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Posted March 27, 2014
Empire Rising

Moebius, a contemporary metaphysical adventure from the master storyteller Jane Jensen, the creator of Gabriel Knight and Grey Matter, is available 20% off for pre-order for Windows and Mac OS X on GOG.com. That's only $23.99 until April 15, when the game is expected to arrive. Pre-order now, and play the 2-chapter GOG.com exclusive demo while you wait for the release!

When a secretive government agency enlists Malachi Rector to determine whether a murdered woman in Venice resembles any particular historical figure, he is left with nothing but questions. Why would the U.S. government hire him--a dealer of high-end antiques--to look into a foreign murder? Why does David Walker, a former Special Forces operative he meets in his travels, feel like someone Malachi’s known all his life? And how come everytime Malachi lets his guard down, someone tries to kill him?

Moebius is a contemporary adventure that merges classic point-and-click puzzle solving with Jane Jensen’s sophisticated storytelling. Travel the world using Malachi’s unique deductive powers to analyze suspects, make historical connections, and uncover the truth behind a theory of space and time the government will defend at any cost. This thrilling new adventure game from master storyteller Jane Jensen (Gabriel Knight, Gray Matter) and Phoenix Online Studios (Cognition, The Silver Lining) introduces Malachi Rector, an expert in antiquities whose photographic memory and eye for detail transform people and clues into interactive puzzles.

If you miss the times when adventure games were played mostly for the great and immersive storytelling, not just for the puzzles, humor, and views, be sure to pre-order Moebius for $23.99 on GOG.com. That's 20% off the full post-release price, and you'll get to set the mood for the game with the full soundtrack (MP3/FLAC), available instantly. You can also jump right in to action with the GOG.com-exclusive demo, covering the first two chapters of the game! The 20% off special pre-order discount offer lasts until April 15, when the game is set for launch.
Posted March 28, 2014
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Mrstarker: The first act of Broken Age is roughly 4 hours long and there's still a second act coming (for free for those who bought/Kickstarted it).

I see you're still on your anti-DF crusade. What's the matter? Sad that it didn't flop like you hoped? http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4279#p71951
It's a downright terrible game and not even a real adventure game in the classic sense. There's nothing in part-one of the game that even classifies as a "puzzle" (something has to actually make you think to be a puzzle FYI). And all the production values are in celebrity voice-acting and cutscene animation. They ripped off their backers by promising a "old-school adventure game" and delivering a casual tablet-ized TellTale-style adventure-lite with a whimsical childish story clearly made for Schafer's daughter not adventure gamers.

So yeah, sooner they go under the better, their hipster fanboys give me the creeps.

I will be glad however when some of these real point & click adventure games I mentioned come out, most without even half the budget of BA, and still blow it away and you know... actually have puzzles, not be a glorified interactive screensaver.

EDIT: FYI I pledged to DFA, so that argument doesn't work I'm afraid. I just think that once he got money from the older adventure gamers by promising a Lucasarts-style adventure, he then turned heel and made a game directly targeted at the mainstream mass market.
Post edited March 28, 2014 by Crosmando
Posted March 28, 2014
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Crosmando: They ripped off their backers by promising a "old-school adventure game" and delivering a casual tablet-ized TellTale-style adventure-lite with a whimsical childish story clearly made for Schafer's daughter not adventure gamers.
You haven't even played the game, have you?
Posted March 28, 2014
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Mrstarker: You haven't even played the game, have you?
I've played half of it.

Also you're hijacking the pre-order thread of a decent adventure game in the making with your fanboy butthurt.
Posted March 28, 2014
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Crosmando: I've played half of it.
If you really did play the game, then you clearly missed the part where there's a village that sacrifices young women to a monster. Unless you think Schafer wants to send a message to his daughter, I don't think this game was made for her. Also, there are jokes and themes that would fly right over the heads of children.
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Posted March 28, 2014
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Mrstarker: If you really did play the game, then you clearly missed the part where there's a village that sacrifices young women to a monster. Unless you think Schafer wants to send a message to his daughter, I don't think this game was made for her. Also, there are jokes and themes that would fly right over the head of children.
I found the overall tone of the game way too whimsical, I liked DoTT but even that wasn't as whimsical as this. Either way that isn't my main problem with the game, but main problem is that the game is not worth the money they're selling it for, there's no puzzles of any depth or clever design that could really take up any time, it's a basically just a story you just click through, as all the "puzzles" are completely obvious/self-evident. Again adventure GAME, game, it's just not a good game, there's not enough player input, there's also no Verb-bar like in Sierra or LS adventures, which considerably narrows the game in terms of interaction. I can even ignore gameplay if the story is SO good that I just don't care, if there hasn't been many games I've felt that about, BA certainly isn't one.

But anyway, I don't care, there's games like Quest for Infamy or Heroine's Quest or Blackwell coming soon that are more to my taste in adventures. This thread isn't for this so let's stop this now.

Edit: the part about mog chothra was perhaps the only half-decent part of the plot actually
Post edited March 28, 2014 by Crosmando
Posted March 28, 2014
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Crosmando: But anyway, I don't care, there's games like Quest for Infamy or Heroine's Quest or Blackwell coming soon that are more to my taste in adventures. This thread isn't for this so let's stop this now.
Yet you care enough to bash it every time it comes up. Even long before it came out. You even made a thread specifically dedicated for bashing it.

But I do agree that this thread is not a place for this discussion, so I'll stop.

Heroine's Quest has been out for quite a while, btw.
Post edited March 28, 2014 by Mrstarker
Posted March 28, 2014
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Crosmando: But anyway, I don't care, there's games like Quest for Infamy or Heroine's Quest or Blackwell coming soon that are more to my taste in adventures. This thread isn't for this so let's stop this now.
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Mrstarker: Yet you care enough to bash it every time it comes up. Even long before it came out. You even made a thread specifically dedicated for bashing it.

But I do agree that this thread is not a place for this discussion, so I'll stop.

Heroine's Quest has been out for quite a while, btw.
He he and I evilly decided to continue it, for a just a bit longer :)

Could the Tall poppy syndrome, the bigger they are (on kickstarter) the more someone wants to pull them down. That said I've not played the game, waiting to play both parts and I also backed for the documentary, as I enjoy that kind of behind the scenes stuff. Maybe part of the problem was there was no plan on what the game was going to be, so it was kind of a DF fan love in. That said I backed for the same reason, partly hype. But if you backed based on that which "Crosmando" did it is hard to justify complaining later as there wasn't much defined it what the game was going to be beyond hype and adventure game. Now if there was a better plan on the table and they deviated from that, then it would be another matter.

Moebius here, there also really wasn't a whole lot revealed about it before release, so I guess it followed more along the lines of a traditional game development. DF are very open on the development side of things, which cuts both ways, fan interaction and also negative backlash can come hand in hand.
Post edited March 28, 2014 by deonast
Posted March 28, 2014
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deonast: Maybe part of the problem was there was no plan on what the game was going to be, so it was kind of a DF fan love in. That said I backed for the same reason, partly hype. But if you backed based on that which "Crosmando" did it is hard to justify complaining later as there wasn't much defined it what the game was going to be beyond hype and adventure game. Now if there was a better plan on the table and they deviated from that, then it would be another matter.
Yeah, Schafer never promised that it would be LucasArts style (although, Grim Fandango didn't have verbs either), but some people seem to have expected DotT 2. I can understand people expecting it to be different and I'm fine with people not liking the game. However, while it may not be DotT 2, it definitely isn't a non-game where you just click next-next-next for the story. It's a Tim Schafer adventure game with inventory puzzles, dialogue trees and signature Tim Schafer humor. The puzzles are on the easy side, that's true, but they are definitely there and Tim has promised to make act 2 puzzles more difficult.

I hope that there won't be similar sentiment when Moebius doesn't turn out to be GK4. Unlike with Broken Age, I've been largely avoiding the development of the game, only looking at a few concept art updates here and there.
Post edited March 28, 2014 by Mrstarker
Posted March 28, 2014
It's amazing pre-order (or in this case pre-purchase) is still alive and kicking. I'll never do it again after getting burned two times with awful games.
Posted March 28, 2014
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Crosmando: I will be glad however when some of these real point & click adventure games I mentioned come out, most without even half the budget of BA, and still blow it away and you know... actually have puzzles, not be a glorified interactive screensaver.
spoiler alert: moebius does not "blow away" BA in any category.
Posted March 28, 2014
Finally watched the trailer. Woot, I can't wait to see how it all wrapped up.
Posted March 29, 2014
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bouncedk: It's amazing pre-order (or in this case pre-purchase) is still alive and kicking. I'll never do it again after getting burned two times with awful games.
In this case, though, there's a demo you can try out that tells you exactly what you can expect:

http://www.postudios.com/moebius-pc-demo
http://www.postudios.com/moebius-mac-demo
Post edited March 29, 2014 by Mrstarker
Posted March 29, 2014
Has any backer managed to get a GOG key off them yet?
Posted March 29, 2014
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Crosmando: Has any backer managed to get a GOG key off them yet?
nope, word is theyr going to start getting backer keys out (may or may not be gog) about a few days before release. The gog demo is actually about 30% of the game, much bigger than the steam demo.
Posted March 29, 2014
I just played the demo from the official site. I'm no graphics whore but the walking animation was enough for me to uninstall it after one minute. Sorry, I can't play an adventure when the walking animation looks like he's climbing a flight of stairs....horizontally. ugh.

It's kind of a crucial element of an adventure game to get right because, you know, that's what you're doing throughout the entire game.... walking places. I hope they fix this for the final release because I'm sure the story will be interesting...
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