Dirk Dagger Investigates On N-Gage
Just in case you haven’t been glued to your phone, manually checking your N-Gage application’s showcase for updates, I wanted to let you know that Dirk Dagger has just popped up on the N-Gage showcase, available for you to download and investigate. Hailing from Nokia Publishing (which means it’ll actually have a decent trial period).
The game looks and feels like a classic mystery comic book, and you play as Dirk Dagger, the Detective, trying to solve the mystery. Adventure awaits around each corner, and danger lurks in the dark places, too. You can check out the microsite here, and play the online demo when you get there.
I’m sorry, I just can’t tell you this is exciting news. The game just looks completely silly to me. I tried playing the online demo, and it didn’t help much. P@sco recently had a play with Dirk Dagger, and thought it was better than I do. In any case, if you have a few megs free on your memory card, you can always try the free trial, though I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high for this title. Worms and ONE, now those are two games that look pretty sweet. In the meantime, you can also play Reset Generation here on Symbian-Guru.
Here’s a quick video preview:
I’m dying for ‘One’ to come out. N-Gage could really do with a killer game, maybe this is it.
Been waiting for this one quite a while and was trying to update yesterday and found nothing.
Going to try again and download.
It does look silly but I guess it’s the charm of it.
I guess the idea is not far away from Reset Generation.
(While Reset Generation is a parody, Dirk Dagger is the comic hero brought to screen.)
Upon checking the web, people have been complaining that it’s pricey as the game is easily finished within an hour or two.
(Which in fact could lead to your previous post What Is 5$ Worth?
I do in fact agree to that One looks very promising, however taken the account for the unique layouts and keypad qualities of the N-series phones. It could prove to be a bit difficult to manage the fighters in the game.
(Here the N82 and it’s directional pad is not the best)
Hopefully they have thought about this and won’t provide any fighting tricks that makes you have to press up-updown-right-left-left-a-a-b and other difficult button combinations.
(You know the drill for those who have played Street Fighter, Killer Instincts, Mortal Kombat and so on).
It is expensive to buy but it is a really good game. Its a bit different for a mobile phone game but the quality is really good, the story line draws you in – i completed the story in about 2 hours but found that you can complete the story without exploring the entire game. If you go back there are other items to look at and different interactions with the characters.
While 2 hours does not seem long for the full game price I think you can actually buy a 1 day license for a lot cheaper. I would recommend it and dont regret the purchase.
While in fact I do regret my purchase now (Full game).
The first problem that occurred was that I didn’t get the activation email with my activation code in it.
Unfortunately this is not the first time.
This happened right before their maintenance work and have lasted until now.
When I bought the Bounce Bounce Voyage and Reset Generation both of these games never gave me an activation email back.
I’m beginning to see red here.
As a paying consumer I get this right in my face?
If that’s the case I rather tend to pirated
materials than support them.
Things should work.
They’ve worked since First Access (Which I did try) up until the maintenance work and now it have gone straight to “the underground”.
I have of course sent mail again to congested which is an admin at the forums.n-gage.com site and asked him kindly to send me the activation code for Dirk Dagger.
That said it’s not like I can’t activate the game which I do.
It’s just that the overall experience that you also get the receipt (Like when buying things at a store) is totally missing.
The whole experience is therefore ruined so to speak as I use programs like Roboform and Handy Safe to store such information on my laptop and mobile for backup purposes.
Another aspect of this is that what if my phone should fail or things on my phone gets corrupted tomorrow?
Then I have no way of activate my games again because of the lack of the activation code which I never got.
I don’t even have a backup of the data neither “in the clouds” or locally.
Another thing which stills bugs me as a consumer is that there is still absolutely no way to backup the N-gage data from your phone to another place.
I know you can use the backup option in the memory manager but that backs up everything and restore sometimes to often fails on many things.
Besides maybe you want separate backups of different things.
The backup in memory manager creates one file, and you can of course rename the oldest backup file from default name. That is both tedious and is not prone to errors.
So the only better solution to backup things is in fact that you have to hack your phone and access the c:\private\ folder and then extract the content from another folder.
Most users aren’t able to do that and this is also tedious.
And when such different small things adds up you get furious consumers like myself that goes mad because of one more little thing.
That’s mainly what I mean with that “the overall experience is ruined”.
I really like to support them with purchasing games but getting such things right in the face, makes me rather want to wait for the pirated version to appear rather than being an early adopter and buying the games.
The only thing missing to make the volcano blow is that if I should try to contact the costumer service and transfer my n-gage licenses to a new phone (when I get one).
I’ve already lost the hope there to get a decent support from them from my experience.
Hope I hear from the admin soon as I really demand answers this time. (Like if the error is on my side then I’m of course to blame, but I want to know what is going on. Such as technical difficulties?, which is not very rare these days.)
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Cheung Yuen Wong, you posted a word-for-word identical rant on All About N-Gage.
As I said in my reply on there, if you want Nokia to listen to you, post on official sites (like the Arena Forums, the N-Gage Uservoice site and the N-Gage Blog). Unofficial sites are much less likely to be noticed by them.
“The game just looks completely silly to me.”
That’s the whole point of the game! :-)
It’s a comedy adventure, in the style of Monkey Island or Space Quest.
Of course if you don’t like comedy adventures…
OoOoOo.
Cheung Yuen Wong, you got SERVED.
I bought this game yesterday… i finished the game today… I agree that is expensive for the duration of the game, but also it is very nice to play.
I think they should make some more chapters for dirk dagger and give us for free until they are enough to last at least two weeks of 1 hour playing.
You can buy the one day license and finish the game in 2-3 hours.