Help needed for Space Quest 2

[Duritz]

Hi guys, many years ago I had a game called Space Quest 2, made by a company called Sierra. Back then, I couldn't figure out what was going on. Nothing was happening! The guy was just standing outside some building and I didn't know what to do, so I abandoned it.

Anyhoo, I found my old Space Quest 2 game recently and gave it another try, but it's so frustrating! I just can't work out what to do! Is this all the game is? Walking around outside a building? Seems like a rip-off to me if that's the case.

Has anyone else had experience with this game? How do you get inside the building, if that's what you're supposed to do?

 

[Syphoncom]

There were multiple SQ games, it'd be funny if people kept buying them and you couldn't actually do anything


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Part 2 at the end.

 

[FGMPR]

Hi guys, many years ago I had a game called Space Quest 2, made by a company called Sierra. Back then, I couldn't figure out what was going on. Nothing was happening! The guy was just standing outside some building and I didn't know what to do, so I abandoned it.

Anyhoo, I found my old Space Quest 2 game recently and gave it another try, but it's so frustrating! I just can't work out what to do! Is this all the game is? Walking around outside a building? Seems like a rip-off to me if that's the case.

Has anyone else had experience with this game? How do you get inside the building, if that's what you're supposed to do?

Your still using a computer that uses these?:

The game uses the old "parser" interface where you have to type in all your action outside of moving around. Try typing "look x" or "pick up x" and then "use x on x" for example. I can't remember specifics because its been about 20 years since I played that.

 

[Duritz]

I don't use disks anymore! But I still do have my old Amstrad. I keep it out to try to beat my previous best scores on World Class Leaderboard (Doral is still very tough) and I was looking around for the leaderboard manual a couple of days ago when I found my old Space Quest 2. It's been bugging me for over 20 years, that first screen!

Thanks fgmpr I'll try your advice. I won't watch that walkthrough though, that'd be cheating and I want to beat this game on my own merits!

 

[FGMPR]

I don't use disks anymore! But I still do have my old Amstrad. I keep it out to try to beat my previous best scores on World Class Leaderboard (Doral is still very tough) and I was looking around for the leaderboard manual a couple of days ago when I found my old Space Quest 2. It's been bugging me for over 20 years, that first screen!

Thanks fgmpr I'll try your advice. I won't watch that walkthrough though, that'd be cheating and I want to beat this game on my own merits!

haha good luck, those old Sierra games are incredibly punishing. If you forget to pick up a simple object, the game will let you play on until it comes time where you need the object you missed hours ago and get stuck.

If you're really determined to do this, make multiple saves, don't keep overwriting the same save. Use them all and space them out wisely because the game will **** you over sooner or later.

 

[DapperDon]

If my old school gaming memory serves me correctly, you need to sweep the platform before you go inside the spaceship. Type sweep or clean platform/deck and sooner or later you'll be called inside the ship.

It has been a good 15 years since I played this so forgive me if I'm wrong.

 

[Quixote]

^^^ When you say "Sweep", is that like how I sweep my fingers over my iPhone?

Or different?

Coz yeah I wouldn't mind getting out of this first level (room) as well.

 

[Duritz]

I am trying to look at his watch, but the monitor is only a CGA (4 colour!) and the picture's so small anyway that I can't see his watch at all, even when my face is really close to the screen. Am I missing something here?

 

[FGMPR]

I am trying to look at his watch, but the monitor is only a CGA (4 colour!) and the picture's so small anyway that I can't see his watch at all, even when my face is really close to the screen. Am I missing something here?

About 25 years of technological progress

 

[94_Eagles]

^^^ When you say "Sweep", is that like how I sweep my fingers over my iPhone?

Or different?

Coz yeah I wouldn't mind getting out of this first level (room) as well.

You might like to try and actually and read his post where he says type the word sweep. Yes, games from 20 years ago incorporated touch screens and the like.

Obvious troll is obvious.

 

[MarcusP2]

I only played Space Quest 3, where you start out inside a junkyard. After dying for trying to pick up a piece of metal, I quit the game.

Old Sierra games were needlessly brutal.

 

[Quixote]

Obvious troll is obvious.

 

[Strike Swiftly]

Leisure suit Larry, police quest, space quest.... My faves as a kid. Sucked at them though.

 

[Duritz]

WTF??? Apparently berries kill you!!

 

[DapperDon]

WTF??? Apparently berries kill you!!

Old Sierra games were needlessly brutal.

This man wasn't kidding.

 

[Hahndozer]

I only played Space Quest 3, where you start out inside a junkyard. After dying for trying to pick up a piece of metal, I quit the game.

Old Sierra games were needlessly brutal.

That's the one I thought he was talking about he may have been talking about. Did the same thing as you, got frustrated and quit!

Police Quest 3 is where it's at though. Satanic killers and pulling over drunk drivers. What more can you ask for?

 

[MarcusP2]

Ha, the first time I played PQ3 my computer was way too fast for it and I had to drive at 5mph or crash at lightning speed into the wall.

 

[FGMPR]

I was a massive PQ fan, but have never been able to play PQ3 because of its insane driving mechanic. I bought the PQ pack off GOG not too long ago and its the same thing. I just want to get to the meat of the game, but it makes it unplayable.

 

[MarcusP2]

Well the speed isn't a problem any more, but yes the driving is more complicated than it needs to be.

Though if you ever played 'Project Iceman' you would know the true pain of overly complicated vehicles.

 

[Mingo]

Loved Police Quest. Never played Space Quest 2 but I enjoyed SQ1. Didn't finish it like Police Quest though.

Did anyone else ever play a game from Sierra called Codename: Iceman? I played it so much but could never get off the bloody beach I remember if you played beach volleyball one of the chicks faints or something and I could never figure out what to do.

 

[Duritz]

Loved Police Quest. Never played Space Quest 2 but I enjoyed SQ1. Didn't finish it like Police Quest though.

Did anyone else ever play a game from Sierra called Codename: Iceman? I played it so much but could never get off the bloody beach I remember if you played beach volleyball one of the chicks faints or something and I could never figure out what to do.

Are you supposed to have sex with her? I just assume that if a girl faints you should try to have sex with her.

 

[Hellbourne]

Are you supposed to have sex with her? I just assume that if a girl faints you should try to have sex with her.

Probably possible in the Leisure Suit Larry games, not sure about Iceman though, never played it.

Space Quests 1 and 3 were my favs, got 2 but never really played it so can't help much. Did anyone finish Kings Quest 1, 2 or 3? Never finished those.

 

[FGMPR]

That's Leisure Suit Larry. Except in LSL something bad always happens, like when you root the hooker in LSL1 without a franger and you're dick explodes

Sierra games always made you learn the hard way.

 

[Mingo]

Probably possible in the Leisure Suit Larry games, not sure about Iceman though, never played it.

Actually you do have sex with chicks, just not the one that faints...

 

[Xtreme]

Yeah i had some serious trouble with PQ 3 and also the PQ 1 VGA Remake (from the Police Quest collection that i purchased in 1997) on my Pentium 2 computer back in the day. I'd hate to think how horrible the driving parts in the games would be on quad core computers .

Something that has always annoyed me about the Police Quest collection i have, is the different documentation stating what the collection includes. On one hand it says it has PQ 1 - 4 + Swat (the 5 games included), another part says the 5 games are PQ 1, PQ 1: VGA Remake, PQ 2, PQ 3 and PQ 4.... while Swat is just the "demo". I am more inclined to believe that the Swat included is the demo version (as much as i played it back in the day, i could only access 2 major situations - with different scenarios depending on how you performed). However i found it odd that a demo would require 4 cd's . Never recalled a demo requiring multiple cd's back in the mid to late 90's.

That's Leisure Suit Larry. Except in LSL something bad always happens, like when you root the hooker in LSL1 without a franger and you're dick explodes

I lol'd at the part in LSL 3 when he is going at it with a chick at the beach, gets up does a funny dance and says that he has got crabs...... and pulls one out that had attacked him down below .