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From the belgian game magazine gunk.
83%
+ lange levensduur
+ humor
+ muziek
- ietwat verouderde graphics
- geen multiplayer opties

translated with my best english <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> :
83%
+ long life span
+ humor
+ music
- outdated graphics
- no multiplayer

outdated graphics makes a game bad???

PC gamer still gives games high ratings even with bad graphics.

and these are NICE graphics!

Review?? It isn't out yet, shouldn't that say preview. Did you notice that they didn't gave a negative point on the voice acting seems it worked out after all.

idd, there 'review' is based on a 5 minute session <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

You can't write a review on 5 minutes of play. Espaciatly when it's an RPG. The first 5 minutes of <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> I tought that it was a diablo clone. Later this was soooooo wrong of me (after the first dungeon).

There were very few people who were complaining about "the bad acting voices".
But they were complaining so loudly that it seemed to be a very important thing.

I like the voice acting!

how can you like the dk's voice <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

pretty easily, its wha i expectd, its not bad. IHMO.

How can you dislike the dk's voice <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

how can you no not dislike the dk's voice <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

It grows on you after a time. BTW aren't we going <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/offtopic.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

let the quote fun stop here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

let the quote fun stop here <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> [/quote]


Why? its so fun!!!

and Morbo

it grew on me alot! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> not really offtopic, we're, um, discussing the review!

does anyone bought the sucky mag if so please scan it.

didn't you??? how do you know? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

I don't thust this review although it has high praise I believe the rating would have been a lot higher when they had played it longer. Can you scan the article?

BTW: has any one seen lynn. I am worried she still hasn't posted peek 32. Did some thing happen or is she just parting and sleeping after finishing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" />

no she hasn't. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/puppyeyes.gif" alt="" /> neither has Rat, and neither have responded to my PM's. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" />


MARIAN's got some 'splaing to do! only he knows the horror of the aftermath of, the English gold verson!

*sigh* Lews, you don't know how bad it is with German gaming mags. Graphical blenders get ratings high above 90% , even without story at all (Dungeon Siege) and games with less good looking graphics but with good story ... well, the editors seem to be biased to me, imho.

As an example : Brand new results from the Geman mag "Gamestar" (as posted by Titarius) :



My Translation (not 100% perfect) :

Cumulative Evaluation :

- Acclimatisation : 1 hour
- Solo-fun : 15 hours

+ many useful skills
+ big game-world
+ two individual characters
+ fights with pause - function
+ "Schlachtfeld" (meaning : Battlefield") as side stage

- Inventory - "Wirrwarr" (implicitely meaning : chaos)
- Graphics from the days before yesterday
- unpretentious fights (I translated "anspruchslos" with "unpretentious; originally it means implicitely "simple")
- simple Quests (yes, the word "Simple" is sometimes "simpel" in German ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> )



Graphics : 4
Sound : 3
Handlung : 3
Multiplayer : -
Preis / Leistung (meaning : what you get for your money) : 3

[Note : This is based on the German scale of school grades from 1-6, where 1 is best and 6 worst.]

Summary : Ugly Role playing game with Skill-deepness.



Well, that's my ugly translation. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> The German Gamestar is notorious or better : infamous for such tests / review, giving graphical shiny games *much* more points than others.

On a more serious note, the review complains about the inventory. Well, I fear we hvehad that in <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> as well.

My absolutely favourite of sentences from that *very* short test (only one page, as Titarius says) is the following :



Translation (ugly, of course <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> ) :

Fans of role playing games without high tactical pretension will find with Beyond Divinity new Monsterhacking-fodder."

This sentence must be a "slash" into the face of Larian, because they always wanted a rather tactical game !

i've read it on an other forum. and idd where is lynn?