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mysterious loyall X posted: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. i stick to playing it on the saturn for the same reason
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buying shareware discs for $3 and maybe the game owns and maybe its some bullshit but you won't know until you install somehow messing the sound settings up installing doom and it had the commander keen style beep boops
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TheSwizzler posted:somehow messing the sound settings up installing doom and it had the commander keen style beep boops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWE1mR8LJE
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the only shareware game i ever bought the extra chapters for was traffic department 2192 because of the incredible writing 
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Nikumatic posted:the only shareware game i ever bought the extra chapters for was traffic department 2192 because of the incredible writing Oh my god this game. It's a hidden gem.
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Did anyone else play Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMr0f7wpKUw Honestly, the music still sticks in my head to this day.
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Nikumatic posted:the only shareware game i ever bought the extra chapters for was traffic department 2192 because of the incredible writing I had this one on one of those shareware compilation CDs, was expecting some kind of game about traffic police not this lol
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hugo's house of horrors and getting insanely mad at the very first puzzle. who the gently caress puts keys in pumpkins ken's labyrinth, zeke's blackjack, block-man, halloween harry....so many good games. and who could forget their first experience with shareware doom
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nobody could accuse horse racing sims of not being realistic, jeez
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barnold posted:hugo's house of horrors and getting insanely mad at the very first puzzle. who the gently caress puts keys in pumpkins Holy gently caress yes! Also Dracula, duh.
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I only played Hugo III: Jungle of Doom since it was on a shareware CD we had and it pissed me off too. I would get immediately captured by a witch doctor and have no idea how to get out and die every time I played.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I only played Hugo III: Jungle of Doom since it was on a shareware CD we had and it pissed me off too. I would get immediately captured by a witch doctor and have no idea how to get out and die every time I played. lmao me and my grandpa sat there for hours trying to figure out how to get out of that cage. could never figure out how to get the little mouse to do whatever i needed it to do
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The Kins posted:nobody could accuse horse racing sims of not being realistic, jeez Lemonade Stand 2 getting dark.
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barnold posted:lmao me and my grandpa sat there for hours trying to figure out how to get out of that cage. could never figure out how to get the little mouse to do whatever i needed it to do I think the only point and click game I'd played before that was The Secret of Monkey Island at a friend's house so I wasn't used to the Sierra-style text parser plus dying a lot type of adventure game
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I only played Hugo III: Jungle of Doom since it was on a shareware CD we had and it pissed me off too. I would get immediately captured by a witch doctor and have no idea how to get out and die every time I played. same and I was a masochist who'd suffered his way through just about every sierra adventure, including codename iceman for some reason
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I think the only point and click game I'd played before that was The Secret of Monkey Island at a friend's house so I wasn't used to the Sierra-style text parser plus dying a lot type of adventure game The first game I ever played was Kings Quest 5. Which had got rid of the parser by that point but still had all the dumb Sierra tropes. Went back to play some of the older games like Leisure Suit Larry and of course tried putting curse words into the parser. Amazingly enough the guy who created had figured out people would do that so there were responses prepared like "gently caress": yep, that's the idea Larry "Masturbate": Larry, the whole point of this is to stop doing that.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I only played Hugo III: Jungle of Doom since it was on a shareware CD we had and it pissed me off too. I would get immediately captured by a witch doctor and have no idea how to get out and die every time I played. barnold posted:lmao me and my grandpa sat there for hours trying to figure out how to get out of that cage. could never figure out how to get the little mouse to do whatever i needed it to do if you didn't look inside the plane on the first screen before meeting the witch doctor, you've softlocked the game and there's no way to proceed you have to look inside the plane, get the clay and pins, then when you're captured, mold the clay into a voodoo doll and stick the pins in it
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Cubone posted:it's complete bullshit lol, I was so pissed when I found out what the solution is 
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that reminds me of codename iceman, when the guy hands you your ID after you land in washington you have to check it to make sure it's the right ID at that exact moment otherwise you'll never know it's the wrong one and you'll be doomed for most of the game and have no idea not really a surprise it was designed by the police quest guy lol
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Still not as bad as the cat hair puzzle from Gabriel Knight 3
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Cubone posted:it's complete bullshit lol, I was so pissed when I found out what the solution is holy loving poo poo
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I love reading about games like that but have 0 idea why you would ever play one
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Its was a holdover from the old text games like Zork or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that would kill you all the drat time to make the game last longer. Lucasarts were the first to say they didn't want the main character to die during gameplay because of a missing inventory item and most companies adapted afterwards. Right until walkthroughs and gamefaqs made the genre too easy.
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Going from Return to Zork to the first two Monkey Island games was an absolute breath of fresh air. I hated being killed arbitrarily on every other screen.
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King's Quest VII is one of my favourite games, and it's more like the LucasArts games. it's impossible to gently caress up your save, and when you die you start back right before you died, without having to reload. When I went back and tried to play King's Quest VI, the first time I died I had to restart the entire game because I didn't realize I needed to save  . So i learned my lesson, and things were going great, I was almost at the end, and then i found out that i'd missed an item in the land of the dead like hours ago and i couldn't beat the game. i ragequit and still haven't beaten it lol.i do wanna give this a shot sometime though https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2533-king-s-quest-iv-the-perils-of-rosella-retold/
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King's Quest 6 is the best one. I've played through it a million times and I even know how to get all the points. Good soundtrack, too.
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Odddzy posted:Its was a holdover from the old text games like Zork or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that would kill you all the drat time to make the game last longer. Lucasarts were the first to say they didn't want the main character to die during gameplay because of a missing inventory item and most companies adapted afterwards. Right until walkthroughs and gamefaqs made the genre too easy. soon as i played a lucasarts adventure game i never even bothered with any other companies lovely adventure games unless it was specifically described as being lucasarts like
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 this was the first dos game i ever played on a compatible tandy 1000. it was the shareware version so it probably came with a disk thrown in by radioshack or something. once you started moving you wouldn't stop unless you changed direction and you had to fully commit to jumps. i remember it feeling really satisfying to jump up and break potted plants with your head. another thing i remember is being genuinely afraid of the enemies. they were all freaks like this sinister dude with a knife that i would think of as tip-toeing around  or this thing. i thought it was a robot granny with hair curlers and wearing a big dress  there were desks and filing cabinets everywhere which made it feel like a grown up place you're not supposed to be. and if you got yourself stuck in-between a platform and anything else you would get crushed into goo.  it's a hostile work environment
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Odddzy posted:Its was a holdover from the old text games like Zork or The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that would kill you all the drat time to make the game last longer. Lucasarts were the first to say they didn't want the main character to die during gameplay because of a missing inventory item and most companies adapted afterwards. Right until walkthroughs and gamefaqs made the genre too easy. I actually really like Zork lol. it's deeply flawed, but there's a playfulness to what it's doing
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fond memories of repeatedly typing KILL THIEF WITH SWORD under the assumption that he would eventually die
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Odddzy posted:. Right until walkthroughs and gamefaqs made the genre too easy. Well also games developed to the point where you could have engaging adventure story lines in action games too.
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CyberPingu posted:Well also games developed to the point where you could have engaging adventure story lines in action games too. I understand what you're saying but I can't compare them. I loved the fact you had to find solutions that didn't require a violence. There was a big part of those games that required imagination and made me engage in the world and dialogue. The writing in that genre was often a lot of fun too whereas action/adventure was more secondary. drat, I feel old now.
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Odddzy posted:I understand what you're saying but I can't compare them. I loved the fact you had to find solutions that didn't require a violence. There was a big part of those games that required imagination and made me engage in the world and dialogue. The writing in that genre was often a lot of fun too whereas action/adventure was more secondary. drat, I feel old now. Oh don't get me wrong I miss adventure games. Thimbleweed Park scratched an itch and the various remasters of old games but I do miss that ability to just take your time with stuff. I do not however, miss inane pixel hunts that if you don't find them before a specific trigger you can't finish the game I was more just attributing to what caused the death of that genre. Point and click adventure games really were the big graphical show off games up until CDs and PCs caught up in the mid 90s. Myst by all accounts was kinda late to the party.
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trying to jack off posted:soon as i played a lucasarts adventure game i never even bothered with any other companies lovely adventure games unless it was specifically described as being lucasarts like yikes. this guy loves loom and the dig
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Cubone posted:Zork I would say is a little different, because I think it's like that on purpose. instead of incompetence and needing you to read the game designers' mind, Zork that knows what it's doing is wrong, but it's toying with you. it's a bit like I Wanna Be the Guy- the point is that it's unfair, and the fun of it (if you like) is tangoing with the unfairness and this kinda smug persona of the all-knowing designer. the early sierra games and infocom games, especially zork since that was their very first game, were directly inspired by stuff like the colossal cave adventure, which gave you text descriptions of rooms, a text parser for interactions, and killed you nonstop. everyone at infocom went to mit and had access to the pdp-10s and poo poo which is what the great cave adventure was designed on in like 1976, and thats what the original zork ran on (it was "released" in like 1977 or 78).
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mysterious loyall X posted:yikes. this guy loves loom and the dig loom is cool
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