The Worst 🍆 Moves of Space Quest II
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- Опубліковано 15 кві 2024
- Space Quest II follows proudly in its predecessor's footsteps by also having some truly infuriating game design choices. Which is the worst? Let me tell you...
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These are pretty darn cruel. It's like an honorary King's Quest game.
I always thought "take deep breath" was the biggest dick move, since I'm pretty sure that's the only time such a command was used in ANY Sierra game. Not to mention that it's entirely possible to cross the swamp without even discovering the deep spot.
The only hint to anyone that it is possible to swim underwater is the command "dive" in the manual. Took me a long time to figure out "Take a deep breath" was the correct solution.
I swear Sierra put things like that in their game solely to drive business to their hint line and hint book sales.
I actually figured that one out as a Norwegian 12 year old kid. Sometimes I'm amazed at what we managed to do as kids back then. I guess we didn't have click bait to distract us so we tried EVEYRTHING in Sierra games instead.
I got stuck for ages at those tunnels - not because I hadn't picked the gem back up, but because I would not in a million years have thought of putting the entire gem in my mouth to create a hands-free light source.
When I played SQ2 back in the 80's, I never knew what the jockstrap & puzzle were for as well as the rock. For the terror beast I just moved off screen and back on screen again and he was gone. And as for the guard, I would just call the guard while behind the bushes and as he came down I would hide behind the elevator and enter it when he left.
This was the first Sierra game I ever played and oh man, I died so so so SO many times.
I also never understood how the mating call thing lead to the terminator from the third game because I thought the form said it was a free whistle. Maybe it was a shipping and handling thing? I'd have to go double check some things, but the countless deaths from my childhood still haunt me when I try to play this game lol
Liked for that intro animation alone! 🤣
For the terror beast: I didn't leave the screen or use the cube. Just wait in the water and the little guy will just bugger off after getting bored.
how did I JUST discover your channel. I love Space Quest!!!
So many good video's he has posted, enjoy diving into the channel!
Aw, you guys. 😊❤️ Also, love the username, @Vohaul214.
You don't even need the rock for the guard. I didn't even know as a kid that you could use the jockstrap for anything or that you could pick up a rock. I got the keycard from the dead body after you crash on labion in the first place and then just unlocked the door and went to the top of the platform while the guard went behind a pillar. Didn't kill him or distract/bait him. He didn't even know I was there.
That's what we call a "110% Metal Gear Solid Maneuver." 😆
Missed the opportunity to call it "Space Quest II: Vohaul's Softlock" =P
The alien bursting out of your stomach is a timed event. I must have taken a while when I first played it because it burst out of my stomach while I was miniaturized in the glass jar.
That shouldn't be possible, given that the timer to trigger the chestbursting doesn't count down on the glass jar screen.
@@spacequesthistorian I wonder if they changed it for different versions of the game. By their choice of limiting it to only certain screens, I can guess two motives:
1. The animation of the alien running off screen would look wrong if it happened on any other screen than certain corridors
2. They wanted to really !@#$ over the player by making sure it only played after you beat Vohaul.
Of course, it's also possible @rd2234 is misremembering after ~35 years.
I have obtained more space quest history, this is good
I feel like "say the word" also deserved a special mention.
I mean... he literally tells you to just "say the word." 😅
Worst moves in any Sierra game: Pretty much anything because it will probably kill you :D
My dad got kissed by the alien and later died in 1980-something. It pissed him off so much he stopped playing
Oh and the Doom sounds for the ledge creature ass-poking is *chef's kiss*
Hope we don’t have to wait another 2 months for part 3 😂
Maybe you'll get to wait even longer! 😁
@@spacequesthistorian "The suspense is terrible! I hope it'll last..."
Love this kind of content!
Thank you!
I must have just been obsessively curious and examined every little thing on every screen because I don't recall any of these things happening to me.
Up until this year, I literally had no idea what to use the jockstrap for in this game.
Poor gorilla
The hidden Glowing Gem will forever be the bane of my existence. Hidden away in a very obscure location that can only be found by navigating the game's bullshit "Erm, actually 🤓🖕" logic of giving Roger the lung capacity of an asthamatic seven year.
As for the Alien Kiss, I managed to avoid it despite being smooched, and I'm gonna assume the game bugged or something. But the canon going forward for my Roger playthrough is he now has an egg waiting to hatch for the rest of the series, I guess. 😅
Which screen is it that you technically can no longer go backwards and get the whistle if you still want to? While the waterfall seems like the obvious one, I feel like there must be an earlier screen where walking backwards is no longer possible.
At least it's not quite as unfair as Larry 2, where each new area was designed to be loadable from a seperate disc so every time you change to a new section of the game there's no backtrack. If you didn't completely clear out an area of all possible items before leaving to the next one, you're boned.
gooning to this bop
To a specific piece of music, or are you just choking the bishop at my video in general?
Cubix Rube
My friend's older brother said that he got kissed by that alien, but he just beat the rest of the game so fast (because he was soo good at it) that the baby didn't get a chance to kill him!
This is a joke, I know how flags work.
Regarding the point at 6:44 ... to be fair, the glowing gem does not fall out of Roger's pocket. Roger was holding it in his hand when he tumbled down the cave hole. While it's still a dick move in the game, it at least makes plausible sense that he'd drop it while holding it during the fall, rather than it just falling out of his pocket like some random thing.
To be fair, most of these, with the exception of the mating whistle (which as you say was pretty blatant), you can backtrack without loosing much gameplay *assuming* you don't compulsively save over the same slot everytime you enter a new area - and if your doing that, then this must be your first AGI game...unless it was Black Cauldron or Mother Goose. And I _think_ the manual warns you to save multiple slot...maybe that disclaimer came later?
Speaking of which, wasn't this your first AGI/Sierra game? How many of these bit you in the eggplant?
I know I got kissed and chest burst at the end, which was frustrating, but at least that's an intentional dick move, and pretty funny.
Heh... Butt.