What Would You Bring on an Adventure Game?

[darthkiwi]

A walkthrough!

[Neonivek]

A walkthrough!

Well thats a time paradox in it of itself

However as Point and clicks have taught me... Walkthroughs and manuals inside the game are really not that helpful

Because you see Darthkiwi the second you are in the "Book reduction effect" comes into being. Then that entire walkthrough is all of a sudden consisting of a single page and that page a single sentence.

[Rosella]

Also, I thought the hyperspace arsenal came standard when you started the adventure.

[Neonivek]

Also, I thought the hyperspace arsenal came standard when you started the adventure.

I've seen some point and clicks where you actually have to obtain your hyperspace Arsenal.

Such as Discworld (You had a very limited inventory otherwise).

[Deloria]

Discworld! I love that game.

[darthkiwi]

Because you see Darthkiwi the second you are in the "Book reduction effect" comes into being. Then that entire walkthrough is all of a sudden consisting of a single page and that page a single sentence.

This sounds interesting but I don't follow. Could you explain how this happens?

I mean, why can't you have a game where you have an inventory item which is called "Walkthrough", which is basically just a pdf walkthrough of the game that you can view in-game?

And it's true that this would be chronologically impossible, but then games themselves are sort of time paradoxes in that they've been designed and constructed entirely outside of their own fictional time - the game designer has planned and played through each section several times over before the game is finished. It would be weird but other forms have done a similar thing - in Red Dwarf the characters find they're fictional characters and discover their writer and his typewriter. There's a section where they write their own script, which has immediate implications for the world around them. Absurd, but there's no reason it can't be done.

[GrahamRocks!]

A hat. For me, probably either an Adventurer's Cap or the black straw trilby I got from New York.

[snabbott]

Because you see Darthkiwi the second you are in the "Book reduction effect" comes into being. Then that entire walkthrough is all of a sudden consisting of a single page and that page a single sentence.

In Space Quest IV, you have to buy a  SQIV hint book.

[Delling]

Because you see Darthkiwi the second you are in the "Book reduction effect" comes into being. Then that entire walkthrough is all of a sudden consisting of a single page and that page a single sentence.

This sounds interesting but I don't follow. Could you explain how this happens?

I mean, why can't you have a game where you have an inventory item which is called "Walkthrough", which is basically just a pdf walkthrough of the game that you can view in-game?

I'm pretty sure Space Quest 4 did that... well, not that exactly... but you did purchase a walkthrough and use it to solve various puzzles.

[Deloria]

Because Sierra wanted to do a symbol puzzle, but couldn't figure out how to implement it into a cogent narrative.