In what universe is 20£ for a 10+ hour p&c adventure game an absolute rip-off?
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Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse |OT| Paris in the spring
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Tizoc
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£20 is around $30 which is more than the price of the pc ver.
Acquiescence
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£12.79 with the PS+ discount included for both episodes? I'm not complaining.
Valkyria
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Just bought both episodes for 15,99. Episode 1 should already be downloaded on my Vita when i come home.
Please give us your impressions.
Triggerhappytel
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Can anyone tell me if it's possible as a KS backer to redeem that against the Vita version? If not I'll probably buy it tonight anyway. I'll get both episodes.
Well, i haven't played it very long yet, but it looks great on the Vita! The animations are sometimes awkward in the cutscenes, but i don't care. It looks and plays very good so far.
Valkyria
Banned
Well, i haven't played it very long yet, but it looks great on the Vita! The animations are sometimes awkward in the cutscenes, but i don't care. It looks and plays very good so far.
So how do you play? You use the touchscreen as the mouse or do you move the character with the analogue stick? Is the text size good enough to read them?
Controls are touchscreen only. You can swipe your finger around the screen and things you can interact with will show a blue circle when you swipe over them. You can disable the blue circles if you don't want them. To interact, you hold the finger onto it and the options will show (talk, take, use, etc.) and you simply have to touch the symbol.
The text size is perfect and you have two options. Classic text like in the older Broken Sword games and other adventure games, or a modern version. I took two screenshots to give you an impression:
classic text
modern text
Valkyria
Banned
I still see the game for 17,99 with Plus discount.
It changed on the AUS store. $3 more expensive than it was last night. And it was already more expensive than the PC version, which is why I'm pissed.
Triggerhappytel
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Maybe it was a mistake at 20%? It's been 10% here in the UK since the game went live, and since Revolution are English I'd assume at least that's correct.
EDIT - ignore my previous comment. Weirdly, there's 20% off the first episode and 10% off the second episode. But the first is £10 before discount and both are £16 before discount, so even considering this you're better buying both episodes. I think I'll do it tonight. Got nowhere to save them, but I do have a new memory card on order.
Well, everything is almost always a little bit more expensive in Europe, so comparing British pound/EU Euro prices to US dollar is always silly, they are never 1:1. IIRC BS5 is 23 on Steam, which is around 32$ or so. That's a perfectly acceptable price for a completely new adventure game.
Sir_Crocodile
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Man, I never used it but the modern ui is so incredibly ugly.
I assume it's just to help readablity on small devices?
I assume it's just to help readablity on small devices?
Haunted
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Yeah, it's nice to have the option when you play on smaller devices, but personally i prefer the classic version.
boredandlazy
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I bought it for $23.99AUS last night, it's more expensive now?
2 is 10% of 20 so i guess that 20% was a mistake.
I love how this game looks, and I love the nostalgia it brings, but yeah I agree with the reviews that Ep1's story is incredibly slow for anything to happen. I'm 29% and everytime I think something will move the plot it's back to the same old areas talking to the same old people. I know being a lower budget game they gotta keep the scale down, but that doesn't mean the pacing has to suffer.
Thanks for the infos!
Maybe i have rose tinted glasses but man classic text is millions times better than the modern one imo!
Adam Scott Aukerman
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Just downloaded a new update from steam, and fullscreen is still broken on for 16:10 displays on mac.
Valkyria
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Yeah I realised later, fool of me XDDD.
Gangxxter
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So it just works like on phones/tablets. You can't use the touchpad on the back, right?
Interesting, I was expecting some sort of direct control for the characters. Moving around the character with the thumb stick and searching for hot spots with the touchscreen. Would have been a nice combo I guess.
EDIT: How do you open the inventory with the classic UI on a touch screen? And why is there a small black border at the bottom in your screenshots?
Well I imagine that splitting the game into two episodes when it wasn't originally supposed to has a lot to do with that. I'm still debating whether I should wait for the second episode before starting or not.
Sir_Crocodile
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At this point it's probably worth waiting till Ep 2. Ep 1 doesn't do much for me as a standalone package for sure, and since they messed up their beta timings the game is still receiving patches on a regular basis
BlackLagoon
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Been playing the Vita version... The port started out feeling really solid, but some issues did crop up as I got further into it. First some visual glitches in the restorers studio, then a full on crash to OS after dance cutscene, and most recently, a really nasty slow down whenever I opened the inventory in the flower shop.
The latter one seemed related to the number of items in the inventory (quit and restore didn't help), made it hard to even interact with the game. For some reason reading the document from the priest seemed to bypass the slowdown momentarily, enabling me to get though the scene and get the inventory size down. Which was a relief, for a moment there I thought I was stuck having to wait for a patch.
The latter one seemed related to the number of items in the inventory (quit and restore didn't help), made it hard to even interact with the game. For some reason reading the document from the priest seemed to bypass the slowdown momentarily, enabling me to get though the scene and get the inventory size down. Which was a relief, for a moment there I thought I was stuck having to wait for a patch.
What about using your finger as a mouse looking for objects to interact? That's my main concern. Does it feel right or ruins all that old Point n Click feeling?
Gangxxter
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Works perfectly on phones (have been playing BS 1&2 a lot on my Galaxy S3 mini). I bet it even works better on a nice big tablet screen.
I completed Episode 1 earlier on the Vita. It was really good. I loved the story and am very much looking forward to the second part.
This is my first Broken Sword game too. I read in this thread that the previous games are coming to the PS4. That will be great
Get 1 and 2 in any platform. For me at least they're the true point n click games!
And ignore 3 and 4 plx
Gully State
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Controls are touchscreen only. You can swipe your finger around the screen and things you can interact with will show a blue circle when you swipe over them. You can disable the blue circles if you don't want them. To interact, you hold the finger onto it and the options will show (talk, take, use, etc.) and you simply have to touch the symbol.
The text size is perfect and you have two options. Classic text like in the older Broken Sword games and other adventure games, or a modern version. I took two screenshots to give you an impression:
classic text
modern text
Ok, I can't believe I completely missed this in the options menu. I was just about to write a post complaining about how distracting the text bubbles are. It's also why I thought the director's cut of BS1 looked off..
Gangxxter
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Also make sure you play with classic UI (looks way better) and with hints OFF (game options menu). If you've enabled hints, the game lets you to combine only items in your inventory, which make sense/are the solution to the current puzzle.
Gangxxter
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Is the classic UI available on Vita at all? I'm not sure. Would be awesome though. But how would you open the inventory then?
s_mirage
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Just finished part one. It was enjoyable but it should never have been split in two. IMHO it ends just as things start to get interesting and, since nothing has yet been resolved, I kind of feel as if I haven't achieved much at all. Unlike the Telltale games I've played, this isn't at all self contained as an individual episode and just feels as if it was a story abruptly cut in two. Which it is.
I'm about 25% of the way through and I think it's fantastic! Very slow paced, relaxed atmosphere, beautiful drawings, witty script and general easy-going air. My kind of game.
I was really sceptical at the beginning due to the CGI/hand-drawn mix but I wished I had supported the kickstarter now. No matter, it's good to have a real old timey (albeit less fiendish) point and clicker around. I hope this isn't the last thing Revolution do.
One of my GsOTY.
I was really sceptical at the beginning due to the CGI/hand-drawn mix but I wished I had supported the kickstarter now. No matter, it's good to have a real old timey (albeit less fiendish) point and clicker around. I hope this isn't the last thing Revolution do.
One of my GsOTY.
GillianSeed79
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I got it cheap on the Steam sale. Well, relatively cheap. Just finished part one a few minutes ago. I really liked it, but the pacing seemed kind of off. It seemed like with the other Broken Sword games that you'd be off in Spain by now. Not complaining. It was a fun 10 hours or so, but the real good stuff is going to be in part two. Anyone know what the status of this Kickstarter is? I really liked part one, but I hope it's not the case that they ran out of money with the first part or something. Also, even though I bought it on the Steam sale, it was the reduced price from the $25 version. Does that mean I'll get part two when it comes out or do I have to pay $15 for it?
Family Fry
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Part 2 will auto update into Broken Sword when the update launches, so no need to pay anything.
They didn't run out of money, but the project did balloon a bit larger than they originally thought and they simply couldn't finish it in the schedule they had planned, yet they wanted to give something to backers by the end of 2013.
Tizoc
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Slightly bummed but hope they can wrap it all up in time.
That sucks. Wasn't it planned to be released in January? I was hoping to play through both Ep1 and 2 this month. :/
But oh well, if that means more polishing, then go for it.
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