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| 29 NOV 2002 at 11:24pm |
MichalNGrand Inquisitor
Posts : 7058
Joined: 14 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Tony Tough has a cheeky parrot in it.
I forgot my sig.
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| 29 NOV 2002 at 11:28pm |
GayleSchattenjger
Posts : 2544
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Parrots doing what? Talking, Dancing or maybe you have to pluck their feathers out one by one to find the secret message.
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| 29 NOV 2002 at 11:30pm |
InieJourneyman
Posts : 856
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Perhaps the presence of a parrot could be a sort of quality guarantee . After all, there was one in Indy and the Fate of Atlantis (my favourite)!
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| 29 NOV 2002 at 11:31pm |
InieJourneyman
Posts : 856
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Red (29 NOV 2002 11:28pm)
Parrots doing what? Talking, Dancing or maybe you have to pluck their feathers out one by one to find the secret message.
Or put them in a microwave with a big sign on it saying ' no kids, you SHOULDN'T try this at home'. I wonder how many hamsters never survived Maniac Mansion and DOTT?!
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 12:17am |
InlandAZGuild Master
Posts : 5586
Joined: 4 MAY 2007
Status : Offline | It's been done: Escape from Monkey Island
(and many others... But, Yeah cool)
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 2:41am |
The Terror of the Wolf part 3Schattenjger
Posts : 2391
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | There's parrots in bundles of adventure games as it is, why would we want more?
[url=http://www.justadventure.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1136331866/0#0]GAMES FOR TRADE!![/url]
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 2:46am |
NellieSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 359
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Starship Titanic has a very irritating parrot in it. And irritating puzzles. And an irritating interface. And an irritating wait every time you use a lift (which is a lot of times). But mostly an irritating parrot.
[b]£1bn -[/b] Amount British government has pledged to paying off debt of poorest nations over next 10 years.&&&&[b]£5bn -[/b] Amount British government has already spent on Iraq campaign.
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 3:11am |
| Deleted User | I dislike parrots. They're pretentious.
I'd like to see more cats, cows and sparrows in games.
Mus
and pigs.
and no pigeons.
and dogs, but they have to be friends with the cats.
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 12:01pm |
psybafireSpace Cadet
Posts : 194
Joined: 18 OCT 2002
Status : Online | ^^"I'd like to see more cats"^^
dont be a fool. its parrots the genre needs. not cats, parrots.
[b]Its boring, there isn't any action at all. You walk around picking up things and using them with other items. You walk around and use the item on something. Walking around and talking to people is really lame, what about some shooting or something[/b]~[i]APuddleduck[/i]&&
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 12:13pm |
RevliskciPrivate Detective
Posts : 724
Joined: 9 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | Bah! Parrots are hopeless. Mynah birds, on the other hand are excellent mimics. If you just heard them without seeing them, you'd swear an actual human being was speaking.
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 12:47pm |
InieJourneyman
Posts : 856
Joined: 27 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Revliskci (30 NOV 2002 12:12pm)
Mynah birds, on the other hand are excellent mimics.
Mmm, I remember this Mynah bird (Waldo) from Twin Peaks. He was indeed a very cool bird!
Why hasn't Twin Peaks been adapted in an AG? Might be worth the trouble.
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| 30 NOV 2002 at 2:35pm |
RavensbreedSpace Cadet
Posts : 156
Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Parrots? Mynah birds? Hah. What adventure games need are more ravens, crows and magpies. Very smart birds, your average raven.
And don't forget the Parrot in the original Secret of Monkey Island. I will never forget that scene.
Some people are like a slinky. They might not be good for anything, but its fun to watch them tumble down stairs. &&
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| 1 DEC 2002 at 5:33pm |
| Deleted User | In staggering coincidence, yesterday I saw part of a documentary on parrots, and on how smart they are. They showed parrots who could distinguish colors and say how many objects they saw, and then they changed the scene to New-Zealand where there are parrots called Kea's (?) who live high up the mountains and can get cheese out of glass cylinders.
In my opinion, showing how Dr. Doolittle was taught the animal languages by a parrot called 'Polynesia' was a bit weak as proof of the parrot's intelligence as a species, but who am I ?
I was actually scared of the intelligence of these parrots. I think they'll be a key species in the upcoming uprising of the animal kingdom, when they'll try to get rid of humans. The sensible thing to do will be to kill them all, before it is too late, and turn them into catfood.
Now that's a plot for an adventure !
Mus
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| 7 MAY 2004 at 6:40pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
Posts : 1565
Joined: 27 MAY 2003
Status : Online | Flight of the Amazon Queen
Willy Beamish
I 'm playing Willy Beamish and Flight of the Amazon Queen right now.
&&&&Listening to XM Radio Starbucks Cafe Channel 45&&[IMG]http://img227.echo.cx/img227/8458/dancelikenooneiswatching6ld.png[/IMG]
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| 7 MAY 2004 at 10:59pm |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Nellie (30 NOV 2002 2:46am)
Starship Titanic has a very irritating parrot in it. And irritating puzzles. And an irritating interface. And an irritating wait every time you use a lift (which is a lot of times). But mostly an irritating parrot.
I thought that parrot was cool. I remember going up that elevator a million times to the food machine to get another chicken leg because I couldn't get the perch the parrot was sitting on and he kept eating the chicken leg and sitting on that perch.
There was also a Parrot in Forever Worlds and he was irritating.
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 12:51am |
MoncoIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 94
Joined: 26 NOV 2003
Status : Online | I just started Eye of the Kraken and theres a parrot with a foul mouth
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 2:04am |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By WharfRat11 (8 MAY 2004 12:50am)
I just started Eye of the Kraken and theres a parrot with a foul mouth
I never saw that one. What do you think of it so far?
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 2:42am |
| Deleted User | (Man walks into forum carrying a cage which contains this thread.)
Man: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
Ms. Romnut: We're closin' for lunch.
Man: Never mind that, my lady. I wish to complain about this parrot thread what I posted in not two years ago in this very forum... [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 2:47am |
MoncoIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 94
Joined: 26 NOV 2003
Status : Online | Posted by: BacardiJim Posted on: Today at 10:41pm
(Man walks into forum carrying a cage which contains this thread.)
Man: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint.
Ms. Romnut: We're closin' for lunch.
Man: Never mind that, my lady. I wish to complain about this parrot thread what I posted in not two years ago in this very forum...
This thread isn't dead! It's just sleeping!
and @jalex, I literally just started it tonight but so far I'm enjoying it. The setting and characters are great.
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 2:52am |
| Deleted User | At least you didn't try to convince me that the thread is "pining for the fjords." :
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 3:18am |
ElfstoneGuild Master
Posts : 5892
Joined: 4 NOV 2002
Status : Online | More parrots:
Secret of Monkey Island (not sure)
LeChuck's Revenge
Simon the Sorcerer 2 (inventory item)
Fate of Atlantis
Any more?
No?
We need parrots.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 8:55am |
ShanyGuild Master
Posts : 3313
Joined: 19 JUN 2003
Status : Online | There's a parrot in Chewy: ESC from F5 I believe. It's a singing parrot (hope I remember it right and not imagining things...).
We really need more parrots, they could be used for such great puzzles...
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 8:01pm |
Jeroen StoutSchattenjger
Posts : 2798
Joined: 14 NOV 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Nellie (30 NOV 2002 2:46am)
Starship Titanic has a very irritating parrot in it. And irritating puzzles. And an irritating interface. And an irritating wait every time you use a lift (which is a lot of times). But mostly an irritating parrot.
...and irritating comments : though I knew I should suspect that. Somebody just *had* to make a Parrot based thread whilst I'm on vacation, and there just *had* to be a comment on ST
The Parrot was fun. And the puzzles were inovative. And the interface worked. And the wait every time you used a lift must have been something you imagined, or something bad your computer ate, bucause I never had troubles with it
It was a good game, and it certainly is one of my favorites (and keep Fickfack away from this message ).
To stay on subject:
Yes, more parrots! More parrots!
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| 8 MAY 2004 at 8:05pm |
| Deleted User | TheParrot: Take a look at the time/datestamps for the earlier posts. This thread didn't start while you were on vacation. It is another in Romnut's endless stream of long-dead threads being brought back from the grave.
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