PC Longplay [008] The Dig 

How could you beat It being 14 years old? The game is really good, but also extremely difficult.

@@brunokbelo3248 Exploring, taking notes and trying different things with the objects in my inventory. It took some time but eventually I got all the puzzles. Adventure games were my favorite genre back then.

@@brunokbelo3248 I played it as a kid and I only got really really stuck at one part. 1:52:06 You have to show it to Maggie at this spot and that took forever to figure out lol

What a lovely experience. Thank you for sharing 🥰

@@brunokbelo3248 I beat it when I was 11 (I too am extraordinarily humble) 😎

My exact experience. This game is the purest of adventures in my opinion. For me, the Dig will be a more precious story to me than Gurren Laggan ever was... and that's saying something for me because I ADORE that series.

ThursdayTheNext dude your lucky. I think these games can teach patience and creativity, and the bad ones frustrate you to no end heh. but then the self refection of "is it me that's messing up here or is it the game" develops further. peace.

+Cretaal i have been playing all adventures games in 2016, i finish the dig now, and i will play indiana Jones :D and after that maniac masion and the secret of the monkey island

So funny you’d mention this, I remember watching my dad play this (I was 5 at the time) as I peered through the accordion door to my bedroom when I was supposed to be sleeping. Then just watching him play at other times during the day. So nostalgic in that way. Never played it myself but always enjoyed watching it like a movie.

Same here.

+Wolfatadoor i love adventure games, grim fandango, maniac masion, the secret of the monkey island. the dig and many others, i will play indiana Jones and Gabriel Knight soon

i can guarantee you that its not only nostalgia. I'm seeing this game for the first time and i'm completely amazed and involved with it. what a amazing game D:

Tiago Alves well, personally it is. I played it at a really young age. I think this game taught me how to use the internet because I had to look up Guides.

You arent old enough to remember DOS days unless you just didn't update for donkeys years.

+Gilmar Machado You can get it on steam.

Thanks so much, both of you :D

Or emulator ScummVM

its ok, train your english and pratice, you get better eventuelly.

O dx2-66 também outro mito! Bela máquina

+Aaron Kalat People who didn't like The Dig, didn't certainly fully understand it! Masterpiece. Period. Steven Spielberg should make the movie!

I'm in complete agreement. A Spielberg film is definitely in order. It'll never happen but it really should!

+Paulo Teixeira Exactly! Some mixture of Armageddon and Contact. And they say that Hollywood has idea crisis.

I've recently found the Primordia game. It's the most close to TheDIG game mood in my opinion.

+Paul Weaver try with final cut a new begginging

+Lucas Barbuzzi they have a different version of this?

+millicent1990 Originality and great atmosphere were the strongest points of the game! :)

Same here, it's just too EPIC. Wish a movie would be made though.

***** This game has a book? Well, I don't read any books, and won't start now :), but nice to know it has a book.

***** I've read the book; and yes, it was pretty awesome. More puzzles in the game, but the book explains more about the eternal state in which the aliens were trapped, and their efforts to contact you.

Vlado ti me dovede ovde extra igra stvarno!!!

Apple prolly stole the idea from this game haha

@Leandro Aude 13:48 etc

@Leandro Aude Welcome!

@Leandro Aude Oh, hell yeah. It probably planted a subconscious seed in my mind, which caused me to buy an Ipaq 5550 back in the early 2000s. Used to tell people it’s what their future phones would be. I had full length dvd rip movies on it, wifi and cached newspaper apps, and a GPS. People would laugh and say they would never use such features on a handheld device. The Dig was cinematic storytelling of a kind that has sadly vanished from actual cinema.

@Leandro Aude Bill Gates should have known that a decade prior. His Windows CE came out in 96! As for my friends and associates, I would presume most of them entirely forgot I owned an Ipaq 5550, I reminded a few of them, and they couldn’t even remember. Sometimes, when technology is too advanced, people can’t understand what they are looking at, or what they’re being shown. It’s literally like they can’t see what’s in front of them. Ie- to them, you should only watched a movie on a tv screen or in a cinema. To them, a palm sized portable device seemed ludicrous to them for such a purpose. Even if you said “what if you’re stuck on a train or a plane?” They’d argue that they’d read a or reside with their thoughts. And the GPS- well that was years beyond them. They honestly thought road maps were faster or that they’d drive into a ditch. Yup. Having to stop and see what back street you’re on, and back trace on a maps grid reference is faster than turn by turn navigation. Not. Keep in mind, some of these people also, in recent years, scoffed at me investing a small amount in Tesla. Most people have no foresight, and need to be told by others that something should be adopted. They can’t see for themselves, and think tomorrow is the same as today. As though there will be advances in the future, but not many. Like humanity has invented all it can today. “Why would you want to sleep in your self-driving car on the way to work? Why would you want smartglasses to translate foreign languages for you? Why would you want to print up household items with an injection-moulding multi-material 3d printer?” They don’t understand. Then all their friends get a smartphone, or smart-lights and a voice assistant, or a Roomba. Then it’s suddenly comprehensible, and they have to have yesterday’s tech because, well, all the people at work have it. But those with a little prescience, well “that’s a tiny bit weird man!”

It was but they thought it was going to be too expensive to make. They later made it into a game. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dig

I mean the beginning half of the basic plot is pretty similar to Armageddon

I was about to say they should have made this into a movie, but realised I already did that two years ago.

Because it cannot be finished without relying on walk-throughs consistently. The puzzles or mandatory actions are so nebulous that I got stuck hours at so many points that i stopped playing and watched this longplay.

How about Broken Age?

Paul Weaver Didn't play that one, and it's quite new! I will check that, thanks!

You can check it's 1st part for now. Part 2 has not been released yet.

"very best acting" holy shit you're ridiculous

MJB you mean I should have said it *had* the very best acting or you disagree with me on the acting itself?

David R6 Thanks for the spoilers, no need to buy the game now

Fiddlesticks WT I'm so sorry... This game is twenty years ago... But you must to play it !!!!!!!!!

+Fiddlesticks WT If you don't want spoilers, why are you in a longplay video of the game?

Lênon Kramer Didn't watch 80% of it

...only the last 20%

The game was actually based on a Spielberg's idea to make a movie, but George Lucas believed to be too expensive for a movie... May be with the current technologies...

+rickonami I can assist. :)

Rickonami! YAY

NP, was my pleasure :)

***** You are welcome :P