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| 12 MAR 2008 at 4:43pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | Currently playing "The Neverhood". I'm very frustrated with the amount of walking you have to do. Half the time I don't know what I missed and I find myself going to a walkthrough only to learn I have to go through a very long process again because I clicked the wrong button. So annoying!
I'm actually liking the puzzles that don't require note-taking. The ones that do require that, are not even puzzles - just copy this infromation and use it 'here'.
I so like the atmosphere. It reminds me of those bizarre cartoons they used to make in the 80's - nothing but strange chracters and places, with little explanation as to why or what.
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| 12 MAR 2008 at 8:36pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (11 MAR 2008 6:19am)
Hey, Jenny100, you tease, you had me smacking at my screen, thinking your new 'bug' avatar was a real bug! [smiley=rofl.gif] Originally Posted By MKB (11 MAR 2008 9:34am)
BTW, at first glance Jenny's bug fooled me too.
[IMG]http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x241/spixh/devil-smiley-029.gif[/IMG]
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 12:16pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
Posts : 581
Joined: 26 APR 2005
Location: PT
Status : Offline | Currently playing.... NOTHING!, NADA!, PAS DE RIEN!.... I've recently moved and I don't have space set up for my PC on my new house, so.... that means that I've been for some weeks now without even turning my PC on....GOD, I'm feeling deprived....
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| 13 MAR 2008 at 9:57pm |
WimliGuild Master
Posts : 3259
Joined: 14 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I finished Secret Files: Tunguska yesterday. Hm, wasn't crazy about the ending, and the final part started to drag a bit. Still, I kind of liked the game in general. At least it kept me going, and refreshed my interest in adventure games again. 8-) Now it's back to The Longest Journey replay. I left April somewhere stuck in chapter 2, so still a lot of journey to go. I also purchased Return to Mysterious Island on ebay last night. So as soon as that one arrives, that'll be up next. Hope it'll be as good as Kheops' Voyage which I loved big time!
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| 14 MAR 2008 at 3:12am |
JanPeterIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 26
Joined: 21 DEC 2007
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Shany (12 MAR 2008 4:43pm)
Currently playing "The Neverhood". I'm very frustrated with the amount of walking you have to do. Half the time I don't know what I missed and I find myself going to a walkthrough only to learn I have to go through a very long process again because I clicked the wrong button. So annoying!
I'm actually liking the puzzles that don't require note-taking. The ones that do require that, are not even puzzles - just copy this infromation and use it 'here'.
I so like the atmosphere. It reminds me of those bizarre cartoons they used to make in the 80's - nothing but strange chracters and places, with little explanation as to why or what.
Interesting... the exact opposite of my own experience.
I felt instantly at home in the Neverhood world. Maybe it's my Christian upbringing. :
Yeah, there's a fair bit of walking around, but I don't know what you mean by "just copy this information and use it here".
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| 14 MAR 2008 at 10:40am |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | I may have exaggerated a bit about copying information, but this is how it felt to me. I'm currently stuck on a puzzle where you have to copy down 12 characters, remember which character made a noise, and then input them somewhere many screens away.
Same with getting the right radio station (thank heavens you can use trial and error!) the three coloured tubes, the memory puzzle (that one was aweful - one mistake and you have to start over!) and more.
It feels like such a waste, too. If the puzzles were self contained like those at the start it would've been so much more fun - not writing down everything in the hopes it will make sense some time in the future.
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| 15 MAR 2008 at 1:58am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
Posts : 4038
Joined: 27 SEP 2004
Location: US, NJ
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Shany (14 MAR 2008 10:39am)
If the puzzles were self contained like those at the start it would've been so much more fun - not writing down everything in the hopes it will make sense some time in the future.
You wouldn't want to play any of the Rhem games, Shany, if you don't like gathering clues for later puzzles. I've been playing Rhem 3 for about 21 hours now, and I still have lots of inventory items and notations I haven't used yet. I love those "a-ha" moments when I realize the purpose of something that has been staring me in the face for half the game.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 22 MAR 2008 at 10:25pm |
valypanIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 46
Joined: 10 MAR 2008
Status : Offline | Currently playing Keepsake, after uninstalling Atlantis Evolution yesterday after playing it for only 5 min; I guess I realized it just was not something for me...but liking Keepsake so far.
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| 23 MAR 2008 at 4:04am |
MKBSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 241
Joined: 24 AUG 2006
Status : Offline | Recently finished Limbo of the Lost. Gave up on and uninstalled The Experiment (made mental note to more carefully research games described as "inovative" before wasting money). Currently continuing CSI: Hard Evidence until my just-ordered Diamonds in the Rough arrives.
I don't buy download-only games. Never have, never will........Mike
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| 26 MAR 2008 at 8:51am |
| Deleted User | Finished Sanitarium a few days ago after a little break.. I took a break after getting frustrated with the hive level -imo by far worst part of the game. The rest was a breeze though. The goo puzzle isn't so bad once you figured out the pattern... thank heavens it's not a random pattern!
During the 'break' fiddled with Morrowind and some RTS - RONRise of Legends, which has a great campaign, imo.
Installed Riven and just walked around a bit, also Post Mortem, which will probably go quickly.
Oh, also checked out Lost - shucks, everbody was right - it is one of those typical movie/TV series tie-ins for non-gamers. The "puzzles" are solvable by 2-year-olds. (Well as far as I got into it, which wasn't very far, as it didn't really 'draw me in'.)
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| 26 MAR 2008 at 8:58am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By valypan (22 MAR 2008 10:25pm)
Currently playing Keepsake, after uninstalling Atlantis Evolution yesterday after playing it for only 5 min; I guess I realized it just was not something for me...but liking Keepsake so far.
Do yourself a favour and play Keepsake to the end - it's worth discovering the little story behind it all, and although some of the puzzles seem a little illogical, theyr'e mostly fun, and if you really can't see the logic, there's a great progressive hint system.
Btw, I also put Atlantis Evolution on my "to be played" pile after playing about 10 - 15 mins., as it didn't seem very immersive.
I am planning to give it another try though.......sometime......
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| 26 MAR 2008 at 12:15pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Atlantis Evolution was the first game I'd bought on ebay so my motivation to finish it was high. Even so I needed to kick myself every day to finish it. readful, buggy game with ghastly stealth puzzles and not much else.
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| 26 MAR 2008 at 3:55pm |
JehaneSpace Cadet
Posts : 128
Joined: 15 MAY 2007
Status : Online | Started to play Lost: Via Domus yesterday. So far, I hate it. It's not running smoothly on my computer despite my pc matching the system requirements and despite me lowering the details and disabling textures. There's no voice-over for the main character in dialogues where you can choose sentences to say; there are no sound effects. I have to hit the keys several times before the game carries out my commands; swapping items, for example, takes forever because the reaction is so awfully slow. Same with dialogues. I'd really love to stop playing this game, stack it away and never touch it again. Unfortunatley, I signed up for writing a review about it so I'm stuck with it. Fortunately, it seems to be pretty short and maybe it gets better... and it does have its good sides as well. They're just not overwhelming enough to keep me motivated *sighs*
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| 26 MAR 2008 at 6:50pm |
Steve VSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 265
Joined: 16 MAR 2008
Status : Online | Originally Posted By valypan (22 MAR 2008 10:25pm)
Currently playing Keepsake, after uninstalling Atlantis Evolution yesterday after playing it for only 5 min; I guess I realized it just was not something for me...but liking Keepsake so far.
Keepsake is another game that is better than the reviews say, except that when you get to the second level there is an insane amount of teleporting from one end of the game world to the other to keep the plot moving - you MUST make notes about which pads take you to which locations or you'll be wandering around forever (see my reference to the solarium puzzle in another thread), and you never have many items to use but it is worth persevering with I think.
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| 28 MAR 2008 at 6:32am |
MikekellyPrivate Detective
Posts : 612
Joined: 25 JUN 2004
Status : Offline |
I'm playing Culpa Innata for the 2nd time - yep it's THAT GOOD! I think Culpa Innata is one of the finest adventure games ever done. The setting is excellent with a vibrant world. Changing clothes was fun and the face animations were amazing.
Sadly, I've actually found both classic adventures "The Longest Journey" and "Gabriel Knight" with reviews that said the games were terrible and not worth playing. No adventure game is liked by everybody. Culpa Innata is an amazing game - a game that will stand the test of time well.
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| 12 APR 2008 at 8:22pm |
| Deleted User | Finished playing Post Mortem a while ago, and must say I wasn't as impressed as I was with Still Life. Not as immersive and too buggy to my tastes, but the ending made up for it all: both endings ("good" or " bad" were a lot more satisfying than that of Still Life, and not only did it allow for closure, but the final little twist made for a good giggle.
AG-wise, I'm now playing Egypt 3 aka The Egyptian Prophesy: The fate of Ramses; and I'm actually enjoying it. I'm not normally a graphics wh0re, but in this case, I can't help drooling at all the amazing textures.
The puzzles so far seem pretty decent (with the exception of a frustrating start) and not too difficult (maybe because they make sense so far, but I'm not finished yet).
I cannot make out what all the fuss about the heroine's bust is about; they are thinnish-flat and pointy, not very attractive, and only draw attention because they are scantily clad. Yet I have read remarks about them in reviews, describing her as 'voluptuous' and 'buxom'?? *cough* *splutter* [smiley=rofl.gif] . Well, if they were any smaller, she'd look like a boy, for Pete's sake! These reviewers obviously confine themselves to AG's only.
I also got my Assassin's Creed yesterday, and although not officially classed as an RPG, it certainly seems to have a lot of RPG features. Well, early days, I think it's going to take me a while to get 'into' it.
Traveler over and out. (*Woffles off to go and figure out all the Assassin's moves*)
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| 12 APR 2008 at 8:42pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
Posts : 4876
Joined: 9 JUL 2003
Location: 0
Status : Offline | I'm currently in Hell with Sam and Max S02Ep05.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 13 APR 2008 at 2:05pm |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | Currently playing Sam&Max 201: Ice Station Santa - making slow progress because I don't have much time to play.
Also playing Dream Chronicles 2 (casual game) - don't know why I'm playing it since I didn't like the first one, and the second looks like a more tedious version of it... :
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| 13 APR 2008 at 2:13pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
Posts : 16540
Joined: 28 JAN 2007
Location: AU
Status : Offline | Okay. Tonight I have put in some time building yet another version of the Amity Airfield roller coaster park. This is save game no 16. I am damned if I know how to get enough people in my park within the specified times. I've had Terry Penrod writing advertising copy for it every blessed day for weeks.... still keep failing.
I also started Pandora's Box after reading Colpet was doing it the other day. And I am supposed to be doing Alida but I'm stuck and the fairground music calls to me......
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| 13 APR 2008 at 3:02pm |
Steve VSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 265
Joined: 16 MAR 2008
Status : Online | Just finished The Lost Crown, which I thought was going to be amazing fo the first third but then kind of petered out. Started playing Broken Sword 3 Sleeping Dragon, and am loving every second of it, even though I have got Nico killed about 30 times so far!
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| 13 APR 2008 at 3:10pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By Caroline (13 APR 2008 2:12pm)
I've had Terry Penrod writing advertising copy for it every blessed day for weeks.... still keep failing.
Maybe there's ^ ^ ^ your problem . I've heard that Terry is good at sailing, though.
Btw, I ordered my kids Mall Tycoon and Zoo Tycoon Complete Bundle over the 'net today. (Got any of those, C?)
Wonder who's going to end up playing most of what. My kids shun their Playstation2 for some reason, and only want to play PC. Son insisted on playing Jade Empire, and mom's ending up playing most of the game for him. (No wonder Altiar can't get any assassinations done. He's spending much too much time in the Jade Empire) >
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| 13 APR 2008 at 6:54pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
Posts : 587
Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | I've just started Amber Journeys Beyond. It looks like a game to my liking, but I have a feeling I'm going to be hard to please after recently having played Black Dahlia: One of the most intriguing stories I've seen so far. In spite of a couple of horribly difficult puzzles I enjoyed it tremendously. It was also the first time I played together with another adventure gamer (Colpet) It was so much fun communicating about the story and the puzzles.
Temporary guest in your life.
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| 13 APR 2008 at 7:09pm |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
Posts : 1317
Joined: 15 JAN 2008
Location: GR
Status : Offline | " A couple" of horribly difficult puzzles in Black Dahlia? You are my new adventuring idol
I loved Amber, bit on the short side but great atmosphere. Couldn't get it to play in a Win Xp Sp2 machine, are you using Virtual Machine or something similar?
Just started the Lost Crown, seems intriguing so far. Also have Paradise and The Moment of Silence installed and awaiting their turn, plus I'll have Diamonds in the Rough sometime next week.
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| 13 APR 2008 at 7:33pm |
AndromusGuild Master
Posts : 5538
Joined: 6 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | I played Amber for the first time last year. I found it to be over all too soon, and a bit on the easy side, but very enjoyable nonetheless.
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