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| 8 SEP 2009 at 11:56am |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
Posts : 1093
Joined: 13 AUG 2006
Status : Online | I'm also waiting for an answer Trav. Faith the heroine has a great impact on me!
....set the controls for the heart of the sun....
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| 8 SEP 2009 at 12:18pm |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
Posts : 999
Joined: 11 MAY 2006
Status : Offline | I'll confess that I'm also curious - I've vacillated on this game a few times in the past, but never ended up sufficiently convinced to buy it.
I'll admit that I like some of what I've heard and seen of it - the visual style looks distinctive, and I like the gameplay concept, in particular the use, if I recall correctly, of a particular colour to cue the player on the appropriate path (and thus hopefully avoiding leaving the player lost for direction).
One thing that might be worth noting is that - and I ask that someone with more experience of the game than I please correct me if I'm wrong - I seem to recall that the main character, although capable of taking weapons and fighting, they can also apparently be a hindrance, and so perhaps are better used sparingly, if at all - I think that the focus is on agility, manoeuvreability and evasion.
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*ahem*
Sorry.
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| 8 SEP 2009 at 1:40pm |
SirusIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 6
Joined: 7 SEP 2009
Status : Online | I loved it alot for the 360. It had a great plot and it was written by terry Pratchett's daughter which is why I picked it up. The game play is fun to run and jump etc. If you do get motion sickness like my girlfriend who was pregnant at the time stay far far away cause you do all of the jumping and running etc in first person. I loved it and picked it up after two days of renting it from gamefly. I highly suggest picking it up. Also you can use guns but I never did I ran jumped and kicked my way through the whole game cause it fits the style of the game itself.
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| 8 SEP 2009 at 2:03pm |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
Posts : 1093
Joined: 13 AUG 2006
Status : Online | @Sirus
I didn't know that you can use guns! I thought it was just a knocking & jumping thing!
....set the controls for the heart of the sun....
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| 9 SEP 2009 at 6:39am |
StilerJourneyman
Posts : 1464
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, TN
Status : Offline | I loved it (but be aware for all the goodies and physics in the pc version you'll need a decent pc).
The game isn't long, but the experience isn't like something you'll find in any other game really. I loved it's style and storyline. The gameplay was extremely immersive with its focus on first person and making you feel like a part of the game.
You "can" use guns, but I found myself having more fun just trying to either run past enemies (if you can) or disarming thema nd tossing the guns aside.
The gameplay works sort of lilke a platformer-puzzle, if that makes sense. You basially need to figure out where to go (on the lower difficulty setting this is done via a good use of the color Red in the environment, but on the hardest it isn't).
Then once you know where to go you have to figure out how to get there.
Once you get the hang of the movement and how things work you'll find yourself running and pulling off moves quickly and you'll get right into the character and world.
It can get a little frustrating sometimes (I got stuck at one part, wondering where to go) but it's worth playing through, especially if you can get it for cheap.
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| 9 SEP 2009 at 4:53pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Joined: 4 MAY 2008
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Personally I greatly enjoyed the game. The story is indeed engaging, the graphics are lovely, and the learning curve is pretty gentle. I know you're not a big fan of action games, Traveller, but I think this one would be a fairly good one to start with: it's forgiving of error (without being insultingly so), and it's just plain fun.
While this would not apply to you, Taurnil may wish to be aware that one should disable PhysX unless one has an nVidia card. For whatever reason a hardware PhysX implementation is not autodetected, and if it's enabled the game runs much, much slower than it otherwise would on ATi hardware.
Once I finished the game, though, I didn't feel any pull to play it at a higher difficulty setting: the game is effectively the same, so there didn't seem much point to me. Considering that I finished the game in about three days' time, you may want to kep that in mind when weighing the price.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 9 SEP 2009 at 5:10pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By JKing (9 SEP 2009 4:52pm)
I know you're not a big fan of action games, Traveller, but I think this one would be a fairly good one to start with: it's forgiving of error (without being insultingly so), and it's just plain fun.
I'm not? :-? Ah, you're specifically referring to platformers, are you not, which require people to jump and swing around like monkeys... no, - I think we should qualify that i need to play these with a controller, and i've not always had a suitable working controller.
Now, I would like to know if this game will work with either my 360 controller for Windows, or with my Logitech Chillstream...
While this would not apply to you, Taurnil may wish to be aware that one should disable PhysX unless one has an nVidia card. For whatever reason a hardware PhysX implementation is not autodetected, and if it's enabled the game runs much, much slower than it otherwise would on ATi hardware.
I knew it! [smiley=rockin.gif] I knew it! [smiley=rockin.gif] I knew there would come a day where it would be an advantage to have a rocking super-duper Nvidia card... [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif] :-* :-* [smiley=cool.gif]
..eat your hearts out, my dear ATI -lovers... :-* :-*
Well, i never realized the game actually has a story, so it's good to hear that it has in fact, got a good story! Well, i'll watch the game- i have a sneaky feeling the price might go down even more, but i'll be watching it with a hawk's eye - thanks for all the input, everyone. 8-)
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| 9 SEP 2009 at 5:20pm |
JKingSchattenjger
Posts : 2349
Joined: 4 MAY 2008
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (9 SEP 2009 5:10pm)
Now, I would like to know if this game will work with either my 360 controller for Windows, or with my Logitech Chillstream...
Probably. I first played the demo on an XBox 360, and it played pretty well, anyway.
I knew it! [smiley=rockin.gif] I knew it! [smiley=rockin.gif] I knew there would come a day where it would be an advantage to have a rocking super-duper Nvidia card... [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif] :-* :-* [smiley=cool.gif]
..eat your hearts out, my dear ATI -lovers... :-* :-*
Sure, have fun installing old drivers to play KOTOR whilst all I have to do is toggle a setting in one game. :-*
Well, i never realized the game actually has a story, so it's good to hear that it has in fact, got a good story! Well, i'll watch the game- i have a sneaky feeling the price might go down even more, but i'll be watching it with a hawk's eye - thanks for all the input, everyone. 8-)
Well, the story is nothing groundbreaking, but it serves well. Good acting helped a lot.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 9 SEP 2009 at 5:27pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By JKing (9 SEP 2009 5:20pm)
Sure, have fun installing old drivers to play KOTOR whilst all I have to do is toggle a setting in one game. :-*
I sometimes really wish this website had an "evil smile" emoticon, because I really need it now, mr King.
You obviously did not read dear ChrisGer's "fix" for me, in the Jade Empire thread, which involved copying and pasting a single sentence into the .ini file.... *evil smile x 10* [smiley=angel_smiley.gif]
Which reminds me - I need to thank that dear man...
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| 9 SEP 2009 at 5:38pm |
JKingSchattenjger
Posts : 2349
Joined: 4 MAY 2008
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Simple after the fact, maybe. I'm glad to hear it wasn't such an annoying fix, however! 8-)
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 9 SEP 2009 at 5:58pm |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
Posts : 999
Joined: 11 MAY 2006
Status : Offline | All interesting - I'm glad that you've made up your mind, Traveller - for my part, I remain undecided, and probably will for some time yet, arguments or not. ^^;
Ah well, if I see it at a low-enough price, I may well get it. Or may not. One or the other. ^^;
Originally posted by TheTraveller
While this would not apply to you, Taurnil may wish to be aware that one should disable PhysX unless one has an nVidia card. For whatever reason a hardware PhysX implementation is not autodetected, and if it's enabled the game runs much, much slower than it otherwise would on ATi hardware.
I knew it! [smiley=rockin.gif] I knew it! [smiley=rockin.gif] I knew there would come a day where it would be an advantage to have a rocking super-duper Nvidia card... [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif] :-* :-* [smiley=cool.gif]
..eat your hearts out, my dear ATI -lovers... :-* :-*
*glares at her in mock anger* We will see, we will see! >
(Okay, I'm not exactly an "ATI-lover" - I just happen to have one in my laptop.)
And I will not eat my heart out. My mouth doesn't seem to reach that spot.
PS: It's not an actual evil smiley, but this is what I tend to use (or variations thereof): >: D
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*ahem*
Sorry.
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| 10 SEP 2009 at 5:54am |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
Posts : 1093
Joined: 13 AUG 2006
Status : Online | Originally Posted By JKing (9 SEP 2009 4:52pm)
While this would not apply to you, Taurnil may wish to be aware that one should disable PhysX unless one has an nVidia card. For whatever reason a hardware PhysX implementation is not autodetected, and if it's enabled the game runs much, much slower than it otherwise would on ATi hardware.
Thanks for the tip! [smiley=thumbup.gif]
....set the controls for the heart of the sun....
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| 10 SEP 2009 at 6:43am |
CrisGerSchattenjger
Posts : 2539
Joined: 28 APR 2007
Location: US
Status : Offline | i had a buddy who played Mirrors Edge and from what i heard i wont be playing it, ...
but as Traveller says correctly, no need to backdate drivers for KoTOR da fix is in 8-)
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