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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: |
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Neither did I; I only realised how silly some of it is when I recently tried to replay it. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:02 am Post subject: |
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I was thinking the same thing. Maybe a leap of logic can come as a bit of a delight sometimes. When I first played it I thought it was pretty cool! Wow a monkey used a a monkeywrench! It seemed sort of anarchic and irreverent. It's only my critical, grown-up self that thinks OH HOW SILLY. I don't know how I'd react to it if i was playing it fresh today. I probably would like it! |
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Max Cola .
Joined: 24 Jan 2007 Posts: 43 Location: beep beep
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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Harveyjames wrote: | But I guess some people can only feel like they're an individual by affecting outre positionalites and opinions on popular media. That's the problem when you define youself by what you like and not by what you do! WOW, YOU'RE THE GUY WHO SLAYED THE MONKEY ISLAND 2 SACRED COW, LET ME FIDDLE WITH YOUR NUTS. |
oh yeah sorry I forgot my opinion was manufactured to make myself stand out, i actually LOVE how horrendously divorced from real-world logic Monkey Island 2 is, i'm sorry i guess i shouldn't care so much about how people i don't even know perceive me
I might try again on easy mode now that I know how stupid the normal mode is. The overall atmosphere and sense of humor are charming enough to be worth it, as per usual Monkey Island standards. _________________ The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes. But then they buried her alive, one evening 1945, with just her sister at her side, and only weeks before the guns all came and rained on everyone... |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Don't pay any attention to Harvey, he listens to Prince and sometimes the artist formerly known as. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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Harvey is so loud and needs an off switch. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:05 am Post subject: |
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Max Cola I was mostly just ragging on Cycle there, don't pay any heed to my nonsense. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:51 am Post subject: |
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Continuing my Batman Gaming Binge, I installed The Adventures of Fatman: Toxic Revenge: Special Collector's Edition. It's probably most well known for being the first commercial AGS game, later released as freeware, then re-released as a special edition later to fund the upcoming sequel.
It's pretty entertaining! It's very much a traditional adventure with all the crap that comes with them, but it has a lot of heart. It's about a once great hero who has become complacent and a bit bored now that he's wiped out all the crime... but a new villian is about to rise! Fatman actually does a surprising amount of detective work, but naturally most of the game is spent getting around obstacles impeding your investigation. For example, the first quarter or so of the game is spent trying to get around a cop so you can collect your first piece of evidence. Despite this, it's a fun romp with entertaining characters and mostly good puzzles, apart from three or four really stupid ones. Luckily, easy mode not only lets you instantly respawn after deaths, but will also drop hints when you get stuck for too long. Oh, it's also full of comic references so that's cool, too. So yes, was a fun way to spend a Tuesday night, but nothing spectacular. Hope the sequel is good!
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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There was a Batman adeventure game for the ZX Spectrum you might want to check out. It was pretty cool! It had The Penguin Plot on one side of the tape and The Joker Plot on the other side. NEAT. I could never get very far with it, though. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: |
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You know what movie would make the perfect translation to an adventure game? Dude, Where's my Car!
Think about it! You have a hangover and can't remember anything about the previous night, the only thing that's clear is that your car is missing. The goal of the game is obvious; locate your car! Starting with a clue in their house, the player slowly retraces their steps and eventually locates their car (or saves the earth from aliens, whatever) while encountering the same WILD AND WACKY cast of characters from the movie, who would fit right in among other adventure game npcs.
It would totally get made if the movie was released in the early 90s. _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:36 am Post subject: |
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80s maybe. 90s it would run the risk of being made into a largely tangential platformer, a la Rocketman, Wayne's World, etc. |
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ApM Admin Rockstar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1210 Location: Ottawa, ON
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Man, if only Capstone was still around. They would have been all OVER that.
Oh man oh man just imagine "DUDE!" and "SWEET!' coming randomly out of your speakers whenever a character says it |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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Dude! That would be Sweet! _________________
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parkbench .
Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 145
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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(crosspost)
Hal Barwood (Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis) and Noah Falstein (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) team up to make what looks like the next Awesome Adventure Game. It's really hot. And froth-worthy.
dessgeega already found time to badmouth it though
a big meanie wrote: | could be hot, but it could also be an adventure game. |
Maybe you guys will give it a fighting chance!! Come on tgq!! _________________ ich bin aber eine mensch maschine |
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dessgeega loves your favorite videogame
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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hey, i WANT it to be good. just, you know, adventure games are the videogames that most often get videogames wrong. i would love to have another good one, but the tropes of the genre run in a contrary direction to compelling game design, and those people have stood waist-deep in those tropes. it would be easy to make this be just another adventure game, far harder to make it something worth playing.
i hope it will be the latter. _________________
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parkbench .
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if I completely agree with that. I think they can be stilted, and yes, do fall into some pretty frustrating non-compelling design sometimes, but I've realised as time goes on that the only kind of game that will have any hope of legitimising the medium for myself will necessarily utilise an adventure game framework--however loosely. It is one of the only kinds of games that doesn't rely on some asinine variation of Robotron (though it isn't a one-way street to be sure; since the only viable mechanic in this framework is puzzles, there is the tradeoff of potentially arbitrary and unintuitive solutions).
And if you think about it, purely in terms of narrative, they are the only games involved in storytelling that isn't some typical geek fantasy of dragons/guns--mostly because their framework gives them the leeway to do so. _________________ ich bin aber eine mensch maschine
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Dracko .
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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parkbench wrote: | I've realised as time goes on that the only kind of game that will have any hope of legitimising the medium for myself will necessarily utilise an adventure game framework |
You haven't played Marathon, have you? _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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