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Posted: Sep 14 2007 03:46 pm

When it came out this game was known for its brutal pixelated depictions of horrible crime scenes, but I always loved it for the voice overs.
You play Detective John Carey, and whenever you do anything, John speaks to you about it, the result is a game where it appears that the main chareter is a crazy cop that talks to himself.

"Holster your weapon Detective Carey!"

"You remove the slug from the wall with the putty knife"

"Stop that Detective Carey, people are staring"

"Ahh nothing has a texture quite like stucco"

and my all time favorite, when you click the hand on the Parker Center building

"Who do you think you are, Spider Man?

Seriously, find this game and play it, dont download it off the web you will more than likely get a fucked up version that contains none of the hilarious voice overs, theres a police quest box set that contains all the orriginal games except for the the original parser interface PQ1.

Posted: Sep 14 2007 04:27 pm

Vintage Sierra Cool

Posted: Sep 15 2007 02:07 pm

That looks interesting.

At first, I thought it was more along the lines of Space Quest/Police Academy... which it very well could be... and I'd probably love it.

Posted: Sep 15 2007 05:52 pm

I wanna make an FMV game. Who knows how to program one?

Posted: Sep 16 2007 11:47 am

i had this game back in middle school, and it was pretty creepy at some points. a lot of fun though.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 02:22 pm

I never got this far into the series. I played the original two, which I always though were alot of fun. I think by the time 4 came out, I was probably playing Phantasmagoria 1 & 2. If you can hunt those down, they are both wicked P&C adventures with lots of FMV.

Featuring graphic gore, violence and a rape scene, Pantasmagoria stirred controversy over age restrictions and target audiences in the maturing game industry. It was banned in Australia while CompUSA and other major retailers refused to carry it.

Phantasmagoria 2 was the first computer game to establish the playable character as being bisexual.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 02:32 pm

I think I still have the first Phantasmagoria, but I remember it being really campy and less fun to me than a PQ or LSL game. Maybe I should try and find it and give it another whirl, it's been 10 years or so.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 04:31 pm

The biggest problem with Phantasmogria is that until the final sequence of the game, it is near impossible, if not completely impossible to die. Also, there was the Hint Skull. If you were ever stuck, you could click on the Hint Skull and it would tell you in no uncertain terms what you were supposed to do. It was easily accessible and it was shiny and tempting, so anytime you were even remotely stuck, there was a strong temptation to use it. The first time you get stuck you try and try not to use it, but then you eventually do. And after that it's just click click click.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 04:54 pm

Ha, I do actually remember having to try really hard to trigger any death sequences. And then there was a pretty gruesome one towards the end iirc.

Posted: Sep 16 2007 10:24 pm

Rycona wrote:

That looks interesting.

At first, I thought it was more along the lines of Space Quest/Police Academy... which it very well could be... and I'd probably love it.

well start here http://www.agdinteractive.com/KQ1.php
I coulda sworn theres either software to make these kinds of games here or a link to it somewhere, this remake of KQ was totally independant, and I remember fucking around with the software trying to make a sierra style point and clikc game but I got bored. Sad

The user interface is almost idiot proof, it just gets tedious programming every room and action plus drawing all the back grounds and stuff, I tried to make a simple five room quest to get out of the house and to the corner store to buy beer that looked like PQ1 but it just got boring as hell.

To do the pq4 look I think you have to digitize fimed clips of the walking and other animation that you want.

Seriously the game seems creepy but if you click on everything and listen to what he says its a fucking riot.

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It might interest you Tebor, since you love FMV games, that I just bought Psychic Detective for the PC used. I remember playing it on Playstation, and I had to play it again. Hopefully I can get it to work.

Posted: Sep 19 2007 01:31 am

Cattivo wrote:

It might interest you Tebor, since you love FMV games, that I just bought Psychic Detective for the PC used.

Nice.

And with Resident Evil 4 and even the new Tomb Raiders, is it so hard to make a branching story game in the spirit of "choose your own adventures"? I purposed this awhile ago, but it got shot down because all they had to relate it to were games that stopped to give the player a choice. Now choices could be made in less than a second with many different options. And what better way to explore this concept than through the power of FMV to create a cheesy slasher game.... And eventually this concept demo will be made, I vow it... Rolling Eyes