The game feels like someone legitimately tried to make a somewhat comedic game based on British policing. Still mediocre but you can tell heart was put into it.
The thing with Mystery of the Druids is that it is basically an adventure game parody, but its humor is bone dry and it plays itself WAY too straight for most people to realize it's actually being comedic. It's not surprising at all to find out that it was developed in germany.
>its humor is bone dry
It's hard to emulate British humor, we're ridiculously sarcastic but we're also very deadpan and subtle about it.
Main problem is that the adventure game genre is already filled with ridiculous situations and madman logic. So it is kind of hard to parody. You're essentially doing what is standard, just slightly weirder.
why does /vr/ assume everyone watches youtube or knows who your favourite youtubers are? i don't think i've watched videos related to video games in over a decade
The most notable thing about this game is because no one could get it running on modern systems for so long prior to the GOG release, there was all this lore surrounding what the game was supposedly about. I remember the days of "there are no druids"
>the boxart is a meme for ages and the actual content of the game is a >mystery for the longest time >someone posts a fake summary of how crazy the game is on Ganker >for years this is the most that people think they know about the game >when people see an actual playthrough of the game it's more insane than the fake summary
Absolute legend
The fake summary is pretty accurate until the twist. It's likely anon just misremembered things and wasn't trying to bullshit.
Then again it's equally likely anon WAS bullshitting to add to the mystery of the meme.
I bought it on Steam for dirt cheap and found that even today, you still can't play the Steam release without an old PC.
Honestly I don't know what kind of fricking black magic the slavs at GOG did to get this shit working on modern hardware when no one else could. Did they rewrite half the code or something?
Probably just added a launcher that's compatible with newer Windows. Steam versions of old games do exactly zero work to get them to run, so many simply don't.
>the boxart is a meme for ages and the actual content of the game is a >mystery for the longest time >someone posts a fake summary of how crazy the game is on Ganker >for years this is the most that people think they know about the game >when people see an actual playthrough of the game it's more insane than the fake summary
Absolute legend
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The fake summary is pretty accurate until the twist. It's likely anon just misremembered things and wasn't trying to bullshit.
Then again it's equally likely anon WAS bullshitting to add to the mystery of the meme.
I think Anon was confused about the ending. I think he's thinking that the time travel meant that the druids stopped existing. People misunderstood that to mean that there's no druids in the game, despite the write-up explicitly talking aobut time traveling to them.
What actually happens is that Serstan inadvertently created a geas (a celtic spell whereby you are bound to an oath that the price for breaking is death) by swearing that no harm can ever come to Melanie or Halligan that's in relation to him. When Halligan stabbed Melanie to interrupt the druid ritual, the geas's oath was broken and thus Serstan in the past was forced to commit ritual suicide. Him dying in the past meant he never enacted the ritual that allowed the 5 children to exist to the present day in the first place so they faded out of existence.
Also the entire reason the geas worked in the first place was because Sinclair had Halligan eat the ritual human flesh, meaning Halligan had inadvertently been inducted as a druid and thus when he makes Serstan swear the oath, he actually has the ability to forge a geas between them whether he was aware of it or not.
Who cares about druid immortality bullshit? Dude they found a time machine! Just go back into the past with some AK's and some knowhow and conquor the world.
really simplistic/satisfying game with a cool and comfy early gamecube aesthetic
Its pretty damn slow though, I'd maybe recommend binding speedup to a button on your controller.
>that part where you have to kill the bum with pure ethanol to steal his money just to make one phone call
quality puzzles
>kill the bum
He's explicitly said to be alive, and him ratting on Hannigan is why he gets into trouble. All this over some change for a payphone btw.
Is it really unexpected if you watched someone on YouTube playing it first
The game feels like someone legitimately tried to make a somewhat comedic game based on British policing. Still mediocre but you can tell heart was put into it.
The thing with Mystery of the Druids is that it is basically an adventure game parody, but its humor is bone dry and it plays itself WAY too straight for most people to realize it's actually being comedic. It's not surprising at all to find out that it was developed in germany.
>its humor is bone dry
It's hard to emulate British humor, we're ridiculously sarcastic but we're also very deadpan and subtle about it.
>did you put me popazowiebingbongs in the bin?
>oh sorry love thought they were expired
>ah that's that then
Main problem is that the adventure game genre is already filled with ridiculous situations and madman logic. So it is kind of hard to parody. You're essentially doing what is standard, just slightly weirder.
>So it is kind of hard to parody
Excessive lampshade hanging works.
The German part might also be why everyone's voice direction feels "off"
>pitza
It was made by Germans so maybe it was just them taking the piss
The usual weird German outlook on pnc fare that is now a meme after YT consumption. Pass
This has been a meme longer than Youtube has even existed.
>DURRR YOUTUBE VIDEOS MAKE A GAME BAD
begone you simpleton
>is now a meme after YT consumption
the absolute newness of (You)
why does /vr/ assume everyone watches youtube or knows who your favourite youtubers are? i don't think i've watched videos related to video games in over a decade
The most notable thing about this game is because no one could get it running on modern systems for so long prior to the GOG release, there was all this lore surrounding what the game was supposedly about. I remember the days of "there are no druids"
I bought it on Steam for dirt cheap and found that even today, you still can't play the Steam release without an old PC.
The fake summary is pretty accurate until the twist. It's likely anon just misremembered things and wasn't trying to bullshit.
Then again it's equally likely anon WAS bullshitting to add to the mystery of the meme.
I don't know how you misremember something like "druids are vital to the entire narrative"
Honestly I don't know what kind of fricking black magic the slavs at GOG did to get this shit working on modern hardware when no one else could. Did they rewrite half the code or something?
Probably just added a launcher that's compatible with newer Windows. Steam versions of old games do exactly zero work to get them to run, so many simply don't.
the frickin theme song man
Why does this immediately remind me of spinal tap?
kino and soul posters should get the rope. i hate your fricking lazy posts.
This. All critique goes out of the window. It's just kino or not kino. Fricking brainlet posts.
cringe
based
>the boxart is a meme for ages and the actual content of the game is a >mystery for the longest time
>someone posts a fake summary of how crazy the game is on Ganker
>for years this is the most that people think they know about the game
>when people see an actual playthrough of the game it's more insane than the fake summary
Absolute legend
what was the fake summary?
Not him but 1dGanker saved a copy of it
It's wierd how literally everything is accurate until the final post
I think Anon was confused about the ending. I think he's thinking that the time travel meant that the druids stopped existing. People misunderstood that to mean that there's no druids in the game, despite the write-up explicitly talking aobut time traveling to them.
What actually happens is that Serstan inadvertently created a geas (a celtic spell whereby you are bound to an oath that the price for breaking is death) by swearing that no harm can ever come to Melanie or Halligan that's in relation to him. When Halligan stabbed Melanie to interrupt the druid ritual, the geas's oath was broken and thus Serstan in the past was forced to commit ritual suicide. Him dying in the past meant he never enacted the ritual that allowed the 5 children to exist to the present day in the first place so they faded out of existence.
Also the entire reason the geas worked in the first place was because Sinclair had Halligan eat the ritual human flesh, meaning Halligan had inadvertently been inducted as a druid and thus when he makes Serstan swear the oath, he actually has the ability to forge a geas between them whether he was aware of it or not.
Who cares about druid immortality bullshit? Dude they found a time machine! Just go back into the past with some AK's and some knowhow and conquor the world.
really simplistic/satisfying game with a cool and comfy early gamecube aesthetic
Its pretty damn slow though, I'd maybe recommend binding speedup to a button on your controller.
the game being an adventure game parody except it was made by germans and all of it is supposed to be german "humour" explains everything.
also the infamous levitating guy in chair is actually a bug, there's some old let's play or similar that shows him in the chair normally.
It was a bug but it's something GOG left in as basically a way of knowing you have a legit GOG copy because other versions wouldn't have it.