stop whining everyone!

[Kathrin]

Come on guys just stop whining about bad controls or bugs or whatever...
Everyone is crying like a baby because this is not an adventure or because this is not syberia... why? because it has wasd movement with mouse? really?

Ok the game is not polished! It needs a patch for the camera, the controls, better lip syncing for english version and better graphics so that it can be a 2017 modern pc game!

But when Syberia 1 or 2 were good in graphics or controls? I remember having issues with the mouse control back then, also with voices, also with the not so modern graphics...but all these were not a problem back then.

It was all about the story, the music, the art, the beautiful lawyer Kate Walker we all love and her kindness, generosity, the fairy tale she took part in, her badassery...!

I have been playing the game for 2 days and it is like the old ones with the same issues but also the same beautiful characteristics we all loved.

If you cannot play it in this state just wait a little longer for a patch. It is not that important. Yes they should have polished it before release but it is not that difficult to play the game even in this state. Microids was never that big of a studio. And if you say the game is pricy then you should have put more effort to buy this game for a better price. I bought the game for 20 euros just not from steam but from other official sites from where you can buy an official download key for steam. Not that pricy now is it?

Be patient. The game is beautiful, the music is there, the art is there, Kate Walker is better than ever and the fairy tale we are participating is there too!

[BlackCyril]

Hey if we dont report bugs they wont fix it !

[Kathrin]

There is a bug section for the bugs!

[vikingniels]

everyone seems nowadays find it normal that a game is full of bugs
that just comes out
i find this not normal sybria is in the make for 12 years and they can't even deliver a good game
if an game is bad we complain about it
i think you dont understand the wining about mass efect to??

[Shredder]

Is this thread for real?

[Banderi]

So what you're saying is, if I got the game for $2.99 from a shady kid down the street I would be entitled to pat everyone on the head and say "your price argument is invalid, silly".

There are far too many "AAA" gamedev companies nowadays that just can't look past the nonsensical practices which cripple the games they themselves deliver, and in turn the gaming market and, by extension, community as a whole. And far too many times little indie developers are able too do that and turn an idea into something wonderful. Microids had 12 years of time in which they switched engines, discarded and refined ideas, looked at the developing game market, adapted gameplay mechanics, chose music scores carefully and built up character designs. Prior to that, Sokal delivered two amazing games born of amazing ideas which were an enormous success. After all that work, they decided to release an incomplete software that represents what design and development choices they actually had in those 12 years.

The music score is lacking, repetitive and based on 15-seconds loops. The graphics are let down by the terrible delivery of animation, constant frame drops, expression work and lipsync. The voices are plagued and the dubbing is incomplete. The controls are enormously frustrating to use and meant for consoles. There are frequent bugs, between minor issues and game-breaking glitches. Instead of polishing what they had, they paid for broken DRM. The story is a garbled mess that gives no satisfaction and ends in a cliffhanger. The only things that are worthy of being considered even remotely "fun" are the very ones that are left from the predecessors, and even then they are stomped upon multiple times by the rest of the things that conglomerate into an inexcusable show of laziness and greed.

Microids has failed to deliver, in every possible way, a good successor to the series many people, including me, have known and loved for years, which would at the very best a minor, albeit mildly interesting game with terrible mechanics if it wasn't marketed as "Syberia", and even still, almost as if it wasn't enough, the way things are going they still promise to deliver a sequel to this "thing", further slapping in the face of what once was an incredible saga. Even worse, they show how huge game companies just don't want to listen to the community and continue to make the same mistakes every time, and use every possible shortcoming in the book to make one buck more, completely disregarding any consequences. Instead of addressing the errors and replying to people in these few days (which are the most important following a release!) they gave the classic PR void response, told us they're working on "a patch" and deleted some threads. And you want us to "stop whining"?

This is not a game. This is a job. Go home and play some Pokemon, kid.
By far the greatest disappointment I've seen all year. Not even a reboot would have made me this salty.

[Marika]

Microids is a huge AAA game company. Lol.

[David]

I think the OP is right. Just enjoy Syberia for what it is. It's an unique story with very nice characters and good challenging puzzzles. Sure the game has its flaws but the whole atmosphere of the game makes up for that

[Ylbirda]

Do you realize that most people complain because they can't play the game? Plenty of us can't be bothered about graphics or controls. You know why? Because we can't even play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game as it constantly freezes and doesn't load properly. I got the game for free, cause I'm supposed to review it. But how the hell am I supposed to review a game that won't even start. I've played like 5 minutes. Watched the cutscene, had the talk with Kurk and then I tried to click Kurk again. And guess what? The game froze. So stop being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to people who waited 13 years for this game and can't play it because it's so ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[LeDeer]

I can't remember any serious issues back in the 2002 when I've played the game. Nowadays many game companies think they can sell unfinished buggy products and all will be satisfied. I think not. I am very disappointed I can't play the game and forced to wait patch: I've stuck on Krystal model screen where I can't pull the chain. Will never pre-order anymore.

[Kathrin]

@ Banderi
The game is good. Just wait for a patch to polish the issues that have been reported.
You are very quick to judge. I am not a kid. I have been playing adventure games since 2000.
As I said the game was never about the graphics back then but the art, the story and the feelings. And all these are delivered from this game too. The bugs and glitches that it now has will be fixed. Also I didn't say that if a game costs too little it should not be a nice game. Many complained that it should not cost 40 euros and it doed not.That's why i wrote that.
Again you are quick and easy to judge. If you can't play the game at this state then don't. Wait for a fix.
As I stated before they should have released it bug free and they should have sorted the problems before release. But they didn't. That does not mean the game is not good.

Tha game is playable and the issues that I have seen for the pc port are not game restricting.

@NSEnot
I have passed this stage with the Krystal model chain. Maybe you are doing something wrong. I had no problem with that. You have to figure out the correct numbers. It is trial and error. You have to move down the chain as far it goes. I think it requires 3 times to put the correct number and you are done.

I am at Barramour and I haven't met a puzzle bug so far that does not allow me to continue playing. Maybe you haven't understood the controls.

[Perlyte]

Originally posted by NSEnot:

Will never pre-order anymore.

That's great news. You shouldn't have done so in the first place, but at least something good came out of it :)

[Kathrin]

Don't pre-order before a game has been released. Check feedback after release and then think if you like the game. That is the rule nowadays.

[Shephard]

"But when Syberia 1 or 2 were good in graphics or controls? " -> Those games ARE good in graphics and controls. even TODAY. Stop being a whiteknight, you won't get free cs:go keys.

[blackphoenix82]

this game is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ alpha, that the main menu looks like command line, and the ioptions are not saved....good i spent only few euros on this trash...sorry if i complain by the way...

[Bugsbugme]

Wait so you tell people to check the feedback before they buy, but you are also telling people not to leave feedback about all the technical issues the game has?... seems logical.

Also, don't try to use the first 2 games to justify the nonsense problems that this game has. This is not release material. If this had been released during the time those two games were, then it wouldn't have stood a chance. No-one had broadband to go and download patches every few weeks, not to mention you can't go and patch a PlayStation disc if something is bugged.
It might be said that most modern games are not release worthy, but that does not exempt Microids from honest criticsm.