Grim Fandango - Have You Played It?

Error404Error404 Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9353Members
<div class="IPBDescription">The Glottis Appreciation Thread</div> Has anyone else played this game?

This is one of the most entertaining games I've ever played. The scenes and artwork for this game are amazing, the music is really catchy, and theres a really well written plot too!

Glottis ownz!



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  • DunsbyDunsby Join Date: 2002-08-01 Member: 1042Awaiting Authorization
    Looks... Different

    What do you do on it?
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Grim Fadango is quite possibly the funniest game ever (OK, I haven't played Sam&Max yet, but...). The second cutscene in the port is quite possibly the best thing I've ever seen in a game.
  • JimJim Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9989Members
    I found it a bit short, but I loved it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • Error404Error404 Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9353Members
    Yeah the humour in this game is intelligent and stupid at the same time, the music adds to it. You remember the scene in the petrified forest, where manny and glottis are driving around in the glottis wagon? The music just has me in stitches.

    It's basically a point and click adventure, but it's really well done. It's solving problems and stuff, but the solutions are often bizarre and require a bit of divergent thinking. It's got a film noir type plot and it's just a massive hoot. The voice actors are brilliant!

    I felt quite sad, because I found my Grim Fandango CDs the other week, and I couldn't play it because they were scratched. I don't mind buying it again, it's worth keeping.

    'Hey Manny!!'
  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    OMG!! Nostalgia!! Now I have to play it again, darn you!!

    It is one of my favorite lucas Arts pont and click adventure games (of course, most of them are good). Scaring people in the land of the living is funny.
  • Error404Error404 Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9353Members
    Oh yeah, I remember that, in the cafe where someone has died. That was a bit of wierd full motion video before that. Thats when Manny Calavera meets Meche (is that right name?).

    Some of the dialogue is really funny, in that beat poetry bar, where you can make Manny stand at the microphone and just say really ridiculous stuff.

    Man, if they made Grim Fandango 2, I would be the first to buy it.

    Maybe someone should mod it? LOL
  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    Dang, now I have to play THAT one again too. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

    Incredible game!
  • RicoRico Join Date: 2003-02-23 Member: 13888Members
    Ive never played it my self.
  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    Great game but not quite as good as Day of the Tentacle or Full Throttle.
  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    edited April 2003
    If you didnt know...

    Full Throttle 2, and Sam and Max 2, both in production. Sam and Max 2 is official PC version from Lucas Arts, plus the Xbox one from infinite Machine, so there are two of them.
  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    Already knew that. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • MausMaus Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5599Members
    Hmm, I preferred Sam & Max, Day of the Tentacle, and the first two Monkey Islands to Fandango. I think it was the control system, the obscurity of some of the puzzles, and the fact I don't know enough film noir to get a lot of the jokes.
  • tbZBeAsttbZBeAst Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12755Members
    Yeah, top fun.

    I did prefer the patter between Sam and Max. I think overall though it was the better game.
  • LokeLoke Join Date: 2003-02-25 Member: 13988Members
    Grim Fandango is one of the best adventures I have played. Even better than Broken Sword (but I like BS too). And it has funny humour... Glottis owns. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • NeedDirectionsNeedDirections Join Date: 2003-03-29 Member: 15011Members
    hell, I bought the soundtrack! ...yes I did ...what you looking at? do I have something between my teeth? what?
  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    A brilliant gem from LucasArts it was, along with several other games.

    I'm thinking of paying a visit to the underdogs.org to try to ask them help on how I can get sound for my DOS games, (I use a bootdisk); some of them work perfectly, (Star Control 2 works BETTER than it did on my old computer; then again, I eventually found the zip file had a virus... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->). Unforutunately, I can't get sound to completely work for more complex DOS games, (Sam & Max only has the midi... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> ); and I haven't finished the game yet.

    Stupid onboard sound...

    But in terms of artwork, Grim Fandango will forever stand the test of gaming time; Rubecava kicked ****... I wish it was open for tourism... <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • JammerJammer Join Date: 2002-06-03 Member: 728Members, Constellation
    I couldn't really get into Grim Fandango :-(

    I have played:
    Fate of Atlantis, Maniac Mansion 1, 2 (Day of the Tentacle... how great was ths game!?), Sam and Max (yay!), Monkey Island 1, 2, 3, 4, Loom, and a host more of the old ones. I loved LucasArts graphic adventures. I really hope they make more Monkey Islands. And there IS a sequel coming for Sam and Max, both an Xbox action rpg and a Lucasarts Adventure!
  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    Confuzor, Have you tried ScummVM? It let me play sam and max in windows with sound.

    Oh, and I just beat PLanetscape:Torment, your avatar made me remember that, great game.
  • TalesinTalesin Our own little well of hate Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7710NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators
    Grim Fandango was great... the bit with the goldschlager and the scanner was just painfully funny, and outright painful to figure out the first time through.

    Better question.. anyone else still have the Sam & Max mini-comics that came with some of the old LucasArts games?

    Sam and Max on.. the x-bucks. I can't help but shudder, sadly. And hope that the PC version isn't.. well, PC'd away. Part of what made 'em so funny was that they could say d*mn near anything they wanted to, and get away with it. Make all kinds of outre jokes. I have nightmares of yuppies sequestered in a LucasArts meeting room, making jokes about cellphones and coffee.. then totally neglecting the space cockroaches, aftermath of the bigfeet, spontaneous combustion, Stuckey's, the mild toke-jokes hidden here and there.. the stuff that made it stand out.

    Please.. PLEASE be intelligent-funny, and not lowest-common-denominator funny! *hopehopehope*
  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    <!--QuoteBegin--Burr+Apr 14 2003, 06:19 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Burr @ Apr 14 2003, 06:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Confuzor, Have you tried ScummVM? It let me play sam and max in windows with sound.

    Oh, and I just beat PLanetscape:Torment, your avatar made me remember that, great game. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    IT &*^@$&*^&*% WORKS!!!

    Damn, this has to be on of the coolest projects out there. There's still a whole load of other DOS games that I want to play that this thing probably won't support, and I'm still going to try and make an "ultimate boot disk", but until then, YOU ROCK!

    COOL POINTS FOR YOU!
  • AcrobadAcrobad Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1779Members
    the inventory system annoys me but the gameplay covers that and... oohh look at thta nice character there.... OHHH hes got attitude, OUCH.

    i just hate it that adventure game's replay value drops so drastically when you finish the game... all adv games should have had multiple endings so u can play differently for different ending... woo.
  • Error404Error404 Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9353Members
    I often liked the puzzles so that if Manny did something wrong, you'd still get something funny to look at. Filling the coffin with foam is funny, the noise that the machine made, scccchhloooooop..
  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    I bought this the other day, but it doesn't work very well on my PC <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> The sound keeps on cutting out if i switch programs or even go into the menu, its very annoying <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> Does anyone know a way to fix this? I'm using Windows 2000 Pro, which I'm guessing is the culprit...
  • Error404Error404 Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9353Members
    Have you tried copying the level you are playing from the CD to your hard-drive? It might help, it also helps run the game faster without the pauses moving between rooms. Read the performance 'read me' file on the CD for more information.

    Other than that I don't know what the problem could be. Possibly something to do with your CD drive? In that case either turn DMA on or off..

    outta my league, sorry.
  • ScabbageScabbage Join Date: 2002-10-26 Member: 1623Members
    There are patches for it somewhere
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