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| 17 DEC 2007 at 5:58pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | I didn't fail at it - but I sure wasn't impressed much by it... Tunguska :
I found the replay (which was almost immediately after completing the first play through) to be quite enjoyable.
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| 17 DEC 2007 at 6:37pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | I started Sentinel, wasn't impressed and had it on my computer for months before I got this urge to solve puzzles and nothing but puzzles. With that in mind it worked a lot better and I enjoyed it until the end.
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| 17 DEC 2007 at 7:53pm |
chronotigger65Journeyman
Posts : 1143
Joined: 23 FEB 2005
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Cultura (17 DEC 2007 2:47pm)
Ive played many, many adventure games, but I have to admit that my drawer is also full of games I have started, but never finished.
You not the only one Cultura. Aside from adventure games (both Myst and Zelda types,) I have so many games that need playing it's not funny. ue to the fact that today's games are longer I tend to jump to another game when I lose interest in it. It's also due to my OCD condition, I keep rearranging my to do list that games just don't get completed.
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| 18 DEC 2007 at 2:05am |
RobDSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 382
Joined: 30 NOV 2002
Status : Online | So tell me, which game did you restart after an initial failure? And enjoyed?
Grim Fandango, because of the keyboard controls. What a mistake THAT turned out to be. [smiley=smiley.gif]
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| 18 DEC 2007 at 3:58am |
ButterproofSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 299
Joined: 9 NOV 2007
Status : Online | Scratches, at first I couldn't get used to the engine, but a friend of mine (who wanted to frighten me!) convinced me to keep playing. I really enjoyed the game.
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| 18 DEC 2007 at 11:40pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5537
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Riven is probably my most prominent example. I did finish the game, but ended up needing help with most of the game. Fast forward several years and I decide to give it another shot, having forgotten the solutions to the parts I needed help with. It was still very challenging, but this time I managed to do 99% of the game on my own, and enjoyed it immensely. It's now one of my top three adventure games.
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| 19 DEC 2007 at 12:16am |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Schizm
King's Quest 3
I have a few others that I intend to go back to, but haven't yet.
Usually it's lack of time that keeps me from finishing, and by the time I do have time I might as well start the game over because I forgot everything.
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| 19 DEC 2007 at 12:34pm |
AyaGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7277
Joined: 16 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | most prominent example: gabriel knight 3! started it 3 (three!) times by myself but threw it away infuriated and disgusted by the most atrocious control system known to mankind... when Valerie took over the controls i finally got the chance to enjoy the best of the gks and one of the best adventure games in history!
also:
tony tough: an adventure that seemed to be cut just right for me, for some reason it just didn't do it first time around and i dropped it pretty soon... replayed it a couple of months ago and thoroughly enjoyed it... no idea what was wrong back then
mystery of the druids: had pretty neutral feelings about this when i was playing for the first time... for some absolutely mysterious reason i dropped it a couple of steps before the ending! replayed it a couple of years ago, this time finishing it... didn't enjoy it more or less than the first time
You have gotten the attention of the mysterious lady. She turns to face you. Her face is devoid of any flesh. You are frozen with horror as she begins ripping your body into a bloody mess.
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| 19 DEC 2007 at 1:06pm |
CulturaJourneyman
Posts : 1337
Joined: 1 SEP 2004
Location: NL, Amersfoort
Status : Offline | Gabriel Knight3, yep Aya, thats another one I have tried at least three times, purely because of the raving reviews. Can't get past the clunky controls, interface and horrible accent though. made it halfway, or so I think anyway. So that one is now forever removed from the drive. Blasphemy, I suppose in AG-land....
The Last Express is still on my drive, started it twice, abandoned it because of the cartoony look and feel. Tell me, should I persist - start it up again (have to find a new game, now thast I am near the end of TLJ2)?
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| 19 DEC 2007 at 4:09pm |
KsandraSchattenjger
Posts : 2459
Joined: 2 APR 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Cultura (19 DEC 2007 1:06pm)
The Last Express is still on my drive, started it twice, abandoned it because of the cartoony look and feel. Tell me, should I persist - start it up again (have to find a new game, now thast I am near the end of TLJ2)?
[smiley=huh.gif] 'Cartoony'? How much of the game did you actually play? I mean, obviously the graphical style stays the same throughout, but in terms of plot and writing it's about the least 'cartoony' game I've ever played. I could hardly speak for about half an hour after watching the ending, it affected me so much.
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| 19 DEC 2007 at 7:30pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Aya (19 DEC 2007 12:33pm)
most prominent example: gabriel knight 3! On a side note: I can't get my G.K3 to work on any of my computers. I first tried it on my XP but it kept crashing in the hotel lobby downstairs. Then I installed it on my old win-98 and it turns out the videocard isn't compatible with the game. > :'(
Ah well, carry on with the topic.
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| 20 DEC 2007 at 4:16am |
Schmem8585Intergalactic Janitor
Posts : 25
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | In terms of Last Express, youo should really finish it as it is the reason I love adventure games. Also, I agree that the ending is, next to GK3's, the most dramatic and bitter-sweet I've ever seen. I'd advise you to finish it and then replay it later b/c each time I play it, I have a different experience.
As to starting games and not finishing them, I usually finish all games just to get a sense of completion by seeing the end. If i stop a game and go back to it, it's usually b/c of some technical problem that eventually gets fixed.
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| 20 DEC 2007 at 7:08pm |
MrLipidPrivate Detective
Posts : 666
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Gave up on MYST. Took playing realMYST to convince me to give the original a second chance.
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| 23 DEC 2007 at 3:18am |
SusanGuild Master
Posts : 5485
Joined: 13 OCT 2002
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Mean Streets - the first Tex Murphy game.
You start out in Tex's speeder and I had no idea what to do and thought I was supposed to control that thing, somehow, by myself. I was like, "What the ..." and didn't get any further.
A couple years later, just a few weeks ago, I read through the manual and discovered some places/people to visit to get started, and that the speeder has an autopilot function.
In the end, it was a LOT of places to visit (50+) and story-wise similar to Overseer (obviously!), but I was glad I played it through to the end this time.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 26 DEC 2007 at 9:10pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Most prominent example: The Last Express
When I first got it I couldn't get into it, at all. Probably I was still too rooted in 3rd person conventional p&c. I checked back after I read a lot of praise here. And I loved it, the annoying "fight" sequences aside. An exceptional approach to storytelling.
Second is Myst, kind of. I borrowed the game more than a decade ago and I hated the music puzzle and generally didn't enjoy it too much, except for all the stuff to read, I always loved that in a game.
Several years ago, as some of you know, I revisited the franchise by first getting Myst 4 - no idea why I decided to go for that, not yet being a converted fan - and later - when I got stuck in Myst 4, to this very day - I purchased the trilogy and loved every minute of it, starting with Myst. The music puzzle is a piece of cake.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 8 JAN 2008 at 2:02pm |
CulturaJourneyman
Posts : 1337
Joined: 1 SEP 2004
Location: NL, Amersfoort
Status : Offline | Okay, I have now loaded The Last Express in the CD-tray, due to your suggestion. Very dissorienting, those similar railcars, but hey, I will try to give it another shot. And a little longer shot than last time.
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