Weird thing in the LBA 2 recorded demo...

[Battler]

We all know the recorded, non-playable demo of LBA 2, which appears, when we leave the game in the main menu, without touching any key. But, there is one weird thing in this demo: when Twinsen and Zoe' go to the lighthouse, they meet the lady rabbibunny (Raph's fiance) in front of the lighthouse (if you talk to her, he says "My pretty bunny has come back..."). But in the demo, she's not in front of the lighthouse, but still sitting on the red bench behind the lighthouse and watching the sea. Also, when the demo starts, Twinsen goes towards a chest, does ACTION, and picks up some money before he goes ahead an talks to Zoe', while in the game, Twinsen must talk to Zoe', before he can do anything at all. Where are all those differences in the demo and the game itself from? Maybe the demo was recorded with an older version of the game. So, that would explain anything. But... what exactly is the matter with it? I'm looking forward to hearing from you all.

Yours sincerely,
O_Brasileiro.

[morshem]

Yeah, I was wondering the same things...

I thought that it's stuff of LBA 2 (since I have Twinsen's Odyssey), but now I see that it's not there as well...

Probably some beta version or something..

[Battler]

- morshem: I guess so, too. And, besides that, LBA 2 was released after TO (TO is dated 18/06/97, LBA 2 is dated 17/07/97).

[morshem]

How come? Isn't LBA 2 the European version, and LBA 2 a European game?

[Battler]

- morshem: Unfortunately, it's so. Trust me, I'm a datemeister.

[morshem]

Oh, really? Then at what dates were the following events?
* Israel's Independence
* Six Days War
* Yom Kippur War
* The Gulf War
* LBA 1's release



(I know all the answers )

[Gobbles]

Originally Posted by O_Brasileiro

- morshem: Unfortunately, it's so. Trust me, I'm a datemeister.

Are you saying LBA2 wasn't made in Europe?

[Battler]

- morshem: I'm a datemeister for the computer-related things (and SOME OF the historic things, like Titanic's disaster (15/04/1912 2:20 AM), killing of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo (28/06/1914), the terroristic attack on the U.S.A. (11/09/2001 8:00 AM U.S. Time).

- DOS 5.00 = 9/04/1991 1st release, 11/11/1991 2nd (fixed) release.
- DOS 6.00 = 10/03/1993.
- DOS 6.20 = 30/09/1993.
- DOS 6.22 = 31/05/1994.
- Windows 95 = 11/07/1995 U.S., 24/08/1995 West Europe, 10/02/1995 the other versions.
- Windows 98 = 11/05/1998 English, 15/05/1998 others.
- Windows 98 SE = 23/04/1999 English, 9/05/1999 others.
- LBA 1 = 18/10/1994 CD European, 22/12/1994 CD U.S.
- LBA 2 = 8/04/1997 older version, 25/05/1997 demo, 18/06/1997 U.S., and 17/07/1997 European version.
- Norton Commander 5.0 = 7/02/1995 English, 25/05/1995 Russian.

Want more?

[Battler]

- Gobbles: LBA 1 and 2 were made in Europe. Cette jeux est Franc'aises (sorry for my extremely bad French).

[Purple Sheep]

I've never bothered to watch the demo as it's so boring...

[Panda]

I thought the demo was the kinda "prequel" to LBA2, showing Twinsen with his day to day life.

[morshem]

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it was intended to be an LBA 2 trailer...




The demo is actually quite interesting, I like watching it. Note that there's also a spoiler there: the teleporters.

[SpaceGuitarist]

Originally Posted by morshem

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it was intended to be an LBA 2 trailer...




The demo is actually quite interesting, I like watching it. Note that there's also a spoiler there: the teleporters.

lba2 only have teleporters in the end, as far as i remember.. so are those teleporters youre talking about?

[morshem]

Yeah, if you watch the demo before playing the game, you can see the teleporters there, and this might be sort of a spoiler...

[Battler]

Originally Posted by morshem

Yeah, if you watch the demo before playing the game, you can see the teleporters there, and this might be sort of a spoiler...

Well... not, if you haven't played LBA 1/Relentless before starting LBA 2/TO (one that starts playing LBA 2/TO without having before played LBA 1/Relentless, doesn't know, what are those teleporters for, and he doesn't even know, who is FunFrock).

[morshem]

Yeah, like me .

But I did sense something fishy there......


(actually, I didn't, but who cares? )

[SpaceGuitarist]

offtopic: btw, does raphs fiance have a name?

[morshem]

Not that we know of.

[Battler]

- morshem and SGK: Maybe we can unofficially call her Raphette.

[morshem]

That's the stupidest name I've ever heard.

[Battler]

- morshem: I know. I invented it just for joke. OK?

[Blafards61]

Sorry if i'm late about that thread but I'm new of 6 days on that forum.


Stop saying anything !

The demo show three different part of the game.

A outside part (to see the 3D)=Citadel island
A dungeon part (To try the new dungeon style and have a little thing to do in the demo) = The island in front of the Hacendia

and A inside part (To see the interior of a building)=Under gas part.

And the 3D part is after you get the tunic and the Sphero has lost her Umbrella.At this part in the true game,Raph's fiance IS sitting !!!! No in front the lighthouse ! Did you see that it was RAINING?!? and Zoe was next to the Dino-Fly?!?

Well,if not,it means that you're not talking about the same demo....

[Golemboy]

not the playable demo blafard, but the one where you go to the game menu and wait for a long time. it shows scenes like the parachuting francos on the mosquibees island, wizard twinsen driving a car, twinsen talking to zoe at the begining, the teleporting grobos at the end; its like a screensaver i suppose. but obras, in my version, it doesnt show twinsen taking any money.

[LBAWinOwns]

About zoe... I think they compressed it so they wont take the ingame-moveing-sceens

[Zink]

It can't be a compressed movie because
1. It would take too much space.
2. You can control the displayed texts like in normal game (cancelling, swiching to the next page by pressing Enter and so on).