'7 Days a Skeptic' by Yahtzee

[Moox]

In the first one its in a room with animal heads, an elephent gun, and its a idol. How bout something about a tribe in africa, like a witch doctor uses it to possess people

[Drew4827]

I was thinking of it taking place somewhere modern and involving more modern types of people. A job gone bad involving the idol.

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Forgot to add, a complication with both games is that the welder is dressed the same in both games. And how did the apron (the whole attire?) survive the fire, especially since it helped start it?

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[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

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The whole "Serena" issue seems to be that, as good as it is in creating the atmosphere, it doesn't make sense. Who can be using her body, if her torso has just fallen out of the panel and is there for the world to see? She doesn't have two torsos, has she?

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[Dead bodies!]

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True. I was gonna say it was the captain's torso, but obvously it wasnt since the zombie captain still had it. The thing about it is that John Defoe said that both bodies were weak, so when did he test drive Serena's, which I thought was the ghost Serena. Can go many was, but no point in disecting it further.

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Blea!!

[jhelpme]

I'm having a problem with this game. If I run it with digital sound, then it lags really badly at every sound effect. I don't want to play this game in silence, so can someone help me?

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

There's 2 settings of digital sound, try both. Also, try under Advanced, increasing the memory the game uses.

[jhelpme]

There's 2 settings of digital sound, try both. Also, try under Advanced, increasing the memory the game uses.

I tried both sound settings and upped memory to 20mb, but it still freezes for a second before loading any type of sound.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Make sure you have the latest DirectX drives, and that there's no unwanted program running in the background. Other than that (and I doubt these two will help you, frankly), I don't know.

[R4L]

I KNOW HOW TO SEE THE SECRET SCENE!

Set your computer clock to May 24th, then finish the game.
The secret scene has The Welder and The Counceller talking about The Welder's childhood life. It's actually stupid.

[Snake]

 I thought it was pretty funny actually. Short, but funny.


--Snake

[R4L]

It's weird. They start by saying *ermerm kill* and stuff

[lightman]

I just finished the game and I thought it was all right, but I think "5 Days" was a better game. There were too many puzzles in this game that were illogical or just downright irritating. There were some plot holes as well, but they were perhaps minor flaws, compared. Escape pods that need to be fueled is ridiculous, though (and the security on them might have been a BIT too tight). The last couple days in the game were also really short.

Some of the problems:

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1. You can't read the e-mail until the game gets to a certain point, which makes no sense.

2. If you lock zombie Barry in the brig after stunning him, he just magically disappears.

3. Partly connected to #2, "luring" a foe is really frustrating when he just appears and disappears from place to place. He could be right behind you and then he'd just disappear when you get to the next screen.

4. When you are in danger of being sucked out the escape pod hatch, the lever for pod 2 is "out of reach" and the character never comes anywhere near the lever for pod 3.

5. You can't take the bar in the brig until the zombie Barry attacks. Aside from that, why can't you just push him over the railing? Who needs a bar?

7. Luring DeFoe into the airlock does not make much sense. Does DeFoe have a card to open the door? Also, the doors in the airlock do not automatically open or close, but the left door closes when DeFoe comes in. Why? It's even possible to press the open switch for the right door while the left door is still open (which should be impossible).

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As a matter of taste, I didn't like the ending.

On the positive side, I liked the interface and the game design. Overall, the game was good up to a point, but after that it went bad.

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Which I think I can say is where the zombie Barry attacks... Nothing in the game helped you figure out how to get rid of him.

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[lakerz]

I really liked this game as well.  I thought the pacing was fine, and the difficulty ramped up well as the game moved through the days.  I admit I had no clue how to escape from Barry when he was chasing me the first time, but other than that, I liked the puzzles.  Very very nice game!

[elle]

i don't get why the hatch tried to suck them into space when they opened it 

[lightman]

i don't get why the hatch tried to suck them into space when they opened itÃ, 

Because the escape pod had already been launched. Since there was nothing between them and outer space, a vacuum was created, pulling everything out of the ship.

(How he managed to do this and get around security is another matter...)

[elle]

oh you mean the crazy spirit dude launched it so they'd die?

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Well, so one of them'd die, it seems he had it planned so the main character wouldn't.

Heck, it's a wonder he did survive - how did he manage to hold on and not implode with vacuum rushing in like that?

EDIT - Ok, for fairness' sake - the game does have a lot of similar plotholes (not the biggest of them being the much-discussed Serena ghost), it's not as polished as 5DaS, but it does an admirable job nonetheless. Actually, it scared me a bit. The game managed to get on my nerves. 5DaS didn't manage that. It's lacking some polish, but it does a great job.

[elle]

A well thought out plan... for a retarded lunatic   : hehe

[Kinoko]

It's true, I don't think someone like him would have the intelligence to pull that off ^_^ In 5 Days all he really managed was random killing. Maybe floating in space for all those years heightened his IQ. We like to think that scary, retarded people will be autistic geniuses (genii?) but really... murderers are rarely very clever, and I would think the ones 'damaged' as children would be even less clever.

Still, this has absolutely zip to do with what I thought of the game. Great stuff!

[SSH]

Has anyone seen the movie "Jason X"