PC game: Silver (Infogrames)

[OracleX]

Hello,

I was searching trought my game collection and found my Silver disks again. I was thinking that I didn't see this game mentioned here at RPGcodex.

So post your thought about the game please.

I liked the game very much in the past, however I got lots and lots of crashes that ruined it for me. I can't even get it to work now... too bad.

here are some ingame video of the gameply for the ones that don't know yhe game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkQzddATrqw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM881Agm49M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAHc8BOppF4

 

[jorgamesh]

Great game. :D
You should try the unofficial patch for Geforce (works for ATI cards too)

http://www.geocities.com/silversland/downloads.html

 

[Deleted member 7219]

I played the demo pretty much non-stop when it first came out.

Never got the game, though.

 

[Section8]

I have a copy of it somewhere I picked up at a garage sale, though I can't remember actually playing it.

 

[thesheeep]

I received it for christmas in the year it came out...

I must've been 12 years back then (it was 1999, or not?).

Still remember many scenes of it, although I never (!!) played it again, as its linearity doesn't offer anything new.
So all I can say from memory is that this game is a very good Action-Adventure (has nothing to do with RPGs, though...) with a very good story and a man that screams some weird stuff during/after the installation. Damn.. why can I remember this?..

 

[OracleX]

So all I can say from memory is that this game is a very good Action-Adventure (has nothing to do with RPGs, though...) with a very good story and a man that screams some weird stuff during/after the installation. Damn.. why can I remember this?..

yea its not a real RPG, I agree but nowadays games with a leveling up system and the possibility to use magic are easly put under the RPG genre... guess its more lika an JRPG.

 

[FrancoTAU]

It is a mixture of a Diablo clone with a heavy JRPG influence. I got it off the bargain bin years ago and thought ti was just okay. It was pretty linear from what I remember.

 

[Nedrah]

something completely unrelatedl

Congratulations on your avatar jorgamesh. I heard nothing but good things about it, so far. This might be your chance to redeem it.

 

[made]

Yea, it's a fun jRPG kind of game.

Sadly I never finished it due to some showstopping bug halfway through.

 

[musashi]

Silver game is Back

Spiral House is the creator of Silver Game. Infogrames published it. Now infogrames does not exist anymore and has been bought by ATARI.

After 8 years the site of Spiral House re-opened including a forum.
After 8 years Spiral House managed to convince ATARI to create Silver again in Nintendo DS and with some luck to proceed with the creation of Silver 2.

In that forum there are hundreds of funs that still did not forget this game. Almost all admit that even today there are no games that talk to the heart like Silver does. Many other admired the music of this game.

www.spiralhouse.co.uk/forum
You will find many screenshots of the game, savegames, Paches that play on XP, a new website created by "Sylph" about silver game including a full video guide which is also
posted in youtube.

Good Luck!!!

 

[Micmu]

It's a neat game but again, what does it have to do with "RPG Discussion"? It's really a pure 100% action/adventure, not even jRPG.

 

[Ivy Mike]

I remember playing this several years ago. As far as I remember it pretty much sucked. Easy as as a hooker on crack in the beginning up to an encounter that were nigh impossible (some form of tree-beasts or other AFAICR). Pure railroad and spiky hair didn't exactly add to the enjoyment either. Okay game for the type it was, but certainly nothing special.

 

[RAG]

Re: Silver game is Back

--Off Topic--

Infogrames published it. Now infogrames does not exist anymore and has been bought by ATARI.

This is not truth. Infogrames bought Atari and not the other way around. Infogrames used the much more recognizable brand name and logo of Atari to avoid the "hate the French" trend going on in America during the time of acquisition

 

[Relayer71]

Played the Dreamcast version.

I remember it being rather average, with an annoying design similar to Final Fantasy 7 - 2d backgrounds with polygonal characters which works ok for turn based combat bot not as well for real-time diablo style clickfests.

 

[Relayer71]

I received it for christmas in the year it came out...

I must've been 12 years back then (it was 1999, or not?).

Wow, not very strong in math are you?

 

[cardtrick]

I received it for christmas in the year it came out...

I must've been 12 years back then (it was 1999, or not?).

Wow, not very strong in math are you?

Not very strong in reading comprehension are you?

He meant he was 12 years old. Not that 1999 was 12 years ago.

 

[A user named cat]

Silver's camera is a headache and that's an understatement, trust me. Sometimes the fixed view is so zoomed out you're constantly swinging at air trying to strike enemies which resemble ants. The controls don't help either and the game itself is all around below average, forget the tiny cult following it has.

If you're going to play a jRPG knockoff (like mentioned though, really more action-adventure), then just play an actual jRPG. Many people referred it to as being Final Fantasy-like, but it's even worse than FF 8. It's just not worth bothering with.

 

[MaskedMartyr]

Re: Silver game is Back

--Off Topic--

Infogrames published it. Now infogrames does not exist anymore and has been bought by ATARI.

This is not truth. Infogrames bought Atari and not the other way around. Infogrames used the much more recognizable brand name and logo of Atari to avoid the "hate the French" trend going on in America during the time of acquisition

Sounds like they should have killed the source through buying out Vivendi instead.

 

[pkt-zer0]

Well, I thought it was a fun hack&slash type game, actually.

Also, the XP patch is a lie. The fucker won't run. I remember it was troublesome getting it to run even on slightly older hardware.

 

[Marsal]

Re: Silver game is Back

Sounds like they should have killed the source through buying out Vivendi instead.

I think Vivendi is (and was) a big ass company, with games division being just a small part (before WoW). If I recall correctly they managed to rack up losses measured in tens of billion dollars a few years ago. There were even rumors of selling Blizzard. I bet they sure are glad they didn't do that

 

[Relayer71]

I received it for christmas in the year it came out...
I must've been 12 years back then (it was 1999, or not?).

Wow, not very strong in math are you?

Not very strong in reading comprehension are you?
He meant he was 12 years old. Not that 1999 was 12 years ago.

Oops, my apologies.

 

[thesheeep]

No need for it. I laughed

 

[LittleJoe]

I played it and quite liked it.
I've never played a JRPG, maybe I should try a couple.

 

[cutterjohn]

I bought the Mac version originally, and it turned out that they did such a half-assed job programming it that it would ONLY work on ONE particular(and relatively obscure) model of the original iMac, needless to say, which I did NOT own(had a PowerMac G4/500(sawtooth) and a Powerbook).

Years later, I did end up acquiring a Windows version of the game, but never got around to playing it.