relic hunt issues?

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I downloaded the free game relic hunt today and after installing I can not get past pick a player screen. Is this a know issue or ??
I have tried unintalling then reinstalling... nothing....

Posted on Sun Jan 03 17:41:29 PST 2010

I downloaded the game for you. When installing I thought is this game ever going to install? It took a long time to install. Then as the game was loading it stopped responding. Then as I was looking at something else it came up and I did get past the player screen. I am going to take it off though, because I am not going to play it.

Posted on Sun Jan 03 17:57:03 PST 2010

Hmmmm weird
I haven't had any issues before....
but thanks for trying

Posted on Sun Jan 03 17:59:40 PST 2010

zekelee, don't bother. This game is not worth the effort. I have played almost every HO out there. This is a really dumb game. Check my post under "Relic Hunt" in the Games Forum.

Posted on Sun Jan 03 19:25:55 PST 2010

Its another one of the mysteriously vanishing games for me.
I read the reviews, most negative (some so outrageously positive, Im inclined to believe they are fakes, just to see if anyone falls for it.)
But when I hit start the game just goes away. I uninstalled & redownloaded, all with the firewall disabled to keep it from interfering, & ran the task manager while I tried to launch- I saw "relic hunter.exe" open when the tabbed Gamehouse box came up, but when I hit play, it jumps to 95% cpu use and then just vanishes from the task list (takes about 2 seconds). No error ever comes up, it just plain ends. This happens to about 10% of the games for me, and GH wont help because its a free game. Useless.

Posted on Sun Jan 03 19:57:26 PST 2010

Forgot to say, despite the reviews, being as it was free, it didnt hurt any to try it out, it could be entertaining for a short while at least. But since it is one of those that disappears, well I'll never know, because I sure aint gonna buy it if I cant even try it; and most reviewers with a rating said it was junk anyway.
Interestingly when I had tried to add the game to my firewall manually, it said that the game already exists in the list- but looking at the (long) list of programs that are in its "given permission" list, it doesnt appear- many somehow have odd names, but they always have the same icon- nothing with that icon or name is in the firewall's list, yet I can't add it. Thats why I tried it with the fw off. Wonder if thats the case with all the disappearing free games.

Posted on Sun Jan 03 20:05:47 PST 2010

No probs for me-loaded fine,opened fine,started fine. As far as interesting, well that is another thing. Sure you look for stuff but it also involves a lot of arcade action mini games, something I didn't like.

Posted on Tue Jan 05 08:29:11 PST 2010

Room333 wrote: As far as interesting, well that is another thing. Sure you look for stuff but it also involves a lot of arcade action mini games, something I didn't like.

I agree there! How did it ever become standard anyway for HOG's to include a "mini game"?
I would totally prefer if they didnt have any. Most are types that I havent the slightest interest in doing.
Do the developers really think object hunting is so boring you HAVE to have a break of doing something else? If thats their opinion they seriously need to make different kinds of games and leave the HOGs to someone who actually likes them.
I like jigsaw type puzzles, but I really dont see why I need to stop and do one in the middle of my HOG. I like card games too... but why would I stop and play solitaire when I deliberately chose to do hidden objects?
I say skip the minis and just add things to do with the objects you found ala Samatha Swift, Mortimer Beckett, etc.

Posted on Thu Jan 07 08:50:02 PST 2010

(to avoid character count limits... grrr)
Probably should have started a new thread I guess.
But to (loosely) quote another person who commented on some irritating games- the reason some of us play things like HOGs and untimed puzzle games is because we dont have (good) hand-eye coordination to begin with!
Therefore a test of this "skill" is just plain not fun!
trust me, I do not buy games that "challenge" a skill I already know I dont have.

Posted on Thu Jan 07 08:59:20 PST 2010

I was a bit curious after the insane extremes in the reviews, so I tried it. Downloaded and installed fine for me, no different to anything else. However since I'm on a data cap, I wish I'd saved my mbs. I didn't even read the storyline (yes, I'm a total grammar nazi and I got a headache on the first page) and if you can get past the bad translations of item names (I have never used a doorknob to knock on a door but I guess they both have something to do with doors so close enough is good enough) then the minigames will get you. There are almost no instructions for anything either. Can I have my data back now please GH?

I also noticed "GH wont help because its a free game. Useless. " in one of the other posts. Funny story about how I came to join gamehouse... I bought some jigsaw games for my mother-in-law, with her credit card, because she's a little computer illiterate. Payment was accepted, and I was sent an email confirming the purchase with instructions of how to get the full version of the game. It was not possible to follow the instructions as the first step referred to something vital that just didn't turn up. I emailed GH asking for help on how to fix this and got an auto response email saying "You are number xxxx in the queue. We will be in contact with you shortly". That was the last I heard from GH on the issue. This was all at the beginning of 2007. I still have the email, I think....

Posted on Fri Mar 05 06:13:02 PST 2010