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Re: Unwinnable? by FABIO 04/17/2003, 6:07pm PDT
Damocles wrote:

FABIO wrote:

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!)


Too bad the King's Quest series beat him to it.


Wait up. KQ4 I'll give you (fucking whale), but KQ1-3 were eminently beatable, as proven by my having beaten them back in the days when walkthroughs cost money.

Manhunter: New York, on the other hand.... theoretically winnable, but you had to be a direct descendent of Sherlock Holmes and Alan Turing. Absofuckinglutely great, but impossibly difficult.


Don't forget KQ5 and 7. Seven because no one could stand playing it long enough to finish it. By unwinnable I was leaning towards the situations where an action on your part ment you could no longer advance in the game, yet the game would let you continue as if you could. KQ5 was FULL of these.
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