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[norfolkian]

Name: Norfolkian
Age: 33
Location: West Midlands, UK

Describe yourself in five sentences or less:
I have an undergraduate degree in English Lit and a Masters in History. I'm apparently the sort of person who describes myself using my academic achievements... I love my small urban garden, growing vegetables and cooking with them. I am a novice archer, having taken up the sport in January this year. I would like more Dreamwidth friends. :)

Top 5 Fandoms:
Star Wars
Star Trek
Point and Click Adventure Games
Gardening
Stand-up comedy

I mostly post about:
My life and stuff that inspires/excites me.

My last three posts were about:
Random stuff about my day and deleting my LJ.

How often do you post? How about commenting?
My Dreamwidth journal is very new - I didn't import any LJ stuff over because I have decided to start afresh. So, I haven't made many entries yet, but I'm going to try and post at least once a week, if not more.

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Comments

[divinemusings]

I'll give you an add if you're interested. :D

[norfolkian]

Sure! :)

[albijuli]

I'd like to send you an add, too.

[norfolkian]

Please do! :)

[medleymisty]

You sound cool! :) *sends you an add as well*

[norfolkian]

Added you back! :)

[zhelana]

Also have an MA in history after changing from an undergrad anthro major. :) Shall we?

[norfolkian]

Let's!

[catness]

You're the first here to mention P&C adventure games - they are my biggest obsession! Want to be friends? (Even though I don't care for gardening ;)

[norfolkian]

Sure! What are your favourite P&C adventure games? My ultimate favourite is Monkey Island, followed by Syberia (excited for Syberia 3 being released soon!) and the Blackwell games. :)

[catness]

I love Monkey Island (is it possible not to love it?), and I really enjoyed both Syberia series (yay for the upcoming 3rd part!) and Blackwell series. My favourite has to be Gabriel Knight 1 & 2 by Sierra (the 3rd one was not quite as good) and (*blush*) Leisure Suit Larry series ;) But of course there's a lot of other excellent adventure games out there, both classic and modern. Especially notable (IMHO) modern games: The Walking Dead (still haven't got around to playing the 2nd season, the 1st one was so intense) and The Wolf Among Us by Telltale; Primordia by Wadjet Eye Games; Edna: Breakout and Deponia by Daedalic Entertainment; Machinarium by Amanita Design; Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons by Starbreeze (not pure point&click, but awesome emotional content)... Damn, it's no good, I would just prattle about games for hours. LOL.

[norfolkian]

Ooh, there's plenty there that I haven't played yet! Primordia was amazing and in fact I've played all the Wadjet Eye Games, I think. I've not played Deponia yet but played a couple of the Daedalic games including the Whispered World, which I quite enjoyed on the whole, but didn't like the ending. Have you played Broken Age?

[catness]

LOL, our work is never done - so many classic games, still unplayed, and so many new games are released every year :)

The Whispered World was enjoyable except for the protagonist - that whiny kid was easily one of the most annoying characters ever! Though I had played it a long time ago, and can't remember all the gory details - only that he has a talent to turn any innocuous item description into a depression-fest. (Hell, I know how to do that myself - I play games to escape from being me ;)

Haven't played Broken Age yet, have you? It's on my wishlist, but I'm wary of tedious repetitive gameplay mentioned in the reviews. Over years I got spoiled with easy streamlined games, and I no longer have patience (or time...) for beating my head against the wall. Of course, there are always walkthroughs, but it's not a lot of fun when you can't make any progress without looking for hints...

I had played another Tim Schafer's game - "Psychonauts", which is technically a 3D platformer, but it's reasonably easy even with my lousy reflexes which force me to stick with point&click. Psychonauts is an awesome game - so wacky and funny, with great attention to details. If you don't mind some platforming, you should give it a try.

Oh and I forgot another of my favourite P&C games: the hilarious series about Ben & Dan ("Ben There, Dan That", and "Time Gentlemen, Please"). These are indie games with (intentionally?) horrible primitive graphics, which discouraged me at first, but brilliant writing makes up for that. This is one of the rarer games where I actually enjoyed using everything on everything, because of the funny messages, unique for each object combination.

[norfolkian]

I agree about the protagonist of The Whispered World. I didn't find Broken Age too tedious and repetitive and I seem to remember only having to consult a walkthrough once which for me is amazing. Sometimes I am pretty rubbish at seeing the obvious! Actually, there were a couple of tedious/repetitive bits that I've just remembered about. But it was still on the whole enjoyable. I really liked the story, although again I wasn't so keen on the ending.

I have lousy reflexes too, which is why I enjoy point and click so much!

I've tried Ben & Dan, but didn't get very far with it before I lost interest, but maybe I need to try again.

I'd recommend 1954 Alcatraz from Daedalic if you haven't played that. It's a fun 'escape from Alcatraz' game with multiple possible endings. I quite recently played Shardlight (Wadjet Eye) which is really good if you like post-apocalyptic type games. Oh, and I also recently played Broken Sword 5, which had a very absorbing storyline and was pretty much as good as Broken Swords 1&2, in my opinion. :)

[catness]

Good to hear about Broken Age - gotta grab it sooner! I loved Broken Sword 5 too, although I don't care much about George Stobbart (this protagonist seems too self-conceited...), but the story was wonderful. LOL, I remember starting Alkatraz but losing interest or getting distracted or something... I should (restart and) finish it. The problem is that it doesn't work under Linux, even under the emulator. I have dual-boot with Windows, mostly for games, but it's too annoying to boot to another OS on a regular basis, so Windows-only games require more commitment from me than usual, and I feel more guilty about gaming my time away when I should be doing something useful. (Which is, like, always ;) but under my regular working environment, I can always convince myself that it's just for a brief break, even if several hours fly by before I even notice ;)

Oh right, I haven't played Shardlight yet! Dystopia/post-apocalyptic is one of my favourite genres. (Just recently played Dead Synchronicity - yet another great post-apocalyptic Daedalic game, except for the weird art style and ending on a cliffhanger.) But I usually wait till the price drops. With my backlog of games, already owned but never played / not finished / games I intend to replay but never get around to, it's only reasonable... (I have an eye on Thimbleweed Park by Ron Gilbert, but this one can also wait.)

[norfolkian]

I have my eye on Thimbleweed Park too, but haven't bought it yet! I did recently buy the remastered Day of the Tentacle but I haven't got round to playing it yet (I have played the original before though). I do have a penchant for 16-bit graphics!

Yeah, I agree about George Stobbart - he is very conceited and on a couple of occasions comes across as a bit sexist.

[catness]

Right, I'm considering the remastered DoTT too (the original game was awesome), as well as Full Throttle and Grim Fandango... so many old classics are getting a facelift. So far, I've played the remastered Gabriel Knight, and Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded - they both were quite enjoyable and nostalgic, but didn't recapture the excitement of playing the game for the first time... well, that was to be expected.

Btw are you on Steam? I'm catness. Half of my games are on GOG, but I'm not using GOG Galaxy.

[norfolkian]

Yes, I'm on Steam and I've added you. :)

[plicease]

History vegetables and archery sounds like a good place to start.

[norfolkian]

Added you. :)

[greyduck81]

Hi, I've just added you as well. I'm an American but currently living in Warwickshire while I work on my PhD. My subject is politics, and I tend to post about that a lot, but also sometimes about English literature, which is my other great love. I'm also new on Dreamwidth and hoping to find some new friends here :)

[norfolkian]

Politics is good - I am quite political but not that great at articulating my thoughts on the subject, but I like to read other people's writings on it. Added you back! :)

[olivia_beige]

English Lit and History sound very interesting! I'd love to subscribe to you, please. :D

[norfolkian]

Of course, please do. :)