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Does it require too much RAM and video graphics? I could barely play Broken Sword 4, it was insanely 3d.

I have no mouth and I must scream.

But... but I thought you said "not pathetic attempts of games"!

Gorrister story is kool

And why is it cool?

Still worth playing, though; the concept is unique.

If only for that.

I am mainly looking for "sad" games from AGS due to my poor CPU processor. But also one can slip non old AGS games aswell.

I played IHNMAIMS when it was published, in the middle of the adventure game fever. I was 13 years old at the time and although I find that game highly glitched today, it still leaves with a good memory.

Gorrister story is almost a complete spinoff directed by Harlan Ellison. Some of the puzzles were kinda forced but the ambient is very good. The dialogs and monologue from Gorrister are very arid and the plot adds up alot to that sense of general solitudeness.

Anyways I tried the Casper game, that was cool also! I mislooked it at the time because of those strange graphics.

I just finished Mourir en mer; it has no sound, or my computer just sucks.

Good game tho. Thanks for the suggestion.

I tried Cartlife earlier, like last year. It's somewhat hard. heh

Non AGS games...

- Quantum Gate I: Noone dreams here
- I have no mouth and I must scream. I remember playing this when it came out. I read the short story aswell; it captures very well the ambiance of the text. Gorrister story is kool

I'm not talking about pathetics attempts of a game, but of game that have a sad storyline, maybe gloomy ambiance and so.

So, any sad games around?

A serbian film.

Slaughterhouse vomit dolls is also fucked up but kinda boring.

Calvaire (Fabrice du Welz) has a creepy atmosphere.

Nevermind, slved it. 

 

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Hello.

I am stuck in the room with the inhabitants of the house after I checked the body. Ive asked them all about the seed, the window and the trunk, so apparently Im missing something obvious

That's it, thanks.

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Finished the game. Again, congratz to the designers. 

Thank you.

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How do I knock the snake's teeth off?

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Nice game. Very well done.

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So far I got the snake (ezze) and I intend to make a projectile thrower. That's about it. What do I do next?

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Congratz to the game developer.

Just wanted to mention: That first picture looks creepy.

:o

Weird, I saw a playthrough in youtube, and aparently some lady shows up during the night. I never got to see her.

Anyway, thanks.

 

Good stuff.

BTW I have problems finding the cat... Is it part of the bug? Cannot find it anywhere.

Cannot find the last number of Mulkin's phone number. Gosh, I love adventure games but I suck so bad at them. 

 

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How can I enter the vampire killer thug's room? Everyone in the intercom fend me off. Can't seem to find a way

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Yes, Dr. Jones, the famous arqueologist!"

It's a POV sci fi game with nice atmosphere.

So...

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Any clues on quick way to finding Jacob?

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I used to have dreams about Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis. The thing is, I did not knew english very well at that time so I was seriously stuck here and there. And I was obsessed about that game. It was the first adventure game I played back in the day.

The maze of Atlantis and the caverns of Crete were the most recurrent.

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Thanks for the graphic novel suggestions Snarky. Regarding Russian literature, have you tried any of Gogol's short stories?

The Nose and The Diary of a Madman are both quite funny stories of madness and bureaucracy. The Overcoat is a tragi-comic satire.

He has a very different style and tone to Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy (also, I just remembered that I also read Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata last week).

I read Gogol's The Nose some years ago, it came on a small collection of short stories written by Chamisso, Hoffman, Andersen and Gogol himself. I remember it being a bit unsettling, with the main characters not able to fit in their societies, misfits like.
On a similar note, if one wants to feel quite uncomfortable and even "dazed", he should try Heartsnatcher by Boris Vian, I still remember many passages of the book and never quite forgotten how its words were so morbid.

But that was when I was looking to be surprised by literature, even if it hurt. Right now I prefer "soft" reading as I am tired of all the atrocities that real life delivers. So, I'm trying to finish Book 5 from The Wheel of Time (fantastic work!) and ready to star the first from Game of Thrones.
That's it, great thread!

I remember a while back I read a volume of nouvelles, novels and theater pieces of Gógol. I liked VI, which also has two movies, an old one and a recent one. Gógol is generally playful in his style but he also has some spooky sides, like the cited VI.

I finished re-reading my Chekhov book. I am now reading Yellow Dog, of Martin Amis. I only read "Night Train" of his and I liked it. Yellow Dog is a fun, and quite disturbing, black humor novel.