Beneath A Steel Sky

[Ghost]

Okay, tastes differ, I liked BASS.

[Puni/Void]

I think Beneath a Steel Sky is a fine adventure game. It's not my favourite, but I've enjoyed playing it. I never got around to completing it though, but after seeing this thread, I think I might give it another shot.

[Harrison]

I also really liked BASS. OK, it wasn't the longest adventure game, but it still contained a lot of great content, conversations and story.

You are actually the first person I've heard say they were disappointed in BASS. I do agree that it would have been great to have been able to explore the futuristic world it was set in much further, especially by going outside, and yes the areas of the game were a bit sparse of npc characters, but nothing is perfect. For game characters Lure of the Temptress was way ahead of it with its character day cycle system, and even Future Wars felt more like you were visiting populated areas. But a game has to have some restrictions or the developers would never complete it and get it released.

I also thought that the adventure game Universe had a very similar feel to it and kind of felt like the outside world that you might have encountered had you been able to explore outside in BASS.

I never got to play the talkie version of BASS so only played it through at the time via the ECS version on my A600. I remember really enjoying it at the time though.

[burns flipper]

The voices sucked. Voice Acting does not mean "get one bloke to do as many regional accents as possible, and get the receptionist to voice the girls".

[Harrison]

Things are on the whole better these days with the bigger budgets the games companies have, but back in the early CD days games developers just didn't have the budgets so had to use their own voices, and those from with the company to make up the vocals.