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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

[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. :)