Who wants to see what the Tall Man looks like without his mask I mean
#61
Posted 11 May 2007 - 09:07 AM
Oh...why does that guy wear a welding mask if he died long before welding masks were invented?
#62
Posted 11 May 2007 - 11:05 AM
Electric arc welding has been around since 1800 AD.
The more you know.
This post has been edited by joshofalltrades: 11 May 2007 - 11:06 AM
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#64
Posted 12 May 2007 - 08:54 AM
I'm sure a welding mask similar to John DeFoe's had been developed by the time the events in question transpired. If not, it's a fictional game and Yahtzee has been known to browbeat his forumites for agonizing over details.
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#66
Posted 12 May 2007 - 10:05 PM
If you look at the wall on the left, you can clearly see the welding mask.
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#68
Posted 13 May 2007 - 03:39 AM
Ok, I'm nitpicking, but a few "WTF?" moments can spoil a game...luckily, Yahtzee has "it's a magic thingy" to fall back on.
That and his good looks...who could argue with that face?
#69
Posted 13 May 2007 - 08:49 AM
Ok, I'm nitpicking, but a few "WTF?" moments can spoil a game...luckily, Yahtzee has "it's a magic thingy" to fall back on
*sigh*...
If you go back to the DeFoe flashback in Notes, then look at the mask, this is what pops up:
"A smoked mask, the sort of thing used by metalworkers, hung from the west wall. The gardener liked to keep it there as some kind of souvenir from his younger days."
Without spoiling too much of the value of the Special Edition of 5DAS, the car popped into the backyard because the wraith of John DeFoe was intent on keeping everybody locked in the house. How did the doors and windows get stuck? It's the same sort of thing -- because if the police saw a car out front, they'd probably check the house.
As for who buried him upstairs, who the hell cares? It does in fact say in the game that he managed to make it to the upstairs bathroom before collapsing from his wounds. So let's just presume a lazy contractor went into the bathroom to refurbish it and saw a pile of old bones on the floor. So instead of bothering with the police, he dug up the floor, used his shovel to scoop the bones in there, and then tiled over it. He was very confident that nobody would ever look in an UPSTAIRS bathroom for a dead body, so it is actually now more logical that he was buried there than downstairs.
Or you could tell yourself that if all the bodies were buried together, it wouldn't have been a puzzle.
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#71
Posted 15 May 2007 - 02:41 PM
Maybe he expected us to have brains and figure it out without him holding our hand the whole way through the story.
Or maybe he expected you to put up the money for the special editions so you could get the full explanation from the author.
Besides, there's already plenty (read: too much) exposition in 5DAS. If I wasn't such a patient person, I wouldn't have stuck around 5DAS long enough to get past the "ask everybody the same questions" conversation at the beginning in the living room. This isn't to say it wasn't a good game, it's just that there's a lot of talking.
Yahtzee, if you're reading this, I don't need you to explain every little detail. I have a fully-functioning cranium and you don't need to cater to people who want every nook and cranny of every story given to them in bite-sized chunks. Please continue as you are.
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#72
Posted 16 May 2007 - 03:14 AM
#73
Posted 16 May 2007 - 04:25 AM
Yes, but really, sensible is too common these days...
This post has been edited by Dan_N_GameZ: 16 May 2007 - 04:25 AM
Quoting other forumers in your signature seems to be the latest craze around here...
My Last.FM profile.
#74
Posted 16 May 2007 - 11:05 AM
Long story short, you're reading too much into this one tiny detail. If you must over-analyze it, get the Special Editions and you'll get the hot poop on that particular puzzle.
And for the confused, "hot poop" is synonymous with "info". I have just been looking for a reason to use it for a while now.
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#75
Posted 17 May 2007 - 05:25 AM
Not that I'm comparing Yahtzee with anyone responsible for Pearl Harbour...unless he lieks to drag up, then he might look like Kate Beckinsale...