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Dag - 27 May 2013 10:02 AM

Got AVS installed and ready for the community playthrough, now all I need is some bloo… ehm.. red wine! 

Make sure it’s salty merlot

Needs to be a little salty on the taste.

The playthrough thread opens on Thursday btw.

It grows on you. I didn’t like it much at first either. After a while I found the characters have their own charm, I started clicking on things and trying combinations for the jokes, and of course the graphics are fantastic.

I won’t participate because I played it recently but I’ll keep an eye on the playthrough thread for fun.

I played the start last year (I think) and decided to give it another chance for the poll. Liked it so much I couldn’t stop and finished it last week. I know, I’m terrible!

So you voted for a game you preferred to play alone instead with us in the playthrough after all? Considering the vote differences, that’s sad…

No, let’s just say I accidentally finished it after voting. I did intend to participate and I’ll still post in the thread

To be fair, it’s very short. I expected it to be almost twice as long.

Oscar - 28 May 2013 02:07 AM

let’s just say I accidentally finished it after voting. I did intend to participate and I’ll still post in the thread

It’s been some days since we finished AVS…
Some are still trying, buy it won’t take them long too (at least, I THINK it won’t. Do you hear me diego? I’m still expecting you to finish CCS as well! ). Perhaps it is time to start discussing our next playthrough. I do remember that Obsidian was a strong contester, though I haven’t seen TerminusEst in the forums for a while (if I recall, he said he would have been off for a few weeks).

As for myself (as a leader), I would propose only a couple of games this time.

The first one is of course IHNMAIMS. It gathered 10 votes in less than 4 days in the last voting and I will definitely put it in the voting list. It is an excellent game anyway (No13 in my best adventures of all time list) and very suitable for a playthrough. Already in chapters, excellent dark/sinister story and riddles, not an adaptation of the book mind you, but a different story with the same characters.
It will make stay awake with eyes wide open.
Ideal for a minimum 6-week playthrough.

The other game I would like to propose, is The Dark Eye (Inscape’s. Not Daedelic’s), a game even darker than IHNMAIMS. The fact that it’s stories are based to Edgar Alan Poe’s stories, the fact that each story is played both from the killer’s and the victim’s perspective and of course the terrific use of the puppets makes it a unique, one of a kind game. (And No5 in my best adventures of all time list). It is extremely easy however (no actual riddles. Some might even say that it is more of an “experience” like Dear Esther than an actual adventure game, though I disagree), which means that a playthrough for that game would be more about discussion about the game’s story, feeling, graphics, the impression of each story, etc than about actual help for finishing the game…
And if IHNMAIMS will make stay you awake with eyes wide open, thinking of what you just saw, then the Dark Eye will make you stay awake thinking of what you DID, realizing that the horrors are not in a far away future that a computer holds (like IHNMAIMS) but in the humanity and deep within each one of us, now and always…
Ideal for a 3-week playthrough.

Any other proposals?