That time of year has come again to scare Gus!

[Moreb]

Que?

de polla de mamadora

[Gusington]

Uh...your Mom's chicken is wearing a fedora?

[Moreb]

Uh...your Mom's chicken is wearing a fedora?

Close. My mom is wearing a chicken as a fedora.

[Moreb]

Sorry, that was a little over-the-top language-wise, even for me.

Bah!  I've heard worse at my  grandsons last Cub Scout meeting. They really get going when they've had too much to drink

[Sir Slash]

I once wore a chicken for Halloween. So I could ask the pretty girls if they wanted a little 'Cock-a Doodle-Doo'.  ^-^  My luck... I didn't get lucky but the chicken did.

[airboy]

I'm playing Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father 20th Anniversary Edition from gog.  The game is broken up into days where you must accomplish certain things to advance to the next day.  I'm currently on Day 4.

The rework is pretty good.  So far, none of the basic puzzles or story line has changed.  I remember enough of it from the last time I played to get through the game.  The reworked game does not have the timing issue from playing a DOS game, has a space bar to indicate hotspots so you don't have to play "hunt for the magic pixel," and retains all of the psychological buildup of the original.  It has been pretty fun, probably great fun for someone who has never played it.

I finished it after 1.5 days of play.  It is better than the original - but not a lot different from the original.  Unfortunately, there is no screen capture on the program and greenshot would not work.  So I got no screenshots.  Still, my mind is refreshed enough to write a review for the mystery mobile front plate that does not exist.

[BanzaiCat]

I played it a bit yesterday to get a feel for it. If you press and hold the Space Bar, every object you can interact with will appear on the screen, just like airboy said. I wouldn't have believed it until I saw it - that's pretty amazing for a game from the early 90s.

[JasonPratt]

I think I heard that the space-bar highlight was added much later.

[airboy]

I think I heard that the space-bar highlight was added much later.

Yep - 20 years later on the Anniversary edition!

[BanzaiCat]

That would have been a helluva pixel hunt pre-Anniversary edition, then!

Just pressing the space bar in that first scene must bring up 25 or so hot spots.  :o

[JasonPratt]

Meanwhile, Gus I don't recall, did you ever get around to playing Batman: Arkham Asylum for one of those prior Halloweens?

[BanzaiCat]

B:AA isn't scary, though. It's awesomely thematic and a tad creepy, but not scary.

[JudgeDredd]

What about Die Young?

[Gusington]

Hmm have not heard of Die Young, will check that out.

Have not played Batman: Arkham Asylum either, but I only got it just a few months ago which is nothing in Gus Time.

[airboy]

That would have been a helluva pixel hunt pre-Anniversary edition, then!

Just pressing the space bar in that first scene must bring up 25 or so hot spots.  :o

Yep - there are a lot in the bookstore, the voodoo museum and the drugstore.