Journey to the Center of the Earth?

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 3:38 pm

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/919045.asp

The reviews don't look all that good, and i'm not really into aventure-style games, but the locales and dinasours interest me.

Has anyone played this?

Kaigen · Post by **Kaigen** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 4:19 pm

I played some of it. Never finished it. It's basically crap, don't bother with it. It's basically a magnifying glass for all the common problems of the genre with a few of its own. Unclear, illogical puzzles, major interface problems, bugs, dull story... The game doesn't really have any redeeming qualities.

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:35 pm

Really?
Wow

This review sounded ok:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,306

"Bottom-line: This game has a suprising charm and beauty, with enough depth to keep you playing until the end. A solid pick that will surely satisfy."

Kaigen · Post by **Kaigen** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 10:57 pm

It's been my experience that Adventure Gamers doesn't know what the hell they're talking about. Just looking at their review list they barely score anything below three stars and there are way more 4+ star games than I believe actually exist within the genre.

But hey, that's me. There's no good reason for you to take my word over theirs.

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:13 am

heh. I think it was Justadventure that gave "Conspiracies" like a 100% perfect rating while the 3 gaming mags gave it really low scores, like 20% or less.

Either those adventure sites are really easy to please or highly optimistic or something. I actually bought "Conspiracies" because I happen to like the retro-look of the screen shots, which seemed to be what everyone was complaining about mostly. But I havent actually loaded it up yet since the box requirements worry me a bit--

See if you can figure this out:
Pentium II 400 or Celeron 486 (?!?)
4 gig HD space.
30 gig (?!?) HD space recommended.

Yapette · Post by **Yapette** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:16 am

4 GB required ---> 30 GB recommended is a bit of a stretch.

Sorry I ever doubted you GH, couldn't believe that the required vs. recommended was such a serious leap - thought it must be a typo. After reading the box flap, seems you are absolutely correct. As I've recently installed a massive slave drive, I will do a full install & see how much space it actually takes.

Promise to report back later.

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:29 pm

Welp, i'm gonna fire this one up and have a look just because the locales have piqued my interest.

I already grabbed the walkthru for it, which is almost a required first step for me when I play these type of games.

Thanks

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:11 pm

Who you callin' a welp?!? Huh?!?

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:15 pm

Zekester wrote:Welp, i'm gonna fire this one up and have a look just because the locales have piqued my interest.

I already grabbed the walkthru for it, which is almost a required first step for me when I play these type of games.

Thanks

Sorry I derailed the thread Zeke.
But which game you talking about now? Journey to the Center of the Earth? If so, be sure to report back. After tonight, I have all this next week off, so I may run out and get it if you say it's any good. I too was intrigued by the box cover and screen shots, though the reviews I read dissuaded me somewhat.

God knows I don't have enough backlogged already.

It's either that or Black Ops 1 again.

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 3:24 pm

Ok, i've played it for about an hour now.

THANK GOD FOR THE WALKTHRU

The puzzles are the typical sort, which never cease to confuse the pee outta me.

But I still want to keep playing because the game world looks good and I want to see what's around the next corner.

I'll just use the walkthru the whole time

BTW I bought this in the first place because it was only $10 at MediaPlay.

Yapette · Post by **Yapette** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 10:37 pm

Welp (nice to see someone else uses this word), the Conspiracies install using the dvd version took 1.5 GB on an empty drive. Maybe the box really meant it needs 3.0 gb (including temp files) for the install? The font size on the black box is so small I can barely read it with a magnifying glass.

And Zekester, to stay on topic, have you found any bugs (of the computer variety) yet in Journey....? I started playing when it first came out (alas, paying full price) & stopped in let's see....my wt

says Askiam. Seem to recall I was having a hateful time navigating around the city, screen wouldn't scroll or arrows wouldn't appear to change screens, something like that. Recently installed the game on a slower computer hoping it will play better or I've learned more patience.

Maybe I'll give it another go if you're enjoying it.

Giles Habibula · Post by **Giles Habibula** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 11:48 pm

Thanks for the research, Yapette. Now that I know I won't be sacrificing my entire HD on this game (Conspiracies), I may give it a go.

--Welp

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:38 am

have you found any bugs

I haven't found any, but I haven't been as far as you in the game neither.

toger · Post by **toger** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:05 pm

I think I played until I got into the city itself. I played with a friend and we had issues trying to locate hotspots and getting the "feet" icon to show up when we wanted to move to new locations.

I hated that huge puzzle to open the door in the cave as the graphics weren't clear enough and there weren't enough clues to pick the correct icons to open the door. Thank the stars for all those prolific walk-thru writers!

It was a pretty game, but I got bored and never finished it.

Zekester · Post by **Zekester** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:04 pm

Thank the stars for all those prolific walk-thru writers!

Yeah, no kidding!

There's no way I'd be still trying to play this without them.
I don't know how anyone could

There are a lot of hard-to-see icons and make-no-sense puzzles in this game, but you're right....it's pretty so far.

I'm in the city now and haven't had any problems with bugs yet.