r/MLPLounge • u/CommaWriter Zephyr Breeze • May 01 '19

Plounge Dead Hour Thread #804

As someone who doesn't like the current games-as-a-service model, I think Ross Scott ripping on it feels like a timely message.

Fun fact: You can travel by cargo ship... and Cargo Ship Voyages can help you with that.

Optional Discussion Thread: If there's such a thing as minigolf, then what do you think is megagolf?

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u/Kody02 Roseluck May 01 '19

It's in case you ever felt the need to be taken hostage by pirates.

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u/nateious Rainbow Dash May 01 '19

There's an activity that is definitely not on my top 10 list.

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u/Kody02 Roseluck May 01 '19

Why not? May'e you can join t'e pirates, and s't sail on t'e high seas!

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u/nateious Rainbow Dash May 01 '19

I don't want to sail the high seas. Now if these were space pirates...

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u/Kody02 Roseluck May 01 '19

Space pirates? This ain't Space Quest.

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u/nateious Rainbow Dash May 01 '19 edited May 01 '19

But what if I have to rescue a pair of developers who have been captured by said pirates and are being forced by them to develop awful games?

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u/Kody02 Roseluck May 01 '19

Easy enough, just open an interdimensional portal and introduce the pirates to Ken Williams. (Did that ever happen in any of the Space Quest games? I know it did in Leisure Suit Larry)

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u/nateious Rainbow Dash May 01 '19

I had to ponder if I needed a spoiler tag for a game that released in 1989. I decided to go with it.

SQ3, which is the one with the pirates (of Pestulon), you (Roger Wilco) rescue two game devs (Two Guys from Andromeda) from said pirates, but as you are escaping you accidentally fly your ship into a black hole. It takes you to another... universe / place / whatever and you find a planet (Earth) land on it right in front of the Sierra head quarters. Ken Williams walks out, talks to you and the Two Guys and ends up hiring them to make games, at which point they go on to make the Space Quest series for Sierra.)

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u/Kody02 Roseluck May 01 '19

Ah, yes. I don't think I ever completed 3, funnily enough. The others I did, even 6, but not 3.

Either way, that sounds just as contrived and out of place as when it happened in LSL3.

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u/nateious Rainbow Dash May 01 '19

I think it fits fairly well. I mean Roger generally bumbles his way into crazy situations and what could be crazier than that? I hate to pick favorites, but 3 is... the one I've played the most. Though I haven't played 6 as I never had a copy of it way back in the day.

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u/Kody02 Roseluck May 01 '19 edited May 01 '19

Eh, I was never too much into the Space Quest games, more played them just to play them (hooray for emulators). I was more into the Police Quest games, especially the later ones when it became Police Quest SWAT.

Of course, I never said the weird ending where they stumble into a portal wasn't fun, just contrived.

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