ok, I guess im just confused coz the different MI games have different ways of skipping
Escape is delete (well thats what I set it for)
Tales is right click
and some lines of dialogue in Curse can be skipped with esc but the majority can only be skipped with the full stop
ok, I guess im just confused coz the different MI games have different ways of skipping
Escape is delete (well thats what I set it for)
Tales is right click
and some lines of dialogue in Curse can be skipped with esc but the majority can only be skipped with the full stop
The one gripe I have with Telltale adventure games: You can't skip anything more than a line of dialogue. That said though, why who you want to, unless you lost all your saves and had to start again, thus needing to get to the part you were up to faster.
in CMI, the Esc button skips sections of a cutscene, and the period . button skips individual lines of lines dialogue both in cutscenes and in conversations. I haven't figured out if there even is a skip-everything button for conversations though.
edit: okay, so Esc seems to work to skip some conversations and not others. I just pulled up an old save, and it seemed to skip dialogue with the Voodoo Lady and Slappy Cromwell, but not with Palido.
I dunno. At some point, I'm hoping to have a chance to watch my run of Curse from the last race and see how I did. Procaster saved my broadcasts of Curse and Tales to my hard drive, so I've been using them every so often to see how I did things.
Oh yeah, there's a definite speed advantage to playing the original versions of Secret and LeChuck's Revenge. I'm still working out how much of an advantage and what the text speed cap needs to be, though.
@ prizna, the important thing is not just "only doing the necessary actions", it's doing them in the quickest order - getting everything you need at one place the first time around so you needn't return. This is least significant in CMI because of the double clicking, but still present.
The SMI race is basically just "who can do the swordfighting bit fastest?" though
I can't tell you guys how tired I am of the opening scene of Secret. I've watched it six times tonight, and I still have to watch it another two. I should have official word on text speed in about ten minutes, though, as well as a new rule that I wasn't expecting.
The official ruling is that maximum text speed in Special Edition is equivalent to default +1 (maximum -2) in the original game. However, Special Edition running in classic mode runs at the same text speed as the original, so original rules apply if you use that method to play. I'm going to say that maximum text speed for SE and default +1 for original/classic mode is mandatory.
Well, with the rule change, the old records for the first two games don't really count anymore, since they're now unachievable, as you said. The new records will be the fastest times posted in this race.
The official ruling is that maximum text speed in Special Edition is equivalent to default +1 (maximum -2) in the original game. However, Special Edition running in classic mode runs at the same text speed as the original, so original rules apply if you use that method to play. I'm going to say that maximum text speed for SE and default +1 for original/classic mode is mandatory.
Are we talking about ScummVM's text speed option here?
ScummVM or whatever method you use to play the original game. As far as I know, it's present in all versions and the speed is equivalent. Extensive research and all that.
Yeah, but you did it under text speed that isn't allowed anymore. I did it thievery, treasure huntery, and then sword mastery and came in only five minutes behind your time.
Yeah, but you did it under text speed that isn't allowed anymore. I did it thievery, treasure huntery, and then sword mastery and came in only five minutes behind your time.
Yeah, I'm going to not try and do records, and actually do a race this time. :P
I think people got super stuck on both the lava puzzle and monkey kombat last time.
Even before that, IIRC. Harald took a long time on Lucre Island, I think. At least he was on Lucre Island when I finished Escape, though we started at the same time. Then when I woke up he was almost at the end (I really admired his sticktoitiveness for playing Escape for so long).
Are you allowed to right down the map directions for the games beforehand to avoid looking at the map entering in a few then looking back at the map, just wondering coz there is a lot of them, the dancing steps from somi, the light puzzle from curse, the raft in escape and the animal noises and wind in tales.
Are you allowed to right down the map directions for the games beforehand to avoid looking at the map entering in a few then looking back at the map, just wondering coz there is a lot of them, the dancing steps from somi, the light puzzle from curse, the raft in escape and the animal noises and wind in tales.
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Escape is delete (well thats what I set it for)
Tales is right click
and some lines of dialogue in Curse can be skipped with esc but the majority can only be skipped with the full stop
The one gripe I have with Telltale adventure games: You can't skip anything more than a line of dialogue. That said though, why who you want to, unless you lost all your saves and had to start again, thus needing to get to the part you were up to faster.
edit: okay, so Esc seems to work to skip some conversations and not others. I just pulled up an old save, and it seemed to skip dialogue with the Voodoo Lady and Slappy Cromwell, but not with Palido.
I won't be joining, because my last playthrough of the series took me over a month of real time.
Then get practising!
And Jennifer, sure, you're in.
And I'm going to say timing on Curse begins when you select a difficulty.
I can just imagine someone taking hours thinking about what difficulty to choose, only to realize that the rules stated mega-monkey only.
Was your record 2 h 30 mins from the last race coz I dont know how I could hav possibly cut 16 mins off my time.
The SMI race is basically just "who can do the swordfighting bit fastest?" though
I can't tell you guys how tired I am of the opening scene of Secret. I've watched it six times tonight, and I still have to watch it another two. I should have official word on text speed in about ten minutes, though, as well as a new rule that I wasn't expecting.
The official ruling is that maximum text speed in Special Edition is equivalent to default +1 (maximum -2) in the original game. However, Special Edition running in classic mode runs at the same text speed as the original, so original rules apply if you use that method to play. I'm going to say that maximum text speed for SE and default +1 for original/classic mode is mandatory.
Are we talking about ScummVM's text speed option here?
Theivery
Sword mastery
Treasure huntery-ery
Just so you guys have a fair chance
Yeah, I'm going to not try and do records, and actually do a race this time. :P
I think people got super stuck on both the lava puzzle and monkey kombat last time.
Even before that, IIRC. Harald took a long time on Lucre Island, I think. At least he was on Lucre Island when I finished Escape, though we started at the same time. Then when I woke up he was almost at the end (I really admired his sticktoitiveness for playing Escape for so long).
ok, thats still a long time to get stuck on those puzzles though
Mine was computer troubles, and I'm getting a new one fairly soon?
Are you allowed to right down the map directions for the games beforehand to avoid looking at the map entering in a few then looking back at the map, just wondering coz there is a lot of them, the dancing steps from somi, the light puzzle from curse, the raft in escape and the animal noises and wind in tales.
Why not?