JoshV
3802
Oh yeah, I totally got bit by that back in the day, really, really lousy game design. But its amazing how short the game actually is if you know how to solve all the puzzles, so at least my next playthrough was very fast.
Wow, that’s almost as bad as X-wing making you start over from the beginning if you pilot ever dies or gets captured during the campaign. At least in this case, you know what to do when you start over. In X-wing, you can still die again and have to start the campaign over every time.
JoshV
3804
That was called, “Save a copy of your pilot to disk”. Perhaps it was truly the first Clone Wars. =)
Strato
3805
I thought the bonding plant would regrow, or there was an option to get another one. But as far as adventure games go, Return to Zork did things badly as far as solving the problems go. Like the bridge near the end…
So is Return to Zork a good game? These comments make me think… not so much.
I found most of the game was impossible without a walkthrough. I mean, I didn’t even understand why I was doing some of those things.
Zork Nemesis was really great. I hope that makes an appearance.
Strato
3808
Amandachen pretty well summed it up. I could go back now and finish that game easily years after having not played it I should add. The puzzle nature of it though stinks. For its time though, the graphics I thought were pretty awesome, but then the same could have been said of Myst.
Anyway, its your money, but it might be better spent elsewhere. As for me, I’m gonna go and warm my hands so I can milk the cow. Wait, there is an incinerator too, I bet I can throw any random non-recoverable story important item into it and get ashes in return. Well, except for one item…
Stooopid puzzle/adventure game.
The only reason why I ever owned Return to Zork was that it came with a fancy CD rom and Mpeg accelerator bundle. The CD rom was ok but man, what a waste of money that card and the bundle was.
I had RtZ on 3.5" disks and so it took maybe 40mins to install. WAAAAH. The funniest thing is how it says Spectacular Production Value: An entrancing game filled by a cast of Hollywood stars. The acting is shockingly bad, and I didn’t recognize anyone. At least Grand Inquisitor had the cute guy from the A-team.
Talorc
3811
I totally wrote a batch file that made a backup copy of the pilot file BEFORE running the X-Wing executable and then a second differently named copy after exiting.
Zork: Grand Inquistor had Erick Avari (totally hamming it up) - the only time I recognized an actor in a game from those dark days of video capture.
I think all hardcore X-Wing players did this.
I’m not sure what I was doing wrong in X-wing.
I tried copying the pilot file to a different directory and then replacing it with the new one after I died. But I stayed dead.
I tried copying the pilot file to a disc and ejecting it from the drive, just in case the game was finding my other copy of the pilot file on my computer when I died, and re-inserting the disc after I died, and copying over the old file. That didn’t work either. My pilot was still dead. I tried copying files other than my pilot file, but none of it seemed to work.
I always figured there was some kind of hidden file that I couldn’t see that was keeping track of which pilots were dead and which ones were alive, which is why copying over just the pilot file never worked for me.
God, I hated X-wing for that reason. I never could finish the whole campaign without dying, and I couldn’t figure out which file to copy so that the game would forget that I died.
Hunh. Backup CHASE.PLT to BACKUP.PLT.
Oh crap, I died. Orf to DOS.
Delete CHASE.PLT. Copy BACKUP.PLT to CHASE.PLT.
Worked for me, anyway.
Quick question: am I a bad person for downloading Startopia? All of the Dungeon Whatever talk here and at RPS makes me want to play Startopia, since I’m pretty burned out on the original DK.
Yeah, that was the first thing I tried. It never worked for me. The game still listed my pilot as dead. That’s why I started backing up the pilot files to completely different directories, and then off the computer, thinking that the program was somehow finding even my backup file.
rowe33
3817
Yeah, I remember doing the same thing - the only safe way to fly!
Quitch
3819
Zork Grand Inquisitor was great… I guess. When my girlfriend discovered it she’d come home, disappear into the computer room, all I’d hear was chuckling, and then she’d come to bed when tired. After a week or so she finished it and was very sad and she’s never found a point & click game that is as good.
She also told me it was possible to get stuck at some point in the latter half of the game.
Forum favorite Space Rangers 2 is in GOG now
Tyjenks
3821
Woohoo!!! Totally worth getting to do away with the disc.
