does seem a really bad idea... I know atleast 5 people that wanted to buy it but can't , £15 each thats still money lost. By the time it does come out in uk stores most people would've forgot about it and now that its out on piracy > its even more lost sales.
Someone made a really bad descision and nobody has replied to my emails !
On a positive note it's well worth the money and please make more scary ghostly games
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| 12 MAR 2008 at 12:27pm |
KsandraSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Jonathan, I was confused by this as well. It seems bizarre that a game developed in the UK by a British company is being released in the US first. Do you have any idea when it will be made available over here?
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| 12 MAR 2008 at 2:27pm |
Pirate NeilsouthIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Or atleast tell Got Game Entertainment to stop being knob ends and sell this UK game outside the usa as a digital download... Its a brilliant game being let down by bad sale management >
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 2:47am |
PushPullToolIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I read the Just Adventure review, so I got this game, played for two hours, and OMG, I'm so disappointed. :-/
Now I see, the Just Adventure review is a bunch of over-excited nonsense. The game is really, so cheesy, it's like Plan 9 from Outer Space of adventure games. It's good though, for a laugh. One gem: (upon entering a dark cave) "It's too dark to see, with my own eyes.".
I'm far from finishing it, but from what I've seen so far, comparing it with the likes of Gabriel Knight is just laughable.
I'm really sorry Boakes, there are some good things, like in the visual presentation.
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 5:32pm |
| Deleted User | Just what I didn't want to hear PushPullTool. Looks like I'll have to do more homework on this title when the time comes.
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 9:21pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Sorry you aren't liking the game but I am trying not to laugh here. The "It's too dark to see, with my own eyes." was a clue. I picked up on it pretty quick because it sounded odd.
The first part of the game starts off a bit slow giving you the chance to explore. Once you get your ghost hunting tools things start to really pick up. Considering you've only played 2 hours of a 30+ hour game I think some of your comments are a bit premature. You haven't gotten to learn about the history of the place or learn about the various backgrounds that have all been fleshed out - something Jane Jensen is well known for. The review never compared the entire game to Gabriel Knight, so I don't know how you can make that stretch.
Thus far the majority of people who are playing the game are REALLY liking it with several calling it a masterpiece and the best game they've played in years.
Here's another review: http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=924115
..and here is quite a bit of positive player feedback: http://www.gameboomers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=290709&fpart=1
On another gameranking site (while the vote counts are still low because it's a new game), 70% have rated it in the Great/Superb/Perfect range. A full 20% have ranked it as "other" with 10% rating it abysmal. Those are most likely players such as yourself who have only played a very limited portion, got bored and quit.
Perhaps you were a bit over-excited to make your first post on JA an overly negative one?
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 10:11pm |
WimliGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By PushPullTool (13 MAR 2008 2:46am)
The game is really, so cheesy, it's like Plan 9 from Outer Space of adventure games.
Hm, I actually liked that movie a lot, so I guess this game's right up my alley! I'd actually love to see a cheesy horror game go in production, there aren't enough of those around. 8-)
Seriously though, I'm still looking forward to playing The Lost Crown. I loved Dark Fall, and this one looks to have the same qualities and more. Of course I could be wrong. Sorry you didn't like the game PushPullTool! Then again, some negative reviews, helps to temper my high expectations.
Now stop reviewing games Ivinia, I want me some Pieces of Eight and a Raven's Hollow!
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 10:55pm |
AndromusGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (13 MAR 2008 10:11pm)
Now stop reviewing games Ivinia, I want me some Pieces of Eight and a Raven's Hollow!
Heh, I've been thinking something similar. So I'll just second that!
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| 14 MAR 2008 at 12:56am |
Pirate NeilsouthIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Can the developer please add this!
There is one thing i wanted added to this game , the ability to SKIP text. Nothing worse than accidently clicking what i've already read and going through it all again. I speed read so
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 4:26pm |
mjowIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Pirate Neilsouth - why not just buy the game from the Just Adventure shop here http://www.justadventure.com/BuyGamesJA.shtm I had my copy on pre-order with them and it was with me in the UK 5 days after release, that's faster than some UK sellers/Royal Mail will get games to you over here!
Personally I am loving the game right now after a rather slow start. The story has plenty of depth, graphics are largely superb, music is suitably sinister, plenty of characters to engage with and the puzzles are pitched just about right.
The only negatives for me would be the lack of ability to skip the text as mentioned above. Some of the character movement is a little odd in places and Nigel seems to glide across the ground (ghost-like) in some places rather than having a proper walking motion. The conversations can be rather childish and stilted at times also. A lot of adults play these games and not all teens are dimwits either so it would be nice to have something more than the primary school level conversations we are frequently offered in this game.
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 7:22pm |
PushPullToolIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | You know, mjow, I find that incredibly offensive. People in primary school are not dimwits either, me and my friends there never spoke so crappily and cheesy as in this game, and we wrote some wonderful things. Our talk was often lighthearted, funny, spirited and creative, the dialogue in The Lost Crown has none of these qualities.
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 8:02pm |
xxaxIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By PushPullTool (15 MAR 2008 7:22pm)
You know, mjow, I find that incredibly offensive. People in primary school are not dimwits either, me and my friends there never spoke so crappily and cheesy as in this game, and we wrote some wonderful things. Our talk was often lighthearted, funny, spirited and creative, the dialogue in The Lost Crown has none of these qualities.
What the hell are you on about?
I was a bit disappointed at first, but now the story has gotten the best of me. I must say the character animation is terrible (walking, Nanny's dog, the cats) and the voice acting can be horrible at times. The same phrases in some places are also starting to piss me off. WHY CAN'T I CHANGE VOLUME? Ambient noises are too loud in someplaces, can't even hear what Nigel is saying... Also maybe some kind of quick travel via map? I hate walking from the museum to the fens...
But the story is getting really interesting, puzzles are just right (most of them) so i'm happy. But i don't think it's the best adventure game ever...
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 8:32pm |
PushPullToolIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By xxax (15 MAR 2008 8:01pm)
What the hell are you on about?
I'm saying what I mean, it was a reply to what mjew said. Unlike some people, I don't think of children in an unfair and negative way. That "primary school" comment was unfair to children in primary schools, and what they're capable of.
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 8:58pm |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Wimli (13 MAR 2008 10:11pm)
Originally Posted By PushPullTool (13 MAR 2008 2:46am)
The game is really, so cheesy, it's like Plan 9 from Outer Space of adventure games.
Hm, I actually liked that movie a lot, so I guess this game's right up my alley! I'd actually love to see a cheesy horror game go in production, there aren't enough of those around. 8-)
Seriously though, I'm still looking forward to playing The Lost Crown. I loved Dark Fall, and this one looks to have the same qualities and more. Of course I could be wrong. Sorry you didn't like the game PushPullTool! Then again, some negative reviews, helps to temper my high expectations.
Now stop reviewing games Ivinia, I want me some Pieces of Eight and a Raven's Hollow!
I liked that movie too. I thought it had a great story. It was just the props and acting that kind of brought it down.
Sometime people can't enjoy the good parts of a game or movie and overlook the other things that might not be perfect. I am still planing on buying this game as I liked all his others.
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 9:33pm |
mjowIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By PushPullTool (15 MAR 2008 8:32pm)
Originally Posted By xxax (15 MAR 2008 8:01pm)
What the hell are you on about?
I'm saying what I mean, it was a reply to what mjew said. Unlike some people, I don't think of children in an unfair and negative way. That "primary school" comment was unfair to children in primary schools, and what they're capable of.
Well, whatever the hell you are on about, you have completely supported my argument, so I quite like you
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 9:55pm |
PushPullToolIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By mjow (15 MAR 2008 9:33pm)
Originally Posted By PushPullTool (15 MAR 2008 8:32pm)
Originally Posted By xxax (15 MAR 2008 8:01pm)
What the hell are you on about?
I'm saying what I mean, it was a reply to what mjew said. Unlike some people, I don't think of children in an unfair and negative way. That "primary school" comment was unfair to children in primary schools, and what they're capable of.
Well, whatever the hell you are on about, you have completely supported my argument, so I quite like you
Heh, I know that I did.
BTW, in my country, primary schools are for children 6-12, I read now that in USA it's very different, so there...
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| 16 MAR 2008 at 1:55am |
xxaxIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Ok i just finished the game and am a bit pissed at the ending...
ENDGAME SPOILERS!
[spoiler midtext]1. Just what exactly was the Akers' "dark work"? All throughout the game we get glimpses that these were bad guys, but why did the do what they did? To me it seem they were actually protecting the crown?
2. What relationship was there between Gruel and the Akers ?(It just seemed like his guilt in the catnapping was random and out of the blue. To be honest, I'm not sure he really was the catnapper. I know they said he was caught red-handed, but is it a FACT he's the catnapper/killer? 3. What about the vicar in the church who says the man in the picture is his ancestor? 4. Who the hell is Hadden? Please don't tell me its a setup for a sequel.
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| 16 MAR 2008 at 3:03am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By PushPullTool (15 MAR 2008 9:55pm)
Heh, I know that I did.
BTW, in my country, primary schools are for children 6-12, I read now that in USA it's very different, so there...
From your totally unnecessary reply to the author of the game and your other responses, I think you just get a kick out of being a smart ass which along with calling an adult by their last name & using terms like 'cheesy' are typical of the elementary school age group. Write an accurate review after playing the whole game rather than a crappy review after only 2 hours.
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 17 MAR 2008 at 4:01pm |
jalexSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SirDave (16 MAR 2008 3:02am)
Originally Posted By PushPullTool (15 MAR 2008 9:55pm)
Heh, I know that I did.
BTW, in my country, primary schools are for children 6-12, I read now that in USA it's very different, so there...
From your totally unnecessary reply to the author of the game and your other responses, I think you just get a kick out of being a smart ass which along with calling an adult by their last name & using terms like 'cheesy' are typical of the elementary school age group. Write an accurate review after playing the whole game rather than a crappy review after only 2 hours.
I agree with SirDave
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| 18 MAR 2008 at 10:09pm |
sgrondoIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Hi! I'm just arrived to this forum
I played the game and finished, i liked a lot it.
There is some "enigma" too hard to solve, but the game is wondeful!
Yes, if the team had add more text to the dialogues (even more dialogues) and more enigma based on object's manipulation, the game could been INCREDIBLE!
But the game is that, and so i take (very happy) in this shape this opera, because it's already a very good game.
The only things that i dont' have well understood are the same things that xaxx have writed (hiding like a spoiler) in this page.
I have only 3 questions related to the ending and the game to ask to the author of the game:
1)Spoiler Alert there is only an ending?
2)Spoiler Alert there is the possibility to influence the events that happen the last day in the game? I want to say.... learn more about the Cat-Killer...it was really Gruel? Sometimes i have thinked seeing the pictures in the fish house to the little child with the camera that you found many times around the village. but i want to know if there is a way to investigate more to understand well the events that involve the cat's killer, even because you have the phone's number for the missing cats and it's possible to call, so maybe it's even possible to learn more about (like if this is a quest) Gruel or the true Cat's Killer. Ok maybe Gruel it's only insane but witcher/satanist/follower of the 4 brothers?This point that is the 50% of the mistery inside the town is not explained.
3)Spoiler Alert In the game there is some strange atmosphere when you walk to the town and talk with the peasant.....sometimes you found that some of they are ghosts (like the scientist and his wife) so when you stole the crown and all the people stops to talk you etc. i thinked that it's impossible that all the town know that what is happening it's your fault, for a normal people it's happened only a "normal" murder, and it's only raining....so i have thinked that maybe all of them are ghosts...i'm wrong? Maybe this point it's only a naivety of the storyline?
I'd like if the author of the game o some other people could says something about my questions, i understand that an author can't write the exhact answer to my question because there is the risk to ruin the game at other people, but i'd like to know if the points that i have "hitted" are things to be "investigate better" o if this points are only naivety of the storyline, so i could stop to consume my brain After that i've finished the game searching on internet i've founded a walkthrough (the only one) and reading it i've discovered that i've done exactly the same things. Maybe there is another way to finish the game?
Thanks for this little treasure of game man!
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| 19 MAR 2008 at 7:52pm |
CarlottaIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Ksandra (12 MAR 2008 12:27pm)
Jonathan, I was confused by this as well. It seems bizarre that a game developed in the UK by a British company is being released in the US first. Do you have any idea when it will be made available over here?
I am in the UK and also find it strange that the game isn't released here. However I buy 90% of my adventure games from the U.S anyway...There is much more available. Next spare cash I have is going straight to the just adventure store to buy this one...!
Just finished playing: Ghost in the sheet&&Playing: Agatha Christie Evil Under the Sun
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