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The other issue I encountered probably had more to do with the writing- there was a thing I had to do that was really not intuitive. My strategy of randomly moving the mouse around didn't help me find it in that case. One of the issues I was having was literally not being able to see a thing on the screen that I had to interact with. No need to call (!) friends, or wait to talk to them in school, or find a BBS server (when the internet finally became an accessible thing), or just give up. There were two moments, both unfortunately in the end game, that I needed help with, and this presents the most radical change in 25 years of gaming. Granted, some of these puzzles were a bit illogical and I think some of that stems from the technical limitations of the time. I didn't feel bored, and it was nice figuring out what to do with the random things I'd encounter on each screen. I know Disco Elysium was created mostly in this vein, but obviously it rests on 25 years of the formula being polished.Īnyway, for the most part, it was kind of nice to go back to an old point and click. So I was curious about what it would be like to go back to what's essentially a puzzle game. In any case, through college and afterwards I played primarily on consoles and it was only in the past year that I bought a gaming laptop and then just built a gaming pc. I guess even before that when you had to type everything out. I grew up mostly playing Sierra's point and click adventure games. However the graphics did lead to a couple of issues with gameplay. Considering the game was made a quarter century ago, not bad though. ini file, I was able to get them to look reasonably less pixelated on my 1440p monitor. The graphics.well after a little tweaking to a. Thematically dark but the dialogue is funny in a Douglass Adams sort of way so, lots of puns and innuendo. I was delighted to find that game world and the writing still hold up. Cut to 2020 and I see it on GOG and figured that I might as well give it another go. I originally bought this game during my freshman year of college, played for a bit, but soon found other distractions.
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