Is Black And White any good?

[Drakonic Duke]

Youn know the question, so whats the answer?

[Gregory DG]

Great game, but with a funky mouse control system. High system specs. A lot of time needed to train your creature correctly.

 

B&W2 will be better.

[NovaXpress]

I hated this game, and I typically love strategy games like this. Training the beasts was time-consuming and stupid. I will never understand the high praise that this game received.

[Hydian]

Training the pet was a lot of fun (even more fun was teaching my GF's pet bad things when she wasn't home..."Why'd he eat that person and poop him out?")

 

I don't have the patience for all of the building crap though.

[Raijin Z]

The game is SHIT. PC Gamer agrees with me.

 

I had an ape avatar. They're supposed to learn quickly, right? Hence the reason I chose it. Learning leash equipped. It picked up a human. I clicked at its feet (which you must do to make your avatar put something down). It put the person down. Good. It then picked the person back up, ignored my clicking, and ate them. I slapped it. Seemed to behave well enough after that, so I set it to the task of making it rain on fields. I go off to deal with a quest, and come back to find my avatar has been eating my townsfolk like candy. I beat it until it DIED, and when it respawned, it went right back to eating people.

 

Never mind the fact the game wasn't fun. Fucking tamagochi with a mouse.

[Drakonic Duke]

I've been reading, and I think I would prefer the horse, as its fast, above average intel, and happens to be my Chinese Zodiac sign. Is it good as the statistics say?

[+Sauron]

I take it you haven't been reading the answers to your question. The game will blow you away at first, and by the time you've spent about 2 hours in, you'll wonder why they forgot to make it fun. I've always been a big fan of Peter Molyneaux's games, but Black & White is definitely NOT his best.

[Drakonic Duke]

I mean websites, not the forum.

[SteveW]

Did the Dreamcast version ever come out? I remember reading a few interviews with Polymieux in the Official Dreamcast Magazine. He was discussing how hard it was to port. Did it come out in Europe, or did they just give up?

[Gregory DG]

Did the Dreamcast version ever come out?

Nope.

[cryptik76]

The game is SHIT. PC Gamer agrees with me.

 

Which PC Gamer are you talking about? The U.S. one gave B&W a 95% rating. And while other magazines quickly rescinded their high review scores for the game, PC Gamer was the only one who stood by the game. I'm too lazy to go see what the UK PC Gamer said about it.

 

Black and White was a strange phenomenon. I'm not sure there has ever been a game which received such hugely positive reviews (particularly the reviews which came out within the first few weeks after its release) and then be so widely disdained and trashed by gamers. The problem is that Black & White ends up an entirely different game than it starts out as. People got very much into the "living artificial pet" aspect of the game, but after a while the focus changes to strategy, battle, and caring for your whiny followers, and at that point a lot of people had enough of it.

 

It's sort of a shame, because there's nothing really wrong with Black & White. Underneath it all is a solid (though short), unique strategy game. I think PC gamers just tend to be miserable little c*nts, which is why I recently stopped hanging around on PC gaming messageboards. The negativity just eats away at you after a while (there are a few guilty parties here as well, but not nearly as many).

[Raijin Z]

I've been getting PC Gamer for four years* now, and at their latest issues aren't singing it's praises. Word to the wise: never order magazines over the phone.