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namlosh posted:This wasn’t mislabeled though... it was a bootleg from a concert of them performing the song from back when they were supposed to be the next great touring band after the Dead... That's the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE
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Mu Zeta posted:Telltale tried to update them and even with huge sales they shut down because they will never have mass appeal again. People like complexity but not bullshit puzzles. 'This Choice Will Matter... but only superficially more or less"
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FilthyImp posted:TT did away with CatHair Puzzles, but man when you figure out their schtick* it really deadens the impact of whatever next series they try and tackle. The people who knew how to make it work well left Telltale after the first Walking Dead season.
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SacrificialGoat posted:Those are all CRPGs, not adventure games. Adventure games are like Sam and Max or Day of the Tentacle. Point and click interface with an inventory. Most of the "gameplay" was figuring out which inventory item you had to use on the right spot to advance the plot or get a new item. Yea, they aren't completely dead, there's indie games like Kathy Rain and Thimbleweed Park that are continuing the tradition, but it will never be a major genre again. You can tell long, complex stories in pretty much any game now, because the resources in games exist. Check out that channel, PushingUpRoses, she has great reviews of many of the big games of that era, plus some general videos on the topic. Also she does amazing videos about 90s Nick Shows Pete and Pete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MagG2PCYEE Salute Your Shorts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYI5p88mHOE Hey Dude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQfYtmkpczU
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Wacky Delly posted:That's the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4hGSR5njZE I am dumb, lol turn up volume, then turn it down, then turn it up again for mtv when it was good
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The people who knew how to make it work well left Telltale after the first Walking Dead season. no, they shoved some of the people who knew how to make it work into a closet to to make Tales from the Borderlands and then forgot about them
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Phanatic posted:Also the shareware version of Doom was something you could download from a BBS. The full version came on a stack of floppies. No way you could just distribute the full version hidden in the shareware release to be unlocked with a code or a hack. I got the full version of Doom 2 from a guy I met on a local BBS by using some Win 3.1 terminal program to dial directly into his machine and transfer the files. Hours and hours later after it actually worked it was a mindblowing moment of "you can actually DO that?!?" for me.
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We just "rented" PC games from a local shop that I'm sure was totally authorized to do that. Fortunately my dad had a photocopier so we could also make copies of the pages of the manual that had the answers to the copy protection quizzes. We did uninstall the games eventually.
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, they aren't completely dead, there's indie games like Kathy Rain and Thimbleweed Park that are continuing the tradition, but it will never be a major genre again. You can tell long, complex stories in pretty much any game now, because the resources in games exist. Also the "point & click, use every item on everything until the plot progresses" method of gameplay is undeniably primitive. While there's a lot of nostalgia for it, it also created a lot of bullshit games that were just trial and error. Technology and the medium have both improved to the point where you make whatever story you want with whatever gameplay you want.
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chitoryu12 posted:Also the "point & click, use every item on everything until the plot progresses" method of gameplay is undeniably primitive. While there's a lot of nostalgia for it, it also created a lot of bullshit games that were just trial and error. Technology and the medium have both improved to the point where you make whatever story you want with whatever gameplay you want. I like when they make masturbation jokes
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Alaois posted:no, they shoved some of the people who knew how to make it work into a closet to to make Tales from the Borderlands and then forgot about them I stand corrected  . Catch-a-Riiiiiiide!
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Doc M posted:I really liked the original I82 installer which played an in-universe news report and followed it up with a Devo song while the game was installing from the disc. A previously unreleased Devo song! It sounds like it's from either the Duty Now For the Future or Freedom of Choice periods, given the song's production It's also one of their best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E3Ho8NLtKM
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namlosh posted:This wasn’t mislabeled though... it was a bootleg from a concert of them performing the song from back when they were supposed to be the next great touring band after the Dead... If you're talking about the countrified acoustic rednecky version of it, that wasn't Phish, it was the Gourds. Edit: Beaten Sir Lemming posted:We just "rented" PC games from a local shop that I'm sure was totally authorized to do that. You didn't need authorization to do it until 1990. First sale says once you've purchased a thing, it's yours to do with what you want. Video rental stores didn't need anyone's authorization to rent out the video tapes they purchased. In late 1990, though, Congress passed a law prohibiting software rentals without the authorization from the rightsholder. So if your games shop was renting before that it was totally in the clear .
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Phanatic posted:You didn't need authorization to do it until 1990. First sale says once you've purchased a thing, it's yours to do with what you want. Video rental stores didn't need anyone's authorization to rent out the video tapes they purchased. In late 1990, though, Congress passed a law prohibiting software rentals without the authorization from the rightsholder. So if your games shop was renting before that it was totally in the clear . Well I rented Doom 2 so...
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Phanatic posted:If you're talking about the countrified acoustic rednecky version of it, that wasn't Phish, it was the Gourds. Wait, maybe I’m not SO dumb... I was a friends and I listened to a lot of phish in college. There was definitely a live concert version of gin and juice by phish that was not the gourds version. They were just messing around on stage and played the song. Either way, I get it now. I had forgotten about the gourds version If I can find the actual phish version I’m talking about, maybe I’ll post it. ...it could also be the Mandela effect 
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All of those fashions are very much en vogue these days and it is very popular for the youth these days to watch Friends and listen to Spice Girls even unironically so there you go.
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Recent revelations confirmed that photo wasn't the only time Geri got between Mel B's legs.
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Speaking of adventure games, anybody have a soft spot for FMV games? Even though they were mostly bad, I was fascinated by them. The "graphics" were a thousand times better than anything else and they would actually run on our lovely early 90s computers. It's hard to get more 90s than "X-Files FMV adventure game." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GNv04PSUbY&t=11s Titanic wasn't actually FMV, more like creepy stop motion, but I played this game over and over as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85FlENsVhjc
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Parkingtigers posted:Recent revelations confirmed that photo wasn't the only time Geri got between Mel B's legs. What?
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ICHIBAHN posted:They hosed well, alright.
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ICHIBAHN posted:They hosed Man, I probably would've straight-up passed out if you'd told me this twenty-odd years ago.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Man, I probably would've straight-up passed out if you'd told me this twenty-odd years ago. 
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Man, I probably would've straight-up passed out if you'd told me this twenty-odd years ago. I would have had a stroke.
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Parkingtigers posted:I would have had a stroke. Only one? That's amazing restraint.
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In another timeline there was The Great Zinc Deficiency of 1999.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYdpQelECs Why you frontin'???
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This isn't early 2000s? I feel like this is literally 2000-2003. Not with every song, but with most. Not complaining. Just saying. This was literally high school.
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Lester Shy posted:Speaking of adventure games, anybody have a soft spot for FMV games? Even though they were mostly bad, I was fascinated by them. The "graphics" were a thousand times better than anything else and they would actually run on our lovely early 90s computers. It's hard to get more 90s than "X-Files FMV adventure game." My dude, let me tell you about how awesome Wing Commander was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qYItb4g6qg WC3 full movie clipped together from all the cutscenes. Mark Hamill, John Rhys-Davies, Malcolm McDowell, and Tomas F. Wilson as a perfect Maniac.\ There is also a WC4 and WC5 version of this, too.
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dialhforhero posted:This isn't early 2000s? I feel like this is literally 2000-2003. Well, poo poo. It's been long enough for the late 90s/early 2000s have blurred together in my mind.
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I found a weirdly intact WingCommander 3 box at my Goodwill some months back. And I mean loving intact. Unless there was some leather map feelies, it had all the discs, the reg cards, manual, even little ship postcards. It's probably been my best find. I should get around to installing it. Also grabbed Myth II. Wonder if I need to validate on Bungie.net for that one
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ICHIBAHN posted:They hosed Well, I just got some tinglies in my special area.
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dialhforhero posted:This isn't early 2000s? I feel like this is literally 2000-2003. That sounds about right to me too, actually. In that I instantly thought high school, which would be around those years. I guess it still felt like the ‘90s either way.
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The 90s didn't end until 9/11. This is a known known.
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Volcott posted:The 90s didn't end until 9/11. This is a known known. 9/11 is literally the day we entered into a new era. The historical impact of that event was gargantuan as far as America goes. Of course the entire country has been collectively losing its drat mind ever since but, you know, details.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Man, I probably would've straight-up passed out if you'd told me this twenty-odd years ago. Yea, I'd probably would have masturbated myself to death back then if I had known that for sure.
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Some say the 90s and the 20th century ended with 9/11 and I can't blame them. Makes perfect sense. Others, though... 
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