Comments on: Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom Available Now

By: DocN

DocN — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:06:39 +0000

I love Mahjong Games and I’ve just wait for one on PS3 but Mahjong Tales need some improvement!

- The quality of the speaker is awful! Did ypu the record with a cellphone!?
- The undertitles are in the same colors as the background. Very hard to read! You don’t understand the speaker and cant’t read the text!? Please, fix it!
- Mahjong needs mouse support! This game ist the port of a two year old PC game so please give us the same movement! Mouserpointer is still there.
- Give us the option to use the Pointer (with a mouse) or to jump from tile to tile. This would be much better than the spongy mousepointer-pad-gaming!
- Please fix the soundbug, music stops again and again for a second, this drives me crazy!

Gruß,
Max

By: tele-hk

tele-hk — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:27:55 +0000

I would like to get a real Mah Jong game, not a game that just use Maj Jong tiles and a name called Mahjong, but a game played by 4 people with real Mah jong rules.

By: legoman-D

legoman-D — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:50:55 +0000

@restlessavenger

That’s a feature, not a bug :) If you look closely, it is a piece of bamboo that covers the centre of the tile. You must match this tile to remove the bamboo & then re-match once the bamboo has been done away with.

I really like Mahjong Tales, been playing it loads. But there are issues with the online game. I’ve chatted to a lot of other players & they report the same – the 2nd player, the guest, often suffers from serious lag leading to them being unable to select tiles quickly. There’s also something similar where both players will have the game stall for a second or two before returning to normal, often leading to the game freezing totally & the PS3 hanging. See my post here: http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message?board.id=147&thread.id=31290

Still, apart from this there’s a hell of a lot of game for the money £8/$10. Looking forward to the infinity mode level editor!

By: midnightshade

midnightshade — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:24:16 +0000

This is a great game, I got this and cuboid. Very fun. Multiplayer was a blast the one time someone was actually playing. Come on people buy this game and play online already!

As for Custom Soundtracks. i don’t know why nobody answered the 4-5 people that asked about them, but the game does support custom soundtracks. It uses in-game xmb for soundtracks. You hit the ps button in game and go to your music list list in xmb, just select a track or playlist and it plays. Then to stop it, just go back in xmb and stop the song, and it will go back to default game music automatically. I wish more games used this feature…very cool!

By: Restlessavenger

Restlessavenger — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:17:01 +0000

Overall the game has been a ton of fun, however I did notice one glitch where on occasion some of the tiles will have a black line down the center of them, on some of the tiles it makes it really difficult to tell what tile you are looking at. I find the issue occurs most in Motion mode, but I have seen it in both Tales and Classic as well.

By: mattrasss

mattrasss — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:04:57 +0000

seriously though…whos gonna want to pay 10 dollars to play mahjong. no offense but what are your numbers right now

By: Vaga

Vaga — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:06:12 +0000

Hoping you will fix the music/sound skipping (same as it was in WipeoutHD), can’t believe your testing missed this. Other than that it’s a cool game.

By: Revear

Revear — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:35:05 +0000

Wow.

I love how some people are speaking negatively about the price, yet you can go to Target or something of that like and spend double or more on a game with less content than these guys put into their game.

Really, I bought this on a whim and I’m really surprised at how much I’m really getting for my money. It’s an extremely pleasant surprise.

By: GORT22

GORT22 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:54:29 +0000

Any plans for a PSP version.

Thanks!

By: Hoppsan

Hoppsan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:09:36 +0000

I like the game but I do have one thing I really would like to see improved (patched):

The sound of the recorded voice that is narrating the tales is recorded so loud that it starts to distort.

My only other annoyance is that the layouts have too many layers. I am used to every layout having something like four copies of each tile but this game has so many it is hard to judge which ones to pair together for the best result.

It is still a great game and it will only get better as more people start to play it online.