Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

• vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  when climbing out of the pit, it was very easy to immediately fall back down (due to the pixel-perfect collision detection).

  And here is an excerpt from the manual: “Even experienced extraterrestrials sometimes have difficulty levitating out of wells. Start to levitate E.T. by first pressing the controller button and then pushing your Joystick forward. E.T.'s neck will stretch as he rises to the top of the well (see E.T. levitating in Figure 1). Just when he reaches the top of the well and the scene changes to the planet surface (see Figure 2), STOP! Do not try to keep moving up. Instead, move your Joystick right, left, or to the bottom. Do not try to move up, or E.T. might fall back into the well.”

  source

  • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wow yeah. That must have been a really infuriating gameplay issue, no wonder players were upset with it.

    A shame the game was so rushed.

    source

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      he was forced to release it quickly to coincide with the film’s release. For comparison, it used to take a team of devs a couple of months to make a game. He had 6 weeks

      source

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, I played it as a teenager on emulation and was pretty mystified at why it was considered so much worse than the other things available on the system. Why would people love Adventure but hate this?

        source

        • -> View More Comments