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Atari ST! Too bad that system never seemed to catch on very well in the states, while the Apple II and IBM PC took off like wildfire. Also, it's refreshing that they didn't give the baker an overwrought french accent
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I'm under the impression that the pyramids themselves are tombs, and the coffin is the sarcophagus.
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PurpleXVI posted: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. kinda feels like the "well, this is the only way all these pieces fit together" kind of gameplay where the only clues come from countless mistakes and experiments although it's really really cool that there are multiple ways to perform a task, which is pretty refreshing this really reminds me that I still haven't beaten Maniac Mansion. My characters always get kidnapped and I never quite know which initial characters to pick.
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:Thank you for the offer but I managed to find some maps. One of them was overcomplicated and sent me down the wrong path. I think my first lucasarts adventure game was Monkey Island (although arguably it could have been Maniac Mansion) and Monkey Island's gameplay was so much more player friendly than their kings quest contemporaries. I guess now it's clear that they didn't get the philosophy right on day one, and Zak was one of their first games
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I believe that Labyrinth was their first adventure game and it's certainly something. I finished reading through the LP of it only last week: https://lparchive.org/Labyrinth/ Whoa! I didn't know they had a text adventure game...
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:
the whole puzzle with Leslie and Melissa gives me Maniac Mansion vibes, where certain people are good at one thing and other people are good at other things. Although I wonder what Melissa is good at. Her fear of heights and dead aliens are not good but she works well as a second pair of hands
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I understand what you are saying but this game was originally released in 1988 on the C64. I believe that the game came on two discs which could hold a total of 170kb each. I would love a modern remake of this game which wouldn't be as constrained as this game had to be at the time. This probably explained why there were so many mazes. Thank you for the LP. I doubt I would have made it past San Francisco, much less get to Mars.
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PurpleXVI posted:Wow, they did ANOTHER Zak game? Interesting. it's an unofficial sequel without the involvement of lucasarts et al https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_McKracken:_Between_Time_and_Space
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I look forward to more german accented characters. I hope the initial security guard isn't the only one. For a fan game, it seems very well done, especially the writing.
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there is a lot of heart in the voice acting in this game I love it.
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Some people get grumpy without coffee, I guess, but this takes it to a whole new level
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:
for someone who is 20 years older, zak has really taken good care of himself also, if someone is a world-renowned botanist, surely they can be easily tracked down via a workplace rather than a stakeout at every fish restaurant in Paris unless, in this outlandish alternate universe, there is only one good fish restaurant in Paris
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I half expected Zak to destroy the egg inadvertently before the end of the segment and I'm glad that this didn't happen
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Razor and the SCUMMettes is a reference to Maniac Mansion. I kinda get the feeling that Annie's voice actress is French, attempting an American accent.
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also, it is a bit unnerving that Annie never turns around to talk to you At least, the game devs could have considered moving Zak in front of her when talking to her.
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I thought that it was a German actress trying to portray an English accent. That's a good point. quote:I'm going to give this game a free pass for stuff like this as it's gratis. That's a good point. For the curious, "le pêcheur merveilleux" means "the marvelous fisherman".
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Not only is Coventry not in Scotland, Zak also says that he rescued the scientists from New Mexico (9:10). Well, if it were really New Mexico, it would explain the Boy Scouts but not the jungle or the pyramids. To be fair, there are incredible ancient archaeological sites in New Mexico, but they aren't pyramids.
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The only other fan game I can think of that was based on an adventure game is The Silver Lining which aimed to be a conclusion to the Kings Quest series. It's an episodic series that has yet to be concluded. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Lining_(video_game) Apparently comments on metacritic about the first episode complained about the voice acting and the writing. I guess you could say something similar about this (Zak's) game, but this game has been nice so far. Can't beat free!
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:
There is a serious contingent of people that want a maniac mansion remake! I haven't played Day of the Tentacle but it looks like gog.com has a remastered version of it. hmm....
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Carpator Diei posted:What even was the point of that North Pole micro-puzzle? My best guess here is that it's a remnant of a cut North Pole location that they didn't want to go to waste, but it just feels so completely superfluous on every level. sounds logical to me like someone had made all that background art and nobody wanted it to go to waste
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I think "clear the room at a chili eating contest" refers to the fact that both chili and peanuts are foods known to cause flatulence. Maybe the combination makes the resulting gas particularly dire in Zak's case.
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:
I think this game's writing wants to dial up the nonsense to 11. Any notion of sense or cohesion is probably out the window.
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Also, I wonder if the voice actor for The King was given any direction when making the sounds for sleeping
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If you showed me any item in Zak's inventory and ask me where he got it, besides Sushi, I think I would only have a 5% chance of answering correctly.
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In your playthrough, you mused about the special properties of the white crystal. From what I've seen in your finale video for the first game, its only use is in assembling the skolarian device. Likely because it's the last crystal and the hardest to get to (since it's on Mars).
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Thank you for the LP, it's undeniably more fun for me than actually playing the game. There's really a serious amount of effort put into this game, especially given all the 3D animation that was done. I wonder if they did mocap or if it was done by hand or a mix.
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Zaroff posted:I am just bemused by the number of Zak McKracken fan games! Zak is just a wacky 80s adventure game protagonist with unethical ideas and the wherewithal to accomplish them. If you want to write and publish an adventure game, it's much easier to take an existing and familiar setting and characters than make something new out of whole cloth. Of course, ignore the fact that Annie is a scientist in her own right. Or that Leslie and Melissa were intrepid fearless adventurers of their own that were able to convert a VW bus into a spaceship.
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