# Gabriel Knight appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2004, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-knight-appreciation-thread/248904 "2004-06-06T03:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-knight-appreciation-thread/248904/21 "2004-06-08T15:25:00Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > But man, I sure would love to have (_GKIII_ puzzle spoiler) > > a laptop that could translate speech perfectly! The best I can do with this thing is call up BabelFish and run some text through it, and we all know how amusing those results can be! That computer did everything. Absolutely everything. It probably cooked their meals, too. Another couple of upgrades and Gabriel and Grace themselves would have been obsolete. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-knight-appreciation-thread/248904/22 "2004-06-08T20:51:03Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > The bartender didn’t, and neither did the scary old lady crushing grapes for wine. But everyone you need to pump for information conveniently speaks English. > > \*Not _too_ odd, but it felt like a bit of a stretch to me that the old woman at the tiny local museum, the hotel night clerk, and even the maid all spoke English. Since I played _GKIII_ first I actually spent the early part of the game thinking that maybe Gabriel, being from New Orleans, might just be Cajun enough to manage passable conversational French. So when he was talking to the cab driver, hotel clerk, etc., I assumed they were “really” speaking French but the game was portraying it as English for the player’s convenience. When it finally became apparent that Gabriel didn’t speak French at all, my suspension of disbelief momentarily came crashing down. But then again, in the first game, when he’s at the Dixieland Drug Store, he looks at a sign which has a french word on it. He says “I don’t know much french, but even I know that means, “A little something extra”” ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-knight-appreciation-thread/248904/23 "2004-06-09T13:19:26Z")
> [@Hamish](#): > > That computer did everything. Absolutely everything. It probably cooked their meals, too. Another couple of upgrades and Gabriel and Grace themselves would have been obsolete. Things could turn ugly if they ever had an adventure in space… “Open the pod pay door, Sidney.” It was cool that it had the whole Encyclopedia Mythica, but too bad you couldn’t get the SDMB on it. Somehow I’m sure Grace would be a Cecil Adams fan. And that e-mail from Grace’s mom was hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-knight-appreciation-thread/248904/24 "2004-06-09T13:20:40Z")
Er, make that pod _bay_ door. I’ll learn to type someday… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabriel-knight-appreciation-thread/248904.md?page=1)