Let's All Hate Lucasarts Day to become Let's All Hate Lucasarts, Period?

[A Black Falcon]

*cough*LIKE ABF WHO STILL DOES NOT HAVE BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL!!!*cough*

Ahem. *someone* was not paying attention. I bought BG&E over two weeks ago! ... for PC, yeah, but I got it...

OB1 you know that so why didn't you say the truth? :(

Oh, I played it some more today. I'm over 5 hours in now. Got through the Nutripils Factory... but to get the jump thing for the boat I need 15 pearls and I have 9 and they say I should get the pearl detector but I have under 1000 money and need a whole lot...

...erm, anyway...

Rayman 3 runs just fine on my PC except for a very small number of areas that're easily ignored. BG&E? It's odd. I did turn off/down some options, but it still looks very nice... what's odd is that while many areas the framerate is fine in a few it's much lower. The city. The waterway through the city and the walking district are VERY poor framerates... while even the biggest caverns in the "dungeons" run at a much higher framerate and I barely ever notice problems in 'dungeons'... very odd...

Oh, the games themselves! Rayman 3 is a great game. It's like Rayman 2, but more... which was a great decision. I really, really loved Rayman 2 so seeing the third one be similar is great. It's still a linear, immensely fun, and not overly challenging 3d platformer... just with 'uniforms' that last a limited time and have special powers added to the mix. Great game! Get it if you liked Rayman 2... especially if you see it for $10 like I did!

As for BG&E... hmm. It's a very good game. Probably not quite the same 'constant fun' thing as Rayman, but it's supposed to be slower and more thoughtful so that isn't so bad. I like it. The game has fun action-adventuring and nice puzzles... sometimes challenging. The most interesting design decision is the death system. EXTREMELY generous. Maybe TOO generous. Oh, I like being respawned before the action I just did in the room I'm in (and with 4 health -- sometimes quite a gift!), but ... it reduces the difficulty level significantly...

Oh, and maybe I just need to get farther or do more stuff, but I wish they gave you more money. :D There are a lot of things I want to get... like more healing items AND those cool things...

Anyway, it's a very good game, but has some flaws, including simple combat, for instance, and how in the 'stealth' areas it's so simple -- run into next area/into convenient piping duct/etc and you're safe and they give up, and the story... the story's nice, but not quite as expansive and detailed/twisting as a game as this type could have used. Oh well, still fun, but it could have been better. But still, very good game.

Oh, but third party Nintendo support isn't MY fault. I have a lot of third-party titles for N64 and Cube... over half on each (third vs. published by Nintendo), for sure. :)

And I've supported Midway and Lucasarts and Acclaim... I have 1 LA, 2 Acclaim, and 2 Midway Cube titles and 2 LA and 5 Midway games for N64... of course my only EA game for either one is BAR, but that just shows that EA doesn't make a whole lot I'm interested in anymore. Eidos I don't care about. Same with ActiVision.