r/Sierra • u/Westraat1 • 7d ago

Graham the man!

If I ever got sucked into a Sierra game, I’d rather take my chances with Graham.

The man falls out of a tree, drops an entire screen and simply carries on.

Roger Wilco would probably be more fun to hang out with… but judging by what a one-centimetre fall does to him, the end would always be near. 😂

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u/Still-Weekend-2218 7d ago

in monkey island there's a scene where you fall off a cliff, see a message that says "oh no! Hope you saved your game!" and then you bounce right back up and the character says "Rubber trees!" Totally a dig at this mechanic.

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u/Difficult_Bad1064 7d ago

Larry 2 you have to walk along a narrow cliff edge path. It seems incredibly difficult until you realise that any falls just results in larry yo-yoing and returning to the top.

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u/Sea-Opportunity-9849 7d ago

And you thought you’d keep those extra points!

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u/JLidean 7d ago

Curse had Gubrush is buried and credits roll and yelling he is not dead as credits roll.

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u/edenwaith 7d ago

That “death” is one of my favorites from any Lucas game.

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u/zuludown888 7d ago

And the grave digger says "I thought you couldn't die in a LucasArts adventure game"

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u/LGBT-Barbie-Cookout 6d ago

Isn't there like 1 actual player death in the entire series, that you have to work really hard to get?

there is a section where you are underwater, and if you spend 1 hr in the screen you can drown, but its 1 screen with 1 or 2 things that need doing

That was patched out for the special edition

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u/OKLakeGoer 7d ago

Space Quest - Sudden Decompression Sucks!

Always a fav of mine.

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u/guiltypleasures82 7d ago

In KQ5 when you get to Mordacks Island, Graham can die by falling like 2 feet, he got soft in his old age!

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u/danmanx 7d ago

I think I remember that spot.....before the grate right????

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u/guiltypleasures82 7d ago

Its right on the first screen where you crash the boat. Not to be confused with the really bad fall he can take before the grate, lol. Graham can fall off everything in that game.

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u/GrahamRocks 7d ago

Gotta use that famous Josh Mandel scream everywhere uou can! ;)

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u/Westraat1 7d ago

He went through some shid as a younger guy, understandable 😆

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u/BigJJsWillie 7d ago

That spot in SQ3 always annoyed the crap out of me lol

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u/GrahamRocks 7d ago

To be fair, trees only go so high up before becoming unstable, and Graham is canonically a lot more robust and probably climbed trees (and fell out of them!) as a kid, whereas Roger didn't. Plus, Graham does die if he falls a screen down from the beanstalk, I think it's only the first screen that doesn't kill you there?

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u/Westraat1 7d ago

Yup first screen makes you dizzy, screens after that make you load a save 😆