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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:04 JST Rich Felker

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   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   @foone I hated that so much. On top of being inaccessible, the voice acting quality was always comparable to anime dubs, and completely ruined immersion and capacity to imagine the characters as having interesting voices/speech.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the core gameplay is intact (Carmen Sandiego is not a franchise known for innovation) but they've made everything take 20 times longer in order to show off they have 640 megabytes of storage space and by god they're going to use it. We're lucky we don't have FMV of flying between each of the cities

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's also the era where everyone was so excited that we could FINALLY include digitized speech that every game added it and very few of them had subtitles.

     So it was a massive backslide in accessibility, something DOS was never that great about in the first place

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's fun to look back at old games made during the period of Wow Graphics (which we might still be in, I'm afraid) and they've got a brand new version of an old game where they've updated it to look way shinier with digitized photos and sound and music and it's now a worse game.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm a pope, I know these things

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     YOU SEE IT HAS TO BE A DIFFERENT GAME BECAUSE THEY CHANGED THE , UH, PALETTE

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     god created humans to do two things:
     1. name/categorize things
     2. argue about how other people have named or categorized them incorrectly

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     speaking of "fuck them", mobygames considers that "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Deluxe" from 1992 is an unrelated game to "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" from 1994.

     Here's a side by side screenshot comparison.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This version is from 1992-1995 which is Peak CD-ROM Era, so maybe they were thinking about how they'd port this game to the Sega CD, CD-i, CDTV, LaserActive, NeoGeo CD, 3DO, Saturn, Playstation, Pippin, PC-FX, FM-Towns Marty, and most importantly, the Tandy-Memorex VIS

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but they didn't port it to any of those, so fuck them

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I HAD TO HAVE A KEYBOARD TO GET THIS FAR, WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME AN ON-SCREEN KEYBOARD?

     They at least let you use the real keyboard, I've definitely run into games that didn't.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     especially in the DOS era. if you don't have a keyboard, how did you launch the game?

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 10:47:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     I love when PC games make you enter your name with an on-screen keyboard.

     You know, just in case you're one of those weirdos who has a PC but it's a PC without a keyboard.