by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Oct 11, 2002 1:21 am
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:If you've finished Fallacy of Dawn, you possibly noticed that there was no "amusing" bit provided at the end of it. I meant to have one, but I couldn't remember how to put one in and, with it being a longish kind of game, I didn't think that anyone would necessarily read it and go, "Ah, I'll play through this again and see those bits I missed" or anything.
So, if you've finished the game, read on. While a lot of attempted-amusing moments came from talking to the other characters (those bits aren't listed in this), here are some things you may have missed:
(Oh -- after each bit below in black there will be a "hidden" bit that you can see if you hi-light the text with your mouse.)
FALLACY OF DAWN
(Text stuff)
Did you ever...
o feel a similarity between the city map of New Haz and that of some other game? 'The right-hand side of the map for Skara Brae in the first Bard's Tale game maps almost square-for-square for the right-hand side of New Haz, including a never-ending Sinister Street equivalent ("Sunset Street" in FoD). Where the Adventurer's Guild is in BT1, the Sushi Bar is in FoD. Similarly, Clara's house is where Garth's Equipment Shoppe is, and the Funtime Mall is where the Wine Cellar Dungeon is in BT1.
o wonder what the street names were named for? They almost all come from video games. 'Boggit' after 'Fungus the Boggit Man' in Knight Orc, 'Erik' after the name of the Prince in The Pawn, 'Duffy' after the police officer in Deadline, 'Rygarr Street' from, er, Rygarr, 'Skarg' from Unreal, 'Konrad' from Fade to Black, 'Holden' from Blade Runner, 'Grand Plaza' from the 'Gran Plaz' in Bard's Tale I, 'Pang Street' after the character Pang from Chicks Dig Jerks, 'Kim Street' after the character Kim Kimberly from Snowball, 'Loome Street' from, er, 'Loom', 'Grotto Street' from Breach II (which had a level called the 'Grisly Grotto,' natch) and of course 'Jaylin' Street after Jalen McKeon from Revenger. Coffman Ave was the only one not based on a game: that is named after a street in Longmont where I was approached by a real-life street dealer selling watches while trying to pick up a pizza. Appropriately gritty, I thought, at the time.
o notice that though there seems to be a Joust game in the game's first graphic, it's not a game that Delarion mentions as being there? >examine joust reveals... 'One of us must be seeing things -- there isn't a Joust game here.' followed by a cyan commentary bit that says 'Wave 8 -- Beware of the "Unbeatable?" Pterodactyl!'
o go back and play the Sega system in Porn's house after getting your head fixed?
'I'm probably supposed to be too busy to play or something, but forget it. I'm playing some Sega!
"Get your game on, Porn, I'm going to put on a clinic in front of my woman as to how good I am with babies. Mainly because -- I'm going to spank you in NHL Powerplay '96 like the Gerber one."
"You talk a lot of shit for a guy who hasn't been able to play so much as Punkirita Quest on a bad mobile phone lately."
"I'm going to talk even more when LaFontaine is dancing around your goal like he owns it. Your only hope at pulling out victory is if the goal counter resets to 0 after I score my 32,768th of the night."
"You know," says Porn, as he turns it on, "you're lucky you're friends with me, because nobody else is liable to know what the fuck you're talking about." He hands me the controller and although I don't quite put on the clinic I purported to, I do manage to eke out a 6-5 victory. We put the game away and get back to business, but not before I get a smile and a little kiss.'
(Er, from Clara, I mean.)
o try looking at the light bulb in the Post Office?
'The poor girl only gets one light bulb for the entire office. It dangles from the ceiling in a slightly symbolically depressing manner. It lights the room in like something out of a dystopian, Orwellian-Kafkaesque literary collaboration.'"
o try following McCormick when he leaves the Music Shop?
He ends up going to the Cock Fights to hide. If following him there, you get to rap with Jalen (the player character from Revenger) for a bit before trying to capture McCormick again.
o try hitting any of the statues in the Hacker Hall of Shame?
o try reading the Monster Manual in Trott's apartment?
'It's too lengthy to read right now -- but I sneak a peak at the picture of the Succubus on page 18. Me-freaking-ow!'
o attempt to look for the Spanish Inquisition after Yar mentions it in the Sushi Place? 'Well, nobody expects it, really.'
o attempt to enter the "small museum commemorating Scotland's World Cup Championship" that Yar mentions on the east end of Holden Street? 'I was only kidding. Scotland will never win a World Cup.' (Yes, that was put there for Lex Gray's benefit.)
(Graphics stuff)
Did you ever...
o take a look inside the refrigerator in the Break Room? (I hope you did, because it was there due to uber-beta-man Greg D'Avis's suggestion. He gets credit for that one.)
o Go back and put any one of the movies into the projector and then start the projector after Delarion's surgery?
o attempt to piss off the bus driver (by trying to hit him, for instance) and then see his visual reaction (this works when Scorez is not on the bus)?
o walk around the halls of the middle floor of the gray building with and without the pistol?
o take a close look at the bar that the robot Hitler was within and identify what (now off-the-air) NBC show it was based on? (For the record, the photo I took was at a Hollywood exhibit in L.A.; it's not a screen cap)
o try looking at the newspaper that the arcade customer drops in the arcade?
o notice that, indeed, Mitchell is in fact wearing a genuine Burn:Cycle t-shirt?
o ...along the same lines, identify the logo on Delarion's shirt? A hint: it's from a website as hardcore about gaming as he is.
o discern the real-world identity of the body in the morgue? It's a post dye-job-days me, actually.
o get Porn's sample business card (via talking to him) in the Sushi Place? The card in question is one of Greg Slemons's photoshopped Fallout perk cards.
o attempt to take a look at Porn's E3 badge? (I changed the lettering around on mine from E3 1998 Atlanta. Poor Porn was exhibits-only as well.)
o identify the posters that Porn has hanging up in his bedroom? Revenger was one, of course, and the only other IF game I could find that had a movie-style poster done for it was Arrival by Stephen Granade. What can I say, but Porn was a big fan.
o notice all the piled-up pizza boxes in Porn's kitchen? In fact that was a picture of <b>my</b> kitchen, and the sheer number of boxes there (er, 15 by my count) wasn't a photoshopped effect at all.
o notice that the text refers to the first edition of the AD&D Monster Manual in Trott's apartment, but that Clara in fact appears to be holding up the third edition?
o take a look at the framed newspaper that Trott has up in his apartment?
o notice the word against the wall for the Doctor's Office? (It's "Duffy" -- that was an image I found on the internet to use. The Office was originally supposed to be on Duffy Street (thus making sense) but I moved it to the Grand Plaza and didn't update the graphic.)
o identify the posters in Delarion's room? (Knight Orc and Mallrats: the quasi-interesting bit is that in reality the room photographed belonged to Aaron Fodge, who played the part of the Doctor in the game.)
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]If you've finished Fallacy of Dawn, you possibly noticed that there was no "amusing" bit provided at the end of it. I meant to have one, but I couldn't remember how to put one in and, with it being a longish kind of game, I didn't think that anyone would necessarily read it and go, "Ah, I'll play through this again and see those bits I missed" or anything.
So, if you've finished the game, read on. While a lot of attempted-amusing moments came from talking to the other characters (those bits aren't listed in this), here are some things you may have missed:
(Oh -- after each bit below in black there will be a "hidden" bit that you can see if you hi-light the text with your mouse.)
FALLACY OF DAWN
(Text stuff)
Did you ever...
o feel a similarity between the city map of New Haz and that of some other game? [color=#000000]'The right-hand side of the map for Skara Brae in the first Bard's Tale game maps almost square-for-square for the right-hand side of New Haz, including a never-ending Sinister Street equivalent ("Sunset Street" in FoD). Where the Adventurer's Guild is in BT1, the Sushi Bar is in FoD. Similarly, Clara's house is where Garth's Equipment Shoppe is, and the Funtime Mall is where the Wine Cellar Dungeon is in BT1.[/color]
o wonder what the street names were named for? [color=#000000]They almost all come from video games. 'Boggit' after 'Fungus the Boggit Man' in Knight Orc, 'Erik' after the name of the Prince in The Pawn, 'Duffy' after the police officer in Deadline, 'Rygarr Street' from, er, Rygarr, 'Skarg' from Unreal, 'Konrad' from Fade to Black, 'Holden' from Blade Runner, 'Grand Plaza' from the 'Gran Plaz' in Bard's Tale I, 'Pang Street' after the character Pang from Chicks Dig Jerks, 'Kim Street' after the character Kim Kimberly from Snowball, 'Loome Street' from, er, 'Loom', 'Grotto Street' from Breach II (which had a level called the 'Grisly Grotto,' natch) and of course 'Jaylin' Street after Jalen McKeon from Revenger. Coffman Ave was the only one not based on a game: that is named after a street in Longmont where I was approached by a real-life street dealer selling watches while trying to pick up a pizza. Appropriately gritty, I thought, at the time.[/color]
o notice that though there seems to be a Joust game in the game's first graphic, it's not a game that Delarion mentions as being there? >examine joust reveals... [color=#000000]'One of us must be seeing things -- there isn't a Joust game here.' followed by a cyan commentary bit that says 'Wave 8 -- Beware of the "Unbeatable?" Pterodactyl!'[/color]
o go back and play the Sega system in Porn's house after getting your head fixed? [color=#000000]
'I'm probably supposed to be too busy to play or something, but forget it. I'm playing some Sega!
"Get your game on, Porn, I'm going to put on a clinic in front of my woman as to how good I am with babies. Mainly because -- I'm going to spank you in NHL Powerplay '96 like the Gerber one."
"You talk a lot of shit for a guy who hasn't been able to play so much as Punkirita Quest on a bad mobile phone lately."
"I'm going to talk even more when LaFontaine is dancing around your goal like he owns it. Your only hope at pulling out victory is if the goal counter resets to 0 after I score my 32,768th of the night."
"You know," says Porn, as he turns it on, "you're lucky you're friends with me, because nobody else is liable to know what the fuck you're talking about." He hands me the controller and although I don't quite put on the clinic I purported to, I do manage to eke out a 6-5 victory. We put the game away and get back to business, but not before I get a smile and a little kiss.'
(Er, from Clara, I mean.)
[/color]
o try looking at the light bulb in the Post Office?[color=#000000]
'The poor girl only gets one light bulb for the entire office. It dangles from the ceiling in a slightly symbolically depressing manner. It lights the room in like something out of a dystopian, Orwellian-Kafkaesque literary collaboration.'"
[/color]
o try following McCormick when he leaves the Music Shop? [color=#000000]
He ends up going to the Cock Fights to hide. If following him there, you get to rap with Jalen (the player character from Revenger) for a bit before trying to capture McCormick again.
[/color]
o try hitting any of the statues in the Hacker Hall of Shame?
o try reading the Monster Manual in Trott's apartment? [color=#000000]
'It's too lengthy to read right now -- but I sneak a peak at the picture of the Succubus on page 18. Me-freaking-ow!'[/color]
o attempt to look for the Spanish Inquisition after Yar mentions it in the Sushi Place? [color=#000000]'Well, nobody expects it, really.'[/color]
o attempt to enter the "small museum commemorating Scotland's World Cup Championship" that Yar mentions on the east end of Holden Street? [color=#000000]'I was only kidding. Scotland will never win a World Cup.' (Yes, that was put there for Lex Gray's benefit.)[/color]
(Graphics stuff)
Did you ever...
o take a look inside the refrigerator in the Break Room? (I hope you did, because it was there due to uber-beta-man Greg D'Avis's suggestion. He gets credit for that one.)
o Go back and put any one of the movies into the projector and then start the projector after Delarion's surgery?
o attempt to piss off the bus driver (by trying to hit him, for instance) and then see his visual reaction (this works when Scorez is not on the bus)?
o walk around the halls of the middle floor of the gray building with and without the pistol?
o take a close look at the bar that the robot Hitler was within and identify what (now off-the-air) NBC show it was based on? (For the record, the photo I took was at a Hollywood exhibit in L.A.; it's not a screen cap)
o try looking at the newspaper that the arcade customer drops in the arcade?
o notice that, indeed, Mitchell is in fact wearing a genuine Burn:Cycle t-shirt?
o ...along the same lines, identify the logo on Delarion's shirt? A hint: it's from a website as hardcore about gaming as he is.
o discern the real-world identity of the body in the morgue? It's a post dye-job-days me, actually.
o get Porn's sample business card (via talking to him) in the Sushi Place? The card in question is one of Greg Slemons's photoshopped Fallout perk cards.
o attempt to take a look at Porn's E3 badge? (I changed the lettering around on mine from E3 1998 Atlanta. Poor Porn was exhibits-only as well.)
o identify the posters that Porn has hanging up in his bedroom? Revenger was one, of course, and the only other IF game I could find that had a movie-style poster done for it was Arrival by Stephen Granade. What can I say, but Porn was a big fan.
o notice all the piled-up pizza boxes in Porn's kitchen? In fact that was a picture of <b>my</b> kitchen, and the sheer number of boxes there (er, 15 by my count) wasn't a photoshopped effect at all.
o notice that the text refers to the first edition of the AD&D Monster Manual in Trott's apartment, but that Clara in fact appears to be holding up the third edition?
o take a look at the framed newspaper that Trott has up in his apartment?
o notice the word against the wall for the Doctor's Office? (It's "Duffy" -- that was an image I found on the internet to use. The Office was originally supposed to be on Duffy Street (thus making sense) but I moved it to the Grand Plaza and didn't update the graphic.)
o identify the posters in Delarion's room? (Knight Orc and Mallrats: the quasi-interesting bit is that in reality the room photographed belonged to Aaron Fodge, who played the part of the Doctor in the game.)[/quote]