Back when games were actually funny

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Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Jizaboz » Mon Feb 17, 2025 1:43 pm

Oh hey thanks Roody! I haven’t heard of that one yet either and it looks interesting..

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Roody_Yogurt » Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:29 am

Jizaboz wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:25 am Finished Harvester! Man.. that ending(s). Hahaha.

Definitely would recommend using a walkthru for certain areas as you can end up stuck or whatever with exception to the last disk. Do not even look at it past disk 2 (the last hard puzzle involves a steam room. It took a friend coming over and seeing an object for me to click on before I could continue).

The theme in this game is so hard to grasp. Like it points it feels like Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 (I can't even remember if I finished that. Don't think so), then it feels like a Twin Peaks movie, then some awfully scripted Troma movie, then all of a sudden BOOM!! MORTAL KOMBAT LEVEL VIOLENCE. This shit is all over the place which is why I really enjoyed it.

I still don't quite understand why a text parser is included when you can click verbs and never have to type a custom line of text..
I was just thinking how, if you haven't played it, you should definitely check out the game Sanitarium. It's not as depraved as Harvester, but it really goes into some interesting places. I don't think I got around to playing it until like the late 00s and, based on its release date (1998), I remember thinking that its storytelling was very much ahead of its time.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by RealNC » Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:16 am

I'm playing through some weeb JRPGs now. They're not that funny so I'm making them funnier myself:

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Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Roody_Yogurt » Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:40 pm

Well, I'm glad to hear that someone finished it. I don't think I'll ever install it again- not because it offended me so much but because the game design is harsh and it's pretty easy to mess everything up (if I recall correctly), and they did a pretty good job at making it a pretty unpleasant place to poke around in (which is partly the point). Still, I'll always consider it fascinating.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Jizaboz » Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:25 am

Finished Harvester! Man.. that ending(s). Hahaha.

Definitely would recommend using a walkthru for certain areas as you can end up stuck or whatever with exception to the last disk. Do not even look at it past disk 2 (the last hard puzzle involves a steam room. It took a friend coming over and seeing an object for me to click on before I could continue).

The theme in this game is so hard to grasp. Like it points it feels like Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 (I can't even remember if I finished that. Don't think so), then it feels like a Twin Peaks movie, then some awfully scripted Troma movie, then all of a sudden BOOM!! MORTAL KOMBAT LEVEL VIOLENCE. This shit is all over the place which is why I really enjoyed it.

I still don't quite understand why a text parser is included when you can click verbs and never have to type a custom line of text..

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Jizaboz » Sun Dec 01, 2024 7:17 pm

Roody_Yogurt wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:41 pm
Jizaboz wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:12 pm Dude I've never heard of this! I'm going to have to play it as I did enjoy most of Phantasmagoria 1 and 2. The screenshots on the Steam site give me that vibe.
Too bad we didn't discuss this sooner or else I would have thrown in the original CDs to this game with that package I sent you the other year!
I finally got this for less than a dollar from Steam and oh man does it deliver lol. It's weird, gross, and funny as hell. I'm a little stuck about 2 hours in but I plan on sticking with it.

"The House of FLAME" lolol

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Jizaboz » Mon Jul 18, 2022 1:45 am

RealNC wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 1:50 pm I played Observer for about an hour or so. I had to stop playing since it gave me nausea and a headache. I watched a playthrough of it on youtube. It's OK.
ROFL too infected by the Nanophage to enjoy the game.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by pinback » Sun Jul 17, 2022 6:07 pm

RealNC wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 1:50 pm I played Observer for about an hour or so. I had to stop playing since it gave me nausea and a headache.
I had the same reaction to Casual Observer. Ohhhhh shit! OC, you just got PINBACKED ma dude!

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by RealNC » Sun Jul 17, 2022 1:50 pm

I played Observer for about an hour or so. I had to stop playing since it gave me nausea and a headache. I watched a playthrough of it on youtube. It's OK.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Jizaboz » Sun Jul 17, 2022 1:44 pm

Yeah man, >Observer was one of my favorites. I really do wish they would make a sequel to it. My only complaint was that I wanted a bit more freedom of movement and more people to interrogate. Not much of a complaint at all really.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Roody_Yogurt » Sat Jul 16, 2022 9:31 am

I don't remember seeing that game before. The old FMV games have a certain appeal to me as well, although I don't seek them out for fear of learning to hate what I like, ha.

If you haven't played it, I'd recommend the semi-recent game >Observer. It doesn't have FMV, but just the same, it made me feel like some FMV game developers had fallen into a coma in the 90s, only to wake and create the weirdness that is that game. Plus, it's one of Rutger Hauer's final roles.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by RealNC » Sat Jul 16, 2022 7:07 am

I have a soft spot for FMV adventure games with really bad acting. Some people like to play Cyberpunk 2077. Some people like to play God of War. Me, I like to play motherfuckin' SYNNERGIST:

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by RealNC » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:29 am

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by RealNC » Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:28 am

Roody_Yogurt wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:34 am If you like fucked-up-for-fucked-up's sake, you might like the game "Harvester." I never could decide if it was just horrible or if it was brilliantly horrible, and I sort of respect that.
Ooh, FMV adventure. I like those. The worse the acting, the better.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Roody_Yogurt » Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:41 pm

Jizaboz wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:12 pm Dude I've never heard of this! I'm going to have to play it as I did enjoy most of Phantasmagoria 1 and 2. The screenshots on the Steam site give me that vibe.
Too bad we didn't discuss this sooner or else I would have thrown in the original CDs to this game with that package I sent you the other year!

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Jizaboz » Wed Jul 13, 2022 8:12 pm

Roody_Yogurt wrote: Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:34 am If you like fucked-up-for-fucked-up's sake, you might like the game "Harvester." I never could decide if it was just horrible or if it was brilliantly horrible, and I sort of respect that.
Dude I've never heard of this! I'm going to have to play it as I did enjoy most of Phantasmagoria 1 and 2. The screenshots on the Steam site give me that vibe.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by Roody_Yogurt » Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:34 am

If you like fucked-up-for-fucked-up's sake, you might like the game "Harvester." I never could decide if it was just horrible or if it was brilliantly horrible, and I sort of respect that.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by RealNC » Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:47 pm

Yeah, that game (Toonstruck) is kinda fucked up. I love it.

Re: Back when games were actually funny

by RealNC » Tue Jul 12, 2022 10:00 am

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