With a name like Captain Blood, I was expecting something more piratey. But hey, I like space games! Looks very 'Alien'.
What?
Okay, I guess I...
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Figured it out! All you have to do is navigate the fractal planetscape using the markers. Simple!
So... I win, right?
Okay I give up.
My uncle bought an Amiga when it was rarer than the Atari ST - in the early days. Capatin Blood, we used to keep loading this game up, just to see the impressive sounds and graphics, faff around trying to play it then giving up - go back to Defender Of the Crown. This must the worlds all time wierdest game!
ReplyDeleteThis game has one interesting concept, in the last screenshot what you are supposed to do is to communicate with a memeber of an intelligent alien species without the usual magical scifi translator that turns every alien burb and gargle into pefect flawless english.
ReplyDeleteInstead you try to get a conversation going with these symbol cards (if you move the mouse pointer hand over a card, a popup text tells you what idea that card is supposed to convey, so it's not as maddening as it looks) .
You make sentece out of several cards and then the other guy answers with his cards.
I seriously doubt there would have been any kind of actual chatbot AI to talk with in a game this old, so most likely the game degenerated into the usual "try to guess what excat sentence the parser want's you to input to continue" -bullshit text adventure hell, but still it is a pretty novel idea.
To see and "hear" the most unique conversation interface in gaming history in action, I recomend watching this video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkpo4RBSqoU