Decline Consoletard reviewer finds Shadowrun too old-school, complicated

[Levarious]

I'm looking forward to her review of wasteland 2.

 

[Bulba]

The best thing is how they used the golden claw puzzle to show off that feature of zooming around the item on the inventory, and that was basically the one use of it in the entire game

didn't this (and every other so called puzzle) had like 9 combinations? I can vagely remember my thoughts that going through this clunky interface was taking way too much time and it would have been much faster just to guess.

 

[ChristofferC]

3*3*3 = 27 combinations if i remember correctly.

 

[octavius]

Judging by the title of this thread the Shadowrun Returns developers must have done things right. Maybe I need to check it out after all.

 

[Hirato]

That is Bethesda we're talking about there, 3 items to interact with will produce 3! (3*2*1) combinations

 

[Minttunator]

3*3*3 = 27 combinations if i remember correctly.

Yep, that was it. I have to admit I didn't know I could rotate items in the inventory when I first got to that part, so I figured I had missed some other hint in the dungeon and started going through the combinations like a dumbass. Only took 10 or so tries.

So I guess that makes me more or less the target audience for Skyrim - I still didn't find Shadowrun to be impenetrably complex like this reviewer, though. :D

 

[Luzur]

No surprise from a generation of gamers popamole faggots with attention spam of wooden horse toy, that find Skyrim puzzles "challenging".

one of those..."puzzles" are those ring doors in barrows, ive seen ALOT of posts about how to open those from schmucks, even as the code for the door is on the damn key, or claw.

 

[Luzur]

3*3*3 = 27 combinations if i remember correctly.

Yep, that was it. I have to admit I didn't know I could rotate items in the inventory when I first got to that part, so I figured I had missed some other hint in the dungeon and started going through the combinations like a dumbass. Only took 10 or so tries.

So I guess that makes me more or less the target audience for Skyrim - I still didn't find Shadowrun to be impenetrably complex like this reviewer, though. :D

i didnt even have a claw for two of those doors, so i just consoled them away.

 

[ColCol]

Shadowrun Returns difficult? It's almost baby's first rpg.

 

[Stokowski]

Jasmine, I saw you peeping as I pushed my foot down to the floor.

 

[Burning Bridges]

SRR is pretty popamole-ish, so she isn't wrong.

One can also say right things for the wrong reasons.

 

[sea]

Yep, that was it. I have to admit I didn't know I could rotate items in the inventory when I first got to that part, so I figured I had missed some other hint in the dungeon and started going through the combinations like a dumbass. Only took 10 or so tries.

So I guess that makes me more or less the target audience for Skyrim - I still didn't find Shadowrun to be impenetrably complex like this reviewer, though. :D

I don't actually recall the game teaching you that you can inspect items that way.

 

[Ninjerk]

It took me a minute, too. I looked at the item briefly in inventory and missed the code somehow so I ended up spending about 15 minutes trying to read the walls. I was really sure for awhile there that the developers just all of a sudden got REALLY smart and wanted me to figure it out from the clues on the wall (there aren't any).

 

[Sceptic]

Judging by the title of this thread the Shadowrun Returns developers must have done things right. Maybe I need to check it out after all.

 

[Karmapowered]

I find consoletard reviewers too difficult to understand.

They never make any sense to me.

 

[JarlFrank]

The best thing is how they used the golden claw puzzle to show off that feature of zooming around the item on the inventory, and that was basically the one use of it in the entire game

didn't this (and every other so called puzzle) had like 9 combinations? I can vagely remember my thoughts that going through this clunky interface was taking way too much time and it would have been much faster just to guess.

The funny thing is that I didn't watch any of the trailers that showed this feature and assumed that the puzzle involves some logical guesswork - animal combinations based on stuff like having the animal highest in the food chain on top, or having the largest on top, or something like that. So I tried to solve these puzzles that way until I got frustrated with one of them that didn't seem to have any logical solution, and I checked a walkthrough. Only then did I find out the solution is on the claws and there's no actual PUZZLE involved at all.

And there I was, playing the game for hours and thinking Bethesda actually implemented puzzles that require a bit of thinking, only to find out that they don't once I get stuck on one of the puzzles and notice that the solutions don't follow a logic but are entirely arbitrary.

 

[Jashiin]

I find consoletard reviewers too difficult to understand.

They never make any sense to me.

They blame the game for their own shortcomings.

 

[Damned Registrations]

On the subject of shadowrun and arbitrary bullshit puzzles, I tried the SNES shadowrun a few days ago. I got stuck after a while, and checking a walkthrough made me lose pretty much all interest. Apparently scalpels are the tool of choice for prying open crypt doors, not crowbars. I even tried raising my strength to maximum as well. "It won't budge" indeed. Fucking pixel hunt adventure games make me

 

[Kane]

The real question here is why is this girl writing for venture beat while exquisite and knowledgable gentlemen of RPG knighthood such as the RPG codex go without a voice?

 

[Jashiin]

money

 

[Commissar Draco]

AA

 

[RPGMaster]

Consoletard reviewer finds Shadowrun too old-school, complicated

Score: 85/100

o_O

That's as low as it goes for a game that isn't cool to hate

IGN gave it 73.

 

[Ninjerk]

The real question here is why is this girl writing for venture beat while exquisite and knowledgable gentlemen of RPG knighthood such as the RPG codex go without a voice?

Stare long enough into the abyss and all that...

 

[MicoSelva]

Consoletard reviewer finds Shadowrun too old-school, complicated

Score: 85/100

o_O

That's as low as it goes for a game that isn't cool to hate

Yeah, no. It is one of the top 3 highest-scoring reviews of this game.

 

[m_s0]

(starts new game)
(picks class)
(gets a huge screen "SPEND YOUR KARMA" "...karma represents your experience...")

Yeah, I... I am very white knight, but...

...kitchen.


but, she did give it 85/100. It means 3.5/5 out there today, right?

3,5/5 is 70% so even higher than that. I guess nobody told her it's okay to use the full scale because that's what it's there for. It might be safe to assume then that her 85 roughly translates into something along the lines of "mediocre". Standard procedures for reading game reviews apply, in other words.