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Elkatas plays over 40 adventure games. Back to business

elkataselkatas Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Games and Technology
This summer I'm going back to my roots, and try to play through forty different adventure games. During this journey, I will write my thoughts about each game, how game now feels, etc. Furthermore, I'm going to also record my gameplay to video, and put videos up to Youtube. Yup, that means I'm going to record around 80 hours worth of material.

I would also like to put comment track on these videos, but my accent is rather thick, and basically unlistenable. Would anyone of guys be interested doing comment tracks for these videos? I'm covering adventure games from side to side, so I'm pretty sure that one of your favorite games will be covered. I don't want to list games here, because I want to keep my list as a surprise for guys who want to follow my thread. :)

Schedule-wise my first video should be up in 1st of July.

Index

Curse of Enchantia: Summary + Parts 1-3
Curse of Enchantia: Parts 4-6
Curse of Enchantia: Parts 7-10
Dragonsphere: Summary + Parts 1-3

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  • PkErthbndPkErthbnd Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'd love to help out! I'll be out of summer school by then as well, so free time should be plentiful. This sounds like quite the, ah, adventure.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    PkErthbnd wrote: »
    I'd love to help out! I'll be out of summer school by then as well, so free time should be plentiful. This sounds like quite the, ah, adventure.

    Excellent. PM me your favorite adventure games, and I will tell which ones are available. Of course, I could give you random game to comment if you feel adventurous enough. :)

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Only 80 hours? For 40 games? Sounds like a low ball estimate. Are you going by the old school 'lucasarts/sierra' definition of adventure game?

    edit:: if you're divying it up by game, I'll do the leisure suit larry's. (they better be on the list)

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    SageinaRage wrote: »
    Only 80 hours? For 40 games? Sounds like a low ball estimate. Are you going by the old school 'lucasarts/sierra' definition of adventure game?

    Yeah, it is probably low ball estimate. Overall, I believe I can record one game per night. But to answer your second question, no, I'm not going to do only cover Sierra / Lucasarts games. There will be lots of stuff from smaller publishers too.
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    edit:: if you're divying it up by game, I'll do the leisure suit larry's. (they better be on the list)

    There is two of them. It was really hard to decide which ones I should do. Sent PM to you.

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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    So this is basically going to be a series of Let's Play, right? Well, first off I'd recommend at least recording yourself talking and make sure that people can't understand or don't like your accent, because for certain LPers, their accents are what they are best known for. Well, or are at least at awesome.

    That said, I'd probably like to do some commentary for some games, depending on the games I suppose.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Schide wrote: »
    So this is basically going to be a series of Let's Play, right? Well, first off I'd recommend at least recording yourself talking and make sure that people can't understand...

    Believe me, it's bad. In fact, my voice is/was so bad that doctors weren't even sure that would I ever talk so clearly that others could understand my speech. These days my voice is clear, but really grating.
    Schide wrote: »
    That said, I'd probably like to do some commentary for some games, depending on the games I suppose.

    Excellent. PM me your favorite adventure games, and I will tell which ones are available.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    BTW, I'm using full-talkie versions always when it is possible. Some older Sierra adventure games are really, really baad. :)

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  • subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Forty adventure games? Over one summer?

    I'd have trouble playing 40 games over one year. I'd probably be able to really strain myself and manage that in 2-3 years if I didn't bother with much else.

    Seriously, don't you think that's a bit... ambitious? If not outright crazy?

    Or are you not planning on playing them all the way through? Because honestly, spending the amount of time necessary to play all those games over the summer just seems pretty nutty, and I do realise I'm saying this on a gaming forum.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    subedii wrote: »
    Seriously, don't you think that's a bit... ambitious? If not outright crazy?.

    Crazy? Most definetily. But to be honest, I will except this leak to the autumn. Furthermore, most adventure games are short (around 2 hours) if you know what you are doing.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    elkatas wrote: »
    SageinaRage wrote: »
    Only 80 hours? For 40 games? Sounds like a low ball estimate. Are you going by the old school 'lucasarts/sierra' definition of adventure game?

    Yeah, it is probably low ball estimate. Overall, I believe I can record one game per night. But to answer your second question, no, I'm not going to do only cover Sierra / Lucasarts games. There will be lots of stuff from smaller publishers too.

    Right, I just meant in difference from the console styled 'action-adventure' or whatever type games. They're just the two standbys of the genre.

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  • CrazybearCrazybear Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I am a lover of adventure games myself. I don't think I could manage commentary but I wanted to wish you good luck! Sounds like a hell of a summer ya got planned.

    Oh, and I hope Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is on your list. In my opinion, the best damn point-n-click adventure game of all time.

    And I would also like to point you to 5 Days a Stranger and 7 Days A Skeptic. Awesome little adventure games that are free! I would link to them but my work blocks all video game sites....except for Penny Arcade. o_O

    Oh, it looks as if you have your list already, well, if you have not played those two, and if you can manage to play another adventure game after your MEGA run, I would give them a look.

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    After June 25 I'm pretty much super-free, so put me down if we're going to be doing it after that.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Khavall wrote: »
    After June 25 I'm pretty much super-free, so put me down if we're going to be doing it after that.

    Okay. Just send me your favorite adventure games that I will check what are on my list. Or if you want, I can give you one of more obscure adventure games. :)

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  • BurguBurgu Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    So is this just audio commentary of us over you playing?

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  • FilactairFilactair Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Oh hey! You gonna do the Police Quests yeah? This one used to freak me out when I was a kid.

    The ending is awesome though
    You burn a transexual serial-killer with a spray can and a lighter

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Burgu wrote: »
    So is this just audio commentary of us over you playing?

    Yeah. I would really like to hear what you people think about these games. :)

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Filactair wrote: »
    Oh hey! You gonna do the Police Quests yeah?

    Yup, not sure which one though. Either IV or III.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    First video has now been recorded. 39 to go. :)

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  • GeoGeo Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'm not sure what you are expecting from comment tracks, but I'd be willing to help if you need anyone else. The only adventure game I finished was The Dig and 5 Days a Stranger, but I'd rather be surprised by something I havn't played through. I don't particularly mind if it's a good game or a convoluted bad game.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Elkatas, that is awesome. Just curious, but are you going to do Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2? Because those are my two favorite adventure games of all time. :D

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  • BurguBurgu Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I just finished the dig last week.
    Are you going to do Sam and Max? I love that game.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'll help out but I don't know how you plan on doing the commentary. I mean you already made the video so would we record a commentary track as an audio file and just send that to you?

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  • Forever ZefiroForever Zefiro cloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Is one of them going to be Shadowgate? Because I just beat that a couple of nights ago and seriously fuck that game, it's an asshole

    I'd have a few words for that commentary

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I wanna see Below The Root. Do it.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    randombattle wrote: »
    I'll help out but I don't know how you plan on doing the commentary. I mean you already made the video so would we record a commentary track as an audio file and just send that to you?

    Yup, I will give you link to highly compressed, shitty audio quality video file that contains whole run. Because resolution is so small in most games, most videos come around 60 MB after compression. You watch the video and record the commentary. Then you return the commentary in either MP3 or OGG format. Then I edit / add it to final videofile.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    BTW. In which order you would like to see me doing these videos? In chronological order, in order that I originally played them years ago, or in balanced order? With balanced order I will decide order myself so that we don't need to watch too many AGI games in row, for example. :)

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    elkatas wrote: »
    BTW. In which order you would like to see me doing these videos? In chronological order, in order that I originally played them years ago, or in balanced order? With balanced order I will decide order myself so that we don't need to watch too many AGI games in row, for example. :)

    Whatever order you want, I think, since you'll be doing them. I wouldn't want you to get burned out or anything. :)

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    2 done, 38 to go. :)

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  • Big DookieBig Dookie Smells great! DownriverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    This could be fun. I'd love to do commentary for a game I've never played before, just so I could experience it and talk about it with a fresh pair of eyes. Is there a time limit for when we need to get them done once you assign them to us?

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Big Dookie wrote: »
    Is there a time limit for when we need to get them done once you assign them to us?

    I won't set real time limit, but it would be nice to get comment track back within reasonable time.

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  • Big DookieBig Dookie Smells great! DownriverRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    elkatas wrote: »
    Big Dookie wrote: »
    Is there a time limit for when we need to get them done once you assign them to us?

    I won't set real time limit, but it would be nice to get comment track back within reasonable time.
    That's cool. I just didn't want to commit and then have to get the commentary track back to you in like, two days or something. Alright, sign me up.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I need King's Quest fans to comment few unnamed games!

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  • schmadsschmads Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I don't have the time (nor the ability to speak creatively or interestingly at length) to contribute, but I quite look forward to this. There are so many adventure games, and I'm sure that I have missed many of them. Cool idea!

    I dunno what's on your list, but Loom is a fast one that also is a bit unique in it's gameplay mechanics.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Ah, 3 done, 37 to go. This is going faster than I excepted. BTW, I have this wonderful adventure game on the list that doesn't have any saving graces at all. It's one of the worst commercial adventure games ever made. Who wants to comment it? :)

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  • SchideSchide Yeoh! Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    elkatas wrote: »
    Ah, 3 done, 37 to go. This is going faster than I excepted. BTW, I have this wonderful adventure game on the list that doesn't have any saving graces at all. It's one of the worst commercial adventure games ever made. Who wants to comment it? :)

    Oh! Oh! Meeeeeeeeee.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Whew, 4 done, 36 to go. Goddamn DosBox caused out of hunk violation, so I needed to record some parts twice. :|

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  • UselesswarriorUselesswarrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    You need to do a blog about this experiment. In the name of science!

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Uselesswarrior wrote: »
    You need to do a blog about this experiment. In the name of science!

    I will analyze each game when videos goes up. In addition of general summary, I will give each game prize for shittiest and best puzzle. Sierra games will also include most pointless and stupid death.

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  • UselesswarriorUselesswarrior Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    All sierra game deaths are pointless and stupid. Well except the ending half of gabriel knight 1.

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  • elkataselkatas Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Whew, 5 done, 35 to go. This one was short, only 13 minutes. But boy, was it cool back then. :)

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