Absolutely some of the creepiest games ever. I still have them and now that Im reminded about them I may have to play again.

Originally Posted By Aya (22 OCT 2012 5:10am)

Betje!! What a great surprise. Of course I remember you, you were one of my favorite forum members back then! Hope you're bitching 'em up wherever you are!

Yep, we always got on splendidly, even though we disagreed on most things. 

Yeah, things in Greece are kinda bad right now. Personally, I've been lucky so far, and everything has gone by barely scathing me, but the worst thing is that everything here is 100% uncertain. So you never know what can happen.

I sincerely hope that Europe and the IMF c.s. will at some point do more than lend money that's spent on paying back loans to European banks. 

I haven't played The Sea, but I want to. It was developed by a Greek guy who currently lives in Germany. Jonas Kyratzes, maybe you know him from earlier works like Infinite Ocean. Of course, since its content is political, one has to know the background of the writer, in which case is a left-wing/socialist one (afaik), therefore the spin will be affected by that.

I'd never heard of Jonas Kyratzes before I read the review at AG of The Sea. I loved it so much that I want to play his previous games as well. But right now there are too many games competing for my attention. I'm currently playing Deponia 2 (in German, English version coming in a few days) and enjoying it. 

Hope you'll stick around! Do a Top Fifty, tell us what you're playing. 

Originally Posted By Aya (23 OCT 2012 3:27am)

Originally Posted By Bonsai-san (22 OCT 2012 9:04pm)

........and thanks to you I actually played Fatal Frame II and crapped in my pants numerous times.  Still have that PS2 game too, but those undies are long gone.

 

Oops, I guess I owe you a pair of new undies!

And yeah, FF2 is among the scariest games ever created, and that's not in a "crash! the zombie jumped through the window" fashion...

Of course, you have to play FF3 too. Here's my old review: http://betax1.justadventure.com/reviews/FatalFrame3/FF3.shtm (yeah, I found all the old reviews!)

Oh wow, just look at that!  Makes my heart skip a beat for the good old days...

http://betax1.justadventure.com/Game_Reviews/Main_Index/MainIndex.shtm

Does anyone know what happened to Randy?

Originally Posted By Fien (28 OCT 2012 6:45am)
Yep, we always got on splendidly, even though we disagreed on most things.

You banned me twice, I think, but that made no difference. I would have done the same thing in your position.

Originally Posted By Fien (28 OCT 2012 6:45am)
I'd never heard of Jonas Kyratzes before I read the review at AG of The Sea. I loved it so much that I want to play his previous games as well. But right now there are too many games competing for my attention.

Originally Posted By Fien (28 OCT 2012 6:45am)
I'm currently playing Deponia 2 (in German, English version coming in a few days) and enjoying it.

Hope you'll stick around! Do a Top Fifty, tell us what you're playing.

I recently started Dreamweb and Amnesia, but I'll probably put them on the backburner, cause I want to play Harvey's New Eyes asap. I LOVED Edna & Harvey, one of the best adventures I've played in recent years!

Originally Posted By Traveller (28 OCT 2012 7:04am)

Oh wow, just look at that!  Makes my heart skip a beat for the good old days...

http://betax1.justadventure.com/Game_Reviews/Main_Index/MainIndex.shtm

 

Does anyone know what happened to Randy?

Great link Traveller!

As for Randy, no idea. Last year, when I went to PA, I tried to contact him, in case we could get together, but he never replied to any of my emails (to two different addresses) or FB messages. I really hope he is ok and just dropped off the map.

Originally Posted By Aya (30 OCT 2012 2:32am)

I think I can let you in on a little secret now. I never banned you, and never wanted to. The orders came from above!

I was playing Deponia 1 but dropped it. I just couldn't get into it. But I've been hearing pretty good feedback from ppl who played it, so I think I should give it another chance. My main problem was Rufus, who I really disliked. It's hard to like a game where you have a problem with the character you are controlling...

Yeah, our obnoxious, arrogant, blundering fool Rufus is the opposite of lovable. But I don't mind less-than-perfect heroes. I even found  Al Emmo kind of endearing, voice and all. It's the bland, non-descript main characters that make me quit, like totally forgettable Brian in Runaway. 

I recently started Dreamweb and Amnesia, but I'll probably put them on the backburner, cause I want to play Harvey's New Eyes asap. I LOVED Edna & Harvey, one of the best adventures I've played in recent years!

YES! Me too! I adore Edna and her Harvey.  Lovely humor, dark story, good puzzles. Bad animations, but who cares when the game is good. I played it twice and tried to use everything on everything, just to see the unique responses. I discovered that you can even go back to the guard you locked in the storage room, and show him every new object in your inventory. Amazing! And the child in me loved using all kinds of objects on Dr. Marcel's portrait. It looked a real mess after I was done with it.

In case you don't know, Harvey's New Eyes has a new heroine: Lilly. Edna is just one of the many NPCs. Harvey is different too. I played it as soon as it came out in Germany. Enjoyed it very much, but IMO it's not as good as Edna&Harvey.    

Originally Posted By Fien (3 NOV 2012 5:27am)

Yeah, our obnoxious, arrogant, blundering fool Rufus is the opposite of lovable. But I don't mind less-than-perfect heroes. I even found  Al Emmo kind of endearing, voice and all. It's the bland, non-descript main characters that make me quit, like totally forgettable Brian in Runaway.

Both characters you mentioned I liked! I loved Al Emmo, voice included, and also I LOVED Sadwick, a Daedalic character. So it's not the less-than-perfect part of Rufus that bothered me. I suspect it has something to do with the English translation though, something felt off.

YES! Me too! I adore Edna and her Harvey.  Lovely humor, dark story, good puzzles. Bad animations, but who cares when the game is good. I played it twice and tried to use everything on everything, just to see the unique responses. I discovered that you can even go back to the guard you locked in the storage room, and show him every new object in your inventory. Amazing! And the child in me loved using all kinds of objects on Dr. Marcel's portrait. It looked a real mess after I was done with it.

 

In case you don't know, Harvey's New Eyes has a new heroine: Lilly. Edna is just one of the many NPCs. Harvey is different too. I played it as soon as it came out in Germany. Enjoyed it very much, but IMO it's not as good as Edna&Harvey.    

YES, I forgot about the freedom to mess around with the environment. That was awesome. Of course I messed up Dr Marcel's portrait as well as his office chair and walls!

I knew about the new heroine in HNE, yes. I also heard that it wasn't as good, and also that it was incredibly easy. We'll see.

Originally Posted By Aya (30 OCT 2012 2:32am)

Originally Posted By Fien (28 OCT 2012 6:45am)
Yep, we always got on splendidly, even though we disagreed on most things.

You banned me twice, I think, but that made no difference. I would have done the same thing in your position.

I think I can let you in on a little secret now. I never banned you, and never wanted to. The orders came from above!
 

Originally Posted By Fien (28 OCT 2012 6:45am)
I'd never heard of Jonas Kyratzes before I read the review at AG of The Sea. I loved it so much that I want to play his previous games as well. But right now there are too many games competing for my attention.

I never played any of his games but I always wanted to. Everytime someone talks about his games, it's the same thing: They loved it! The reason I haven't played any of them yet is more or less the same as yours.

Originally Posted By Fien (28 OCT 2012 6:45am)
I'm currently playing Deponia 2 (in German, English version coming in a few days) and enjoying it.

Hope you'll stick around! Do a Top Fifty, tell us what you're playing.

I've been wanting to update my Top50 for quite some time now. I want it to be perfect, but I can never quite put it together the way I want to.

I was playing Deponia 1 but dropped it. I just couldn't get into it. But I've been hearing pretty good feedback from ppl who played it, so I think I should give it another chance. My main problem was Rufus, who I really disliked. It's hard to like a game where you have a problem with the character you are controlling...

I recently started Dreamweb and Amnesia, but I'll probably put them on the backburner, cause I want to play Harvey's New Eyes asap. I LOVED Edna & Harvey, one of the best adventures I've played in recent years!

 

Originally Posted By Traveller (28 OCT 2012 7:04am)

Oh wow, just look at that!  Makes my heart skip a beat for the good old days...

http://betax1.justadventure.com/Game_Reviews/Main_Index/MainIndex.shtm

 

Does anyone know what happened to Randy?

Great link Traveller!

 

As for Randy, no idea. Last year, when I went to PA, I tried to contact him, in case we could get together, but he never replied to any of my emails (to two different addresses) or FB messages. I really hope he is ok and just dropped off the map.

Re Randy:  that's not encouraging news, but thanks for the update. 

Aya! Was just lurking around here a bit and saw your message. Wow, has it been a decade?

Glad to have you on FB nowadays, and congrats with your 10y anniversary here!

*Waves to Helen, Mark, Andromus, Lady_K, InlandAZ, Val and Fien*! Good to see some of the other JA 'oldies' still post/frequent/lurk around these boards!

Hey, Wim!  It's definitely good to see you here after so long.  I hope life is treating you well and that you still have time for traveling and reading.  Stop by more often, if you can.

Nice to see a few old names in Randy's thread but we know they've moved on and won't hang around to chat again.  Wimli was always such a voracious reader, he's probably read a library of books since the old days when he was a frequent visitor here.

Hey Wimli!

 Great to see ya post!

(Waves back to Wimli) Nice to see you around! Definitely, stop in again soon if you can!

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel (25 NOV 2012 9:14pm)

Hey, Wim!  It's definitely good to see you here after so long.  I hope life is treating you well and that you still have time for traveling and reading.  Stop by more often, if you can.

Thanks Lady K! Life's been with, well you know ups and downs, but I'm good at the moment.

How about you? I don't have as much time to read anymore as I used to do, try to squeeze in as much reading as I can, but I normally don't get much further than about 15 books a year or so. And I still love to travel, though these last few years it has always been to the same destinations as I've lost my heart to Scandinavia, Copenhagen in particular. I'm even seriously considering moving there now.

Originally Posted By Caroline (26 NOV 2012 5:13am)

Nice to see a few old names in Randy's thread but we know they've moved on and won't hang around to chat again.  Wimli was always such a voracious reader, he's probably read a library of books since the old days when he was a frequent visitor here.

Meaning we shouldn't visit here at all then, even on these rare occasions? Not really sure what you mean by saying that.

And as for the reading, nope *points to comments above*, only been able to go through my book collection (hardly a library lol) at a snail's pace lately.

Originally Posted By Helen (26 NOV 2012 6:05am)

Hey Wimli!

 Great to see ya post!

Hope you can pop in more often.

Thanks Helen! How have you been? Any thoughts on the new Sherlock Holmes game? I think I seem to remember you liked the previous ones, hope I'm not wrong here.

I'll try to drop by more from now on!

Originally Posted By Andromus (26 NOV 2012 8:30pm)

(Waves back to Wimli) Nice to see you around! Definitely, stop in again soon if you can!

Hey Andromus! How are you? Have you been able to take a few more Sierra games off your to-play list? I remember you hadn't played many of these golden oldies, especially because of the many, many death->game-over situations these games had, and that I kept nudging you to play them anyway.

I'll try to pop in more from now on!

Edit: lol, what is the deal with these smilies always appearing at the start of the next line? Come on, I'm a heavy smilies user, cant' keep splitting up my posts like that!

The new website still has gremlins, Wimli, and things sometimes pop up without explanation.  

We had our Halloween tourney over at MM last month, then I was off line for nine days thanks to hurricane Sandy.  All's well now, and I'm gearing up for the Christmas season.

Originally Posted By Wimli (27 NOV 2012 10:45pm)

 

Originally Posted By Andromus (26 NOV 2012 8:30pm)

(Waves back to Wimli) Nice to see you around! Definitely, stop in again soon if you can!

 

Hey Andromus! How are you? Have you been able to take a few more Sierra games off your to-play list? I remember you hadn't played many of these golden oldies, especially because of the many, many death->game-over situations these games had, and that I kept nudging you to play them anyway.

I'll try to pop in more from now on!

 

Oh, I'm doing pretty well. As for my progress with Sierra games, not so good. Now that you mention it, I'm overdue for another go at them, it's been a few years since the last attempt. Various attempts at the King's Quest games haven't gone well, so maybe Space Quest or Quest For Glory next time around, perhaps. Quest For Glory's RPG elements make it sound particularly appealing to me.

Originally Posted By Wimli (25 NOV 2012 11:19am)

Aya! Was just lurking around here a bit and saw your message. Wow, has it been a decade?

I remember the times when there were days I would spend my entire day here on the forum, off topic chatting, discussing adventure games old and new, and of course your legendary tourneys, torturing us with those devious screenies from obscure games! 

Ah, the good old days!

 

Glad to have you on FB nowadays, and congrats with your 10y anniversary here!

 

*Waves to Helen, Mark, Andromus, Lady_K, InlandAZ, Val and Fien*! Good to see some of the other JA 'oldies' still post/frequent/lurk around these boards!

Yeah, those days I was on JA almost 24/7! I used to think that it'll stay like this forever. But, panta rhei I guess...

Indeed great to have you on FB. And let's not forget, it's thanks to you that I've been listening to one of the greatest bands for the past few years!

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel (28 NOV 2012 1:33pm)

The new website still has gremlins, Wimli, and things sometimes pop up without explanation.  

 

We had our Halloween tourney over at MM last month, then I was off line for nine days thanks to hurricane Sandy.  All's well now, and I'm gearing up for the Christmas season.

You have a new website? I'll have to check it out! Hope the issues you're having with it are resolved soon!

Oooh, the Halloween tourney at MM was even more difficult than Aya's. 

Originally Posted By Andromus (28 NOV 2012 6:04pm)

Originally Posted By Wimli (27 NOV 2012 10:45pm)

 

Originally Posted By Andromus (26 NOV 2012 8:30pm)

(Waves back to Wimli) Nice to see you around! Definitely, stop in again soon if you can!

 

Hey Andromus! How are you? Have you been able to take a few more Sierra games off your to-play list? I remember you hadn't played many of these golden oldies, especially because of the many, many death->game-over situations these games had, and that I kept nudging you to play them anyway.

I'll try to pop in more from now on!

 

 

Oh, I'm doing pretty well. As for my progress with Sierra games, not so good. Now that you mention it, I'm overdue for another go at them, it's been a few years since the last attempt. Various attempts at the King's Quest games haven't gone well, so maybe Space Quest or Quest For Glory next time around, perhaps. Quest For Glory's RPG elements make it sound particularly appealing to me.

 

 

Good to hear you're doing well. Hehe, the King's Quest games can be pretty cruel indeed.

Originally Posted By Aya (29 NOV 2012 1:12am)

Originally Posted By Wimli (25 NOV 2012 11:19am)

Aya! Was just lurking around here a bit and saw your message. Wow, has it been a decade?

I remember the times when there were days I would spend my entire day here on the forum, off topic chatting, discussing adventure games old and new, and of course your legendary tourneys, torturing us with those devious screenies from obscure games! 

Ah, the good old days!

 

Glad to have you on FB nowadays, and congrats with your 10y anniversary here!

 

*Waves to Helen, Mark, Andromus, Lady_K, InlandAZ, Val and Fien*! Good to see some of the other JA 'oldies' still post/frequent/lurk around these boards!

Yeah, those days I was on JA almost 24/7! I used to think that it'll stay like this forever. But, panta rhei I guess...

 

Indeed great to have you on FB. And let's not forget, it's thanks to you that I've been listening to one of the greatest bands for the past few years!

Hehe, glad I could recommend them to you!

Originally Posted By Wimli (3 DEC 2012 3:59pm)

You have a new website? I'll have to check it out! Hope the issues you're having with it are resolved soon!

 

No, I meant the new JA still has gremlins.

Originally Posted By Lady Kestrel (4 DEC 2012 10:52pm)

Originally Posted By Wimli (3 DEC 2012 3:59pm)

You have a new website? I'll have to check it out! Hope the issues you're having with it are resolved soon!

 

No, I meant the new JA still has gremlins.

 

 

Ah ok, that's too bad. The JA site does look very different than in the old days, hope the problems with it are solved soon.

Hi Wimli!! Great to see you! Glad you are doing well.