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Post by Discoalucard on Dec 5, 2009 12:36:06 GMT -5
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Post by Strider on Dec 5, 2009 13:08:48 GMT -5
What's with the captions on the images? None of the other articles on the site use them.
- HC
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Post by derboo on Dec 5, 2009 13:19:04 GMT -5
Vagrant Story does (and my own Shadow of Destiny article). I figured in an article about a single game that has only been released on a single platform, there wouldn't be much need to tell below every image that it indeed shows "Rex Nebular (PC)".
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Dec 6, 2009 12:07:02 GMT -5
I quite like there to be pic captions in articles.
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Post by Atma on Dec 6, 2009 21:44:40 GMT -5
With a game name like this, I'm very surprised I have never heard of it. I must hunt this one down.
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Post by wyrdwad on Dec 7, 2009 6:49:58 GMT -5
End of the article cuts off mid-sentence, and has a lot of grammatical issues. Other than that, though, interesting read - never heard of this game before.
-Tom
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Post by derboo on Dec 7, 2009 7:05:02 GMT -5
(Almost) every paragraph cuts of mid-sentence, that's my shtick for the article (makes somewhat sense after the first five or so paragraphs).  The first sentence in the last paragraph is indeed messed up, though. Here's a corrected version: As soon as the game's weaknesses, most prominently the unconventional interface and the ridiculously low difficulty level in the beginning are overcome, Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender becomes quite strong in the latter half. EDIT: I also noticed I managed to mistype "Colonel" as "Coleonel" |
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Post by kyouki on Dec 7, 2009 9:31:03 GMT -5
I hate to be negative about this, but I find it really difficult to read this with the thing you have going on. I understand why you did it, but I just find it to be really distracting.
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Post by wyrdwad on Dec 7, 2009 10:32:08 GMT -5
That's what I get for skimming. I only noticed the end of the article. (:
-Tom
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Dec 8, 2009 4:11:53 GMT -5
I remember seeing a this game mentioned a bit in the PC game mags of the day, but never played it.
As I recall, there was a Phantom of the Opera themed game released that used the same engine. Forget what it was called, and only ever saw ads for it.
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Post by derboo on Dec 8, 2009 6:09:13 GMT -5
That was Return of the Phantom.
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Post by blackdrazon on Dec 11, 2009 23:41:30 GMT -5
"22-pages strong booklet of flavour text shipped with the game, written by no one less than Steve Meretzky"
Oh man, could Meretzky ever write bonus material. Planetfall came with a training manual for Stellar Patrol recruits and it was hilarious from front to back. The absolute highlight was the multiple choice aptitude test that asks questions about the fictional universe you couldn't possibly answer, if it weren't for the fact that every question inadvertently answers another.
EDIt: At least, I assume he wrote it. It was his game but you never know.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Mar 20, 2014 0:14:12 GMT -5
I'm surprised it hit GOG in the first place, even moreso when looking at who published it. And then I found out that Tommo apparently bought all of Humongous Entertainment as well as some assorted Atari/Infogrames/MicroProse/Accolade/GT titles, including Bubsy of all things. (source: docs.bmcgroup.com/Atari/nysb_1-13-bk-10176_313.pdf --- thanks to the GOG forums!) |
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Post by coaxial on Mar 23, 2014 21:56:43 GMT -5
Cool article, I knew about the game but hadn't played through it yet so I looked it up on youtube. I love the old point and click adventure games and started making one once upon a time. The driving cutscene reminded me of a part in my game where you take a delorean for a spin. I'm definitely going to have to play it now. |
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Post by drpepperfan on Oct 21, 2014 17:08:35 GMT -5
Night Dive Studios are at it again: They just rereleased Rex Nebular on Steam as part of a Classic Adventure pack, along with BloodNet, Darklands, Dragonsphere and Sword of the Samurai. Which is cool. store.steampowered.com/sub/53022/ |
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