Just finished replaying Her Interactive’s “Nancy Drew: The Curse of Blackmoor Manor.” Yes, I’m a dweeb. Twenty-one-year-olds are probably not supposed to play Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure games. I mean, at least the “Broken Sword” series, right? Well, I like the ND adventures. They are, for the most part, reasonably intuitive, have decent voice acting, good writing, good graphics . . . besides which, who doesn’t think it’s fun to pick through a tangled web of lies and deceit with creepy noises echoing around you?
Anyway, the game held up for a second play. There are only a couple of inordinately annoying puzzles that have you scurrying about as far as you can go in the game’s world to collect information, and there are only two timed pieces that are far from impossible. Second play was four or five hours with a few good doses of dawdling. Still recommended.
Still doesn’t compare to “Runaway: The Dream of the Turtle” (”TDOTT”) from Pendulo Studios. I bought the game this summer and managed to save it until a couple of months ago. That game is a treat. The only pain in the ass is the ending – pure cliffhanger, story’s-not-over, we’re-gonna-have-a-sequel bullshit like the end of “TLJ: Dreamfall” – though it does promise more awesome graphics and hilarious writing/acting from independent Pendulo.
These are still two of my favorite favorite submissions on I Can Has Cheezburger…
- My Grill… The many occasions I have found to reference this particular lolcat boggle the mind. Especially mine.
- T Reck… Yeaaaah, this one just makes me giggle like an idiot. Every time. That’s sad.
Oh, yeah, this is a massive self-authorization to engage in moderate public geekiness. Just in case we didn’t catch on.
After an extended battle with MT (say nine hours between trying to figure out what I wanted to do and the actual battle), I figured out how to force it to accept my layouts. The end result is, of course, this horrible nosebleed of a layout that will make you say, “HOLY GOLDFISH THIS IS THE GIRLIEST GUTPUNCH EVER.”
Enjoy.
I’m certainly not the first to use this one, but it’s something I’ve been using a lot lately… CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.
When you’re making fun innocent but still n00bish n00bs, there’s nothing like a little caps lock, maybe declaring it to fulfill the function we all thought it fulfilled when we were thirteen and drunk off those first experiments with AIM and ICQ and what all. OMG LOL.
Apparently, the kids today don’t even know what “lol” means. I’m of the generation that originated lol, then abandoned it and all other abbreviations in favor of complete sentences, real words, and even the occasional semicolon. Oh, hell yes, I use semicolons on AIM. What if I’m making a complex list but don’t want to have multiple sends (because that would indicate that I welcome response to the parts as well as to the hole)? I’d better use a semicolon.