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[FlipConstantine]

Yes Monkey Island.  Also Day of the Tentacle.  Anyway, I highly suggest you find a copy of Grim Fandango and play it now.  It is by far one of the best games I've ever played EVER.. and I'm even including Fallout II in said game matrix.  Seriously.  I can get you a copy of it if that is what it takes even; such is the goodness of the game.

Yeah I've seen copies on amazon.  But up untill recently online purchases weren't really a thing I did, nor was windows.  Once I get windows (shudder) back on my pc, I'm totally buying it though.

ALSO: Maniac mansion rocked too.


And it is a little bit morbid, I think, to be waxing nostalgic about video games in a thread ostensibly about cops being shot.

I'm going to smile and pretend it isn't though.

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Yes Monkey Island.  Also Day of the Tentacle.  Anyway, I highly suggest you find a copy of Grim Fandango and play it now.  It is by far one of the best games I've ever played EVER.. and I'm even including Fallout II in said game matrix.  Seriously.  I can get you a copy of it if that is what it takes even; such is the goodness of the game.

My experiences with Fallout II were... traumatic. Like getting locked in a room, blocked by town mayor, with only exit available by shooting way out. When at Level 4, this proved fatal. My infrequent save-hands came to haunt me to the extent that I uninstalled the game, then later reinstalled it and played as a whore. Then I got lost in the desert and died somewhere near Reno.

[misterqueue]

Like getting locked in a room, blocked by town mayor, with only exit available by shooting way out.

Flip, this is right about where it gets morbid.  I am sorry real life that we have dishonoured you in such a way, I'd commit hari kiri but I'm really not in the mood for the irony.


(Seriously, this place is like.. Discount WanderingThread Warehouse.)

[CortJstr]

There are some games like that actually but a lot of those 'adventure" type games have been out of fashion for a while.  (Oh Grim Fandango; how I loved you.  ((Also Sam and Max)))

Now I guess a similar thing would be those TV spinoff games based off of CSI, but I'm far to much of an elitist to allow those things in my house.  (Where elitist = elitist prick I guess.)

Nygotha is doing a countdown of the top 30 suspense games ever many of which are adventure games. You might be interested.

[misterqueue]

Nygotha is doing a countdown of the top 30 suspense games ever many of which are adventure games. You might be interested.

Oh indeed I am.. and if that is the criteria I fully expect System Shock II on that damn list.  Close-ish to the top.

[wombat]

It's probably worth noting that not only should you not shoot at police in their own parking lot, but not anywhere else either.

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It's also probably worth noting that we should not shoot at anyone, neither in their parking lots, or, indeed, anywhere at all. Now we have cleared this up, may we return to Grim Fandango/System Shock II/pseudo-intellectual ethical debate?

[misterqueue]

Pseudo?

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Would you prefer quasi?

[misterqueue]

No, delusional is more fitting I guess.. if you're coming from that perspective.


Speaking of which, man that hamster in the microwave in Maniac Mansion.. man oh man! 


*sigh*

[AlohaDawg]

Man this entire topic could tear us all to tears.  Do I bring up my staunch "Games like GTA do not reinforce viewpoints - correlation is not causation" ideal or "Mentally ill people probably should not have guns" angle.

I guess it depends which would create the best flamewar really.

This is like.. the time bomb of all topics.  WHICH ONE WIRE DO I CUT?!

It was about here where y'all abandoned all pretense of the original topic.

Any other thoughts about the news item?

[theinevitable]

Flip--
I read one of your comments as "whip out your religion" on the corrupt cop.

and I was imagining a game where you have to morally persuade your enemies to fight for Good.

kind of like some of those scenes in The Untouchables.

this would be so hard to do.

[FlipConstantine]

Flip--
I read one of your comments as "whip out your religion" on the corrupt cop.

and I was imagining a game where you have to morally persuade your enemies to fight for Good.

kind of like some of those scenes in The Untouchables.

this would be so hard to do.

That, sir, is priceless.

[CortJstr]

Oh indeed I am.. and if that is the criteria I fully expect System Shock II on that damn list.  Close-ish to the top.

He just got up to #8 this week and I don't recall seeing that one yet. But his top 30 RPGs list apparently caused a huge furor over the omissions.

[misterqueue]

Yeah well gamers are known to be only second to Cult members in their zealotry.

Oh and Star Trek geeks I guess.

And Star Wars geeks.

Actually the whole of Sci-Fi nerdom is probably a little ahead of gamers.

Music buffs too.

People who collect ceremonial knives.

Antique bottle collectors.

The Red Hat Society

The White Hat Society

Man... actually come to think of it; everyone's fucked up.