We've all seen random clutter in adventure games. It's that stuff you wanna touch but due to a flimsy excuse or a grumpy NPC, you can never have it. Random clutter has always been more important to some games than in others. With some rooms being made entirely out of it.
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In most games it's an opportunity to get creative and have fun.
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and some games just wouldn't be the same without it.
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So tell me your favourite clutter. Be specific as you like.
Personally, i can't resist reading every single tombstone i see in any adventure game.
Quote from: stepsoversnails on Mon 28/03/2011 18:25:58
Personally, i can't resist reading every single tombstone i see in any adventure game.
Agreed. And shops. Like the ones in KQ6.
Awesome thread idea. I'll be back with my personal clutter soon.
Every game absolutely and definately needs at least one "clutter room". I'll be working on mine next. :)
Hehe, great topic.
One of my own favorites is the voodoo museum in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers:
(http://lparchive.org/Gabriel-Knight-Sins-of-the-Fathers/Update%2004/30-29.jpg)
and of course Dr. Jones' office in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
(http://dailypcgamereviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crus-2011-01-12-22-54-02-44.jpg)
Here's one so obscure I had to boot the game up in DOSBox to get a screenshot - the flat of the player character's friend Louis in Dreamweb. While your friend's in the bathroom, you can snoop around his place to find (and pick up, even though its all useless junk!) such treasures as half-eaten food trays, guitar plectrums, individual cigarette butts, and dirty coffee cups. If you're in a mischievous mood you can also log onto the computer and read his emails and check his bank account balance, or if you're plain evil, steal your friend's only roll of toilet paper while he's on the can :=
(http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/7458/dreamweb.png)
Quote from: GarageGothic on Mon 28/03/2011 23:33:57
Here's one so obscure I had to boot the game up in DOSBox to get a screenshot - the flat of the player character's friend Louis in Dreamweb. While your friend's in the bathroom, you can snoop around his place to find (and pick up, even though its all useless junk!) such treasures as half-eaten food trays, guitar plectrums, individual cigarette butts, and dirty coffee cups. If you're in a mischievous mood you can also log onto the computer and read his emails and check his bank account balance, or if you're plain evil, steal your friend's only roll of toilet paper while he's on the can :=
(http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/7458/dreamweb.png)
Great choice. Dreamweb is one of my favorite adventure games and coincidentally also one huge piece of random clutter. Love it. :)
I won't post screesnhots, but there were SO MANY hostspots in Cruise for a Corpse, all with very intriguing descriptions, and SO FEW that were actually useful.
Especially that one that said "HEy, wait a minute, what's that here? Oh, my mistake, I thought I saw something".
I loved this crummy kitchen in Machinarium and the amount of stuff you can do in such a crammed space:
(http://selmiak.bplaced.net/games/pc/machinarium/screens/29.jpg)
And then how it connects to several other relatively small rooms:
(http://www.7outof10.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/machinarium2.jpg)
Of course the game has also the wonderful junkyard:
(http://barbarism.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/machinarium.jpg)
And many other places full of sorts of neat, barely useful trash.
Quote from: GarageGothic on Mon 28/03/2011 23:33:57
and of course Dr. Jones' office in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
(http://dailypcgamereviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/indiana-jones-and-the-last-crus-2011-01-12-22-54-02-44.jpg)
You might know this already but there are 8 references to games and movies in that room. :o
Sam & Max wasn't a game at that point :P
Quote from: Babar on Fri 01/04/2011 19:07:52
Sam & Max wasn't a game at that point :P
LucasFilm always thinks ahead. :P
Just started playing Dreamweb now, thanks to this thread.
I am indeed just wandering around picking up random clutter. :-\
Quote from: Stupot on Fri 01/04/2011 20:20:07
Just started playing Dreamweb now, thanks to this thread.
I am indeed just wandering around picking up random clutter. :-\
Be sure to read the madman's diary (available separately from the game) or you won't progress too far.
Quote from: Ascovel on Fri 01/04/2011 20:23:05
Quote from: Stupot on Fri 01/04/2011 20:20:07
Just started playing Dreamweb now, thanks to this thread.
I am indeed just wandering around picking up random clutter. :-\
Be sure to read the madman's diary (available separately from the game) or you won't progress too far.
Aha, got it! Thanks, man. Should have checked the 'extras' pane on Abandonia.
Just reading it now and it seems his mind is also full of random clutter... Think I might enjoy this game.
Dreamweb... I think I had that game on an old Amiga. I remember being in a mental institution and escaping via an elevator or something. Driving around in a car to a police road block also sounds familiar but it's gotta be at least 15 years since I played it and I must have been only 8 or 9. I think there was some giant purple monster... am I right, was that game Dreamweb?
Quote from: magintz on Sun 10/04/2011 10:07:43
Dreamweb... I think I had that game on an old Amiga. I remember being in a mental institution and escaping via an elevator or something. Driving around in a car to a police road block also sounds familiar but it's gotta be at least 15 years since I played it and I must have been only 8 or 9. I think there was some giant purple monster... am I right, was that game Dreamweb?
Seems like it wasn't.
Had totally forgotten about this thread. Great to see another Dreamweb fan, Ascovel. That game has been hugely influential on me, along with a couple of other underrated games like Zak McKracken and Gold Rush!. I even ripped off a couple of passages from the "Diary of a (Mad?)Man" for a film I made in high school (not that the rest of the film was in any way original, it was a glorious adolescent homage to Twin Peaks, Gabriel Knight and Alan Parker's Angel Heart).
Quote from: magintz on Sun 10/04/2011 10:07:43Dreamweb... I think I had that game on an old Amiga. I remember being in a mental institution and escaping via an elevator or something. Driving around in a car to a police road block also sounds familiar but it's gotta be at least 15 years since I played it and I must have been only 8 or 9. I think there was some giant purple monster... am I right, was that game Dreamweb?
No, but that sounds like one hell of a game. Let me know if you ever find out the title :)
(for a moment I thought you were talking about Countdown, then I got to the purple monster :o - I really have no idea what game this is)
Quote from: Mati256 on Fri 01/04/2011 17:58:34You might know this already but there are 8 references to games and movies in that room. :o
Argh, now I have to know what I'm missing. There's:
Maniac Mansion (purple slime meteor)
Zak McKracken (crystal)
Indy and the Temple of Doom (two amber stones)
Sam & Max (totem pole)
Star Wars ("millennia old falcon" comment)
The Maltese Falcon (the bird statue itself)
Is one of the stone tablets from the ark of the convenant? I can't figure out what remains - unless there's a Howard the Duck comment attached to that bird-like object on the right-most shelf :)
You can see all of them in this video, around 1:22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_AZj7CgHPo
I found it! The game I was thinking of was called Nightbreed (http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1631).
(http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/screenshots/full/night_breed_-_the_interactive_movie_01.png)
It's all coming back now, yea it was based on a film and both scared the living daylights out of me... I must track this film down :)
Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MntiEGXQFk)
And now back to the thread :P