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Does KM's Univers really deserve so much praise?

#1 Baby Bonnie Hood

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 12:25 PM

I never actually heard of KM's Univers until a month or so ago, when I saw it had 5 stars and a gushing review by Drelick. So I played it and... meh. Short game with features that weren't actually useful; it was okay, but hardly deserving 5 stars (I'd give it a 3). There was an obvious sequel hook, so I played part 2 and... I wasn't pleased. It was longer but also buggier, and I think a sidescrolling section was stolen from Alien Wars. I couldn't finish it fairly, so needless to say I didn't like it as much.

Finally, there's a special edition of the first Univers. I hate it. Buggy shit is buggy shit, it's like the creator didn't bother testing his own game. I almost finished it but some really stupid board linking near the end got me stuck. Whatever, the boss battle kept crashing MZX anyway (damn if I know why).

So... why all the praise? Is it just me because I wasn't around for it at the time or something?

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 12:30 PM

Alien Wars! I had forgotten all about Alien Wars! Now that's a game!!! F********, WILLIAM BUBEL, man. Talented guy.

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#3 Baby Bonnie Hood

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 12:57 PM

I'm appalled that Ben Cheeze doesn't have the same popularity as Stan. I mean, that old guy practically defines COUNTRY.MOD!

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 07:12 PM

Luke also likes August and those Doomsday Dream Legend games. I think his rating scale tends to be something like 0 or 5.

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#5 Terryn

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 09:09 AM

Baby Bonnie Hood, on 24 July 2010 - 07:25 AM, said:

Whatever, the boss battle kept crashing MZX anyway (damn if I know why).

Hey, thanks for the heads up. For future reference, though, we do have a Bug Tracker for listing bugs like this, so if you find anything else wrong with MZX, you know what to do.

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#6 Baby Bonnie Hood

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 12:19 PM

Why does that particular board crash MZX anyway?

And is the game really that shoddy? I mean instead of buying ammo with coins, I'm buying coins with ammo.

#7 Terryn

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 12:25 PM

The GDM converter's throwing its arms up at that board's GDM, causing the program to exit with an error condition. check stderr.txt after the crash for evidence of this. EDIT: This is because it's actually a mod file renamed .gdm. ffffffff

Also, yeah, it's shoddy. Something you've not mentioned yet: you can defend in the RPG battles and then immediately select attack/shoot, giving yourself the benefits of defending while still dealing damage.