HeartsAndRainbows: Thank you for that rather in-depth view, MarkoH01, I really appreciate it.
You're welcome :)
HeartsAndRainbows: I had looked into reviews for
Syberia 3 in September when I bought parts 1 & 2 - because I would hate to start a series that would end in a dumpster fire swarming with wasps. Reading and listening through those pretty much every single one agreed that the OST was great, but they also agreed on a lot of the other things that still seem to be...
not as great.
To make it easy. Syberia 2 offers kind of an ending to the story but Syberia 3 imo finds a good way to keep it going. I haven't finished it yet but for the story alone I guess you would miss out in case you enjoyed Syberia 1 + 2 and did not buy Syberia 3.
HeartsAndRainbows: Some reported that lip-synching in the English version was
so out of synch that the voice actors would still speak when a character stopped moving its mouth and the next one began to speak. My guess would be that they optimized their lip-synching for the French speaking market and called it a day, but I haven't read reviews for the French version.
Might be. Unfortunately I can confirm the same for the German version. The problem is that you often have close ups of the talking persons so it's hard to not notice this. Again: it's possible to live with it but there is much room for improvement.
HeartsAndRainbows: Some reviewers mentioned loading screens for every little screen change (even within zones). Are the loading screens plentiful
as well as long or did this later version reduce loading screens within a zone to
mere stuttering? (It seems I'm having a bit of trouble understanding points #2 & #4.)
Especially when you are entering a new bigger room or activating a longer cutscene you can expect a loading screen for nearly a minute (at least using a normal HDD). That's #2. With #4 I meant the way the game was streaming when entering new parts of an area. While moving on certain roads in the beginning the game has to load while you are running which of course leads to extreme fps drops. I will link you to a German let's play where you can see what I mean.
Edit: Start from 3:08 min (no spoilers there) and you can see what I mean with loading while running therefore fps drops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb9CDNuVgCY&index=6&list=PLq3E5fIn7hvzPrBScSKbK7zuXjsmuU6RB&t=212sHeartsAndRainbows: This is the first time I heard of a vanishing mouse pointer in this game. Maybe it's a
GOG exclusive... If that's the case there might at least a slim chance that this could be fixed later along the line.
I doubt it. You have to remember that tis game was meant to be used with controller. So they offerend the possibility to play it completely with mouse only after release (it was one of many patches so far). I guess several people either played it with controller or still used the old keyboard and mouse combination.
HeartsAndRainbows: I guess from what I've gathered that I'll probably buy this one on a hefty sale if, and only if, I become a fan after I finally found the time to play the first two parts. (That GOG-backlog... Damn them and their cheap prices for classic games! ;) )
The problem is that looking at the original price this already IS a hefty discount. Of course it can alwaysget cheaper but so far I don't know. It might as well be that the devs are optimizing this game and after doing that they don't want to drop the price again.
HeartsAndRainbows: You've mentioned the clockworks and they were what made me notice the
Syberia series in the first place. Since you were so forthcoming with sharing your experience I'd like to recommend a black and white comic book about another
clockwork-rich society:
Avigon: Gods And Demons by Jimmie Robinson and Ché Gilson. I read it again every now an then, which I can't say about many comics I own. (There's also a version from 2000 with 56 pages named
Avigon - you'll want the 2005 version
Avigon: Gods And Demons which officially has 184 or 192 pages, depending on who you ask. [I would link you a review, but all the pages I find are either shops or make me want to tear my eyes out. My ISBN# was 1-58240-503-4])
Thank you for the recomendation but even though I know that Benoit Sokal is a comic book writer I normally don't read much at all. So I doubt I will read those but if I should change my mind I will remember this.