Comments on: Three Cards To Midnight

By: FLUKE

FLUKE — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:57:14 +0000

im so dam happy that they went away from microsoft and continued to make another company!! i know it isnt going to be anything like the tex murphy series but i think that these guys are so creative that this game will rock!
Im also hoping that they make so much dam money off this that they may be able to buy back tex murphy from microsoft (cause god knows why they have it since they arnt making another game) and continue the series where the tex murphy radio series finishes!!

please support this game no matter what and tell all of your friends and even punch those people in the face who burn this game and tex may continue!!

By: Pseudonym

Pseudonym — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:46:31 +0000

Aww, I was hoping for a conclusion to the cliffhanger ending of Overseer.

Also, I’d like to add QFG IV and GK II to the list of games that used tarot but did not suck.

By: salty-horse

salty-horse — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:37:17 +0000

Mo, “five death cards.. I wonder what that means.”

Andrew, maybe everyone’s laughing because it’s always “due soon” :D

By: Andrew Farrell

Andrew Farrell — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:39:51 +0000

The sequel to Fool’s Errand is due soon, too!

Wait, what’d I say? Why’s everyone laughing?

By: Mo

Mo — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:11:32 +0000

Re: tarot cards
Don’t forget Curse of Monkey Island and the awesome Madame Xema …
“It says: Madame Exema”
“Madame Zeema. MADAME ZEEMA! MADAME ZEEMA! MADAME ZEEMA!”
I love that game. :)

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:31:14 +0000

Zeus (and Ozzie—GK struck the serious/funny balance perfectly) nailed it.

Here’s to hopin’. Under a Killing Moon was good.

By: CdrJameson

CdrJameson — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:15:30 +0000

If omitting humour made you Poe-faced, that’d be fine though.

By: Esha

Esha — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:05:53 +0000

This leaves me very excited, I was a huge fan of the Tex Murphy characters back in the day. Golden days when many development houses weren’t absolutely convinced that well developed characters scare and confuse their potential audience, and that such characters should be replaced by a one-dimensional personality that’s entirely written around the person’s moniker (yes Crisis, I’m talking about you).

So, Tex Murphy.

Those games were grand, and surprisingly they weren’t “funny” per se, either. The funny was there because Tex himself was a very funny person, he made us laugh. At least the “us” who played those games. The games themselves though did have more serious undertones, and at some points they were actually very touching. The Tex Murphy games had this… distinct slice of life nature about them, and the people within the game’s World were very much alive. And the Tex Murphy games were always pretty much centered around the cast.

So I can see that their new game might not be entirely for yuks either, it’s probably going to be a tale about the human equation, and that’s not such a bad thing if it’s done right. In fact, it tickles my transhumanist tendencies, which is always nice. If it can tickle them as much as A Moment of Silence did though, I’ll be impressed.

Still… excited! I see potential. Potential is good. I’m surprised that I don’t feel at all jaded about this proposition. But then again, these are the Tex Murphy chaps, and much as Mr. Walker does – I trust them. I trust them to do this right.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:26:40 +0000

Zeus, you describe exactly my reaction to the game. “Hooray! Oh wait. Uh oh. Well, maybe.”

By: Ozzie

Ozzie — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:27:43 +0000

Did they ever play Gabriel Knight?
You know, humor is something that many people naturally bring into conversations. When you cut that out the drama may feel artificial.

I never played a Tex Murphy game, but heard good things about them.
Well, let’s see how it turns out!!

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:22:01 +0000

I wonder if Big Finish will have anything to say about the name…

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:21:53 +0000

BTW the answer is ASTROLOGICAL, unsurprisingly…

(Aquarius, Pisces, Sagittarius, Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, Virgo, Gemini, Aries, Capricorn, Cancer, Libra)