Watch out if you get a bad grade!

If only the reviews were working again!  Or is there a review of this (Corrosion) up and I just haven't looked because I haven't heard that JA's reviews are working again?

Originally Posted By SirDave (13 MAR 2012 12:24pm)

Just found this new text-based game at CostCo: TurboTax 2011 (maybe it's part of a series like TurboTax 2010, 2009 etc.- will have to check). Anyway, it's almost completely text-based and you get asked all sorts of questions. Depending on how you answer, you are taken to various lists and have all sorts of options. There's a lot of logical thinking involved because you get to make all sorts of Deductions. There's also a family-option because the game asks you all about your Dependents. Or you can just play with your wife if you wish to send in your results Jointly. The developers have thought of everything!

 

Apparently, this game is so popular that no less than the government of the USA will grade it for you and if you do well, it will even send you money. Don't understand why no one is talking about it. (Amazing! Just found out that the California government is interested in my results also and may send me money.)

 

However, would like at least some graphics.

Hope you get something out of it! 

Originally Posted By Traveller (14 MAR 2012 11:41am)

If only the reviews were working again!  Or is there a review of this (Corrosion) up and I just haven't looked because I haven't heard that JA's reviews are working again?

It's been reviewed by Karla recently:

http://www.justadventure.com/article/92/reviews-corrosion-cold-winter-waiting

The review section is working, but the new owners haven't transferred the old reviews yet

Originally Posted By markornikov (14 MAR 2012 12:37pm)

Originally Posted By Traveller (14 MAR 2012 11:41am)

If only the reviews were working again!  Or is there a review of this (Corrosion) up and I just haven't looked because I haven't heard that JA's reviews are working again?

 

It's been reviewed by Karla recently:

 

http://www.justadventure.com/article/92/reviews-corrosion-cold-winter-waiting

 

The review section is working, but the new owners haven't transferred the old reviews yet

Thanks, will have a look ASAP.

Secret File 2

I know this is not a new game.....

Currently playing both Book of Unwritten Tales and Monkey Island 2 (only completed the first recently and loved it)

unwritten tales is good, well design, beautiful to look at, quite funny. decent puzzles. but i dont really feel like playing it oddly enough. i dont seem to care about the characters or the story just yet. but im only a little way through. so hopefully that will change.

MI 2 was installed because of my stalling on unwritten tales. theres noway i wont love this game

Originally Posted By SirDave (8 MAR 2012 11:29pm)

And, parenthetically, I'm not finding the puzzle all that horrendous, but I'm not finished it yet so maybe I'll have to eat those words.  

 

Are we talking about the code puzzle at the very start? I know what to do but need a bit more info to move on and not sure where to find it - pretty fiendish...

EDIT: got it... relax, think, look.... This is very good so far - liking it a lot!

@SD - Thanks for the heads up, Corrosion is an excellent game... now I'm in another puzzling jam...

My brain hurts!  I've been playing Rhem 4 for at least 10 hours and have 8 pages of notes and 4 pages of maps.  I've discovered all kinds of neat nooks and crannies with tons of clues and am just now starting to put some things together.  I've only had a few "ah-ha" moments but am hoping there will be more soon before I become a complete basket case.  This is definitely my favorite kind of game!

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel (21 MAR 2012 5:58pm)

My brain hurts!  I've been playing Rhem 4 for at least 10 hours and have 8 pages of notes and 4 pages of maps.  I've discovered all kinds of neat nooks and crannies with tons of clues and am just now starting to put some things together.  I've only had a few "ah-ha" moments but am hoping there will be more soon before I become a complete basket case.  This is definitely my favorite kind of game!

I played this last year and loved it. There are so many hidden spots to discover, I envy you playing it for the first time.

Originally Posted By colpet (22 MAR 2012 2:16pm)

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel (21 MAR 2012 5:58pm)

My brain hurts!  I've been playing Rhem 4 for at least 10 hours and have 8 pages of notes and 4 pages of maps.  I've discovered all kinds of neat nooks and crannies with tons of clues and am just now starting to put some things together.  I've only had a few "ah-ha" moments but am hoping there will be more soon before I become a complete basket case.  This is definitely my favorite kind of game!

I played this last year and loved it. There are so many hidden spots to discover, I envy you playing it for the first time.

 

Hey colpet- while I know that you are not the biggest fan of 'fright-based' AGs these days, I'm surprised that the desperation shared by all 1st person point & clicker players hasn't made you try Corrosion yet. Plus, let me remind you of:

Originally Posted By colpet (27 MAY 2008 5:11pm)
Nothing much in the future for me other than Rhem 4.
These games sound promising:
Stonewall Penitentiary
The Dead Device
Corrosion Cold Winter Waiting
Rhiannon Beyond the Mabinogion
Grey Matter

Per the "it's quiet around here post", playing Black Mirro 2 and starting Gray Matter over. Hooked up some new-to-adventure-gaming coworkers with Runaway. Hope it hooks them.

Originally Posted By SirDave (22 MAR 2012 3:28pm)

Hey colpet- while I know that you are not the biggest fan of 'fright-based' AGs these days, I'm surprised that the desperation shared by all 1st person point & clicker players hasn't made you try Corrosion yet.  

I second that. Finished it last night after a nice string of after-work sessions. A nice throwback.

wow adventure games..i need to get back to some ..i wanted to finaly get somewhere in Silver Key, I and II, and some others and almost time to play my beloved Kyrandias again. Nothing like the classics.

Originally Posted By colpet (22 MAR 2012 2:16pm)
I played this last year and loved it. There are so many hidden spots to discover, I envy you playing it for the first time.

At 11:30 last night I finally figured out what to do with the tramway tracks and am now in one of the new areas.  I got a chance to look at things and try them out but haven't figured out how the pieces go together yet.  

Originally Posted By SirDave (22 MAR 2012 3:28pm)

Originally Posted By colpet (22 MAR 2012 2:16pm)

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel (21 MAR 2012 5:58pm)

My brain hurts!  I've been playing Rhem 4 for at least 10 hours and have 8 pages of notes and 4 pages of maps.  I've discovered all kinds of neat nooks and crannies with tons of clues and am just now starting to put some things together.  I've only had a few "ah-ha" moments but am hoping there will be more soon before I become a complete basket case.  This is definitely my favorite kind of game!

I played this last year and loved it. There are so many hidden spots to discover, I envy you playing it for the first time.

 

 

Hey colpet- while I know that you are not the biggest fan of 'fright-based' AGs these days, I'm surprised that the desperation shared by all 1st person point & clicker players hasn't made you try Corrosion yet. Plus, let me remind you of:

 

Originally Posted By colpet (27 MAY 2008 5:11pm)
Nothing much in the future for me other than Rhem 4.
These games sound promising:
Stonewall Penitentiary
The Dead Device
Corrosion Cold Winter Waiting
Rhiannon Beyond the Mabinogion
Grey Matter

 

 

It's not that I don't like them, it's just that the horror/suspense theme is about all that is available in the 1st person games. It'd be nice to get some bright, fantasy-like environments to explore.

I am going to get Corrosion Cold Winter. Indeed, I'm looking forward to it given the comments I've read. I was just waiting for a hard copy instaed of a download, since I'm pretty sure I'm going to like the game. 

Originally Posted By colpet (23 MAR 2012 1:38pm)

It's not that I don't like them, it's just that the horror/suspense theme is about all that is available in the 1st person games. It'd be nice to get some bright, fantasy-like environments to explore.

I am going to get Corrosion Cold Winter. Indeed, I'm looking forward to it given the comments I've read. I was just waiting for a hard copy instaed of a download, since I'm pretty sure I'm going to like the game. 

 

 

Bright, fantasy-like environments are the antithesis of Corrosion: Cold Winter Waiting. You've never seen so much grey in your life.

That is true. As much as I enjoyed Corrosion it's as cool and grey as they get. But it's not a bad little story either - kept me going - and the ending has twists that make a sequel an appealing prospect [point duly noted by the JA reviewer]. It gets a bit grizzly in spots but it's not hardcore horror, even milder than Scratches I'd say. 

The Rhem games tend to have many dark areas as well, although Knut spices them up with bright colors in surprising places.  

I finally finished Rhem 4 last night.  It was a very challenging game puzzlewise, but I loved it!  I'm going to tuck my 25 pages of notes away for reference when I play it again someday. 

I just finished Jolly Rover, a charming little adventure game with surprisingly good voice acting and fun characters. The puzzles were the standard semi-logical adventure fare though, so nothing special there. 

I liked Corrosion but there was a point during the game at which I realized I would not get to see anything more than grey walls of the compound. I think because of that, the anticipation of getting to a new area just wasn't there, unlike the Rhem games where I generally can't wait to see what's behind the next door.

Originally Posted By walsh (26 MAR 2012 5:17pm)

I liked Corrosion but there was a point during the game at which I realized I would not get to see anything more than grey walls of the compound. I think because of that, the anticipation of getting to a new area just wasn't there, unlike the Rhem games where I generally can't wait to see what's behind the next door.

 

It's precisely the sterile look of the graphics that's put me off from getting this game so far.

I've been playing Darkness Within, i got stuck on the briefcase puzzle. the moment i saw it I remembered this was a tricky one, but i forgot what the problem was. It took me a while before i figured that i had to turn off anti-aliasing, to fix the visual bug with this puzzle. 

Oh well, the atmosphere in this game is perfect

I've been working on Return to Mysterious Island. I had been enjoying the Macgyver like feel to puzzle solutions, logical, and creative. Then I ran into the first really odd situation.

Spoiler AlertApparently the knife blade alone can cut plants, but the knife with a handle can't? That makes no sense to me, I was stuck for a long time until I accidentally discovered that. Frustrating, and it made me lose some faith in what had been a well designed game up to that point.