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| 13 JAN 2010 at 10:50pm |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
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Status : Online | To tell you the truth whatever critics I've read on this game were disheartening.
....set the controls for the heart of the sun....
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| 14 JAN 2010 at 11:48pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I tried it and got disenhaertened right waay too and put it back in teh box
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| 15 JAN 2010 at 3:38pm |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
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Status : Offline | I liked this game a lot. But I don't feel like getting into a flame war over it. To each his own...
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| 15 JAN 2010 at 5:07pm |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By CrisGer (14 JAN 2010 11:48pm)
I tried it and got disenhaertened right waay too and put it back in teh box
To tell you the truth I've played this game for 1 hour (years ago) and it was so buggy that I stopped right away without further thought.
....set the controls for the heart of the sun....
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| 16 JAN 2010 at 4:59am |
| Deleted User | I bought this game almost five years ago and I agree that at least the graphics were terribly buggy when I first tried playing it. I do recall back then hearing the game being described as ‘hardware hungry.’ A few months later when I was forced to upgrade my graphics card these issues appeared to have been resolved. I would really like to side with Nik on this one as I found the game (although somewhat different in that I realize that 80 Days doesn’t really fit all that well within the definition of an adventure game) very enjoyable. I can’t help disliking the save system but driving the antique automobiles around the cities was really cool. Sadly though, at the end I wasn’t able to complete the game since Oliver was not adroit at filling the furnace in time with the game requirements. >
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| 29 JAN 2010 at 8:04am |
karlaAdministrator
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Joined: 27 JUL 2003
Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | @Nicolas:
My experience was very different from the one you had. I liked 80 Days.
For me, the voices weren't gibberish nor did they sound electronically synthesized. Also, I didn't notice any collision planes that appeared to be overextended or used inappropriately. And Oliver didn't move like a robot (could this be a vid card issue?).
Concerning music, the game I played had a lot more than one song. The only place I recall hearing "Walk Like an Egyptian" is at the end of the Cairo location.
I also think parts of the game are quite funny. For instance, I got a kick out of all of the disguises Oliver is obliged to wear. Some of them are a real hoot.
I enjoyed the different modes of transportation although I did best with the flying carpet. And as one who has no sense of direction, I greatly appreciated the mini navigation map that sits on the screen throughout the game. I loved exploring the game's four cities without having to worry about getting lost.
The repetitive appearance and dialog of NPCs didn't bother me. I experienced no technical problems.
I can't comment on difficulty levels as I played the game at the Tourist (easiest) level. This gave me time to savor the gameplay without always having to work against the clock.
Of course, I didn't like *everything* about 80 Days. For example, I didn't much care for the predetermined save points. But all-in-all, I think 80 Days is a pretty good game.
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| 30 JAN 2010 at 11:20am |
nicolasIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Well to be clear of something i loved the premice the game had.As i said before round the world in 80 days was and still is one of my favorite books and movies i have read and seen.Yet the game IS the most dissapointing game i have played.I don't say that 80 days is just a bad game.I have played thousands of games and the majority of those games were simply bad.They had a bad concept,bad ideas,bad story,bad graphics and i could go on and on.80 days was a game altogether different.It was based on an amazing premice,fantastic story,they had an existing game engine and they had made other games and thousands of fans had expressed what they should give attention to their next game based on their previous sherlock holm game shortcummings....
Having made myself of that i must stress that i always have the latest and greatest on behalf of gaming riqs.The game would run easily at 200+ fps....at max res,with modded nvidia settings to aplly 16xq antialiasing so my experience had nothing to do with system problems.After playing games like OUTCAST,Deus Ex,Omicron the nomad soul,farehnait,oblivion,Shenmue 1 and 2,Shadow of Destiny,FAble,Dreamfall,Beyond good and Evil i expect something WAY more as far as COLLITION DETECTION,ANIMATIONS,MODELS QUALITY AND MODELS VARIETY goes.....
I hope you have played some of those games and if you have you would realise that some of those are quite old as the first shenmue,omicron the nomad soul and outcast were released during the late 1999 year........
I tried to NOT mention new games and BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL,FABLE,FAREHNAIT are from 2003 with the newest game mentioned above is oblivion.
IF YOU didn't had the luck playing the above games i STRONGLY RECOMMEND you do (Shenmue can be played with an emulator and there is even an hdr plugging(There is even a hdr pluggin and dx9 renderer for deus ex !!! ) -and trust me the game still looks good after a decade !!!!!!!!!!! )
As far as sound goes i don't know what version you played of the game Carla.If you know french( i wish i did) and played the french version of the game i quess the game sounded nice.Yet the english version IS a incoprehensable synthesized mess. And about the music THE BACKGROUND MUSIC WAS A NO LYRICS VERSION OF THE WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN SONG THAT WAS HEARD ONCE IN THE END OF EGYPT.....
If you had played the above games then you wouldn't even mention to me that the music is ok....
OUTCAST had.....music by the moscow orchestra....REALLY I am not making these...!!!!!!!!!!!
Omicron the nomad soul had music by the David Bowie band......
Shenmue 1 and 2 had orchestra music....
And eus EX ,Dreamfall and especially Beyond Good and Evil had some of the most memorable electric-classical music i can think of.
The challenge levels were broken because of the above reasons of the bad collition detection ,bad scripting,bad animations etc...And as i said before there was no reason to explore or even talk with any npc's as they just looped 10 dialogs over and over
AND A FINAL NOTE....!!!
I DIND'T WANT JUST TO BASH THE GAME...
Actually if another company or even Frogware themselves put their act together and make a remake of this game (As they have made a couple of steadily better sherlock holmes sequals ) I would be more than willing to give them another chance and buy their game.Yet i could not let this game go by without expressing what i felt about it....
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| 10 AUG 2011 at 9:09pm |
Child Of DunwichPrivate Detective
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Joined: 25 MAY 2011
Status : Offline | Disturbing, at any case, how games can be awful and great at the same time...
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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