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Starship Titanic

The Starship Titanic, advertised as the Ship That Cannot Possibly Go Wrong, has indeed gone wrong and crashed into your living room.  If that’s not surprise enough, a rather melancholy looking robot descends from the ship and asks if you will come aboard and help to put things right.  You agree, and thus begins this wacky first person adventure that only Douglas Adams, with the help of some of the Pythoners, could put together. 

As you explore the ship, you’ll find that there are certain areas you can’t access until you solve puzzles to upgrade your status.  You will meet all kinds of robots who have personalities scanned from the brains of real people.  However, because Titania, the ship’s main computer, isn’t working properly, the bots aren’t either, and communication with them, via text parser, can be hit or miss.  Sometimes they’re helpful, and sometimes they’re just pains in the patootie.  Your main goal is to find the missing parts of Titania scattered about the ship, and you will be confronted with some devious puzzles to accomplish this goal.

As I have mentioned before, this was my very first adventure game, so it has a special place in my gaming heart.  If you like offbeat humor and puzzles that often make you think outside the box, this is an adventure you shouldn’t miss.

i hear a lot about this one, and actually i never tried

DarkEye,
Thanks for the compliment.  I got my first computer in 1998 and only started playing the following year, but I know I won’t catch up with those who started playing when the early computers came out.

I really liked the music puzzle but thought it was a tough one to solve.

Advie,
It is a fun romp but not to everyone’s taste.  You would probably enjoy the humor, although you might want to murder a certain parrot by the time you’re done.

Oscar,
Since my game-playing time was limited due to my work schedule, it took me a long time to finish the game.  Of course, being a complete novice and having no idea what I was doing didn’t help either, but I was having so much fun discovering new things that I didn’t care.

Starship Titanic is a great game and (although I’ve played it only twice) has its special place in my heart. I love everything about it: the characters, the graphics, the sound… even the puzzles (that can put some folks off,) but the most memorable feature (for me) was the unique way in which one communicates with those crazy robots. That was the first time I’ve seen and used a parser, so I’ve spent quite a few hours trying to dish the wackiest stuff I could come up with to them robots.

And, of course, I love Douglas Adams and The Pythons.

DarkEye - 23 April 2016 01:20 PM

That means you’ve started playing AGs relatively late considering what an expert you’ve become in this area!
As most of 1st person AGs, I’ve come across Starship Titanic only when I was searching for quiz screenshots.

I’ve often noticed an inverse relation between the number of adventure someone has played and their skill at solving and/or making quizzes. The only exception I can think of is Bastich.

Lady Kestrel - 23 April 2016 02:59 PM

You would probably enjoy the humor, although you might want to murder a certain parrot by the time you’re done.

Not a bad thing. Leads to this.

Heh.  That’s one of the best sketches ever, TimovieMan!  If I remember correctly, the parrot in ST is voiced by Terry Jones, and the bomb (Yes, there’s a bomb.) is Cleese, although he uses some silly name in the credits.  Even the credits themselves are funny.

Karlok,
Maybe the more games one plays, the less one remembers specific details, except for Bastich, SuperEdy, and Trunkyo.   Oh, and I like your new look.  Cilia is one of my favorite characters.

Thanks for reminding me I should play this one (one should really play ALL the games where any of the Pythons is involved, even if it’s “only” a voice acting). I just seen some Let’s play of it on Youtube, and I’m glad there’s (at least) some kind of the transition between scenes, somehow I always have troubles with orientation if it’s a “plain” Myst 1 photographs style.

When I’m exploring in slide-show games, I just stop to look right, left and behind me.  That way the scenery will be familiar on the way back.

GrahamDaventry - 25 April 2016 03:42 AM

Karlok - 24 April 2016 06:38 AM

DarkEye - 23 April 2016 01:20 PM

That means you’ve started playing AGs relatively late considering what an expert you’ve become in this area!
As most of 1st person AGs, I’ve come across Starship Titanic only when I was searching for quiz screenshots.

I’ve often noticed an inverse relation between the number of adventure someone has played and their skill at solving and/or making quizzes. The only exception I can think of is Bastich.

That is because people who play a lot rely strongly on walkthroughs. When they get stuck they look at a walkthrough, and they lose the thinking ability.

LOL! You must have played a sheer impossible number of games, cause I don’t see evidence here of any thinking skills.

GrahamDaventry - 25 April 2016 04:54 AM

Karlok - 25 April 2016 04:31 AM

LOL! You must have played a sheer impossible number of games, cause I don’t see evidence here of any thinking skills.

Still upset at me for calling your beloved Deponia Doomsday a bad game? Oh dear…

That was you? I could have sworn it was someone called incometrader.
No, I never have a problem with other people’s game preferences. I do however have a problem with reviewers like JW.

EDIT: I checked, you posted twice in the Deponia thread.