The Fall reviews

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A recent news update on The Fall's website has highlighted two reviews of The Fall by European PC gaming magazines, with rather positive scores. They have included a selection of favorable quotes from the reviews, but obviously take these with a grain of salt.<blockquote>PC Games and PC Action, two of Europe's biggest PC gaming magazines, are featuring reviews of The Fall - Last Days of Gaia in their current issues.

The game scored a 83 out of 100 in PC Action.

"Seldom has a post-apocalyptic world been more exciting than the wastelands in The Fall."

""Oh my lady, I'll save that artifact!" - fortunately, quests like this are not present in The Fall."

"Tons of humorous dialogue."

"The combination of the interesting, well thought-out story and the exquisite combat and character system makes The Fall a worthy successor to the Fallout series, which has been the benchmark for post-apocalyptic RPGs to this day."

PC Games gave it an overall score of 84/100 (game design 90/100):

"Only a very few games feature such an intelligently structured background story."

"The complex and remarkably diversified quests in The Fall are a big plus."

"In addition to the intelligent challenges and the twist-laden plot, The Fall also impresses with the sheer size of the game world."</blockquote>Interesting, the scores are good, despite the problems indicated by all the patches. It would be much more enlightening to have the full text of the review rather than a few quotes picked by the developers.
 
Hum...Hum...
Let's see, maybe I'll be going to the bookstore at the trainstation
tomorrow and gather a look at the PC Games or PC Action,
and give some lines about the rest of the article,
but don't pin me down to this.
 
Well, I wouldn't have expected for German magazines to bash German games anyway :).
 
Any word on an english version ?


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Opps, Sry Odin. Thats what I get for posting while sick. (And with 'your' cat trying to stand on my laptops keyboard :p )
 
Just check german amazon (www.amazon.de).

There most of the buyers of The Fall have given the game 1 star of 5.

I dont know which version these testers of PC-Games and PC-Action have got - but the I one I have buyed had bugs, bugs and bugs.

Finally I brought the game back and got my money back.

This game is nothing more than a beta-test and the scores of 85% or 86% are simply ridiculous.
 
Hmm...? I wasn't suggesting that they include the full text, rather that it is hard to trust a few quotes culled by people purposely looking for good quotes.

A while ago a attended a panel with professional literary reviewers, one of their examples was the phrase "Like a train wreck, I couldn't put it down." Such a phrase will inevitably be cut down to "I couldn't put it down."

Of course, by the scores, the review are not likely to be negative. I do wonder if they mention the bugs and such.

Hory, is nationalism in the gaming industry so strong in Germany?
 
i bought it and i am VERY disappointed :(
the german speech ist unbelievable bad (evil npc`s sound like whimp babys) too bad my english isn`t that good to explain more details but the german "localisation" is just bad .. imagine mutans with a voice like britney spears :P

i didn`t play that far because i got bored by that massive ammount of graphical glitches and all the other bugs that even the patches did not fix proper .. even on highest detail the graphic still looks bad (6800 ultra here) the combat system is just one great bug and real time is a pain in the ass even with the pause function commands like crouch dont work sometimes even when there is a football field of space to do so .. the pathing is also very bad

actually its more a stabile alpha game with very poor sounds and speech that still needs to go through alot of quality assurance .. but hey i guess the problem here ist that the publisher forced them to throw the game on the market for christmas sales

finally i can just say wait until you can grab a cheap version somewhere in the stores as the game is not worth 50 bucks :cry:

and well the gaming mags in germany are like those 10cent magazines with a ton of pictures and not much text as most of them all belong to the same brand oder are daughters of the same company -- target group is from 12-16 so don`t expect authentic and neutral journalism
 
Kotario said:
Hory, is nationalism in the gaming industry so strong in Germany?
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Actually, from what I understand, nationalism is strong in nearly all aspects in Germany. Don't see why the gaming industry would be any different.
 
Dove said:
Actually, from what I understand, nationalism is strong in nearly all aspects in Germany. Don't see why the gaming industry would be any different.
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not really :wink:

i can just say the same like Darius,

the game mags must have had an totally different version than me to get that high scores .. i would barely give 60% with the comment "try again"
 
That is what you get
With low production values.
The Fall would have likely turned out better
With wealthier dev crews.

Fear not, however;
Though present impressions are mixed,
By the time they make the English version
Most errors will have been fixed.
 
Dove said:
Actually, from what I understand, nationalism is strong in nearly all aspects in Germany. Don't see why the gaming industry would be any different.
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:shock: Pardon?

If Germany is nationalistic there are not enough superlatives to describe what the US is.

Even the Netherlands are more nationalistic than Germany. The US did a pretty good job at bumfucking us till we forget what the word "patriot" means.
The only nationalists you got in Germany today are neo-nazis and they slightly misinterpret the term and take the whole issue way too serious.

If American national pride was a whale, German national pride would be an amoeba.

Maybe you're talking about Bavarians. As far as I've heard they're pretty militant about being Bavarian, but nobody ever wanted Bavaria to have anything to do with Germany (except for those fuckwits who wanted to unite Germany in the 16th century).

We tend to be nationalists when it comes to the former nation-states tho, but that's common in most countries.
 
I think game industry nationalism is strong in any non-US country because they have a lot fewer releases. If they had the same standards as they do towards the US games, they would be saying that most of their games are crap. Well, at least Germany has Gothic...
 
And yet I thought Gothic was crap because it was predictable and all the "freedom" was mostly hype.

Actually Settlers 2 used to be okay (Settlers 3 kinda killed the series tho) and Anno 1602 was quite fun too. Most good games of German or Austrian origin were produced in the early 90s and late 80s.

Somehow most German companies fail to realize that the voices can be very important if you decide to have any voice actors at all. That's also the reason the German releases of Diablo 2 and Baldur's Gate are nearly unplayable.
 
I think "freedom" is pretty incorrect with Gothic, as both get fairly linear at most points. I believe the best parts about the game are that you can join distinct factions and the landscape + buildings look well-crafted and unique instead of cookie-cutter or boxy. Fun in it's own right.
 
Sarge said:
actually its more a stabile alpha game with very poor sounds and speech that still needs to go through alot of quality assurance .. but hey i guess the problem here ist that the publisher forced them to throw the game on the market for christmas sales
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Silver Style published it themselves so the blame can only fall on their shoulders.
 
Last I knew they had Deep Silver for distribution in a few Euro countries. In fact, the German site for Deep Silver has The Fall listed, while the English page does not.

The English version(s) will need a different publisher, and by the time they have found one, the game might actually be to acceptable beta standards.
 
Ashmo said:
Maybe you're talking about Bavarians. As far as I've heard they're pretty militant about being Bavarian, but nobody ever wanted Bavaria to have anything to do with Germany (except for those fuckwits who wanted to unite Germany in the 16th century).
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AFAIK it was the 19th century, and it was Bismarck who bribed the bavarian "ruler" to accept the idea of a lesser germany and back the prussian king as a Kaiser over all the germans (except the Hapsburgs of course) after the germans occupied half of france, and proclaimed Wilhelm the second as a kiser in Versailles.
 
I was actually talking about the freaks who kept on trying to unite Germany ever since the 14th century or so.

The truth is: Nobody likes Bavaria (except for Americans who think it's a theme park -- like Wales).
 
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