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catchatpas - 08 May 2014 10:37 AM

Hi guys,

I’ve played many adventures games these last years, especially “point and click” games.

What really made me dive into this kind of games was the very first runaway’s episode “a road adventure”.
Of course, I’ve finished this triad many times. Can’t even count how many times I’ve replayed the whole serie.

Afterward, I also went through all the pendulo’s games (the next big thing, Yesterday). Enjoyed it and played it many times too.

I Know there’re many other funny point and click games. But I’ve never found any games that gave me this feeling you have when you put your good old slippers.

For now, I really miss the pendulo’s touch and sadly I haven’t eared fresh news about any project coming from them.

Does anybody know if they are planning anything after the “day one” failure ?

Thanks for your attention

By the way, here is a short list of all the games I’ve (re) played lastly:
- Book of unwritten tales
- critters adventure
- Broken Sword 1 2 3 4 5(1 and 2)
- Memento mori
- secret files 1 2 3
- blackwell series (1 2 3 4 5)
- Black mirror 1 2
- the wolf amongst us 1 2
- Monkey Island
- Day of the tentacles
- the walking dead
- resonance
- Myst games
- discworld 1 2
- syberia
-The Longest Journey
- Broken Age : Acte 1 and 2- Lost Chronicles of Zerzura
- The Raven : Legacy of a Master Thief
- deponia 1 2 3
- rainy day
- so blond
- back to the future 1 2 3 4 5
- a new beginning
- gray matter
- lost horizon
- tex murphy (all) I’m currently running through the last one
- And for sure, every pendulo’s games
- and many other I probably forget

and how do you think of BA act 2?

I can´t really say I care for Pendulo´s games myself. I never did enjoy their style of humour. I´ve only played through 2 of their games, Hollywood Monsters and Runaway 1, both were okay, but not stellar. I never finished Runaway 2.

Their games always feel like they try too hard to be funny. Like they´ve been written by people constantly asking “this is funny,right?” Without fully realising how comedy and timing works.

tomimt - 09 May 2014 09:27 AM

Their games always feel like they try too hard to be funny. Like they´ve been written by people constantly asking “this is funny,right?” Without fully realising how comedy and timing works.

Well Yesterday wasn’t meant to be funny and The Next Big Thing was outright hilarious, in fact one of the funniest games I have played in many years. But I Guess humour varies and not everybody around the world laughs at the same things.

Anyway I agree with the OP, it is a pity that Pendulo is gone.

After the Day One crowdfunding failure, they said that it wasn’t the end. So, I guess, it’s just a matter of time till we have some news (one does not simply walk away from a failure, plan the next step is very important).

As for the sense of humor of the games: depends on your taste.

They still have a website so they are still around.

Yesterday got released on ios and got rave reviews. I got it and loved it. A great game.

So - I’d guess we’ll at least see more ios posts at a minimum.

I liked Yesterday a lot really. Runaway was okay, the sequel was really boring. Third game seemed a bit better and I will play it eventually, just not very high on my list. But if they made more stuff like Yesterday, I’m all game. It wasn’t really a comedy at all so I guees that’s why it seems clearly better.

I’m one of the few people on here who actually likes Pendulo’s games. I don’t know why they’re so disliked on this fourm. When the English version of Runaway was released in 2004, it was a breath of fresh air. Finally, a new beautiful, skillfully handpainted, traditional adventure, a combobreaker to the long line of horrid early-time 3D monstrosities that was dominating the genre at the time, though, I must admit, I think Brian is a bit annoying. While I think none of Pendulos later games could quite live up to the first Runaway, I still enjoyed all of them, and I was probably one of the most eager backers of the Day One crowdfunding campaign. A real shame they didn’t make it, it seemed like quite a promising game.

  Most of the games I could think of recommending to a Pendulo fan is already in your list. If you speak Spanish, you might wanna check out the catalogue of Alchachofa Soft, another Spanish adventure game developer (their latest title, Murder in the Abbey, has been released in English. There’s also an English version of Drascula, but stay away from that, unless you’re looking for involuntary comedy (horrible, horrible translation and voice acting)).

You’d might also want to check out Autumn Moon games, Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island and A Vampire story. A different atmosphere form Pendulo’s games, but with similarly beautifully handpainted backgrounds.