- Hello, this is President Herbert Hoover speaking. - *in a comical grumpy voice* Urhm, uh, mister President? This is General Johnson! - Yes General, good to hear from you. What's new at the Headquarters? - No time for that shit! Sir, I need you to order a nuclear strike on my position right now!
Also despite watching this entire thing, I still have no idea how the hell we've reached this point. I mean this game is weird even by adventure game standards.
Oh, I get it. The whole point of sneaking into the army base was to use their phone so as not to run up his own phone bill. If only Halligan had thought of that.
I was hoping Jack would just end up being a major in the army and never solving the case. Then he dies in the Korean War when a stolen artillery shell tumbles out of his coat and kills everyone.
I feel like Jack Orlando was supposed to be a comedy game like Monkey Island but the humour was entirely based on puns and played totally deadpan. Like it was originally a kind of Polish equivalent of Sam and Max Hit the Road, but none of the jokes really translate into English except for the ludicrous inventory that was supposed to be mocking other kleptomaniacal adventure games.
Maybe the game was started in the 1930s with humour and stuff from thr era, and the whole thing was a production nightmare that took 80 years to finish
I love how the old-timey term for a PI, Private Dick, now describes Jack in *three* ways, and both parts are true each time! Also 13:40 "Hello, my name is Hopkins, Hopkins FB- I mean, Hopkins PI!"
I'm surprised they completely overlooked the fact that Jack introduced himself as "Hopkins" during the first phone call. So many missed opportunities there...
I noticed that also. Usually he just chuckles a bit while slowbeef tears his own hair out, but not this time. Jack is breakin' records over here, fugghetabouddit.
Here's to hoping that Jack dies at the end, or the long player at least uploads a death reel. But knowing this game, Jack's going to get out unscathed by the skin of his teeth due to some stupid bullshit
I really hope that there's a montage of him trying to engage in fisticuffs and/or pulling his gun on every character in the game, mostly because I don't want to make one myself.
Many military bases have two bars, one for enlisted people, which is often styled like a sportsbar or dive...then there is the officers club, which can be very fancy, I have personally been in one that looked like the gold room in the overlook hotel from the shining
I doubt anyone has any inclination to actually buy this game, but when I was window shopping on steam I saw that you could get it for 99 cents right now. Reviews are mixed .thanks for the entertaining play through guys.
Next episode: Jack fools everyone into thinking he's the president; "Gonna build me a big wall to keep out those pesky chinese, think i'll call it "Jacks Great wall of China"."
I know this game doesn't make sense in general but what exactly is the purpose of this army gameplay? Jack was following the villain (?) but then he invades an army base for no reason, gets stuck there and starts stealing everything and doing pranks calls. Is this whole thing filler???
The first victim in this case was Major Pete Reynolds, who was killed by Scalletti's hitman August Bellinger(magenta suit guy), who was then gunned down by Scalletti's goons due to his relationship with his boss's niece(I guess). Orlando is taken to Scalletti from which his henchman mentions a meeting with the Major at the docks. As Orlando escapes(with the help of the Don's niece)with evidence from the Don's Office, he catches up to the meeting with Scalletti and Major Stewart. Orlando hitches a ride on top of the truck, that heads to army base. And here we are.
Thanks for the info but i don't remember if the game even explained that? If the Major was the first victim, why didn't Jack check the army base first for clues instead of going through so many events only to reach there later by sheer luck/coincidence? It might make sense but Jack never explains what he is doing or interrogates people about the victim, it looks like he invaded an army base for laughs. And he somehow locked his own clothes in the warehouse! I know it's supposed to be the game saying "You're stuck here until you finish this quest" but it's so contrived and stupid, he should've carried them in his infinite space trenchcoat.
He didn't have much to go by at the time. The police only said the victim's name and his rank at the crime scene, which only showed a tiny connection. I'm guessing the evidence that he found in the Don's office was a list of names that Scalletti was making deals with; Pete Reynolds was probably one of the names mentioned. If Jack had went around in the army base undisguised, it would've led to Game Over. But yeah, most of the dialogue in this game is absolute nonsense, but it does somehow connect. Also, I agree about that warehouse "puzzle"; it was total BS. lol
I'm with slowbeef on this one: before this game has ended Orlando is going to have a noticeable gravitational field. He's going to simply draw the conspirators to him.
A quickie wiki search shows that soldiers can't have beards due to reasons both hygiene (like lice) and practical (having a bare face to prompt a better seal when wearing a chemical weapon protective mask). The no beard to grab thing Slowbeef mentioned came all the was back from Alexander the Great.
It's been a tradition amongst almost all armies reaching back to antiquity that the officers get to live a better standard of life. I don't know how much they do it in the modern US army, but I fully would believe an actual club and bar for officers back in that era. Remember captains on naval vessels had their own personal cooks and servants. Or the cliche of the British officer with his 'bat man' and personal attache who would see to his kit for him.
*dials number from a U.S. Army base* "Rogers here!" "Im Duke Crabtree! I'm a terrorist!" "Call and ask for the anti-terrorist department!" *guitar riff*
It's alright, liking a controversial protagonist such as Lightning, or Squall, or Shadow the Hedgehog, or Rick and/or Morty, or Jack Orlando requires an acquired taste and quite a bit of mental faculties. Remember when he loses all of his precious inventory items while changing into uniform? When you use an accident like that to get your characters out of danger, that's poor writing, but using it to get your character into trouble is an opportunity that distinguishes a well written character also your profile pic is the Soul Eater cat girl literally spreading her pussy open can we talk about that for a sec
Wait a minute, how can this possibly be the second to last episode? When the episode started we were only about 5 minutes away from the ending! How much longer can this possibly go on for? I haven't seen padding this egregious since the Darkseed 2 riff.
Lewis Carroll used to write a hyphen whenever a noun modified another noun. Seems they picked that up here. Also, double points if there's a "do it to Julia" reference later.
There are tons of bars on bases. Getting mad fucked up is a proud military tradition. Also grooming standards have changed a lot. I’m not an expert on the army’s but you could have full beards in the navy until around the 90’s. Wartime is usually more lax with it though.
What blows my mind is that the soldier has one leg, which I take to mean that his other one is a prosthetic. And yet he’s still being made to work patrol duty
It's the 1940s: if he had a wooden leg, would he still be in the Army? Wait a minute: the private is someone else _impersonating_ a private. _Everyone is an impersonator!_
Yeah, with any luck Jack will build a trash Gundam out of all the garbage in his inventory and this whole thing will go the way of Iron Blooded Orphans.
This game doesn't even deserve a Snow Job ending. Jack should just trip, be unable to stand up from all of the inventory weighing him down, and starve to death as the credits play.
The game does a piss poor job connecting the plot and it feels like everything happens at random. The guy that got murdererd in the first place was a Major at this army base, that we somehow found out was smuggling weapons to local mob boss Scaletti.
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