Hi Ron,

glad to hear you again. You`re still alive and I hope you have some surprises for us in the not so far future...

Ha! You can see him calling the hint line !

More seriously, this is a little bit pointless, as the guy who finished Morrowind in a bit less than an hour (can't remember the exact time it took him...)

I don't think it's pointless. It makes for a nice little movie. Of course the guy's rushing through the games and not sitting back and enjoying them, but it's the challenge that counts. If I recall, finishing Morrowind in an hour means you have to exploit every flaw and crevice in the gameplay, whereas the guy in the video most probably played everything from start to finish.

Of course it would have been easy for him to just tamper with the clock, but I believe in the honesty of this challenge. Otherwise, what's the point?

Yeah, here is a vid of Morrowind in < 8min: < http://www.archive.org/details/Morrowind_730 >

There should be more classic ScummVM games up on SDA and archive.org already.  If there is an audience for RPGs, then there is an audience for adventure games.

Heh, and that 12/24 vid just made my morning.

I re-played through Monkey Island 1 all night on New Years' Eve once. Is that more, or less nerdy than this guy?

Nope, sorry.  It doesn't count if you don't include Labyrinth, Grim Fandango, and EMI.  Better luck next time!

I think the point was these were all SCUMM games.  I'm not 100% sure of CMI, but I think it was as well.

Yeah, it was.

Yup, the hackiest scumm version ever.

What a stupid thing to say.

all that pc magazines says that you need 40+ hours for monkey island 3....

Actually there is a movie of morrowind being finished in 9.5 minutes.

At new years eve? Yes! Otherwise no.

Lovely. :) And the music's really nice, too - does anyone know if it's possible to get those remixes (I assume they are remixes... are they?) somewhere?

For Zak and MM remixes try http://remix.kwed.org/

How about here :) http://soundtracks.mixnmojo.com/

Ah man, people who give Loom the thumbs down hurt my heart.

didn't wanted to! .. I'm just too sad it's that short :P

The Gone Jackals CD

That video was like my childhood in 2 minutes. Awesome.

This is exactly how time was spent in front of my computer in the early 90's, besides BBS

how quality time spent in front of the computer got wasted by multitask OS

Hey guys, please register for this forum,regristration is kinda slow. Click my name.

The next person to register get to be a moderator

man you rock! some day i will do something as silly as that with a bunch of adventures and friends at new year's eve while a typhoon rocks my house and a stampede of raging rhynos passes my living room at a 24th of july (i'm venezuelan)... Thats a challenge!!!

Either your 'big announcement' will include that you are working on sam&max 2/another new old adventure or it will state that you are leaving the industry...

Well, choose wisely young padawan. You dont want to loose your fans, dont you? ;)


And yes, great Video.

What big announcement?

When your baby is due

It's too bad you can't do that with Sierra games. You'd probably get killed and have to start all over.

Or bored to death.

Yeah, totally unlike Maniac Mansion or Fate of Atlantis.

Wow Ron, that was pretty sweet. I played through several of those in the past few weeks, but I make savepoints before the major cutscenes and such so I can actually watch them. Amazing how much longer it took when you had to invent a way to win. On the Sierra note, I can only imagine watching KQ4 played with all the horrible one-liner deaths, the accidental cliff falls, etc.

I miss the character of the old games. Everything is so easy and graphically pleasurable today, that we are focused more on graphics and 3D surround than actual adventure/gameplay. Plus, the violence has beaten out the cheesy humor and english lovers puns. It is a sad day. :(

On another note:
I don't need a big announcement. Some of the best years of my life have already been consumed by the brainchildren of Ron Gilbert. If anything, I am thankful and in awe. Ron is like Tinkerbell, and until we all believe in Adventure Games, Ron is forced to live in darkness :(

Curse of the Tinkerbell Island!

so that's what it really is about....

or maybe "finding neverland" ?

no, no actually I'm positive it's about becoming an adult stuck in a children's body... no... that was Big starring Tom Hanks. Maybe the secret is that deep inside we are all from the planet of the Apes, thus the curse of being a kid stuck inside a monkey, well stuffed monkeys. Seamonkeys anyone?

Aw man, he didn't save Sophia?

I have an interview with Vogel, the guy who made this video, up on my site here if anyone's interested:

http://www.nervoustestpilot.co.uk/2005/11/nervous-testpilot-meets-vogel.html

Where can I find a link to download this movie?

Just view the source of the page, and you'll see the URL: http://x500.putfile.com/videos/a9-31216291435.wmv

Death TO AMERICA!!! Die american scumm!
Allah is great.

The back of my Monkey Island box promised an average of 30 hours playing time. I want my money back.

He should have thrown Myst in, too, since it's technically possible to finish the game in less than two minutes, start to finish, once you know all the secrets.

My life summed-up.