By Jim Rossignol on April 14th, 2011 at 2:16 pm.
I have no idea whether The Next Big Thing will be the next big thing for adventure games, because I haven’t had time to play the demo of the game. You might have time, eh? You might even have the inclination. If that’s the case you’ll be pleased to hear that Pendulo Studios’ new game features lots of Hollywood-based hilarity, and the demo kicks that off as “Liz stubmles (sic) upon some suspicious activity. She witnesses the famous Hollywood monster actor Big Albert breaking into the office of his boss, Fitz Randolph, who also happens to be the biggest horror movie producer in the biz.” Gosh!
Yeah.
14/04/2011 at 14:28 patricij says:
Right.
14/04/2011 at 14:32 Wulf says:
I’m going to have to revoke your right to imitate Fred Wester if you don’t do a better job of it, put some feeling into it!
14/04/2011 at 15:10 Fred Wester CEO of Paradox says:
Listen to this man, try harder next time.
Right.
14/04/2011 at 15:22 Dzamir says:
Left.
14/04/2011 at 15:39 patricij says:
Riiiiiiiiight?
14/04/2011 at 14:39 Teddy Leach says:
I stubmle everywhere I go.
14/04/2011 at 14:39 Richard Beer says:
This reminds me of a murder-mystery dinner I once had (typos and all). In short, I think you may need to be seriously pissed before it becomes entertaining.
14/04/2011 at 14:47 sassy says:
Typos like stubmles have a way of making people seriously pissed! Does that count?
14/04/2011 at 14:51 Richard Beer says:
Only in Americaland!
14/04/2011 at 18:15 PopeBob says:
Silly britons and ausfellows with your older but somehow more wrong understanding of the word pissed.
14/04/2011 at 14:43 Giant, fussy whingebag says:
I actually enjoyed the Runaway games, despite them being terribly derivative and probably quite bad… So I’ll give this a go.
15/04/2011 at 19:26 TheSquarePear says:
Me too.
The series has the most varied characters I have seen e.g. singing waiters, loner biologist and bonkers scientist. I loved the spoof of Close Encounters …
Shame that the third one was kind of underproduced (ok story, great characters but the art/engine was a little lacking) after the second one was kind of overexposed considering that adventure games are niche in all but France.
Why has the third one just appeared on Steam now? Its been out for a while on amazon uk at least thats where I got it.
Nice to see they’ve got a full pack on Steam though.
14/04/2011 at 15:06 pakoito says:
It’s Hollywood Monsters 2. Hollywood Monsters was one of the best point-and-click adventures back in the day, it should be adressed in the post:
OST: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4X26swfVg
INTRO (spanish): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23UAIIIgB4
TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tay9dBQrBIY
14/04/2011 at 15:35 Sergey Galyonkin says:
Thank you, dear sir!
You’ve pushed me into depths of abandonware and spanish tutors!
14/04/2011 at 15:45 pakoito says:
Yeah I couldn’t find the stuff in english. I’m not even sure the game was released in that language in fact.
EDIT: Wikipedia says it did.
15/04/2011 at 19:05 Acorino says:
Wikipedia is wrong then. It never was.
14/04/2011 at 15:43 A-Scale says:
What happened to the scout’s head?
14/04/2011 at 16:08 Rowsdower says:
Agreed,
Whenever I see that photo all I fall into a momentary laps of thinking that its TF2′s scout having a wash.
14/04/2011 at 15:45 Wallace says:
The backgrounds look nice, but- and maybe there’s something lost in translation here- but a lot of the dialogue seems a bit awkward, when it isn’t drowning under exposition. Plus Liz’s idiosyncrasies- because she’s set up as the wacky one- seem a bit much.
14/04/2011 at 16:08 stahlwerk says:
Alt-F4? That’s no way to treat an innocent, non-suspecting executable!
14/04/2011 at 16:40 Sergey Galyonkin says:
I’ve just played this demo. Nothing extraordinary: more polished, better served, but still a Pendulo’s game. If you liked Runaway, you’ll like this as well, if not – don’t bother.
Also, it is really short, like 15 minutes or so.
14/04/2011 at 18:48 patricij says:
No way I’m downloading a demo for fifteen bloody minutes…uurgh
14/04/2011 at 17:47 Daz says:
The guy in the pic looks like the medic from tf2, just sayin’ ;)
14/04/2011 at 20:11 stahlwerk says:
No, it’s quinns, as was decreed last time.
14/04/2011 at 21:29 lowprices says:
I loved Runaway. Camp, tasteless, full of offensive stereotypes and dumb as fuck. Please tell me this is as entertainingly bad.
15/04/2011 at 20:01 TheSquarePear says:
Runaway might be dumb as fuck (it probably is) but consider the average level of intelligence outside adventure games. Where does the average FPS such as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or Crysis place on your Video Game Intelligence scale?
To pick a completely different genre try Fallout 3 which was about as intelligent as cardboard.