Related X-Files parts (more about the show's origins and development):
https://www.filfre.net/2024/09/the-truth-is-out-there-part-1...
https://www.filfre.net/2024/09/the-truth-is-out-there-part-2...
The X-Files Game
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#13That was a fantastic read. My best friend back in school had this game and I played it several times during school holiday. As described in the article, it felt like an actual episode of the X-Files. Had an interesting packaging as well because of the 7 CD's it included. If I remember correctly, it did have a showstopper in, not sure if intentional or not. At the very beginning, when the reporter asked you for inform…
I feel like 90s PC games were filled with things like this. Stuff that would be probably day one patches in the following decade, but that (of course) wasn't a thing then. I remember at least two of the Police Quest games having similar breakage, where you just couldn't go forward after putting 20+ hours into the game, because of a choice you made early on.
I think that was fairly common with sierra games, happened a lot less with Lucas ones.
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#14I worked for the game studio as an intern in the lead up to them making this game. They had a few games in the can already that used this kind of game pattern (quantum gate, QG2: vortex) .. while I was around they were producing their own engine to build their next game which eventually became the xfiles. They kept the lights on doing a bunch of random CDROM industry work (cd rom magazines, educational stuff, etc) We did shoot another 'short game' that was a pitch for the xfiles.
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#15Unrelated to the article, what’s the deal with the submitter, who seems to want to give the impression that they’re https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thunderbong cc dang
What do you mean? Maybe they changed their profile since your comment but it just has a .at.hn address which everyone has (at.hn is independently operated outside of yc).
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#16People like to crap all over this game, for a good reason perhaps. But man they absolutely nailed the X-Files atmosphere and aesthetics of the Vancouver era of the show (S1-S5).
Also, RIP Jordan Lee Williams, aka Agent Craig Willmore.
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#17Unrelated to the article, what’s the deal with the submitter, who seems to want to give the impression that they’re https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thunderbong cc dang
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#18That was a fantastic read. My best friend back in school had this game and I played it several times during school holiday. As described in the article, it felt like an actual episode of the X-Files. Had an interesting packaging as well because of the 7 CD's it included. If I remember correctly, it did have a showstopper in, not sure if intentional or not. At the very beginning, when the reporter asked you for inform…
Searching for that bullet in the warehouse was an absolute nightmare during my first playthrough.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like 90s PC games were filled with things like this. Stuff that would be probably day one patches in the following decade, but that (of course) wasn't a thing then. I remember at least two of the Police Quest games having similar breakage, where you just couldn't go forward after putting 20+ hours into the game, because of a choice you made early on.
I think that was fairly common with sierra games, happened a lot less with Lucas ones.
Could almost call it a staple of Sierra games.