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Dec. 21st, 2012 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnHello, everybunny.
Unless a hitherto-undetected moon-sized meteorite strikes while I'm sleeping, the world has not come to an end today after all, just like it hasn't the last seventeen times an end date has been provided to us. And nobody with any sense (or indeed rudimentary knowledge of the Mayan calendar) believed it ever would, so there's obviously no need for anyone to make any more far-fetched predictions. Or it could happen on Sunday.
In honour of the occasion, have a brutally indecipherable French DOS game - don't ask me what's going on, I only ever worked out that it was about punching an archaeologist and then driving a jeep over a cliff.
But I mention this particularly because I so clearly remember first reading about it in Horrible Histories (it may have been The Angry Aztecs mentioning the Maya in passing) and thinking how far off and unimaginable a date it was... and now we're here. If you'd told me then just how many things would happen in my life between now and then, I'd never have believed you.
And if you'd mentioned that at this time I'd be so looking forward to reprising the role of a genocidal partridge in a game about dating pigeons, I'd have assumed you were mad.
I'm not entirely sure I'm not.
Unless a hitherto-undetected moon-sized meteorite strikes while I'm sleeping, the world has not come to an end today after all, just like it hasn't the last seventeen times an end date has been provided to us. And nobody with any sense (or indeed rudimentary knowledge of the Mayan calendar) believed it ever would, so there's obviously no need for anyone to make any more far-fetched predictions. Or it could happen on Sunday.
In honour of the occasion, have a brutally indecipherable French DOS game - don't ask me what's going on, I only ever worked out that it was about punching an archaeologist and then driving a jeep over a cliff.
But I mention this particularly because I so clearly remember first reading about it in Horrible Histories (it may have been The Angry Aztecs mentioning the Maya in passing) and thinking how far off and unimaginable a date it was... and now we're here. If you'd told me then just how many things would happen in my life between now and then, I'd never have believed you.
And if you'd mentioned that at this time I'd be so looking forward to reprising the role of a genocidal partridge in a game about dating pigeons, I'd have assumed you were mad.
I'm not entirely sure I'm not.
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*facedesk* ENOUGH ALREADY.
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Date: 2012-12-22 06:23 pm (UTC)Man, someone needs to tell Ronald Weinland to just knock it off, seriously.
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Date: 2012-12-22 03:59 pm (UTC)NAH
NAH NAH
For a happy moment I thought this was going to be another Stumble Through. It was an interesting watch, though. Another inscrutable game from Silmarils, and something of a genre blender, too.
The best way to describe it, for me, is as a cross between Robinson's Requiem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeP6HoJgEco) - another Silmarils game - Lost Dutchman Mine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cCuhpUiN98#t=52s), and Tusker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KTTZgPARBA#t=1m22s) - with an annoyingly loud bit of Test Drive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61HHBCNc63E#t=2m35s) thrown in.
It seems... sadly flawed, but the genre-blending nature of it would have absolutely immersed and fascinated me if I had played this as a child. Something kept me sitting there during disk changes and horrible loading times, and more often than not it was games like these - where it felt like you were really part of the world it was presenting.
By the way, thank you. ;)
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Date: 2012-12-22 07:57 pm (UTC)YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE EATEN BY A LAWYER AT THE CULMINATION OF YOUR TRIAL FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
I second the call for a Stumble Through of this; it would be like an episode of the Magic Roundabout (in the 'making the story up from the pictures on the screen' sense) colliding with Fate of Atlantis. :P
D.F.
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Date: 2012-12-22 09:55 pm (UTC). . . It's. . . true, she is very ugly; looks like she could maybe use a nap. But these are still some of the best graphics dos is capable of.