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The Neverhood Anonymous Mon Jun 22 22:57:03 2015 No.2489141 [Reply] [Original]

With Armikrog getting ready to release, I dug up The Neverhood, which I've never played before, am I in for a wild ride?

Also, general Neverhood thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 22 23:01:22 2015 No.2489154 >>2489141 >am I in for a wild ride? Nah, it's pretty slow paced. I found it a little dull - like a point and click game without a storyline. I know a few people who think it's excellent though, so see what you think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 22 23:03:36 2015 No.2489159 dat fuckin soundtrack

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 22 23:05:15 2015 No.2489164 >>2489154 Huh, I do enjoy good Point'n'click games, so I'll probably enjoy it. >>2489159 I've heard. Can't wait to hear it!

Anonymous Mon Jun 22 23:08:13 2015 No.2489173

It's one of those point and click adventure games where you can't actually die, so you can try everything for laughs. Part simple logic puzzles and part doing the most illogical things possible to get by.

There's also a storyline, but it is mostly background because Klayman is dumb as shit and doesn't understand anything that's going on.

Also remember to jump in the hole at the bottom of the lake bed once you get to that point otherwise you'll have to backtrack half the game for no reason later.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 22 23:12:01 2015 No.2489187 >>2489173 Thanks! Is there anything to see during the backtracking, or is there no reason at all not to jump?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 22 23:20:06 2015 No.2489218 >>2489187 Nothing you won't see the first time through.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 00:33:40 2015 No.2489394 >>2489173 You weren't kidding, Klayman is dumb as dirt! I stopped to go check on something and when I came back he was using his head as a hand puppet!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 00:39:45 2015 No.2489408 >>2489173 >It's one of those point and click adventure games where you can't actually die except one part

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 00:40:32 2015 No.2489412 >>2489141 Never actually played it. I had Skullmonkeys when I was a kid though. I fucking loved that game.

Anonymous Tue Jun 23 15:33:03 2015 No.2490693

I adored this games world and style but even as far as adventure games are concerned it's fairly boring and slow. It's a real shame.
If Armikrog can take the good things from The Neverhood and give them a stronger narrative and better puzzles then it'll be amazing.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 15:41:00 2015 No.2490715 I say it every time.. The soundtrack is the only cd in my car. Also, the game is pretty good without my nostalgia goggles. 10/10 with them on Lastly, save before you jump. Oh, don't forget to eat at least three dot things off the mushroom.

Anonymous Tue Jun 23 16:10:27 2015 No.2490772
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>>2490693
>it's fairly boring and slow

The problem is that it's padded and artificially stretched to hell and back.
The Hall of Records that is mandatory to walk through AND back, the more or less pointless wall car rides, the one-way screen transfers that require you to travel through like a quarter the game to come back, the already solved puzzles you have to redo when passing certain screens like the radio and a lot of other stuff.

That said, it and Skullmonkeys still have some of my favorite soundtracks and game worlds and the claymation is fantastic.

Also, has anyone played this?

Anonymous Tue Jun 23 16:26:22 2015 No.2490789

>>2489141
>am I in for a wild ride?

No, the game is pretty slow paced, but the humour is great, even if a LOT of the puzzles make you feel that it's the game playing you instead of the other way. Like, some of them are pretty overcomplicated. And at least one of them is not a puzzle but a huge "fuck you" (the hall of records).

But the graphics, the music, the humour, and the awesome FMV scenes make up for all of that.

>>2489408
Well to be honest, that one part clearly has the game warning you that YOU WILL DIE.

Anonymous Tue Jun 23 16:56:25 2015 No.2490865

>>2490789
>even if a LOT of the puzzles make you feel that it's the game playing you instead of the other way.
The worst ones are the codes that just have their answer arbitrarily written on a wall somewhere on the other side of the map.
They're not even puzzles, they're just testing your memory.

The hanging string in the nursery activating a doorway in the drained lake area was also ridiculous.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 17:54:10 2015 No.2490976 >>2490715 Yeah, I ate 3 of the mushroom things. That was ridiculous. >>2490772 >Gun hockey. I guess I'll track down a rom and try it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 18:36:02 2015 No.2491048 >>2490976 I always wanted to time it but I'm lazy and was always laughing too much to care during a play through.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 19:46:59 2015 No.2491189 >>2491048 I found a video of it. The final burp is a little over a minute.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 23 23:18:29 2015 No.2491559 >>2490789 Really sounds like it's more fun to watch than play. That's what I got from the little I've played.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 20:20:26 2015 No.2493642 Bump. The hall of records was some grade-A BS

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 20:34:29 2015 No.2493672 >>2489141 Some of the puzzles are a bit batty and overall the rooms have a kind of flash game "the answer is in this room" kind of feel, but the music and visuals rescue it. It's a wild ride imo.

Anonymous Wed Jun 24 20:38:08 2015 No.2493680

Probably only point and click adventure I never looked up anything. Not because the puzzles weren't hard but because I played it with a friend and we forced ourselves to not look anything up, even though some puzzles took forever.

I fucking hate it that I look things up in point and click adventures. I know it's so fucking satisfying if you solve it even if you wasted a million hours on that one puzzle.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 24 20:39:07 2015 No.2493681 >>2493642 Back Story or Bull shit?

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 00:56:53 2015 No.2494142

>>2489173
OP here, Very funny making me jump into the hole.
Good thing I save often.

>>2493681
Both actually.
Great story, but that was one long ass walk.

>>2493680
Same here, but I did have to look up how to get all of the bolts open in the purple cave thing (how was I supposed to know to turn off the basement light?) And the mouse puzzle was insane. I had to get a map for that one and even then it was a mindscrew.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 03:38:37 2015 No.2494331 File: 145 KB, 621x837, A0050538.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Am I the only one on this board that thought this thread was about Boom Bots on ps1?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 04:06:50 2015 No.2494349 File: 56 KB, 560x407, 1349588864818.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2494142 >OP here, Very funny making me jump into the hole.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 11:21:29 2015 No.2494779 File: 101 KB, 580x669, Kermit[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2494142 >OP here friendly tip in the theme of muppet: >why are there so many... >songs about THE COLORS IN rainbows?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 13:27:22 2015 No.2494951 >>2494779 ?

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 13:41:39 2015 No.2494975

>>2490865
A lot of it is revealed through the hint system. However you have to walk back to your starting house for all of that (save before you do it, then load the save after reading the hints, that will cut down your walking time).

>>2491048
We actually timed it back in the 90s, from memory it is either 1:07 minutes or 1:17, I don't fully remember.
The sound effect was the best though, they didn't just make one single long burp effect, they actually mixed together dozens of different ones including vomiting as well ON TOP of a single long burp effect.

Anyone has an animated gif of that scene? Just the looping burp.

Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:02:40 2015 No.2495027

>>2494142
>And the mouse puzzle was insane.

It was actually one of the smartest and easiest ones. The mouse can smell the cheese; it will ALWAYS points its head to the correct hole you need to go into.

The worst puzzle in the game was, in my opinion, the one where you had to input those ten neon light symbols in some order. That one was fucked up. Even if you KNOW what you have to do, it's boring as all hell to input all the figures.

This had to be the only game I've ever played that required pen and paper for many parts.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:11:21 2015 No.2495048 >>2494951 you'll know when you get there, roy.gbiv

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:13:03 2015 No.2495054 >>2495027 >ten neon light symbols the noise that one symbol made (different in each playthough) still haunts my dreams

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 14:29:19 2015 No.2495084 >>2495027 >The mouse can smell the cheese; it will ALWAYS points its head to the correct hole you need to go into Doh! Now I feel stupid! It makes so much more sense now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 25 19:32:20 2015 No.2495896 >>2495027 >The mouse can smell the cheese; it will ALWAYS points its head to the correct hole you need to go into. I only discovered this after mapping out the entire thing hole by hole.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 00:20:20 2015 No.2496478 Why did Klogg want Klaymen to wear the crown?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 12:12:56 2015 No.2497381 >>2495048 Oh! You mean bobby! Right?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 12:28:04 2015 No.2497406 >>2496478 To corrupt him It worked a bit too well.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 13:53:24 2015 No.2497532 >>2497406 I'll say so!

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 13:59:13 2015 No.2497543 File: 20 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2489141 never played neverhood but I have skullmonkeys and played it a lot as a kid. Great game. Can't wait for armikrog.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 26 14:03:21 2015 No.2497549 >>2497543 Speaking of Skullmonkeys, I'm going to play that now that I completed The Neverhood. Any recommendations for Playstation emulators?

Anonymous Fri Jun 26 14:54:40 2015 No.2497620
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>>2497549
I've emulated a few games on EPSXE. I'm a collector though so usually don't emulate. Some games are too damn expensive to justify the price though like tales of destiny and tales of destiny 2.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:16:42 2015 No.2500081 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 27 20:19:42 2015 No.2500084 >>2490772 did klaymen borrow earthworm jim's blaster?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 28 11:13:38 2015 No.2501136 >>2500084 I think so, but I'm still looking for a rom to get a closer look.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 05:10:55 2015 No.2503280 >>2489141 The best and most creative adventure PC game I have ever played. In my top 5 for an eternity.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 05:12:56 2015 No.2503283 >>2500084 The creator of Earthworm Jim and Klaymen is the same person.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 29 09:13:15 2015 No.2503494 >>2500084 Both were Doug Tennapels creations

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