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Cursed Mountain wasn't a terrible game. In fact, it was a very good game... a very good game with a broken control scheme that made me bail about two-thirds of the way in. A good game with a fatal flaw upsets me more than an outright turd, and Cursed Mountain had a lot of potential.
Touch Detective was another example of this. A genre I love, interesting characters, creative art direction... and unplayable without an FAQ.
I beat Touch Detective 100% without a FAQ. Well, not quite. There was one Bonus Quest at the end I needed help on (and I don't remember the specifics except I felt utterly cheated when I saw the solution), but I thought everything else was within reason.
I started Cursed Mountain but didn't get very far. Seemed okay.
That's odd... I found a lot of Touch Detective to be more illogical than a woman, and I'm usually good at that sort of game. Curious.
Cursed Mountain isn't bad early on. In fact, it's very good early on. The trouble comes late in the game when you absolutely MUST kill off enemies using the motion controls in order to survive. There are some motions, especially with the nunchuck, that the game has a difficult time recognizing. When you keep trying to kill accomplish the same finishing move on one ghoul over and over again while others are eating away at you, it tends to result in lots of game over screens. I'm sure I could have kept at it and finished, but I got to a point where I was just too pissed off to give a shit.
Sam & Max on Wii. What the fuckity fuck went wrong there? You have a great "mouse" in the Wiimote, a system that can handle your low-end graphics...and yet it runs at...2 frames per second? Screen freezes? I bought this damn thing because it was $20 for the whole season, and my 5-year old PC can't run it without the same issues. What slop, they could've at least TRIED to optimize it for the platform they ported it to.
And the best part? The sales will suck, Telltale will bitch about real games, or 3rd party games, not selling on Wii and their empty headed sycophant fanboys and coretards will lap that shit up.
PS - Fuck Hoshigami with a rusty knife.
Hoshigami was pure horseshit.
Shinobi.
MOVE THE CAMERA FARTHER BACK. THERE'S NO NEED FOR YOU TO BE IN MY ASSHOLE THE ENTIRE GAME SO I CANNOT SEE MY SURROUNDINGS. CAPS LOCK.
Rrrrrreally now, you're going to paint fans of a company that makes point & click adventure games as primal mass-market fistbumping archetypes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hero
Also Telltale released Strong Bad & Tales of Monkey Island on Wii, and those ran fine as far as I know. Still didn't sell for shit. So.
There is a part of me that does want to go back and get all the achievements in Sonic 2006. That same part of me also wants to drag a sharp object across my arms so I can feel again.
This is also true, but at least you're looking at the pragmatic reality (adventure games don't sell well period). And yeah, if Telltale told their fans 'Wii sucks for 3rd party' I think they'd buy it. Just like anyone looking for the scapegoat would cling onto Telltale's claim as definitive proof along with every other whiner dev/pub that can't hack it on the platform that gets quoted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bacon McShig
Not that I'm saying 'lololol that dev sucks' but lordy...pick your platforms well, and when you do, deliver it. Not this half-assed abortion Sam & Max is.
What does FML stand for?