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anilEhilated posted:So what does the Jenks sense exactly entail? Are you forced to wander around blindly until you run into those encounters or are they optional and unlocking something? The former. You will come to points where you've asked everyone about everything you have and see no way to progress, so you just have to wander the whole village looking for a random scene to trigger and give you something new to talk about. Hence the comparison to certain old visual novels where you had to do similar to advance the plot, and why I call it "Jenks sense" when I just go right to the scene of the event. At least in the first episode, it makes a certain amount of sense that you'd want to go to the location where the body was found (where we got the bird pendent). quote:edit: Also, calling the occult trail a red herring right now. James doesn't seem like the most stable or trustworthy person. First James is a red herring suspect, now he's a red herring exposition source while Ryan drinks red herring apple juice.
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Jenks is amazing, James gets more amazing every episode. I can't wait to see what insane poo poo he comes out with next time. The best twist would be that he's right about absolutely everything...
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My "Jenks sense" with most of the media with this quality level of mystery is that if someone is bullyish with their denial then they are guilty of something. Or to put it another way He shouldn't be free to be free. Edit: Is anyone else getting a Assassin Creed vibe off of the free to be free phrase? Major_JF fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Yey, modern FMV games exist! I've been waiting for an FMV game that doesn't take itself too seriously, but still offers production value in this time and age. Somehow the acting and writing reminds me of some Saturday morning children's cartoon, except for the murder. I'm wondering if the acting is overdone on purpose, to make the game more like melodramatic theater play, or perhaps to make it easier to understand when people are being insincere. At least it's not LA Noire. I want that hat.
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SirDifferential posted:I want that hat.
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I love this poo poo. I really hope they make a sequel but only if Jenks is the star again. That conversation with James is like a passive-aggressive showdown. fennesz fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Aug 29, 2015 07:08
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This is quite possibly the most British thing I have ever seen.
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Major_JF posted:
Maybe it's the setting, but I think of World's End. Kangra fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Sep 1, 2015 |
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Episode 4 - 8 PM A killer is revealed, and also Paul Darrow!
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anilEhilated posted:edit: They're really laying those utilitarism references on thick. Couldn't they have come with a different name than Ryan Rand?  but:Utilitarianism is concerned with the great happiness of the greatest number - or, in other words, it's interested in everyone's well being. Objectivism is concerned with enlightened self interest - or in other words, gently caress You, Got Mine. The two are kinda diametrically opposed. ... I'm not sure if there's an "FMV acting" generalization to be made here, or if Jenks' actor has a very specific character in mind.
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Xander77 posted:I'm not sure if there's an "FMV acting" generalization to be made here, or if Jenks' actor has a very specific character in mind.  Xander77 posted:Objectivism is concerned with enlightened self interest - or in other words, gently caress You, Got Mine.   It's all a botanists' conspiracy 
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That Atlas meeting sure seemed totally above-board, didn't it 
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Xander77 posted:Forgive me if that's I'm very intrigued by Paul's haunted door - it's such a random detail but the game doesn't seem like investigation on a level where a random breeze would be interesting. Unless there's a secret passage or something. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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Sep 2, 2015 11:52
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So the now defunct cult has resurfaced as a business course, but the true secret is that they're actually conspiracy theorists claiming the government mind controls people into being subservient. The final plot twist is that James is actually the only sane person and Jenks is the mastermind behind it all. FREE TO BE FREE MAN!
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I have known that symbol to be American sign language for I love you... Edit: Did you miss talking to Paul about the necklace? Not the card. The physical bird on a chain. Major_JF fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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anilEhilated posted:I'm very intrigued by Paul's haunted door - it's such a random detail but the game doesn't seem like investigation on a level where a random breeze would be interesting. Unless there's a secret passage or something. If I had to guess (and not knowing what's coming), my first thought was that it happened accidentally during taping, Paul ad-libbed a line to cover it, and they kept it in the game. I want to be wrong about that. But at the same time, I also want to be right.
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Spookyelectric posted:If I had to guess (and not knowing what's coming), my first thought was that it happened accidentally during taping, Paul ad-libbed a line to cover it, and they kept it in the game. This is beautiful and I didn't even think about it. There's a bunch of this kind of occurrences in the history of film, and especially low budget FMV games. In [MODE] they apparently decided to keep a blooper in, and there's a few scenes where you can hear the director giving advice in the background. The same author also released Midnight Stranger which to me seems like it was filmed completely by asking random people if they wanted to be in a film and they just did it on the spot.
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Episode 5 - 9 PM The Mysterious Door 2: Revenge of the Wind
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 Mind if I come in and stay while you run out of the house because you "have to go"? 
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Guys, poo poo is getting serious. Anyway, she saw an older face in the mirror. Maybe it was a two-way mirror with Paul behind it? They tend to lose their magical properties when it's dark in on the mirror side.
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Jenks really is the worst policeman. 
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He does have his own hat, though.
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9:50pm : Godwin's Law is finally invoked. It's getting serious!
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SelenicMartian posted:Anyway, she saw an older face in the mirror. Maybe it was a two-way mirror with Paul behind it? They tend to lose their magical properties when it's dark in on the mirror side. I agree about the 2-way mirror, but how cool would it be if this game ended in a tonally-dissonant fight between Jenks and a badly-CG'd demon?
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Bruceski posted:how cool would it be if this game ended in a tonally-dissonant fight between Jenks and a badly-CG'd demon?
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Bruceski posted:I agree about the 2-way mirror, but how cool would it be if this game ended in a tonally-dissonant fight between Jenks and a badly-CG'd demon? So what you are telling me is, this is going to turn into Hellblazer, but with Jenks instead of Constantine. I'd watch that.
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I love this game and I love you. I want Jenks to investigate my eventual murder.
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I finally put my finger on it. Jenks response when he steals poo poo is The Thing I like about this game.
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I'm pretty sure Jenks isn't actually a detective at all. I'm pretty sure he's a crazy person who beat up an actual detective and stole his badge. The talk he had with the Chief was all in his head. It'd explain everything.
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JT Jag posted:The talk he had with the Chief was all in his head. It's probably worth pointing out that he wasn't talking with the Chief, just someone at the station. The phone booth is where you call the Chief, however; it acts as a hint system. Some of his 'hints' are amusingly condescending, so I'm planning to do a compilation at the end (along with a couple other ideas). Episode 6 - 10 PM This investigation would go nowhere if British people weren't absolute butterfingers.
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Knowing my adventure games, after that scene in the Mirror Room started I 100% expected someone to attack him.
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Still no rancor  
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JT Jag posted:Knowing my adventure games, after that scene in the Mirror Room started I 100% expected someone to attack him. I totally thought the black carpet in the hallway was Ryan's jacket.
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"11 o'clock. Just one hour to solve this thing." What? Why? That's not how police operate, for God's sake! "Good evening, sir. I'm going to give myself an arbitrary time limit to solve this crime, and keep on bullying you repeatedly until the small hours of the morning by forcing you to squint at all the petty crap I've filched from your neighbours." 
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Ghostwoods posted:"11 o'clock. Just one hour to solve this thing." That's what time the corpse of the real Jenks will likely be discovered 
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fennesz posted:That's what time the corpse of the real Jenks will likely be discovered I would not be in the least bit surprised!
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It's the two incisors that make his most extreme faces look like it's Bugs Bunny pulling a prank in a rubber suit and a hat.
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It's his wide, accusatory eyes that make it for me. "Does this mean anything to you?" (other person hesitates in the face of Jenk's wild-eyed, triumphant stare, burning through his very soul, before informing him that they don't know anything about homebrew)
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Ryan's been drinking that same glass of whiskey in the same pose for several hours.
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