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KickStarter Broken Sword The Serpent's Curse
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kaizoku
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AFAIK it's because it would get fucking expensive due to hi-res we use nowadays. (even though the germans still do it
)Would also prefer for it to be 2D, but I'm ok with the cell shaded thing. Although I have to say some animations look a bit rough.
Dexter
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https://revolution.co.uk/news/2013/11/05/broken-sword-5-release-4th-december/
Game is apparently releasing December 4th.
Game is apparently releasing December 4th.
FeelTheRads
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I doubt their claim of each episode being a game in its own right. Probably calculated by current game lengths. Obviously trying to milk it.
At least as a backer I get both of them.
Curious how they're gonna do that beta test just a couple of weeks before release.
At least as a backer I get both of them.
Curious how they're gonna do that beta test just a couple of weeks before release.
Great Deceiver
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Game's looking pretty decent, in my opinion. I've played all of the Broken Sword games, even the shitty recent 3d ones. Will be cool to play a new one.
Played the original a long while ago, now going through Smoking Mirror on my Galaxy Tab. I like it. Though, while the game is easy most of the time, there are quite a few nonsensical puzzles. I hope they tone the difficulty right in this one.
Boleskine
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It's merely been divided into two parts, I wouldn't call it an "episodic" approach in the strictest sense.
It's "misleading" if you refuse to read anything else about the release.
m_s0
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It doesn't say in the link whether there's more coming after Ep2 or not, so that's where my confusion came from.
And since we're kind of already talking about this, I do avoid reading as much as possible about anything Kickstarter-related on purpose. Same with the Wasteland, P:E, ToN etc updates. The less I know about them the more enjoyable experience I'll have playing them, and there's lots of info I'd never want to know beforehand that's given out very casually, I find. I'm just tired of stepping into unmarked spoiler-territory. Basically, the last time I even glanced at anything related to that new Broken Sword game was at the beginning of the Kickstarter campaign.
And since we're kind of already talking about this, I do avoid reading as much as possible about anything Kickstarter-related on purpose. Same with the Wasteland, P:E, ToN etc updates. The less I know about them the more enjoyable experience I'll have playing them, and there's lots of info I'd never want to know beforehand that's given out very casually, I find. I'm just tired of stepping into unmarked spoiler-territory. Basically, the last time I even glanced at anything related to that new Broken Sword game was at the beginning of the Kickstarter campaign.
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Cheers for that!
It seems the backers won't receive their keys until the Steam version has been released.
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Steam & GOG keys now available here: http://www.revolution.co.uk/accounts/rewards
Steam & GOG keys now available here: http://www.revolution.co.uk/accounts/rewards
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It looks like people are getting their GOG keys as we speak 
Just got my GOG key as a matter of fact
Good question. One thing turning me away from getting this immediately is the fact I still haven't played BS4. If this is a sequel to the second game though, well...
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Alright so I've played an hour now.
Random collection of initial impression, I suppose:
Slightly wonky animation at times, but nothing outrageous.
Backgrounds look nice.
One hour in, solved the first "scene", but not exactly grabbed by the story yet.
Writing is decent enough.
Voice-acting is decent enough as well. Sounds like it could be the original VOs (I don't know if it is), and the other VOs sound good enough.
Inconsistent volume on the voice-overs... It was as if George yelled a few lines for no apparent reason.
I play on "classic" for whatever options could have "classic", and hints turned off. Will see how that turns out later on but initially it feels pretty good -- like a classic point & clicker.
Nicole isn't wearing her purple dress
Random collection of initial impression, I suppose:
Slightly wonky animation at times, but nothing outrageous.
Backgrounds look nice.
One hour in, solved the first "scene", but not exactly grabbed by the story yet.
Writing is decent enough.
Voice-acting is decent enough as well. Sounds like it could be the original VOs (I don't know if it is), and the other VOs sound good enough.
Inconsistent volume on the voice-overs... It was as if George yelled a few lines for no apparent reason.
I play on "classic" for whatever options could have "classic", and hints turned off. Will see how that turns out later on but initially it feels pretty good -- like a classic point & clicker.
Nicole isn't wearing her purple dress
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