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rtrooney - 25 February 2014 08:50 PM

Karlok - 25 February 2014 08:31 PM

Freddy runs fine in DOSbox.

That’s not the problem. If you have Freddy on floppies and your PC doesn’t have floppy input capability…that’s the problem.

Buy the CD version and be rewarded with the wonderful voiceacting that is not on the floppies!

You have totally missed the point. See Chrissie’s post above re: Secrets of Da Vinci. We are not interested in rebuying a game we already own.

Karlok - 25 February 2014 09:35 PM

Buy the CD version and be rewarded with the wonderful voiceacting that is not on the floppies!

Not to mention the intro with singing!

Intro with singing was there with the floppy version as well.

Shouldn’t you be more concerned with finishing your own game?

Are you sure it wasn’t karaoke, like this?

rtrooney - 25 February 2014 10:21 PM

Shouldn’t you be more concerned with finishing your own game?

Yes, Sirr! (but I’m stuck, clueless and earless )

rtrooney - 25 February 2014 10:15 PM

You have totally missed the point. See Chrissie’s post above re: Secrets of Da Vinci. We are not interested in rebuying a game we already own.

Personally I would certainly be interested in spending ten bucks so I could replay a game I love. You’re not, which makes me wonder why you suggested the playthrough. Fortunately, I can see several solutions to your problem.

a) Don’t play the game ever again.
b) Find a friend/nerd with a floppy drive and have him put the game on CD for you.
c) Buy the game on CD and… Oops!
d) Watch a playthrough on youtube instead.
e) The one solution where you can have your cake and eat it too. Of course I’m not suggesting anything! Really!

Salar Shushan - 26 February 2014 12:59 AM

I thought I used ScummV last time,

ScummV may work fine too, I haven’t tried it to play Freddy Pharkas.

My vote goes to The Pandora Directive, and I will once again be willing to lead the playthrough.

Since PD almost but not quite won the last vote, I though it might help if I did some carefully planned discrete promoting shameless advertising for it this round. so here goes:

THE PANDORA DIRECTIVE IS A GREAT GAME!!!

Not only is it the best game in the Tex Murphy series, but it is also (at least in my humble opinion) the best FMV game that has ever been made, and one of the best adventure games of all times. Seriously, if you have never played PD before, then you are cheating yourself of a great experience, and if you have, then this CP will serve as a reminder of how great an adventure game can actually be.

PD is not only a great game, it is also a huge game. I will estimate that my last playthrough took something like 40 hours, it can of course be played faster, but no matter how fast you try to play it, there is still well over 20 hours in it.

PD is also a difficult game with many challenging but never unfair puzzles, that will guarantee to put your little gray cells to the test.
Not a fan of difficult games and afraid of getting stuck? No worries, PD has two different difficult settings allowing both players looking for challenging puzzles, and players more interested in the story to play the game. The main differences being that on Entertainment mode there is a quite good help system, all the isolated puzzles are skippable and a few puzzle only exists in Game Player mode.

PD is also a very non-linear game which is very unusual for a FMV game, not only does it allow you to do many things in parallel or in whatever order you prefer, but it also have three different paths through the game leading to eight different endings. These paths are know respectively as Mission Street, Lombard Street and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, or as I like to call them: Boyscout Tex, Tex Murphy PI and Evil Tex, and the path you take is mainly determined by the choices you make in the dialogue, but there is no “Chelsea will remember that” or red, green and blue options, in fact if you didn’t know in advance that there is these three paths, then you would probably never guess that there is alternatives.

PD also has a great variety of puzzles, perhaps the greatest variety I have ever seen in a single game. There is both traditional inventory puzzles (though not of the MacGyver type, where you have to build an an airplane out of an old lawnmower, some bamboo and plastic bags), there is quite a few isolated puzzles of different kinds, there is dialogue puzzles and there is even a maze or two, and a few stealth and timed puzzles. PD even features something as unusual as a store where you can buy stuff you need!

And if all of that wasn’t enough, then PD also has a great story with some great acting that is very suitable for the story, and a lot of hotspots with unique responses for all items. It is almost worth playing the game, just to hear Tex’s comments when you click on different paintings.

If you add the sheer length of the game, the three paths, the dialogues whereof you might only hear a third on a single playthrough, and the unique comments for the many hotspots, then the amount of video and voice recording they must have made for this game is truly remarkable.

So what else can I say to convince you? Did I mention that The Tesla Effect will soon be released, and everybody needs to replay at least one of the Tex games before playing Tesla, and what better place to do it than in the community playthrough?

If the above haven’t convinced you to vote for The Pandora Directive as the next CP, then you are either not a true adventure gamer , you have already replayed it so many times that just the thought of another playthrough makes you sick (which I suppose is technically possible, though not very likely), or you suffer from 1st person game motion sickness (in which case you have a valid excuse).

Have you tried this, chrissie? (the third post in particular)

Becky - 26 February 2014 06:39 AM

I played a couple of hours of The Pandora Directive about a year ago, and found the movement to be very awkward. If there’s an alternate way to move around in the game that’s easier, I’d also be on board for Pandora.

There is unfortunately no alternative to the controls, and I must admit that they are a bit awkward. But once you get used to them, which might take some time, then they aren’t actually that bad.

chrissie - 26 February 2014 06:59 AM

After reading all of that Iznogood, I definitely would have been convinced to vote for the game but unfortunately I suffer from terrible 1st person motion sickness.

Thanks, and I remember you have mentioned this before, which is why I added it as a valid excuse as there really isn’t anything to do about it.