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| 26 JUL 2004 at 11:13pm |
| Deleted User | OK, I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but I am finding a trend in the JA reviews for extreme brevity and am finding them less and less useful in making a purchase decision...
One thing in that "Review" concerned me, so perhaps someone can elaborate as to what it means...
There are some very good puzzles. In fact, I was able to get two thirds through one Age before needing a walkthrough.
Is this trying to say that a good puzzle can be judged by whether or not you needed a walkthrough to solve it ???
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 3:00am |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Bazza (26 JUL 2004 11:13pm)
OK, I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but I am finding a trend in the JA reviews for extreme brevity and am finding them less and less useful in making a purchase decision...
One thing in that "Review" concerned me, so perhaps someone can elaborate as to what it means...
Is this trying to say that a good puzzle can be judged by whether or not you needed a walkthrough to solve it ???
I agree. And also I'm not sure that the following is correct: 'as of the writing of the review (July 2004) Ubisoft has released the entire Uru trilogy (Uru and both expansion packs) as a complete collection for only $20. Even with the frustrating flaws, this is an an amazing value and I recommend it to all adventure fans.'
At Best Buy and Circuit City the price of the Uru trilogy is $39.95 and the Path of the Shell as a separate package is $19.95. There was a brief sale at Best Buy of the trilogy for $34.95 but that's the lowest I've seen at stores.
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 3:10am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | I had to pay $35 Aus for Path of the Shell which came with the first free download extension and a trial version (for 60 minutes! ) of the Myst jigsaws.
The jigsaws were a primitive program with none of the features I have on my usual jigsaw game. I do them compulsively, even using my own photos.
The path of the shell is completely baffling. I have absolutely NO BLOODY IDEA what I'm supposed to do. I am dipping into the walkthrough for hints constantly. I was like this in the first extension pack too.
There are 4 or 5 new books on my bookshelf that I am supposed to read for information. Have the developers no idea how damn boring it is reading books of text about made up history and in this case, made up religion?
They have lost the plot with Uru and it's extensions. If I could I'd make them all play Riven and I'd explain to them what puzzles are ~ and how tedious reading is.
And in the first extension I won a lovely purple t-shirt - where has it gone? Why am I dressed in a hat and brown jacket like I'm going fishing? First thing I did was get changed. And why are there no dresses in my wardrobe yet? And the jewellry is pretty inadequate and the hair likewise. I wish I could give myself the same cute waist in real life as easily as I give it to my avatar.
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 3:08pm |
Bob_the_BuilderJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Caroline (27 JUL 2004 3:09am)
I had to pay $35 Aus for Path of the Shell which came with the first free download extension and a trial version (for 60 minutes! ) of the Myst jigsaws.
The jigsaws were a primitive program with none of the features I have on my usual jigsaw game. I do them compulsively, even using my own photos.
The path of the shell is completely baffling. I have absolutely NO BLOODY IDEA what I'm supposed to do. I am dipping into the walkthrough for hints constantly. I was like this in the first extension pack too.
There are 4 or 5 new books on my bookshelf that I am supposed to read for information. Have the developers no idea how damn boring it is reading books of text about made up history and in this case, made up religion?
They have lost the plot with Uru and it's extensions. If I could I'd make them all play Riven and I'd explain to them what puzzles are ~ and how tedious reading is.
And in the first extension I won a lovely purple t-shirt - where has it gone? Why am I dressed in a hat and brown jacket like I'm going fishing? First thing I did was get changed. And why are there no dresses in my wardrobe yet? And the jewellry is pretty inadequate and the hair likewise. I wish I could give myself the same cute waist in real life as easily as I give it to my avatar.
I think Caroline nailed it here, I liked Uru a lot but the expansion pack is....alright I guess. It's just a lot more confusing than Uru. Like I heard that to get farther in one part of the game, you have to knock all the crabs on the island into the water? WTF, why would you need to do that? The game still has the cool environments and graphics, but gameplay wise it's meh. I haven't played it much yet and maybe later on in the game there's monkeys with chainsaws for hands and 50 foot tall babies, but I doubt that.
And yes, it's $40 for both URU and the expansion, it's $20 for the expansion.
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 7:07pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Bazza (26 JUL 2004 11:13pm)
Quote from the review:
There are some very good puzzles. In fact, I was able to get two thirds through one Age before needing a walkthrough.
Is this trying to say that a good puzzle can be judged by whether or not you needed a walkthrough to solve it ???
I'm not sure what that means. Is he praising the difficulty of the puzzles when he says "In fact, I was able to get two thirds through one Age before needing a walkthrough" or is that "irony?" Later in the review he complains about illogical puzzles that he had no clue for, pixel-hunt-type dial settings, and a red button that he couldn't even see to push. So it's sounding an awful lot like "irony" to me.
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 8:09pm |
Jeroen StoutSchattenjger
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Status : Online | What a confusing review ??? certainly not possitive. Sounds like he wrote it whilst he was quite mad.
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 8:29pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | At least it was shorter than the rose tinted love fest that was the origional URU review.
It's significantly flawed but still got a B- ???
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 8:58pm |
JenniferMillerSorcerer Apprentice
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Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Rose tinted love fest? :-/
My review of the Xpacks is forthcoming.
Jennifer
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| 27 JUL 2004 at 10:35pm |
| Deleted User | Oh how I miss the days of the old "Zzap64!" reviews... Funny, informative and accurate.
EDIT: You'd think I'd be able to type a single line post without error, but oh no....edit edit edit
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