11–20 of 75 posts
Fun fact time: The dialogue for all the insults and responses in MI1 was written by Orson Scott Card!
Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)
Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what was answer to what.
Oh, how much fun one miss playing adventure games not speaking english.*
*(TWPFWP - Third World People, First World Problems).
Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even make sense of the sentences. Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what w…
For me there was also the additional challenge of growing up in an ex-Eastern Bloc country where you could find dodgy pirated copies of games more easily than the real thing.
So you'd end up in a situation where you're trying to beat a bootleg Legend of Kyrandia translated to Russian by looking up walkthroughs in English and somehow trying to match up both without knowing either language very well.
Those were the days.
Oh, I had a hard time playing through this part. My english was just basics and with the all the colloquial speech and puns, I just couldn't understand, or even make sense of the sentences. Took me some time to realize I was just supposed to fight through different enemies to gather the right answers and use them on the later battles. And even so I was just trying to match keywords between sentences to realize what w…
And yes, as you've never played Monkey Island: You indeed have to learn the right answers by fighting multiple battles until you're 'trained' enough.
Fun fact time: The dialogue for all the insults and responses in MI1 was written by Orson Scott Card!
Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)
(found through Wikipedia)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? That's really interesting. Do you have any more info/background how it came to be that he wrote them (and only them?)
I don't know anything more than that he was involved with writing the insults in MI1 and had some involvement in several other LucasArts games including the Dig, which I never played.
I'd really love to know the library used to get these lovely pixelated graphics - did this gentleman write his own, or are there mature options out there?
I miss my Amiga. :)