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Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by ajkjk »

dale_glass wrote: post #3

I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…

Agree that it adult stuff in it but loved that as a kid. I always hated 'kid' content, it felt fake.

Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by worthless-trash »

cousin_it wrote: post #38

> Taken as a game rather than the movie it often seems more interested in being It's interesting how movies today seem to be the "top" art form: there are books, comics, videogames that want to be movies, but never in the other direction. (There are books and games based on movies, but they are clearly secondary.) I wonder if there could be some other art form that would be "above" movies in this sense.

By top i assume you mean most profitable, I guess that movies are simply more accessible and cater to the lowest common denomination.

Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by jrmg »

pornel wrote: post #18

The pre-rendered backgrounds were breathtaking in the 90s, but today the old off-line ray tracing looks worse than what modern games can render (same goes for the original Myst). The remastered version has been released before AI upscaling got interesting. I wonder if a re-remastered version could be made look better.

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Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by rubslopes »

makmanalp wrote: post #27
dale_glass wrote: post #3

I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…

Here's the thing - I remember playing it as a kid and so many things, arguably most of it, went way over my head: the whole travel agent thing and getting ahead in the office, dia de los muertos, the references to noir, the weird but gorgeous mexican art deco combo, I knew nothing about any of it. But I still loved every second of it. It made the world feel very rich and real even if I didn't fully get it, in a way t…

I also played it as a kid and vividly remember that plot about a secret political revolution feeling so cool and new to me. I had never encountered anything like it before.I remember 'Viva la revolución!' becoming a catchphrase for me and a friend at that time.

The sense of sneaking into an adult world, even a fantasy one, might be what made the game feel so special to me.

Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by libraryofbabel »

dale_glass wrote: post #3

I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…

And most of all, the classic movie Casablanca. I played Grim Fandango as a 15 year old kid and I when I eventually saw Casablanca many years later it was like, this feels familiar, why… oh wait!

That said, like others here as a kid I loved the adult culture references even when I didn’t fully get all of them.

Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by [deleted] »

dale_glass wrote: post #3

I think one understated problem Grim Fandango had is that it's too adult. Today "adult" often means "there's sex and/or gore", but the content is still simple and juvenile. But Grim Fandango isn't like that, it's just full of themes that probably confused the heck out of almost every kid that tried to play it. Like the very first chapter throws you right into office politics. You deal with stealing a job from another…

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Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by [deleted] »

tetrisgm wrote: post #5

An excellent game for its time. The remaster is well worth it. One unfortunate aspect of classic games is how dated mechanics can get. It’s a problem that music or movies don’t really have, besides maybe feeling a bit cliché. In the case of Grim Fandango, the tank controls are a bit awkward, some puzzles are actually quite difficult and require logic that would only make sense to a point and click adventure gamer fro…

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Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by ucla_rob »

cousin_it wrote: post #38

> Taken as a game rather than the movie it often seems more interested in being It's interesting how movies today seem to be the "top" art form: there are books, comics, videogames that want to be movies, but never in the other direction. (There are books and games based on movies, but they are clearly secondary.) I wonder if there could be some other art form that would be "above" movies in this sense.

video games revenues are usually 5x those of video games. call movies 40bb per annum mobile games alone are ~100bb.

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Re: Grim Fandango

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Post by katangafor »

tetrisgm wrote: post #5

An excellent game for its time. The remaster is well worth it. One unfortunate aspect of classic games is how dated mechanics can get. It’s a problem that music or movies don’t really have, besides maybe feeling a bit cliché. In the case of Grim Fandango, the tank controls are a bit awkward, some puzzles are actually quite difficult and require logic that would only make sense to a point and click adventure gamer fro…

Yeah it's one of those games that fits the "thinking about grim fandango vs playing grim fandango" memes.

The characters, the writing, and the story are all so incredibly good. I love that game and I actually think about it a lot lol. But those "puzzles" are just inscrutable.

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