I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream opinions

Oracle

Oracle

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I consider myself a fan of the good ol' point and click adventures (sam and max, full throttle, day of the tentacle anyone?) however not to long ago I can across the game I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. I must say that it sound appealing.

So does anyone played this game and what are your opinions.
Is it true it has choices that have an influence on the rest of the game? How though are the puzzles?
 
I thought it was brilliant and in many ways ahead of it's time. There are many many parts that are really disturbing and some nasty choices. But it's really hard to obtain the game, which is a shame really since it's an underrated gem.
 
Isn't it somewhere free for download now?
I think it has become Abandonware.

BTW, perhaps you should also check out Dark Seed.
 
It's available from Harlan Ellison's website. For a fee, of course.

Also, this is where warez talk ends.
 
yea I played that one in the past. Point and Click game where the first games on my 486 back then.. ahhh good times.
I remember that I played the demo of goblins 3 over and over again.
On one day my parents took me to a game shop and I could choose a game. 2 game caught my eye: Woodruff and the schnibble of azimuth and Goblins 3. but I had to choose.... that one.... no.... wait...back and forth..... and when I was (finally) about to diside my mum said I could pick both of them!!
 
grapedog said:
You should also check out "Sanitarium" if you like the point and click adventures. Good stuff!
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Sanitarium is fucking amazing, very psycho! I recomend it anyday, anytime :ok:
 
Did you know there's a Gobliiins 4 in development, supposed to be released this year?
I only found out last week checking out the Coktel Vision & Gobliiins series wikipedia entry. There's even an official site with some gameplay footage: http://www.gobliiins4.com/
 
A new Gobliiins? That's great news, I just finished Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth again for the first time since I was 12 years old. Sublime game(s)!
 
Slightly off topic I guess but if you haven't read the short story "I have no mouth and I must scream" you can (and should) do so here (PDF).
 
Truly an excellent game. Its plot is quite different than the book it was based on, and its ending leaves you with a quite more optimistic attitude compared to the book's bleak ending (there is, of course, a "bad" ending to be found, that resembles that of the book). But an excellent game non-the-less.
 
what a gem oO never underestimate a genre. i thought the only halfway decent adventure is call of cthulhu, and that only because of the underlying lovecraft thing. i loved that shit when i was younger.

great game. truly a gem for that time
 
There are some truly horrible puzzles and the voice acting is incredibly unstable, everything from the spoken parts not matching up to the dialog to the wacky antics of some of the voice actors (Jesus Nimdok). Anyhow, I'd give it somewhere around a 6/10.

I think people have forgotten how to properly rate adventure games since they're, you know, dead.
It's worth playing if you just like weird stuff, but it doesn't even really adhere to the short story and the ending is retarded. I mostly just played for Ted and Nimdok's segments, which are the only real enjoyable parts in the game in my opinion.

There are better "weird" adventure games out there, Sanitarium has already been mentioned and it is bar none the best. You might as well go for the Gabriel Knight series as well since they kick so much ass.
 
It shouldn't, since it's THE WRITER'S OWN DECISION.

It's kind of like complaining about Silmarillion contradicting the LotR trilogy.
 
Mikael Grizzly said:
It shouldn't, since it's THE WRITER'S OWN DECISION.

It's kind of like complaining about Silmarillion contradicting the LotR trilogy.
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What, just like I shouldn't complain about Richard Garriott sodomizing his own Ultima series? That's a ridiculous comment. If I think Harlan Ellison decided to take his story in a terrible direction instead of adhering to the far superior short story then that's my opinion and it entirely makes sense.

It's not anything like complaining about the Silmarillion contradicting the LotR trilogy, it's more like complaining about Tolkien coming back from the dead and rewriting his Middle Earth histories into having cyborgs.

Not that there are any cyborgs or anything in I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, but the fact that he actually made the game less effective in its storytelling is dull.
 
No, Harlan rewrote the story. There isn't any connection, because it's intented as a stand alone version.
 
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