The original Broken Sword

[tlvlp]

Is it just me who finds the director's cut to be too buggy and the additional scenes unrewarding compared to the original release. It would be nice to have the original version available on steam, it's one of my all time favourites.

[ahoym8]

Agreed. They cut massive amounts of dialogue between characters as well. Old version was better.

[valmont]

I have only played as far as the scene at the Quayside. But I share the disappointment expressed by many in this thread. I have fond memories of the original game; it was one of the first adventure games I played, setting the bar VERY high for storytelling, art, voice acting and puzzle design. Few games since then have pleased me as much. It was not without frustration, played on an old console and low-res TV, some of the find-the-pixel puzzles made me want to tear out my hair. But the flashing blue circles babying you through the game are much worse. I don't like the new portrait art as it really doesn't match the original character design. I was so surprised and excited to see this game was available, but I think I will stop playing now and hope that somehow I can get my hands on the original.

[Gromber]

why dont have both game version on steam?

[delakrua]

The Director's Cut reminds me of Star Wars Special Edition and all the new changes to the original (HAN SHOOT FIRST! :)). People love it the way it was, why change it? to have a reason to re-release it? It's fine (in both cases) if they would include the oryginal version into the re-release, like they did with Monkey Island games.

[Lady of Levin]

I'm annoyed at the censorship more than anything. The death scenes scared the ♥♥♥♥ out of me as a young girl and they really amped up the tense atmosphere (and made the enemies that much more terrifying). They also took out some of the more risqué jokes. And BS2 Remastered removed the easter egg at the end where, if you can find the right pixel, Nico completely skips her last puzzle by flashing at the door. It was so funny :/

[Sityu]

I grew up with The Smoking Mirror, only played this one many years later and just once. I can't get my old CDs to work on my newer computer anymore, so I was glad to see the trilogy bundle for sale.

This Director's Cut screams that it was updated to portable, touchscreen devices. I don't have nostalgia for Templars and I am enjoying the new content (and can't tell if something was cut or changed), although the blue circle help system is annoying (oh, those pixel-hunty old days...).

Haven't played the remastered Smoking Mirror yet, I can only hope that, when the nostalgia kicks in, it won't be as bad as your experience was with this one :) And of course, if the original of either one surfaces on Steam, it will be an insta-buy.

[Lady of Levin]

Sityu původně napsal:

And of course, if the original of either one surfaces on Steam, it will be an insta-buy.

The annoying thing is that BS2 on Steam used to be the original one. That is the one I bought. Then it got 'updated' to the remastered version and I was quite peeved off that we had no choice in the matter. I bought the remastered one for my iPod and played it on that, so I wanted to have the original one for PC. Not a big fan of the remaster because imo it looks worse on PC than it originally did - because it was blatantly made for portable devices.

[Sityu]

Queen Battletits původně napsal:

The annoying thing is that BS2 on Steam used to be the original one.

Oh, I did not know that. I guess it was done with good intentions, so that you don't have to buy it twice for the new content. It could be better if they put a switch in the game to let you decide which version to play. In this light it indeed feels like they "pulled a George Lucas" on it.

[Mr. Midnight]

Huh, I had no idea they had taken out dialog and risky jokes. Maybe I would like Nico a lot better in the old version, as she sounds a lot more fun. I just didn't feel any sort of connection between the two of them in this version.

[Mr. Midnight]

That said, it was really fun to play through and I liked the blue circles. I've always hated pixel hunting.

[Lady of Levin]

MajorMajorx2 původně napsal:

Huh, I had no idea they had taken out dialog and risky jokes. Maybe I would like Nico a lot better in the old version, as she sounds a lot more fun. I just didn't feel any sort of connection between the two of them in this version.

I didn't think there was much of a connection between them in the original game until about 3/4s of the way through to begin with :P I do like the extended back story for Nico but I would've preferred it if it were a short unlockable 'bonus' when you finish the main game because it clashed terribly with the 'old' content and putting it at the beginning was a bad, bad idea when Broken Sword has one of the most memoriable openings of any game I've played.

[Griever]

I never noticed any bugs in the Director's Cut version of the game and so far I've played it on the DS, PC and iPhone. Although Rev added quite a bit to the game I couldn't help but notice the things they took out like the envelope George wrote numbers and little drawings on and like shieldipez said the lack of moving objects in the background was absent.
I understand they tried to get rid of excess memory that wasn't important to make way for the new stuff but like most people have said it takes away more than it adds quite literally. The Nico Easter egg in BS2 were she flashed to progress was funny and wasn't crass enough to remove it although I do wish they'd have left the original beginning intact.

[Catw]

I already had the wii version of this (i am kind of a sucker for Broken sword games) and i have the same problems with this version :
- Resolution is too low; Didn't bother me that much on the wii, but it hurts to see this full screen in full hd
- Dialogs audio quality... Man, I wish they recorded them all over again in high quality, but I do understand that this is a cost issue
- Some of the new puzzles are meh.

Apart from that, it's Broken Sword and it works on Windows 8 without a hitch - it still is one of my favorite point'n'clicks.

[Mr. Midnight]

Does anyone have a link to a video of the original intro so I can experience it?

[tlvlp]

this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=206BeQNBzhM