Broken Sword 4 IS NOT the Weakest Link

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

IMHO the title for weakest Broken Sword game SHOULD RIGHTFULLY belong to Broken Sword 3. My reason? There are two actually:

1. The game requires a Gamepad to be pleasantly enjoyable. Not to mention the game doesn't seem to like my Logitech Controller as I can not bind any key on both the LT & RT buttons on my controller. Only on this game though as most Steam games on my library do not suffer from this issue.

2. The game's puzzles are MOSTLY Block moving puzzles, which might I add WERE ORIGINALLY a "Tomb Raider" thing. The huge amount of block puzzles in Broken Sword 3 made the game feel like it was trying to copy "Tomb Raider" to the tee instead of keeping true to its "point and click adventure" heritage.

I've just started playing Broken Sword 4 for the first time this week and might I say this game feels a whole lot better than Broken Sword 3 :)

[tomk1]

On my wishlist, big fan of the series, so hope to pick up in next sale as over spent in last one.
I wonder if one day they might do a remake from 1 like the Tomb Raider remake but in the graphic novel noir style

[omed_86]

Actually, I can't tell yet. But BS4 surely takes the crown for worst controls ever imo. It is just so cluncky.

[Mithras O_+]

yeah going to have to agree with omed_86, BS4 is worst out of all the broken sword games. imo. How the characters walk around at times sucks :/

[omed_86]

Originally posted by Mithras O_+:

yeah going to have to agree with omed_86, BS4 is worst out of all the broken sword games. imo. How the characters walk around at times sucks :/

Lol I am still playing the game, and sometimes I am like OMG I hate this game I hate it! XD But there are also good things that keep me going: The voice acting is pretty good and some puzzles are nice.
I have to finish it before going to the fifth. Back to the good old 2D :)

[Nihiliste]

Big Necro but Broken Sword 3 is for sure a very weak game overall, I reviewed it as "trash 3.5/10"

[squiggly101]

Broken Sword 4 was/is terrible. The puzzles are innane that no reasonable person would come up with. When I find the solution it's not like "Of course, I should have thought of that earlier!" but more like "no-one would ever think of that, why bother". You wan to bridge a gap in the floor? I know, push over a brick wall, it's obvious! And the humor and characters...my God they are terrible...it was obviously does by a different game development crew who had none of the finesse of the original. It didn't even really feel like a Broken Sword game. And the way cut-scenes often cut in to hide the ending of some other sequence leaving things unexplained, like they are covering up gaps in the story.

Broken Sword 3 was not the best, but it was a good game. The control took some time to get used to, but once you get used to them, they work well. Being able to control the character in all ways without having to move from keyboard or mouse is a blessing. In 1+2 it's all mouse, in 3 it's all keyboard, in 4 you use the keys to move, then clumsily switch to the mouse to try and click on stuff. Some people hated the crate-moving in BS3, I happened to like it. It's different, it adds a kind of action-game element to an otherwise classic adventure game, it doesn't make a worse game, just a different game. And it still felt like a BS game despite the swtich to 3D. And somehow the 3D in BS3 worked better than in BS4, where characters often get stuck, there are often glitches, it just generally looks worse in BS4.

[j4ck_fl4sh_3k]

Originally posted by squiggly101:

Broken Sword 4 was/is terrible. The puzzles are innane that no reasonable person would come up with. When I find the solution it's not like "Of course, I should have thought of that earlier!" but more like "no-one would ever think of that, why bother". You wan to bridge a gap in the floor? I know, push over a brick wall, it's obvious!

I totally agree... I got the section with the Knight statues and had to eventually use a guide... which I have done in other B.Sword games, and your right, in the other games if I used a guide I would be like "Oh, I should have got that." or "Now I see what I did wrong"... I still don't get the some of the puzzles and really don't want to anymore, Just wanna get to the end credits so will use the walkthru.

ANYWAY... I really liked Broken Sword 3, It was quite nice to see a point and click game with 3d graphics... 1 and 2 are still the best but, i liked it.

One last thing, Anna Marie is a bland character, her and georges romance falls FLAT!

[Frungi]

Since no one here seems to care how often this gets necrod, lemme just react to this bizarre trolling:

Originally posted by Cahos Rahne Veloza:

2. The game's puzzles are MOSTLY Block moving puzzles

That’s just demonstrably false. Certainly too many for how time-consumingly tedious they are, sure, especially the last two seemed excessive, but still a minority of the puzzle count.

Originally posted by Cahos Rahne Veloza:

which might I add WERE ORIGINALLY a "Tomb Raider" thing.

No, they weren’t.

Originally posted by Cahos Rahne Veloza:

The huge amount of block puzzles in Broken Sword 3 made the game feel like it was trying to copy "Tomb Raider" to the tee

Who the heck plays Tomb Raider and thinks its defining trait is block puzzles? It’s like claiming that any work of fiction mentioning Ramadan is shamelessly ripping off Moby D!ck, because that book was all Queequeg all the time and invented the concept of Islam. Just stupid. Besides, moving blocks around is much more tedious in TR.

[Northern]

I've been re-playing the series from the beginning after maybe 20 years, and I realized that;

the first game is really a masterpiece,
the second one isn't that great,
the third isn't that bad,
and this fourth is quite terrible.

[Frungi]

Originally posted by Northern:

I've been re-playing the series from the beginning after maybe 20 years, and I realized that;

the first game is really a masterpiece,
the second one isn't that great,
the third isn't that bad,
and this fourth is quite terrible.

Agreed on all counts!