An email sent out to backers a few days ago.
If you had supported them via kickstarter, you would have known
EDIT: Here's the quote from the Developer Diary #7:
Charles Cecil wrote:
The resolution will be 720p to ensure that the game works on as wide a range of hardware as possible – we do plan to offer a free downloadable pack with 1080p resolution assets soon.
It's probably not for performance, but because of size. The PC version in its current shape is 2,5GB. That's quite hefty for iOS and Android devices where the majority of users have 16GB of storage in total.
It's probably not for performance, but because of size. The PC version in its current shape is 2,5GB. That's quite hefty for iOS and Android devices where the majority of users have 16GB of storage in total.
What capacity IOS and similar devices have has nothing to do with the PC version.
i only played it for 30 min , to add more about it i have to play for 2h max ... and get stuck on a puzzle ,but here all is like there is nothing that would make you go stuck , its so streamlined its meh
played it a bit more ,
all feels like it was made for a Tablet ,
BS5 has two Gui : Modern crap that is the worst gui i have seen in my life in a adventure game and the Classic that the whole series used from the start ,
all characters are low resolution except main puppets that you control ,
Intro for this game has loots of place holder stuff , like 4 dots , black and white none colour backdrops
when you think about it : items again are higher resolution then the rest of stuff , making them "out of place" thing when none of those items have shadows ,
and some back grounds are just lazy made [just see the alarm box , the right wire is just floating there in space ]
so i play on , but as of now , it feels cheap and lazy , more like a tablet game port to PC then a PC game
when part 1 and 2 look more stunning in art style then this 2,5 gig version [500 mb of those are different voice actors , you can cut away 411mb if you don't care about French and German redub audio]
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and yes thats how it looks [writing about BS5 ] , its a raw PNG , can even post a BMP , geez this looks horrible but then seeing how fucked the directors cut is compared to the original ... i see no hope in the art style
So, is it as epic as broken sword 1 and parts of 2?
or is it more like the crate moving simulator called sleeping dragon?
more like a mix bag of suck that Broken Sword 4: The Angel of Death was all this and more based on the gui and look alike engine of 'Runaway'
simple put : meh
Are you a retard or something?
It does look a bit like Runaway, but it's NOTHING like Broken Sword 4. It's gone completely back to its roots of Broken Sword 1 - same style, same approach, many recurring characters, no arcade crap (so far).
How you can call those beautifully drawn backdrops "cheap" is beyond me . They did cute *some* corners and no, the backdrops aren't HD (and frankly, I prefer the slightly hazier look of the original myself) - but if you consider that the original Broken Sword cost $4.000.000 to make and the Kickstarter got them less than 20% of that, we should be happy with the end result.
It sounds to me you're such a graphics whore, you can't get over the rest It's an ADVENTURE game, not Crysis 5.
the art in this game is just awful , here even more eeewww of it
*snip*
""we are making a background see and well we FUCKED IT UP"
and just ignore that her feet are in space , ok , i just miss pixel animated adventure games
*facepalms* You are very very very sad. You do realise that neither the first or the second Broken Sword had proper "3D" movement across pavements and such, right? And frankly, who on earth even cares about it except a git like you? It's the story, dialogue, ambiance and puzzles that counts, not your sad pathetic graphic whoring. What you're doing is akin to demanding a FPS to have branching story lines and deep characters
The game is great, albeit a little buggy once in a while (minor bugs).
I'm a fan of the franchise and finished all episodes multiple times, and the Director's Cut as well, and this episode reminds me BS1 and 2 a lot. It's definitely a really similar experience which is great since BS1 & 2 were epic.
Many winks at BS1 & 2 too, the music also is similar, and used similarly (changes whenever you find something interesting, etc), the voice acting is great too (at least in french, they got the original voice actors !), the graphics are great, sure it looks blurry in 720p, but hey at least it looks nicer than BS1 & 2 !
The interface is really intuitive, and as someone who finished them all, I was happy with the modern interface, it works out really well.
I'm still playing the game, and so far enjoying it as much as my first playthrough of BS1.
I'm not sure why Hfric is so disappointed in it, but what I can tell you is if you are a fan like me, go leech it (buy it ?) because it's totally worth it (and a lot better than BS3 & 4)!
I'm not sure why Hfric is so disappointed in it, but what I can tell you is if you are a fan like me, go leech it (buy it ?) because it's totally worth it (and a lot better than BS3 & 4)!
when a fan made continuation http://www.brokensword25.com/ is better then the continuation that the Revolution made ... then there is something wrong with Revolution
and another thing i don't understand , why continue this series when it closed in BS4 ! why not remake or continue their other series Beneath a Steel Sky
,
Lure of The Temptress
or even they own take on Metal Gear Solid "In Cold Blood"
I still have to finish the 2nd, 3rd and 4th game before I even touch this :/
red_avatar wrote:
You do realise that neither the first or the second Broken Sword had proper "3D" movement across pavements and such, right?
If they are using a 3D space in any sense then the work it would take to add a step down from the pavement would be very minimal. It's called polish. With almost 800k it's something you'd expect tbh
I disagree - it's a relatively small budget for a game that has such a huge amount of speech, unique animations and hand painted backgrounds. 3D spaces would look silly anyway unless they animated stepping on or off the pavement - otherwise your character would float up which is far more jarring if you ask me.
BASS 2 will be made. They didn't quite make the goal, but promised to start pre-production as soon as they finish up with BS5.
They better - I was a huge fan before the game was even released thanks to an early demo that came with the very first issue of PC Gamer. I have four (yes four) original boxed versions, two with 3,5" disks and two with CDs, one is even autographed by Dave Gibbons - so yeah, I'm a huge fan of the original. It's funny to see how it has become much popular 20 years later than it was during its first 10 years or so.
- the artwork is very very close in style of the first two BS games. I'm glad they didn't go the way of many casual "hidden object" games.
- the music and sounds are great and add to the mood.
- the story is very solid so far and engaging - not *quite* as great as BS1's start but very close.
- the interface is the same as it was before - clean, powerful, nearly perfect. There was no need to reinvent the wheel and I'm glad they didn't.
- animations, while stilted at times, are very fluent and the hybrid of 3D and 2D does work very well. I did love BS1's exaggerated animations more but in 3D it wouldn't have been possible and drawing them would have taken up far too much of the budget.
- speech is generally very good - most of the voices feel right although I was kinda sad to hear Sergeant Moue having a very different voice. The new voice suits him though, so I can't complain too much.
NEUTRAL - leaning towards negative
- the puzzles, while being very solid, feel a bit on the easy side. The game gives a lot of hints so you always know what you're supposed to do next. I don't mind per se since getting stuck isn't all that fun either, but the puzzles could have been made a tad harder.
- while I'm not deep inside the game yet, it does feel like puzzles are being compacted to a few locations at a time which is something that I don't really like in adventure games. The opposite is bad as well, spreading the items and puzzles across loads of areas (think Discworld for those who played it) - I'd have preferred the puzzles to be more like in BS1 where a few locations were always available for visiting.
- The amount of dialogue has been cut down compared to BS1. This may also be because modern games tend to reduce dialogue so as not to bore people, but I just like more back story. It adds flavour.
NEGATIVES
- There's nothing truly negative to be found except for the occasional stiff animation and the general sense that they didn't have a large budget to work with (to repeat myself, the Kickstarter only gave them 20-25% of the budget they used on Broken Sword 1 and counting inflation, in current money that would be closer to 15% which is a massive difference).
- breaking the game in two, while I don't mind greatly (it's only a few games apart), it does mean I have to wait a while to play the next part which I generally don't like for story based games since I quickly forget names and other vital elements.
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. They did cute *some* corners and no, the backdrops aren't HD (and frankly, I prefer the slightly hazier look of the original myself) - but if you consider that the original Broken Sword cost $4.000.000 to make and the Kickstarter got them less than 20% of that, we should be happy with the end result.
I hope this is not some new trend.
