Category: Technical Difficulties

Day of the Tentacle (Remastered)
by LepcisMagna

I have an unfavorable impression of Double Fine studios.  Their first game, Psychonauts, was fun.  I haven’t finished it, but it was well put-together and seemed light-hearted and whimsical.  Looking through their game catalog, however, I see very few other original games I recognize; exactly two, actually: Brütal Legend and Broken Age.

Apparently, they acquired the rights to remaster Tim Schafer’s previous work at LucasArts: Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle.  Both are point-and-click adventure games, and you would think that they would be the least resource-intense games possible.  Somehow, however, the remaster of Day of the Tentacle stutters uncontrollably when using the “Remastered” graphics on either of my computers.  If I switch between the classic and remastered graphics, it stutters on both modes.  This is unacceptable.

Worse yet, the remastered graphics are actually worse than the classic graphics.  The charm and very soul of the pixellated introduction playing on top of Ranz des Vaches during an unskippable cutscene has been ripped out and replaced with what can only be called soulless iOS-like graphics.

Not for the game but for the Remaster: Tier Four.

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Nosgoth
by Chezni

Nosgoth? Noooooz-goth. Nos. Goth. NoSgOtH?

Apparently this was an online game. Apparently I have it in my steam game list. WELL GUESS WHAT? It doesn’t exist anymore. Nosgoth used to be a PvP vampire somethin’-or-another game run by Enix, but Enix shut it down. A long time ago. I can’t even give you a Steam link because it doesn’t exist. There’s not even a community board anymore. At any rate, this one’s going in to my personal technical difficulties category. The only reason I bother to even write a review of it, is that I find games that have essentially disappeared from all of existence fascinating, and this may serve as but a small bit of proof that at one point there was indeed a game called Nosgoth. Noooosgoth.

R.U.S.E.
by LepcisMagna

I’m afraid this impression will need to be a bit short, since the above screen represents about 75% of my playtime.  R.U.S.E. had been on my Steam playlist for quite some time – next to World in Conflict.  Much to my dismay, I have discovered that both of these games are no longer available and are pretty much dead.  That’s…quite a pity.  I had been looking forward to trying both of those games.  R.U.S.E. worried me when it asked me to sign in to Ubi.com, and my fears were justified.  Some quick Googling later, I find myself deprived of not one, but two games I had long thought about playing – both axed by Ubisoft.  I miss hosted servers (though apparently R.U.S.E. was pulled due to a licensing agreement).