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BBP - 23-3-2006 at 20:21

Any gamers in the house?

Current hobby project:

Exploring this.

aquagoat - 23-3-2006 at 20:48

Yes, I play a lot (I play too much actually), but what's this game about ? The character reminds me of something but :puzzled:

BBP - 23-3-2006 at 23:14

That's Leisure Suit Larry, a great adventure game saga!

You're Larry Laffer, a loser, and you have to try to get a girlfriend.
LSL 1 was released in the late eighties, LSL 7 in 1996. The first was an all-typing game, LSL 7 is part mouse-clicking, part typing. It features wonderful cartoonesque animation, awsome music, full spoken text, gambling, pretty women, and lots of silly jokes.

Unfortunately LSL7 takes 92 MB on your hard-disk space, so you pretty much need a separate PC if you want to play it. I played it for the first time in 1996, when it was still new. Now, ten years later, I'm back exploring it. And discovering so many new things. Partly due to improved English.

LSL7 will be re-released soon. Which is great, since there's no downloads of it. It's quite easy to find a download of any other part of the saga.

Puptent - 24-3-2006 at 01:32

Yeah, I remember that LSL game, think it was "Love For Sail", right? Don't think I ever managed to finish it without using the walkthrough.

I was huge on those Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, too bad they don't really make 'em like that anymore. My favorites were the Secret of Monkey Island series and Day of the Tentacle.

I still play some games every once in a while, like the Grand Theft Auto series, but not as much as I used to.

aquagoat - 24-3-2006 at 09:17

Yeah, Leisure suit Larry, that game's funny, I thought I knew this character but couldn't find who it was.

The grand Theft auto series is great but I don't know if they'll succeed in outdoing the last episode, though.

Some of the games I play: GTA San Andrea, Gran turismo 4, Resident evil 4 (or Biohazard 4, depending on where you live), Doom 3, Far cry, Half life 2...

[Edited on 24-3-2006 by aquabot]

BBP - 24-3-2006 at 19:31

Never played Grand Theft Auto, I think the movie put me off.
I do play the Larry saga except 3, loads of pinball, AlleyCat, Minesweeper, Local Area Dungeon...

Recently I downloaded The Black Cauldron from Al Lowe's website (Al Lowe is the creator of the LSL saga), am busy playing that. Quite nice, in the Larry 1 and Goldrush style but all the command typing is with Function keys. F6 is "do".

BBP - 24-3-2006 at 19:37

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Originally posted by Puptent
Yeah, I remember that LSL game, think it was "Love For Sail", right? Don't think I ever managed to finish it without using the walkthrough.

I was huge on those Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, too bad they don't really make 'em like that anymore. My favorites were the Secret of Monkey Island series and Day of the Tentacle.

I still play some games every once in a while, like the Grand Theft Auto series, but not as much as I used to.

I think in LSL 7 I only solved very, very little of the puzzles on my own. It's very strange. One problem is if you want to complete it with full points (you have to if you want to see the easter egg at the end), you have to listen to that Bill Clinton robot making all the bad jokes.
Though I very very nearly completed LSL 6 without peeping in the walkthrough. Just one puzzle I couldn't solve, involving batteries. LSL5 too, but that one's quite easy. And boring.

Puptent - 24-3-2006 at 19:43

I think LSL5 was the one with the rappers and the subliminal messages they tried to put on record? I thought that one was pretty hilarious, although I haven't played it in years. Most of these games aren't much fun anymore once you've finished them once.

I think the toughest ones are the antique CGA games that still had the text parser ("open door", "get key" etc.), most of the point-and-click adventures aren't that hard to complete.

aquagoat - 24-3-2006 at 19:58

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Originally posted by BBP
Never played Grand Theft Auto, I think the movie put me off.
I do play the Larry saga except 3, loads of pinball, AlleyCat, Minesweeper, Local Area Dungeon...

I didn't even know there was a movie.

Puptent - 24-3-2006 at 20:05

I don't think there was any? The Resident Evil movie was pretty decent though, not exactly Oscar material, but pretty entertaining.

aquagoat - 24-3-2006 at 20:15

I watched the first RE movie, well, what can I say, too bad it was made by hollywood, I wish it had been made by a "young Peter Jackson" style director. Cause I see Resident Evil more like "Brain dead" than "Scream".

I had the possibility of watching "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" on Monday, but I conscientiously avoided master work.

Puptent - 24-3-2006 at 20:19

Yeah, it could have used a lot more gore, like a real zombie movie. I thought it was entertaining though, most of these film versions of games are total stinkers (Super Mario Bros., Streetfighter, Tomb Raider.. utter crap).

aquagoat - 24-3-2006 at 20:25

Super Mario Bros, the movie where Mario had vertigo, ridiculous. I remember Streefighter, that was so stupid I stopped watching it after ten minutes. Tomb raiser, hahahah

, here's the story: Boobs. I haven't watched the adaptation of Doom, but apparently it's crap too, too bad, it could have been a cool Alien type movie.

BBP - 24-3-2006 at 21:57

We got a Grand Theft Auto DVD, it came free with the player (a Ronin). Don't remember much of it, apart from a demolition derby with a beautiful Rolls.

BBP - 24-3-2006 at 22:06

Yeah LSL 5 is with the subliminal messages and the mafia trying to get the porn off the radio and TV because the sales of videos are down. I thought it was not as nice as the other Larries, it was very easy to complete and you had the same puzzle over and over again. You couldn't die, just get trapped if you forgot a phone number.

Ever played Colossal Cave, that text adventure? Couldn't even finish it WiTH walkthroughs.

Puptent - 24-3-2006 at 22:14

Never tried Collossal Cave, but I did play a lot of those old Infocom text adventures, like Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Zork, Bureaucracy, etc. Those are tough as hell and you die about every 2 minutes. I tried to finish Bureaucracy last year, but it's near impossible without a walkthrough (being a non-native speaker also doesn't really help).

Those games are kind of like reading Ben Watson's books... they make you feel dumb and uneducated.

[Edited on 24-3-2006 by Puptent]

BBP - 25-3-2006 at 00:37

:roll:
If you want to try Colossal Cave, it's free-ware and small, and it works on Windows.
We used to have a game like that on our Atari 800XL. I couldn't play it because I couldn't understand it, my dad couldn't play it because he had typed the listing.

Another old favourite of mine, led to surprisingly little teasing: Clyde's Adventure.

aquagoat - 25-3-2006 at 08:51

Oh you play pretty old games BBP, games I didn't even know the existence of.

DED - 25-3-2006 at 10:47

BBP, her sister and I play games on the computer since they were very young we started somewhere around 1984 or 1985 with an Atari800XL. To load a game with the cassetterecorder you have to wait for sometimes 25 minutes.
(when it not fails) Most games that time are very principle.
In new games you see the same, only with a much better video. The Atari is now on the attic, I think I take it down sometime to play again the real Donkey Kong.
In the floppy time there was a lot of shareware we bought like jill in the jungle, Prince, and so on. Unfortenately when the cd arrives windows 3.11,dos game W95 games were all on the cd's but most of them didn't work properly due to the various hardware. By then we have stopped buying games in mass. The biggest game we bought was two versions of Fort Boyard. Bbp was a great fan of the French TV program and she have played the game a lot of times. We even visited fort Boyard. With a boat around it. Maybe she still have the picture of that on her homepage.
I myself am playing cards most of the time, they don't die in the game :grin:

Boring :mad:

[Edited on 25-3-2006 by DED]

aquagoat - 25-3-2006 at 11:03

I had an "Atari something" when I was younger, I remember now, it was a kind of red keyboard with a cassette player, there was a game where you ran an apple jam business and two other games I don't remember the name of. Yeah it took time to load the game, but I adored the "SCRTHCHITCHTTHCSCRETCH biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip scr scrum scr beep scrtchraaaacktch" the cassetteplayer made. :-D

I remember the graphic content was, well, "three rectangles, five squares:well that "looks" like a man.

Fort Boyard ? I didn't know there was a video game version of that show, was it good ? Did you see the real french show or was it the adapted version, since I know there are different versions animated by local presenters ?

Puptent - 25-3-2006 at 12:40

I've had a lot of different systems over the years, it all started with an Apple II we had as a kid. Later on we had a Commodore 64, MSX1, Commodore Amiga, Apple Mac and various PCs of course. Also had a couple of consoles, a NES, SNES and a PS1.

I still think the C64 and the MSX were great gaming machines in their day. Except for the tape loading, that did suck, but a separate disc drive for the C64 cost about 500 euros or something back then.

BBP - 25-3-2006 at 18:54

There's two Fort Boyard games, one is the PC version of the show. There's a French version of it, but we have the Dutch version with the voice of original host Bas Westerweel. The Dutch shows only ran in 1988 and 1989, and the game was released in 1997. It's fun, has live footage of the game, beautiful music, but pretty much all control is by mouse and some games really get you RSI.

There's also Fort Boyard, la legende. That's an adventure game where you are a guy trying to find the treasure Napoleon buried in the Fort. It runs on 3 CDs and is pretty much unsolvable. And at occasions really very creepy.

I loved the TV-shows when they aired in Holland, but I discovered them very late so I saw 2 or 3 shows. Later, when TV5 showed them, I watched the French shows every Friday even though I didn't understand much of it. Still have plenty of videos of it.

aquagoat - 25-3-2006 at 19:53

What did the presenter look like ? Was it Patrice Laffont or Jean pierre Castaldi ? I liked that show too when I was younger, I still like it but don't watch it as often as I did then. I preferred when the candidates were unknown people, for a few years the candidates have been sportsman, singers etc... I would have really wanted to participate in that show when I was younger.

BBP - 26-3-2006 at 00:03

aquagoat - 26-3-2006 at 08:28

Patrice Laffont was kind of the Fort Master, an old guy looking like that:

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I asked you that cause I wanted to know what version of the show you watched on TV5.

Pappawas1975 - 26-3-2006 at 16:14

You guys dont even want to know how shit the English version of Fort Boyard was......

aquagoat - 26-3-2006 at 18:47

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Originally posted by Gojira1975
You guys dont even want to know how shit the English version of Fort Boyard was......

No we don't.

No seriously, was it really that bad ?

BBP - 26-3-2006 at 19:56

Watched the French shows from 1996 to 2000. After that TV5 stopped showing them.
Me outside Fort Boyard:

[Edited on 26-3-06 by BBP]

Pappawas1975 - 27-3-2006 at 11:45

Quote:

Originally posted by aquabot

Quote:

Originally posted by Gojira1975
You guys dont even want to know how shit the English version of Fort Boyard was......

No we don't.

No seriously, was it really that bad ?

Yeah, pretty bad....It didnt last long on terrestrial TV, and is now resigned to re-runs on Challenge TV, which specialises in old quiz shows....I guess it was no worse than The Crystal Maze.......

DED - 27-3-2006 at 16:07

I can imagine. It was also running for a short period on the Dutch tv. The Format is OK but it is very French. Shouting and running from one place to another. That's ok but in Dutch that results in a clamorous situation. The French production was much better. Brings me to give them a compliment in working with sound and light. (Son et Lumiere). If you have visted futuroscope or walibi Stroumpfghr (??) (smurfs) or Crazy Horse in Paris you learn to value their insights. But transforming one of their shows into another language is quite impossible though.

Boyard

zazkia - 28-3-2006 at 00:21

Nahhhhhhhh the root cause is that its often thought that a good show can be totally translated 1 to 1 in another language... It could have been great it just needed more time, and nicer candidates. :umm:
I guess those shows are really made by the teams that participate. And they on the Dutch version at least had that very type of people whom you'd neither see nor want to see, and that accidentally end up standing next to you at camp sites...

BBP - 28-3-2006 at 18:42

Back to the original topic:

Anyone plays Cluedo? It's my favorite board game, unfortunately the recent version is very sensitive to bugs. Also, the rules are American, and not Dutch, even if you play the Dutch version.

Plus this sick little adaptation (has been beautifully animated though). It's the first of a trilogy, but Hasbro won't release the other two, leaving the unfortunate players in the middle of a weird story.

[Edited on 28-3-06 by BBP]

aquagoat - 28-3-2006 at 19:42

I've never even played the real board game. We didn't play that kinds of games when I was young.

BBP - 28-3-2006 at 22:02

Poor dear! It's such fun!

aquagoat - 29-3-2006 at 08:39

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Originally posted by BBP
Poor dear! It's such fun!

Yeah I know, I was so mistreated when I was a kid.

My father's idea of a good sunday afternoon ? Watching the 4 hours long television adaptation of Gunter Grass's "The flounder". When you're 7 year old it quickly gets boring, even if there's a talking fish in this story.

DED - 29-3-2006 at 08:51

But you can play games now. There is no age limit.
They even have "adult games" :grin:
You can start with Mahjong or a more or less complicated pinballgame. Also The Elk Moon Murder is very nice even as death trap dungeon. :freak:

aquagoat - 29-3-2006 at 08:54

Yeah, you must be right DED, I'll have to try that.

DED - 29-3-2006 at 09:08

Or, even better, start with this nice original yesterday made PackardGoose promoting puzzle game.

DED - 29-3-2006 at 10:59

Downloaded a gamemaker program today and working
now to get a zappa version of freak out
I think Frank_ out will be the name, but I'm in for sugestions.

[Edited on 29-3-2006 by DED]

[Edited on 29-3-2006 by DED]

BBP - 29-3-2006 at 15:50

Another game I love:

QBZ!

zazkia - 30-3-2006 at 01:11

my best reason to neverever leave linuks:

aquagoat - 30-3-2006 at 08:47

These simple games are very addictive.

DED - 30-3-2006 at 08:49

It is statistically proven that Boys play more PC games then girls.
Only at the game Tetris (and look-a-likes) it is around 50/50.

Pappawas1975 - 30-3-2006 at 10:38

Tetris I have on my mobile phone, and I do admit to being pretty addicted to it...Always trying to get a better score......

aquagoat - 30-3-2006 at 11:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Gojira1975
Tetris I have on my mobile phone, and I do admit to being pretty addicted to it...Always trying to get a better score......

Yeah, it's something you think you're gonna play for 5/10 minutes but one and a half hours later you're still trying to beat that score.

aquagoat - 30-3-2006 at 13:55

Quote:

Originally posted by DED
Or, even better, start with this nice original yesterday made PackardGoose promoting puzzle game.

Cool puzzle.

BBP - 30-3-2006 at 19:55

What language is that pic in, Zaz?

BBP - 30-3-2006 at 19:57

Best reason for sticking with Windows:

DED - 2-4-2006 at 12:22

Quote:

Originally posted by aquabot
I've never even played the real board game. We didn't play that kinds of games when I was young.

I' ve played the real boardgame with Zaz and bbp. Unfortenately they are very smart and always know Whodunnit rounds before I do. So I don't like the game. I m only allowed to play as the needed third hand. I always try to do a guess in the second round. I frees me from throwing the dice and hopping around the board. My only contribution remaining is to show the cards on the right moments. That will teach them :devil:

BBP - 2-4-2006 at 12:44

Which is why I was so happy there was a PC version... unfortunately it's screwy.

PS Ded did win recently!

aquagoat - 2-4-2006 at 19:15

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
Which is why I was so happy there was a PC version... unfortunately it's screwy.

PS Ded did win recently!

Congratulations DED.

DED - 2-4-2006 at 22:23

It was just once, by accident. I had a lot of rooms in my cards. The others I guessed. You should have seen theyre faces. Totally shocked.

BTW have you seen our new downloadpage, it is live now

BBP - 2-4-2006 at 22:37

Actually, you didn't guess them. You assumed them from our guesses, clever fellow!

The jigsaw-download rocks!

wheatgurm - 3-4-2006 at 01:38

I play Kingpin- A Life Of Crime. Very violent, bloody, and alot of profanity not for kids .

[Edited on 3-4-2006 by wheatgurm]

aquagoat - 3-4-2006 at 07:56

Quote:

Originally posted by DED
It was just once, by accident. I had a lot of rooms in my cards. The others I guessed. You should have seen theyre faces. Totally shocked.

BTW have you seen our new downloadpage, it is live now

Yes, but when I click on dem games I only get a white page with "URL not found" written on it.:crying:

BBP - 3-4-2006 at 11:30

It's working now, enjoy!

aquagoat - 3-4-2006 at 13:38

Thank you, I'm gonna play pacman again, like when I was young.:roll:

BBP - 12-4-2006 at 12:29

Two nights ago I played an hour and a half on one game of this:

My hands were freezing...

BBP - 22-4-2006 at 22:03

My latest addiction:

Letris!
If you want to play Letris, visit http://www.donaldduck.nl/_clubhuis/clubgames
and click on the Letris picture.
The thing is, you can only play it on-line, and it can get a bit slow at times.

BBP - 31-8-2006 at 14:54

Of course Letris doesn't work if you don't have a club code, which you can only get by subscribing to the magazine... Sorry fellas! My code is 287572 and my name is Bonny.

Ooh... Aquabot: TV5Monde is showing Fort Boyard episodes from 2004 and 2005 now... What the hell did they do to that once beautiful main theme?

aquagoat - 1-9-2006 at 07:53

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Originally posted by BBP
Ooh... Aquabot: TV5Monde is showing Fort Boyard episodes from 2004 and 2005 now... What the hell did they do to that once beautiful main theme?

yeah I know, I thought exactly as you do when I first heard that.:umm: and in 2006 it's even worse. and the show by itself is beginning to bore me.:umm:

BBP - 1-9-2006 at 11:35

Hmmm... you know TV5 has recently begun subtitling the Fort, and before that, I rarely understood any conversation, so I can't really say anything useful about Cendrine's ramblings. It's not boring, yet: it's been since 2000 that I've seen the last of that show and I'm too happy I can watch it again. Except it's annoying that the contestants don't know what to do anymore once they get into the cells. Before they rehearsed it all.

aquagoat - 2-9-2006 at 07:38

well, actually it's not boring, but I'm getting tired of watching it, I've been watching that for years. Anyway, I'm glad you can finally fully enjoy the show thanks to the subtitles. :-)

anyway, I think the best current TV show is: Spuiten en slikken. :rolleyes:

[Edited on 2-9-2006 by aquagoat]

BBP - 2-9-2006 at 18:21

Ahh... Seen Spuiten en Slikken once. I thought the drugs part was actually interesting; the one episode I saw was about XTC and I learned a lot about the stuff. Like the biggest danger when you have XTC is over-heating. Also, if you take one pill, it releases a lot of chemicals from your brain so you feel good. If you want the same feeling again, you'll have to wait for at least 6 weeks for the chemicals to be at the same level as before.

The sex part, that comprises half the show, is dull. The one I saw was the one they were going to people in the street asking how many times a week they had it off.

aquagoat - 2-9-2006 at 19:01

I've never seen that show, actually, I just saw an extract on tv today. I don't think I would watch that show, especially after you've told me the sex part's not interesting.:shy:

DED - 3-9-2006 at 16:22

The most interesting was always the last sentence of the host.
It was a bridge to the next program, mostly the news.
Then she said the next one you see, haven't had sex for 3 weeks. Then the next shot was the news reader, who saw the last part of the program.
But after a few times it get boring.

BBP - 3-9-2006 at 21:50

Yeah... that line even caused a minor hubbub... Eventually she had to give up those "funny" lines (like: "Did you know one in every two adults has some sort of sex toy on their nightshelf? I don't have one, so the next one you'll see has one... Goodnight!" Cue to the newsreader.)

DED - 4-9-2006 at 09:12

We Dutch are strange people....... :lol:

BBP - 18-12-2006 at 17:21

Say anyone here ever played The 7th Guest by Virgin Interactive? First game ever to be only released on CD-Rom?

I bought the "Dutch version" which has a booklet translated into Dutch but is still English... that's very problematic since I'm now stuck on the 3rd word game I've found... and too proud to peep into walkthroughs just yet...

Edit: Just passed that point; bloody programme asks for 2 words that are not in the dictionary.:pissed:

[Edited on 18-12-06 by BBP]

aquagoat - 19-12-2006 at 09:10

never ever played that game, what is it all about, Bonny ?

BBP - 19-12-2006 at 12:04

You're in a strange house full of mysteries. What the story is, is not revealed until you complete the game. This far I'm not understanding very much.
It's basically a puzzle game with the occasional spooky video. This far I've encountered 3 anagram puzzles,2 chess puzzles, 2 mazes and one slider.

DED - 19-12-2006 at 13:23

Sorry that is is a little dissapointing till now. Most games are based on racing,shooting and platforms. Since I can remember I have seen only one game that has a great entertaining value, fits to your computers possibilities, an is more than just another variation on board or platform games. The name of that game (s) is Leisure suit Larry. All the others is crap or not original.

BBP - 19-12-2006 at 14:10

For the fans, Al Lowe (LSL) will have a new game out in 2007.
LSL even had its predecessor, Soft Porn. I understand it's downloadable from Al Lowe's site.

I'm enjoying 7th Guest, really. Except the maze I was just in. I solved that already, there's a puzzle at the end. I clicked one wrong button and, hey presto, I'm way away from the setting and have to walk through the maze AGAIN. :freak: I got so pissed I shut down the game.

BBP - 20-12-2006 at 18:06

Now I've advanced a lot, and am stuck playing Reversi against the computer. Boy, do I suck at Reversi...

aquagoat - 20-12-2006 at 19:42

ha
I like reversi, I'm quite good at it.

BBP - 20-12-2006 at 22:05

Help! Aqua, what's your tactics?

BBP - 23-12-2006 at 00:58

Never mind... Eventually I gave up on the Reversi (actually it wasn't really Reversi but something similar).

Finished it today, and don't understand the story. Unfortunately the sound track didn't play on the PC, apart from the credits song. It's a cool game nonetheless.
Ha! You should've seen my sister while I was playing a game and failing all the time, so the computer kept on saying "This is trickier than it looks". She was so annoyed.

[Edited on 19-2-07 by BBP]

BBP - 29-12-2006 at 12:27

Yesterday I got Phantasmagoria at a second-hand-store. At least I thought I did but I only have disk 2 to 7.
Today we're checking out the same store. Fingers crossed! Maybe disk 1 is still there.
Anyone know or have this game?

Update: They had it!:bouncing:

[Edited on 29-12-06 by BBP]

--OK so after day 3 in the game I thought it was a boring piece of shit, but now I've completed part 5 it's getting better. But now I am feeling :regan:.

[Edited on 10-1-07 by BBP]

BBP - 16-2-2007 at 18:45

Just bought Catz for a low price. It's very enjoyable this far, but unfortunately you have to play it every day.

BBP - 18-2-2007 at 21:40

Whoa! YouTube hosts Phantasmagoria footage!
Warning: Gross alert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dMqC8fSKHc&mode=related&...

Compare that to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u4OGbUVkHE

[Edited on 19-2-07 by BBP]

BBP - 18-3-2007 at 17:40

For the aspiring escapologists out there: try to get out of this room.
http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/crimson/crimson_e.php

BBP - 24-4-2007 at 20:40

Just finished playing Torin's Passage! A very funny game, ages 0 and up, still cool for adults. A nice adventure, very similar to Larry 7 without the naughty contents. Also created by Al Lowe. It's about a young boy who lives on an awkward planet, which has 5 worlds in one. Torin's parents are kidnapped by an evil sorceress. Torin goes out to seek her and force their release.

BBP - 30-4-2007 at 21:28

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Originally posted by BBP
Say anyone here ever played The 7th Guest by Virgin Interactive? First game ever to be only released on CD-Rom?

I've just bought the CD-I version of this game. CD-I has highly problematic controls (a cursor controlled by a tiny joystick stuck on a remote control), plus a high dirt sensitivity, so playing any long game is annoying.

It's cool to see how this game differs from the CD-Rom version. It's also great I can finally play this game with the sound. Plus the audio CD of this game is divided into different tracks, unlike the one on CD-Rom which has one 28-minute track.

aquagoat - 11-5-2007 at 09:16

I haven't bought any video game for 2 years, now, but I think I 'm gonnay play Doom 3 again.

BBP - 12-5-2007 at 00:34

Sounds nice... personally I can't really stand any hack-'em'up or shoot-em-up actions... they make me nervous.

Right now I've finally acquired Lemmings! They're such fun!

aquagoat - 12-5-2007 at 10:12

lemmings are cool, indeed.
concerning doom and that kind of stuff, my girlfriend used to play these games, but it made her nervous too, so she stopped playing them.

BBP - 25-6-2007 at 14:15

Just finished playing Quack Attack (known as Goin' Quackers in the US). It's so cute! Little jump 'n run with Donald Duck, for age 6 and up, but occasionally surprisingly difficult.

aquagoat - 28-6-2007 at 18:55

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
Just finished playing Quack Attack (known as Goin' Quackers in the US). It's so cute! Little jump 'n run with Donald Duck, for age 6 and up, but occasionally surprisingly difficult.

as often with games for children, some camera angle problems or difficulties with the riddles ?

BBP - 28-6-2007 at 22:27

There's no real riddles... except you need to find some things in every level and they're sometimes in awkward places... difficult jumps, nasty level bosses...

I'm replaying it now and discovering a lot of secrets.

BBP - 5-8-2007 at 21:08

Just finished playing The 11th Hour, the sequel to 7th Guest.
This game has different play modes, which was unknown to me when I knocked it off the PC after I finished it. There's a Normal and a Spooky mode, difference is latter is black and white. I played the entire game in Spooky, which is difficult and boring.
11H takes place in the same house, and the concept is similar: walking around and solve puzzles.
Unlike 7G however, you take the place of an actual 'person', named Carl Denning. You're continuously being referred to as Carl, which I thought was very annoying. Also, Carl knows why he is inside the house: to save his ex-girlfriend. As the story unfolds, more and more themes develop.

Unfortunately the acting is complete crap. Apart from the fact that all the characters, including the protagonist, are complete jerks, it's all wooden and unconvincing. This is due to two things. One is blue-screen acting, and talking to people that aren't there and holding things that don't exist, is troublesome. Second: the story is too ridiculous to act against it. Houses don't rape women. :rolleyes:

7G contained maybe one puzzle, an anagram, that could bother a non-native English speaker, an anagram puzzle using only the Y as vowel, that contained a Shakespearian verb.
A large facet of 11H is the Chase. While walking around solving puzzles, you receive around 25 cryptic sentences, which all lead to objects that can be found in the house. The bulk of the puzzles is an anagram (Winter coat worn for a mixer e.g. refers to tonic water), but there are 2 code crackers and 2 telephone puzzles. Very few of these can be solved by a non-native English speaker. There are hints that may lead you some place, but they don't always get you there.
Sometimes you will have to have some better knowledge of the items you seek. You need to find, among others, an Irish setter and a gardenia, which means you have to be able to tell them from other dogs and flowers. These make the game very vexatious.

7G only had one AI game that you play against the computer. 11H has 6. While the Infection game in 7G could simply be skipped altogether, you will have to play all these. You can let the computer make the best move all the time, but getting this hint is a drag. The last puzzle is a Pente game, which you have to play all by yourself, and is not easy.

Even worse is the ending, which turns out to be a big disappointment. I replayed the last puzzle in order to see the other 3 endings: but I couldn't beat the PC again at Pente, so I gave up and chucked the game off my PC.

DED - 10-8-2007 at 08:22

If you are ready with this one try beachlife installed on the vista machine.

BBP - 11-8-2007 at 19:04

So I'd chucked The 11th Hour off the PC, while not having seen the three remaining endings. Somewhat unfulfilling.

After finding a lot of easter eggs, including short cuts to activate the last puzzle, I installed the game again. It was, once more, black n white.
The first time I played it, I couldn't get the easter eggs going. Nor the second time and third time, so I re-played the game up to the half way point, when I beat the computer in a complicated came and the PC jammed before I could save. :umm:

Then I managed to work the cheat mechanism! So I watched the lengthy pre-last game video again, chose a different ending. The ending was a bummer. Had to sit through the credits, then close down and start up again in order to get the load screen (cheat only works in load screen). Sat through the pre-game video again, chose another ending. Another total bummer. Had to sit through the credits again, shut down again, restarted again, watch the video AGAIN to get the 4th remaining ending... and there was no film at all! Just direct cut to credits, which I had to sit through again. :pissed:

Chucked it off a second time. This time it will stay in my CD holder.

DED - 12-8-2007 at 10:00

One of the hard things today
If you buy games you never know if they work
esp. now we have vista there are a lot of programs that don't work

BBP - 12-8-2007 at 12:15

Yup... Quack Attack wouldn't work on my PC (which once held Windows 3.1 and has 3 harddisks, and uses Windows 98) because it had a newer version of Direct X that didn't comply with the old one.

I understand there's a programme called DosBox that will make all the old DOS games work in Vista. You get it for free when you buy a re-issue of an old game.

BBP - 19-9-2007 at 09:11

I managed to trade a second-hand copy of Torin's Passage with a brand new copy of Leisure Suit Larry colletcions!
One of the games is not working though, there's a password protection to prevent your kids from playing it: and for some reason the password screen shows up without us setting one.

BBP - 20-9-2007 at 20:31

We've managed to get this game to run, too... but now I've spent all day playing Leisure Suit Larry in order to check if LSL 1, 2 and 3 would still work.

BBP - 26-10-2007 at 09:58

Right now, I'm playing another Sierra game: Shivers. Shivers is relatively low-budget, considering it was released in the same year as money eaters Phantasmagoria, Torin's Passage and King's Quest 7. It hooks on the success of 7th Guest and Myst.

Idea is, your friends dare you to spend a night at a museum that's been closed for a long time. You have to enter the Museum of strange things. In the building, there are 10 evil spirits, Ixupi, on the loose. These may pop up, startle you and cost you a bit of life. While dodging these, you have to find pots and talismans. Each talisman combines with a pot, and that ensemble fits onto one Ixupi. You have to find all pots and talismans, combine them, and catch the spirits.
Not easy as your inventory will only hold one item at a time, so you have to keep on walking about.

In order to open doors, travel more freely or aquire items, you'll have to solve logical puzzles. There's 25 of them.

It's a fun game, though I'm not far yet. Somehow I can't keep up playing. Probably because them Ixupi startle me. They look mildly ridiculous compared to the beautiful animations in the game, but they're quick enough to conceal that.

Here's the Ixupi of Ash (will only hide in ash), as it's attacking you. Good screenshot!

BBP - 10-1-2008 at 22:18

Quote:

Originally posted by BBP
Yesterday I got Phantasmagoria at a second-hand-store. At least I thought I did but I only have disk 2 to 7.
Today we're checking out the same store. Fingers crossed! Maybe disk 1 is still there.
Anyone know or have this game?

Update: They had it!:bouncing:

[Edited on 29-12-06 by BBP]

--OK so after day 3 in the game I thought it was a boring piece of shit, but now I've completed part 5 it's getting better. But now I am feeling :regan:.

[Edited on 10-1-07 by BBP]

It's taken me more than a year:
The game advertises itself with a lot of hubbub, the slogan is "Pray it's only a nightmare". When I started playing, I found the start rather slow. It's divided into 7 chapters, and every chapter will take roughly one to two hours if you are playing through (not walking or running using guides, but exploring everything in order to advance).
In chapter 4, there is a rape and a murder. Things shook me up there.
Then came chapter 5, with 4 murders, ranging from shocking to very sick. Chapter 6 was easy to play, but also contained some terrifying material: three murders and a corpse-find.

And somehow I got so scared, I got nightmares and started dreaming I was in a similar house, being chased by a deranged husband (which happens in ch 7). When I tried to play the final section, I started sweating and heavy-breathing. I did everything to soothe myself, watched every YouTube video, read walkthroughs and fanpages, but nothing worked. I didn't dare to play it.

When I bought a new copy to exchange for something else, I had to play it, after nearly a year of ignoring it. This time I had some nerve problems too: it took me a full week to prepare for it. While playing, I found the tension in my arm was so great it became painful.

But, in spite of all that, I finally finished this game! It took me a year, even though it is actually very easy. Well, with a walk-through at least. Levels 1 to 6 are not hard, but level 7 has an amazing amount of possibilities, plus some vagueness... I'm very impressed at the imagination of the authors.

DED - 11-1-2008 at 21:04

What will be the next game ?

BBP - 12-1-2008 at 14:07

Maybe Under A Killing Moon, which I still have lying around here.
And I plan to play Phantas a lot more times in order to watch all the little variations. Actually there are a lot of variations in the last level.

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