Retrospective: Grim Fandango
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Absolute quality game! Picked up a copy for peanuts a few years back with a view to having a nostalgic playthru - turned out one of the disks was missing though 
Not seen it for many years but i'm guessing the artwork still looks good, love that style.
Not seen it for many years but i'm guessing the artwork still looks good, love that style.
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"Item supplied in Public Domain format, provided as-is and in a clear protective wallet."
That one?
It will play, you need a modded launcher/installer I believe.
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Grim, Throttle and Tentacle. The holy trinity of the adventure genre.
Rest in Peace - I dare not dig you up in case you don't match up to my memories!
Rest in Peace - I dare not dig you up in case you don't match up to my memories!
Good call on them 3, Modern adventures (rubbish investigation types) dont have any substance. Even the monkey Island follow on recently looked poor IMO. I do like the Broken Sword games and recently completed Broken Sword DC on my iphone
The controls weren't great but poor is harsh. The only blot on an otherwise impeccable game.
Meh, the controls weren't that bad. Similar to but better than Resident Evil's, in my opinion.
This was the final hoorah of the point-and-click adventure, trying to fight against the surging tide that was 3D. It worked wonderfully with Grim Fandango. It failed miserably with Escape From Monkey Island.
This was the final hoorah of the point-and-click adventure, trying to fight against the surging tide that was 3D. It worked wonderfully with Grim Fandango. It failed miserably with Escape From Monkey Island.
Want to sell it?
You could not afford it
but joking aside maybe as I also have another copy in the Lucasarts 4 Pack as well so I guess PM with your sensible offer bearing in mind I do not need to sell it!
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Obscure puzzle make the game, it would be boring to rush through and not have to work anything out, or having to try different combinations to see the results. The useless controls are dwarfed by the plot, characters, music and art direction.
For anyone interested, here's Tim Schafer's puzzle document from 1996.
http://www.orderoftheflame.co.uk/RandomImages/Grim-Fandango-Puzzle-Document.pdf
Lots of extra content detailed that didn't make it into the game.
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Classic game, hope it makes it onto GOG someday, wouldn't mind giving it another playthrough if it ever does.
I always failed to this 'classic' game to work for me under windows 7. Which was a shame, as I'd love to replay the whole 4 year story.
Excellent game Tim Schafer really did excel with this one..!! Even today I'm sure the graphics, music and whole production would stand up well against many of the latest crop of so called 3D graphic adventures..
Might have another go, still got the media disc for this somewhere. Lost the big box years ago, purchased it on day of release....
Excellent game Tim Schafer really did excel with this one..!! Even today I'm sure the graphics, music and whole production would stand up well against many of the latest crop of so called 3D graphic adventures..
Might have another go, still got the media disc for this somewhere. Lost the big box years ago, purchased it on day of release....
This thread did, I have the install CD's. I installed it last night, using an installer that works under Windows 7 and fired up Grim Fandango...
It really has aged well IMO. Sadly, stuck at 640 x 480 4:3 screen but doesn't really take away from the game...
Worked perfectly fine with my 360 gamepad, sadly game still crashes to desktop....