Greed, lust, spirituality, white-knuckle chases, shameful propositions, a nun, humor, true love, jaded love, jealousy, taut action, comedy, a bad guy, a good guy, a hero, spine-tingling suspense, a hot babe, brazen bravado, a damsel in distress, and a Hollywood ending!!
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Greed, lust, spirituality, white-knuckle chases, shameful propositions, a nun, humor, true love, jaded love, jealousy, taut action, comedy, a bad guy, a good guy, a hero, spine-tingling suspense, a hot babe, brazen bravado, a damsel in distress, and a Hollywood ending!!
Plumb the depths in the definitive edition of this lost “classic”
Painstakingly restored and lovingly recreated. Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties: Definitive Edition delivers a truly next-generation CD-ROM experience. For the first time since 1993 the original version of the game is faithfully presented alongside 4K remastered photos and a wealth of documentary and interview content.
Relive the excitement of John and Jane’s fateful encounter in the first American produced visual novel. Learn about the birth of the multimedia era from industry icons, and dive into the origin featuring leading lady Jeanne “Jane” Basone with all-new documentary style content.
Play the cult classic and earn plumber bucks along with your high score
Fully remastered images, select between original and new 4K restorations on the fly.
Plumb the Depths, dungeon crawler with unlockables and secrets to discover via your hard earned plumber bucks.
Full gallery mode, view images, behind the scenes and original release assets from the 3DO classic.
New unlockable documentary feature, discover the history of video in video games and the making of PDWT through the cast of journalists, game industry veterans and original game crew.
Save your progress and repeat your favorite scenes.
If you want a good game don't buy this title. It's a terribly acted fmv game that relied on dated shock value to entertain. It's a time capsule of terrible ideas implemented poorly. It is, at best, like a movie on mst3k were the value is from ironic enjoyment. However, limited run and gog are doing a service. So many games are lost or delisted it's important to fight to save the games we can. Buying this game funds game preservation and it is important to remember our failures along our successes.
AVGN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyaF_gCKWsI
Still I'm going to give it five stars just because GOG has the cajones to put it on here. 😆
And hey, it's still better than Duke Nukem Forever.
Felt a little nostalgic, when I saw PDWT released here on GOG. Mostly because of AVGN episode :)
I guess they released this game partly just for the hell of it. But still I applaud GOG for releasing it. Game preservation should't be exclusive only for the greatest hits. We have to know failures from the past of gaming to be sure we're not repeating it the future (in other words, those who are not familiar with the history are doomed to repeat it).
Most people know that PDWT isn't a good game: it's a weird visual novel using still images of real actors with a nonsensical plot, absurd consequences to your choices, a bad interface, and poor visual quality.
However, the entire thing is meant to be funny: it's just a very surreal comedy experiment, and in my opinion, it's good for a few laughs. The silly disrespect for any continuity, the entire "fight between narrators", the manager going on a rant depending on your choices... Generally, most of the scenes have silly lines, matched with hilarious expressions or poses.
This is horrible if you don't like absurd comedy, but funny otherwise.
The definitive edition adds some nice touches (like the ability to skip through already seen scenes, a map for the story branches and so on) as well as some assorted extras: I think the best parts are the interview with Jeanne Basone (the main actress) and with the AVGN. The devs commentary track and the "historian" video are also nice, although the rest of the extra videos feel a bit too self-indulgent and self-referential. The upscaling was well-made, and they offer the original graphics too, which is a plus (I wish they had a CRT filter, though).
On the negative side, the mini-game to unlock the extra videos is pretty bad (I like the idea of being chased by Thrasher as a nod, but a maze with 3 different wall colors and ultra-basic FPS mechanics, really? It's a chore rather than a little bonus) and they also didn't do a good job at offering basic functionalities like scrolling forward and backward during the unlocked extras (meaning that you have to watch the whole thing again if you accidentally exited a 70 minutes video near the 60 minutes mark). The UI is also not great in many cases and I noticed 2 minor bugs.
Entertaining despite its flaws (although it might be good enough to just watch a playthrough for most), this weird piece of history lives on after all this time.
