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Jan-19-2006 00:47

ummm k. i really hope this is the place to talk about anything related to SLEUTH, like the sign said, cuz this is pretty random.

anyhow -with all due respect to the maker's efforts to maintain the feeling of the time period being reproduced- it strikes me as funny that in the 8 or so weeks that i've been playing this game, i have NEVER encountered ANYONE named either john or mary

and yet on the other hand I am routinely interrogating people named like Girish Yelverton.

*goes back in time to the roaring twenties and prevents and angry hood wearing mob from harrassing the union of a south asian lass with a very WASPy-type gentleman*

hee hee go periodicy.

Jan-20-2006 04:46

First of all, am i seeing a different game then everybody else? My suspects avatar in Shanghi still all look caucasian to me.

Second of all, I would agree that in Shanghi that there is a difficulty in the names for the two reasons LED mentioned. In Shanghi our brain needs to start operating like that of a dyslexic person, reading all letters of a name, instead of looking at the word as a whole.

Jan-20-2006 05:30

Mmm that's right, it's a proven fact that in the majority of cases as long as you have the first letter and the last letter of a 'familiar' word the order of the rest of the letters doesn't matter as out brain unjumbles them for us [you can Google that if u like to check] Wlel in tehory aynawy :s So names, unfamilar ones especially cause us the most cognitive problems... hence my recent late debacle with Ananda and Amanda Goforth :s

Jan-20-2006 09:14

Heheh, like your det name. :)

Jan-25-2006 04:42


Secret_Squirrel Not in theory but -"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in
waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the
frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe.

Fcuknig amzanig huh?"

Jan-25-2006 04:54

I saw suspects name spelled "Hu Tu Du" which to me the name reads like WHO TO DO!
I have had others with the same type of spelled like but reads like deals

Mar-20-2006 20:57

My full name is:
May-Christina Geasley Scherping

Would love to see that pop up as a suspect some time....

:-)

Mar-20-2006 21:59

LOL

cruchpatty,
I know what you mean about details that halt one's immersion into the time period. One niggling little thing that always bothered me was the prices of stuff.

for example: In 1929, the real world Model T automobile cost $850 dollars. In sleuth - a pair of brown and white wing tip shoes costs ... $3,500 !?! And you don't want to know just how much I paid for my sequined dress.

Mar-20-2006 22:03

Ack - Actually the model-T dropped in price to around $300 dollars in the mid 1920s. so it's even worse than I thought!

Mar-21-2006 01:00

*agrees with Shanty*

now...on the other hand, having BOTH an 'Ananda' an 'Amanda' AND a 'Hari' and a 'Hara' in the same case...yeah, that's just walletfuel for Shady.

Mar-21-2006 01:08

ooh, (glee) I didn't see the second page of this before posting that.

k first off...111 days old now...still no John or Mary.

Roxy, you've got me exactly. Now, if the truck of the car was filled with bootlegged shriveled monkey paws...that'd be different.