The Video Game Release List of 5/11 - 5/17

Yay; Myst cover on teh frontpage, bonus points to Faylor for good taste.

I hope the many bugs and deficiencies in the DS port of Myst have been fixed in the long delay between its European and US release.

I've had the EU version for a while now. I disliked the game at first but got quite into it after a few days playing it on and off. (I had never properly played the game on the PC.) The bugs and bad porting are somewhat unforgivable, though:

- There are quite a few graphics errors where corrupt or incorrect images are overlaid on the screen.
- Some "movement" bugs where you can confuse the game's idea of where you are (though not fatally so far).
- It has completely locked-up on me several times, requiring a reboot.
- The graphics are really grainy and have not been converted for the DS very well at all.
- Some of the things you are supposed to read are very difficult to make out on the DS screen and with the grainy graphics making things worse.
- Some of the things you are expected to click on are ridiculously small and you have to keep tapping the stylus around the area until you hit the right pixel.

The back of the box claims the game was re-written for the DS but I seriously doubt it. If it was it was re-written by fucking idiots.

Still, a good game if you like that kind of puzzle thing and can forgive the old-fashioned graphics and confusing movement system. (It's never clear whether clicking somewhere will turn you 90 *or* 180 degrees, *or*, rather than rotate you on the spot, move you in a direction. Since it's inconsistent, depending on where you are, it can be disorientating when you don't know an area yet or don't realise you can get to certain places.)

The DS game has some extra stuff in it but it still has me wishing I had just got the old PC game instead.

wow narnia got a release on everything but the PSP... is the psp a dead system? i just bought this thing :(

They're clearly letting people digest GTA IV. The interesting thing is, with a dearth of new games, that means more GTA IV sales this week. That, of course, means that GTA V will be that much more scary for them.

I calculate at this rate that GTA VIII will create a magnetic pulse that will wipe out all game releases for 20 years.

Has anyone official even asked Rockstar about a PC port of GTA4?

Wii Ski might actually be pretty fun, is this already out in Europe or when does it come?

Drone Tactics is a strat RPG with giant robotic insects that you build from scratch from Atlus....WIN.

With chronicles of narnia on all systems you can think of hopefully on one of the systems it will actually do good?


naw :(

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