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I always enjoyed how incredibly passive-aggressive Lord Azure is when he thanks you.
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Jan 7, 2021 13:23
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The uh, druids' robe colours are kind of unfortunately skin-like. For a moment I was worried you'd accidentally booted up Leisure Suit Larry instead. 
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Jan 7, 2021 15:32
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DoubleNegative posted:
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Jan 7, 2021 16:47
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That "three roses laid upon the bower" poem has been bouncing around the back of my mind since childhood. I'm glad you're back to finish this off!
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I'm pretty iffy on scenes in adventure games that kill you for walking into them. Obviously you're supposed to save early, save often, but it still feels like a cheap shot.
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Jan 7, 2021 22:51
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DoubleNegative posted:
And then Jollo immediately agrees he could easily swipe the lamp, just not get away with it undetected. So one has to wonder how many times Alhazred's pants have gone missing under mysterious circumstances...
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Jan 8, 2021 21:21
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Psion posted:And then Jollo immediately agrees he could easily swipe the lamp, just not get away with it undetected. So one has to wonder how many times Alhazred's pants have gone missing under mysterious circumstances... Richard Kind IS Jollo the Clown IN King’s Quest XXIII: The Road Less Trousered
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Bregor posted:Richard Kind 
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Jan 9, 2021 15:23
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IIRC, there's even a little animation of the Beast looking into the magic mirror during that first conversation with Alexander.
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Nice wig, Beasty
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Jan 9, 2021 19:49
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Will there be a sidebar to talk about the short ending somewhere?
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I remember playing this game when I was younger, though I don't remember if I ever actually beat it. I can sort of remember what comes next, but not the ending. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember trying to touch the red roses around Belle's house causes a death. It's the "magic" she speaks of in the line about the roses being the only magic she'll ever see.
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Quackles posted:Will there be a sidebar to talk about the short ending somewhere? I've actually already gone over most of the changes: namely the short ending involves playing hide and seek in the castle. Otherwise, it's just the exact same as the long ending we'll be seeing in a few weeks, but not as complete. InwardChaos posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember trying to touch the red roses around Belle's house causes a death. It's the "magic" she speaks of in the line about the roses being the only magic she'll ever see. It sounds like something that would be possible, but when I tried just now I wasn't able to get cause the death. Trying to use the roses just gets the line "Alexander hasn't been invited to pick the family's roses." Though I did manage to cause the background music from the town, the nightingale tree, and Beauty's house to all play on top of each other. ...Somehow. DoubleNegative fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Jan 9, 2021 |
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Jan 9, 2021 22:17
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The maiden's clothes thing really confused my younger self. I didn't realize that you didn't even need them. In an adventure game. The genre where you take anything not nailed down.
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Outpost22 posted:The maiden's clothes thing really confused my younger self. I didn't realize that you didn't even need them. In an adventure game. The genre where you take anything not nailed down. Not sure you're correct there. They're useful in both paths in different ways if I recall correctly.
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Jan 11, 2021 14:31
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It's also extremely generous that the game gives you two gulps of the "DRINK ME" bottle. I feel like previous games you'd drink the whole thing once, have to noodle it out, then re-load a save before you chugged it the first time. Also I can't wait for the long ending content 
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Bregor posted:It's also extremely generous that the game gives you two gulps of the "DRINK ME" bottle. I feel like previous games you'd drink the whole thing once, have to noodle it out, then re-load a save before you chugged it the first time. King’s Quest V did just that with the brass bottle kill, expecting you to know to use it to get rid of the witch in the forest to proceed after you killed yourself with it.
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Bregor posted:It's also extremely generous that the game gives you two gulps of the "DRINK ME" bottle. I feel like previous games you'd drink the whole thing once, have to noodle it out, then re-load a save before you chugged it the first time. Yeah, the genie's bottle in King's Quest 5 only lets you know what it does by having you use it and die. A lot of items are like that in KQ5, or the game lets you use them in the wrong place, and it's just downright evil.
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DoubleNegative posted:Alex will fill the lamp to the brim with fountain water every time, so it has to be done last. And if you hosed up and used the sacred water and the fountain before tears? Then you are locked out of the long ending path. I don't believe this is true. I've tried to get the fountain water early at least once, hoping to save some time, but the narrator says that the lamp isn't ready for the fountain water yet and nothing happens.
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Is this where you're also supposed to figure out which lamp belongs to the genie?
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Outpost22 posted:Is this where you're also supposed to figure out which lamp belongs to the genie? Yup. It's a good thing Prince Alexander has cutscene vision or he'd be hosed.
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Straight White Shark posted:Yup. It's a good thing Prince Alexander has cutscene vision or he'd be hosed.
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I think the closest it ever got was The King's Quest Companion novelizing the game; Alexander noticed a particularly beautiful blue cut-glass bottle sitting on Alhazred's desk as he was being escorted out of the Castle of the Crown post-audience. Which is still better than explaining how the hell you were supposed to know "put bridle on snake" back in the King's Quest II era.
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Nidoking posted:I don't believe this is true. I've tried to get the fountain water early at least once, hoping to save some time, but the narrator says that the lamp isn't ready for the fountain water yet and nothing happens. The text rip I was using had multiple failure states for filling the lamp with the fountain water first. 
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Snorb posted:Which is still better than explaining how the hell you were supposed to know "put bridle on snake" back in the King's Quest II era. Magical talking snake needs a magical item? My parents never found that out and were forced to shuffle slowly through the poison tree path on Dracula's island.
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I don't normally obsess over grammar but this is one of those mistakes that really gets under my skin, for some reason. E'er is the poetic shortening of "ever", Ere is a poetic way of saying "before".
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Sage Grimm posted:Magical talking snake needs a magical item? Which sucked but was ultimately doable. My father had made it through for us before I figured out how to find walkthroughs.
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So I played this as a kid, and eventually had to rely on a walk through book (I think it came with the game, had a cool red filter thing to hide the answers.) I did not realise at all that there were two paths, and I'm desperately trying to remember which path I took.
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tarbrush posted:So I played this as a kid, and eventually had to rely on a walk through book (I think it came with the game, had a cool red filter thing to hide the answers.) I did not realise at all that there were two paths, and I'm desperately trying to remember which path I took. The next section is extremely memorable and 100% exclusive to the long path, so it should be easy to figure out depending on whether or not you recognize the next few updates.
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It's actually kind of wild how much the two paths differ. They both come together to the same end, but there's so much potentially skippable content and I've never seen another adventure game try this kind of storytelling. Except maybe for the Quest for Glory games, but they're designed around the idea of diverging character builds, so they have to write alternatives to accommodate your playstyle.
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I wish more adventure games had done stuff like this.
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I remember the flying horse sequence was quite memorable back in the day, it's nice to see it still holds up pretty well. So does 6 in general - sure I knew it was good and I liked it but I haven't thought about it outside this thread in years and, well, still does just fine.
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Hmm I guess you do need the maidens clothes in the long path, just not as a disguise. Or maybe Alexander is in to that sort of thing, I won't kink shame. Now that I think about it, didn't Roger Wilco also dress in women's clothes in the Space Quest game that came out around this games release?
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Outpost22 posted:Now that I think about it, didn't Roger Wilco also dress in women's clothes in the Space Quest game that came out around this games release? That was Space Quest IV, and it was about a year and a half before this game. Space Quest V was half a year after this.
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Yeah, he had to wear a dress to fool an ATM camera in Space Quest IV so he could steal a bunch of money from a debit card. (It's... complicated.)
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