Faith
I will listen to Murlainn.
I will trust in his opinion.
I will not ignore his words.
I will not buy into the hype….
….much.
Temple of Elemental Evil has been released over in the US. Not released here though, apparently it takes at least a month to ship across a PC game and we cant get it cut here, because that’s.. I dont know…a good idea?
The official messageboards over at www.Ataricommunity.com are being absolutely hammered with complaints and problems and pissed off customers. The usual fanboy stance of ‘Developer X can do no wrong’,'You dont like the game, you are dumb’,'It wont install on your computer, you are dumb’,'Blame everything on the publisher’,'You are dumb’ seems to thoroughly aired out by now.
In defense of the fans, the majority of issues with the game appear to stem from two choices that were made be people other than the developer.
a) The game was packaged with SecuROM software, which is supposed to be a copy-protection system for commercially released software. What is -actually- ends up being is an annoyance for people who have the wrong cd-rom ( seemingly randomly chosen ). This problem is normally fixed by a patch ( still no word on who is actually supporting the game, if anyone ) or a no-cd crack which is generally used for pirate versions of the game. Arggh!
b)For some reason Atari and/or Hasbro have chosen to remove all child 3d-models from the game, but not remove all references to them. So apaprently when playing you will have numerous dialogue options that mention a hoard of children getting underfoot, that are now invisible. It is said that this was done because all characters in the game are destructable, and children getting mindlessly slaughtered is apparently worse than anyone else getting mindlessly slaughtered.. keep in mind this is a computer game..
So yes, while I am still looking forward to the game, I shall now spend 15minutes each day reflecting in the words of Murlainn and the truth found within.