Fronzel Neekburm

Eh, never mind! I didn't try to imply you had resentments towards the 'dex, more that if you agree with the Codexian hivemind, you've got to have a lot of anger in you. ;) And yeah, I agree. it's basically the only site I still frequent for gaming news. It's populated by people who have nothing but contempt for contemporary gaming, but somehow they still keep up with the news. I'm also kind of surprised that they're really very sympathetic to the King's Quest games of yore. Even this forum here seems to have more KQ haters.

DENIAL ANGER BARGAINING Holy smokes! We went through three stages of the Kübler-Ross model in less than half a page of forum posts! :P That last part DOES sound kind of promising though. But then I remind myself that the NuKQue will be Steam-exclusive, so truth be told I'm rather indifferent as to whether it will actually suck of not. Indeed it was (is)! Got me a Dreamcast for the sole purpose of playing Shenmue. It's a bloody shame that it was never ported to another system.

The RPG Codex in particular has taken a fondness to NuKing's Quest... They even created a new smiley in its honor: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: :y: Say what you will about the Dex, they do have a way of getting the point across.

Au contraire! You are part of the solution! The myriads of gamers willing to spend their money on endless shit are the real problem.

There must be something about Space Quest that attracts equally demented minds... at least as far as musical taste is concerned. Zappa - The original George Lucas! Back in the early 2000s, after „The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" and „Sheik Yerbouti" got me hooked, I had the utterly retarded idea to collect this guy‘s entire discography. I musta had money to burn at the time and I managed to build quite a sizeable collection. My local public library had a bunch of Zappa CDs, which were older issues than the ones I had. First thing I noticed was that the reissue of „The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life" was missing a track, „We‘re Only In It For The Money“ sounded completely different from the version I got*. Things got even more fun once I got my hand on a few old vinyls - the version of „I‘m So Cute“ on vinyl runs much longer than the CD version, which basically cuts off mid-song. *Side note: The dreaded 80s CD re-issues of early Zappa albums do have their interesting aspects, such as a few uncensored lyrics. So, thanks for the link I guess! Can‘t wait to find out in which ways the versions I got are inferior to previous releases! :P On another side note: Fuck Zappa‘s widow for being an impossible cunt!

All edginess and hyperbole aside, I've heard that exact same line of reasoning on the TTLG forums before Thiaf was released. Every single thing that Eidos Montreal spewed out of their asses up to release made your inner alarm bells go "Fuck this shit! Just run for your life and hope that an asteroid hits Montreal before this shit is released!" And still, there were lots of people going "Hey, I haven't played it, it could still be good!". Rule of thumb: If it looks like a cash-grab, that's because it usually is. Maybe this sounds cynical to you, but keep in mind that this industry is as fundamentally cynical as you can get. Not kidding here, the last (non-indie) game I played that had all of these things was freakin' "Mini Ninjas". Yes, an obscure kids game, made by the guys responsible for the "Hitman"-gorefests. They wanted to make a game that their children could play and it's so apparent from playing the game how they poured their hearts and souls into creating this amazing journey for their kids. Shameless plug: You can get Mini Ninjas for a couple of bucks on the British amazon. What are you, poor? Buy the damn game! You won't regret it!

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THE DIVINE SQUIRREL, TROELS! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DO NOT FORGET THE FUCKING SQUIRREL! (Come to think of it, a divine squirrel would fit right into the world of KQ.) Ah, gotcha! I still suspect that it'll be more like NuTomb Raider in terms of gameplay, only with less attempted rape.

So, it'll be cinematic, QTE-ridden shit?

First off, why the hell is this age restricted? :blink: And secondly, get a LOAD of dem YT-comments: OOOOOHHH SHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII...

Achievements or GTFO!!!!

I'm rather wary of this whole early access system. Even if the developers choose not to abandon their game halfway through, I'm deeply opposed to the whole idea of "Hey, let's not only make our customers betatest our game for free, let's make them fucking PAY for it!" But like you said, there's devs out there that at least try to not abuse their customers with it. Then there's Double Fine... The only decent thing they could have done is to pull the game, apologise and have the common courtesy to offer refunds to customers who bought the thing hoping that it might become a finished game some day. Instead, they still bloody try to ENTICE you to buy it!

Yes, but will it have dedicated servers?

Looks like Humble is selling abandonware (in the truest sense of the word) now... And at the top tier too! Like, if you're going to be brazen enough to keep selling an unfinished beta release, might as well go all out, right guise?

Seems like the perfect opportunity to bring this little gem back to the public consciousness:

Peter Molyneux warns of the "destructive" nature of crowdfunding

Alt+Z -> bye bye game

*raises hand* I remember this one well. It was released in that sweet spot during DNF‘s development after they had switched from the Quake to the Unreal-engine, released an awesome (and as it would later turn out completely staged) trailer and still had the benefit of John Romero stealing the show as far as vapourware anti-street cred was concerned. When Manhattan Project came out, I remember playing the demo, but stayed well away from the game proper. "What a cheap PR-stunt/cash grab!", I thought at the time. "I‘ll spend my money on the real thing instead!" Of course, I was completely oblivious to the fact that it would take another 10 years for the latter to be released. To say nothing about the fact that the perceived zero-effort 2.5D platformer was in fact a much more enjoyable (dare I say better) game then DNF ultimately turned out to be. But I must admit it‘s one of those games that, while fun, I completely lost interest in after about 1.5 hours of playing and never felt the need to finish it.

I blame consoletardation. Makin' dis shit accessible since 2001! There is at least one Roberta Williams interview out there that will make your eyes shoot out through the back of your head.

Sounds Welsh.

Hehe, I didn't even read the description. Just that Chapter 5 opening cutscene was enough to make me turn my back on this game for life. But yeah... I agree that the poooooisonous owl was a pain in the ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIqsoc9rQrc You were saying?

Don't forget to brush your teeth afterwards. Otherwise the saccharine kitsch will rot them in no time! Troels gets a proxy-like for that! :D

Finally got around to snap a pic of that Taiwanese SQV box. Here it is: I'll also leave this here: Roberta Williams Anthology Brand new, factory sealed €0.89 on German amazon :P

Haven't played the game in a billion and one years, but I don't they say at some point that people still leave flowers at the spot where Ludwig died? (Of course, if they didn't, then they screwed up indeed) Got to agree with suejak's assessment about the pixel hunting. Oh God, fucking Chapter 4 of that game... just grind everything to a halt and enjoy the feeling of being bored out of your wits when touring old Bavarian castles. Missed a spot? Well, then enjoy being bored all over again! Hoo boy, you're gonna luuuuuurve the ending of Moebius! :D