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Dracula 4 - The Shadow Of The Dragon
- Thread starter Jaesun
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A user named cat
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This game is okay I guess, certainly not as good as I had hoped. Obviously low budget, environmental animations look like gifs, lip syncing is lazily done and the music slightly skips/stutters whenever you do something that interrupts it. Thankfully it doesn't seem to play much though.
There's not enough world interraction and very few things you can "look" at or "describe" so it feels like playing a hidden object game with a bunch of mini-puzzles. My biggest beef with the game really. The static art certainly looks nice but you either end up clicking everywhere searching for gold or turning on derp mode which displays icons over the very few areas you can click. You seem to have a health bar too with food and meds to replinish. Not far enough yet but I believe it works almost like a timer since your character is dying.
Not much else to say. Grab a torrent if you're bored enough. Maybe it picks up further in. Certainly a dull first hour or so.
There's not enough world interraction and very few things you can "look" at or "describe" so it feels like playing a hidden object game with a bunch of mini-puzzles. My biggest beef with the game really. The static art certainly looks nice but you either end up clicking everywhere searching for gold or turning on derp mode which displays icons over the very few areas you can click. You seem to have a health bar too with food and meds to replinish. Not far enough yet but I believe it works almost like a timer since your character is dying.
Not much else to say. Grab a torrent if you're bored enough. Maybe it picks up further in. Certainly a dull first hour or so.
A user named cat
Guest
Game is getting tiresome. One tedious slide puzzle (the worst shit in adventure games) after another now with tidbits of story sprinkled in that hasn't become remotely interesting yet. Not really into Myst-likes so this isn't my cup of tea. Going to have to muster some man juices to plow ahead.
General Maxson
Arcane
Thx for the comments bro. I had some hopes for this, but now not so much... You saved me from disappointment.
A user named cat
Guest
Yeah they are the worst. I spent almost 30 minutes on one, then not even a minute later, I ran into another down inside a tomb. I couldn't believe it. Did I mention this game has a achievement trophy system and you get XP point pop-ups for each puzzle solved? This almost belongs on Big Fish Games. This shit is less of an adventure and more of a puzzle jamboree. I went back to playing some Kyrandia and couldn't be happier. I blame Jaesun for all of this.
FeelTheRads
Arcane
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I don't like Myst therefore I don't like adventure games? Come on, now.
I like story and inventory puzzles like Monkey Island rather than actual puzzle machinery and shit like in Myst. Pretty simple to understand, I would hope. Hearing this called a Myst-a-like means I lost all interest, interest I barely had anyway since I played the original and it was terrible.
It does look pretty though.
A user named cat
Guest
I'm not a big fan of Myst-like games either unless they fun puzzles or something to draw you in. This game didn't have much atmosphere or anything interesting after a few hours. All the inventory objects you pick up have much too obvious uses, so it really boiled down to playing lame mini-games. Maybe there's a confrontation with Dracula later in? Don't know, deleted it and moved on. Plenty other better adventures to play.
For a good recent Myst-like, I recommend ASA: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/asa-a-space-adventure.80342/
Also Myst is the pinnacle of adventure games to me. Most of the Myst-like are p. crappy, true (and so are most point-and-clicks), but disliking Myst itself is something I can never get behind. All LucasArts games are inferior popamoles compared to Myst, in my view, but maybe that's just me.
(Nobody can deny LA games are popamole though
Sierra games are so much better.)
Also Myst is the pinnacle of adventure games to me. Most of the Myst-like are p. crappy, true (and so are most point-and-clicks), but disliking Myst itself is something I can never get behind. All LucasArts games are inferior popamoles compared to Myst, in my view, but maybe that's just me.
(Nobody can deny LA games are popamole though
Sierra games are so much better.)A user named cat
Guest
LucasArts had better charm and quirky characters, Sierra had better everything else.
Have you played any of the previous Dracula games in this series Phantasmal?
A user named cat
Guest
No, this was my first. I was expecting something like Dark Fall and such, given the subject matter and look of the game. Just not very fun - at least up to the point that I quit - unless you have a slide puzzle fetish and barely interractive world.
FeelTheRads
Arcane
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Geez, this was fucking short. Really, really, short. Very disappointing and crappy puzzles. But Dracula 5 is "coming soon". Hurray.
^ It's true that most gaming 'journalists' are not fit to review, or write about proper adventure games.
However, it's also true that the Dracula games are pretty persistently mediocre. Not 1/10 certainly, but nothing to write home about.
However, it's also true that the Dracula games are pretty persistently mediocre. Not 1/10 certainly, but nothing to write home about.
AdventureGamers.com @AdventureGamers2m
Dracula 4 is a lifeless three-hour episode marketed as a full-fledged adventure, and deserves a biting review: http://bit.ly/14XYlfl
Ouch.
Dracula 4 is a lifeless three-hour episode marketed as a full-fledged adventure, and deserves a biting review: http://bit.ly/14XYlfl
Ouch.
Yeah, but is Portal 2 still the best adventure game ever?
Oh hey, look, the Dracula games are now available on GOG:
Dracula 1-3, $9.99
Dracula 4, $19.99
Too bad Dracula 4 doesn't sound like it's worth the price.
Dracula 1-3, $9.99
Dracula 4, $19.99
Too bad Dracula 4 doesn't sound like it's worth the price.
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Maybe not, but GOG is also saying that if you purchase Dracula 4 in the next five days, you will get the trilogy for free. That may be worthwhile for those of us that haven't played any of the series.
http://af.gog.com/news/release_dracula_4_shadow_of_the_dragon?as=1649904300
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Dracula 3 I really liked (it has it's flaws though) but the overall experience was great. Never played 1 or 2.
A user named cat
Guest
Hah, I must've gave up like right near the end then. Fucking slide puzzles, a quick way to ruin a game.
What a waste, was hoping for a new Scratches experience but I guess I'll have to wait on Asylum.
trustno1code
Prophet
If somebody had missed it, they've extended that offer... for like a month or something.
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