Oh, Sand Yego! NOW I get it! LOL!

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Mon May 05, 2008 0:24

Do yourself a favor and don't ask how long that took me to figure out

I'm replaying Keen 4 on easy and I finally got to see the forbidden pyramid. Yay! (Ironically, the first time I played it was on hard mode). Gonna try to get to the secret level in Keen 5 once I've saved all the gnostican council dudes here

ckguy · Post by **ckguy** » Mon May 05, 2008 0:42

Heh. Best thread ever.

I was playing some Keen 4 myself today. I actually made a discovery that I probably should have known for a long time: You can walk through the slug slime when it is half-evaporated.

Also, in case anyone was wondering the isle of fire is RIDICULOUS on difficult mode. Absolutely ridiculous.

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:01

Sand Yego? There's something to get?

XkyRauh · Post by **XkyRauh** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:14

Say it aloud... it's a spoof on San Diego, a city located in southern California in the United States (and, in an ironic twist of Keendom, where I live! Ha!)

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:21

Hmm, so it is. I'd never have made that connection. I always just figured Yego was some obscure term for a castle or something. I made that assumption such a long time ago that I never thought to question it.

Allstories · Post by **Allstories** » Mon May 05, 2008 2:30

My mind = blown

Post by **KeenRush** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:23

Hehe. I've thought it might have something to do with that town, but I've never bothered thinking of saying the name aloud.

Zero X. Diamond · Post by **Zero X. Diamond** » Mon May 05, 2008 7:38

I've always pronounced it Sand Yee-goh, which never really congealed into San Diego before. If it's really supposed to be pronounced Yay-goh, then this is definitely a new Easter Egg type surprise to me.

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Mon May 05, 2008 19:54

Man, the well of wishes is totally BUTCHERED on easy mode

There are only two dopefish, and they don't put up much of a chase at all

entropicdecay · Post by **entropicdecay** » Mon May 05, 2008 20:58

It's a pun on San Diego? I never knew that, but now that you mention it, it seems fairly obvious to me...

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Tue May 06, 2008 0:56

Why didn't anybody tell me you can't break the fuse in the Korath base on easy difficulty??!?!??!

http://www.shikadi.net/keenwiki/Korath_III_Base

Does that mean I don't get to see the secret ending... AGAIN?!?! Oh dear lord please dont tell me I have to start all over after coming all this way

Also, due to breaking away to look up how to destroy that fuse, I just now discovered that you're allowed to save anytime, even in the middle of a level, instead of being restricted to saving in the central hub.
I can't believe this is for real

That makes this game about a hundred times easier

Genius314 · Post by **Genius314** » Tue May 06, 2008 2:27

Why didn't anybody tell me you can't break the fuse in the Korath base on easy difficulty??!?!??!

You actually can, and I have, but it's very rare. Just keep pogoing, you'll eventually get it.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:10

VikingBoyBilly wrote:Also, due to breaking away to look up how to destroy that fuse, I just now discovered that you're allowed to save anytime, even in the middle of a level, instead of being restricted to saving in the central hub.

You've been playing all these episodes without saving in the middle of levels? I'm impressed.

ckguy · Post by **ckguy** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:47

Okay, this is now officially the Belated Revelations thread.

Until a couple of years ago, I thought the dart/knife throwers in Keen 4 were acid drippers. Only within that past few months I learned about the discrepancies in the point values of some items in Keen 3. At, as I mentioned above, I only *just* learned that you can walk on slug slime when it is half-evaporated.

Post by **KeenRush** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:02

Hehe, have to say I'm impressed how you still could be without knowledge of that slug slime, after all these years.

Hm, there's probably something I haven't discovered until this year, too... Funny how these things still keep popping up. But can't think of any now.