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Worst Game Revisited #117100
10/21/03 08:13 AM
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Sometime ago there was a thread on this subject and I was wracking my brain for the name of one particular game. It's finally come to me and I just had to share. How about "Druuna Morbis Gravis"? Turkey of all time or what?

Re: Worst Game Revisited #117101
10/21/03 08:17 AM
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Gobble Gobble !! laugh Yup, I hear that was a stinker, I'll never know cuz it never ran on my PC, so I traded it!

Louis

Re: Worst Game Revisited #117102
10/21/03 08:57 AM
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Did anybody ever catch this review of the Survivor PC game? lol


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117103
10/21/03 09:09 AM
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I have the Scroll in my sticky mitt.. haven't dared to try play it yet!!

Tig wave


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117104
10/21/03 12:47 PM
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That was funny Jim. lol


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117105
10/21/03 12:58 PM
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Gad, that was the funniest review I have EVER read. Definitely much more entertaining than the game and a lot less painful..

lol





Re: Worst Game Revisited #117106
10/21/03 01:33 PM
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Quote:
...only something really special can invent a new grade.
Wooee! It can't possibly, really, actually be THAT bad.

Can it?

Re: Worst Game Revisited #117107
10/21/03 01:54 PM
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Quote:
It can't possibly, really, actually be THAT bad.
Yes....shudder it can. The only reasons it hasn't made my worst game ever list; is I couldn't get very far in the game and I think my mind protected itself by blocking off the memories.

But this review brought all that supressed trauma to the surface. Painful - but a good thing. It really had to be faced. Now - yes now, I can move on. laugh





Re: Worst Game Revisited #117108
10/21/03 02:11 PM
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Survivor doesn't sound like an adventure game and neither does Druuna. So is this thread about worst PC game or worst PC adventure game?

I liked the way they interspersed those drop down menu boxes in the review. I haven't seen that before.

Hi Tigger,
I also have The Scroll but haven't tried installing it yet. A while back a bunch of us were going to get it so we could all play it together and commiserate. So we were waiting until everyone had gotten it who had ordered it. I never heard anything about it after that.

Re: Worst Game Revisited #117109
10/21/03 02:24 PM
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so Jenny, IF (obviously a Big if) it will install on xp.. are you still game for the challenge?? I believe at least one other has it.. now was that Syd or Gatorlaw?????

I will have to set up a new folder in outlook using scroll as a keyword.....

Tig wave


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117110
10/21/03 02:24 PM
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So what is wrong with The Scroll? Saw it available somewhere, ordered it but it was sold out. So fortunately or unfortunately I never got it. But if its that bad I must have it. I need a new title to add to my worst games list. lol It would look so good next to Druuna.


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117111
10/21/03 02:26 PM
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Johnboy, Don't say that.. we will all be trying to sell you it at an inflated price .... as it is soo rare!!!! lol

Mind you its rarity may have something to do with the fact that most gamers sent the cd's towards the bin in disgust.....

Tig wave


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Reading Storm Breaking
Re: Worst Game Revisited #117112
10/21/03 02:32 PM
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Now I am definitely on a mission. Have to have it. Wont sleep until I find it. Help me! <img border="0" alt="cry" title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" />


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117113
10/21/03 02:32 PM
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Spookiness itself..

I posted above and my pc froze... the game j/c fell off the table and split in two!!

There are 18 different movement icons and I think this puts most players off..

Tig wave (going to try it though!!!)


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Reading Storm Breaking
Re: Worst Game Revisited #117114
10/21/03 02:35 PM
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Way to go Tigger! thumbsup


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117115
10/21/03 02:48 PM
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Hi smile

I played The Scroll all through about two years ago - and survived !! bravo

I found the inventory system and the very fuzzy graphics to be the most tormenting issues rolleyes

Having said that, I didn't find it anyway near as frustrating as Sacred Mirror of Kofun - which I'd have given up on long before I did, if Syd hadn't been helping me every five minutes wink

Unfortunately, I no longer have The Scroll or I'd have passed it on to you johnboy298 lol

Cheers.

Mad wave


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117116
10/21/03 02:57 PM
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Jenny: I got the impression from the description on the box that Survivor was an adventure/sim hybrid. That's why I mentioned it.


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117117
10/21/03 03:30 PM
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It made me look at the game.. and the cover was upside down to the reverse...

Fixed now of course.

a spooked Tig


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Playing Sims2, Sherlock, Phantom of Venice
Reading Storm Breaking
Re: Worst Game Revisited #117118
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Another name for The Scroll is Daughter of Serpents.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,2534/

It's a DOS game and the manual says it needs 590 KB of conventional memory. I'm not sure if it will run in XP. So you may be off the hook, Tigger.

Re: Worst Game Revisited #117119
10/21/03 05:26 PM
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Syd is the recognized Boomer expert on The Scroll. She has some very strong opinions of the game--just ask her and cover your ears... lol


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117120
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lol lol lol


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117121
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I thought that Syd was supposed to finish the Scroll as a dare.

I loved the review with the drop down menu for the word of your choice. We must think of this Jenny100 when we write another review. LOL

You guys do not know what bad is in PC games until you play a game called Deep Raider.

It was set out to be an aquatic Laura Croft and was made by Cyberscape Graphics. She was supposedly a telephat to dolphins and did heroic sea rescues. The trouble was tha she swam thorugh rocks and in cicles and never got anywhere, neither did the game and no one ever heard of it. I have a copy if anyone is interested. Ha ha


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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117122
10/21/03 08:03 PM
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I was going to list Bureau 13 as worst game, until I realized you might have to have played it through for it to qualify....
Has anyone else tried this game? I tried it in around 1993, and it's stuck with me since then. (shudder).


What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you.
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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117123
10/22/03 10:41 PM
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OH MAN!!! Gotta get one!

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Re: Worst Game Revisited #117124
10/23/03 06:44 AM
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Hi smile

I had a go at Bureau 13 some years ago.
Unlike The Scroll however whistle I couldn't get through to the end of it......Just too buggy for words frown

Cheers.

Mad wave


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