Stolen Pixels #69: A Lost Cause
No matter where you go in Overlord, there you are.
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No matter where you go in Overlord, there you are.
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Stolen Pixels #69: A Lost Cause
- Thread starter Shamus Young
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Funny one, but what's with the Overlord comics? Ain't that game a bit old at this point?
I don't really remember getting all that lost in Overlord. It wasn't that hard to find your way around even without a map or compass.
I don't really remember getting all that lost in Overlord. It wasn't that hard to find your way around even without a map or compass.
"Ain't that game a bit old at this point?"
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Shamus gets to games on a different time scale than other reviewers, I think it's fair to say. I find it refreshing, actually, to hear things about games outside their main launch blitz window, when the dust has had time to settle. Of course, I've hardly ever played any of the games, anyway, so when they came out makes little difference to me.
Also: Ha! Good comic. Bonus points for the Buckaroo Banzai reference at the top of this thread.
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Shamus gets to games on a different time scale than other reviewers, I think it's fair to say. I find it refreshing, actually, to hear things about games outside their main launch blitz window, when the dust has had time to settle. Of course, I've hardly ever played any of the games, anyway, so when they came out makes little difference to me.
Also: Ha! Good comic. Bonus points for the Buckaroo Banzai reference at the top of this thread.
First, I'm curious if there are in-game ways of detecting directionality... Does the time of day change? Is the sun visible in the sky? If it's morning, could you infer that the city to the East is towards the sun? Or is the overlord world set in a perpetually overcast noon, like the Pacific Northwest transported above the arctic circle?
As for "reviewing" old games, I'd be willing to bet that no one else is reviewing this game right now. Also, I'd bet the sales are also flat, and approximately zero. So if somehow the sales figures for an old game jump up to the high threes or low fours after the Shamus treatment, then maybe some of the developers should pay attention to what he's saying. Of course if they have the same jump after he ravages some piece of schlock, then they will correctly see that any publicity is good publicity, and blindly continue making games with less plot and more quicktime events... which they probably will anyhow.
*sigh*.
As for "reviewing" old games, I'd be willing to bet that no one else is reviewing this game right now. Also, I'd bet the sales are also flat, and approximately zero. So if somehow the sales figures for an old game jump up to the high threes or low fours after the Shamus treatment, then maybe some of the developers should pay attention to what he's saying. Of course if they have the same jump after he ravages some piece of schlock, then they will correctly see that any publicity is good publicity, and blindly continue making games with less plot and more quicktime events... which they probably will anyhow.
*sigh*.
I got lost constantly. Drove me absolutely nuts. I'd be absolutely sure I was headed the right way, and wind up right back at the village I'd just sacked.KamikazeSailor said:
What is this 'old' you speak of?KamikazeSailor said:
I also did not get lost easily. After a little exploring I realized that the majority of the maps were giant circles.
Do love the punchline though, really didn't see where you were going (which seems ironic.)
I'm playing it at the moment. The lack of a map was initially annoying, but the paper map from the box is actually very useful, and as someone mentioned almost all of the maps are essentially circles or straight lines - just keep walking til you either get somewhere familiar or to a dead end, and then you're done.
