Will take any excuse to recommend this album: Sybreed - The Pulse of Awakening

Wait, who downvoted this? 😅 I’m not mad, I’m just curious as to how a link to an interview could make someone go, “Nope, this is trash. To the pit of Hades with you.”

I turn my back for a few weeks and this is the sort of shit you guys get up to? 😜

Well… It works, but a couple of notes (mostly to myself, but, experts, feel free to weigh in) for the future:

• Don’t lead with the “@adventuregames” tag. It’s messy.
• Keep titles short, 'cos it copies the contents of the post as the title.
• Figure out if there’s a way to split title and post content in the Mastodon toot, so the post content isn’t just a copy of the title.
• I can’t edit the post after the fact ('cos my Mastodon user and Lemmy user are, as far as this platform is concerned, two different people), and I’m worried if I edit the toot on Mastodon, it’ll just post a new thread here instead of editing the existing one.

This is a fantastic article. I’m actually working on a 7th Guest/11th Hour retrospective video (probably because I’ve got Stauf on my brain due to our Kickstarter), and this article is pretty much my go-to reference. I haven’t seen a lot of videos touch on the how’s and why’s of those games — YouTubers seem mostly content with just snarking at the hammy acting and the slow node transitions — and I kinda wanna make a video that explains why that is… while also snarking at the hammy acting and slow node transitions. 😁

I love Ross’ videos. And he hit the nail right on the head: For all its flaws (few and far between), Kyrandia 2 does what a fantasy game should do: make you wish you could actually go there yourself.

Ahhh, that was it! The community language was only set to “English.” I have set it to both English and Undetermined, as you suggested, and now it works! Cheers so much!!! 😂❤️❤️❤️

Testing, testing…

A lot of people really hold this one in very high regard. Unfortunately, with regards to a rerelease, the rights situation is a tangled spiderweb of immense proportions.

Somehow my friend from school had gotten wind of the “bye bye wizard” cheat code, and we STILL couldn’t get anywhere in the game. I’ll take falling off a space station to my death, thanks. 😂

I didn’t play it until a couple of years ago when I did my video on it. I imagine I would have had a lot more fun with it if I was a kid and had all the time in the world to explore the world. Sadly, my first KQ game was KQ3, which stopped you from having any fun every 2-3 minutes with the sudden appearance of a bossy wizard.

The original King’s Quest — as in PC Jr, or the DOS conversion? Either way, I would imagine KQ1 kept you guys busy for a loooooong time.