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Jun. 12th, 2009 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogIt is late, so my writings will be brief.
I just spent seven hours, give or take, working just about all the way through (I'd already put in an hour or so during the week) a game I picked up at the thrift store last week. It's been a very long time since I've been enmeshed in a fantasy world for such a stretch, and it's been missed. In fact, it makes me happy to know that it's actually not that I've grown away from being able to get lost in a good game; it's just that I haven't found any good, new games.
Anyway, it's a Sierra game from 1993 by the name of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. There are three games in this series, and I played the first one for a while maybe twelve years ago or so? My mom and I both really liked it. I'd been looking for a copy for myself for years. Since before I met![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moiracoon in fact. I found 2 and 3 at Goodwills and Salvation Armys, and I own both of them, but I could never, ever find 1. I was so ecstatic to see it there on the shelf.
I was pretty happy too, to find that there's enough of a cult following that some kind-souled geek out there wrote a whole replacement install routine that makes this Windows 3.11 game run correctly under Windows XP. Blessings upon him or her.
I'm breathing a contented sigh even as I write this. I miss good adventure games with a good plot. I even got a little misty-eyed when...well, I won't write about the plot here. But if anyone local who doesn't mind rather dated graphics and interface would like to borrow it, let me know. Me, I think I'm going to finally move on to number 2, after looking at it sitting on my CD rack for the past two or three years! It looks like someone wrote an installer for that one too!
I linked to the Wikipedia article at first, but I'm not going to do that 'cause it's a little spoilery. But it's a really great game; trust me and the continuing cult following!
Oh, I forgot! If you'd like more reasons to give it a try, the main character is voiced by Tim Curry with a damn sexy bayou accent. Other names providing voices include Michael Dorn and Mark Hamill. The narrator is one Virginia Capers, who has a simply amazing French-Creole drawl that I could listen to for hours. And, well, did!
I just spent seven hours, give or take, working just about all the way through (I'd already put in an hour or so during the week) a game I picked up at the thrift store last week. It's been a very long time since I've been enmeshed in a fantasy world for such a stretch, and it's been missed. In fact, it makes me happy to know that it's actually not that I've grown away from being able to get lost in a good game; it's just that I haven't found any good, new games.
Anyway, it's a Sierra game from 1993 by the name of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. There are three games in this series, and I played the first one for a while maybe twelve years ago or so? My mom and I both really liked it. I'd been looking for a copy for myself for years. Since before I met
moiracoon in fact. I found 2 and 3 at Goodwills and Salvation Armys, and I own both of them, but I could never, ever find 1. I was so ecstatic to see it there on the shelf.I was pretty happy too, to find that there's enough of a cult following that some kind-souled geek out there wrote a whole replacement install routine that makes this Windows 3.11 game run correctly under Windows XP. Blessings upon him or her.
I'm breathing a contented sigh even as I write this. I miss good adventure games with a good plot. I even got a little misty-eyed when...well, I won't write about the plot here. But if anyone local who doesn't mind rather dated graphics and interface would like to borrow it, let me know. Me, I think I'm going to finally move on to number 2, after looking at it sitting on my CD rack for the past two or three years! It looks like someone wrote an installer for that one too!
I linked to the Wikipedia article at first, but I'm not going to do that 'cause it's a little spoilery. But it's a really great game; trust me and the continuing cult following!
Oh, I forgot! If you'd like more reasons to give it a try, the main character is voiced by Tim Curry with a damn sexy bayou accent. Other names providing voices include Michael Dorn and Mark Hamill. The narrator is one Virginia Capers, who has a simply amazing French-Creole drawl that I could listen to for hours. And, well, did!
