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| 6 AUG 2010 at 7:12pm |
| Deleted User | Thanks Steve, they sure did. Hopefully I will come across some other reviews (JA?) of a more positive nature, or at the very least wait for the price to bottom out. :-/
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| 6 AUG 2010 at 7:59pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I didn't think I'd see it, but I have to give GameSpot a thumbs up for an excellent review. Yeah, I know he ripped into the game, but he ripped into the game for being disappointing - not because it was an adventure game.
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| 6 AUG 2010 at 8:06pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | /me feels a bit deflated now... :'(
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 7 AUG 2010 at 1:00am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Here are some user reviews of Alter Ego at amazon.de
put through the Google translator --> ***User reviews of Alter Ego***.
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| 9 AUG 2010 at 3:50am |
Joe_MolotovSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | As much as I hate to agree with Gamespot, Alter Ego was fairly putrid and his complaints were all right on.
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| 9 AUG 2010 at 9:09pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | According to Protection ID, the Viva Media version of Alter Ego uses SecuROM 7.42.0001
So if anyone has trouble getting it to run, that's probably why.
After fooling with it a while, I'm giving up. Starting the game goes to a black screen and stays there forever. I have to Control-Alt-Delete and reboot to get out of it.
Since there are no cracks for the Viva Media version, the only way I could play the game would be by downloading the warez. Since it's apparently a crap game anyway, I'm not going to bother.
If anyone wants to tinker with it, you can have it for the cost of postage.
The system requirements sound very low and even an old computer can meet them easily. But they don't warn you it contains SecuROM when you buy it.
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| 10 AUG 2010 at 3:12am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (9 AUG 2010 9:09pm)
According to Protection ID, the Viva Media version of Alter Ego uses SecuROM 7.42.0001
So if anyone has trouble getting it to run, that's probably why.
After fooling with it a while, I'm giving up. Starting the game goes to a black screen and stays there forever. I have to Control-Alt-Delete and reboot to get out of it.
Since there are no cracks for the Viva Media version, the only way I could play the game would be by downloading the warez. Since it's apparently a crap game anyway, I'm not going to bother.
If anyone wants to tinker with it, you can have it for the cost of postage.
The system requirements sound very low and even an old computer can meet them easily. But they don't warn you it contains SecuROM when you buy it.
If no one else replies Jenny, I'll take it off your hands.
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| 10 AUG 2010 at 3:35am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (10 AUG 2010 3:12am)
If no one else replies Jenny, I'll take it off your hands.
You got nosed out by one person, Inland.
It would have been interesting to see if you could have gotten it working.
I tried everything I could think of.
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| 10 AUG 2010 at 3:38am |
AlienBZJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (10 AUG 2010 3:12am)
If no one else replies Jenny, I'll take it off your hands.
Oh, Inland, I'm sorry to say, I just offered at GB to take it off her hands - perhaps you and I can put our brains together and get this running on either my old Dell PC or the new PC I'm hoping to build once I get finished with the practice PC, ok?
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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| 10 AUG 2010 at 3:32pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Not to worry - if it's as big a stinger as I'm hearing, the full price will drop to $5.00 in no time.
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| 12 AUG 2010 at 4:58pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I've been looking for that post by Karla, from a while ago, that points to the trailer, but I cannot seem to find it. Could anybody be so kind to point me to it?
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 12 AUG 2010 at 6:38pm |
| Deleted User | Sorry no, I can't. :-X
You can still watch the trailer though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNsa67BXxU&feature=fvw
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| 12 AUG 2010 at 7:48pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Hmm, see, I told you it would be better if Karla did those posts here in the adventure discussion section rather.
Wherever she is doing them, they seem to disappear pretty quickly to wherever it is that lost posts go.. :-/ :
Thanks for the link, CB. :-*
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 12 AUG 2010 at 11:04pm |
HellSpawnSpace Cadet
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (6 AUG 2010 8:06pm)
/me feels a bit deflated now... :'(
I can inflate you if you like.
I fear no evil for I am fear incarnate!
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