Comments on: Eurogamer Retrospective: The Dig

By: Lucky Main Street

Lucky Main Street — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:13:38 +0000

Man, I hate loose end threads!

By: Phil White

Phil White — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:27:05 +0000

Did you ever play Star Trek: A Final Unity, John?

By: Ozzie

Ozzie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:11:15 +0000

Yeah, I’m curious, too.
Does he mean the one in MI1? The fake one in MI3? Or the countless ones in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis?
Not to forget, every Lucasfilm Games adventure before MI did let you die quite often.

By: Lucky Main Street

Lucky Main Street — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:59:40 +0000

As a person who has only played some of these games, I’m absolutely dying with curiosity: what is the other “famous” LucasArts death?

By: SPEEDCORE

SPEEDCORE — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:01:56 +0000

Wow 1995? Has it been that long?!?!

Ahh mid 90’s gaming :)

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:08:23 +0000

I have to say that I hated The Dig. It was a po-faced, melodramatic, Spielburgian mess (hello, forced happy ending), with writing so clumsy you’d think George Lucas himself were behind it.

I honestly can’t figure why you people like it, other than chronic starvation of LucasArts games which are not zany.

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:45:40 +0000

Tricky, add to that you can press escape to skip animations like the tram close-n-roll.

Almost makes you wonder why they didn’t include a map that you could use to hop to previously visited areas quickly rather than via the arduous trams (or even the frustration lightbridges, especially when you forget which spire is which).

By: Tricky

Tricky — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:04:21 +0000

Fired this up last night for the first time in years, thanks to this article – nice one, John.

Oh, by the way John, I realised last night that we knew the planet was called Cocytus, not just because of the novelisation, but because when you look on the back of the original CD case insert, it says “Greetings from Cocytus”!

By the way, for those of you complaining that the game is too slow because you’re waiting for your character to walk somewhere:

a) Have some patience
or
b) Did you realise that if you double click on an exit, instead of having to wait for the character to walk there, the screen will fade to black and immediately take you to that location? It’s something Lucasarts started doing in all of their later point-and-click adventures.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:42:16 +0000

Zero tolerance for the mindless snobbery against Soderbergh’s interpretation of Solaris. It’s an absolutely stunning film, Clooney’s remarkable in it, and those dismissing it because of Tarkovsky’s are being ridiculous. You may prefer the original film, but it’s completely ludicrous to pretend Soderbergh’s is bad, let alone deserving of such derision.

By: Dzamir

Dzamir — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:57:29 +0000

@John Walker:
If you use the machine 2 times, you can have other 2 crystals :-)

By: squadman

squadman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:18:15 +0000

I picked this up, along with many other LucasArts games, when they were recently re-released on discs. They were cheap (even for Australian games) at $10 each. Still no where near the end of the game, so I haven’t read the whole article… but it’s a nice reminder that I need to go back and finish it. I think that this game and Full Throttle are the only two LucasArts point and click adventures I have yet to finish.

Glad to see they are getting some love again these days from a new audience!

By: tikey

tikey — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:52:58 +0000

And there was never a movie with George Clooney, and I’m pretty sure I’m not trying to erase all memories of it.
There is a fascinating movie made by Tarkovsky in the ’70s, that’s for sure.