tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post3405692519798390109..comments2024-03-29T05:52:53.051+11:00Comments on The Adventurers Guild: Spellcasting 301: Spring Break - Final RatingThe Tricksterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01419316208187255801noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-34223518950776494922018-11-05T09:29:52.303+11:002018-11-05T09:29:52.303+11:00Don't get me wrong. I also grew up with those ...Don't get me wrong. I also grew up with those movies (and enjoying them). Even worse, as in Spain there was this cultural movement in cinema called "el destape" (the undressing, I guess). It was born in opposition to the strict moral censorship imposed by the religious dictatorship that ended in 1975, so most of the movies created here had a lot of female actresses showing pretty much everything. Most of those movies were comedies in the same vein as those you cited and were more than 50% of the total of spanish releases during those years. And on top of that we also imported some italian movies (I especially recall those starred by Alvaro Vitali as the character of "Jaimito", which was usually the butt of the jokes in Spain) which were raunchier than the american ones (or the spanish for that matter).<br /><br />Growing in the eighties in Spain made literally impossible not to have some kind of contact with this kind of movies. In my case, I liked them and I've watched plenty. So it is not a foreign concept to me. I simply think this game is not that funny even by the eighties/nineties standards.Deimarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14617180555446326291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-75610139741163878532018-11-05T09:08:05.433+11:002018-11-05T09:08:05.433+11:00If you are interested, the logic behind the number...If you are interested, the logic behind the number is that we wrote a total of 7 posts about Spellcasting 301. Voltgloss wrote one, I wrote six, 100/7 is aproximately 14 and the rest is history :pDeimarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14617180555446326291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-80049821286554584182018-11-04T16:42:14.669+11:002018-11-04T16:42:14.669+11:00Because Voltgloss, who started the game, got 14 CA...Because Voltgloss, who started the game, got 14 CAPs. And dividing the CAPs in this manner was Deimar's suggestion, si I guess he didn't want to take full credit for himself.Ilmari Jauhiainenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01655841880034965950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-83688954847919929852018-11-04T15:24:07.369+11:002018-11-04T15:24:07.369+11:00I probably missed something...but why does Deimar ...I probably missed something...but why does Deimar only get 86 CAPs for covering this game? That's an oddly specific number.<br /><br />Also, I'm clearly not the target audience for this game. I like text adventures, but not the Spellcasting series.Reikohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07326356159794723662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-46094990356859274562018-11-04T05:14:41.036+11:002018-11-04T05:14:41.036+11:00Oops. "Six" degrees.Oops. "Six" degrees.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16240427925874212338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-62157523781727352342018-11-04T05:14:22.245+11:002018-11-04T05:14:22.245+11:00That's a good description of some of the films...That's a good description of some of the films here. Lisa mentioned <i>Animal House</i> -- which starts off with a frat always having a good time, and then with them all banding together in the face of adversity to battle an arch nemesis (the dean of the school).<br /><br />Side trivia note: <i>Animal House</i> is what makes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon" rel="nofollow">Siz Degrees of Kevin Bacon</a> possible.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16240427925874212338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-73714301136419877162018-11-02T07:00:13.397+11:002018-11-02T07:00:13.397+11:00I get the whole college frat house party feel to i...I get the whole college frat house party feel to it, and in a good way (outside the US the first big one was obviously the American Pie series, and you get a lot of that vibe)...<br /><br />Which really makes the ending so much more baffling. It turns from fun summer romp to contrived nemesis plot very quickly. It feels like they tried to change the direction too much in the middle, and if they had stuck to the "frat-party on the beach" vibe it could have been a much better story.ShaddamIVthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024540172370536692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-81711896439479259982018-11-02T05:20:26.664+11:002018-11-02T05:20:26.664+11:00Cruciatus, heheh.Cruciatus, heheh.arcanetriviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02033767865654085177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-24824868334866696482018-11-02T05:20:18.392+11:002018-11-02T05:20:18.392+11:00Yeah, there's definitely a Revenge of the Nerd...Yeah, there's definitely a Revenge of the Nerds kind of feel here. Animal House comes to mind too.arcanetriviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02033767865654085177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3387495443226852794.post-49591043133937506322018-11-02T01:59:15.657+11:002018-11-02T01:59:15.657+11:00Well done, well done.
Just my American input:
It ...Well done, well done.<br /><br />Just my American input:<br /><i>It doesn’t help that the humour fell completely flat on me. ...</i><br /><br />This game (and series) was very obviously written for a specific American audience, one that watched movies like <i>Porky's</i> and <i>Revenge of the Nerds</i> when they were just barely pre-teens. If you judge it based on that premise, the game did what it needed to very well. Remember also that in 1992, text adventures were already starting to be a dead art, and the fans (at least stateside) tended to be older than the fans of the graphical adventures. One again -- aiming for people who would have been the audience of those early 80's raunchy teen comedies, even the older ones.<br /><br />When I played this game sometime after its release (perhaps 1993-4 or so, when I got a copy) I was 15-16 or so, and the humor of the game was just right for me. I was the kid who skipped Boy Scout meetings to watch the latest <i>Simpsons</i> and <i>Married with Children</i> episodes. It's a very specific American audience this was written for.<br /><br />Looking back -- I loved the humor, and hated the text adventure interface. I also hated their pretend graphical interface, and preferred to remove it as well. <br /><br />One of the upcoming games on the calendar (#104) is also a nod in this direction of sophomoric sexual humor, and should resonate better with the overseas players on this blog, if I recall correctly, but still might miss a few shots with references to things that us oafish, clumsy Americans find funnier than others. ;)Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16240427925874212338noreply@blogger.com