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Post by lionelritchie on Oct 5, 2010 21:44:14 GMT -5
16 colors? you CRAZY? the game is 256 colors. and you didn't quite understood it it was a very good game for the time, and it was very fast. if you screwed it wans't much trouble to restart, unlike in sierra games. and this stuff about it's all in mike's mind was introduced in darkseed 2 only, darkseed 1 was really pulp science fiction stuff. great game with a few flaws.
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Post by derboo on Oct 6, 2010 1:20:22 GMT -5
16 colors? you CRAZY? the game is 256 colors. No, it's not. It's 100% 16 colors on each screen (though the palette changes from screen to screen, so the game has more colors overall, just never ever displayed more than 16 at once.)
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 6, 2010 12:12:23 GMT -5
Hey, what's with that Chrono Trigger music at the end of Dark Seed 2?
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Post by Discoalucard on Oct 6, 2010 16:32:24 GMT -5
16 colors? you CRAZY? the game is 256 colors. and you didn't quite understood it Open a screenshot in any graphics program and run a color count function. It will not be higher than 16. It was popular at the time because the rules of a "good" adventure game hadn't quite been set in stone. There are nearly universally recognized traits nowadays that have been established, in hindsight, and Dark Seed breaks almost all of them. Oh, and the stuff about the Dark World only being in Mike's mind was made more explicit in Dark Seed 2, but you could apply the same to the first game. It's just far, far more subtle.
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Post by Ike on Oct 6, 2010 17:30:21 GMT -5
yeah.
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Post by Ike on Oct 6, 2010 21:42:09 GMT -5
I just watched all of this for the third time. Maybe it's because just watching someone else play removes all of the tedium of having to figure out these arcane puzzles but this game is just fascinating to me.
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Post by Discoalucard on Oct 6, 2010 21:50:07 GMT -5
There is something bizarrely fascinating about the way the events play out, it has a very strange atmosphere. Like I think I wrote, it seems more out of ineptitude than anything deliberate, but it's entrancing nonetheless.
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Post by lionelritchie on Oct 6, 2010 22:55:14 GMT -5
16 colors indeed. truly amazing what they did with 16 colors.
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Post by Ganelon on Oct 7, 2010 8:18:21 GMT -5
You have to take in mind that this was in VGA so the resolution will throw you off from the limited colors.
Dark Seed is a classic but the sequel really ruins the beauty of the first. It's more cheesy than surreal and kills the ending.
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 7, 2010 13:27:48 GMT -5
Someone should do an interview with the guy that did the music so he can explain why is that Chrono Trigger song in the ending of DS2.
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Post by chevluh on Oct 7, 2010 14:20:24 GMT -5
Someone should do an interview with the guy that did the music so he can explain why is that Chrono Trigger song in the ending of DS2. There's no Chrono Trigger song in the ending of DS2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzFPc8d8H-c
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 7, 2010 15:19:44 GMT -5
This is fake then? Maybe its from one of the other versions of the game, the Amiga version maybe?
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Post by derboo on Oct 7, 2010 16:31:28 GMT -5
Fake (There is no Amiga version of part 2, btw).
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Post by ReyVGM on Oct 7, 2010 16:42:26 GMT -5
Twist!
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Post by Chabo on Dec 13, 2010 11:53:38 GMT -5
The American cover of Darkseed 2 is not really the American one. It's from a European release (Spanish, to be specific. The cover is completely translated to Spanish)
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