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There's always The Stand...let's hope to God that THIS doesn't happen...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108941

Ah ha ha ha ha!  Sweet.

A 10-minute quickie.  Sorry 'bout the rush job.

I tried to find a picture of someone EATING a bowl of clam chowder instead of the steaming bowl of chowder that we've got here, but this'll have to do.



-Fro.

PS--nice work, Evil

Go on, choose "hard way"...it's guaranteed to be the most fun.

-Fro.

Totally sweet.

Hm, interesting thread.

I've been thinking along a similar train of thought as of late.  As much as I'd love to have a romantic interest in my current game, I know that the whole thing would fall flat on its face if it wasn't handled with a great amount of tact.

I mean, look at any flavour-of-the-month Final Fantasy style RPG.  Most of them  are just variations on a theme (eg. the love triangle between the hero, the summoner-caster, and the female warror).  

One game that handled romance fairly well that I can recall was Wing Commander 3.  Nope, not an adventure game (although you did walk around a battleship and converse with people inbetween missions). Near the end you had to choose between two characters.  You could even choose to reject both of them, and in the closing cinematic you're seen sitting in your ship with an empty seat.  What made all this work for me was that you got to know the characters throughout the course of the game (and in some cases, even the older games in the series like Hobbes and Maniac) and so there was an emotional connection between the characters on-screen and the player, so it became more to us than just a talking head.

I chose Flint, by the way.  

-Fro.

PS--I agree wholeheartedly about Gabriel / Von Glower.  

Yeah, I had one in the works, but unfortunately, finals crept up on me and I so sort of have to pass German....hehe, next month maybe.

-Fro.

Meh, it sounds like teenage agnst to me.  It passes with time.  You'll get over it.

Wait until you get to episode 3 with the afro chest hair!

"Yeah! Cool and hip!"

rotfl--I watched episodes 3 and 4 tonight-- this show is getting better and better.

Guu's laugh > *

-Fro.

Lilo and Stitch was Disney's best animated feature in a LONG time. Don't diss.

True, but IMO that's not saying much.

-Fro.

Me too.

Looks fantastic, by the way.

-Fro.

Older versions of DirectX and VirtualPC are compatable.  I played Alpha Centauri on my old Powerbook and it worked fairly well (except for the fact that my powerbook was sl-o-o-o-o-ow beyond belief)

-Fro.

If it's him, you gotta wonder why he didn't log into his account to post, though.

I call shenanigans.

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Gee, Mitar, I have a good mind to contract you out to do some artwork for my project...your stuff there is A++!

-Fro.

I wish I had a tenth of your talent.

-Fro.

What exactly is this game?  There's no listing for it on mobygames.com....

-Fro.

I watched the first episode of Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu.  It's okayyyyyyyyyy, but not nearly as funny as Azumanga Daioh IMO.  It's safe to say that I'm hooked on this series, though.

-Fro.

Well THAT's going to be stuck in my head all day now.  

In the other thread, I mentioned A Mind Forever Voyaging.  The premise is that you are a sentient machine whose purpose is to calculate the state of the world if certain events transpire (eg. if such-and-such a bill is passed, the nation will eventually become a police state)

Here be the info:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?name=A+Mind+Forever+Voyaging

Now that you mention it, I think I'm going to play it over again...

-Fro.

PS:  Of course, I'd be betraying my handle if I didn't mention the Zork series, so I'd suggest starting with maybe Zork Zero, which came out after Zork III, and then tacking the original trilogy (which wasn't originally in trilogy form but divided up to accomodate the storage limitations of home "microcomputers")