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| 10 JUL 2008 at 4:55pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | I'm at the very end of The Lost Crown. The second half of this game has kept me totally absorbed. Even though the story isn't the most original I've seen, I've enjoyed it a great deal. Combined with nice puzzles, (kind of easy most of them, but who am I to complain) and beautiful environments I'm a little bit sad to see it come to an end.
Temporary guest in your life.
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| 13 JUL 2008 at 10:45pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5536
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I've been working on Jack Keane this weekend and I'm part way through chapter 4. From what I've seen so far, the comments I made about Ankh apply here as well, unfortunately.
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| 14 JUL 2008 at 4:53am |
jujigatameSchattenjger
Posts : 1976
Joined: 14 FEB 2003
Status : Online | Replaying Grim Fandango, the greatest adventure game ever made. The art direction, characters, scripting, it's all on a higher level than anything that came before it or that has come since. The controls kind of suck, but when you're talking about an artistic achievement of GF's scope and originality, I'm willing to ignore that.
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| 14 JUL 2008 at 7:45am |
MaumPrivate Detective
Posts : 592
Joined: 2 JUN 2007
Location: UK
Status : Offline | I'm finally playing the Black Mirror, after having it on my shelves for a good few years.
So far having fun with it, despite the slowness.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Darkness Within 2, The Witcher, Fallout 3
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| 18 JUL 2008 at 11:14am |
MaumPrivate Detective
Posts : 592
Joined: 2 JUN 2007
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Just received my copy of Overclocked, I'm rather excited!
I have to say Black Mirror is a tad boring for me. Good storyline, but the pace is just sooooo slow it's getting on my nerves a bit.
I was told it has a pretty good ending though so I am determined to finish it.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Darkness Within 2, The Witcher, Fallout 3
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| 18 JUL 2008 at 1:07pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By maum (18 JUL 2008 11:14am)
I was told it has a pretty good ending though so I am determined to finish it.
You're kidding, right?
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| 18 JUL 2008 at 2:38pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
Posts : 592
Joined: 2 JUN 2007
Location: UK
Status : Offline | No seriously.
You mean the ending is crap?
I am not kidding, a friend told me it was good, and I seem to remember reading the same thing on the ending thread on this very board a little while back. Did I get it completely wrong?
If that's the case I need to know!!!
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Darkness Within 2, The Witcher, Fallout 3
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| 18 JUL 2008 at 4:21pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By maum (18 JUL 2008 2:37pm)
No seriously.
You mean the ending is crap?
I am not kidding, a friend told me it was good, and I seem to remember reading the same thing on the ending thread on this very board a little while back. Did I get it completely wrong?
If that's the case I need to know!!! I don't think the ending is crap at all!
But that's something you should determine by yourself. What's crap to someone else might not be crap to you. Right!?
Temporary guest in your life.
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| 18 JUL 2008 at 6:36pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
Posts : 592
Joined: 2 JUN 2007
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Well some endings are just terrible period I guess.
As it is, I don't know if I'll ever get there, I am so stuck on the 2nd tomb puzzle (Zodiac) I HATE those Rubik cube-like puzzles, I might not make it.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Darkness Within 2, The Witcher, Fallout 3
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| 19 JUL 2008 at 11:35am |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | I've got back to Rhem 2 after a short hiatus and a fight with Quicktime. I had just finished the part up to the star, and found a whole new area to explore. Even then, there is a rail ride to another section. This game is hugh! I love it.
I'm also participating in a community playthrough at AG - The Last Express. We've just come to our first stopping point. Here's my feelings on the game so far:
It's hard to judge the game in such a short while, but had we not been doing a community play, I would have put this one back on the shelf after the fight. But, I want to find out what happens, and my goals are clearer now. It seems you can reset to your hearts content, and this helps, though it makes for chronologic confusion when you see and hear different things in different run throughs. I don't know if that information is useful, or if each scenario has a different path and what you pick up in one won't help you in the other.
Part of the problem is that I'm playing a rather spectacular game right now (Rhem 2) and the contrast between the 2 is glaring. One of the games gives me a quiet cerebral getaway, the other is a chaotic go-with-the-flow ride.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 19 JUL 2008 at 12:20pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By maum (18 JUL 2008 6:36pm)
Well some endings are just terrible period I guess.
Yes, you're right - but not Black Mirror, actually.
Sorry about my comment earlier. What I meant to say was that Black Mirror had a pretty controversial ending for some people. I didn't mind the ending itself, but the fact that [spoiler midtext]it left us with plenty of unanswered questions that even the development team was unwilling to answer
Anyway, I'm only playing some short freeware games right now. I don't have patience for anything else.
Still, some of these were alot of fun like - 'Nanobots', 'Ben There, Dan That' and 'Dread Mac Farlane'.
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| 19 JUL 2008 at 5:42pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jelena (18 JUL 2008 4:21pm)
Originally Posted By maum (18 JUL 2008 2:37pm)
No seriously.
You mean the ending is crap?
I am not kidding, a friend told me it was good, and I seem to remember reading the same thing on the ending thread on this very board a little while back. Did I get it completely wrong?
If that's the case I need to know!!! I don't think the ending is crap at all!
But that's something you should determine by yourself. What's crap to someone else might not be crap to you. Right!?
Well I wouldn't say the ending is complete crap, but I think it's closer to crap than not-crap. I can't really explain why without spoilers though. But I enjoyed most of the game because of the atmosphere, despite the plot holes and the feeling that important information had been cut from the script. Like Jelena says, it's best to finish the game and make up your own mind.
And to return to the topic of this thread, I'm currently playing Perry Rhodan.
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| 27 JUL 2008 at 7:17pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5536
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Just started Rhem this weekend. I haven't seen much of the game yet, but it looks promising. The first area you arrive in is larger than I would have expected. Quite a bit to see and figure out already. I also decided they should have subtitled it "ude, Where's My Car" as I got tram)carjacked within minutes of arriving. Who knew it was that kind of neighborhood? :
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| 27 JUL 2008 at 11:18pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | I hope you like the game as much as I did, Andromus. I'm playing Rhem 2 and finding it just as challenging, if not more so than Rhem 1.
Unfortunately, I gave up on the Last Express. I really couldn't get into it.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 28 JUL 2008 at 1:55am |
HalcyonSchattenjger
Posts : 1652
Joined: 17 NOV 2006
Status : Offline | I'm playing Lost Crown right now, just about through Day One. Nothing scary yet, lots of talking and intrigue. The story and background are great. The black and white is not appealing sometimes, but mostly the photo-realism works. Nigel's slide-stepping and robotic actions are a big negative, in my opinion.
As okay as this game is, I wish someone would put me in charge of coaching the voice actors. My god. I'm sure it's hard to piece it all together, but voice meaning and continuity and character growth would add so much!
Love the woods. Spooky! I find myself thinking about this game during the day and excited to get back to it at night. Wish I wasn't playing alone, though....gulp...
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| 28 JUL 2008 at 1:57am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | What? Even though your goals were much clearer now? [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
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| 28 JUL 2008 at 2:33am |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5536
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By colpet (27 JUL 2008 11:18pm)
I hope you like the game as much as I did, Andromus. I'm playing Rhem 2 and finding it just as challenging, if not more so than Rhem 1.
It looks like it should be right up my alley. I just hope I'm up to it. It's somewhat overwhelming at first. I thought I had a lot of ground to cover from the start. Then I opened up another area that seemed even larger. Hopefully getting more pieces of a map that are lying around should help, because right now I'm [smiley=boggled.gif] trying to get around and assimilate how everything fits together. I tip my hat to Knut Müller -- he's put together an incredibly intricate game, especially considering he produced this on his own.
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| 28 JUL 2008 at 2:27pm |
| Deleted User | Well, I started Obsidian a while back, but I was supposed to play it with Caroline and JKing; and while waiting for Caroline and her tech problems, my interest fizzled out a bit. Also, JKing has apparently gone camping for a week.
Luckily, in the meantime, my Dracula Origin arrived, and so far (except for the meh voice acting) it looks very nice. (The music and graphics are rather divine.)
Trying to get Zork GI working, so I might carry on a bit with that if possible.
RPG-wise, I just got my copy of Beyond Divinity. Will post impressions in "other games" when applicable.
Last completed adv.game is DITR. Hmm. There's a lot I would actually like to comment on and discuss re that one, but it does involve rather...er sensitive issues, that might just spark the kind of debate that is not allowed on JA anymore. :-X
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| 28 JUL 2008 at 6:57pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | I'm playing 'Sam&Max 202: Moai Better Blues'. It's really fun, and feels much longer than the season 1 episodes. I could've done without the contemporary jokes, though - some of them are already outdated.
The puzzles are pretty nice, I especially enjoyed the one for getting rid of the piranhas.
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| 29 JUL 2008 at 9:07am |
MKBSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 241
Joined: 24 AUG 2006
Status : Offline | Currently playing:
Dracula Origin...fun game so far but I could do with fewer logic puzzles
Overclocked...game keeps crashing my computer, boring repetitive actions
Rhodan...still stuck in the museum, started out great but got dull in chapter 3
Art of Murder...only played for a couple of hours but looks okay so far
I don't buy download-only games. Never have, never will........Mike
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| 30 JUL 2008 at 7:23am |
MoriartyIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 2
Joined: 30 JUL 2008
Status : Online | Just finished Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem on the Wii (It's an old Gamecube game I missed). One of the best horror games I have ever played, and while it's heavy on action, it has a lot of adventure themes. I highly recommend it.
I also just finished Zack and Wiki on the Wii which was an interesting puzzle game. Like many non-PC puzzlers, it was light on plot, but it had some really unique dynamics in the puzzles that made it worth playing.
I've actually gotten my Wii craze out of my system and am back on the PC looking for some decent adventure games, so I'll be looking around this forum
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| 10 AUG 2008 at 10:59pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | I just finished Rhem 2 which I liked very much. It sure was a brain workout! I wanted something different to try after that, so I loaded up The Dig in my Win95. I'm liking it so far, and right now I'm stuck in the nexus area trying to figure out what to do next. I'm glad I'm not a graphics junky because the pixelation is very evident.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 10 AUG 2008 at 11:51pm |
JKingSchattenjger
Posts : 2349
Joined: 4 MAY 2008
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By colpet (10 AUG 2008 10:58pm)
I'm glad I'm not a graphics junky because the pixelation is very evident.
Try it in ScummVM! You can apply a graphic filter (I prefer super2xsai) which will smooth out the edges of pixels and generally give you a nicer experience.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 11 AUG 2008 at 12:15am |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | Just finished:
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis - Not as good as I expected. There's one area that was too big and confusing to navigate [spoiler midtext]and you have to go there twice. It was nice to have a map for every location, and that the locations were self-contained.
I didn't like how sometimes the puzzles were really obvious, while at others there seemed to be no logic to them.
Also, I expected it to be more light hearted. And no, abusing a character isn't funny.
Sam and Max 202 and 203 - both ok but a little forgettable. Humor is still good, though it could do without the contemporary jokes. Puzzles are good and fun to experiment with, just like an adventure should be.
Currently playing:
Jack Keane - A little into chapter 4. I played the demo so I had to replay the first 3 chapters which made me not want to go on with the game.
Not to mention I found an old game I used to play and have been playing it all day.
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