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 What is this? Ace Ventura: The CD-Rom Game is a point and click adventure game that is based on the animated series Ace Ventura: Pet Detective which is based on the Ace Ventura films that were filmed and released in the mid-90s. If you have seen the films or TV series then expect more of the same in this game and it more than likely hasn't aged well in the last fifteen years. This is my first time playing through the game in full, I did play the demo when I was younger but that is my only experience with this before now. The game feels very unfinished as there are a lot of hotspots that we can't interact with or they just give us a generic response, according to a text file released with the game there was meant to be a manual save\load system which was a feature in the manual but was removed, and there also seems to be missing audio along the way too. LP Details This is going to be a VLP and I'll be recording commentary live as I play through the game. I'm going to aim to do at least one video a week, there won't be a strict schedule as a lot depends on my work rota and childcare. This game is relatively short and will probably be completed in a couple of weeks as it's only going to take five or six updates. Let's Play: Ace Ventura: The CD-Rom Game    
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DMorbid posted:Fun fact: This - yes, this - was the very first game CD Projekt officially localized and published for the Polish market. Unfortunately, Marcin Iwinski could no longer remember what "alrighty then" was in Polish when he was asked about it in an interview. There is a Polish version of this game available to download on archive.org but it's probably best not to give a direct link as it may fall under the warez banner. There is a Polish playthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF_eV1NgUpo&t=11s but it's without subtitles (Edit: Apparently the Polish version was released with subtitles). The timestamp is where Ace says alrighty then in the intro. I've completed a test run in preparation for another recording and it does turn somewhat more into a traditional point 'n' click adventure. The hotspots in this game are weird as a few of them start to suddenly work in this section which didn't before and it seems like there are several hotspots that are only situational but serve no purpose at any other time. There are still a lot of hotspots which just don't do anything, at all. Also, if you think that the humour in the game falls flat already I wouldn't expect it to start picking up any time soon. Here's another fun fact: The Mask, Dumb & Dumber and the Ace Ventura animated shows originally aired in 1995 in August, October and December respectively.
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May 19, 2022 13:07
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This video is short and contains the second half of Ace's time on the Nemo and the set-up for the next case. There are only three cases in this game and I may end up recording the last two in full, so this LP may be done in a couple of more updates. There really isn't a lot of room to manoeuvre in this game as there's barely any other content outside of the main plot devices, even with the main plot devices the amount of hints available to get make any further progress is non-existent. I've also just read that there's missable information in the first case that we're going to need later, I discovered the information in the playthrough but I'm hoping that you can still get through the puzzle even without it.
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May 20, 2022 22:08
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evilmiera posted:Hoping it isn't too painful to play through. I've just completed a test run of the second case in full and it's given me a headache. There is a long section that is absolutely horrendous to navigate and there's a short minigame that frustrated the hell out of me as I had to replay it numerous times to figure out the timings. I should also mention that we're going to meet an indigenous group of people in this case and if you can probably imagine how that is going to go down, I'd advise you to lower your expectations a couple of more notches. I might have a video up tomorrow if all goes well, if not I'll try to have something up on Monday or Tuesday.
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May 21, 2022 22:56
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The third case takes us to Alaska. I'm not sure where in Alaska but I'm guessing that with these developers it's their version of generic Alaska. We also meet an indigenous group of people who are handled as well as you would expect for this game. I have a cold at the moment so I'm forgetting simple words like "junction", I'm just happy that I was able to get through this recording in one take (after several retries). berryjon posted:You have my sympathies. And I already have no expectations of anything good coming from this game as it is really looking like shovelware. I already have regrets about including a miserable scene, the scene after wasn't missable, unfortunately.
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May 22, 2022 14:35
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I was going to follow this up with another bad game but I think that I'm going to need a palate cleanser after this one. I was expecting it to be bad but not to these levels.
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May 22, 2022 17:19
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There were moments while LP'ing the Duckman game that made me cringe and there was one segment in which I felt uncomfortable in recording and uploading. I'm really having some doubts with this game and especially this video. There's one video until the end but I feel like I've overstepped several lines with this update.
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May 22, 2022 19:46
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Keldulas posted:You're seriously making me afraid to watch these. Like, I'm curious, and I remember the movie that has not remotely aged well in the slightest, but the commentary from everyone here is just DIRE. This video in particular deals with, I'm going to guess with the ethnicity and i apologise if I'm wrong, Ace visiting an Inuit village. Transfer this to a 90s comedy game based on a film with a very specific brand of humour. What the game portrays is an old-school portrayal of how "Eskimos" were represnted in various media, with bad dental health, all living in igloos and a leader with visible odour. The women of these people are sexualized and there's an optional scene where Ace has to "rub noses" with several of them to pass a test, even though you can't see it you can hear the goings on. The puzzle that follows involves making a totem pole out of various parts. These parts clearly show you that you're having to make a totem pole into a woman, which isn't a problem in any normal sense, but there's a focus on one area of the body in particular to make it very obvious that you're making it into a woman. And that's the first 8 minutes of a half hour video, the rest of the video is just absolute nonsense. I understand that this is the 90s and the level of humour that was acceptable back then but we're playing and watching this 26 years onwards. Edit: clearing up my terrible grammar and some choice of words. Rocket Baby Dolls fucked around with this message at 23:52 on May 22, 2022 |
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May 22, 2022 21:30
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:There were funny parts of Duckman. It wasn't exactly a good game and it aged poorly, but it had a few bits here and there that shined. This game is a comedic and quality black hole by comparison. Duckman was enjoyable to play through, there was just one character who really didn't age well.
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May 22, 2022 22:00
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I've had a youtube comment suggest that I add a warning at the beginning of the video. That's not possible so I've edited the title and added a description. Let's Play: Ace Ventura: The CD-Rom Game (Part 3) *Warning - contains racially sensitive content* quote:0:00 - 8:24 This section of the game contains some very offensive content based on old school views on the indigenous people of Alaska that were portrayed in various media. Is this okay? I'm not sure if I have worded this appropriately and I'd appreciate some feedback if anyone has anything that I should add\remove\change. Thank you.
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May 22, 2022 23:59
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This is the fourth and final video. I did think about splitting this into two videos to separate the apartment and the case but, to be honest, I'm pretty much done with this game already. In this video, Ace visits Bavaria to take down the mastermind behind the animal's disappearance in the first two cases. This is pretty much the same as what you have seen before, nonsensical puzzles, poor design choices and many regrets. Thank you, everyone, for watching and being part of this LP. I'm not going to lie, I'm glad that this game is over as it was not a joy to play. I should have played through the game more than I did but I made the assumption that it was all going to be terrible, I wasn't expecting it to go to the levels that it did. I was going to do an LP of an adventure game about a porn star but I think that I'm going to avoid any further controversy for a little while. The following game on the list also has a couple of questionable design decisions so I'm going to put it off for a bit too. While this video was uploading I decided to take a look at some other games that I've been thinking about doing down the line that is in no particular order. I've decided that I'd like to do an LP of Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer and I'll try to work on having something up before the week is over.
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May 25, 2022 12:39
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Zaroff posted:Did I miss what happened during the far too long puzzle at the beginning? The centre of the screen had a black box, with the character animations filling it as they moved into it. You didn't miss anything apart from the background scenery. The computer screen glitches were only a minor curse compared to the others in this game.
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May 26, 2022 07:20
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evilmiera posted:It's not even that Carrey's style of humor is bad, you absolutely need Carrey's body language and, well, actual context to get anything out of it. This just seemed like they were shoving in lines into an already finished script. By popular demand posted:Do not GO IN THERE! This, times about four other occasions throughout the game no matter what the context is. They have two whole films with dialogue and they try to shoehorn three or four quotes in as much as possible.
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There is another meaning to the word 'gay'.quote:Older Use. As much as this game is cursed, they do seem to have used the word in an appropriate context.
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