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| 21 SEP 2011 at 7:19pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Posts : 1312
Joined: 28 OCT 2011
Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | i'd suggest uhs-hints, they give a complete walkthrough without spoiling everything right away
http://www.uhs-hints.com/uhsweb/bsword2.php
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| 21 SEP 2011 at 10:35pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
Posts : 480
Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | hat do you need? I've completed the games. I could give you just a hint, so that you don't feel too bad.
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 22 SEP 2011 at 12:07am |
| Deleted User | First two are classic point and clickers, worthy games for most any adventure game enthusiast. Third game is action-adventure, can be a harrowing experience if you lack the ability to maintain a sense of direction as you are continuously thwarted by unexpected shifts in camera angle. The fourth game is thoroughly unmemorable (even with the blonde client) with one exception being Nico’s late advent. Sadly it killed the series as far as I’m concerned.
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| 22 SEP 2011 at 10:14am |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
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Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | I don't know, the 4th one was the first of them that I played... Seemed okay to me...
Nature's first green is gold,&&Her hardest hue to hold.&&Her early leaf's a flower;&&But only so an hour.&&Then leaf subsides to leaf.&&So Eden sank to grief,&&So dawn goes down to day.&&Nothing gold can stay.
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| 23 SEP 2011 at 2:15am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5540
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | The first Broken Sword game is in my adventure game top ten list, the second was decent but lacked the inspiration of the first, call it a minor classic. And the third...well, I liked it for its story and dialogue, but the timed sequences and crate puzzles were pretty annoying, and the rest of the puzzles were disappointingly easy. Never played the fourth, as I was put off by the reviews. I'll probably play it some day for the sake of finishing off the series.
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| 23 SEP 2011 at 8:34pm |
StilerJourneyman
Posts : 1477
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, TN
Status : Offline | Just so you know, GoG is about to be releasing the first Broken Sword for free for anyone that has a GoG account,
http://www.gog.com/en/news/help_us_achieve_6_million_downloads_milestone
so you can get the first one free soon, and the second one is on there for like 6 bucks, those are your easiest/cheapest ways to get both games.
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| 18 OCT 2011 at 11:21am |
markornikovJourneyman
Posts : 1312
Joined: 28 OCT 2011
Location: BE, Antwerp
Status : Offline | My prayers have been answered, GOG adds Broken Sword IV to its catalogue. Which means it's Win 7 compatible [smiley=bowdown.gif]
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/broken_sword_4
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| 18 OCT 2011 at 1:34pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Joined: 3 JUL 2010
Location: US
Status : Offline | Cool, they're also offering the first 3 for $2.99 until Friday.
I'll be getting #3, since I have all the others already. 8-)
OMG, I never finished #4. Is it not compatible because of stinky old Starforce? Or some other reason? I might have to get that one too, then, though it's not on the sale.
* * * 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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| 18 OCT 2011 at 4:29pm |
DonaJourneyman
Posts : 801
Joined: 19 MAR 2005
Status : Offline | Ahhh! I have BS1-3 on Steam already, but what the hell... I just got BS2 on GoG because it was my first adventure game and I love that they included original version, too. I wasn't a big fan of BS1 remaster.
As for BS4, I'd label it "for fans only". It had enough ~returning~ characters and funny lines to keep me happy, but I won't lie, it wasn't as good as the first three.
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| 18 OCT 2011 at 7:10pm |
| Deleted User | From what I've read it appears that BS4 and multi-core processors don't mix. Of course it would seem easy enough to set affinity to a single core with the bs4pc.exe in the task manager, but that of course would be too simple a solution. (sadly this seems to have no effect as the characters are all still ghostly black) Chalk up one more win for the techies at GOG, but with a $9.99 asking price there isn't much chance I would be interested in a re-play. :-/
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| 25 OCT 2011 at 5:09pm |
KatieHalIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 1
Joined: 25 OCT 2011
Status : Online | Huh. I didn't even know there was a 4th game! Of course, I've only played the first one so far. And a little bit of the second.
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| 25 OCT 2011 at 6:03pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | The 4th BS game was published in 2006 in Europe and the UK and called Angel of Death. It was published in 2007 by Dreamcatcher/Adventure Company, with the name changed to Secrets of the Ark.
I played them in order. The first one, Shadow of the Templars (named Circle of Blood in the US and published in 1996), was the best.
The second one, The Smoking Mirror (published in 1997), lacked something that the first one had, but it's hard to put my finger on it. Not a bad game though.
The third one, The Sleeping Dragon (published in 2003), was not a point-and-click, unlike the earlier BS games. It was a 3D game, obviously designed for console, with console-like controls popping up that you had to select and <Enter> instead of just clicking on something the way you did with the earlier point-and-click games. Not only did you have the fussy controls, but you had more timed sequences than in the earlier games, which could result in your having to replay parts of the game, including long stretches of non-skippable dialogue. And then you had the camera angles that were constantly shifting around -- not a good thing when you are in the midst of a timed sequence. Many gamers complained about all the 3D sokoban-like puzzles (crate puzzles) which were repeated throughout the game, but in my opinion those were among the least of the game's problems -- more like a running joke than a problem with playing. I thought the worst parts were where you had to die several times in order to figure out what to do.
The 4th one (and the last to date) was also a 3D game, but gave you a choice of keyboard or mouse controls, neither of them terribly smooth. In some parts of the game mouse worked better, in other parts of the game keyboard worked better. I didn't think the 4th game was worse than the 3rd, but neither were as good as the first 2 games, partly due to clumsy controls. Unlike the first 3 games, it was not developed solely by Revolution Software, which had had to lay off much of their staff after BS3 didn't live up to expectation. Instead Sumo Digital did most of the development. The story and characters may have suffered because of that.
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| 16 DEC 2011 at 9:19am |
DonaJourneyman
Posts : 801
Joined: 19 MAR 2005
Status : Offline | Just saw this on Broken Sword official facebook page, perhaps someone here might find it interesting:
"With the Christmas holiday fast approaching we have decided to reduce the price of ‘Broken Sword – the Smoking Mirror: Remastered’ on the iTunes AppStore (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) to just $1, £.69, €.79 for a limited period in order to encourage more people to discover the Broken Sword games.
If you know of any waivers then please let them know that they can get a bargain. Same for the all localised versions of the game including French (Les Chevaliers de Baphomet – les Boucliers de Quetzalcoatl: Remasterisé and German (Baphomets Fluch – Die Spiegel der Finsternis: Remastered)."
I played BS: Director's Cut on Nintendo DSi earlier this year, and I have to say the game looks AMAZING on small screens. Touch devices are pretty much perfect for point & click games, the NDS version was very engaging.
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| 17 DEC 2011 at 6:57pm |
RosseauIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 35
Joined: 26 JUL 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Dona
Just saw this on Broken Sword official facebook page, perhaps someone here might find it interesting:
I played BS: Director's Cut on Nintendo DSi earlier this year, and I have to say the game looks AMAZING on small screens. Touch devices are pretty much perfect for point & click games, the NDS version was very engaging.
Have to agree about the small screen thing. I got BS: Director's Cut for the PC hoping it would look a lot better than the original on a 24" 1920x1080 monitor. It didn't. Plus it felt like they'd cut a fair bit of the original story. However, the original looks great on my Android phone (via the ScummVM app).
Playing: Fahrenheit&&Reading: The Interpretation Of Murder - Jed Rubenfeld&&Watching: BBC's Life On Mars (again!)&&Listening: The Last Shadow Puppets
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| 17 DEC 2011 at 10:05pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Location: US
Status : Offline | ah good you know about ScummVM that runs Broken Sword the first one full voiced just great, that is a great game ...one of the best.
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| 18 DEC 2011 at 10:53am |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
Posts : 999
Joined: 11 MAY 2006
Status : Offline | I believe that Good Old Games includes the original version along with its Director's Cut version - if I recall correctly, having read a little about the Director's Cut, I bought it from Good Old Games and then simply downloaded the original instead of the Director's Cut.
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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| 18 DEC 2011 at 11:22pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Joined: 28 APR 2007
Location: US
Status : Offline | Steve Ince who was one of the directors and producers of BS 1 is very nice guy, he is active on some of the adventure game forums still ,and he particiapted in the directors cut, said it is good.
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| 19 DEC 2011 at 5:31am |
DonaJourneyman
Posts : 801
Joined: 19 MAR 2005
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Rosseau
Have to agree about the small screen thing. I got BS: Director's Cut for the PC hoping it would look a lot better than the original on a 24" 1920x1080 monitor. It didn't. Plus it felt like they'd cut a fair bit of the original story. However, the original looks great on my Android phone (via the ScummVM app).
It is not a big surprise, though, as the original game is locked at 640x480, it's all pixel art that looks pretty bad when blown up to higher resolution. I want to play BS2 remaster, but I'm scared of it looking terrible on my monitor (23" here). I even tweeted Charles Cecil a while ago, asking if they're releasing the remaster on NDS, but he said no Unfortunately, BS games don't run on ScummVM for NDS.
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| 20 DEC 2011 at 11:58am |
ThaumaturgeJourneyman
Posts : 999
Joined: 11 MAY 2006
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By CrisGer
Steve Ince who was one of the directors and producers of BS 1 is very nice guy, he is active on some of the adventure game forums still ,and he particiapted in the directors cut, said it is good.
I'm afraid that my memory seems a little vague on at least some of the negative comments that I've read about the Director's Cut (although I seem to recall criticism of the new section attached to the beginning, before the bombing, and, I think, of the handling of the updated graphics), but the impression that I got overall was that I was likely better off with the original version.
Perhaps I'll try the Director's Cut at some stage, but I did enjoy the original, at least. ^_^
MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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