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No more details? Don’t you have at least some blurry images in your mind or particular scenes? E.g. there are games that I couldn’t remember, one was a quest(?
by wruza 4y ago
No more details? Don’t you have at least some blurry images in your mind or particular scenes?
E.g. there are games that I couldn’t remember, one was a quest(?) in a set of pictures and a submarine, dark tones, mysterious. I remember a full outside view of it and then few screens inside.
Another was a dos game that had a fullscreen map of some galaxy and a cursor in a form of a torn hand. Five blobs below the map were unnamed(?) buttons on a strange panel. One button sent you flying through a “canyon” on a selected planet, which was drawn as a set of simple \_/ planes slightly offset from each other, synthwave style-ish but much simpler. I believe it was an early rogue like, but I was too young and knew no english to understand it.
I don’t get how one can remember something but not have any details except a period of release.
- noduerme 4y agoAlmost sounds like you could be describing Starflight...? https://youtu.be/GaYIk3MIFGI https://youtu.be/GaYIk3MIFGI Check out the map around 15:00 and the planet landing around 16:21.
- nebula8804 4y agoNo that seems more like the DOS era. This was definitely some sort of Win32 application (ie. runs on Windows 95/98 and not DOS) See my comment here for more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33258294 Thanks for the suggestion though!
- actionfromafar 4y agoI think that would be "Captain Blood" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ryVEM6Ses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ryVEM6Ses
- wruza 4y agoOmg, thank you so much!
- nebula8804 4y agoGlad you found the game you were looking for. Funny enough the sequel to this game was also purchased by me at the same store around the same time (Caldor) Commander Blood: https://youtu.be/e9nOYM6nSXo?t=39 https://youtu.be/e9nOYM6nSXo?t=39 With an intro like that I could NEVER forget this one. That and the fact that this game did not crash constantly like my missing game did lol. Too bad it didn't sell well, those French dev create the most unique stuff but sometimes it is too unique for the mainstream.
- maxden 4y agoWow.. that soundtrack is distinctive! Off to listen to Oxygène.
- nebula8804 4y agoI cannot edit my original post but your comment and others have gotten me to clarify one thing. The graphical style is reminiscent of 90s CGI rendered images. Example: https://i.imgur.com/YknNA31.png https://i.imgur.com/YknNA31.png Honestly I cannot remember scenes correctly. It was super unique to me at the time but the constant crashes prevented me from playing it throughly even though it remained in my mind. Another thing I can add was that there was FMV scenes with humans I think. I also think there were cyberpunk elements but not sure. I specifically chose the above CGI image because it reminds me of the game. When I say point and click I mean a game like how Myst operates. My hope is that if I ever find it, with my tech skills that I didn't have as a kid, I can hopefully repair the game so it does not crash(or at least research if someone else has fixed it) EDIT: Others have kindly gotten me to think of more details of this game. I am collecting them here: 1) The game shipped on a CD, I think the CD had a lot of "Blue" on it. As in the label had a lot of the color Blue. Sorry, I'm trying to dig deep into my head as much as I can. 2) The game was a point and click in the style of Myst. Specifically pre-rendered CGI Images where you would click to progress through the level. Occasional FMVs with real humans would appear. 3) It has a similar setting to Blade Runner (1997): https://youtu.be/9KSqIDxtB4U?t=2427 https://youtu.be/9KSqIDxtB4U?t=2427 but again the game didn't operate like Blade Runner, it operated like Myst. 4) This was definitely some sort of Win32 application (ie. runs on Windows 95/98 and not DOS) and so the graphics imitate a game like Myst and not those old VGA DOS games.
- avyeed_desa 4y agoThe Journeyman Project? http://thejourneymanproject.com/ http://thejourneymanproject.com/
- noduerme 4y agoOne of the greatest games of that time and genre. I still have the CD box set. Need to dig it out!
- rnoorda 4y agoReminds me of the Zork games- most of them are fantasy, but the covers were quite blue, and I think Zork: Grand Inquisitor was a bit more cyberpunky? I only played Return to Zork.