Beneath a Steel Sky

Re:Beneath a Steel Sky by asa4akj on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:43AM (#23871738)

Some era adventure games were famous from simply being illogical. It's always nice having to pick up cat hair to make a fake mustache to impersonate someone that does not have a mustache.

A nice 3 page rant from 2000: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

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Re:Beneath a Steel Sky by ratww on Friday July 17, 2020 @11:55AM (#23871881)

GK3 is one of my favourite games ever.

I even took a trip to the city in France where the game takes place purely because of the game.

Not to mention it's also the game where Scott Bilas started experimenting with data-driven workflow that informed his work in Dungeon Siege and influenced Entity-Component-System architecture.

Also, there's not one, but multiple people trying to recreate the engine of the (very unsuccessful) game, more than twenty years after it was released. [1] [2] [3]

...but the cat-hair-mustache puzzle is indeed the lowest point of the genre.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/gk3tools/

[2] https://github.com/kromenak/gengine

[3] https://github.com/shff/GK3-extractor

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Re:Beneath a Steel Sky by nix23 on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:33PM (#23872343)

I love GK3, the only game that gave me a similar feeling was The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief

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Re:Beneath a Steel Sky by ratww on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:41PM (#23872440)

> the only game that gave me a similar feeling was The Raven Legacy of a Master Thief

Just bought it because of your comment. Thank you.

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Re:Beneath a Steel Sky by nix23 on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:58PM (#23872675)

Have fun! It's just great!!

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