Adventure Game Insanity

Sam. · Thu 24/02/2005 16:52:34

have realised that adventure games drive you mad. I was recently playing Full throtle and needed to open the chest in mos room. I got stuck so i left it for a bit. I forgot all about it. I was working in my garage when i saw a crowbar. now, this is absolute truth. i oicked up the crowbar, took it up to my room. only THEN realising that it wasn't real life. fortunatley i was home alone, so nobody could mock me. You can all mock me here beacuse, in my mind, you are not real people as you live on the internet. Anybody else done anything crazy whilst playing an adventure game?

big brother · Thu 24/02/2005 18:00:21

Well, there is something known as "Myst Madness" (because I just made it up).
It's a syndrome where the afflicted person runs around in their house, turning light switches on and off in every combination to see if anything happens.

Minimi · Thu 24/02/2005 18:11:41

There's also KQuilabriumalimic-syndrom

I got this while dying for the 400th time playing Kings Quest $:-\$

Babar · Thu 24/02/2005 19:27:05

Heheh...happened to me as well. I want to pick something up, so I move the mouse cursor over the object. Then I realise that this is real life.

Kinoko · Thu 24/02/2005 23:59:40

I don't really get this with adventure games, but I get a very bad case of it with two other games. Jet Set Radio - basically a rollerblading game where you "grind" all sorts of objects and places. After playing it for a little while, I'll be out in the real world and I can't stop myself seeing all sorts of places to grind, like chimney stacks with spiralling metal twirling down them.

More recently, I've been playing a fabulous game called Katamari Damashii, where you're basically rolling a ball around on top of every conceivable object and picking them all up to make an even bigger ball. It's AWESOME, I can't recommend enough playing this game. Anyway, after playing that for awhile, I just find myself looking at EVERYTHING and imagine rolling it up, and how bits of things would seperate...

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Fri 25/02/2005 00:25:34

Heh. Nothing so drastic as your experience, Zooty, but after playing Gabe Knight 3 or System Shock 2 I often look at the world in dirrefent, "3D" terms. I am more aware of what makes stuff 3D.

Oh, and then there are the times when I wonder about saving my game and then doing stuff like kissing a girl, or jumping in front of a plane, or something similarly stupid. Not to mention the times I think, "what should I do now? USE it, PICK IT UP, or something else?" And not to mention the amount of times while in a dialog the possible responses seem to line up like in adventure games. ALso, don't forget how aware I am of the items in my pocket, and...

...

...I'm sicker than I thought. Good God!

Vince Twelve · Fri 25/02/2005 00:26:58

Katamari Damashii Rocks! No game out there like it. Can't wait for the sequel.

On topic (though not an adventure game): I've had dreams where there are these arrows, and they tell me how I should move my feet, and I can't stop or I'll die.

Then I woke up and realized I needed to quit playing Dance Dance Revolution.

Captain Mostly · Fri 25/02/2005 00:44:59

heh heh heh, Myst Madness... That's a good one...

Kinoko · Fri 25/02/2005 01:32:18

Erik: Ahh, I've had that one a lot too! I often think of 'saving my game' before doing risky things... if only.

Gilbert · Fri 25/02/2005 03:42:47

Hehe, it's obviously a good place to plug Eric's (with Muills and Ghor I think) "failed" Webcomics:

http://www.sylpher.com/kafka/junk/adventurecomic.jpg
http://sylpher.com/kafka/adventure.html
http://www.sylpher.com/kafka/junk/adventurecomic2.jpg

Which Eric posted in Gen Gen.

LGM · Fri 25/02/2005 04:25:33

I've sometimes went to do something hard or dangerous and ACTUALLY, this is the truth people, looked for the save button.

BerserkerTails · Fri 25/02/2005 04:29:56

I've done the SAVE thing before... You know, consciously thought I should save my game.

Also, another big thing with me is constructing things. For example, if something falls behind my desk or something, instead of lifting my desk, I'll construct a grabber thingie out of stuff lying around my room to get the object.

And I usually always have my backpack on me whenever I leave the house, even if I don't need it. Because I never know what kind of things I might need to pick up and put in my inventory.

Scummbuddy · Fri 25/02/2005 05:00:26

Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Fri 25/02/2005 03:42:47
Hehe, it's obviously a good place to plug Eric's (with Muills and Ghor I think) "failed" Webcomics:

How in the hell did I miss those? Those are so great. I love them. Great animation and character in them. Very nice. Get the dust off those, and make some more, please.

Kinoko · Fri 25/02/2005 05:51:48

Those comics made me laugh actually out lous, and not too many things do that ^_^

qptain Nemo · Fri 25/02/2005 22:12:21

Yeah, and flash is the coolest!

Bluke4x4 · Fri 25/02/2005 23:24:57

Yep. Every day. I pick up anything I can. Sometimes I accidentally capitalize words like;
Jonathan PICKED UP the book in the hopes that it would... etc, etc, etc.

Eggie · Sat 26/02/2005 17:26:27

Sometimes I'm hand-writing and I think 'Where's the q key' or something.
Apparently I'm even worse at handwriting than I am at typing.

Mr Flibble · Sat 26/02/2005 17:45:17

I knew I had the Adventure Disease when I looked at a lampost, and thought "I bet I could use my whip on that, and swing onto that roof."

Whenever play a PC game, or watch an iPod comercial, I can't rest until I can work out how one would implement something like that in AGS.

HillBilly · Sat 26/02/2005 17:50:49

I were addicted to the sims a day or two, and when I went to the toilet, I were thinking that my "Toilet" bar got green. Same thing when I ate. Crazy.

DragonRose · Sat 26/02/2005 19:37:46

Oh, I had the Sims Insanity really badly last summer. I became hyper organized- "I will wake up, eat, clean, bathe, go to work, come home, eat, have fun, and sleep"

And I'm really bad about collecting an "inventory." I buy coats with lots of large pockets and carry around everything you could ever want. I'll have gum, cough candies, bandaids, notebooks, pens, hair brushes, medication, keys, wallets (I had two in my pockets for the longest time), loose change, a bottle opener, paperback novels, scripts, and on and on all stuffed into my pockets I might not need a certain item right NOW, but who knows when I might need it in the future?

And I've combined the keys, the wallet and the bottle opener into one item, as well. Oh dear.

By the by, where did that "You know you've played too many adventure games when..." list go?