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 This caused me to run out of the room screaming when I was watching my brother play Space Quest III
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Kongming posted:
I wanted to live inside the garbage freighter lol. That place was cozy if you stayed away from the trash elevator and watched your step. I think we later tag teamed the whole game with my brother when we actually knew some english.
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weirdly chilly pussy posted:In the early nineties, visiting our cousins meant obsessively playing this for a few hours on their fancy IBM Aptiva: hell yeah
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Mar 13, 2023 19:21
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Loved this little gray dude.
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Mar 13, 2023 21:31
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Kongming posted:
lol
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Mar 13, 2023 21:36
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The nightmare on elm street roguelike was/is insanely based. Highly recommend playing it
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Kongming posted:
oh man, same lol I avoided that game specifically for years because of that specific image, but Laura Bow I was somehow ok with
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Mar 14, 2023 13:09
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Kongming posted:
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going on Doom logic here 1. 80-100 health 2. 60–79 health 3. 20-39 health 4: dead
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Mar 14, 2023 23:48
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Drinkslinger posted:going on Doom logic here You're still alive in the 4th one.
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My two earliest introductions to strategy games were Warcraft and mother fuckin Battle Bugs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKGHlL5jySU It was kid-friendly, but I remember the later maps could get challenging in terms of restricting what units you had out on the field. The video above doesn't have the speech from the little commander bug during the briefings, but it was always just very simple lines. You would move bugs around the map and when selected it would pause the game to give you a chance to direct your dudes around, and objectives were varied - hold this piece of food, kill the other bugs, etc. The background art had some nice details and there was a good sense of scale with navigating around stuff like books, cups, plates, food crumbs, and you even had extra items like stink bombs and dynamite to strategize with to dish out extra damage or stuns and such Also, completely randomly, it has a a surprisingly faithful port to the PS1 that was Japan-only and featured a completely different art style, soundtrack, and sounds, but the missions are drat near 1:1 with the original DOS version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdwH0Fzkhys
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Good soup! posted:Also, completely randomly, it has a a surprisingly faithful port to the PS1 that was Japan-only and featured a completely different art style, soundtrack, and sounds, but the missions are drat near 1:1 with the original DOS version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrpcDNuxuJY
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Mar 15, 2023 02:55
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The Kins posted:this happened sometimes. look up the japanese console port of the incredible toon machine/sid & al's incredible toons that was given a ghouls & ghosts reskin! holy poo poo that is rad
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The Kins posted:this happened sometimes. look up the japanese console port of the incredible toon machine/sid & al's incredible toons that was given a ghouls & ghosts reskin! Sub-Actuality posted:holy poo poo that is rad
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Leadthumb posted:You're still alive in the 4th one. Also, my day off today, so I'm gonna seek out and play Space Quest games for the first time. Should I start with the first one and play in chronological order, or is there a definitive "best game" in the series?
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Drinkslinger posted:Never played a Space Quest game but it was arguably a reasonable assumption. Those 4 are from arachniphobia.
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...I'm not doing well in here right now. I'll settle for looking up the Space Quest games.
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Drinkslinger posted:Never played a Space Quest game but it was arguably a reasonable assumption. I like pretty much all of them except 2 which I only played once a long time ago and never bothered to replay so I don't remember much of it. 3 is definitely the best of the text parser games, imo. One of the writers left after 4, so 5 and 6 have a different tone to them, with 5 being a straight up Star Trek parody. Space Quest 4 in particular I remember having a lot of "no win" situations if you miss an item in one of the time periods. Like getting the jar of slime in the sewers. Another example is when you enter the time machine for the first time, a code will be displayed on the screen. You have to write this code down before you do anything else because you need it to get back to the time period you're in, and I think it's randomly generated each game so if you start pressing buttons right away you're screwed. Having said that the game is very short so it's not catastrophic if you have to start over, but it sometimes is not very obvious what it is you missed. Edit: I looked it up and the code to get to the original time period is not random, so I guess you can look that up if you forget. Oops. Kongming fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Kongming posted:I like pretty much all of them except 2 which I only played once a long time ago and never bothered to replay so I don't remember much of it. 3 is definitely the best of the text parser games, imo. One of the writers left after 4, so 5 and 6 have a different tone to them, with 5 being a straight up Star Trek parody. 
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Oh yeah Space Quest 4 is also notable for being one of the first point and click adventure games Sierra made, instead of text parser. It includes a Nose and a Mouth icon, which I don't think any other game used. They weren't needed to solve any puzzles but it was fun to click them on stuff. This is my favorite message you get from clicking the ground at the start of the game with the mouth icon
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Kongming posted:Oh yeah Space Quest 4 is also notable for being one of the first point and click adventure games Sierra made, instead of text parser. It includes a Nose and a Mouth icon, which I don't think any other game used. They weren't needed to solve any puzzles but it was fun to click them on stuff. This is my favorite message you get from clicking the ground at the start of the game with the mouth icon Lmao
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Play Space Quest 1 VGA first. They remade it with point and click. It's very good and the humor holds up. Edit: pretty sure you can play it in scummVM too ----------------
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Kongming posted:Oh yeah Space Quest 4 is also notable for being one of the first point and click adventure games Sierra made, instead of text parser. It includes a Nose and a Mouth icon, which I don't think any other game used. They weren't needed to solve any puzzles but it was fun to click them on stuff. This is my favorite message you get from clicking the ground at the start of the game with the mouth icon the vga remake of space quest 1 has the nose and maybe the taste icon idr. anyway if you smell a grate at one point it says "it smells grate." thank you two guys from andromeda. i THINK the only other thing sniffing does is give hits and also insta kills you if you sniff a bottle of poison.
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SpaceAceJase posted:Play Space Quest 1 VGA first. They remade it with point and click. It's very good and the humor holds up. the number of games the current version of scummvm supports is pretty nuts. every sierra and lucasarts game works basically except maybe real late fmv stuff like phantasmagoria 2 idk. most of westwoods adventure games work so you can play the krynadia games and blade runner (the original is much better than the bad remake/remaster from a few years ago). i think in the past year or so they incorporated some engine remake of ultima 6 engines and ultimat 8 engines. you can play that AND the weird worlds of ultima adventure games in the u6 engine where you go to mars to talk to alexander grahm belle. and ultima 8. who frickin WOULDN't want to play ultima 8
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mysterious loyall X posted:the number of games the current version of scummvm supports is pretty nuts. every sierra and lucasarts game works basically except maybe real late fmv stuff like phantasmagoria 2 idk. most of westwoods adventure games work so you can play the krynadia games and blade runner (the original is much better than the bad remake/remaster from a few years ago). i think in the past year or so they incorporated some engine remake of ultima 6 engines and ultimat 8 engines. you can play that AND the weird worlds of ultima adventure games in the u6 engine where you go to mars to talk to alexander grahm belle. and ultima 8. who frickin WOULDN't want to play ultima 8
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Two random memories i just had. 1990s: Running NEVERLOCK to remove copy protection screens 2000s: Home of the Underdogs ----------------
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mysterious loyall X posted:the number of games the current version of scummvm supports is pretty nuts. every sierra and lucasarts game works basically except maybe real late fmv stuff like phantasmagoria 2 idk. most of westwoods adventure games work so you can play the krynadia games and blade runner (the original is much better than the bad remake/remaster from a few years ago). i think in the past year or so they incorporated some engine remake of ultima 6 engines and ultimat 8 engines. you can play that AND the weird worlds of ultima adventure games in the u6 engine where you go to mars to talk to alexander grahm belle. and ultima 8. who frickin WOULDN't want to play ultima 8 Those Worlds of Ultima games are surprisingly decent for being extremely coke addled spinoffs. They're better than most Ultima games by virtue of not having Lord British in them
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The Kins posted:this happened sometimes. look up the japanese console port of the incredible toon machine/sid & al's incredible toons that was given a ghouls & ghosts reskin!  that's cool as hell
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Those Worlds of Ultima games are surprisingly decent for being extremely coke addled spinoffs. They're better than most Ultima games by virtue of not having Lord British in them they are good and lord british kicks rear end. gently caress you!
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Anyone else remember Star Trek: 25th Anniversary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtIFBLHOQs We're only here to un-do the damage you've done to our family name.
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Your Family posted:Anyone else remember Star Trek: 25th Anniversary? this and the sequel were dope, if only because they got the old cast members back to do the voiceovers instead of getting randos to do impressions, but the tradeoff is that everyone is obviously older and guys like DeForest Kelley sound like they're on drugs
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I liked ultima 8, hell I liked all of them except for 9
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ultima 9 is a terrible game. but its the only game lets you build an entire oceanic spanning bridge with sticks and books and/or bread. thank you lord british https://www.it-he.org/u9_otwab.php
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I remember Next Generation gave Ultima 9 a score of four stars and in the "bottom line" wrapup at the end, the writer gave them an extra fifth star for when they would eventually patch it, and I always had a problem with that
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Good soup! posted:I remember Next Generation gave Ultima 9 a score of four stars and in the "bottom line" wrapup at the end, the writer gave them an extra fifth star for when they would eventually patch it, and I always had a problem with that 
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throw a couple of sodas in there for the expansion pack which im sure will be great
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Good soup! posted:I remember Next Generation gave Ultima 9 a score of four stars and in the "bottom line" wrapup at the end, the writer gave them an extra fifth star for when they would eventually patch it, and I always had a problem with that standard practice. maybe grow the gently caress up
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I got the tude now posted:standard practice. maybe grow the gently caress up gently caress
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thanks to the power of key rebinding in scumm vm not available in the original crusader no remorse i made crusader: no remorse merely cumbersome and clunky to play rather than an rsi marathon. thank you bill scumm and tim vm.
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