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Posted February 20, 2015
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lostwolfe: this week in episode 7 of lost eden!

repetitive valley injury!

in which - basically - the game forces you to do the same action a whole lot of times in different places to rally the triceratops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2u5_JXlKKQ
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sreamer17ydr: Wow, I never have seen this game.... this Lost Eden, I just watched some of it, very different type of game.
thank you for watching.

it's a very beautiful game and cryo certainly went out of their way to showcase how you could use 3d in those early days. it's also got a theme you don't see a lot of in computer games, too, which - i think - adds to it's appeal [being about adam and eve and harmony between dinosaurs and the like]

if you can track it down, the soundtrack is /amazing/ - unfortunately, it's also a big copyright bugbear. part of the reason i wanted to play this was to allow people to hear the songs, but after the first video, it got content id'd and i don't like there to be ads on my videos if i can help it at all, so i've taken to muting the music.

if you're enjoying this, cryo did another game like it based on frank herbert's "dune." it's got it's own visual style [not 3d, alas, unless you get the cd-rom version]

i'm having a blast re-playing it for you folks.
Posted February 20, 2015
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sreamer17ydr: Wow, I never have seen this game.... this Lost Eden, I just watched some of it, very different type of game.
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lostwolfe: thank you for watching.

it's a very beautiful game and cryo certainly went out of their way to showcase how you could use 3d in those early days. it's also got a theme you don't see a lot of in computer games, too, which - i think - adds to it's appeal [being about adam and eve and harmony between dinosaurs and the like]

if you can track it down, the soundtrack is /amazing/ - unfortunately, it's also a big copyright bugbear. part of the reason i wanted to play this was to allow people to hear the songs, but after the first video, it got content id'd and i don't like there to be ads on my videos if i can help it at all, so i've taken to muting the music.

if you're enjoying this, cryo did another game like it based on frank herbert's "dune." it's got it's own visual style [not 3d, alas, unless you get the cd-rom version]

i'm having a blast re-playing it for you folks.
Thanks for the recommendation for the "dune", I will have to check that one out. Yeah Lighthouse from Sierra had a cool soundtrack, very small, but has very cool tunes in.
Posted February 21, 2015
we keep on shovelling things in shovel knight.

this time, it's snow!

shovel knight goes to polar land to beat up on the knight there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob8RLMtURHw
Posted February 22, 2015
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lostwolfe: thank you for watching.

it's a very beautiful game and cryo certainly went out of their way to showcase how you could use 3d in those early days. it's also got a theme you don't see a lot of in computer games, too, which - i think - adds to it's appeal [being about adam and eve and harmony between dinosaurs and the like]

if you can track it down, the soundtrack is /amazing/ - unfortunately, it's also a big copyright bugbear. part of the reason i wanted to play this was to allow people to hear the songs, but after the first video, it got content id'd and i don't like there to be ads on my videos if i can help it at all, so i've taken to muting the music.

if you're enjoying this, cryo did another game like it based on frank herbert's "dune." it's got it's own visual style [not 3d, alas, unless you get the cd-rom version]

i'm having a blast re-playing it for you folks.
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sreamer17ydr: Thanks for the recommendation for the "dune", I will have to check that one out. Yeah Lighthouse from Sierra had a cool soundtrack, very small, but has very cool tunes in.
oo. colour me interested. i love what they did with some of those early soundtracks for the games. especially when they didn't really have much to work with other than fm-synthesis or special chips.

dune is fun, after a fashion, but some of the puzzles are a bit...adventure-gamey. i expect you know exactly what i mean :P

once again, thank you for watching.
Posted February 22, 2015
Have you played police quest 3?
Posted February 22, 2015
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Antimateria: Have you played police quest 3?
no, but it's coming up in the big list. i play them chronologically as sierra released them.

if you don't see anything in my playlist yet, it's because we're "not at that point in time."

between quest for glory two [which is going to start tonight] and police quest three there is larry 5.

the big list is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sierra_Entertainment_video_games

for the sake of clarity, i'm only playing what i consider "canon," which means that if it's something "quest" [with some wibbly-wobbly interpretational variance for what is an "official" quest game] then i will be playing it [or have played it.]

fair game: king's quest, police quest, space quest, quest for glory and larry.
everything else /might/ happen [like mother goose did and hoyle did] but is sort of the thing i decide by throwing darts at a board..
Post edited February 22, 2015 by lostwolfe
Posted February 22, 2015
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Antimateria: Have you played police quest 3?
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lostwolfe: no, but it's coming up in the big list. i play them chronologically as sierra released them.

if you don't see anything in my playlist yet, it's because we're "not at that point in time."

between quest for glory two [which is going to start tonight] and police quest three there is larry 5.
you play those like "gog intented?" which basically means dosbox

Edit: police quest 3 could be ugly windows game though.. I don't remember. I like one and two for being Sonny Bonds.
Post edited February 22, 2015 by Antimateria
Posted February 22, 2015
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lostwolfe: no, but it's coming up in the big list. i play them chronologically as sierra released them.

if you don't see anything in my playlist yet, it's because we're "not at that point in time."

between quest for glory two [which is going to start tonight] and police quest three there is larry 5.
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Antimateria: you play those like "gog intented?" which basically means dosbox
yes. if i'm playing them, i'm playing them through dosbox. though, i'm not using the gog versions. i've found that the gog versions are...interestingly optimized for recording [basically, the colour is screwy] so, generally, i'm using my own copies. [but i own copies on gog, again, because i wanted to show activision that there's still a market for those games.]]

edited to reply to your comment about pq3:

i /think/ you're thinking of police quest 4 and beyond.

they didn't do away with sonny bonds or his story arc until police quest four.
Post edited February 22, 2015 by lostwolfe
Posted February 22, 2015
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Antimateria: you play those like "gog intented?" which basically means dosbox
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lostwolfe: yes. if i'm playing them, i'm playing them through dosbox. though, i'm not using the gog versions. i've found that the gog versions are...interestingly optimized for recording [basically, the colour is screwy] so, generally, i'm using my own copies. [but i own copies on gog, again, because i wanted to show activision that there's still a market for those games.]]

edited to reply to your comment about pq3:

i /think/ you're thinking of police quest 4 and beyond.

they didn't do away with sonny bonds or his story arc until police quest four.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxyjPFURan8

to get you exited about 3. ^^

Oh there's bonds back in four? Nice.
Posted February 22, 2015
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lostwolfe: yes. if i'm playing them, i'm playing them through dosbox. though, i'm not using the gog versions. i've found that the gog versions are...interestingly optimized for recording [basically, the colour is screwy] so, generally, i'm using my own copies. [but i own copies on gog, again, because i wanted to show activision that there's still a market for those games.]]

edited to reply to your comment about pq3:

i /think/ you're thinking of police quest 4 and beyond.

they didn't do away with sonny bonds or his story arc until police quest four.
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Antimateria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxyjPFURan8

to get you exited about 3. ^^

Oh there's bonds back in four? Nice.
nope. no bonds in four, but he's there in three, as far as i recall.

police quest and i have a...rocky relationship/history. i think it's an excellent idea for a game, but it's not my cup of tea, really. when i was playing these originally, i was helping family with the game because they were more into it. that's how i experienced it, first time around.

two and three have fantastic introductions.
Post edited February 22, 2015 by lostwolfe
Posted February 22, 2015
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lostwolfe: police quest and i have a...rocky relationship/history. i think it's an excellent idea for a game, but it's not my cup of tea, really. when i was playing these originally, i was helping family with the game because they were more into it. that's how i experienced it, first time around.

two and three have fantastic introductions.
I did play few years ago 1 and 2 and those were actually better than more newer games (which i played that year). Which is kinda lame. also don't get my hopes up then. I liked bonds even though he had horrible blond nazi hair. =P

Edit: "let's start a car" "yeah well get off my back i'm trying to remember my keys like 3 weeks" "also you suck ass a partner" ^^
Post edited February 22, 2015 by Antimateria
Posted February 22, 2015
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lostwolfe: police quest and i have a...rocky relationship/history. i think it's an excellent idea for a game, but it's not my cup of tea, really. when i was playing these originally, i was helping family with the game because they were more into it. that's how i experienced it, first time around.

two and three have fantastic introductions.
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Antimateria: I did play few years ago 1 and 2 and those were actually better than more newer games (which i played that year). Which is kinda lame. also don't get my hopes up then. I liked bonds even though he had horrible blond nazi hair. =P

Edit: "let's start a car" "yeah well get off my back i'm trying to remember my keys like 3 weeks" "also you suck ass a partner" ^^
i liked the idea of bonds, too. and i liked the game's slant. it's just...not something i'm fond of, because i tend to prefer my games as escapism. playing a crime drama in computer format wasn't really my idea of a good time :P

but i'm glad it exists and i agree. those games - while their puzzles and so on are fairly convoluted - have stood the test of time and are - to me, too - better than most modern games, by far and away.
Posted February 22, 2015
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Antimateria: I did play few years ago 1 and 2 and those were actually better than more newer games (which i played that year). Which is kinda lame. also don't get my hopes up then. I liked bonds even though he had horrible blond nazi hair. =P

Edit: "let's start a car" "yeah well get off my back i'm trying to remember my keys like 3 weeks" "also you suck ass a partner" ^^
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lostwolfe: i liked the idea of bonds, too. and i liked the game's slant. it's just...not something i'm fond of, because i tend to prefer my games as escapism. playing a crime drama in computer format wasn't really my idea of a good time :P

but i'm glad it exists and i agree. those games - while their puzzles and so on are fairly convoluted - have stood the test of time and are - to me, too - better than most modern games, by far and away.
Well they did at the time I guess advertise it as a like real police simulator.. and gog has police quest swat which I have not played. It was awesome game at the same time when you have watched Miami vice and yes it is almost a carbon copy of that.. that's why Jan Hammer has made some music in those. =)
Posted February 23, 2015
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lostwolfe: i liked the idea of bonds, too. and i liked the game's slant. it's just...not something i'm fond of, because i tend to prefer my games as escapism. playing a crime drama in computer format wasn't really my idea of a good time :P

but i'm glad it exists and i agree. those games - while their puzzles and so on are fairly convoluted - have stood the test of time and are - to me, too - better than most modern games, by far and away.
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Antimateria: Well they did at the time I guess advertise it as a like real police simulator.. and gog has police quest swat which I have not played. It was awesome game at the same time when you have watched Miami vice and yes it is almost a carbon copy of that.. that's why Jan Hammer has made some music in those. =)
i've never played swat. police quest was already not up my alley to begin with. swat was just a step further in that direction :P

and yes. i'm given to believing that they used miami vice as a template.
Posted February 23, 2015
quest for glory 2 is starting up.

here's the introduction. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYJBF07W7bA
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