Posted July 02, 2019
groundhog42: Well if you owned those cups and plates in that condition today then I think it's safe to say you'd be rich!
Titanic: Adventure Out of Time is one of my favourite adventure games, hope you are enjoying it.
The user interface and graphics and other elements are quite dated nowadays of course, but I'm finding a lot of enjoyment out of the pure mystery and lore of what is quite possibly the most well known and talked about ship in all of human history. Titanic: Adventure Out of Time is one of my favourite adventure games, hope you are enjoying it.
At several points in the game I became curious about some aspect of the ship or the lore and googled it to find blogs and articles about the ship, how it was built, modern scientific claims as to how and why it sunk, the metallurgy of the time, and generally the entire story surrounding the ship, and its two sister ships the Olympic and the Brittanic. It's all fascinating stuff.
Perhaps the most fascinating detail of all, is the debunking of the often repeated myth out there that the Titanic was made out of titanium. I've heard that myth ever since I was a small child, and just yesterday I read a big writeup about this particular myth and how titanium metal was only discovered and isolated a few years before the Titanic was built and that it only existed as a relatively unknown and unstudied substance in laboratories and was not a commercially available metal until some 20+ years after the Titanic sunk. There wasn't even an accidental atom of titanium caught in some scientist's clothing on the ship. LOL
What blew me away is that they've analyzed fragments from the wreckage and concluded that it was the highest quality steel made at the time it was built, in modern times the steel is considered so low quality that we would never build anything at all out of it and consider it low quality poorly produced scrap metal.
Watched several full length documentaries now spawned from playing the game. Great stuff. :)
I think I'm about halfway or more through it now. I think I know what the ending is though but no spoilers! LOL