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| 3 AUG 2010 at 7:13pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | thanks Mara, Al is one of the pioneers indeed. Good to hear from him.
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| 4 AUG 2010 at 5:36am |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Thanks for the link, Mara! I enjoyed reading the interview.
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| 4 AUG 2010 at 5:59am |
| Deleted User | Al Lowe was the guy who introduced me to AG's and all night adventuring way back when... Uhm well just let me know if anyone wants too hear the specifics again...
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| 4 AUG 2010 at 7:02am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Camaroboy1968 (4 AUG 2010 5:59am)
Al Lowe was the guy who introduced me to AG's and all night adventuring way back when... Uhm well just let me know if anyone wants too hear the specifics again...
What are you going to do if someone says that they do want to hear the specifics again? [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
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"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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| 4 AUG 2010 at 3:38pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I do
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| 4 AUG 2010 at 7:33pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By placeholder (4 AUG 2010 7:01am)
Originally Posted By Camaroboy1968 (4 AUG 2010 5:59am)
Al Lowe was the guy who introduced me to AG's and all night adventuring way back when... Uhm well just let me know if anyone wants too hear the specifics again...
What are you going to do if someone says that they do want to hear the specifics again? [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
Originally Posted By CrisGer (4 AUG 2010 3:38pm)
I do
Apparently I see there is a mixed reaction to this and so to keep all of our fellow constant readers from any unwanted exposure to such drivel, any further reading will require a mental decision and a physical response on your behalf. You’ve been fairly warned. :
Spoiler AlertHarking back to the late 1980’s, I recall it was quite a memorable LOL event. At the time my roommate and I (both college dropouts then) had no prior knowledge of graphic adventure games. One winter evening I arrived home after work and he told me that one of his co-workers had let him borrow something. He showed me the discs and I looked at them and shrugged. So, what is it? It’s a new game we can play on our computers. (the said game titled Leisure Suite Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards) Really? He explained to me what his co-worker had told him about the game with some ‘background’ on the major character. OK, like awesome.
In what was called our makeshift office our workstations were arranged back to back and in a very short time we were both completely immersed in a virtual competition that raged throughout the night. The frantic tapping of commands (no surprise whereas the game seemed to recognize many as being erotic and sadly inappropriate), the curses, the gambling, the hey dude I got the ring first, etc. You get the idea. Although unwilling at first, I soon accepted the fact that it just might be possible that I was perhaps experiencing the best ‘new form’ of entertainment to come across my path. I certainly do realize and empathize how corny this all sounds, really. You would have just had to have been there to see us that night over twenty years ago as we unknowingly ventured into a new dimension in what the PC had in store for us all.
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| 4 AUG 2010 at 7:38pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Thanks for that, CB. I see you know the joys of playing video games with a friend, even if it is adventure games, and not anything online or co-op in the stricter sense.. 8-)
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“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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| 4 AUG 2010 at 11:22pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Ah, believe me, madam, it's fun being a backseat adventurer! Not only do you get to experience a fun adventure game, you also get to annoy the snot out of the one with the mouse!
I can't say I've ever done competitive adventuring like Camaroboy, but then I've never seen adventuring as a competitive enterprise---much like crosswords!
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 5 AUG 2010 at 4:36am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By JKing (4 AUG 2010 11:22pm)
I can't say I've ever done competitive adventuring like Camaroboy, but then I've never seen adventuring as a competitive enterprise---much like crosswords!
I admit my first AG experience turned out to be a onetime only drawn out competition. In the future as events unfolded I ultimately realized that true achievement and satisfaction in the AG world would be delved with only my own mind and fingertips. These days I sometimes regret that I don't have a game buddy nearby, if only for the sole purpose to give me a swift kick in the ass to motivate me to stop procrastinating and to get my act in gear to complete all the games I've started.
Perhaps I might be able to find someone to take on that roll after all. My own diligence and investigations have revealed that there are a few individuals in my own home town that have become interested in the genre. A new game buddy perhaps? So as to how to make contact, well that has become my next quest.
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| 5 AUG 2010 at 7:28am |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Camaroboy1968 (5 AUG 2010 4:36am)
These days I sometimes regret that I don't have a game buddy nearby, if only for the sole purpose to give me a swift kick in the ass to motivate me to stop procrastinating and to get my act in gear to complete all the games I've started.
Perhaps I might be able to find someone to take on that roll after all. My own diligence and investigations have revealed that there are a few individuals in my own home town that have become interested in the genre. A new game buddy perhaps? So as to how to make contact, well that has become my next quest.
..and until you do find that close-by person, this faraway person asks you: "So, CB, have you managed to finish Black Mirror 2 and The Whispered World yet?"
What is that you say in return? You ask if i myself have finished these?
I admit that I didn't CB, mea culpa. ..but if you carry on with yours, I will with mine.. [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
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“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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| 5 AUG 2010 at 12:10pm |
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Status : Offline | Ehrm, Sierra made a graphic adventure game of my favourite Disney movie 'The Black Cauldron' and I never even heard about it
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| 5 AUG 2010 at 6:37pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | thank you CB there are actually a lot of ways to play with buddies, using Skype or one of the online chat programs, text even as you both play the same game, did that with Sam and Max episodes and it was a blast...and then you can do it online with mutliplayer games of all kinds. it is a lot of fun
our forum is indeed a form of that too.
thanks CB
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