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notbobsmith wrote:I finally started playing after putting the next game I should play up to a vote. I only just started Act II. So far it's pretty good. Lots of amusing bits. I have to look up the pharmacy stuff. I'm not sure about everything, but a lot of it sounds pretty accurate so I think they did their research. I'm also doing the floppy version versus the CD. I'll probably save that for my second playthrough.

Tawmis wrote:

notbobsmith wrote:I finally started playing after putting the next game I should play up to a vote. I only just started Act II. So far it's pretty good. Lots of amusing bits. I have to look up the pharmacy stuff. I'm not sure about everything, but a lot of it sounds pretty accurate so I think they did their research. I'm also doing the floppy version versus the CD. I'll probably save that for my second playthrough.

Is there a reason you went with floppy vs CD if you had the choice initially?

notbobsmith wrote:

Tawmis wrote:

notbobsmith wrote:I finally started playing after putting the next game I should play up to a vote. I only just started Act II. So far it's pretty good. Lots of amusing bits. I have to look up the pharmacy stuff. I'm not sure about everything, but a lot of it sounds pretty accurate so I think they did their research. I'm also doing the floppy version versus the CD. I'll probably save that for my second playthrough.

Is there a reason you went with floppy vs CD if you had the choice initially?

From a thread a couple of months ago (http://www.sierrahelp.com/forums/viewto ... =45&t=4630) when I first got it from GOG. The text version has more jokes than the CD due to space constraints, so I decided to go with the floppy version.

adeyke wrote:Text takes up (much) less space than voice.
However, it's not space that's the issue (the FPFP CD isn't at capacity); it's that Al Lowe just couldn't be bothered to record all the lines.

Tawmis wrote:And is it Al Lowe who couldn't be bothered? Or is it Sierra? Because I don't think Al Lowe has any talking parts?

Mandel had explained in a commentary the reason why there were so many more jokes in the Floppy Disk version as compared to the CD-ROM version of the game, "I had co-designed, directed, produced, and written the floppy version; there were no plans at all, at the time, to produce a CD version. When sales of the floppy version justified a CD version, I was no longer available to produce and direct it, having by then started on SQ6. Al Lowe was then tapped to do the casting and recording of the CD version, but the game already had so much text in it that, when it came time to record the inventory text, Al just stopped—he was, he said, tired of sitting in the sound studio. As I had written the vast majority of the game's text and dialogue, I pointed out to him that, in the process of cutting roughly 15% of the game's text from the recording, he'd not only left out many jokes, but many clues and hints as well".

adeyke wrote:In the thread that was linked, I quoted what Josh Mandel had said about the situation (from Wikipedia). I'll reproduce that here:

Mandel had explained in a commentary the reason why there were so many more jokes in the Floppy Disk version as compared to the CD-ROM version of the game, "I had co-designed, directed, produced, and written the floppy version; there were no plans at all, at the time, to produce a CD version. When sales of the floppy version justified a CD version, I was no longer available to produce and direct it, having by then started on SQ6. Al Lowe was then tapped to do the casting and recording of the CD version, but the game already had so much text in it that, when it came time to record the inventory text, Al just stopped—he was, he said, tired of sitting in the sound studio. As I had written the vast majority of the game's text and dialogue, I pointed out to him that, in the process of cutting roughly 15% of the game's text from the recording, he'd not only left out many jokes, but many clues and hints as well".

That is, it's not that he himself spoke the lines, but he had to tell the actors how to say the lines, listen, give feedback, etc.

notbobsmith wrote:Hmm, I'm kind of stuck. I'm not far into the game either. I'm on the snail stampede. Odd that I made it as far as I did with Codename: Iceman, but got stuck here. No hints yet, please.

notbobsmith wrote:And I just finished. Great game. Very funny. I had a hiccup early on that I mentioned. I also used a hint with the gas cylinder near the end. I got hung up on the wrong train of thought. Final score was 979 of 999. Next up is the replay using the CD version.