Unofficial Tex Murphy

Since I'm replaying the game (and some of them after a really long time), and I just finished Mean Streets, I found myself a little lost.

During Mean Streets, Tex's office is already in Old San Francisco? Or it is still in New San Francisco?

Possibly the answer to this question lays in my muddled memory, but I can't find it

From what I understand Tex's office in Mean Streets is located in Old San Francisco, but it was retconned in Overseer to be in New San Fran. At least that's how I've always viewed it. I might be wrong.

-Fred

Tex's timeline is a little muddy during Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum, if you're judging by the three Aaron Conners-scripted games (AC wasn't the writer on Mean Streets or Martian Memorandum). Typically, the Aaron Conners games are considered "canon" in terms of Tex's history--especially considering that Overseer is a re-telling of Mean Streets, it's generally accepted that the events in Overseer are the real story.

In short: Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum, "history"-wise, can probably be chalked up to hazy, bourbon-addled recollections on Tex's part; they may or may not be exactly what actually happened.

James LeMosy wrote:Tex's timeline is a little muddy during Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum, if you're judging by the three Aaron Conners-scripted games (AC wasn't the writer on Mean Streets or Martian Memorandum). Typically, the Aaron Conners games are considered "canon" in terms of Tex's history--especially considering that Overseer is a re-telling of Mean Streets, it's generally accepted that the events in Overseer are the real story.

Thanks for the clarification. And indeed - after replaying Mean Street and having in mind Tex speech near the beginning of Overseer (where he tells that he was a naive P.I. "by the book") - Tex also seemed to me a little different: I don't see the Tex we know from the latter games shooting so much and wasting so many men

Just started Martian Memorandum.

And already another question: in the beginning, Tex mentions that the evening before the game starts he could have died. Is he referring to the end of Mean Streets, or to a usual P.I. evening? I checked in the manual (the Italian one), and there isn't mention of any backstory...

Can't help you on that one.

Still piecing together stories I see =P

Just out of curiosity.... when you are reading a long book, do you constantly go back to different sections of the book because a detail you just read is referencing to something from many pages back and can keep reading until you remember what it was or find it and reread it??

I was just wondering.... cause I do that and judging from your questions, it wouldn't surprise me if you did too.

I do that a lot! And I love in-depth chronologies as well!

You have to see the degree of precision/fixation I can reach about Gabriel Knight