Blind purchases rule

[Ominous Luminous]

Today I bought an old NES game called Shadowgate. I'd never played/heard of it before but it looked like an RPG. Turns out it is, and it's pretty fun. Has anyone played this before?

 

[0sm0se]

Don't drink water anywhere, though I thourghly encourage using the spear and hammer on your self once for hilarious results.

 

[xfer]

toby and i most definitely spent tons of time on Shadowgate. it did have a lot of nonsense, non-intuitive solutions, but by and large it was pretty fun. i think it took us like 20 minutes just to enter the fucking castle.

 

[FuSoYa]

Which therefore makes it appropriate that it was a "blind" purchase.


"God damn, this fire is keeping me from going anywhere. wtg am I supposed to do?? Well, I guess I might as well throw this jewel off this here bridge. Whoa, what the...!"

 

[xfer]

i can honestly say Shadowgate made me a better game-master for stuff like Dungeons and Dragons, because i ALWAYS put clues and hints after becoming so frustrated at the utter lack of them in Shadowgate.

 

[Ominous Luminous]

Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of the puzzles have very strange solutions.

 

[xfer]

i dunno if you can even call them puzzles, because there's nothing to "solve" in a lot of cases--it's just randomness.

 

[NAD]

Shadowgate ruled. The 3rd person action/adventure sequel, Beyond Shadowgate, was infinitely better, but since it was on the TurboGrafx only myself and about 6 other people even heard of it.