View Full Version : Alter Ego
silver 2039 Dec 07, 2008, 09:43 PM This is an old game, but its fairly entertaining. I've wasted a couple hours on it already:
http://www.theblackforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_Ego_(video_game)
Maniacal Dec 08, 2008, 12:26 AM That took away two hours of my life.
It's interesting and certainly gave me soemthing to think about.
Synsensa Dec 08, 2008, 06:09 AM Discovered this a couple years ago. Great time-waster :)
silver 2039 Dec 08, 2008, 10:53 AM Very thought provoking too. Anyway I've played the female one a couple times, each time I'm really aggressive and dishonest. Can't help it. So far I've died from drinking poison, getting run off a bridge by a madman, and things like that. Only gotten married once to a male stripper and had a child. Died from a heart attack in that one.
Very amusing game, way ahead of its time, Sims is the dumber down flashy version of this.
ArneHD Dec 08, 2008, 01:03 PM Ugh, I got tortured and killed.
silver 2039 Dec 08, 2008, 01:05 PM Ugh, I got tortured and killed.
Oh how? Did you get in the man's car?
Maniacal Dec 08, 2008, 01:11 PM I made it to the end in one piece, you can skip the health issues if you want...
Chose a female, but never maanged to get amrried as she was not so trustworthy somehow. I've done more untrustworthy things than my char did and I'm quite trustworthy.
ArneHD Dec 08, 2008, 01:13 PM Oh how? Did you get in the man's car?
Didn't run away fast enough.
Izipo Dec 08, 2008, 02:14 PM Oh my, even though I played it way back when on my C64, I just spent a few hours on it...
Still preachy, but more forgiving than 'real life' (the video game).
BrownCan Dec 11, 2008, 08:30 AM Not impressive at all.
GoodGame Dec 11, 2008, 08:39 AM Ugh, I got tortured and killed.
Yeah me too. Apparently you have to run away at the start.
Maniacal Dec 11, 2008, 12:09 PM Eh? I let the guy talk to me, then i decided I didn't want to start over, so I ran.
silver 2039 Dec 11, 2008, 12:20 PM Yeah me too. Apparently you have to run away at the start.
No I've managed to escape even after talking to the guy. And even when I get in the car I still manage to escape because he gets found and stopped by the police because of a broken headlight.
Anyway the game is fairly sexist you should see the difference between the male and female. As a male its perfectly fine to be aggressive, but not as a female. As a female being sexually aggressive turns guys off but apparently if you do it as a guy you'll get laid. As a woman I got wild and stoned at a party and looked for a good time but it didn't work. But as a guy I got laid. Seriously sexist.
hossam Dec 11, 2008, 07:23 PM Ugh, I got tortured and killed.
me to, i talked to him but then tried to leave and he kidnapped me.
hossam Dec 11, 2008, 07:24 PM on my second try i was more succesfull, i went to college, got married , had a kid and a nice house.
silver 2039 Dec 11, 2008, 08:01 PM Yeah same I became a lawyer and stuff. But one time I got arrested after burning down a store and got shot to death by a madman on the road.
leonel Dec 12, 2008, 12:41 AM It engrossed me to no end when I discovered it. During college, I downloaded it at 5pm and didn't stop until like 2am when I finally died. The ending was sad but happy. :cry:
What they oughta do is do a remake in 3D that has options to live in different eras in history and/or live through the lives of a family line as the world changes and the characters change ages. Simplified of course.
Catharsis Dec 12, 2008, 08:43 AM Yeah same I became a lawyer and stuff. But one time I got arrested after burning down a store and got shot to death by a madman on the road.
Man how do you do that? Even when I try to make the most evil promiscuous drunken stoner ever, it still dies in old age while shopping for plants.
silver 2039 Dec 12, 2008, 09:24 AM Man how do you do that? Even when I try to make the most evil promiscuous drunken stoner ever, it still dies in old age while shopping for plants.
There's a certain event where some guy cuts you off. You have to react agressively and attempt to push him off the road. He turns out to be a madman and has a gun. If you stop your car he shoots you to death, and if you keep driving he pushes you off the road and you die.
Hell once I managed to die by overdosing on too many drugs. You need to set your mood at suicidal and say that you intend to get wasted and you die of blood poisining and liver failure.
GoodGame Dec 12, 2008, 01:55 PM chuckles: Your buddy in college suggests you start a 'tuck-in' service where you read bed-time stories to female college students and tuck them in for the night. I said yes and got:
Socially, you have the finesse necessary to convince a young woman to let you into her room and read her a bedtime story.
You have the self-control necessary to stop yourself from jumping under the covers with your clients. As a result you build up a popular business. Your total earnings from this job are $500!
Maniacal Dec 12, 2008, 01:59 PM Aww where is the fun in NOT getting under the covers with them? (A;though not getting under the covers ight have them help you out at other times more so than getting under the covers).
silver 2039 Dec 12, 2008, 02:37 PM That sounds like the beginnings of a porn movie.
Maniacal Dec 12, 2008, 02:41 PM That sounds like the beginnings of a porn movie.
Possibly yes, but it also sounds like something many guys would try to do (or at least want/dream). At least, so I assume.
Lord_Iggy Dec 17, 2008, 08:18 PM Hmm, I played a quiet guy who grew up as a bit of a loner musician, fell in love with a girl he met at the Senior Prom, and married her. Raised a family of four, became a successful music producer, tried to keep fit and healthy into old age.
Cause of death? Heart attack after too much strenuous exercise. :p
It's a fun, if time-expensive, game.
silver 2039 Dec 17, 2008, 08:21 PM Has anyone succeed in getting molested yet? I tried with the stranger in a car and the uncle at the party but I've never succeeded.
Maniacal Dec 17, 2008, 10:41 PM One thing I'm trying to figure out, can you have abusive parents? I've tried a couple of times but it seems like it assumes your parents are decent people. Which is far from the case for too many people in rl.
silver 2039 Dec 17, 2008, 10:43 PM One thing I'm trying to figure out, can you have abusive parents? I've tried a couple of times but it seems like it assumes your parents are decent people. Which is far from the case for too many people in rl.
I've tried that too by being a hateful annoying brat, but all I got was a spanking at most. And the later family relations are bad but that's it.
mythmonster2 Dec 23, 2008, 03:02 PM I tried it out, pretty fun. First time I played, I was a pretty good person, but I got left at the altar and I died playing softball as an oldie. I died happy.
Maniacal Dec 23, 2008, 04:21 PM I've tried that too by being a hateful annoying brat, but all I got was a spanking at most. And the later family relations are bad but that's it.
Same, after that though things went well, got wealthy, married the 2nd highschool boyfriend, had a son who in turn later married, died on the way into a shopping center at a ripe old age.
Neverwonagame3 Dec 23, 2008, 08:07 PM I tried the game, but managed to get killed as a child.
silver 2039 Dec 23, 2008, 08:20 PM I tried the game, but managed to get killed as a child.
How? I tried that too. I even drank the poison in the pantry and while I burnt my intestines badly and reduced my health to 1 but I didn't die. Another time I badly burnt my head, still no death. Very frustrating. How did you die?
Neverwonagame3 Dec 23, 2008, 08:23 PM How? I tried that too. I even drank the poison in the pantry and while I burnt my intestines badly and reduced my health to 1 but I didn't die. Another time I badly burnt my head, still no death. Very frustrating. How did you die?
I got kidnapped by some people pretending to be police, and got shot by them. Not that I wanted to- I actually wanted to play a full game.
mythmonster2 Dec 24, 2008, 01:21 PM Oh, the car? Yeah, I just ran away. One time I tried it just to see what happened and he killed me and put me in a landfill so my body was never found. :(
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