Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/01/18 07:31 PM
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I've been playing "The Veil of Mystery : Seven Little Gnomes" but have finally given up The story was OK but the in-game controls were inconsistent. I was repeatedly having to go back and search places again because of this and eventually got way too fed up of doing so !! So I uninstalled the game and moved on to "Haunted Hotel : The Evil Inside" instead - and am VERY much enjoying it
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
[Re: Mad]
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07/01/18 10:42 PM
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I think The 13th Skull is the best of the MCF games!
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/02/18 12:40 AM
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Me too, Marian! Just a great all around casual game.
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/02/18 03:43 PM
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I think The 13th Skull is the best of the MCF games! You, Family, and Oldbroad got me started replaying. I grew up in New Orleans. One of the first good things I noticed about 13th Skull is that somebody bothered with a bit of research. It's probably not coincidental that the dog is a Chihuahua and the bag of coffee in the refrigerator has a label reading "chicory." Sure, the sandwich would have been a poor-boy; labeling it a sub was an editorial choice for clarity. There are plenty of departures from verisimilitude; enough is maintained to give the characters and environment depth. As a child I went on a couple of picnics with a local historian and family, one to a derelict plantation house, another to a fort. The ostensible purpose was treasure hunting; really it was to have a picnic and entertain us. The legends of treasure from various sources did exist.
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/04/18 06:28 PM
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I finished my Haunted Hotel game in record time (for me, anyway) because it was so enjoyable - and now I've started on The Legacy : Forgotten Gate And as it, too, is also shaping up to be a real goodie, I will probably take myself off to Big Fish later to buy the sequel
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/04/18 10:01 PM
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/05/18 08:35 AM
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If 13th Skull had fewer ugly HOs, it would be an all time favorite of mine.
Look carefully at the newspaper articles. They also show care in detail. In New Orleans the Bee was a broadsheet then paper of record, not started until 1827 but who cares. That was the actual masthead. Also read the hilarious articles in the paper next to Cooter's mailbox. That paper probably existed, too. I didn't check. I knew about the Bee so I looked up publication dates.
Across the board the delivery of standard issue casual adventure lines on the order of "if you find my X, I will help you with Y" is remarkably polished. Cooter and his wife work as over the top caricatures with a hair--a greasy hair--of pathos. Even the little girl, Magnolia, sounds natural once past the opening cutscene. The woman who owns the bar and the nebbishy librarian sparkle with individuality. Mary Lee is believable and oddly familiar. Major and minor characters without exception are all skilled enough to create immersion, that illusive willing suspension of disbelief.
I wish BFG would spring for more games with human actors. Seems to me an Arriflex or whatever people use nowadays, sound equipment, some talented drama students, and a few bored retired actors would fit the bill. They wouldn't need to speak unaccented English. Even before the break-up of the Eastern Bloc, promising films came out of Eastern Europe. There must be plenty of young people looking for experience who will work cheap. The actors speak directly to the camera, meaning directly to the audience/player, so setting up shots isn't complicated.
I liked the acting in Mystery Case Files: Shadow Lake, too.
Nevosoft, which I gather is based in Russia, had fabulous voice acting in Vampireville. Maybe they can do a game with live actors.
Pipe dreams, I guess, like putting on a show in the barn.
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/07/18 02:00 AM
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I finished the first "Legacy" game - which I SO liked. And have now started the second. And am very happy to find it is in exactly the same style Lovely !! So I know I will enjoy this one too !!
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/13/18 01:19 PM
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Finished the second one now, too, and think both were excellent. Will certainly re-play them at some time
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/14/18 12:18 PM
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As I recall, all the Secrets of the Dark games have that extra twist. It keeps things interesting. Oh, good, because I discovered another in the series that I hadn't played - so bought it in the latest sale !! Thanks, Marian
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Re: Out with the Old, In with the New
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07/16/18 10:45 PM
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I didn't use any hints for the footprint puzzle but was happy to see it didn't throw me back to the beginning of the puzzle when I clicked on a wrong footstep. I just finished the game. All in all, I liked it. I can't even say anything bad about the physics puzzle. It may be a good puzzle; just not my thing. Had I been in a different frame of mind, maybe I would have spent more time on it or maybe looked at the walkthrough to see the order of the items and then at least tried longer to solve the puzzle, while only having to deal with moving the items but not moving them AND trying to figure out the order. The way Angelica talked and the head nodding probably wouldn't have fazed me except the way you (Marian) said "I hope you enjoy Angelica Weaver, oldbroad." made me start analyzing the game. The one thing I did not like though, was that they kept saying Cicero, Chicago. No! No! No! Cicero is a suburb of Chicago; it is not Chicago!!!
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