Classic
So, I saw the new Indiana Jones movie on Monday with sakusha, and she pointed out that it totally is in keeping with the continuity established by the Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures (don't worry - the only spoilery part is behind a cut).
You see, way way back when (probably back when we had our old family Windows 95 computer), one of the games we had for it was the aforementioned Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures. It came on a floppy disk and used animation of very low bit, and had scrolling screens like in GameBoy Pokemon or the old Nintendo games. You could move using the arrow keys and used your weapon by hitting the spacebar.
It was totally and completely awesome. There were a bunch of different adventures, and they came up at random. The world maps were also more or less random, so you didn't just memorize the layout for each quest. At the start, Marcus Brody would tell you what you were trying to recover and give you an artifact to start you off. You'd pick up a random weapon from your house, then look for a map in the area immediately surrounding the town.
The only people who lived in the town were you, Marcus, the woman who ran the bar, and an herb-selling guy with a stall. Marcus wasn't any help after you'd talked to him that first time. But the bartender lady would occasionally give you bananas if you bugged her (you could use them to restore some of your health). Once in a while she'd give you some tequila, but the only thing that did was take a little off your health bar.
The herb guy would give you some mega-healing Yerba Buena ("good herb") if you went to him, but only when your health bar had gotten down to the red zone, so you couldn't really stock up (he wouldn't give you more if you had some in your inventory, either).
You got to fight all kinds of creatures - specifically, snakes, tarantulas, the occasional jaguar, and assorted Nazis and bandits. You'd also solve puzzles by pushing stone blocks around. Ah, the classics.
But the point of bringing up all this now is that in one of the adventures' endings, you meet some aliens at the end and get to go off with them in their spaceship. Actually, an alien appears in one of the other adventures' endings too, but in that one he just thanks you and beams away.
So Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is totally a painstakingly crafted piece which pays tribute to the continuity laid out by its proud Desktop Adventures predecessor. I am delighted.
You see, way way back when (probably back when we had our old family Windows 95 computer), one of the games we had for it was the aforementioned Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures. It came on a floppy disk and used animation of very low bit, and had scrolling screens like in GameBoy Pokemon or the old Nintendo games. You could move using the arrow keys and used your weapon by hitting the spacebar.
It was totally and completely awesome. There were a bunch of different adventures, and they came up at random. The world maps were also more or less random, so you didn't just memorize the layout for each quest. At the start, Marcus Brody would tell you what you were trying to recover and give you an artifact to start you off. You'd pick up a random weapon from your house, then look for a map in the area immediately surrounding the town.
The only people who lived in the town were you, Marcus, the woman who ran the bar, and an herb-selling guy with a stall. Marcus wasn't any help after you'd talked to him that first time. But the bartender lady would occasionally give you bananas if you bugged her (you could use them to restore some of your health). Once in a while she'd give you some tequila, but the only thing that did was take a little off your health bar.
The herb guy would give you some mega-healing Yerba Buena ("good herb") if you went to him, but only when your health bar had gotten down to the red zone, so you couldn't really stock up (he wouldn't give you more if you had some in your inventory, either).
You got to fight all kinds of creatures - specifically, snakes, tarantulas, the occasional jaguar, and assorted Nazis and bandits. You'd also solve puzzles by pushing stone blocks around. Ah, the classics.
But the point of bringing up all this now is that in one of the adventures' endings, you meet some aliens at the end and get to go off with them in their spaceship. Actually, an alien appears in one of the other adventures' endings too, but in that one he just thanks you and beams away.
So Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is totally a painstakingly crafted piece which pays tribute to the continuity laid out by its proud Desktop Adventures predecessor. I am delighted.