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Zaroff posted:Well that was an ending! Susarro was killed, Petra got away and George, Nico and Bruno stopped the machine. They probably went to the pub.
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Broken Sword 4 is installed and I thought that I was going to have a horror story with compatibility after reading through some of the common issues with trying to play it on more modern-day machines. The game seems to be working fine, I'll get around to starting it within the next couple of weeks.
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 Let's Play: Broken Sword - The Angel Of Death When a mysterious and beautiful woman rushes into George Stobbart’s office, pleading for help, he cannot know that he will be inextricably drawn into terrifying conspiracy, and a desperate search for a nefarious artifact of great and terrible power. For George, it looks like the world needs saving. Again. 
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Sep 30, 2022 10:57
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Holy cow that comment at 21:42, George!
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Oct 1, 2022 06:58
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Samovar posted:Holy cow that comment at 21:42, George! I've just completed a test run for the next update, it seems like stories about horrific deaths are going to be a common theme.
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Oct 2, 2022 23:13
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 George and Anna Maria have reached the hotel but they're not out of danger just yet.
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Oct 3, 2022 11:17
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George's anecdotes about his life reminds me of Ellis from L4D2.
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 A fairly short update, this is the second half of our time in Hotel Alfonso. This game really hasn't aged well, in order to play the game initially without it being a juddering mess I had to change the compatibility as well as adjust a couple of settings in the config files. That seemed to work for the first couple of updates but with this update, the performance level dropped dramatically and I've had to make even more changes to try and smooth things out. I may have to do some more digging around under the hood if things don't improve. Samovar posted:George's anecdotes about his life reminds me of Ellis from L4D2. I don't think that I have ever played this. I remember getting this for free on one of the rare occasions where Steam gave games away.
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Juanita don't get all thirsty for George, he's kind of a moron. Also that cop is going above and beyond the call of duty in being a dickhead, yes officer i'll be sure to leave any kidnap victims to languish when I could help.
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Oct 6, 2022 04:32
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I’m kinda impressed Juanita knew to write the door code on the paper rather than something like Help!
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By popular demand posted:Juanita don't get all thirsty for George, he's kind of a moron. In other words, a realistic depiction of a NYPD officer?
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Oct 7, 2022 05:52
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I'd love to know Mr. Alfonso's background and how he has that accent but he still uses words like 'tannoy'. It does seem like as he's gotten older, George is more cognizant of his own moral failings at least a tiny bit. Not sure if that affected his decision to get out of patent law and into a more honest profession like running a bail bond service (though possibly he's become a criminal defense attorney who offers bail; it's hard to tell).
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Oct 7, 2022 23:51
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Zaroff posted:I’m kinda impressed Juanita knew to write the door code on the paper rather than something like Help! I'm more impressed she was able to write anything legible with her hands tied beneath her legs like that.
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I've just pushed a dumpster and the game has completely locked up. George is just staring into space, animations are still happening but the controls aren't working at all.Samovar posted:I'm more impressed she was able to write anything legible with her hands tied beneath her legs like that. 
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Oct 8, 2022 23:26
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Enabling windowed mode was the fix. Turning down the graphics was also mentioned but it didn't do anything, it didn't do anything for the performance issues either.
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 In this video, George goes to see a man about his "Special Salami". I've been suffering from a bad cold this past week and I'm still recovering from it so I will sound a little different in this recording. I should warn you that we are at a meat packing factory and there is some imagery of dead animals in this game, nothing gory but I know that this is something that some people will still be sensitive about. I also give a vocal warning at some point as there is something else that isn't gory, but some people will still be sensitive about that as well. Kangra posted:I'd love to know Mr. Alfonso's background and how he has that accent but he still uses words like 'tannoy'. Tannoy is still a pretty common term in England, at least where I live. George definitely seems to have calmed down a little, hopefully seeing Nico in the last game made him realise that he had some more growing up to do.
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Oct 14, 2022 07:22
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George finds salami spicy? Jesus, I knew he were from the mid-West, but get a hold of yourself, boy!
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People often find my salami too spicy I should go see the doctor.
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Oct 14, 2022 19:04
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I’m sure there’s an alternate take somewhere where George pushes the cabinet into the bonecrusher, it grinds open the door and the manuscript and precious MP3 player get ground to shreds…
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Well, so far this game is feeling a lot more Max Payne than Broken Sword to me. But hey, I'm still interested to see where it goes.
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 This segment was initially going to be very short but I didn't factor in all of the reading time. While George and Anna Maria examine the manuscript more carefully in an attempt to decipher its contents, George also tries to repair his friendship with Virgil. If you want to skip the reading on screen and\or would prefer to read the images in full off screen you can find a link to the pages edited together here: https://imgur.com/a/3sDajOS. I have put timestamps in the description if you want to skip past the reading sections in the video, the end of the first reading segment is around 23:20 and the end of the second is around 27:35. Samovar posted:George finds salami spicy? Jesus, I knew he were from the mid-West, but get a hold of yourself, boy! I know people in England who would find salami too spicy. By popular demand posted:People often find my salami too spicy Speak to Virgil, he might put in a good word. Zaroff posted:I’m sure there’s an alternate take somewhere where George pushes the cabinet into the bonecrusher, it grinds open the door and the manuscript and precious MP3 player get ground to shreds… I can't remember seeing anything about that but if you can find something I'd be interested. Crazy Achmed posted:Well, so far this game is feeling a lot more Max Payne than Broken Sword to me. But hey, I'm still interested to see where it goes. I can only remember the first Max Payne so this is a little over my head. Graphics or mechanically?
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I can't remember seeing anything about that but if you can find something I'd be interested. Sorry - that’s just my facetiousness coming out about how lucky George was to push the filing cabinet and have the manuscript nicely fall out to the ground rather than into the grinder 
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Crazy Achmed posted:Well, so far this game is feeling a lot more Max Payne than Broken Sword to me. But hey, I'm still interested to see where it goes. In... What way?!
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Rocket Baby Dolls posted:I can only remember the first Max Payne so this is a little over my head. Graphics or mechanically? This one so far has been constrained to a gloomy downtown setting at night, tons of browns in the colour pallette, and has a very pulp noir sort of feel - the killer dame bringing trouble behind her into our dingy downtown office, mob thugs chasing us through abandoned slums, dingy hotels, and a mob-run slaughterhouse. Contrast this to the first few games, which had relatively bright and colourful graphics, and plenty of jet-setting between varied locales, ancient temples and cathedrals and the like. I'm sure it'll branch out as we get past the first act, though.
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There's also the fact the humor took quite a turn to the morbid.
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Ok, I get it with THAT explanation. I was scared I was going crazy for a second.
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 In this video, George and Anna Maria visit Istanbul where things are awkward from the very start. The last update was only a couple of days ago but I'll be busy over the next few days due to the school holidays so I'm not sure when the next update will happen exactly. There was another area where the game has a tendency to lock up but I managed to find a workaround that works about 50% of the time.
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 This is the second half of George and Anna-Maria's jaunt to Topkapi Palace. The game was running so badly yesterday that I was starting to panic. The slowdown was the worst that I had seen so far, it was so bad that parts of the game were constantly catching up with other parts of the game. Today? Everything has been running more smoothly than ever!
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This update: some puzzles then And George didn't even have to crawl in sewage this time!
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By popular demand posted:And George didn't even have to crawl in sewage this time! Are you talking about Topkapi or about what happened afterwards?
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I'm just referring to the time (second game?) George had to swim in polluted water to distract a guard dog. Adventure game protagonists have a tendency to get dirty in the least fun usage of the term.
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By popular demand posted:I'm just referring to the time (second game?) George had to swim in polluted water to distract a guard dog. I was also referring to George getting dirty ...I'll get my coat.
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Yeesh, some of the floor textures in that session were more than a bit iffy...
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 It's the morning after, Anna Maria has slipped into something more comfortable and George has his head
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Nico! It's one thing to disguise oneself as a Nun, but as an Orthodox Nun?! The traditional church in France would not be impressed...
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Samovar posted:Nico! It's one thing to disguise oneself as a Nun, but as an Orthodox Nun?! The traditional church in France would not be impressed... George, I've got a feeling we're not in Paris anymore.
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 George and Nico visit Rome in an effort to catch up to Anna Maria and find out that there's a distinct lack of Italian people in the centre of the biggest city in Italy.
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I guess all the Italians are having their siesta. In some other dimension.
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By popular demand posted:I guess all the Italians are having their siesta. In some other dimension. They could all be in the Vatican to witness Il Papa?
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