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itt: unexpected kinos

>> No.9091181

>>9091121
>that part where you have to kill the bum with pure ethanol to steal his money just to make one phone call
quality puzzles

>> No.9091289

Is it really unexpected if you watched someone on YouTube playing it first

>> No.9091305

>>9091121
The game feels like someone legitimately tried to make a somewhat comedic game based on British policing. Still mediocre but you can tell heart was put into it.

>> No.9091310

The usual weird German outlook on pnc fare that is now a meme after YT consumption. Pass

>> No.9091313

>>9091310
This has been a meme longer than Youtube has even existed.

>> No.9091320

>>9091310
>DURRR YOUTUBE VIDEOS MAKE A GAME BAD
begone you simpleton

>> No.9091334

>>9091305
The thing with Mystery of the Druids is that it is basically an adventure game parody, but its humor is bone dry and it plays itself WAY too straight for most people to realize it's actually being comedic. It's not surprising at all to find out that it was developed in germany.

>> No.9091346

>>9091334
>its humor is bone dry
It's hard to emulate British humor, we're ridiculously sarcastic but we're also very deadpan and subtle about it.

>> No.9091351

>>9091334
>>9091346
Main problem is that the adventure game genre is already filled with ridiculous situations and madman logic. So it is kind of hard to parody. You're essentially doing what is standard, just slightly weirder.

>> No.9091360

>>9091346
>did you put me popazowiebingbongs in the bin?
>oh sorry love thought they were expired
>ah that's that then

>> No.9091361

>>9091305
It was made by Germans so maybe it was just them taking the piss

>> No.9091370

>>9091334
The German part might also be why everyone's voice direction feels "off"

>> No.9091372

The most notable thing about this game is because no one could get it running on modern systems for so long prior to the GOG release, there was all this lore surrounding what the game was supposedly about. I remember the days of "there are no druids"

>> No.9091393

>>9091372
I bought it on Steam for dirt cheap and found that even today, you still can't play the Steam release without an old PC.

>> No.9091397

>>9091121
the fuckin theme song man

>> No.9091410

>>9091351
>So it is kind of hard to parody
Excessive lampshade hanging works.

>> No.9092428

>>9091121
Why does this immediately remind me of spinal tap?

>> No.9092530

kino and soul posters should get the rope. i hate your fucking lazy posts.

>> No.9092563

>the boxart is a meme for ages and the actual content of the game is a >mystery for the longest time
>someone posts a fake summary of how crazy the game is on /v/
>for years this is the most that people think they know about the game
>when people see an actual playthrough of the game it's more insane than the fake summary
Absolute legend

>> No.9092632

>>9091310
>is now a meme after YT consumption
the absolute newness of (You)

>> No.9092670

>>9091372
>>9092563
The fake summary is pretty accurate until the twist. It's likely anon just misremembered things and wasn't trying to bullshit.
Then again it's equally likely anon WAS bullshitting to add to the mystery of the meme.

>> No.9093521

>>9092563
>>9092670
what was the fake summary?

>> No.9093526

>>9092530
This. All critique goes out of the window. It's just kino or not kino. Fucking brainlet posts.

>> No.9093545

>>9092530
cringe

>>9093526
based

>> No.9093567

>>9091310
why does /vr/ assume everyone watches youtube or knows who your favourite youtubers are? i don't think i've watched videos related to video games in over a decade

>> No.9093690
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9093690

>>9091121
really simplistic/satisfying game with a cool and comfy early gamecube aesthetic
Its pretty damn slow though, I'd maybe recommend binding speedup to a button on your controller.

>> No.9095340

>>9092670
I don't know how you misremember something like "druids are vital to the entire narrative"

>> No.9095351

>>9091370
>pitza

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9096369

>>9091372
>>9091393
Honestly I don't know what kind of fucking black magic the slavs at GOG did to get this shit working on modern hardware when no one else could. Did they rewrite half the code or something?

>> No.9096720
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9096720

>>9093521
Not him but 1d4chan saved a copy of it

>> No.9096726

>>9096369
Probably just added a launcher that's compatible with newer Windows. Steam versions of old games do exactly zero work to get them to run, so many simply don't.

>> No.9096734

>>9091181
>kill the bum

He's explicitly said to be alive, and him ratting on Hannigan is why he gets into trouble. All this over some change for a payphone btw.

>> No.9096746

>>9096720
It's wierd how literally everything is accurate until the final post

>> No.9096758

>>9096720
I think Anon was confused about the ending. I think he's thinking that the time travel meant that the druids stopped existing. People misunderstood that to mean that there's no druids in the game, despite the write-up explicitly talking aobut time traveling to them.

>> No.9096772

>>9096758
What actually happens is that Serstan inadvertently created a geas (a celtic spell whereby you are bound to an oath that the price for breaking is death) by swearing that no harm can ever come to Melanie or Halligan that's in relation to him. When Halligan stabbed Melanie to interrupt the druid ritual, the geas's oath was broken and thus Serstan in the past was forced to commit ritual suicide. Him dying in the past meant he never enacted the ritual that allowed the 5 children to exist to the present day in the first place so they faded out of existence.

>> No.9096780

>>9096772
Also the entire reason the geas worked in the first place was because Sinclair had Halligan eat the ritual human flesh, meaning Halligan had inadvertently been inducted as a druid and thus when he makes Serstan swear the oath, he actually has the ability to forge a geas between them whether he was aware of it or not.

>> No.9096831

the game being an adventure game parody except it was made by germans and all of it is supposed to be german "humour" explains everything.

also the infamous levitating guy in chair is actually a bug, there's some old let's play or similar that shows him in the chair normally.

>> No.9096841

>>9096831
It was a bug but it's something GOG left in as basically a way of knowing you have a legit GOG copy because other versions wouldn't have it.

>> No.9096852

>>9096772
Who cares about druid immortality bullshit? Dude they found a time machine! Just go back into the past with some AK's and some knowhow and conquor the world.

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