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While it would be nice for each thing in the game to have a unique name to prevent ambiguity I realize that this may be rather difficult. As long as the you don't have two items with the same name in the same room (or inventory) then reusing names should be OK. It would be nice if there was a way to group synonyms so if you have a "Portrait of Bob" or "Landscape painting of a windmill" these both could both use the synonym "painting" or "picture" or for example "Stan", "Kyle", and "Cartman" would each respond to the synonym "person", or "boy", Not sure how this could be accomplished though. Ambiguity is probably one of the bigger challenges with making text parser games.

Text Parser games are great as long as you tell the player what verbs are available for use. You should definitely stick with common verbs though and stay away from strange ones that wouldn't usually come up in everyday use. Typing "Use gun on trash" should work instead of requiring some odd verb like "Vaporize" or "Disintegrate". The parser should be very forgiving and each object should be given a unique name as well to prevent ambiguity. I made a module to add text parser functionality to AGS games, But it was really more for use with the older versions with the interaction editor like 2.6.

You may want to try your hand at writing interactive fiction then. While AGS is more geared toward graphical adventures there are other programs out there to create text adventures. Of course some programming skill will likely be needed.

If the sprites are ripped from the 25th anniversary game is there any chance of seeing them released to the public?

You'd definitely be better off coming up with original character names, especially since the game is adult oriented. This way Disney won't come after you with a "cease and desist" order.

According to the South Park website after they captured Saddam they made him watch the South Park movie. Not as harsh as water boarding.

It would be great if we could make Kim Jong Il watch "Team America, World Police" the way they made Saddam watch "South Park, Bigger, Longer, and Uncut" But we don't need to do anymore invading.

"The future is inevitable"

It's a shame they stopped after 2000, we could have really used them during the Bush years!

+10 Classic Literature XP for anybody who can recognise the second-to-last mangled reference. 

Was it Mark Twain?

"If I knew then what I know now I'd be a prophet."

If I had the talent I would write a Scooby Doo game with Mulder and Scully from the X-Files.

If you want a Scooby Doo game that badly you could always make your own!

Yeah against certain enemies you are better off using a Cross or a Bible.
Shooting them would only make them mad.

Will there be any options for non lethal weapons like tasers or pepper spray? Just because I draw my gun on somebody doesn't exactly mean I want to KILL him.

Guard: OW!! You crazy bugger! You shot me!
John Connor: I can't believe it! You just shot that guy!
Terminator: He'll live!

Can you do anything to the flies or are they just there for ambience?

For most of my browsing I use Netscape 4, sometimes I use Opera though. On this site I use Netscape 9 because it doesn't work well with version 4

The "Evil Dead/Army of Darkness" Movies could make a good game for AGS.
A game based on Futurama would be cool to.

 :'(
Hopefully somebody will bail them out, Not the government per say , but Bill Gates maybe?
Still I'd rather have 3D Realms get a bail out then the greedy boneheads in charge of the banks.

When hearing 2.5 dimensions I tend to think of those free roaming first person shooters like Doom or Duke Nukem 3D. From the screen shots though it doesn't look like that will be the case?