Guess that Adventure Game

[dark-daventry]

Tender Loving Care!

Next....

1) It's an adaptation. It's also a sequel of sorts.
2) There's a sort of connection with a recent game by a very renown author.
3) There were only 3 adventure games made by this company.

I feel like I should know this one, but I don't...

[MikPal]

Sorry, I have to do some explaining:

Tender Loving Care.

The designer who was making a comeback was Rob Landeros with the recent resurrection of Trilobyte. The live-action sequences were directed by David Wheeler, who had worked with Landeros in The 11th Hour and Clandestiny. A CD-version was released for Windows in 1998, but a DVD-version of it has also been released. So it wasn't released on a console, but you can play it on a modern console like a DVD. Throughout the game you are asked to partake in TATs or Thematic Apperception Tests.

And I gave the tagline away as the very first hint.

(Posted on: 16-04-2011, 21:49:50)

1) It's an adaptation. It's also a sequel of sorts.
2) There's a sort of connection with a recent game by a very renown author.
3) There were only 3 adventure games made by this company.

Return of the Phantom?

It's a sequel to the Phantom of the Opera,  it was written by Raymond Benson, the Bond guy and made by MicroProse (Dragonsphere, Rex Nebular). I had the demo when I was a kid.

[dark-daventry]

Sorry, I have to do some explaining:

Tender Loving Care.

The designer who was making a comeback was Rob Landeros with the recent resurrection of Trilobyte. The live-action sequences were directed by David Wheeler, who had worked with Landeros in The 11th Hour and Clandestiny. A CD-version was released for Windows in 1998, but a DVD-version of it has also been released. So it wasn't released on a console, but you can play it on a modern console like a DVD. Throughout the game you are asked to partake in TATs or Thematic Apperception Tests.

And I gave the tagline away as the very first hint.

(Posted on: 16-04-2011, 21:49:50)

1) It's an adaptation. It's also a sequel of sorts.
2) There's a sort of connection with a recent game by a very renown author.
3) There were only 3 adventure games made by this company.

Return of the Phantom?

It's a sequel to the Phantom of the Opera,  it was written by Raymond Benson, the Bond guy and made by MicroProse (Dragonsphere, Rex Nebular). I had the demo when I was a kid.

The Bond guy? you mean Ian Fleming?

[MikPal]

The Bond guy? you mean Ian Fleming?

No, I mean Raymond Benson. He was the official Bond-author after John Gardner.

[dark-daventry]

The Bond guy? you mean Ian Fleming?

No, I mean Raymond Benson. He was the official Bond-author after John Gardner.

Wait, there are bond books *after* Ian Fleming died? Seriously, I had no idea. That's honestly news to me; are they any good?

[MikPal]

Wait, there are bond books *after* Ian Fleming died? Seriously, I had no idea. That's honestly news to me; are they any good?

Don't know if they're any good, but there have been over 20 books released after Fleming died. Rautaa pitää takoa kun se on kuuma (You gotta forge the iron while it's hot), you know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_novels#Post-Fleming_James_Bond_novels

[Cez]

Yes.

I gotta make my clues harder! The connection is actually to Jane Jensen's Gray Matter with David Style's mask.

I guess I shouldn't have said *author* but *game designer* She's an author, too, but renown as a Game Designer.

[MikPal]

The connection is actually to Jane Jensen's Gray Matter with David Style's mask.

Didn't know about that. I thought it had something to do with the fact that Benson had written with John Milius a novel that serves as a prequel to Homefront.

But I give my turn back to you, Cez. Make it hard!! (No pun intended)

[drunkenmonkey]

Nobody's posted  in a while, I have one, if I may.

1. Futuristic setting.
2. Robot buddy.
3. Main character has amnesia.

[glottal]

Beneath a Steel Sky?

[drunkenmonkey]

Nope, might as well get that out of the way.

[glottal]

Thought not, while #1 and #2 match, I was pretty sure that there wasn't amenesia in that game.

Hmmm, is there an adventure game with a robot buddy but a setting that is not futuristic at all? Maybe something from the steampunk genre...

[drunkenmonkey]

Yeah I guess it's cyberpunk genre. There was a sequel but it never did the original justice.

[glottal]

Syberia

(spontaneous guess just based on it being cyberpunk and having a sequel)

[drunkenmonkey]

Nope.

[glottal]

I don't think it's Planetfall, even though I know that a robot shows up eventually (I've only played through the beginning of the game), it has a sequel, because I the character doesn't seem to have amnesia at all.

Okay, I'll guess anyway.  Planetfall.

[Delling]

Woodruff and the Schnibble? I think I remember hearing it had a rather unsuccessful sequel... *shrugs*

[drunkenmonkey]

Was there? I don't believe so. I knew woodruff was seen a sequel to the goblins games. There is a goblins 4 game out now actually.

[MikPal]

Snatcher

[drunkenmonkey]

No not snatcher. I haven't played that yet, wanted to try policenauts first.