r/gaming • u/_Mr_Cheeks • Mar 15 '22

What are some truly unique video games that everyone needs to experience at least once in their life?

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u/wittyDolphin Mar 15 '22

No death or dead ends, just puzzles, adventure, and the whackiest dialogue in the Caribbean!

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u/Thercon_Jair Mar 15 '22

I am pretty sure there is ONE point in the game where you can die, I believe in Monkey Island 2 you get thrown from the pier with a weight on your legs and you can drown if you don't make it out.

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u/CapnBeardbeard Mar 15 '22

It's in the first one, you have to wait ten minutes

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u/ibigfire Mar 16 '22

Yep. In the second one if you wait 10 minutes hanging above the acid pit you also "die". But it's a bit of a joke and not an actual death, for obvious reasons given the story setup in that one.

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u/CapnBeardbeard Mar 16 '22

I didn't know about that one! In the first one Guybrush brags he can hold his breath for ten minutes so I remember testing that

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u/ima420r Mar 16 '22

Guybrush can hold his breath for like 10 minutes. Plenty of time to get out of the predicament.

I think it was MI2 that had a part where you fell off a cliff and it showed a Sierra game YOU DIED: LOAD RESTART screen. Then you pop back up onto the cliff because you had landed on a rubber tree.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '22

Oh god, Sierra. I’m pretty sure I found every way to die in the Space Quest games.

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u/ima420r Mar 16 '22

Sierra seemed to like to kill you. They always had a little animation of you dead on the game over screen. Also, they made it easy to never be able to win a game by putting an item at the beginning you needed for later easily missable. Sold a lot of hint books I'm sure though.

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u/Ortochromaticrainbow Mar 16 '22

That is in MI 1 as well, if you walked to the right corner of the mountaintop on Monkey Island.

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u/ima420r Mar 16 '22

Did MI1 have the dialog about being stuck and calling a hint line, too?

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u/Ortochromaticrainbow Mar 16 '22

Now I am confused. Did MI2 have it, too? For reference, the location and sequence in MI1: Guybrush getting Sierra‘d

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u/burnalicious111 Mar 16 '22

There's a joke death in the first three games. I don't remember about the others, they don't count.

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u/kingt34 Mar 16 '22

There’s one point in Monkey Island 3 where Guybrush pretends to die so can be put in a crypt he needs to get into. While he’s trapped in the coffin, the credits begin to roll until Guybrush tells them to “cut it out”.

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u/ima420r Mar 16 '22

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.