For a game I didn’t think much of, I sure am writing a lot about it. Maybe it’s because failures are just easier to latch onto things to talk about. I don’t like to keep harping on a poor game, but I keep coming up with interesting comparisons to better games.
In this case, at the time, I couldn’t help but think the creators had lifted the underwater puzzled from The Secret of Monkey Island wholesale and dropped it into Deponia. In looking both puzzles over again I see that isn’t the case, but it certainly takes heavy inspiration from it. they probably took the puzzle and changed it around to fit the situation better. I wanted to compare them and it just perfectly shows how Deponia fails in its attempt to be a Monkey Island successor.
Deponia isn’t funny. It isn’t cleaver. And there’s nothing more to the game than just a sickeningly disgusting character I would do my best to ignore in real life. It always comes back to Rufus.
I get into describing and analyzing what exactly these puzzles are doing. I talk about how to solve them and explain the comedy behind them, so there is a major spoiler warning in effect for the post.
Ehi, sure Deponia is not Monkey Ysland what a revelation…thanks! -.-”
anyway some stupid idiots from Disney, after Lucas sell the entire lucas products
including LUCAS ARTS, have the big idea to destroy it trow up in a toilet and flush it.
So you can forget about new games with that old spirit.
So…some one try the best to give us a Point Click adventure old style, is not like monkey? is not like 80s90s adventure? yes but who cares? those days are over, unfortunately!
But Deponia 1-2-3 are funny and is a good start! To give new linfa to an old game type.
So maybe someon a day realize something wonderful.
So shut up and enjoy it, or shut up anyway and play again and again forever the same Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, Day of Tentacle, maniac mansion, Kyrandia, enchantia etc etc etc.
But please…don’t lose your time spitting venom, on good game
the attempting to replace the past, only in your opinion.
I’m publishing the above comment, because I’m strangely fascinated by it. It somehow goes off topic and misses the point in completely opposite ways at the same time. At first it looks like a stereotypical vomit spewing gamer comment, something I’ve generally been lucky enough to avoid since I don’t write in spaces that curry them, but … there is no but.
I’d say that it looks like English isn’t this person’s first language, but I know quite a few people where that is the case and they are much better at speaking and writing it than this.
I almost feel like I should write a response to the paradoxical sentiment being presented here, but instead I’ll just state a few points. The commenter at the same time says the old days are over and Deponia has moved on and then says “to give new [life] to an old game type.” The problem was it was a 90s adventure game, but came out in 2012. It’s learned nothing from the ensuing decade. This isn’t the full post, but a linking post, and even here I state the game isn’t funny in the slightest.
Also, if this is your definition of “venom” I hope you don’t step out into the real world anytime soon.
And you’re no totalbiscuit. In how many other languages can you write fluently?
Deponia has achieved international recognition, 74% / 84% on metacritic, and 100% approval from gamers on Steam (rounded to the nearest integer). Will you ever achieve such a “failure” as that? As for me, I certainly didn’t achieve any such success as of yet, nor am I fluent in any other language.
So, you didn’t like the game, now we know you are a rare and unusual person among the gamers who played Deponia. If you do some survey and statistics you will find that most people who played it think it is a funny game. It’s sad for that you did not enjoy and appreciate this funny game. It’s sad for you that you spent so much time writing negatively about this game.
@Sam
“It’s sad for you that you spent so much time writing negatively about this game.” – This post came out over a year ago. Do you always dig through archives to find pieces you disagree with just to trot out what are widely understood as pointless statistics? The fact that you equate success with public opinion polls rather than the merits of what the developers were attempted to do with their work is an insult to them and to me. You offer no defense for the game’s actual humor merits and only that other people think its funny. Try coming to a debate with an opinion of your own next time.
Also, I checked. You didn’t publish your comment on the actual post. Therefore I can only assume you only read this linking post and not the actual article.