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Don't spend the money. It's buggy as fuck. by FoK 04/15/2003, 11:35pm PDT
Damocles wrote:

(Fun fact: did you know that Harlan Ellison originally wanted the game to be unwinnable, because he thought that the idea of "winning" in that situation would be perverse and he wanted to make the game unique by doing so? Now you do!)

FABIO wrote:

Damocles wrote:

FABIO wrote:

Fourth time's a charm


Unless, of course, you're actually trying to find the game in the first place.
It's like trying to track down a copy of "I have no mouth and I must scream". Except without the adventure gaming. And the Harlan Ellison-prompted suicide.


Have you tried this?

http://harlanellison.com/herc.htm


Hey, thanks. I didn't figure that Ellison or his friends/coworkers/minions/whatever would actually have it, as it was put out by some other company. (Legend?)

Not sure if I want to spend $32 on a game that old, but I'll keep the link in case I change my mind.



I thought it was interesting, but it's basically just a 8-hour bad mood writ-as-video game. Moreover, without the walkthrough there's basically no fucking way on Earth you could get to any of the endings (which are soul-crushing in any case), because generally there's no visual cues as to what you can actually do on most of the screens. Plus, it's really crashy, and I had to launch it from a DOS prompt. I doubt it would even work on XP or Win2k.

Fullofkittens

P.S. Ellison does the voice-acting for the supercomputer and it comes out sounding more geeky than menacing.
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Freespace 2 help needed by FABIO 04/11/2003, 10:16pm PDT NEW
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        Re: eh, nm by Damocles 04/13/2003, 12:22am PDT NEW
            hmmmm by FABIO 04/13/2003, 1:10am PDT NEW
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                        Unwinnable? by Damocles 04/17/2003, 4:59pm PDT NEW
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                                Re: Unwinnable? by curst 04/22/2003, 2:48pm PDT NEW
                    Don't spend the money. It's buggy as fuck. by FoK 04/15/2003, 11:35pm PDT NEW
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        Target target subsystem’s next targeted target’s target. Previously. by Git 04/13/2003, 3:38pm PDT NEW
    Freespace 2 multiplayer by FABIO 04/13/2003, 1:30pm PDT NEW
 
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