Posted June 25, 2018
Seriously, this is an amazing game that I bought when it was released because having the opportunity to play it on a system that still works was something I couldn't miss (my Gamecube died a few years back, sadly, so I'm stuck with roughly thirty games I can no longer play). But this is the last time I buy into "THQ" Nordic's scams, these guys suck, all they care about is making money by banking on people's nostalgia and fandom -- they did the same with the Darksiders games, now they're making a third one with no involvement of the original devs whatsoever, and then there's the appalling Black Mirror reboot, which is a load of crap.
I'm glad it keeps getting patches, I really am, but the fact is that NO ONE cares about resolutions, textures, etc. Most of us, fans of the original game, think it looked gorgeous as it did back in the day; I don't care about graphical improvements. I do care, however, that they make it playable with keyboard+mouse, because A LOT of third-person action-adventures that look and play like Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy are playable just fine with that control scheme on the PC. Is it so hard to let players map the action keys to something other than F, Tab, Space and FREAKING Escape?! Also, what's the point of having the mouse control the camera, if you can't use the mouse buttons at all? Why can't I remap the attack/action button to left mouse button?
Nordic just keeps getting hold of these old IPs and they try to make money out of them by re-releasing them, making broken "enhanced" editions no one asked for, or, in Black Mirror's case, completely failing at rebooting the series with a game that tried to be a Telltale interactive novel while still appealing to the fans of the original games, miserably missing the mark on both objectives.
Stop selling IPs to Nordic, there are way better publishers out there who don't want to abuse honest paying customers just to make some moolah.
[Disclaimer] Yes, I know Sphinx "was made for a controller, so you should play with one". I don't have a controller and I have no plans to buy one because of this one game. If I can play all the other action-adventures of this kind perfectly fine with keyboard+mouse on PC (some with keyboard alone, even), there's no excuse for how bad Sphinx plays with that control scheme. It's a game released on PC, you should at least give your paying customers a decent control scheme using the default input method for computers. And, no, I'm not going to google for some stupid code language just to edit the ini file and remap the keys that way, because they didn't even bother with making THAT an easy task.
I'm glad it keeps getting patches, I really am, but the fact is that NO ONE cares about resolutions, textures, etc. Most of us, fans of the original game, think it looked gorgeous as it did back in the day; I don't care about graphical improvements. I do care, however, that they make it playable with keyboard+mouse, because A LOT of third-person action-adventures that look and play like Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy are playable just fine with that control scheme on the PC. Is it so hard to let players map the action keys to something other than F, Tab, Space and FREAKING Escape?! Also, what's the point of having the mouse control the camera, if you can't use the mouse buttons at all? Why can't I remap the attack/action button to left mouse button?
Nordic just keeps getting hold of these old IPs and they try to make money out of them by re-releasing them, making broken "enhanced" editions no one asked for, or, in Black Mirror's case, completely failing at rebooting the series with a game that tried to be a Telltale interactive novel while still appealing to the fans of the original games, miserably missing the mark on both objectives.
Stop selling IPs to Nordic, there are way better publishers out there who don't want to abuse honest paying customers just to make some moolah.
[Disclaimer] Yes, I know Sphinx "was made for a controller, so you should play with one". I don't have a controller and I have no plans to buy one because of this one game. If I can play all the other action-adventures of this kind perfectly fine with keyboard+mouse on PC (some with keyboard alone, even), there's no excuse for how bad Sphinx plays with that control scheme. It's a game released on PC, you should at least give your paying customers a decent control scheme using the default input method for computers. And, no, I'm not going to google for some stupid code language just to edit the ini file and remap the keys that way, because they didn't even bother with making THAT an easy task.