Always 3:00am in the Filth
Perhaps the greatest thing ever created. Come on, how many games let you toss a hat at flappers dancing the Charleston, mobsters, the NY Yankees, and the giant laser shooting eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleberg?
"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984
crazy and proud of it
I love how the health items are like martinis or something
Bunny
Now, it's been quite some time since I read the book, but I don't remember Nick ever getting attacked by a giant pair of eyes with glasses.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
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Eh, it's okay. Just... okay.
Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.
Left Eye
Ready to see true darkness
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No, what happens?
DUMB
Apparently nothing, there's just an exhortation to do so in the credits.
The game's absurdly easy, but oddly charming.
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NOT THE BEES
This is amazing.
It sees you.
Having never read the book, this game is downright surreal for me. The dude you're looking for in the first level gets zapped/vanished/absorbed by a random green light? And then you're on a train, and you get attacked by a pair of weeping eyeglasses? The hell? :D
But somehow,◊
Court Dragon
Eh, the first two bosses were kind of easy.
I have a message from another time...
NOT THE BEES
^^ Arguably knowing what everything is and all the symbolism behind it just makes it even more surreal.
The eyes, for instance, are supposed to be symbolic of the eyes of God, and the green light is hope or something.
edited 19th Feb '11 4:36:11 PM by Pykrete
It sees you.
So you smack God in the eyes with a hat while riding on top of a boxcar, and find out that hope is a lamppost guarded by crabs...? Yeah, I can see what you mean. o_o
But somehow,◊
DUMB
I came up with this plot with mind-control clones instead.
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AXTE INCAL AXTUCE MUN
In The Great Gatsby, there is an enormous billboard for an optometrist featuring an enormous illustration of bespectacled eyes. The narrator discusses them at length, leading many a critic to assume that these eyes are symbolic for something—God being the most popular guess.
The titular Gatsby moved into a large property from which, at night, he could see a green light that shone from the end of a wharf on Daisy's property. (Daisy being his sweetheart from back in the day when he was too poor for her.) On the few nights when no one was around (dude threw a lot of crazy parties) he would stand on the edge of his property, staring at the green light. Thus, hope.
I didn't write any of that.
NOT THE BEES
There's also the group that thinks Gatsby is Jesus because in the pool scene in the movie he carries a floaty-bed to the pool where he gets shot and that's apparently supposed to represent carrying the cross or something.
Yeah my class didn't take too well on that one >.>
Just go ahead and read the book. It's one of those I thought was boring as hell the first time, but when I read it several years later and was more comfortable with the prose I appreciated it a lot more.
edited 19th Feb '11 8:07:23 PM by Pykrete
Bunny
I agree. Despite what your average high school English class may tell you, Gatsby is actually a really good book.
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
DUMB
Your average HS English class would say it's great, though
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Ready to see true darkness
I honestly can't think of any book my HS English classmates felt anything more than apathy for.
DUMB
Oh, I thought the teacher/institution was meant, my mistake.
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Bunny
Really? My AHSEC tells me that just about everything is crap.
I guess YAHSECMV, though.
...Oh, wait, my post has just been rendered invalid. Sorry!
edited 19th Feb '11 10:16:42 PM by Deathonabun
One of my few regrets about being born female is the inability to grow a handlebar mustache. -Landstander
Court Dragon
Do classes really take well to any book that they have to read, though?
edited 19th Feb '11 10:17:07 PM by Enlong
I have a message from another time...
It sees you.
I dunno, I read A Wrinkle In Time in fourth grade, and it's still one of my favorite books. Can't say as anything I read in high school really grabbed me, but that's largely because most of it was drowned out by the yearly readings of Hamlet.
Ready to see true darkness
I can think of plenty mandatory reading that were pretty interesting to me (1984, The Collector, And Then There Were None, Lord Of The Flies, Frankenstein, The Screwtape Letters, Of Mice And Men), but also ones that felt like a chore (Out Of The Silent Planet, anything by Shakespeare because impenetrable prose *, The Glass Menagerie, A Separate Peace, To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, plenty more I don't remember).
The Great Gatsby is somewhere in the middle.
Burn
...I don't recall seeing the souls of armymen on West Egg Beach in the book. 0_o
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.
Surprisingly, it's actually quite fun, though short and easy.
Basically, it's actually an obvious Flash game in the style of an NES game (apparently, the NES can't actually do yellow), with a hoax backstory that its original cart was found in a yard sale. It's a platformer, but it doesn't really do much to explain the plot, you won't really have any idea what's going on if you don't know the actual plot from the book. Still, as a game, it's quite neat.
Also, the theme of the first level (which is also the credits theme) is quite catchy.
edited 18th Feb '11 11:26:15 PM by Cronosonic