Dark Woes and Praises

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 28 Oct 2006, 02:47

<a href="/http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... OSKE"><img border="0" src="/https://www.celestialheavens.com/images ... oxShot.jpg" align=right vspace=10 hspace=10></a><img src="/http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=ce ... B000FTOSKE" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />If you visit the <a href="/http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/ ... 1043">Dark Messiah official forum</a> (and I certainly can't blame you if you chose to stay away from it lately), you will find very positive and very negative comments about the game. There are a series of problems with the current version of the game, to the extent that producer <a href="/http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 94">Romain de Waubert de Genlis</a> and <a href="/http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/ ... 1096694">a member of the development team</a> had to make statements in the forum. However, many people, including Celestial Heavens' Marzhin, enjoy the game and don't experience any problem. It seems that uninstalling the demo prior to installing the game might solve some issues. Lowering the visual settings, disabling HDR and performing a file integrity check in Steam can also solve your problems. If that doesn't help, know that patch 1.01 will be released soon.

Dark Messiah received praises from several Web sites: <a href="/http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?ar ... rogamer</a> (8), <a href="/http://www.gamesradar.com/gb/pc/game/re ... 003">Games Radar</a> (9), <a href="/http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/741/741956p1.html">IGN UK</a> (8.8), <a href="/http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/6 ... 0108">Game Informer</a> (9.25) and <a href="/http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... 28">CVG</a> (8.4) all have very positive opinions. The reviews of "The Big Two", <a href="/http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/darkm ... ameSpot</a> (6.7, ignored by the official site) and <a href="/http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/might-and-magi ... GameSpy</a> (with no rating as I write this, but mentioning <i>"sloppy level design, disappointing multiplayer implementation"</i>), are a large stain on an otherwise beautiful painting.

If you would like to take a look at the original page visit this link:
https://www.celestialheavens.com/1162003645

CloudRiderX · Unread postby **CloudRiderX** » 28 Oct 2006, 17:06

Screw Gamespot. Short, sweet, and to the point.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 28 Oct 2006, 17:15

Somehow,I dont know why,I expect to see "We all were wrong,and foxgamespot was right" very soon

Kalah · Unread postby **Kalah** » 28 Oct 2006, 20:43

Marketing 1.01: "Emphasize the good, tone down the bad."

Braym2 · Unread postby **Braym2** » 28 Oct 2006, 22:37

Sloppy level design...? Then let's take-back the groovy 'Dead Man's Hand meets Wheel of Time' castle approach vignette, which I'm supposed to be silent of. Happy Saint's Eve Holiday!!!
Edited on Sat, Oct 28 2006, 18:18 by Braym2

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 28 Oct 2006, 22:56

Kalah wrote:Marketing 1.01: "Glorify the good, make the bad seem invisible."

QFT.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 28 Oct 2006, 23:05

Nah,you get nothing from making the bad seem invisible.But making it seem like something only nazies use is the key.

Braym2 · Unread postby **Braym2** » 28 Oct 2006, 23:47

Indivisible Seamstress, hallowed be Sie name, remind DaemianLucifer of Nazi's absence-of-cliquishness.

BlackLotus · Unread postby **BlackLotus** » 29 Oct 2006, 06:57

It feel like that I'm playing Dragon's Lair. Look, the gate is flashing bright green. Maybe if I lure the monster though the portcullis and drop it on its head, I'll kill it. P.S. I finally got past the load screen where my machine kept crashing on me.

BlackLotus · Unread postby **BlackLotus** » 29 Oct 2006, 07:04

Just to let you guys know, I do like the game, but it could of been done so much better. The sword melee combat is the best I have ever seen in any game, including Oblivion. The game is far too linear though, I'd just rather go into a dungeon to kill monsters and not deal with the lame storyline.

Psychobabble · Unread postby **Psychobabble** » 29 Oct 2006, 07:29

I added the GSpy full review.

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 29 Oct 2006, 13:10

I read somewhere that Electronic Arts is a major advertiser on GameSpot, GameSpy and IGN, which could explain why these sites give Battlefield 2142 grades in the 80s and take a dump on Dark Messiah, a game that they described as a GOTY candidate until recently.

I know there are lots of fanboys out there crying because their game got bad grades, but the fact remains that Ubisoft is an underdog in the gaming industry.

alx516 · Unread postby **alx516** » 29 Oct 2006, 16:17

Just Finished the game in HARD SETTINGS !!! I didn't have any problems with the game. Not even 1 crash. SUPERB - My rating 9.5 !!!

Probably all the people who have problems have low end PC's. I have a 7900 GT and the HDR is magninificent. Can't wait 4 "Farmers of Hate" on the 14th.

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innokenti · Unread postby **innokenti** » 29 Oct 2006, 17:07

Enjoying too much so far to actually be bothered by the small problems. Frankly there are too few negatives to seriously consider them as a setback to the game.

Also, I'm using a machine which is borderline minimum and it runs smooth 95% of the time and no crashes so far.

Storyline may be semi-obvious so far but it's got something in it, basically it's not dire and has some very good bits. One wonders though if Arcane have been a little hampered by the Ashan universe since the Arx Fatalis (developed by them) story was really rather excellent.

addicted · Unread postby **addicted** » 29 Oct 2006, 17:47

@ alx516 at 2006-10-29 09:17 wrote:

Just Finished the game in HARD SETTINGS........

The game was just released and you already played it thru to the end on hard settings? Gee, it must be an easy, short game, making one wonder if it is even worth 50 bucks!!!!!

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 29 Oct 2006, 19:08

addicted wrote:The game was just released and you already played it thru to the end on hard settings? Gee, it must be an easy, short game, making one wonder if it is even worth 50 bucks!!!!!

You underestimate how much time some ppl spend playing. Also remember that a FPS doesn't take as long to finish as a RPG. It's long if it get you 20h of play.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 30 Oct 2006, 00:12

hmmmm, two bad reviews, by the big suckers and the others seem positive, now what do we make of that?

Angelspit · Unread postby **Angelspit** » 30 Oct 2006, 00:22

Actually, it's *three* average reviews from major sites if you count GameSpot (6.7), GameSpy (3/5) and IGN US (7.0). GameRankings took the IGN AU score (8.8) for its average, so the average went up a bit.

Psychobabble · Unread postby **Psychobabble** » 30 Oct 2006, 01:01

Metacritic has it at 80% atm, which is pretty good. An 88 from PC gamer UK is pretty impressive.

Campaigner · Unread postby **Campaigner** » 30 Oct 2006, 02:39

Since reviews are subjective and people in power abuse it so they give the games they like high grades, I don't like numbers. Don't hang yourself up on numbers people!

I value the information (sloppy lvldesign, bugs, glitches, designflaws) contained in reviews much higher than a simple number. But I've learned that playing yourself is best.

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