Thanks! Somehow I missed it before.

Ok, I loaded the German demo and have been playing it, in German, even though I don't speak a work of German, lol. I'm on the very first part of the demo and so far so good. The graphics are beautiful! I can't say much about the speech since I don't understand what they're saying, but I'm following Mag's walkthrough.

I don't know how much of the demo I'll do since it's not in English, but from what I've seem so far I think I'd give the game a go.

I've also tried a bit of the demo, and it looks interesting so far. Of course, I couldn't understand a word anyone was saying, but I was still able to make some progress anyway.

I'm sure I am going to get this one. I loved Next Life/Reprobates, which doesn't seem to be well received in general, so I usually trust my own instinct with these things. I do hope that there are no spinning light or other arcade type sequences in this one, though.

I read the game spot review. Having sworn off reading the horrible reviews on that site years ago I expected a biased adventure bashing. I agree the reviewer hammered the game. To be fair not having seen the game I cannot comment as to the reviewer's opinions. Surprisingly I did not find the usual "I hate adventure games," tone.

The reviewer made legitimate complaints that one would expect to hear of a bad game. He was specific in what he found fault with. These were all things adventure gamers complain about. With that said, he may have been one who does not like adventure games and his opinion is colored. But as his faults are common to many adventure games it could be that bad. It is just that he made it sound like this game had every fault. Before I can say he was unfair I would have to see the game.

I read the review linked to by Smulan which made it sound like a different game. It sounded fairly good and much better than game spot. I tend to think Game Spot was overly critical and game industry was overly kind. The truth is likely somewhere in between. Neither review raised my curiosity enough to buy this game. I guess we need to wait for someone here to review it or perhaps Ray Ivy over at JA. I find his reviews fairly accurate and fair. As a fan of bashing game spot based upon the specific objections made by Mr. VanOrd I must cut him some slack as he might have been right. I have run into some adventure games as bad as he claims this one is.

I think maybe the 1.5 GHz is for a dual core? computer? And the 2.4 or 2.5 Ghz? is for a single core processor?

And the general rule of thumb is that more GB is better...and a decent videocard is also good to have. A 128 MB card 6600 Geforce or better is OK, as it will run the game. A better videocard will display the game better, of course.

Also, there could be a difference between the minimum system requirements and the recommeded system requirements. The minimum requirements only guarantees that the game will run, however, it isn't any garantee that it run very well.

Steam's requirements seems to be closest to the other requirements for the other (newer) adventure games, I have seen.

The minimum requirements may be for running the game windowed.


Steam may actually have tested the game to see how well it ran. I don't know why else there would be three sets of specs.

Well, I decided to bite the bullet and ordered it from Amazon. I had giftcards so it's not costing me anything. Now if I get it and have problems I'll die!

I'll keep you all updated once I start playing. Wish me luck!

I just read on Just Adventure this game uses SecuROM 7.42.0001 without warning you. This is the second game, (Whispered World) that viva media loaded with that drm. Forget the reviews I will pass on this thing.

Hmnmm. Well, too late, I ordered it. What's SecuROM? Guess I could google it. Hopefully the game will be worth it.

Jeank

It is a nasty DRM that can cause problems with your system. It does not uninstall when you uninstall the game. It stays behind and may or may not create issues. You can get rid of it but it is a complicated process. There are programs you can use to remove it. I don't recall the names but those on the glitches forum here would know. Just post there is you have problems they usually can help.

It was created by those nice people at Sony. The same outfit that damaged thousands of pc drives when they loaded another ugly program that would install without telling you when you simply played a sony/bmg music cd on your computer. It cost sony big money in damages but it seems they did not learn. However, since then I refuse to buy any sony product, not that they care.

I heard that some of the problems that stop it playing in a PC that is supposed to have the right stats is because of SecuROM, mentioned above by oldmariner. I will pass this game also since I had a really bad experience with Sacred because the kind of "security" it had, at the end I could never play it even when I had a more that appropriate PC for it.
When I buy an Action Game I know it has certain protection, if available, I buy the PS3 version and if not I avoid getting it altogether.

I'll let you all know when I get it how it goes. It's supposed to be delivered the 18th. I read several of the customer reviews on Amazon. One person had a lot of trouble with it and couldn't get it to play; the second person had some problems but the games tech people helped him clear it up, and he played the game without a problem from there on and enjoyed it. The third person had no problems and enjoyed it.

So, it seems (don't I sound like Sherlock Holmes? lol -- just playing Nemesis) there are a variety of things that can happen, and I'll keep my fingers crossed.

The only retail games so far as I'm aware that ship without DRM are those from GOG (The old classics).

I've never been a fan of DRM, mostly because it's a worthless effort and only causes issues for legitimate owners. Hackers typically have a crack available before the game hits the shelves. Unfortunately we’re stuck with it because the publishers have convinced themselves they’re losing revenue (from folks that would never have purchased the product to begin with). It’s odd reasoning that will eventually cost them in the long run (but they’ll never figure that part out).

Do a Google search for remove securom. Scroll down a bit and you will find a listing that will take you to the Securom web site where you will be able to download a program to remove it from your computer. Keep the installed removal program for later use.

Needless to say, do not remove Securom until after you have uninstalled the game.

I was thinking of getting this one but now I have read this I will hang on a little.Thanks for all the info

Well, I'm in Gamespot's corner and I'm nowhere near done. I won't be, either. After playing both the thief and the detective, I realized that I was bored to tears with this tedious game and both these really unlikeable characters and had lost any desire to find out what happens next.

Considering how badly the game plays on my computer where far better ones play flawlessly, the decision to uninstall and go replay an old freebie that's challenging and fun was easy.

Gil.

Thanks for the warning Re:Whispered World, oldmariner

I will be heading over there to secure that removal tool,
Gobobby!

While we are at it, are there any more we should be aware of???

Just saw where "Mass Effect" also includes Securom,
eldest g'son just played that on my desktop.

If you wish to discuss security removals or difficulty in getting the game to run, etc. Please discuss in Glitches. This forum is for discussing the game itself meaning the story line etc.

Ana

Does SecuROM get installed even from downloaded games?

Steam has Alter Ego on offer at $14.99 until November 1st.

Alter Ego is 14.99 at The Adventure Shop also, link is above the forum.

Possibly. There is a download version of SecuROM.

Thank you !

I already bought the game before I read all of this. That was my fault I didn't check here first, which I usually

always do .I hope I will have no problems when I get around to playing the game.

Also I hope I will like the plot and story line, and the rest of the game .

As for gamestop I do not like the store . I have one near me.

Its adventure section has gotten smaller and smaller every time I go in there .

What is left of it is mostly action adventure if any adventure at all .

They need to have someone that truly plays adventure games and loves doing so , to work for them, writing reviews.

Then and only then will we ever get honest reviews from gamestop .

I choose to find all the info like reviews, glitches, hints, specs, whats new, and where to buy,

I find it here on gameboomers and they have never let me down

AS for Alter Ego, like I said if I have problems I can always find someone here to advise me what to do.

Trinny3, I don't know if you are talking of GameStop instead of GameSpot, since it is very easy to get these two confused.

GameStop makes its big profit from pre-owned games and these are Console. They have very few customers that ask for PC games that are sold new.

GameSpot for some reason doesn't like Adventure , I guess because most reviewers, used to play Action, find Adventure very slow.

I've read through the whole thread with interest, noted the technical issues but has anyone here actually played the game yet?

"...has anyone here actually played the game yet?"

Sort of. I bought it, played enough to be both the thief and the detective, and hated it so much I doubt I got through a quarter of the game before I quit.

Gil.