thanks for the info :) if it was hogs of war that would have been a helpful review ;)

Well, it's useful to see the whole list of games that are available now. I guess the only one that would be in my radar is dead state, I'll probably get it if I catch it by chance. That said, I heard it was horribly buggy on release, I probably should do my research and check if that got fixed...

Tempted to buy Sam & Max though I still have the retail CD.

8.30am here in South Africa.
Good thing I work a desk job

Sam and Max Hit the Road
69 Copies in the last 5 minutes
Moving at a rate of about 13.8 copies per minute

Rate of sale appears to be halving every 5 min

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There is some randomness, but it's not "random" in the sense most people think. My stats are a little rusty - "stochastic," perhaps. The Round 2 outcomes are clearly weighted towards where an item was in round 1.

It's possible we'll see a complete outlier, but as a general pattern, where it fell in round 1 is a good predictor of where things have fallen in round 2. Of the items that have repeated (54), variance frequency:

abs9 or more (6 times)
abs5-8 (20)
abs0-4 (18)

So... no updated 2nd round list? Or have anomaly / Max just been on that long?

Gabriel Knight 3 actually had some pretty fun (and less nonsensical) puzzles. I recall really enjoying the ones where you put together clues using maps to discover the location of a lost treasure or something like that- it was really engaging and rewarding. However, even if not all the puzzles were horrible, the graphics certainly were. Adventure gaming may have been getting stale, but jumping to 3D in that era was a huge mistake. It's more tolerable with stuff like the Telltale Sam and Max games in the modern era, but I still think 2D is the best way to go for this particular genre.

I'm still mourning the fact that none of the fan-made sequels to Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis ever got off the ground. :(

Ah, okay, I wasn't around this time yesterday. Perhaps it was the games...

Everything Lucas Arts made has been gold, though. Yet I think I heard they only stopped making adventure games because Sierra's sales dipped and they were worried about losing sales themselves.

Sleep doth beckon me to its warm embrace, so alas I must heed its call.

If Dead State pops up someone wake me up :-P

How?

Well, I haven't played Gabriel Knight 3 yet, though I do own it here & will play it, but from what I hear it's not a bad game. I heard about this puzzle & some pixel hunting, but there were far worse out there.