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Are you Karlok trying to be less argumentative in a different personna?

I was trying to explain to you which is Still Life 1 (a game I love) and which is 2 in the simplest and most direct way possible because you seemed to be quite confused and all you can come up with is a totally disjointed comment?
You know what?... Forget it.

Since walas and sylv are the only two Still Life players who are unaccounted for, and we are supposed to finish by Sunday, I thought we could bring the topic back to the front page. If only to give players time to think about the games they might want to vote for and/or nominate.

I’m intrigued by the less than satisfactory ending to Still Life, and am tempted to nominate Still Life 2. But I have bad recollections of the game. And, as chrissie pointed out in the previous post, our recollections of a game that was released 15 years ago may not be spot on. When they were on sale at GOG for less than $1 US I bought both of them. I may play a bit of SL2 before deciding whether it’s worth a nomination.

And, before we embark on a new potential voting catastrophe, Thank You Walas for leading the last AGCPT. We, literally, might not have been able to do it without you.

Can we please play something else rather than a Microids/Sokal game? And Still Life 2 is really bad and not worth playing.

Doom - 08 October 2022 06:07 AM

Can we please play something else rather than a Microids/Sokal game? And Still Life 2 is really bad and not worth playing.

I can understand why you might feel that way. And you certainly have the opportunity to nominate any game you want. And, for that matter, not vote for any game you don’t want to play. As well as to not play a disliked game that happens to win.

But, while I believe you were being facetious, what you can’t do is tell people what they can and cannot nominate or vote for.

And, if you read the last part of my post, you will notice that I, too, don’t have fond memories of SL2. I only said I would try to play a bit of the game to confirm the validity of my memory.

You know that my PC doesn’t run Microids games, nothing to do with disliking them — I was the one who brought up Amerzone in the first place. And you did say you were planning to nominate SL2, why I politely asked to consider other games by other companies since there are tons of new and old titles and we already had two Microids ags in a row plus Syberia 4 which you also aggressively promoted for a cpt while playing it in the game thread. And since people might want to try SL2 after finishing the first part out of curiosity, I confirmed the game is bad (I played it from start to finish back in the day for a review), an attempt to hype on the Saw franchise developed by people unrelated to SL or Post Mortem (same team who are trying to sell their trashy Mozart game under different titles). I also sincerely believe that turning cpt into a Microids (LucasArts, Sierra, Wadjet Eye, etc.) fan cpt goes against the original intentions and the community spirit. Thank you.

I apologize if there is some misunderstanding. You will recall that I was unable to successfully install both Amerzone and Still Life from the original discs. Or rather they would install, but not play. So I purchased the GOG versions at an incredibly cheap price. Are you saying that GOG/Steam versions of Microids games will not play on your machine?

Only waiting for walas to un-pin the current game. Then Lady K can take over the task.

rtrooney - 09 October 2022 07:06 PM

Are you saying that GOG/Steam versions of Microids games will not play on your machine?

Yes, I was trying to run the GOG version. From what I read, Steam version has similar problems. It’s not common, but it happens on some machines and there’s no solution. I also tried running Still Life, also to no result, so I called it “Microids incident”.

I will not nominate a Microids game. Other than that, I don’t know when this thread will re-activate.

Why not just vote on all the games that were nominated last time? I’m only going by my own experience, but it’s fair to say that if I was willing to play a game a month ago, I’m willing to play it now. If not, no big deal - the game falls by the wayside. But it least mentioning some options will create some interest.

My offer of leading a CP of The Neverhood still stands. Either as a spontaneous community playthrough or as an official nomination. I tested the game just now on my Win10 computer and it works with the compatibility set to win95.

Charo and Walas, are you still interested? Zobraks perhaps? Anyone else? It’s a great funny puzzle game. A classic!

rtrooney - 23 August 2022 11:11 PM

Are you Karlok trying to be less argumentative in a different personna?

Oh for Pete’s sake, leave me out of your fights with other people.

Karlok - 12 October 2022 09:00 AM

My offer of leading a CP of The Neverhood still stands. Either as a spontaneous community playthrough or as an official nomination. I tested the game just now on my Win10 computer and it works with the compatibility set to win95.

Charo and Walas, are you still interested? Zobraks perhaps? Anyone else? It’s a great funny puzzle game. A classic!

Count me in.