Let's Play Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

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PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Oh I remember my uncle having this on his absolutely VAST shelves of old cardboard box games. I deeply regret not having the space to pick up his entire collection when he was moving and offered to hand off most of it.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2023 00:27

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 17:30

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

One of my favourite things is how many things adventure game protags do, when they're done "optimally" and thus slightly out of logic order, that seem like some sort of advanced mental illness.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2023 02:51

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I feel like I'd rather have the interesting failures alongside the main playthrough rather than segregated off into their own video.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2023 12:31

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

You are forgiven for depriving us of LP content for today.

(accidents happen!)

# ¿ Mar 23, 2023 22:56

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Annie: "Stealing would be wrong, but arson feels juuuuuuuuuust right!"

I was also genuinely worrying that the Africa parts were about to get REALLY racist when I saw those grass huts, but at least they just stayed modestly stereotypical.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 10:44

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I'm assuming that if you pop someone's helmet off outside on Mars, it's an instant character death. :v:

Is the game actually cruel enough to allow you to do that?

# ¿ Mar 28, 2023 11:39

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Rocket Baby Dolls posted:

It's highly likely that this LP will be over with the sixth update. I'll definitely be following this up with the fan-made sequel.

Huh, that's a shorter game than expected. I was feeling like it was finally starting to gather some steam.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2023 17:47

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

I like the end of game theme, but man, Zak's "I just won the game"-grin was terrifying.

Not the worst adventure game I've ever seen, but I feel justified in not beating my head against it as a kid until I figured it out, now.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2023 20:16

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Wow, they did ANOTHER Zak game? Interesting.

I honestly feel like the most interesting read of this one is as Zak's idle daydreaming about why the rest of the world is so stupid and doesn't appreciate his journalistic skills: Clearly, they're so dumb because of an ALIEN CONSPIRACY. Now imagine, Zak daydreams, if he, Zak, was just the man to save the world, and he got to hang out with a bunch of cute girls while doing it and then also got to date one of them?

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 01:46

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Interestingly, Zak's voice acting is almost exactly like I imagined his voice in the first game.

# ¿ Apr 14, 2023 00:34

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 17:30

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Carpator Diei posted:

Well, if their intention with this segment was to portray Zak as a total raging rear end in a top hat, they certainly succeeded.

To be fair, half of what he did in the first game was to annoy people and gently caress with their things. :v:

Remember the air plane sequence in the first one?

# ¿ Apr 21, 2023 10:25

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