Black and White: Have you played it?

[pg]

Originally posted by Grumbold
It was games like B&W that taught me never to trust official review articles even when they all said much the same things. Too many journalists know nothing about what makes a good game, dont play the games they review for longer than 12 hours or just want to be upbeat about a game which is being lauded by others.

that's basically all i got out of b&w too. pitiful game, no strategy or skill involved in it. even the sims is better(but not much) imo. previews of games are always positive nowadays, and reviews are rarely negative, and usually at worst ambiguous. the only review site i currently have any trust in is firingsquad.

[Grumbold]

Negative reviews exist, but its usually only the small budget games that get unfavourably compared to the multi-million dollar huge-team productions that are released earlier in the same quarter. If a producer spends serious money promoting a product everyone seems to line up to agree how wonderful it is - a bit like "modern art" imo.

B&W really lost its appeal for me when I discovered that enemy temples could be shattered by a couple of well lobbed rocks entirely cost free despite being almost invulnerable to divine fireballs, lighning strikes or any of the other impressive stuff you could only do with expenditure of hard won power.

[Dis]

It was fun building the creature.

I had to use hot keys for spells if I remember correctly. For some reason I could never draw the correct symbol to cast a spell . I understand why they wanted an interface like that, but the implementation could have been better.

I just didn't want to f*ck around with the villagers. I just wanted to play with the creature

[ixnay]

My friend got it. I thought it looked fun but would get old quickly. Apparently lots of other people agreed with me...

[Sceptor107]

for some reason my guy throws feces too

[Dis]

well who doesn't?

[Shadowlord]

You can teach him not to... I taught mine to throw them at the enemy. *evil grin*

But it did get boring, and then it got deleted.