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gmonkey42New default icon because I like the pirate one and I've been using the monkey one forever.
I've started playing Grim Fandango. Man, it ain't Monkey Island. In terms of difficulty, I mean. I got up to the crypt with Stan (is that his name? The used coffin salesman) in Monkey Island 3 - and that's not too far from the end - and then I got stuck. In Grim Fandango, I've hardly done anything and already I'm looking at hints. It doesn't help that you can't use the mouse, and you have to make Manny move around with the keyboard. You can't just click on something to see if you can pick it up; you have to walk over to it first. I'm getting better at that but it's still frustrating to have to go and get more balloons. See, that's how, uh, not far I've gotten. I got the first client and I kept putting bread in the message tube and that didn't work. I thought maybe I could fill the bread with packing foam or something but no luck. So I looked at a hint. And promptly got stuck again when the demon left the tubes room. Too bad I couldn't blow him up with the fire extinguisher. So I looked at the next hint. How am I supposed to know there's a deadbolt on the door? That could be made a little easier to see.
I beat Day of the Tentacle with no hints whatsoever. I think I should be able to put that on my resume. I also beat Sam and Max with mostly no hints, I think. I don't really remember.
Why don't they make games like that any more?
I've started playing Grim Fandango. Man, it ain't Monkey Island. In terms of difficulty, I mean. I got up to the crypt with Stan (is that his name? The used coffin salesman) in Monkey Island 3 - and that's not too far from the end - and then I got stuck. In Grim Fandango, I've hardly done anything and already I'm looking at hints. It doesn't help that you can't use the mouse, and you have to make Manny move around with the keyboard. You can't just click on something to see if you can pick it up; you have to walk over to it first. I'm getting better at that but it's still frustrating to have to go and get more balloons. See, that's how, uh, not far I've gotten. I got the first client and I kept putting bread in the message tube and that didn't work. I thought maybe I could fill the bread with packing foam or something but no luck. So I looked at a hint. And promptly got stuck again when the demon left the tubes room. Too bad I couldn't blow him up with the fire extinguisher. So I looked at the next hint. How am I supposed to know there's a deadbolt on the door? That could be made a little easier to see.
I beat Day of the Tentacle with no hints whatsoever. I think I should be able to put that on my resume. I also beat Sam and Max with mostly no hints, I think. I don't really remember.
Why don't they make games like that any more?
