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[15 years]

They're not really unfinishable, but bugged me for quite some times, for two commercial games.

• Leisure Suit Larry 2
  BITD I've played to the very end of the game and the last action is
  
  Spoiler

  obvious to make a Molotov cocktail by putting a bag into a bottle,

  [close]
  but every time I typed
  Spoiler

  "put bag in bottle"

  [close]
  it's a game over.
  No matter what I did I was unable to finish the game, until years later when I came across Al Lowe's own site and found out it's a glitch in the parser that the word 'bag' was always recognised as a verb instead of a noun unless you typed something like "the bag" and when I tried this I immediately completed the game.
  The problem was, I always just typed commands like "get stuff" and "look bed" and they never failed, but it would fail in the very last command. This glitch had me stuck in the game for at least 15 years! Also BITD there was no convenient places liked the Internet and some friends I had asked said that the command was correct and they could complete the game (probably because they always typed 'the' like Al Lowe himself did). This was so annoying and this glitch was never fixed.
• Rex Nebular (a Microprose point and click adventure game)
  It's been a while so I couldn't remember details. This game had two modes, Easy and Normal (or was it Hard? didn't remember).
  As a first time player I decided to try Easy mode first and... I was stuck in the middle of the game when I had to disarm a bomb (or plant a bomb? I can't remember. Anyway, it's also about BOMBS like in LSL2's case).
  I was stuck for maybe a few weeks until I decided to start over and try the Normal mode... and I got through that part readily!
  That meant the Easy mode was even harder!
  The reason was that in "Easy" mode they removed a number of required actions for the player to make progress, but after such changes, many of the actions were no longer logical.
  In the part in question you could never guess that you just needed to jump to the end without doing all the in-between logical steps and I think this was just poor design.
  

Not every one would play the English versions of games though.
For example, if a game is originated in Japanese people here will prefer playing the Japanese version over the English one.
(e.g. No one here will call Biohazard Resident Evil. Even when we're playing the US version we still call it Biohazard.)

And Last Bible is already the English name of the original version.

Se7en?
I made this guess just because of the blue tint of the screenshots.

Now which one? It has a different name than the Last Bible.

But I don't know! Because I have played none of these games. I've only played the original Megaten on Famicom, the PCE port of Shin Megaten, and also a bit of the GBA era Devil CHilden.

Since nobody else has made a guess yet: The Greatest American Hero.

Yes of course. As long as you have watched this it is too obvious.
Your turn!

One of the Last Bible games?

One of the Megaten: Devil Children games?

Hmmm...
[imgzoom]https://i.imgur.com/bmbFIFR.png[/imgzoom]
Should be easy as long as you have watched this before.

Odd thing is that I've never played this game but I've often seen screenshots of it and recognised its art style, so I went to Mobygames and check the screenshot section of that certain game and indeed that's the one.

I do not want to answer this, but I'm sure a number of people here should be able to get the correct answer.

I never saw this, but judging from the description (from what I've read during random web surfing) is it the Total Recall TV series that actually mixed elements from other Philip K. Dick stories such as Blade Runner? (Or, is it the other way round, the Blade Runnerl TV series that actually mixed elements from other Philip K. Dick stories such as Total Recall?)

I thought that's QFG3 at first (but that'd be too easy).
I never played either of QFG3 and Conquests of Camelot (only seeing some screenshots of QFG3) and didn't realise these two games are so close in theme. If not comparing the screenshots of both games to see that they're really different, you'll bet lazy Sierra just reused backgrounds on both games!

All the images in this thread have been been swapped by chinese panda drawings
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=25205.0

Considering that the thread is more than 10 years old, it's reasonable to think that the original image hosting site/hosted images are lost anyway.

Isn't that the origin story of a maniac who wears his underwear outside and has a large S (seems that these alphabets aren't only international, they are intergalactic) on his chest? 

It looks like a certain area in Loom but I think that's not it.

As you already noticed, there is currently no rules on this, so it is quite flexible in how to handle stuff.

Actually past experience was that, after an activity was on hold for some period (either it ended but the winner didn't return to start a new round, or the OP was AWOL without declaring a winner, or no one entered the round), usual solutions were:
1. The OP of the last round decided what to do next, usual choices were a) the OP would start a new round (usually when no one entered) or asked the runner ups to hold the next round instead
2. Someone who's interested volunteered to host a new round (especially when the activity was abandoned for a very long time)
3. The activity just... died... down (either because no one interested, or people have forgotten about it)

Either way, if anyone wants to continue with/resurrect an activity or suggest what to do next, they may just:
1. PM the moderators, or
2. Post in this very thread, or
3. Post in that particular activity's thread
When I see that I'll response ASAP. Though it'd be faster to start right away, to reduce conflicts (such as two people restarting the same activity at the same time) it would still be better to ask for confirmation first.

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Don't have anything in mind at the moment. May post something later, but if anyone feels like it can steal this spot as they like.

Tora he no Michi, AKA Tiger Road.

Consider that their artist is now here (though he's mostly moved to Unity now) there are definitely someone who could recognise it.

I don't know. The art style looks like a game from Bloodlust software. Is it one of their pong games?