tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post1363259999103736859..comments2024-03-17T21:28:52.881+00:00Comments on Super Adventures in Gaming: The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (MS-DOS)Ray Hardgrithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-85377919981363634332016-10-09T07:22:22.359+01:002016-10-09T07:22:22.359+01:00No problem!
It's weird to learn that the guy ...No problem!<br /><br />It's weird to learn that the guy in the police station wasn't speaking perfect German, as he was convincing enough for me. I'm just going to go ahead and believe that he was deliberately making it harder for Gabriel to understand him. I can also believe that Klingmann is the one doctor in the country who feels very strongly about having both titles preceding his name at all times. I guess that's a sign of good acting.<br /><br />I actually looked up Marienplatz in Google Maps street view when I was trying to use the address I had to find the hunting club, and yep they definitely used photographs of the real location in game. I wasn't able to get a view of where I needed to be exactly because the Google van wasn't allowed down there, but it was cool to see how accurate the game was. If a game's going to force me to spend 30 seconds walking down a street each way its nice to know that it's authentic at least. <br /><br />I appreciated the 'stranger in a strange land' aspect as well, and it's a shame if the third game dropped it because I like the idea of Gabriel finally learning enough German to get by and then having to go to France where he's clueless again. I heard that the fourth game would've been set in Britain, so that would've been good too. He'd come over here knowing the language perfectly and then get tripped up by the accents.Ray Hardgrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18436491500347661133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-46856209443378153982016-10-08T16:34:22.457+01:002016-10-08T16:34:22.457+01:00These FMV adventures always remind me of Knightmar...These FMV adventures always remind me of <i>Knightmare</i>.<br /><br />I would play a game about <i>Mortal Kombat</i> fighters going on holidays in Europe. That would be ace.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2068112306642079190.post-32706468654767447572016-10-07T09:51:04.290+01:002016-10-07T09:51:04.290+01:00Thanks for doing one of my requests ;)
Actually i...Thanks for doing one of my requests ;)<br /><br />Actually it should read "Die furchterregenden Kindermorde" in that prologue manuscript. It's funny, the german in this game is all over the place in terms of quality: Sometimes it's hopelessly mangled (The police inspector in Prinzregentenplatz being a prime example of that), while at other times it's practically impeccable (like the newspaper article about the escaped "Killer wolves", for example; even though it's weird that for the Klingmann-puzzle you're required to have him say "HERR Doktor" - it's generally used as a term of adress, I don't know any german Doctor who actually refers to himself as "Herr Doktor" :p ). Being geman myself, this game was a great source of unintended comedy.<br /><br />But on the other hand the photography was really well done; they shot on location, the put in some lovingly authentic details (like the "Jagdschein"/"Hunting License", or using the actual map of the Munich U-Bahn-system of the time for acessing the locations), and personally I found the whole angle of Gabriel being a "stranger in a strange land" who doesn't speak the language but needs to find his way around very intriguing (though they dropped that for the third game).<br /><br />Again, thanks for playing the game a bit. It was very interesting for me to get an opinion of a non-german-speaker on the whole affair. Personally, I liked the game, but having grown up in Bavaria and living in Munich myself, I couldn't help but notice all these quirks at every little corner, and I always wondered how an audience completely unfamiliar with all of this might feel about the game.El despertandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12760941024574852525noreply@blogger.com