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Started by glottal, March 30, 2011, 11:46:03 PM

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glottal

#520
... and you're looking for one Princess Sabrina, amirite?

Edit: "Some Enchanted Evening" is also not a favourite of mine, even from South Pacific (my favourite South Pacific song is "A Cockeyed Optimist).

Damar

Bingo!  Technically you didn't give the name, but there can be no doubt you got it.

The game is Transylvania, one of the earlier graphic adventure games.  In fact the game I had actually had the option of switching over to text only, just in case you didn't want none of that new-fangled graphic nonsense.  The song Some Enchanted Evening was almost like a copy protection.  A wizard's business card came with the game that told you to sing the song in a specific place.  Nowhere else in the game would give you that clue.  So if you didn't have that card, well you were screwed.

You're up, glottal!

(Oh, and this is an aside regarding a topic from a few pages back.  I was reading Katie's hints about Black Cauldron.  You can only access the realm of the Faire Folk one way in the game depending on how you've played.  If you get Hen Wen to the Faire Folk without her being pignapped, then you access it by the waterfall through the magic word.  If the pig gets taken, you have to save her from the Horned King.  When you do, she runs off, and you see pig footprints by the pond.  That is the trigger that leads you to access the Faire Folk through the whirlpool by jumping to the big rock.  Anyway, back to the game.)

glottal

#522
Alright, next round:

1. Who: an orphan (currently an adult)
2. What: a haunting
3. Where: England

EDIT: Is it time to add more hints?

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glottal

Uh, maybe Gray Matter does fit (I haven't played it yet), so if it does, sorry.  It's not the game I had in mind.

Okay, back to Rodgers and Hammerstein, "The Gentleman is a Dope".  It's not actually in the game (though that would be awesome), but somebody has feelings for the main character similar to the feelings expressed in the song.

Deloria

So there's a love triangle in which a person who is very self-absorbed isn't really interested but still feels scorned because the other person isn't interested? :P
 
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Delling

...and now I have to go listen to "The Gentleman is a Dope" on youtube...

Also, love and polygons is terrible business. (Also, I call "Love and Polygons" as a potential title. You all saw me do it. Now, no one else can take it.)
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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glottal

#528
Quote from: Deloria on June 17, 2011, 06:42:33 AM
So there's a love triangle in which a person who is very self-absorbed isn't really interested but still feels scorned because the other person isn't interested? :P

Not really a love triangle. Okay, it was a bit of a triangle at one point, but one of the corners of the triangle died in a prior game.  However, killing off a corner didn't exactly solve the relationship problem.

EDIT: And a lesson in musical theater logic - the more somebody says they don't love someone, the more madly in love they are with that someone.  I cannot thing of a single exception to this rule.

Deloria

Quote from: glottal on June 17, 2011, 08:09:12 PMHowever, killing off a corner didn't exactly solve the relationship problem.
XD XD But...but...WHY NOT?! :P
 
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Queen of *all* Albion
Précieuse and salonnière! :D
"In cases of doubt about language, it is ordinarily best to consult women."-Vaugelas
Space! :D Extraterrestrium! :D Espace! :D

glottal

Quote from: Deloria on June 18, 2011, 04:09:28 PM
XD XD But...but...WHY NOT?! :P

'Cause the triangle wasn't the main problem in the first place.  The main problem is that the gentleman is an immature dope.

EDIT: I actually have not played the game that I put the clues out for, but one of the main reasons I do want to play it is that I want to see if the main character will become more mature.

Delling

Quote from: glottal on June 18, 2011, 09:36:48 PM
Quote from: Deloria on June 18, 2011, 04:09:28 PM
XD XD But...but...WHY NOT?! :P

'Cause the triangle wasn't the main problem in the first place.  The main problem is that the gentleman is an immature dope.

Alternatively: necromancy.* ;P


*Note: I mean exactly what I said.**
**As in I don't mean "necrophilia".
Noli me tangere! Nescio ubi fuisti!
Don't touch me! I don't know where you've been!

Marquess of Pembroke
Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

http://my.ddo.com/referral/Delling87

glottal

Necromancy ... is not completely out of the question in this game universe, considering that there are immortals running around.

Okay, another clue.  The "gentleman" (that really needs quotation marks) has been involved (if one has a very, VERY broad and loose definition of what "involved" means - seriously, I'm stretching it) with three women, each born on a different continent.

DawsonJ

Is it one of the games listed on this LongPlays site?:

http://www.longplays.org/modules/rmdp/categos.php?id=2

I'm not really good at guessing, but if there's a list that we can choose from...

ATMachine

I almost want to say the game is the never-made Gabriel Knight 4.  :P

glottal

Quote from: ATMachine on June 22, 2011, 11:12:40 PM
I almost want to say the game is the never-made Gabriel Knight 4.  :P

And we have a winner.

Yes, it's Gabriel Knight 4

ATMachine

1) Blonde, later brunette
2) Maiming or drowning
3) Corporate CEO dies horribly

KatieHal

LOL, wait, what? We can do games that don't actually exist now? :P

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glottal

#538
Quote from: KatieHal on June 23, 2011, 10:47:35 AM
LOL, wait, what? We can do games that don't actually exist now? :P

If it is a game which, in spite of not existing, is one of the most discussed non-KQ games in this forum, then yes.

As for the current round, no idea.

EDIT: Also, the game which does not exist has to have some sort of official or semi-official information available (such as an interview with the potential designer) in order have something to base clues on

dark-daventry

doing games which don't exist seems a little weird... There's a reason I love this forum XD
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