Alter Ego

[silver 2039]

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]

That took away two hours of my life.

It's interesting and certainly gave me soemthing to think about.

 

[Synobun]

Discovered this a couple years ago. Great time-waster

 

[silver 2039]

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]

Ugh, I got tortured and killed.

 

[silver 2039]

Ugh, I got tortured and killed.

Oh how? Did you get in the man's car?

 

[Maniacal]

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]

Oh how? Did you get in the man's car?

Didn't run away fast enough.

 

[Izipo]

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]

Not impressive at all.

 

[GoodGame]

Ugh, I got tortured and killed.

Yeah me too. Apparently you have to run away at the start.

 

[Maniacal]

Eh? I let the guy talk to me, then i decided I didn't want to start over, so I ran.

 

[silver 2039]

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]

Ugh, I got tortured and killed.

me to, i talked to him but then tried to leave and he kidnapped me.

 

[hossam]

on my second try i was more succesfull, i went to college, got married , had a kid and a nice house.

 

[silver 2039]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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!