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by blueskirt
Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:20 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Chatter
Topic: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design
Replies: 68
Views: 21487

Re: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design

Just so you know for the future there are spoiler tags (in the full editor) that you can use. I mostly liked the first game and loved the second, but I could never get into the third enough to finish it. You are not missing much. The novelty of playing Malcolm and causing mischief is nice at the be...
by blueskirt
Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:18 am
Forum: Miscellaneous Chatter
Topic: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design
Replies: 68
Views: 21487

Re: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design

Speaking of repetition puzzles, I'm surprised nobody mentioned the whole afterlife chapter in Kyrandia III - Malcolm's Revenge (or the whole game as a matter of fact), with the fish queen and the tic-tac-toe. I can understand the design principle behind that chapter, but I swear... The whole game ha...
by blueskirt
Sat Aug 29, 2015 8:29 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Chatter
Topic: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design
Replies: 68
Views: 21487

Re: The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design

Let me tell you about the glory days of the Amiga 500. It had wonderful graphical and musical capabilities, but it had no hard drive, meaning every single time you entered a new area, you'd be prompted to eject the current disk, insert disk #n and press Return to continue, at which point the compute...
by blueskirt
Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:12 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Chatter
Topic: Originals and remakes petition on GOG.com
Replies: 6
Views: 1131

Re: Originals and remakes petition on GOG.com

Tawmis: Thanks for signing. :> DeadPoolX: I am aware that Activision has the last word on the issue and that it's currently more advantageous for them the way it is because we have to buy the collections multiple times to get both versions, but it can't hurt to try, and GOG said multiple times that ...
by blueskirt
Sat Jan 22, 2011 9:32 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Chatter
Topic: Originals and remakes petition on GOG.com
Replies: 6
Views: 1131

Originals and remakes petition on GOG.com

After asking for the King's Quest and Space Quest remakes to be included along the original versions on Good Old Games, GOG finally added the Police Quest series to their library, this time with the Police Quest I remake, but not original. So I started a petition on their forums asking them to add b...

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