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[Smoke_Tetsu]

The title says it all practically. If you already bought it on the PC you can just go download it in your Mac Steam. If not you can go buy it for $5.00USD and then download it. I'm downloading it right now... interested to see how it runs compared to in crossover.

Out of the box (or download) it was crashing on my Mac though. It was crashing with an error saying it's missing (or can't load) cg.framework. I fixed it by downloading and installing CG from nvidia's developer web site. So far it seems the game performs better than in crossover. I can play it at my computers native resolution with 2x AA and in crossover I had to play it at 1920x1080 and no AA.

I definitely think it's worth downloading through mac steam even if you have already been playing it in crossover\CXZ even just for the performance alone. Although your PC savegames may not work in it according to the developers.

[Wumpus]

Got this already and played the first level. An easy download, only like 550mb, took a few minutes.

The Steam achievements aren't really interesting at all...except for a few of them. Too bad, but its still something.

[Tacohead]

Yet another fantastic game I probably won't be able to devote a ton of time to but for $5 how can I just ignore it? Steam is insane and this is yet another reason why I can't understand how anybody could criticize Steam for the Mac. I've now purchased the following list of games from Steam for the Mac:

Half Life 2 - $3.39
Left for Dead 1 & 2 - $10.19
Civilization 4 Complete - $9.99
Torchlight - $9.99
Portal - Free
Trine - $5.00

Total: $38.56

That's like the price for a single game usually. That's crazy!

As for Trine, it's spectacular!

-PN

[Sargiel]

I have to admit that generally I prefer a boxed copy. However where that's not possible or the sale is too good to miss I'm more than happy to buy on steam. As I have just done for Trine

[Janichsan]

The game is good, but – for Christ's sake – the difficulty is completely imbalanced. The last few levels are already annoying for their seemingly completely random placements of the checkpoints, but still not that difficult (on "Normal"). The final level on the other hand is simply a pain in the ass. What the hell were the developers thinking to ramp up the difficulty that way? Did they notice that the rest of the game was not enough of a challenge?

[Tacohead]

Janichsan, on 15 November 2010 - 04:45 AM, said:

The game is good, but – for Christ's sake – the difficulty is completely imbalanced. The last few levels are already annoying for their seemingly completely random placements of the checkpoints, but still not that difficult (on "Normal"). The final level on the other hand is simply a pain in the ass. What the hell were the developers thinking to ramp up the difficulty that way? Did they notice that the rest of the game was not enough of a challenge?

Unless I'm missing something I hate how it doesn't save your place at the last checkpoint. When I quit the game and return the next time it's always at the beginning of the most recent level, instead of the most recent checkpoint. So basically whenever you decide to stop playing it's obviously ideal to quit just after completing a level. That's annoying.

It's fun otherwise though and beautiful to look at.

-PN

[Tacohead]

Janichsan, on 15 November 2010 - 04:45 AM, said:

The game is good, but – for Christ's sake – the difficulty is completely imbalanced. The last few levels are already annoying for their seemingly completely random placements of the checkpoints, but still not that difficult (on "Normal"). The final level on the other hand is simply a pain in the ass. What the hell were the developers thinking to ramp up the difficulty that way? Did they notice that the rest of the game was not enough of a challenge?

Ok I finality got around to finishing Trine... sort of. I completed every level but the last one. It's simply physically impossible for me. So I second what Janichsan said. I can't imagine what they (the designers) were thinking there. What is so fantastic about Trine is how with the three characters and their unique abilities there's so many ways you can deal with almost every situation. So while it looks like a platformer (and an extremely beautiful one at that) it's really a puzzler at heart. At least until the last level where they basically completely abandon that philosophy in favor of a time-based platformer with no puzzles solving to speak of.

I loved the game up until the end anyways and for $5 how can I really complain much? But the 180 degree turn at the end was a real head-scratcher. I ended up using YouTube to see how it ended,

-PN

[Frost]

I paid $15 for the PS3 version of Trine during a sale and it was worth every penny. That's the most fun I've had with a platformer since Sega Genesis days. Highly recommend it, especially for $5.

Janichsan, on 15 November 2010 - 04:45 AM, said:

The game is good, but – for Christ's sake – the difficulty is completely imbalanced. The last few levels are already annoying for their seemingly completely random placements of the checkpoints, but still not that difficult (on "Normal"). The final level on the other hand is simply a pain in the ass. What the hell were the developers thinking to ramp up the difficulty that way? Did they notice that the rest of the game was not enough of a challenge?

Ah, tiny grasshopper. Let me tell you, Tower of Sarek is perfectly doable on the hardest mode without ever dying, nevermind on Normal when everything's operating in slow motion.

You just have to enter a sort of zen mode to do it! I know, for this is what I have done, and I am Frost.

[Janichsan]

Frost, on 05 December 2010 - 08:08 PM, said:

Ah, tiny grasshopper. Let me tell you, Tower of Sarek is perfectly doable on the hardest mode without ever dying, nevermind on Normal when everything's operating in slow motion.

You just have to enter a sort of zen mode to do it! I know, for this is what I have done, and I am Frost.

I bow to your godlike skills at the controller and must admit that I am just a humble amateur.

[Tacohead]

Janichsan, on 06 December 2010 - 01:51 AM, said:

I bow to your godlike skills at the controller and must admit that I am just a humble amateur.

Another amateur here bowing,

-PN

[Smoke_Tetsu]

As I learned especially in my arcade days. There's always someone out there who is better than you. When I would visit various arcades I would often stumble upon people playing the fighting games who could whip my ass thoroughly (even in ones I specialized in) yet I could beat most of the locals in my town.

[Frost]

It's more memorization than skill. I decided I would do it one night because it was the only PS3 trophy on the game (aptly named "Better than the Developers!") that I didn't have just from regular playing, and I was in the mood for Trine as well as a challenge, and that seemed sufficiently impossible. It took me a couple hours of cursing, but I finally managed to do Tower of Sarek on the hardest mode without dying, and after that coincidentally knew the level like the back of my hand and thus could probably repeat the feat in far less time.

I gave myself a Sam Adams as a reward.

(If it hasn't become self-evident by now from this and other posts, I have something of a self-destructive streak of randomly giving myself impossible goals in games and other activities in life and then bitching all the way as I try to attain them. Or, maybe it's a self-improving streak... I haven't figured that out yet!)

Unfortunately, even after doing that, I still didn't discover why Spock's father built a magical evil tower out in the middle of nowhere.