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We Are Now Roughly Two Weeks Away from a New Tex Murphy Adventure

And this trailer just put the biggest, dumbest grin on my face.

Apr. 4 2014

Posted by: Alex

In This Episode:

Tesla Effect

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I'm so glad I backed the game for $100. It's one of my favorite series of all time and I have been wanting a new game for years.

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Holy fucking shit.

This is almost exactly what I would imagine an FMV game being created today would look like. It still captured the hokey nature of the era, but the video quality is actually decent now thanks to technology, plus completely unjustified puzzle mechanics, and copious amount of scenery-chewing overacting.

Move over Dan Teasdale - you aren't the only person keeping the FMV dream alive anymore.

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Never played one of these games. I love Nikola Tesla and this looks amazing.

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I've never played a Tex Murphy game, but boy does it look great! What a fantastically edited trailer. Bravo! I'm sold!

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That was really cool in a "Canadian Primetime Television" kind of way.

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so freaking dope

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@drzing: That 1.3 gigs is the current beta (Basically a short demo) available via GOG for the backers. I am curious, if you buy it via GOG do you get that demo for now? The game has had shittons of FMV recorded for it and it's in 2k resolution (just slightly more than 1080p really) so I'm really curious how huge this game is going to end up being. I wonder if the price is too low and will barely make up for all the bandwidth since I can't imagine it coming in less than 30gigs... Guess we'll see, very soon.

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@koolaid: Actually, you'll either be dead or a mutant as this takes place in New San Francisco after some kind of nuclear fallout issue. ;)

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All doubt I had about this went away when I heard Tex talk and he sounded the exact same. He may look a lot older, but that's fine as long as he sounds the same as he did in the 90s. This will probably get me to finally finish Overseer which I never quite got into despite loving the hell out of UTKM and Pandora Directive.

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Edited By Dagbiker

You can preorder on Gog.com for 18.00$ and get a free tex game with it, i dont know about Steam though.

EDIT: Its the same price on steam.

I just have to wait to make sure i have enugh Tesla-Cash.

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I can't believe this exists.

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2K FMV games, now I know we're living in the future.

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This seems incredibly authentic as an FMV game, the art direction, style and pacing all seem right on the money.

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All those old Tex Murphy games were goofy and dumb, but boy you could tell they had a lot of heart put into them. I guess thats why I loved them so much. Cant wait for this

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Holy fuck. This exists. I need... I need some air.

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I have never played a tex game, on the preorder it gives you one of the old one's to choose, which is the best one to get and play before i play the new one?

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@gunstarhero: I always felt Under A Killing Moon was the best of those games, maybe even the best of the FMV era games period.