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| 15 JUN 2010 at 5:45pm |
| Deleted User | The radio music is a nice touch. I wonder if those creepy poems and stories are just meant for the gamer's entertainment, or if one has to read them? They're pretty creepy, from what I could tell - I didn't read all of it.
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 5:50pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Location: UK
Status : Offline | Damn you weren't kidding about starting both games at the same time!
OK I am going to stick with Anachronox for a little while. Keep us posted on how you're going with DW and I'll jump in when it gets tempting!
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 7:08pm |
| Deleted User | Cool, ditto with you and Anachronox,
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 8:07pm |
| Deleted User | Ok, I'm not easily scared in games, but Clark's house sure is a creepy place.... [smiley=shudder.gif]
I struggled a bit with the relatively complex interface, at first, but once one gets the hang of it, it certainly makes for more fun than simply picking up and using things. This game takes inventory based puzzling to a new dimension: it's more than simply inventory based, you get to squeeze clues out of what people say and out of what you read, and so on. Nice!
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 9:04pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (15 JUN 2010 8:06pm)
Ok, I'm not easily scared in games, but Clark's house sure is a creepy place.... [smiley=shudder.gif]
Yes it is, and you will get to see more of it later on. [img]http://justadventure.com/yabb/Smilies/smiley.gif [/img] I played the game (in solitude) back in April and I'm still thinking about it. [img]http://justadventure.com/yabb/Smilies/boggled.gif[/img] It's time now for me to go and look for a good deal on DW2.
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 9:21pm |
| Deleted User | CB, you have a lot of guts. This house has creaks and dark corners that really makes the hair on the back of my neck (well it would've if I'd had any) rise. In fact I get creepy shivers all up and down my back..- those stains on the floors and splattered on the wall as you enter the house, RREALLy has my imagination going... [smiley=zombie.gif]
I'm still building up courage to go back into that cellar. After having a quick squiz around there, I decided to leave that for last, rather...
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 9:32pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | After someone (Taio?) stumped me with a shot from this game I'd been thinking about playing it again for longer than ten minute; this seems as good an excuse as any to actually do it.
I've only played about an hour, but it certainly is creepy. I'm exploring the house myself, and while it's not quite so creepy in the afternoon, I'm still on edge.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 10:03pm |
HalcyonSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | So, Trav, with all the games you play here's my guess: you have a business that runs itself (or a husband who works), you are home all day with no children, and you're an insomniac. I can think of nothing else that accounts for all your gameplay, expenditures, and posts. What's your secret?
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 10:08pm |
colpetSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Darn, if I had the time I'd join in. This was the only game I've ever beta tested. I never did play the completed game.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 11:54pm |
| Deleted User | I'll be interested in hearing any comments posted as it is a rather strange game. I've ordered DW2 and I really can't wait to see how the story picks up and continues (and concludes) with regard to the 'ending' of Darkness Within. I guess I'll know the answer to the first part soon if the DW2 demo starts at the beginning. [img]http://justadventure.com/yabb/Smilies/slurp.gif[/img]
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 10:56am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By TAS (15 JUN 2010 10:03pm)
So, Trav, with all the games you play here's my guess: you have a business that runs itself (or a husband who works), you are home all day with no children, and you're an insomniac. I can think of nothing else that accounts for all your gameplay, expenditures, and posts. What's your secret?
Heh, I hadn't done any gaming whatsoever between January and June this year . Zero. Zilch. Not even a casual game. Not a single puzzle. Now and then I sneaked in a few minutes of Dragon Age over weekends. You don't have any idea how I've been hungering for a bit of gaming. Plus I didn't really post much either, and the only website I visited was JA and 1 or 2 others.
...but then...
I went ON VACATION! [smiley=music.gif] Glorious vacation which is ending at the end of June, :'( so I'm trying to pack in as much reading and gaming and posting as I possibly can, because after end of June, you won't be seeing much of me again, and the gaming will have to wait again until the December vacation.
PS. Sadly I am indeed an insomniac, and that's not always a good thing.
PPS. You forgot to mention the most obvious solution, had I really as much time for gaming as you seem to think (indeed, I've been wondering where you get all your time for gaming and posting from, Halcyon, so I just assumed you were retired; but take a person like Colpet: she has her own vet hospital, in which i believe she still works herself? - and while finishing at least a game a week, she reads more or less a book a day! [smiley=bowdown.gif] ) Hmm, tho maybe she was also on vacation recently?
Anyway, what I wanted to say, was that if i really had time to game all day long (which, even in my vacation I don't ) would be that i am a rich heiress living on the interest of the fortune that my daddy had left me.
PPPS . I've had Anachronox on my shelf for about 4 years- never had the time to play - and Darkness Within, for about 3 years and ditto -never had time.
PPPPS : I cannot hold a candle to gaming half as much as people like yourself, Fnord, Colpet and Chris. The only game I've managed to finish in these past 2 weeks, has been Black Mirror, which wasn't a very long or difficult game. You managed to finish Oblivion in a few weeks, while it took me months and months to finish the first time I'd played it - I have to date not even played all of the vanilla Oblivion, not of the vanilla Morrowind, which I'd started probably around 6 years + ago already, (did finish Main quest and most questlines, but not all possible quests ) nor Mass Effect, nor Drakensang, nor Gothic 2 (thankfully I managed to finish no. 1) nor Gothic 3, nor the DLC or all content for Fallout 3.....
People like yourself and Fnord polish games like these off as if they were ice-cream cones... [smiley=shaking_head.gif]
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 6:11pm |
| Deleted User | Anyway, back on topic; this game is not exactly easy, in spite of the fact that I have not really encountered mechanical puzzles yet. This thought - combining thing can become quite complex...
How are you holding up, JKing?
Although I finally managed to get the password for the PDA, Spoiler Alertnow it wants another date... >
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 6:15pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (16 JUN 2010 6:10pm)
How are you holding up, JKing? Although I finally managed to get the password for the PDA, Spoiler Alertnow it wants another date... >
It seems I'm about where you are. That PDA business wasn't exactly kind, and now it's all the worse. Anyway, last night I actually quit without saving, so I've explored the house twice now, as I had to redo much of it.
I've also opened the locked case in the library, but its contents has me stumped...
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 6:33pm |
| Deleted User | Shame, JK, u must have been tired. House isn't so spooky in the daylight tho, is it?
Grr, I just want to mention how, altho it adds realism, these movements the game makes with the camera tends to give me motion sickness. [smiley=boggled.gif]
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 6:49pm |
| Deleted User | Ack! I'll never understand the USians! Not sure how you Canadians notate dates, JK, but we do it in chronological order either way: Day/month/year ; or: Year/Month/Day ; but it seems this game uses that wierd convention of going: err, how is it again? um : Month/Day/Year.
So try entering your dates in that order.
I wasted a lot of time entering dates in a logical oder... [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif] [smiley=hair_pull.gif]
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 6:58pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | You'll enjoy this, madam: Canada uses two conventions! Anglo Canadians tend to write short dates as MM-DD-YY, whereas francophone Canadians will use DD-MM-YY. Growing up a bilingual household I tended to be exposed to both, which caused some measure of confusion for both me and my schoolteachers. Nowadays I always write the date YYYY-MM-DD, which besides being unambiguous has the added benefit of being chronologically sortable in a filesystem.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 7:02pm |
| Deleted User | Time for me to become French then. I understand the logic of going large to small, or small to large, but why would one put the month first, then the day and then the year? I don't understand the logic for that.... :-? :-?
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 7:57pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | In the spirit of Adventure fellowship i am going to toddle along into this one too
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 8:23pm |
| Deleted User | That will be nice, Chris, but let me warn you: this is easily one of the creepiest adventures I've ever played...
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 9:07pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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ok thanks, i will keep the lights on
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| 18 JUN 2010 at 3:28am |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I've just left the ice cave and let me say that it was quite the stunning audiovisual experience! It's a shame it was so short, though.
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 18 JUN 2010 at 3:29am |
dithermiserIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I heard bad reports about the sequel.I think i'll try it .I will try the demo and if I like it i'll buy it.It can't be too expensive to download being a old game.
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| 18 JUN 2010 at 8:27pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By JKing (18 JUN 2010 3:28am)
I've just left the ice cave and let me say that it was quite the stunning audiovisual experience! It's a shame it was so short, though.
Yeah, the cave was pretty for a change and it was lotsa fun playing on the didgeridoo, tho I felt the distinct lack of an additional top note.
Hey, JKing, that means you're past the timed tense bit as well, by now.. I think? Heh, they almost got me, but I hid from them...
It wasn't too bad, all in all.
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| 19 JUN 2010 at 8:58pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (18 JUN 2010 8:27pm)
Hey, JKing, that means you're past the timed tense bit as well, by now.. I think? Heh, they almost got me, but I hid from them...
It wasn't too bad, all in all.
Yes, I appreciate that the game does actually manage to infuse some tension is such "chase" scenes, though I did find the text got in the way of build-up. Less would have been more there.
Right now I'm skulking around the cottage, not too sure what to do. That plotter is teasing me terribly!
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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