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1999 Adventure Game of the Year
| Poll: 1999 Adventure Game of the Year is? Total Votes: 58 |
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| Amerzone | 3  |
| Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis | 2 |
| Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True | 0 |
| Discworld Noir | 20 |
| Faust: Seven Games of the Soul | 3 |
| Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned | 27 |
| Reah | 0 |
| Rent-A-Hero | 1 |
| Ring 1: The Legend of the Nibelungen | 0 |
| Traitors Gate | 0 |
| Zero Critical | 0 |
| Your unlisted favorite | 2 |
IT’s made me remember that Discworld Noir always crashes on xp or newer win versions,a gog rerelease not avalaible yet so anyone manage to play it somehow recently?
My version is for PS - I haven’t played it recently but I know I can! One of the reasons I held a torch for consols for many years is that you just load the disc & the game plays but sadly AGs weren’t & aren’t a priority of consol game developers so I’ve given up now & just either install a disc version (if possible) or download games on my PC & battle!!!! 
Do you realize that I contemplated putting “and whoever links to that ‘AGs committed suicide’ article gets banned” in my previous post?
Ain’t it funny how that site is still online, even though the blog was last updated in 2002. It will ALWAYS be online to remind us of the suicide!
Even the infamous cat hair moustache puzzle isn’t nearly as bad as it’s generally made out to be
By whom? Old Man Murray and?
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Frankly when you consider amount of study and script work of GK3 then see listed with others quite mystifying.
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I voted for Discworld Noir because it’s my favourite game. Simple.
Gabriel Knight 3 is awesome and a 5/5 game but still loses to Discworld Noir. If TLJ had been listed to this year, it would also lose despite of being another 5/5 game.
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I played very few from this list so I voted for Discworld Noir.
Have not played GK3 and I’m sure it’s a brilliant game but it’s a good example of those early 3D games that haven’t aged well at all
IT’s made me remember that Discworld Noir always crashes on xp or newer win versions,a gog rerelease not avalaible yet so anyone manage to play it somehow recently?
I have been so looking forward to playing Discworld Noir but all the releases don’t come without its crashes.
Gog.com is my only hope.
IT’s made me remember that Discworld Noir always crashes on xp or newer win versions,a gog rerelease not avalaible yet so anyone manage to play it somehow recently?
I have been so looking forward to playing Discworld Noir but all the releases don’t come without its crashes.
Gog.com is my only hope.
Vote for it , doesn’t hurt
Call it Old Man Murray’s Fallacy: the idea that it’s obvious how good a puzzle was if you look at the solution. Even the infamous cat hair moustache puzzle isn’t nearly as bad as it’s generally made out to be, if you actually play the game:
I have someone else’s ID which Gabe wants to pretend is his.
I have a marker pen. Maybe I can modify the ID to look more like it belongs to Gabe?
(use pen on ID)
Gabe’s drawn a moustache on the picture. WHAT ARE YOU DOING GABE?
Ohh, that actually makes sense. Adding a prominent feature like that could stop someone noticing that the rest of the face doesn’t look too similar.
Right, I’ll need a fake moustache. I wonder where I can get one of those.Obviously what ensues is silliness, but the sequence of thought and play leading up to it makes sense - someone actually playing the game might reasonably get that far; someone just reading the walkthrough is more likely to go away and write an article whining about making a fake moustache so as to impersonate someone who hasn’t got a moustache.
I agree with you. The cat hair puzzle wasn’t really difficult or illogical, especially since the game clues you in about what it’s looking for. It’s only hard if an individual never even considers the solution because it isn’t something that individual would do in real life. Maybe it is “irony” that fooling someone with poor eyesight by using a fake moustache is more realistic than the existence of vampires or werewolves or any of the other supernatural stuff Gabriel Knight deals with, yet I never see anyone complaining about that.
The problem is that
I have no mustache.
The person I am trying to impersonate has no mustache.
So I copy a fake mustache onto his ID.
And then I must create a fake mustache to match the altered ID.
That sequence makes absolutely no sense whatsover. Unless you go through some seriously convoluted thinking, i.e.
I can’t impersonate this person as I look now. So the only hope is to alter his appearance, and find a way to impersonate that.
That takes a real story teller to make that seem plausible.
For whom the games toll,
they toll for thee.
maybe already brought up.. but.. i dont understand deja vu being included in this year?
maybe already brought up.. but.. i dont understand deja vu being included in this year?
Yep, nomad and you are right. It’s a remake, update of the old game, new platform, blabla. So how did it end up in the poll? I do check the year of release at Mobygames or in Wikipedia, even though some people assume I don’t, and it should have been crossed off my list. So Alzheimer Lite is the best explanation.
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Hm interesting. Well anyway i like deja vu, it was the first adventure game i played on a console. It has nice depth all things considered. From this list though i have to go with discworld noir.
The problem is that
I have no mustache.
The person I am trying to impersonate has no mustache.
So I copy a fake mustache onto his ID.
And then I must create a fake mustache to match the altered ID.
That sequence makes absolutely no sense whatsover. Unless you go through some seriously convoluted thinking, i.e.
I can’t impersonate this person as I look now. So the only hope is to alter his appearance, and find a way to impersonate that.
That takes a real story teller to make that seem plausible.
It makes sense to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the fake moustache trick wasn’t used in real life by underage individuals trying to get into a bar (though probably using a store-bought fake moustache and the appropriate glue rather than something made from cat hair and syrup). I could see Gabriel himself doing something like that to get into a bar when he was a teen, which would explain why it’s the first thing he thought of.
Have not played GK3
maybe already brought up.. but.. i dont understand deja vu being included in this year?
Yep, nomad and you are right
Nomad?
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