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| 13 NOV 2010 at 2:45pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Originally Posted By Inesrocks (13 NOV 2010 2:16pm)
haha seriously? I really thought Sam had knocked down the woman so she could have a place to stay that night, pretending to be the new assistant. guess your interpretation makes a lot more sense than mine
Heh, yes, just re-watch that cutscene again. Admittely the opening cutscene is rather confusing, what with the dark silhouettes and so on.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 18 NOV 2010 at 6:11pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | playing beneath a steel sky, stuck at the moment (just got the putty, not sure what to do next) but im not gettign frustrated and impatient and im NOT looking for hints or walkthrough.
The game is rather short as well, so not taking any shortcuts through it is probably for the best. And none of the puzzles were fiendishly hard, so you always have a decent chance of actually figuring them out.
Let's see if 3rd time is the charm. My two last attempts at AG did not end well (The sacred amulet did not start, and Egypt had such horrible sound & music that it was unplayable). Now playing: Largo Winch empire under threat.
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| 18 NOV 2010 at 6:34pm |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Well... I finished up A Vampire Story, Ghost Pirates of Voojoo Island, Lost Souls and A Twist of Fate – so…
I'm playing Tex Murphy Overseer under Virtual PC. I started off with the DVD version, but it's just too buggy under emulation. The CD version plays just fine (so far) and VPC's ISO support means no disc swapping. There aren’t annoying errors after cut-scenes either, it's on a 98 guest!
They just don't make games like this anymore
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| 18 NOV 2010 at 6:50pm |
CulturaJourneyman
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Location: NL, Amersfoort
Status : Offline | Playing AlternativA and Fall Trilogy2. But whenever I'm in a nostalgic mood, I resort to Myst Exile, for the sheer quality and immersion found there. Few games have that effect on me.
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| 19 NOV 2010 at 9:04pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Location: SE, Stockholm
Status : Offline | That was short and easy. Not a bad game, but it did not contain a single puzzle that was not a simple "find this item and use it on another item/thing/person found in the vicinity", or "talk to someone".
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| 21 NOV 2010 at 10:24pm |
IviniaGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Secrets of Atlantis and Aura (For the 3rd time).
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| 21 NOV 2010 at 10:31pm |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | I started playing Whispered World.
Apart from a really annoying lead character voice I think it has been entertaining so far.
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 23 NOV 2010 at 5:42pm |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
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Status : Online | Finished Lost Horizon. Apart from the easy riddles the game is actually good.
....set the controls for the heart of the sun....
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| 25 NOV 2010 at 10:35pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Now playing:
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| 28 NOV 2010 at 2:40pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | I wouldn't call the above (The Void) an adventure game, many reviews tricked me into believing that. It's more a resource gathering/action game.
In fact after a few rooms the game becomes an irritating experience. You're constantly out of 'color' and the enemies are difficult to beat :-/
on topic: Machinarium 8-)
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| 28 NOV 2010 at 2:55pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | It seem to be classified as an AG, even though I agree with you about it not being much like one. Even the review on this site classifies it as an AG.
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| 30 NOV 2010 at 10:51pm |
| Deleted User | Although I still won't admit that I am ready to join the Myst fan club, I just have to say that Real Myst turned out as a much better gaming experience than I had anticipated. Yes, during the days while the Myst retrospective thread was a popular topic I did quietly saunter over to GOG and put it on my account. What an interesting clever game with an amazing back story. Well, even if I didn’t quite pick up on all of it. Unlike several newer games that I’ve started and lost interest for various reasons, I couldn’t put this one down, literally.
The not so good:
I’ve always been under the impression, at least from my own experience, that GOG products (especially older ones) are already patched and modified for XP and Vista systems, perfect for my HP Vista notebook right? Not this time around. A forum visit instructed me to set the .exe’s to WinXP mode and then install the game. Phew, at least that solved the screen freezes requiring a total re-boot. > Unfortunately the game crashes still persisted in some areas (but not all) especially in the desert region of the Selenitic Age. Save, save, save or just shoot the stupid thing. [img]http://justadventure.com/yabb/Smilies/hair_pull.gif[/img]
Oh, lest I forget about the ending, yeah just to be sure, I did check out a video.
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| 3 DEC 2010 at 10:59am |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Gave up on Rhiannon (liked the story but found the game very flat after Darkness Within).
I'm now re-playing Culpa Innata (which I had to give up on the first time round due to a dying computer) and enjoying it so much better this time round! I'm still slightly annoyed by the continuity issues in the dialogues (specifically with Sandra and Chief Morrsen) but great story telling otherwise.
Fun game!
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 4 DEC 2010 at 1:51am |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | i dragged Culpa from the graveyard box..(bottom of the storage stack) to the bookcase which is about half way to the computer to be played.
i am thinking of it, a buddy of mine loves it..so i am thinking about it again....
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| 4 DEC 2010 at 2:25pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Definitely worth playing! I went from not bothered to convert. Three days of intensive play and I'm still not 100% sure where they're going with the story.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 12 DEC 2010 at 3:43am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I just replayed the classic game Shadowgate. Ah, the memories. This game still holds up surprisingly well, even though it is more than 20 years old (although there are a few stupid deaths that you can't possibly predict).
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| 17 DEC 2010 at 2:31am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I recently bought Still life on GOG, so that is what I'll be playing now. It is after all close to Christmas.
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| 17 DEC 2010 at 8:41am |
StormseyeIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By maum (3 DEC 2010 10:58am)
Gave up on Rhiannon (liked the story but found the game very flat after Darkness Within).
Uh-oh. I just started playing this today. I bought it awhile ago, and just hadn't gotten around to it. Thanks to the crazy deals on Steam, my playing list is large and not very AG oriented, although I did finish a Sam and Max and Puzzle Agent recently. Currently playing Batman Arkham Asylum (awesome), Just Cause 2, Zombie Driver, Left4Dead 2, and as mentioned Rhiannon. Think I'll start the 2nd Gabriel Knight after that.
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| 18 DEC 2010 at 5:24pm |
Taurnil MithrandirJourneyman
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Status : Online | Still playing nothing.
....set the controls for the heart of the sun....
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| 20 DEC 2010 at 5:08am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Still life is turning out to be quite fun, although not very hard. I'm at the start of chapter 6, and I think I have figured out who the killer is.
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| 20 DEC 2010 at 9:30am |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | I've never managed to finish Still Life. I played it a few years back but the game bugged very early on and won't run on Vista.
Shame cos after Post Mortem I rather wanted to see what would happen.
I bought a cheap copy of Still Life 2 (french version) but that wouldn't even start on my Vista laptop either. In fact I seem to remember it wouldn't even install properly.
Stormseye tell me what you think of Rhiannon. I thought in addition to the lack of atmosphere (which I gather might have something to do with the fact that the game was developed by just two with a limited budget) I thought it was a bit directionless. After the initial exploration there's a randomness about what the player's expected to do.
Still playing Culpa Innata, I've also just started the old Call of Cthulhu. Fun early 90s game.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 20 DEC 2010 at 9:41am |
IdrisIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Offline | im guessing the gog.com version of still life is a little more stable. ill begetting that soon enough anyway.
im currently playing secret files tunguska. currently stuck (as i will naturally be at the end of every playsession. but im loving it.) again trying not to use any hints of walkthroughs. so much so that i have put in help sites like uhs and gamefaqs into my hosts file so i cant access them if i get weak.
have also got, drawn dark flight, return to mysterious island, sherlock holmes vs jack the ripper, and safecracker. good deal for some adventure company games so if i get stuck for too long on tunguska ill play another one of these games alongside it so i keep myself rolling on.
just want to get better at the games before i play the uber classics like GKs, tex murphy, still life, etc.etc.
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| 20 DEC 2010 at 2:58pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Still playing the Two classics Anachronox and Nomad Soul..i really need to get back to them soon...also have started ..just started...Beyond Good and Evil, and am close to where i stopped before..just after the first (?) boat chase.... i am quite a bit more experienced as a gamer than when i tried it before.... so maybe that is making it a bit easier...
Crystal Key 1 also started... and in the queue... and i am still eyeing Culpa Innata...and have also got several semi adventure-semi action games loaded...things like Mafia I and Advent Rising but the holidays and modding for Oblvion and several other things have me stuck in the non gaming category for the moment..i miss it.
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| 21 DEC 2010 at 10:54am |
StormseyeIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By maum (20 DEC 2010 9:30am)
Stormseye tell me what you think of Rhiannon. I thought in addition to the lack of atmosphere (which I gather might have something to do with the fact that the game was developed by just two with a limited budget) I thought it was a bit directionless. After the initial exploration there's a randomness about what the player's expected to do.
I'll definitely let you know. I enjoyed it for the first hour or two, and then I picked up Oblivion again for the first time in a while, and haven't gone back to Rhiannon for a day or two. I won't say that's Rhiannon's fault. Just a shift in mood. I agree with you about the atmosphere so far. Everything is pretty bright and sunny, with vibrant colors and such. Even in the house, it feels more yuppyish than creepy, but I can' say it's bothering me yet, as it fits with the story so far. I'll drop a pm or start a thread once I'm through it.
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