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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 8, 2014 17:30:43 GMT -5
www.hardcoregaming101.net/chexquest/chexquest.htmA truly bizarre adver-game, Chex Quest were official mods of the Doom engine provided as a bonus for Chex cereal. It's weird and deranged, but since at its core it's still basically Doom, it's still a very good game.
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Post by Malev on Feb 8, 2014 20:02:37 GMT -5
Title screens for all 3 titles: I just realized we don't have "First Person Shooter" as a genre for the site.
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Post by Narushima on Feb 9, 2014 13:02:44 GMT -5
"Hidden within the sugary-coated grain contents of many a box contained a plastic prize waiting to be played with" > I'd write "many a box was a plastic prize". "Their method of their attack" > "Their method of attack". "All of the weapons many of the items" > "All of the weapons and many of the items" I presume. "scooping up your Chex cereal afterwards (though you might want to wash it afterwards)" > "Afterwards" used twice, the last one could as well be "before". "Chextroplois" > "Chextropolis" "It would take over a decade for a true sequel promised to come to fruition" > Oddly phrased.
The article doesn't say where the 3rd episode tales place. I imagine it's on the monsters' home planet, which would make for a fitting DOOM-like ending, but that should be added.
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Post by Malev on Feb 9, 2014 13:16:56 GMT -5
"Hidden within the sugary-coated grain contents of many a box contained a plastic prize waiting to be played with" > I'd write "many a box was a plastic prize". "Their method of their attack" > "Their method of attack". "All of the weapons many of the items" > "All of the weapons and many of the items" I presume. "scooping up your Chex cereal afterwards (though you might want to wash it afterwards)" > "Afterwards" used twice, the last one could as well be "before". "Chextroplois" > "Chextropolis" "It would take over a decade for a true sequel promised to come to fruition" > Oddly phrased. The article doesn't say where the 3rd episode tales place. I imagine it's on the monsters' home planet, which would make for a fitting DOOM-like ending, but that should be added. It doesn't specify which planet or planets CQ3 takes place, though meteor strikes brough about the Flemoids. Of the 5 stages, it involves the United Cereals' center, a villa, a park, and inside one of the meteors.
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Post by TheChosen on Feb 10, 2014 7:49:02 GMT -5
So this is Chex Quest. I've heard a lot about it, but always thought it would be just some silly kids game. Looks and sounds lot better than I thought.
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Post by J-R on Feb 14, 2014 12:10:01 GMT -5
Kids didn't like chex? So was I the only exception, because I loved chex as a kid. I never ate it at home but at school when they gave out those little cereal bowls. In fact, that's the only cereal in my memory that I remember eating. I do know I ate others but chex seems to be the only one I specifically remembering eating.
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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 14, 2014 12:40:21 GMT -5
I don't really like the cereal, but Chex Mix is pretty great.
I think that would make Chex Quest the second best media tie-in, after that Lonely Island song.
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Post by cambertian on Feb 14, 2014 15:04:12 GMT -5
Kids didn't like chex? So was I the only exception, because I loved chex as a kid. I never ate it at home but at school when they gave out those little cereal bowls. In fact, that's the only cereal in my memory that I remember eating. I do know I ate others but chex seems to be the only one I specifically remembering eating. I always liked really "boring old people" cereal growing up, mostly because I got sick of the really sugary cereals everyone else ate. I never really ate Chex, but I remember liking Banana Nut Crunch and a lot of granola-y cereals.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Feb 14, 2014 19:01:12 GMT -5
My dad had to have had like 10 copies of this. Because we had a lot of people who ate Chex, but like he was the only one who had a computer. But I always liked this game. A lot of fun. Trying to go back and play this some odd years ago was what taught me a little bit of how DOOM works. Because if I do a project it is in the most complicated way possible.
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Post by J-R on Feb 15, 2014 23:09:15 GMT -5
I always liked really "boring old people" cereal growing up, mostly because I got sick of the really sugary cereals everyone else ate. To me, cereal was cereal. Whether it was the sugar coated stuff or regular old corn flakes that I had to put the sugar in myself.
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Post by bladededge on Feb 17, 2014 10:05:37 GMT -5
I adore Chex Quest. Played it to death years and years ago. Was one of my first-ever 'real' computer games. Played it years before I ever played Doom or realized that the game is a Doom mod; first time I played Doom, I thought 'hey, this is just like Chex Quest', not the other way around. Was terrified of the Bazoik Mines level in the same existential dread way that a Daggerfall dungeon works on you. Was crushed when I finally got internet access and went to download that Part 2 advertised on the CD only to find out the website was long gone. Charles Jacobi releasing Chex Quest 3 was a great day, not the least because the third episode actually had something resembling a challenge. Not quite, but almost. The maps really are very easy compared to the stuff Doom modders throw at you.
There was a curiosity from the early days of the internet that might be worth mentioning in the article. There was a 'unfinished Chex Quest 3' prototype that floated around download sites, particularly Home of the Underdogs before the original website went down. The Chex Warrior fought flemoids in old ruined temples and the like, with a custom double-barrelled shotgun graphic and unfinished sound effects. We're talking maybe 1999 - 2001, that kind of era. That .wad was around for a good year or two before someone at HOTU discovered that it was a fake created by putting some custom graphics and Chex Quest graphics into levels ripped from ancient 1994-1995 era Doom mods, particularly eternity.wad. Not sure if anybody still has it for download anywhere. No idea who the author was.
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Post by tbb on Feb 21, 2014 16:39:10 GMT -5
"If this game looks suspiciously like Doom"
Honestly, it looks more like Wolfenstein, regardless of what engine it's running on. Maybe because it's all bright and blue and stuff instead of dark and brown.
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Post by jjc14 on Mar 30, 2014 10:52:45 GMT -5
I vaguely remember hearing about Chex Quest, but wasn't into any cereal at the time and never played it. Seems like it would have fit in quite well with my Doom addiction back then! Minor corrections/suggestions (and repeating some of Narushima's earlier findings): Prior to the Web 2.0 net synergy with usually crappy Flash-made browser game tie-ins for products were the rage, (The phrasing here seems a bit off. Is "when" better than "with"? Or maybe drop "were the rage"?) With a half-a-million budget, the WatersMolitor promo agency seeked out to round up a gaming developer studio to make a kid-friendly Doom game... (Is "sought" better than "seeked out"?) The explosion ruptured the fabric of dimensions and, causing a legion of slimy creatures known as Flemoids to disperse and feast on nutritious food products, causing them to grow in size , and throw the balance of breakfast and peace out of whack. Their method of their attack is to cover you in enough of their gunk to trap you in place-- but no t kill you, because that's not kid-friendly. and the Flemoidus Cycloptis, the same as Doom's Pinky Demons but drawn to appear hovering blobs in a Krang-like UFO with tentacle arms. ("appear as" or "appear like"?) All of the weapons and many of the items from Doom appear with new looks, all three built on the ZDoom source port engine, meaning that it's available upon any system that supports ZDoom or any similarly built source port derivative can run all Chex Quest games within one file without fuss.
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