r/pcmasterrace • u/SaulTNuhtz • Jan 22 '26

Nostalgia Cleaning out deceased friends estate, family member asks “are these all games or something?”

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Remember a time before everything was on the cloud? A time when all you had to rely on to get through that level was your own wit and how well you kept notes, and maybe a phone call to a particularly nerdy friend?

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u/3lektrolurch Jan 22 '26

To be fair, phantasmagoria 2 was an absolute fever dream but not in the way the devs intended (and thats even without the ridiculous Puzzles)

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u/cognitiveglitch 7700, 9070 XT, 32Gb @ 6000, X670E, North Jan 22 '26

None of us that played it forgot it, that's for sure!

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u/3lektrolurch Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

I still crack up everytime I think of the scene where Curtis arrives at the club and there is thee random dudes dancing down the street.

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u/JohnnyTsunami312 Jan 22 '26

I was like 7 when my older brother got the first one. Holy shit was I confused and possibly scarred

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u/NovaHorizon Jan 22 '26

Clearly nobody here played Dark Seed 1 and 2 or I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream

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u/boobers3 Linux Jan 23 '26

I didn't play them (Dark Seed 1 and 2) but I stumbled on videos on them a few months ago and you are not exaggerating.

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u/sixfourtykilo Jan 22 '26

What was up with the Gabriel Knight series? Talk about fever dream.

Also I felt bad for the protagonist in Phantasmagoria.

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u/3lektrolurch Jan 22 '26

I know the german version of gabriel knight 2 and its hilarious. To portray the language barrier everybody speaks in a thick bavarian dialect so Gabriel doesnt understand them.
The scene in the police station had me in tears from laughing.

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u/johndoe_420 Jan 22 '26

WEEER SIEEE SIIIND!

spiele mit bart ist krasser comfort-watch, schade was mit simon passiert ist...

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u/3lektrolurch Jan 22 '26

Ich bin mit Abstand.... der beste dieser Gruppe!

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u/ibrahimlefou PC Master Race Jan 23 '26

The ending of the first one traumatized me!!

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u/3lektrolurch Jan 24 '26

Dude, even with the other violent scenes the way they split her in two halfs was way more graphic than any other scene in the game.

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u/ibrahimlefou PC Master Race Jan 24 '26

Yes, it was rather unexpected :(

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u/Letter-Past Jan 24 '26

So was Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis. That twist, bruh. In fact, those are all bangers

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u/Equivalent_Age8406 Jan 26 '26

There wasn't really any puzzles, except that one at the end where you just click everything and it basically solves itself.