Comments on: Grimm Episodes Info And Trailers

By: Zac North

Zac North — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:27:24 +0000

American’s gone downhill.

Looks horrible.

By: James T

James T — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:20:45 +0000

I hope they do a sequel called ‘Grimmm’.

By: K

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:40:36 +0000

Ahhh, I didn’t realise I wasn’t even supposed to have the Spore creature creator. Sorry to be off topic.

Incidentally, a trojan was detected on my PC. I’m not certain it was from that, but I downloaded little else. But it serves me right. I got it from filefront.

By: Ninja Dodo

Ninja Dodo — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:44:05 +0000

“Alice” was a good game.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:18:47 +0000

@ Dave: It got leaked to the cove of the corsairs, and is now pretty much everywhere. It’s why Sporepedia has had an explosion of new entries.

It doesn’t look like there is much more to this game than wandering and occasionally ‘butt-stomping’. I’m usually forgiving of games with gameplay deficits if they put present a good narrative, but with American ‘Scrapland’ McGee in charge I’m not all that hopeful.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:16:36 +0000

I thought the idea was that you’d have to play each game a couple of times, each time revealing another “layer”, something like that.

That said, Bad Day L.A. was just so shockingly bad and I’m not even talking about the awful gameplay or broken graphics engine, but just the writing itself – oh dear.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:20:27 +0000

I believe American McGee is still feeling out the wonderful world of using lowest-bidder foreign programmers to put his games together. He’s working with a different group than the one he used on Bad Day L.A., but.. You know I think the real problem may be he just has bad ideas or no concept of what makes a good game or isn’t a good producer? I’m also very amazed it’s taken him this long to develop it, the effects, graphics, gameplay appear to be incredibly simple, nothing revolutionary. I can download Overlord on the same service(Gametap), why would I play Grimm? It’ll take less megs?

I seriously don’t like how it kept stopping the action, the camera swinging away from the player to tell them what to do. It looks like Katamari Damacy a little, the act of ‘corrupting’ everything is similiar to sucking it up, but Katamari Damacy just dropped you into the world and let you do what you wanted without constant interruptions. It would not have worked if it kept stopping you and telling you what to scoop up.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:04:23 +0000

Definitely a wait and see game this… I fail to see how walking around almost obsessive/compulsively ‘killing’ all the scenery could possibly be fun.

Maybe its about something else… still hard to tell from those short videos.

By: Saul

Saul — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:40:35 +0000

I’m curious, at the least. Any word on a release outside Gametap?

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:04:22 +0000

@K:
what where who? is the creature creator out already? i thought it was coming june 17th.

ok back to topic. i liked the alice game by McGee. After that his games just werent that good.
Somehow i dont know if this game will be too good either. I was hoping for a darker atmosphere and not quite so childish cartoonish. Oh well we shall see…

By: Radiant

Radiant — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:36:28 +0000

American McGee; that name on a game and the opening bars of Fresh Prince of Bel Air are the two things guaranteed to fill me with dread.

By: Okami

Okami — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:58:02 +0000

This is really stupid. I didn’t spend months running around, painting circles over cherry trees to bring back life to a dead world to have some stupid gome-thing who does butt-stomps destroy everything in thirty minutes.

Note to self: Get back my copy of Okami from whoever I gave it to and play through it again.