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Thimbleweed Park - a Ron Gilbert game |OT| Thirty-scumm years of adventures
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Comandr
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I figured out how to scare the guy but I can't figure out how to get the Pigeon bros out. I keep calling and they're like "emergencies only try again later lol"
PuppetSlave
Member
Awsome, yeah was hoping he was just wrong.
Comandr
Member
Dandy Lyin
Member
Oh, that's good to know. I kept trying to use the old Monkey Island keyboard shortcuts(O=open, T=talk, etc...) and they don't work.
Vampire On Titus
Member
Just started playing and I'm loving it so far. The clown flash-back was fucking hilarious.
8-Bit Sunset
Banned
Yeah I don't get that Eurogamer review at all!
Judging by the comments on that site neither do the users! This game is hilarious.
got it. I was doing it in chapter 3 and it was not working, now that i'm in chapter 4, it worked.
Not really happy about enigma that work in certain chapter, it can be confusing
WizardofPeace
Member
Any tips going into this. I love some PnC, but i always get stuck on more obscure puzzles. Should i try writing stuff down to help? I really don't want to use a walk through for this.
I'm at chapter 4 and apart from some small enigma, is not difficult. You can ask here for tip without spoil the solution
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Hopefully:
http://www.gamereactor.eu/news/503893/Thimbleweed+Park+should+be+coming+to+Nintendo+Switch/
So far everything's been logical. Got stuck a couple of times, but then suddenly sussed it out while I was trying other puzzles.
Huzzah!
Finished with about 10 hours on the clock; would have undoubtedly been longer (or unfinished) without a couple of hints, plus I click through all dialogue to save time.
Easily stands up there with the greats of the 90s and is undoubtedly a Ron Gilbert game through and through; it reminds me enormously of Monkey Island 2, except not quite as grandiose.
Absolutely, whole-heartedly recommended to anyone who likes graphic adventures without reservation; I don't know what non-genre fans would think, but it's a really excellent game.
Finished with about 10 hours on the clock; would have undoubtedly been longer (or unfinished) without a couple of hints, plus I click through all dialogue to save time.
Easily stands up there with the greats of the 90s and is undoubtedly a Ron Gilbert game through and through; it reminds me enormously of Monkey Island 2, except not quite as grandiose.
Absolutely, whole-heartedly recommended to anyone who likes graphic adventures without reservation; I don't know what non-genre fans would think, but it's a really excellent game.
Thanks. That sounds promising. I think I'm gonna wait this one out then but I will definitely get it eventually. If not for Switch, then Mac or Ps4.
I don't remember you needing to zap the PC. All I remember doing was:
i) Look at the PC to work out which room you need to go to
ii) Frighten the resident in three different ways
iii) Give the Manager the business card afterwards (when he says that his usual repair men are unavailable after watching all this happen on the PC)
iv) Frighten the resident again
i) Look at the PC to work out which room you need to go to
ii) Frighten the resident in three different ways
iii) Give the Manager the business card afterwards (when he says that his usual repair men are unavailable after watching all this happen on the PC)
iv) Frighten the resident again
true, but when I think of pixelhunting I always think of Sierra games.
his voice grew on me. it has character (he sounds a bit like a younger david cage, which makes it even funnier).
I wouldn't recommend it to Sierra fans
Vampire On Titus
Member
I think the referential jokes stand out because there's so many of them and I wasn't expecting it but there's just as many really funny moments unique to this game as well. I'll know for sure when I play this with some friends later on this weekend. They're fans of the genre but haven't played a lot of the LucasArts classics.
Just did the bit where you
Seems like the game is about to open up a fair bit and I'm really excited. Really liking the characters so far and the puzzles have been clever too. Hope it can keep it up.
Just did the bit where you
distract the journalist using the police scanner to photocopy her map.
Oh god that's a bit stupid on my part - I thought the hotel manager
WAS calling the Pigeon Brothers and it was them that were busy!
Brerlappin
Member
an this is so good. Just played an hour and it absolutely flew by. I'm tempted to turn the voice acting off tho, not because its bad, but I'm just not used to playing a P&C with actual voice acting. The only one I ever did was COMI. But in pixel art games like this it feels a bit weird. Other than that this is so good. Great writing, I like the characters, the atmosphere, art and music are top notch too.
Brerlappin
Member
The solution to the broken stair case in Delores' flashback was amazing lol
The perfect Dark
Banned
Emilio Estevez
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
That's where I stopped enjoying the game, and started loving it.
A classic Gilbert solution.
bizzarewars
Banned
How are the puzzles in this? Are they intuitive, or is more of a try everything you have on everything you click until something happens sort of deal?
Yes, you can. Press the full stop key.
(it's not like Broken Age, which I will never finish for exactly that reason)
CecilRousso
Member
So, when Rock, Paper, Shotgun's review of the game was posted here, and it was positive, and not written by John Walker, I thought for a while that I would joke about "how long will it before John Walker feels the unstoppable urge to post his own article about how everyone are wrong about this game and he's not?"
I didn't.
But he did.
The answer: About a day.
Everything wrong with the first three minutes of Thimbleweed Park
I didn't.
But he did.
The answer: About a day.
Everything wrong with the first three minutes of Thimbleweed Park
Dsyndrome
Member
That's a lot of opinion for three minutes.
The point where you use the wrench is pretty obvious.
You need to get past the factory fence to be able to use it
oh, nevermind then, lol! not there yet.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Are the chapters getting shorter? Because I'm seven hours in and only in chapter 3 so far. I try to look at everything and talk to everyone.
and lol @ the dangerous device
and lol @ the dangerous device
I honestly had similar thoughts regarding the lack of interactivity in the game. I don't understand why can't we look at people, or why the detectives can't talk to each other. Why do we even have tow detectives in the first place anyway.
A lot of this is probably "that's how we did it in previous games, and it worked well enough".
Having multiple people means you can do more elaborate puzzles, and you don't unlock more characters until later in the story. The lack of communication between player characters feels like a missed chance to have some funny banter, but it also means you never have to think about "How do I communicate to the other character that I want to do X?"
The perfect Dark
Banned
How do I make it through the
? I already have the
and I'm following
edit: restarted the game and it worked. I don't have the shovel though, lol. Damn.
woods
head
his directions but he always leads me back to the entrance
edit: restarted the game and it worked. I don't have the shovel though, lol. Damn.
Vampire On Titus
Member
I do think they should be able to talk outside of the designated story beats. Ray's temperamental interactions with Reyes are pretty funny and there could have been more. Still makes sense to have the two detectives, though. There's an entire sequence built around it right at the start. Not 3 minutes in but pretty early on. There's also plenty of necessary interactions that don't revolve around the most obvious verb so that mechanic still totally has merit.
That article was really pedantic. It's the early game and the difficulty ramps up over time. I don't understand why telegraphing the first solution is an "adventure gaming sin." Within 6 minutes of that you're required to put solutions together on your own.
That part was awesome.
That article was really pedantic. It's the early game and the difficulty ramps up over time. I don't understand why telegraphing the first solution is an "adventure gaming sin." Within 6 minutes of that you're required to put solutions together on your own.
That part was awesome.