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Nominal - 2016-07-25

I was not expecting the twist in the final second.


Nominal - 2016-07-25

but fuck all the Sierra police games though and their horseshit.

"You can't shoot a suspect for any reason short of them pointing a gun directly at you! Your police career is FINISHED!"

"You never approach a traffic stop from the driver's side!"

"You can't just bust in with a SWAT team for no reason! You need ample evidence for a skeptical judge to sign a warrant, an attempt at serving the warrant with a polite door knock, and only THEN can you SWAT the house with plenty of warning to the occupants beforehand!"


Nominal - 2016-07-25

and then this clip. SWAT: the epitome of restraint.


Kabbage - 2016-07-25

Computer, end program.


Bobonne - 2016-07-25

^kabbage


memedumpster - 2016-07-25

Riker's mom successfully retrieved from the holodeck.


chumbucket - 2016-07-25

She only has her live stream troll subscribers to blame.


boner - 2016-07-25

This game took the police quest series to a new level of awful. I bought it not knowing that it's an FMV game, but what's worse is it's near impossible to figure out what you're supposed to do.


Old_Zircon - 2016-07-25

Adventure games really fell apart when FMV hit, after that it was either ugly FMV or ugly fake Disney cel style drawings, all with terrible voice acting.

For me the sweet spot was the early VGA stuff with the digitized, hand painted backgrounds, mouse driven interface but no voice acting, like the floppy releases of Gabriel Knight/Monkey Island/even King's Quest 5 & 6.

CD-roms killed it, all of the worst adventure games I can think of were the ones that fully took advantage of the new ability to make heir games look like terrible direct to video movies.


Nominal - 2016-07-25

Dont forget that after awful fmv and awful cel drawings came awful first gen 3D! Gabriel Knight 3, Kings Quest 7, Quest for Glory 5.

The genre was so dead for a while that people were actually convinced The Longest Journey was a masterpiece.


memedumpster - 2016-07-25

No way, that FMV game Heeruwefyfthlhghyer was the BEST!

I really did try and think of one.

I have Shadows of Darkness, which actually still holds up for fun.


Callamon - 2016-07-25

I want to counter with Blazing Dragons.


StanleyPain - 2016-07-25

Personally, I think the bullshit singularity of Police Quest peaked with PQ2. Not only did the game have Sierra's infamous problems with keeping any kind of a consistent tone, but the level of ridiculous anal bullshit it had in an attempt to somehow be "realistic police work" was just ludicrous. Every single time you left you left the police station you had to do this checklist of nonsense just to even start the car practically, but by far and away the most bullshit thing in the entire game, arguably, is that you had to "calibrate" your gun or else you instantly died in any situation where you had to shoot, and once you used the gun ONCE, it had to be calibrated again which the game did not tell you or even hint at so it was literally possible to go through hours of gameplay and puzzle bullshit, get to the end where you have to use your gun on the Death Angel, and fail because you never calibrated your gun again.


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