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I think one of the good things about the self-made adventure game scene is that it allows a variety of different game styles. So in my opinion the next game should be something completely different.
How about Jessica Plunkenstein and the Dusseldorf Conspiracy? I haven't played it, but it's been getting good reviews (including on AGers). For future playthroughs, I nominate the Ben Jordan series. All the (released) games as a whole add up to a reasonably lengthy game.
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How about Ben Jordan?
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In my opinion it's too similar to 5DAS to do right away. Besides, I'd rather do a game I haven't played next.
Finally, should we give it a week's rest perhaps? This whole business is quite time consuming.
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02-03-2006, 08:07 AM | #105 |
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yeah, but we should probably decide within that week wich game it will be
maybe give it more than a week though
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Ah, I'm still not done with 5 Days. Haven't had time.
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I think grundislav is sick of people nagging him for BJ5, and is keeping a low profile.
I finally got around to finishing 5DAS. Wow! Day 5 is really short when you know what to do. "Bathroom lacklustre? Hideous body lying around the house? Solve two problems at once by tiling the body under the floor!" - stepurhan I think it has a nice mix of puzzles, too. I like the system of repeating a puzzle from earlier in the game, MI2-style. Though like Kurufinwe, putting together the DeFoe-detector was a bit of a hassle first time around. In my case, it was using the machete as a stick that I found illogical. The ritual is a really cool little puzzle. Will probably take a couple of tries for most people to get correct, but that's OK since the death sequences are fun, and the hints are fair. Though I found it somewhat disturbing that Trilby kept stepping on the Welder's remains. In this chapter, I really, really wish Yahtzee would have done something more with the dialogue. The conversation with Simone is ridiculous once you start solving the puzzles. "Where's the body?" you ask, right after you carried it through there into the trophy room. An enjoyable payoff to an enjoyable game... though it still bugs me how that body got under the bathroom tiles. (In the commentary, Yahtzee only comments on the improbability that John DeFoe would have been able to crawl all the way up from the cellar and to the bathroom before dying. He doesn't mention the bigger problem of how he got in under the floor.) Quote:
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Don't do Ben Jordan next. I only played the first one, but it was really poor. It was about two minutes long, looked ugly and made very little sense.
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How about 2 of a kind? i downloaded that but never got round to playing it
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How about Cirqe de zale? thats another one i downloaded and never played
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Well apart from KQ1 and 2 that would just about be it
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Did download them though. (the remakes that is) Might play them some time saving every 30 seconds (is that often enough? ) You never got around to the Hugo references Karmillo. I've been waiting.
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If your compare the kitchens...hugo's kitchen is a fliped version of 5days, and the left leads to a crypt like room in both of them and the right leads to the dining room there are some more similareties but they arent as big as I remembered Anyway, maybe we should try out one of these new or recently released games, im sure it just a matter of time before I download and not get round to playing them
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Two new or recently released games that I'd quite like to play would be Prodigal and Soviet Unterzoegersdorf. They're both nominated for a few AGS Awards. Prodigal for Story, Backgrounds, Sound and Music, and Soviet for Story and Dialogue.
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