14th April 2004, 12:18 PM
And why not? The combat isn't exactly challenging, or complex... did you just skip that post a while back about my comments/criticisms of this game? I'd love to hear responses, but no one replied either time... not to mention how it took me three or four times saying "I got BG&E for the PC" before you listened... then when you DID hear that you skipped the rest of that post! Argh...
So here it is again. :)
In this thread what I said was this. Read past the first sentence this time!
Note -- haven't played in a few days now (okay like a week probably, but ... um, Baldur's Gate II takes up all the time I can throw at it and then some...), but I'm farther than that. Finished that factory. Now I need to somehow come up with the money to get into the slaughterhouse... I need a lot of money but have very little, don't know where it's going to come from, and got annoyed at the prospect and quit for that day. Haven't gotten back since but I will.
and this.
Oh, and does anyone ELSE here have Rayman 3?
So here it is again. :)
In this thread what I said was this. Read past the first sentence this time!
Quote: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. 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.
Note -- haven't played in a few days now (okay like a week probably, but ... um, Baldur's Gate II takes up all the time I can throw at it and then some...), but I'm farther than that. Finished that factory. Now I need to somehow come up with the money to get into the slaughterhouse... I need a lot of money but have very little, don't know where it's going to come from, and got annoyed at the prospect and quit for that day. Haven't gotten back since but I will.
and this.
Quote:Erm, back to the subject. You're right, BG&E doesn't support gamepads. Rayman III does, of course... it even supports the second analog stick as the look control! I think that's my first PC game that uses the second analog stick on my gamepad... As for BG&E, as I said a lot of the game, like the 'dungeons', don't have framerate issues; it's the overworld (sailing around in the hovercraft) and especially the city that have them. Oh the controls... it's mouse & keyboard. It works... not sure if gamepad would be better or not (obviously I can't try it) but it works... WSAD, and a bunch of other commands over there (uses Q, E, 2, 3, Shift, Spacebar, maybe another), and the mouse for look/action... the one real complaint I have is the menus. Some you navigate by spinning the mouse and some with the keyboard! It makes no sense... and when you have to use WSAD (or the arrow keys) to move in those menus you still need the mouse because Activate and Back are on the mouse buttons! Argh.
... but that's probably a stupid complaint because you CAN remap some of the controls (not the mouse axes) and have two buttons for each command so I probably could add a keyboard Activate command... I just haven't bothered.
Oh, and does anyone ELSE here have Rayman 3?