Review Blade and Sword mostly pitied by Gamer's Hell

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Blade and Sword

<A href="http://www.gamershell.com/">Gamer's Hell</a> has posted up another <a href="http://www.gamershell.com/reviews_BladeandSwordReview.shtml">PROFESHUNAL REEVIEW</a> of a game, this time being <a href="http://www.whiptailinteractive.com/games_bladeandsword.php">Blade and Sword</a>. They didn't like it much and it ends up getting a rather low <b>6.5/10</b>. Here's a sample:
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<blockquote>The crux of the matter is always ‘was the game fun’? What we have here is an average imitation of some seminal hack and slash RPG games from the days of yore. Heck, the parts that it does imitate are still outdone by older titles. Those classic games had a more robust and flexible RPG system and they probably possessed better enemy AI, so why is it that I can’t turn this game off? It’s because of the innovative combo system and the number of excellent special attacks that you’ll accrue throughout the games’ three chapters and 40 levels.</blockquote>
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There's a really funny theme throughout this piece where they keep refering to this title as <i>old school</i> through the whole thing. Maybe I'm just old, but I don't think anything that's similar to <a href="http://www.blizzard.com/diablo/">Diablo</a> is <i>old school</i>. Then again, we're talking about <a href="http://www.gamershell.com">Gamer's Hell</a> here.
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[Voss]

If they can't turn it off, odds are they don't dislike it.
Or they're just idiots that can't find a way to exit the game.

 

[Nightjed]

i dunno, a diablo without l33t loot is not diablo, the only reason to repeat all those levels again and again was for getting more l33t loot, not the crappy story, not improving your badly designed character maximizing your badly designed skills in their badly balanced skill tree, it was the loot :mrgreen:

hmm, codex should add more emoticons :D

 

[LCJr.]

I'm with Saint, to me old school hack and slash would be something like SSI Goldbox, etc... Wonder if the reviewer is old enough to get their drivers license yet?

 

[Nightjed]

hack and slash makes me think of many games, but yeah old school remainds me of those good old ssi games

 

[HanoverF]

I can't wait till 2008, when they'll mention old skool in regards to games like Half-Life 2, and the still unreleased Duke Nukem Forever.

 

[Nightjed]

lies!, duke nukem forever will be vaporware forever :D

 

[taks]

<snip>... still unreleased Duke Nukem Forever.

that's a pretty optimistic statement there... very "forward looking" in terms of today's PC climate (er, politically correct). my money's on a december 2010 release.

mark

 

[Sol Invictus]

My money's on never. They'll just shut the project down and say they were never working on anything in the first place, much like the Phantomax guys.

 

[Nightjed]

whats the last graphic engine they announced it with ? they allready need to change it to the doom3/halflife 2/unrealt engines or it will be outdated, or maybe theyll release it on 2010 with the old duke3d dos engine to bail out legaly ? that would be hilarious

 

[Anonymous]

Fun fact: Duke Nukem Forever was suppost to come out in 1998.

 

[HanoverF]

You guys kinda missed the point that come 2008 it will still be unreleased, but old skool

 

[Nightjed]

My money's on never. They'll just shut the project down and say they were never working on anything in the first place, much like the Phantomax guys.

they took preorders allready, doesnt that tie them legaly ?

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

they took preorders allready, doesnt that tie them legaly ?

They can still bail out, but then they are legally bound to pay back all those preorders they took. And, yes, I remember reading about this game back in '98. Didn't they announce it about the same time they released that Duke Nukem game for the Playstation?

 

[Nightjed]

i dont remember it was a long long time ago when i didnt have net cable on my home, dark times...

edit: and oh yeah i remember duke forever pictures using the same engine as duke3d, not sure if it was on 98 tho

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

I'm with Saint, to me old school hack and slash would be something like SSI Goldbox, etc... Wonder if the reviewer is old enough to get their drivers license yet?

That's kind of what I wondered. How old would someone have to be if they considered Diablo to be old school? 14? 15?

Hell, it's only seven years old, and I honestly can't think of a hack and slash CRPG type that's newer school than Diablo clones.

 

[Nightjed]

i think he just read the "old school" phrase somewhere and thought it looked cool

 

[Otaku_Hanzo]

I love the 'days of yore' comment. Hilarious. I'd say he has to be in his mid-teens. Days of yore. Yeesh!

 

[Nightjed]

omg ... we are being attacked by unexperienced young soap opera watching reviewers that cant find the exit option!

 

[Sol Invictus]

I was 13 at the time and it still doesn't strike me as an 'old school' game.