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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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05/15/07 09:55 AM
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Just a clarification, Scratches is different from Scratches:Director's Cut right?
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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05/15/07 10:16 AM
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Ah, thanks i wasn't quite sure cause i hadn't played the original and i thought it was part II or a sequel, thanks for the info.
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Hi guys. I'm enjoying playing Scratches again (I like the new music but haven't seen the Easter eggs and other new goodies yet), and last night I got out of the main game and played some of the new chapter. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn't played it yet, so I'll just say it's a little creepy and I have chills! I'm hoping that it's long and that I'll find more stuff as I move along, but even if I don't, what I just saw was scary enough to warrant my buying this version!  Cat, who was scared by just the atmosphere of the first one, and is now scared by more than that...
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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I LOVE this game !!!!!
The easter eggs are very funny --- Thanks for the music box music elsewhere in the house, Rael
---- you know how that affects me. :shudder: :shudder:
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Hi Inferno.... Can You Cheat & Post some spoilers For me... I haven't found one easter Egg  Thanks Hun 
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Ohhhhhhhh Thanks a Bunch Inferno Luv Ya 
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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05/15/07 08:39 PM
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First post in over a year, and of course it's about Scratches!  The alternative ending trigger is not just one event. It is doing an action several times each day.
Rael is working on a patch to change the accessibility of the alternative ending. Interesting... I'm still clueless about this alternate ending to tell the truth, or most of the new Easter eggs for that matter. Hope a full guide to the DC additions shows up eventually. I'm on day three of my re-play. Love the new control, always wanted that with the original. The changing sky graphics are very nice. And hey, I'll take any excuse to re-visit a great game. The new chapter was fun while it lasted, though that was all of about an hour for me after getting past a serious crash bug. Still cool to see the house six years on, though, and startling revelations indeed! Not thrilled about the bugs and overall laggy performance compared to the original, but I know Rael's on the case to squash such issues. So far then an interesting albeit flawed addition to an already stellar game.
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Thanks Snatcher42 For the Post...
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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The Easter eggs are the from the Book Titles --- to comments made by Micheal -- when certain objects are examined --- sometimes normally and sometimes when certain inventory objects are used. Some where in the original --- some aren't. I only managed to find the book titles in the original. The rest I found playing the Sratches DC --- These are unofficial --- and just what i've been able to find. The Books
These are located in the study --- Micheal's Room and the Chapel
'The Aleph' by Jorge Luis Borges
'Living In Doom' by Reginald P. Linux
"It was just some boring and annoying book entitled "Worlds of Myst". "
'How to Grow Successful' by John Holms
The "Necronomicon" by Abdul Alhazred, whoa!
'How NOT to Write Interactive Fiction' by H.A.S.
'The Grasshopper Lies Heavily' by Hawthorne Anderson
"At The Mountains Of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. The previous folks had taste, no question about that!
"How Not To Become DustMite Food: From Someone Who Knows" by Vlies Scrooge
Strange titles such as "De Vermis Mysteriis" gave me the shivers
There are two more which directly pertain to Robin --- and that is all I'm going to say. In the original game as well as DC there is an interesting Dialogue tree from the this is accessed by doing something just before you at . These are comments made by Micheal --- can you find them? "King! What an overrated bloke..." --- In Micheal's Room
"That’s it! Mr. Blackwood had stolen the Holy Grail and this was all about a plot of the evil Templars to take it back. Meh, bloody clichéd games!" --- guess where this is...
" I don’t believe in miracles, but finding matches in here was quite a blessing..." -- if Micheal forgets to take the matches from his suitcase ... hmmm where do you think?
"The old-fashioned lamp made me think of exciting adventures I'd always dreamed of going on." --- Museum (Omage to Text Adventure Games?)
"Those shirts looked just like my own! Lazy developers! Bring some variety to the game for crying out loud..." ----- Where would one hide if one was a folded gray shirt?
"Hhmmm JB, my favourite. I wonder why it keeps reminding me of falling darkness..." ----- Dinning Room (This was in the original version)
Hello sailor! -- don't remember where this one is
Surely you didn't think I was going to say something smart? -- don't remember where this one is either
The idea was amusing... but then I would have screamed my guts out if I actually heard a heartbeat. - (This was in the original as well)
"My, those are some good looking fellows!" -- This one might be in Scrathches DC --- I don't remember where though.
I have a feeling that there are more --- just haven't found them yet --- but then that's parrt of the fun of it --- isn't it? inferno =================================================== These are from the demo: "Locked again... probably because this was only a preview version of the game." --- Where could these be.. in the demo? "Bloody developers... locked!" "The preview is getting on my nerves!" ------------------------------------------------------ First post in over a year, and of course it's about Scratches! ...I'm still clueless about this alternate ending to tell the truth... Here's a hint --- recall what Michael is by profession and act accordingly --
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Ok.......Maybe I am Stupid or something.... But What am I Looking for? An Actual EGG? In all my years of playing games I have never found anything remotely looking like an egg....<Geezzz> Do I need to do certain things...What will I see..An egg...That looks like an Easter Egg? 
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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There is one in there Inferno that nearly made me fall off my chair laughing when it sunk in my thick skull.  Thanks for the chuckle. Darleen...this should help you: Easter Eggs Ana
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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No --- An Easter Egg--- in a computer program is mostly and "inside joke" or reference. It can be an audio cue or graphic or an alternate sequence. It is a "suprise" as it "steps outside of the game" and therefore is known as an Easter Egg.
The term is figurative and not literal.
Case in point --- In the dining room (this "easter egg" is also in the original)
Now, where was I? Oh yes, I remember --->
In the Dining Room during the Scratches Game --- if Michael examines the liquor cabinet carefully --- he will remark on a reference to Johnathan Boakes and Dark Fall. --- To get this click on the dark brown Liquor bottle.
When you are in the Crypt ---> Use the stethoscope on the corpse.
and you will read a funny one.
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Oh My  What a Stupid....Blah Blah Blah I am... Thanks Inferno & Ana... Oh WoW...Its a Message.Nothing More then that... Ummm.....Amazing
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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GOing through it again ---This time that Alternate ending will be mine! MWuahhahahahahahaa!  inferno
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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GOing through it again ---This time that Alternate ending will be mine! MWuahhahahahahahaa! Go for it Inferno!! I'm on my third try, still no luck.  I keep marching Michael to his typewriter, but he has more excuses for not working - then I do. Maybe the third time will be the charm. I love this game. "Q"
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Can anyone tell me when it will be released in the UK??
Has any one seen any little gray cells around as I think I've lost some? Reward for finder.
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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oldlady, it is available for reasonable shipping to the UK through InteractCD, which can be accessed from the top of this page (the yellow highlight) Ana
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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Hi Inferno! The third time I played, I definetly got different dialogue than the first two times. I'm not sure if it was just a normal feature of the game cause I played it in a different style than the first two times, or if I triggered something. However, the very end point from going down the fireplace grate was exactly the same. I guess I'm a little confused cause I'm not sure how 'alternate' the alternate ending is supposed to be.  Hopefully more information will be forthcoming from Nucleosys. More importantly, how goes your quest for the alternate ending? "Q"
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Re: Got Scratches Director's Cut Today
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The third time I played, I definetly got different dialogue than the first two times. Hmm, care to be more specific? Not so much what it said, but where, so I can narrow my hunt?
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