| 13 NOV 2007 at 10:30pm |
| Deleted User | Please allow me to introduce myself. I´m a man of wealth and taste. I been around for.... HAHAHA nah
My name is Mariano, I´m from Argentina, I live in Venezuela. I´m 17 years old. I love this forum.
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| 14 NOV 2007 at 11:45am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Welcome to the forum Luigi, or Mariano...
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| 1 JAN 2008 at 1:21am |
ShadsyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Hey there, I'm Shadsy. I'm a longtime adventure game fan, having grown up with The Journeyman Project, Spaceship Warlock, The Labyrinth of Time and The Fate of Atlantis. I never really got deep into adventure games until I was about 15, when I first exposed myself to Myst. Two months, six games, five sheets of paper, and one pen later, I became a dyed-in-the-wool first person adventure game fan. I recently got my friend Ian into the Myst series too, and we're want to try and make an amateur adventure game while we're in college. Besides gaming (and shooters especially), I play trombone semi-professionally and get involved in local politics.
Allo JA+!
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| 1 JAN 2008 at 9:50pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | local politics? Bloody hell.... what does that mean?
But I simply love your description of your journey through Myst Shadsy.... yes, impossible not to make copious notes, drawings etc. So, have you played any other games in the Myst series? Wonderful games aren't they? You need to find Obsidian. And buy a BIG notepad.....
And somewhere on this site there will be a list of other games that have the same qualities and strive for the same atmosphere as Myst. You have quite a few enjoyable experiences to look forward to.
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| 1 JAN 2008 at 10:07pm |
ShadsyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Caroline (1 JAN 2008 9:50pm)
local politics? Bloody hell.... what does that mean?
I campaign/work for my area's congressman (unpaid though). I want to eventually go into political science, so it's a good place to start.
And yeah, I got through all six (including Uru). It was really convenient because I got into Myst 1 two months before Myst 5 came out, so by the time I had finished Uru Complete Chronicles, I had another game to go onto.
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| 2 JAN 2008 at 11:30am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Sounds like you need to find your way into the Adventure Game Discussion forum and start a thread about your opinions on the Myst series. Tell us which ones you preferred and why. Never fails to draw a crowd, that sort of conversation.
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| 30 JAN 2008 at 1:48pm |
PlushyIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | 'Ello! I'm me, Plushy... I'm 25 and errr, here I am! I've come across JA before but decided to join in yesterday when I found it again whilst searching for a memory of my past called 'Gothos'.
Stuff about me: I live in Manchester in the UK. I am an office worker, have been for the last 7 years, but that's all ending in 2.5 days. I decided to give it all in to follow some dreams (was thinking of doing video game design at the local uni). Other stuff - I like dogs, dancing and expensive coffee. I am a massive Silent Hill fan... massive. Some of my favourite adventure games are Simon the Sorcerer (all of 'em, love the humour), Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, the Ben Jordan series (over on the AGS site). Would '9' count as an adventure game? Does anybody remember it? Well, it was buggy as anything but beautiful to look at.
I like other things but I don't want to waffle on about stuff I like forever. But it's nice to be here, hello to you all and I'm off to join in on some threads since I've nothing to do at work right now.
There was a sig here...&&It's gone now
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| 1 FEB 2008 at 3:24am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | You come from Manchester? Awww well, never mind, somebody has to.
Welcome to the forum Plushy (even if you do speak funny).
Caroline the ex-pat scouser Down Under .....
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| 1 FEB 2008 at 7:04am |
RetrogamerIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Hi, I've been posting like there's no tomorrow on here and I haven't yet introduced myself. How rude of me.
I'm an adwriter/voiceover guy living in Richmond, Virginia in the United States. I'm pretty much chained to my computer all day, so you'd think I would be sick of dealing with it and wouldn't play any games on it at all, but when the weather's nasty, I find myself playing games rather than doing anything related to the out of doors. I live alone, but I have a queen sized bed because someone else used to sleep in it with me. The void that was left has been filled by stacks of books, manuscripts, notebooks, journals, and power tools, all of which reside on my bed with me (aside from the power tools). In the time I spend not writing, speaking, or playing games, I enjoy working on and riding motorcycles and fixing up old cars. I also read quite a bit. I watch movies when people come over, and I have a lot of friends in the artistic community here who often grace me with their company. I'm an avid bicyclist during the fall and spring, and I often take up working with a contractor during the summer because a) I enjoy physical labor and b) the summer months aren't too good for ad writing, for some reason.
I'm already in love with this forum and I hope to be both helpful and amusing to other members.
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| 1 FEB 2008 at 11:10am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Retrogamer (1 FEB 2008 7:03am)
Hi, [...] I'm already in love with this forum and I hope to be both helpful and amusing to other members.
Oh my.... I can think of a dozen ways you can be helpful and amusing around here Retro.... Be a dear and fetch me my chocolate will you....?
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| 1 FEB 2008 at 5:14pm |
RetrogamerIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Caroline (1 FEB 2008 11:10am)
Oh my.... I can think of a dozen ways you can be helpful and amusing around here Retro....
Alright, that's just downright provocative.
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| 6 FEB 2008 at 11:35pm |
tino_tIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Hi, a former adventure game lover here, wishing to rekindle the flames of bafflement.
I've just rediscovered adventures after being away from them for a few years now, largely because of the vacuum that was left after the time of Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey. Reading through a few reviews, it looks like I've missed some good 'uns!
I'd like to offer a friendly [smiley=hi_five.gif] to all other adventure lovers out there. There's actually a forum for these sorts of things? Who knew? I should be around pretty often since with the exception of Half-Life and its various offspring, adventures are the only games I play these days.
(If you'd like to know how I first came to be a fan, read on...)
Myst came along with my first computer. Of course it confused me to the extent of my not being able to leave the main island, although I thought the music and sounds were nice. Where was all the stuff to shoot? What was I meant to be doing? So I got bored and it got put back into its box, and that's where it stayed, along with its notebook covered in mysterious symbols.
Then, several years later, a friend led me to a second-hand shop to look for music CDs. What did I see but a bunch of games on sale on a rickety shelf in a corner? King's Quest VIII - £6. I loved every minute, from its quirky graphics and clunky movement to its eccentric wandering camera. It was the first time I had played a game and realized that a decent story, the creation of a particular mood and of a believable location were in combination far more important than "doing lots of stuff" - like killing the same characterless alien drone for the 300th time in an ordinary game. Cutscenes weren't just there to provide a big entrance for the next enemy; they actually moved the game along. Plus whoever did the voice for the main character deserves some sort of award for his wonderfully overblown "medieval" (?) vocal style.
Later I went back to play Myst and cheated like a trooper but then, older if not necessarily wiser, the seeds of my affection for adventures were sown.
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| 6 FEB 2008 at 11:54pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | All Myst lovers - even people who love killing aliens (but what else are aliens for...?) are welcome here. And kudos for sticking with the controls of Grim Fandango, I never could.
Oh and let's add an extra welcome for being a pom.
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| 7 FEB 2008 at 11:43am |
tino_tIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Caroline (6 FEB 2008 11:54pm)
All Myst lovers - even people who love killing aliens (but what else are aliens for...?) are welcome here. And kudos for sticking with the controls of Grim Fandango, I never could.
Oh and let's add an extra welcome for being a pom.
Thanks for the welcome! Your country is almost unfairly pleasant, you lot should ship all that spare sunlight over here...
Heh, yeah after a while in GF you just get used to "bouncing" off walls and running in completely the wrong direction. It was the quality of the script and the gorgeous visuals that made me stick with it.
About to make a start on Grand Inquisitor and Nemesis, which have been useless until just recently when I discovered those ingenious XP compatibility guide websites. Getting them to work is like adding a whole new puzzle to the games
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| 7 FEB 2008 at 12:23pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | I have Zork Nemsis and I'm sick with jealousy of listening to people say it's on their top 5 or top 10 list. It won't work for me. >
And I do live in an terrific place where the sky is big and blue and empty about 9 months of the year. But I emigrated here from Liverpool so I deserve my good fortune. I visited the motherland last year - just when the place was being flooded in fact. It's very green isn't it.... lime green.
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| 27 MAY 2008 at 3:43pm |
avatar_58Private Detective
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Status : Online | Hi! I visit this site often enough that I just decided to join the forum. (Just bought a basket of games from you guys too)
Adventure wise I'm a Sierra Online nut. Not was either, I still play them all the time. My favs include Police Quest 2, Space Quest 3, Gabriel Knight 2 and Quest for Glory 3.
Recently I finished Overlocked and I just started Scratches.
I'm also a big fan of other genres (RPGs, Shooters, Action, Puzzle games).
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| 28 MAY 2008 at 12:04am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Welcome to the forum. Feel free to join in any of the conversations that take your fancy.
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| 2 JUN 2008 at 5:29am |
ArkadiaPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Hi At urging from Caroline, who hails from the exact same part of the world as me, believe it or not, I'm here to introduce myself. My name is Chantal, I'm 18, from Adelaide, Australia and I'm absolutely flabbergasted that Sierra rereleased almost all their series EXCEPT Gabriel Knight and Quest for Glory, which I personally find to be far superior to any of the other collections. I've been gaming since I was 5 years old, encouraged by an amused uncle and grandfather who thought it adorable to see a five year old girl playing video games. Since age 6 or so I've been heavily addicted to adventure games - I really was raised by Sierra, in many ways. An interesting gaming fact is that I was an absolutely spoiled little brat, and I recieved 1 adventure game a week for years. My uncle was the generous person, and yes, every week he'd go on a hunt to find me a new adventure game I could play. Because of this I'm rather well versed in them I suppose, but lately I've been astounded to see exactly how many adventure games I seem to have missed, both new and old. Astounded, but definitely happy! I have all these new games to play
In addition to being an addicted little gamer, I love to write, draw and read. Anything horror-themed appeals to me in the largest of ways. I'm a cat person, and I'm very glad this community is here, and it's nice to meet you
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| 2 JUN 2008 at 8:25am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Welcome to the forum Chantal. I was truly amazed and delighted to meet you today. Your listed qualifications are awesome and I'm sure you'll click in nicely with all the other cat-lovers here.
I'm wondering where your uncle found all those games for you. I used to scour the shops, mostly Berlin Wall and the big stores in Rundle Mall pestering them for 'more games like Myst'. But other Aussies on this forum put me onto gameswarehouse in Sydney and that did very nicely until I discovered the addictive joys of ebay.
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| 2 JUN 2008 at 9:21pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Arkadia (2 JUN 2008 5:29am)
I'm absolutely flabbergasted that Sierra rereleased almost all their series EXCEPT Gabriel Knight and Quest for Glory, which I personally find to be far superior to any of the other collections.
I am likewise shocked, Chantal (a name, which, sadly, you don't hear much at all in English Canada. ); I would have assumed Quest for Glory would be re-released along with all the others. Fortunately for me I bought my copy of the collection several years ago.
Gabriel Knight being excluded surprises me far less, as it never did to my knowledge have an original-run "collection" re-release (and Sierra don't care one iota about their old games save what they can milk, I imagine), and so laziness likely won out. Still, even though Quest for Glory IV is my favourite Sierra game, I would agree that Gabriel and Grace not getting their own re-release is the greatest shame, as they are of extremely high and (most impressive of all) consistent quality.
In any case, even though I've not been here long myself, welcome. It's always nice to have new, intelligent people around, especially if they have pretty French names which remind me my old stomping grounds.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 3 JUN 2008 at 5:46am |
ArkadiaPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | Thank you for the kind welcomes
Caroline, I'm not absolutely positive as to where he would go to get them, but I do recall him taking me to GameTraders a few times and finding AMAZING amounts of older, hard-to-find adventure games there (mostly used copies, but I'm sure most of us here know that that has no bearing on anything) and also a local, small place in my area that I can't remember the name of and has since been shut down. Apart from those I'm pretty sure he went on trips to Marion a lot and checked out Electronics Boutique (as it was known then) and David Jones. Harvey Norman had quite a selection also.
GameTraders used to be very, very amazing, I miss the way it used to be a lot. Nowadays they seem like an EB Games clone, but with slightly more reasonable prices (and at this point can I mention how deliriously happy I am that other game stores opened up at Marion Shopping Centre, so that EB Games no longer has an evil dictatorship over the ridiculous prices of video games?).
JKing, I'm also fortunate in that I owned all the original "collections", however some of those discs have been lost over the years so I was hoping to replace them with an easy trip to the mall. It's horrible that I have so much animosity towards a company that was formerly my favourite beyond all favourites, but I think we'll all agree we can't really call them the same company anymore. Sad sad sad I'm immensely looking forward to Jane Jensen's new game, as are we all, I'm sure.
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| 29 JUN 2008 at 5:27pm |
Robin56Intergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Hi! my name is Robin.
Robin56, king of JA+.
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| 29 JUN 2008 at 11:30pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | A fellow Aussie no less. Welcome to the forum Robin.
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| 30 JUN 2008 at 2:30am |
Robin56Intergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Caroline (29 JUN 2008 11:30pm)
A fellow Aussie no less. Welcome to the forum Robin.
Thank you Caroline.
Robin56, king of JA+.
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