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The Never Ending Level Game!
http://levelgame.net
The game currently has 150 levels. I'm now at 130. Levels 1-18 are quite managable, but after that... It has me enthralled for 3 days, hence my
silence...
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Well... the last post is a little out of date, now that The Never Ending Level Game is at 200 levels...
Anyway I've turned to Gabriel Knight 3, which I find enthralling. Tim Curry did the lead voice!
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Luckily you didn't have to play the Never Ending Game forever! That would have taken a while.
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 It nearly took me forever! He (Clarence, member of this forum and NELG
creator) had different tricks up his sleeves on the latest pack and I spent nearly a month on level 183 alone. Fortunately I flew through the rest.
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Yesterday evening I finished Gabriel Knight 3... wow. It's an awesome game with for its age amazing artwork. Takes place in a 3D environment where you
have full camera control, so you can really inspect every little corner. It's based on the actual Rennes-Le-Chateau area, which has been replicated
perfectly.
Add to that a fantastic, intense story, a lot of French impressionist paintings (that you can close up on) and the voice of Tim Curry... yumm.
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Wow...sounds very impressive. What's the aim of it? What do you have to do?
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It's an adventure game. You have to solve a very complicated kidnapping. It involves Knights Templar, the Holy Grail, freemasons, the Priory of Sion,
vampires... stuff like that. I understand that the whole Rennes-le-Château area (where the game takes place) and its enigma (hidden treasure) was also
the inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.
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I can see how one could get enthralled by that. I'd love to know who would win a fight between the vampires and the freemasons.
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Well, the vampires were winning, and whether or not they win the battle completely depends on Gabriel. I accidentally killed him several times.
(TIIIM!!! NO!!!)
Anyway I'm replaying it now. It's hilarious, deliciously cynical humour.
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Clarence has added 25 more levels to the Never Ending Level Game!
http://levelgame.net
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Played and finished Gabriel Knight 1 now, which, apart from the narrator, is absolutely fantastic!
And I'm discovering DOSBox. It's nowhere near as hard to figure out as I initially thought, and I'm now totally able to re-live my childhood!
Yesterday I installed one of my favourite games, Clyde's Adventure.
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What's DOSBox? I know what DOS is...
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DOSBox is a nice little emulator that runs a dos-like program on your Vista, XP, Mac or Linux. With DOSBox you can play all those old games for DOS,
anything from AlleyCat off pretty much. And you can make videos of the games you're playing with it!
You can get more info and download it for free at http://www.dosbox.com.
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So two days ago I took up Gabriel Knight 2. No Tim Curry unfortunately, and as it's an FMV game it is a LOT easier than the other two games, but it's
very enjoyable all the same. Some of its biggest lores are a "lost Wagner opera" (about 10 minutes) composed by Robert Holmes, and full tours of the
Neuschwanstein castle, the Ludwig II museum and the Wagner museum.
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Played, finished and loved Lucasarts's Grim Fandango! It's a perfect game, except perhaps that the controls (keyboard in 3D environment) are
not easy to master. Great music, fantastic story, great acting, fun puzzles... You play the part of the Grim Reaper. His name is Manuel Calavera, and
he has a dull job in the afterlife: he must sell travel packages to all the souls he reaps. Somehow he only gets the bad customers, while his
colleague and boss's pet Domino gets all the good clients. He steals one of Domino's clients...
and before long a plot about organized crime unfolds in the land of the dead.
GF spelled the end of adventure games. Although it was almost unanimously praised by critics, it sold way below expectations, signifying a strongly
decreasing market.
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I've downloaded, unzipped and played in DOSBox that old childhood favourite: Prince Of Persia!
To my complete surprise I managed to get to level 7 on the first time playing. I then stopped, re-started later that afternoon, and then I got to
level 8! I passed the fat guard on my first go and I even managed to slash the Linger of Level 8! Unfortunately I saw my demise in a chomper after
that, so I quit, but I did make a screenshot to commemorate the glorious moment when, for the second time in my life, I beat that &^*&^%#$
Level 8 guard.
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Today was the third time I beat that son-of-a-bitch... incredible how all the speedrun people do it. I can't manage to change places with the guards.
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Dad: Potential Birthday Present Alert!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1451923705/make-leisure-suit-la...
This is the third classic adventure series to use Kickstarter to get things going: after Tim Schafer (of Monkey Island and Grim Fandango
fame) managed to reach his goal within 8 hours and make over a million within a week for an adventure game of which the design is still unknown, and
Chris Jones is getting a new Tex Murphy game together, Leisure Suit Larry is now coming back! The vid is awesome!
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