Space Quest IV.5 Roger Wilco And The Voyage Home Version 3.00

Started by agentbauer, Mon 26/04/2010 19:07:11

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agentbauer

@frodo:

hmm, can you pm me your system details and send me a savegame where you are stuck and one for the room before you get stuck to starbuck1308@gmx.de?

I can't reproduce that, as usual...

thanks
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Frodo

Agentbauer 

Sorry for this trouble   :-[

I sent you email with the Saved games, and my system specs.

Let me know if I can do anything else.   :)


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Hey Agentbauer....

I was pleased to see that you did release an updated version of this remarkable game of yours. Had I knew about it I would have joined you as Betatester again. Well it seems even without me you guys did a great job.

Here's my little review about bugs things that could have been made better etc.
Warning: this texts consists of spoilers. I don't know how to set em in Spoiler mode. So don't read the text if you don't want to get spoiler.


Bugs: On the Galaxy Galeria I had a walkpath bug on Mononlith burger. Roger was stuck right above the Monolith sign. Due to the fact that I had no savegame I had to restart the game. After that everything worked fine I didn't experienced any bugs anymore. So the Monolith bug appears to be random.

On the Goliath you can search the Janitors cart x2 times resulting that I get the knife twice. I remember that you had that bug also in version1 and I reported that back then. Seems you've completely forgotten about that.

After knocking out the spy Roger still says he wondering what he is doing there. Instead of something like "Oh no I've injured him."

On Estros: Before you get the Flashlight you can't enter the cave. However when I talked to Zondra to ask if she has a flashlight Roger is also telling her that the Security system is active and he barely made it out of there.
To that time Roger can't know about the Security System because he is unable to enter the cave without a Flashlight. That spoiled a bit of the Situation inside the hole and should be fixed should there be ever a version 4.


Cristics: The new voice acting is fantastic and adds very much to the Atmosphere. That makes it x10 times better than before. The great commentator was a bit less used in the later parts of the game that's pitty.

I also really much liked the the few new screens like from (This time it's personal.) However I don't understand why you removed the great bar you had in Version1. Instead you now included the same bar we've seen in Space Quest 6. My opinion the other Bar looked much cooler.

I must say you did of course a huge improvement over version 1. However this game still lacks a lot in humor. That was the most important thing in a Space Quest game. For example you're looking at different people.

And you get the answer like: Some engineers, A tourist, A guest.. I mean such things are obvious even without the need to look at them.

Some Enineers working hard to earn their bred.
Or a tourist exploring the wonders of Galaxy Galleria.

Would have been more friendly and would have also expanded the feeling for the game. I'm also not very good at writing humor especially not in english. But you should still have invested more time in doing so.
Even some more small animations like Mrs. Astro chicken flying by would have make it more funny.

It would have been also better if you could have talked to some of the non important charakters.. For example. The tourist with the camera. You talk to him he tells you about his whereabouts pla pla pla.. Then he wants to take a Photo with you and in that moment a sneaky strange looking alien comes by taking his camera.. The tourist chases now the alien to get his camera back. Things like that for example would have make it more funny. Well enough about humor.

I also noted little minor graphic issues: One thing I remember is in Monolith Burger you're asking for the Manager and he tell you it's his brother you're looking for. It would have been very easy to edit that picture and replace the little manager sign on his chest with something like Employee. That's just a little glitch and not really important but it was strange to see that while the real manager is in the Fly in.

All in all a fantastic game and a worthy Space Quest Title none the less. The voice actors did an excellent job here. In my opinion just the lack of humor and some remaining bugs + too much use of other Space Quest backgrounds are preventing it from beeing a god like game. It is clear that in some areas those backgrounds are required story wise but some changes here and there would have make it better.

@Admin: Please put my post in Spoilermode. I don't know how to do that since there's no reference under additional options.

agentbauer

Roger Wilco Rules
NEW HOMEPAGE: http://spacequestiv5.pytalhost.at
Space Quest IV.5 Version 3.00 is finally done, check it out:
http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=40735.msg538357;boardseen#new

cianty

I'm curious to check this game out, but I am wary because of the many bug posts above. Have they been fixed?
ca. 70% completed

Iliya

Great! I just watched the intro in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_rjYD1Z9T8

Great job! Nice voices - characters and narrator. It's good to see that Space Quest world is alive!

agentbauer

Quote from: cianty on Fri 15/10/2010 08:41:17
I'm curious to check this game out, but I am wary because of the many bug posts above. Have they been fixed?

I tried to fix all of the bugs, but I could not reproduce the stuck bug in the galleria....
So I remade the walkable areas in this room..... I hope, that you now no longer get stuck there...
Roger Wilco Rules
NEW HOMEPAGE: http://spacequestiv5.pytalhost.at
Space Quest IV.5 Version 3.00 is finally done, check it out:
http://www.bigbluecup.com/yabb/index.php?topic=40735.msg538357;boardseen#new

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