Press and Reviews Thread

[gilesgoat]

I found another one, and those are NOT the people that got in touch with us :

http://www.idealsoftblog.it/2009/09/gri ... emake.html

[gilesgoat]

Found this too :

http://www.gamersland.com/pc/gridrunner ... oaden.html

[dhlennon]

Make a game difficult and get slammed for being "unaccessible".

Compromise a little by making the next game more accessible, and you get slammed for not being hard enough.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't

Well I reckon it's like the last bowl in Goldilocks and it's "just right"!

[Tred]

That's fucking weird.

The profiles should not do a shite, they do contain the keys configuration/mapping but the problem was not there, the problem
was a quite trivial thing done in the code cause a flag/thing that was set to understand when the game was going in
"mouse mode" ( i.e. mouse taking control over KB ) and "keyboard mode" (i.e. KB taking control over mouse) that was acting
in a wrong way.

Basically "all the difference is in the .exe", if the .exe is changed it should be all working fine, I can't believe profiles are
actually doing anything.

Here we done exactly the test to install the NEW version OVER the old one WITHOUT changing anything else because we
assumed that was what most people was going to do, I even tried of course installing it "from zero" with/without profiles
and such .. and it did work in all cases.

TRY an experiment : re-install it "in some other temp folder", grab the .exe and copy it in place of that other one and
let's see what happens.

Ok, so first I tried your suggestion of installing to a temp folder, I then ran the executable from their, it correctly picked up my profile. However, I had exactly the same problem with the rotation controls.

So next, I took PVB's suggestion, backed up my profile files, and uninstalled both the temp and original GRR installations (including the profile). I then did a clean install of 117B.

This obviously worked because I was asked to choose the language, and the game started in a window. I then mapped the keys and played through the first couple of korma levels (where rotation is disabled) until level 3, when hey presto the rotation worked whilst moving the ship with the mouse!

So then I tried copying my profile files back into the profile area, restarted the game and the rotation was broken again!!!

I then tried narrowing it down to 1 of the 2 profile files and found that the problem is caused by the userprofile.dat file.

So, on the one hand am chuffed that I can now play the game with the mouse and keyboard configured in the way I want, on the other hand, I have to start from scratch (which is a slight inconvenience but no big deal) given that i don't think it'll take me too long to unlock all the levels...

I have no idea what was "special" about my profile but at least the problem is now solved.

Thanks for the suggestions and support!

[PVB]

I then tried narrowing it down to 1 of the 2 profile files and found that the problem is caused by the userprofile.dat file.

So, on the one hand am chuffed that I can now play the game with the mouse and keyboard configured in the way I want, on the other hand, I have to start from scratch (which is a slight inconvenience but no big deal) given that i don't think it'll take me too long to unlock all the levels...

I have no idea what was "special" about my profile but at least the problem is now solved.

Thanks for the suggestions and support!

At least the problem's been narrowed down, so hopefully can be properly sorted out.

You're obviously not worried about going through the game again, just as us beta testers had to do after many updates.

[fuwafuwa]

First coverage in Japan, I guess.
http://www.onlineplayer.jp/modules/topi ... ryid=15480

[Dave]

If you're a proper Mac user you'll have a decent enough Mac to play GRR via BootCamp and XP.

oooh, forgot about that one...

Ah, unfortunately my 3-year old Macbook Pro is a bit underpowered for this one. I got GRR to load in VMWare Fusion (XP SP3, dual CPU, 2GB RAM, 3D enabled), but it's too slow to play and the emulation messes up the 3D graphics a bit. If only that shiny and extremely brilliant middleware OS X crap got out of the way of my hardware and Windows, things would be totally fine.

Bootcamp would probably work, but I very much dislike having two OS's on my system. I never want to boot into the next one. Extremely fickle and stubborn, I am.

Not a big problem as it gives me another excuse to grab a new lappy when Win 7 pops out. I'm looking forward to some GRR, and pop-up OS dialogs which go along the lines of "You just told me to do something. Are you sure you want me to do what you just told me to do? Yes/No"

[gravy]

You need to run it in Bootcamp. Not VM Ware or Parallels

[disciple]

Bloomn eck, not seen one review yet, people need to pull their fingers out. Are people afraid of giving it the good review it deserves due to controversy or something?

[gilesgoat]

With all the materials and such and contacts and things sent around .. if within 1 .. 2 weeks time I don't see at least one
rewiev coming out I think I'll seriously begin to think at tinfoil hats and conspiracy theories

Really at this point I'd say "I don't know then what else more you can do/have to do"

[Googer]

As for 'mainstream' gaming sites, it seems possible to me we may see something from Gamespot soon; they added a ton of GRR screenshots this morning.

[cj2003]

As for 'mainstream' gaming sites, it seems possible to me we may see something from Gamespot soon; they added a ton of GRR screenshots this morning.

Awesome - their page about it -http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/gridr ... index.html - recommends games you may like in the left banner:

"Games you may like...

Geometry Wars: RE(PC)
Everyday Shooter(PC)
Centipede(PC)
Deer Drive(PC)
Grey Matter(PC) "

[IronGiant]

My word, Gamespot have 42 screenshots.

Let's hope that a review is forthcoming.

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

A good spread of visuals too.

[Harlequin]

TIGSource have a mention just under their Gameswipe coverage.