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Ganoncrotch on 08 August 2017
Darashiva said:
Ganoncrotch said:

Do you always just go with the cheaper option being the best way to play a game? If so I'm guessing you didn't buy GTAV on the PC for example as it would have been cheaper to buy an X360 copy of the game.

It's just strange logic to me to overlook the obvious value that certain ports bring to the table.

As for the trailer, seen it pop up on the switch and gotta agree with Lewis, this just shows a bunch of cutscenes and how the switch can be played with... it might as well have been displaying a video of someone washing plates in a sink for all the info it told about the game, other than it has ps1/2 era cgi cutscenes which include trains.

Depends on the game and what features the different versions have. In this particular case I really see no reason to get the Switch version if you own any kind of PC capable of playing games from 15 years ago. I was just talking about Syberia, not any other game or their different ports. 

For myself the portability of the Switch easily makes ports of games on it worth the extra price and slightly lower graphical fidelity which other versions could offer, just that ability to take the console out of my bag when I have 20 mins of travel to do or a wait for a meeting is amazing, does far more for me than my wall of console games which a lot of have never been opened.



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Darashiva on 08 August 2017
Ganoncrotch said:
Darashiva said:

Depends on the game and what features the different versions have. In this particular case I really see no reason to get the Switch version if you own any kind of PC capable of playing games from 15 years ago. I was just talking about Syberia, not any other game or their different ports. 

For myself the portability of the Switch easily makes ports of games on it worth the extra price and slightly lower graphical fidelity which other versions could offer, just that ability to take the console out of my bag when I have 20 mins of travel to do or a wait for a meeting is amazing, does far more for me than my wall of console games which a lot of have never been opened.

Some games are certainly worth that. Syberia just doesn't strike me as one. It's not really the kind of game you play in short bursts like that anyway.



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d21lewis on 08 August 2017
SvennoJ said:
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Companies do realize they don't have to show us what features the Switch has now, right? I'm more concerned with gameplay. From that trailer, I'm not even sure what kind of game it is. Action? Point and click? Survival Horror?

Classic point and click adventure game, puzzles with inventory items.  It's all about the story and characters.

The first sits at 82 on Metacritic, second 80, Syberia 3 hangs at 51. It did not make a good transition to 3D with heavy rain style controls. The puzzles are still decent yet it frequently hits 0 fps with extreme stuttering, long loading times between sections you're forced to go back and forth in, and operating certain things with the analog sticks is confusing and way harder then it should be.

The first one was very memorable though, hence I bought 3 regardless of reviews.

I looked it up. It's a really old game but that doesn't mean it's bad. Do you think it has aged well?



Porcupine_I on 08 August 2017

I can't wait to follow a old man who wears the bones of my best friend from the previous 2 games on his body.



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SvennoJ on 08 August 2017
d21lewis said:
SvennoJ said:

Classic point and click adventure game, puzzles with inventory items.  It's all about the story and characters.

The first sits at 82 on Metacritic, second 80, Syberia 3 hangs at 51. It did not make a good transition to 3D with heavy rain style controls. The puzzles are still decent yet it frequently hits 0 fps with extreme stuttering, long loading times between sections you're forced to go back and forth in, and operating certain things with the analog sticks is confusing and way harder then it should be.

The first one was very memorable though, hence I bought 3 regardless of reviews.

I looked it up. It's a really old game but that doesn't mean it's bad. Do you think it has aged well?

Yes, there have only been negative enhancements to the point and click genre since then. The art style still holds up although the 3D cutscenes look pretty aged. The actual gameplay is all on pre-rendered 2D backgrounds.