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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by silveroriole on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:08PM (#23594985)
I really wish HN had spoiler tags so I could give a warning about why lots of people will find the story disappointing compared to classic adventure games. I guess maybe I can say that if you were ever annoyed by the ending of Monkey Island 2, stay far away from this one.
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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by Trasmatta on Sunday June 21, 2020 @04:13PM (#23595019)
I loved the ending of Monkey Island 2, so maybe I would enjoy this game.
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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by sedatk on Sunday June 21, 2020 @05:09PM (#23595420)
I loved it too. I loved how they connected it to the first game in the ending chapter and all the fourth wall breaks.
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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by talideon on Sunday June 21, 2020 @07:32PM (#23596187)
Too "fourth wall" for you, I'm guessing? I mean the whole game was heavily fourth wall from the beginning.

(That's as close to a non-spoiler as I can get.)

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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by someguyorother on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:22AM (#23598229)
I completely agree. There's a sort of modern sentiment that a reference is funny in itself, and that fourth-wall is funny just by being fourth-wall.

I also had the feeling it was a little too proud of some of its (other) jokes, and wore them out.

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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by silveroriole on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:32AM (#23598821)
In this case it’s not even that modern, since Gilbert was responsible for the MI2 ending. So in the last 30 years he still hasn’t realised that ending with “it was all a dream” isn’t really that clever!
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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by someguyorother on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:36AM (#23599118)
That's part of it, but there's also the part that values shout-outs or references for their own sake. There's much more of that now than there was in MI2's time.
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Re:Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventur... by wolfgke on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:28AM (#23598798)
> I really wish HN had spoiler tags

Use ROT13

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