You can find it on GOG; it’s even on sale cheap at the moment.
GOG (*aka *Good Old Games) is a good place to find lots of well, good old games legally.
“Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” was an even earlier freerunning/climbing game. I played it not too long ago and it was still fun.
Beyond Good and Evil came out at the same time; it also incorporates running, jumping, climbing, etc.
Dragon’s Lair - It was beautiful to watch, even today, but even brand new it was a piss-poor gaming experience. Extremely laggy “controls” if they could even be called that, 100% trial-and-error gameplay that still somehow felt really unfair, long load times between literally any two screens, it was just a terrible game through and through.
If my Wii still worked, I’d still be Wii bowling today. In fact, I don’t think I ever bought any other game for that thing besides the “Sports” game it came with, and everything on that was excellent.
Both Super Mario Galaxies are excellent, as is Pikmin 2, as is Mario Kart.
I’m not sure I can disagree more. I dusted off the Wii about two or three months ago after having it sit in my closet for 8 years, and the games are great. The Super Mario Galaxies are, IMHO, among the best if not the best in the Mario series. Zelda Twighlight Princess is great; the Metroid Trilogy is Great. My five-year-old now plays Super Mario Party 9 almost every day (which I’m happy with, instead of her watching other people play it on Youtube). The Silent Hill game for it is creepy and makes good use of the Wiimote mechanic. Wii Sports, especially bowling, is still every bit as fun. Xenoblade Chronicles I’ve only just started, and its shaping up to be a solid RPG. Super Paper Mario is one of my favorites; the Punch-Out game is great, and the Wii version of Mario Kart is solid. I actually can’t think of any games in my collection that I flat-out don’t like eight years later.
This summary reminds me of a scathing review I read at least 20 years ago in PC Gamer about a game called Mode (its short and indistinct name makes searching for further details almost impossible). I think the gist was having to solve a mystery by conversationally navigating a cocktail party full of performance artists and fashionistas and other 1990’s avant-garde types, i.e. a principality of pretentious douchebags, and it was not intended to be satirical.
Actually, just Googling “mode video game” gets you to the info you need to search further (an IMDB page and TV Tropes page on the game are the first two hits.) Here’s an in-depth review of it. Video of gameplay here for those interested.
Thank you for finding this. It’s actually a lot worse than I imagined.
There’s also a whole 25 episode playlist with commentary that walks through the entire game. It’s an interesting concept, but I’m not sure I’d be interested in playing it.
Steam also has it on sale for the same price:
GOG and Steam both have Zork: Grand Inquisitor (a much better game) for $3.97.
And Zork: Nemesis as well
Though Nemesis is a Zork game in name only. It plays like Myst. And the few allusions to the Zork universe seem thrown in as an afterthought so they can justify why they branded it a Zork game.
That’s not to say it’s a bad game, but it’s not Zork. “The Lurking Horror” felt more Zork than Nemesis does, and the TLH only took place in the same universe, it wasn’t meant to be a Zork game. Same with the “Enchanter” series, same universe, but not Zork.
Pretty much any simulator from 5+ years ago.
That’s an in-depth review of a sandwich.
LOL. Good thing the only porn I search for on this computer is food porn.
This is the website I meant to link to, and “in-depth review” is a terrible choice of words on my part. It’s a synopsis.
I assumed it was performance art.
Grand Theft Auto IV was the weird game that was literally the best reviewed game of all time to a punchline in about two months.
nevermind: shouldn’t have posted.
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