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This movie is pretty obscure. But pretty recent.

In other words my chances of knowing the title couldn't be smaller.

Rambo 3?

V for Vendetta?

Happy Birthday Le Woltaire! Hope you're in good spirits.

Btw we're still waiting for our well-deserved 2nd Second Face.

I suggest "The Sentinel". Only about 50 games and 20 newspaper publications share that name already.

Which reminds me of The Sentinel Returns from Psygnosis - what a wonderful, crazy game that was.

I'm Not There?

To be honest your write-up is a chaotic mess. It wasn't any more informative than the thread's title.

Have a look at "The nail in the coffin" chapter for example - the last one, so as a reader I'd hope you'd sum up your points somehow.

You start off with informing the reader that there exist first person perspective adventure games and they are all myst-clones-  more like puzzle games with little character interaction (which just shows you didn't play the likes of Tex Murphy). But that point leads you nowhere. You follow it directly with an unrelated "I think the blame should lay with designers who made unsatisfying adventure games." And as a major example of such "unsatisfying adventure game" you start talking about Monkey Island 2 - one of the most beloved and highly evaluated adventure games from the time of the genre's heyday. But of course it turns out you don't really talk about the game itself, just go on and on for several last paragraphs about the MI2 story's ending. You explain why it's bad storytelling to end things that way. I can even agree with you on that, but does that ending cutscene really have such a great importance for the genre's death/weakness? If it does, you never attempt to explain how. And then your treatise ends.

The whole text reads like that more or less. Watching porn might indeed be more productive in pondering the fate of adventure games than reading it.

LATER!!! TOIL!!!

yes.

It's RED!

Infernal Affairs?

No, I'm telling you it's definitely Keanu Reeves's stunt double!

[The Kreutzer Sonata]

(also, I just remembered that I also read Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata last week).

You accidentally just picked up and read a book by Tolstoy last week and wouldn't even remember about it, if not this thread? :o

Looks like Neo jumping across rooftops... The Matrix!

Darkstar? (written as one word)

How did you like Jonathan Strange? That's the only one I read from the bunch you mentioned.

I'm currently reading (and really enjoying) the classic The Good Soldier Å vejk - 4 hefty tomes of episodic dark yet humorous misadventures from World War I. Would make an excellent adventure game - even the old illustration look like wonderful material for character sprites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_%C5%A0vejk

Overall, I can't say I read fast or that much though, so I'll be on Svejk at least until the New Year probably.

I really liked the feel of the graphics. Btw is the princess naked?

As you asked for language corrections: it's "choice", not "choise".

The only films I've seen with James Garner are westerns.

Is the man with his back turned Super Dave Osborne (Bob Einstein)?

He looks like Tom Hanks to me.

Or maybe I'm still under the influence of the photo a few posts earlier.

Wow an ATOTK avatar ! That was so 2000's. 

And all this time I thought it's a picture of Saint Nicholas.

My Baby Shot Me Down?