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Unsolved Crimes Investigated In September
Posted by Mike Fahey at 3:20 AM on August 29, 2008
Empire Interactive's 1970's New York crime drama Unsolved Crimes is one step closer to being solved, as the company announces the game has gone gold and is heading our way next month. Having only just been officially announced last month, the game should be hitting store shelves on or around September 23rd.
This is exactly the sort of development cycle I want to see more of. Tell us about the game one month, release it two months later. Makes me long for the good old days before I had the internet and those pesky video game bloggers didn't tell us about games years before they were coming out. Jerks.
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TwilitSky
Posted 3:46 AM 29/8/08
@Blue Oyster Cultist:
What suspense story has replay value?
TwilitSky
Pwnieboy was BOCultist was Epaminondas
Posted 3:34 AM 29/8/08
No matter how good it is, what do you do after you complete it once? Wouldn't think this would have any replay value at all.
Pwnieboy was BOCultist was Epaminondas
SansSanity
Posted 3:34 AM 29/8/08
now this game I could pick.
I love the crime solving games (aka CSI game series)
They have no reply value of course, but they really make for a good 15 or so hrs of fun
SansSanity
2NinjasTapedTogether
Posted 3:32 AM 29/8/08
Yeah! Those blogging assholes!
Oh, shit... WAIT!
ddn't mn t sy tht!
2NinjasTapedTogether
Aye Mak Sicur
Posted 4:07 AM 29/8/08
Who cares about replay value? I'd rather play an awesome game once than a mediocre game a hundred times.
I really can't wait for this, it reeks of Hotel Dusk. Hotel Musk, you could say.
Aye Mak Sicur
ChibiKyKiske
Posted 4:06 AM 29/8/08
@Blue Oyster Cultist: i dunno, i kinda have the same problem with Hotel Dusk: Room 215.
had a great story and good pacing and everything, it's just that once you go through it one time, i dunno if one would be able to play it again.
it is good to pass on to other people though.
ChibiKyKiske
sirmarcelot
Posted 4:01 AM 29/8/08
hope its not mini-games oriented
sirmarcelot
Pwnieboy was BOCultist was Epaminondas
Posted 4:27 AM 29/8/08
@TwilitSky: Exactly!
@Aye Mak Sicur: That's a false choice, I don't have to play mediocre games at all, I can spend my money on great games WITH replay value.
Pwnieboy was BOCultist was Epaminondas
Simple_Man
Posted 6:21 AM 29/8/08
@Blue Oyster Cultist: You must not play a lot of games then.
Simple_Man
TearsandScreams
Posted 7:07 AM 29/8/08
@ChibiKyKiske: I played it twice, but I absolutely loved it, was completely nutty for that game.
@Blue Oyster Cultist: Yeah but really, replay value is overrated. I have hundreds of games with replay value, doesn't mean I'll play them again, and you can only play one at a time. It's like not buying Se7en on DVD because you know the ending. It's about the journey with games like this.
TearsandScreams
Blue Oyster Cultist
Posted 8:03 AM 29/8/08
@Simple_Man: Civ, Total War, HL, Battlefield, Madden, SupCom, Elder Scrolls, only the good stuff...
@TearsandScreams: Well we value different things then, I don't think I could name a hundred good games...
Blue Oyster Cultist
quen
Posted 8:39 AM 29/8/08
(second part of my comment above was @Aye Mak Sicur)
quen
Simple_Man
Posted 8:34 AM 29/8/08
@Blue Oyster Cultist: And God of War and Okami are not. I'm not saying the games you listed aren't good, but you're depriving yourself of some truly engrossing and cinematic gaming experiences by pursuing games with purely based on its replay value.
Simple_Man
quen
Posted 8:32 AM 29/8/08
@Blue Oyster Cultist: what do you do after you complete it once?
I'll pass on a special secret to you. Be careful to keep this quiet - not many people know about it. Are you ready? Here goes... there's this special new underground website called 'ebay' where you can sell games you've finished. Who would have thought!
More to the point, I know Hotel Dusk was great, but just because this is also a crime adventure game set in the recent past, doesn't mean it will also be great. :) Let's wait and see though because I certainly hope so. (Also if it is a success I'm looking forward to the inevitable sequel, Solved Crimes.)
quen