Portal interview.

[Asuka]

http://etoychest.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5217&Itemid=33&limit=1&limitstart=0

Same old but always a good read.

 

[OfF3nSiV3]

thank you

 

[Deleted member 56031]

thanks :thumbs:

 

[ríomhaire]

"isn't having a narrative for a puzzle game sort of unusual"
Monkey Island, Discworld, Grim Fandango...

 

[Cuthbert]

They're adventure games, a bit different from puzzle games. And I don't remember Monkey Island having a narrator. I may be wrong, it's been long time since i played that.

 

[Jintor]

One of them did. And if you die, the person listening goes "Hang on, you're here" and time rewinds and you jump out of the pit.

Good times.

 

[myth]

thank u so much..

 

[Sparta]

One of them did. And if you die, the person listening goes "Hang on, you're here" and time rewinds and you jump out of the pit.

Good times.

That was Full Throttle, and Ben would say something like "um...lets try that again"

 

[Jintor]

No, no, Monkey Island 3... i think.

 

[hynsey]

No, no, Monkey Island 3... i think.

No Monkey Island games had a narrative, and it was impossible to die in any Monkey Island game, apart from the first one, where when you were under water in the docks, if you stayed there for longer than 10 minutes, Guybrush would drown.

 

[Cuthbert]

I played all Monkey's except the last one. I'm pretty sure 3rd one had no narrative. And this thread makes me want to kill LeChuck all over again

 

[Sparta]

No Monkey Island games had a narrative, and it was impossible to die in any Monkey Island game, apart from the first one, where when you were under water in the docks, if you stayed there for longer than 10 minutes, Guybrush would drown.

There was also a part in the first one where if you walk off a cliff, a console pops up and says Guybrush has died, and you have to start from the beginning. But then guysbrush flies back up onto the cliff, thanks to a rubber tree.

 

[Jintor]

Wait. Narrative means story. Are you talking about Narrators?

 

[Cuthbert]

Wait. Narrative means story. Are you talking about Narrators?

ROFL, yes! :cheese: This is what happens when your English sucks. I guess we thought you're referring to computer voice in portal.

Yes, all Monkey Island games had a "narrative". Pretty good ones, too.

 

[bigburpco]

A narrative isn't really a story. It's a guy narrating a story, which means to tell (a story, for example) in speech or writing or by means of images.

 

[Jintor]

No way! A narrative is a story! A narrator is the storyteller. To narrate is to tell in speech/writing/imagery.

 

[Cuthbert]

Turkish translation of narrative is: "hikaye" which means story. Jintor is right.