Can't push furniture

[elizaew]

I am playing The New Nightmare and the keys for making Carnby push furniture don't work so I can't move forward in the game. I am using the game on Windows ME with Nvidia and everything else works great. To make Carnby push furnitue I am supposed to hold down the spacebar and then push the up cursor. When I do this, all Carnby does is walk forward. He doesn't push anything. Can anyone help me out?

[Minos]

This one is a real pain in the neck. The game's design is such that you have to position the characters in EXACTLY the right spot before he/she is able to push things (or pick things up).

When I started playing as Carnby it must have taken my about half an hour (that's what it seemed like anyway) to simply push the wardrobe aside. You just have to keep shifting around and trying again and again. It's frustrating, but you do tend to get better with practice.

It's not a problem with your system – it's simply the game design. You also have to be careful for less obvious things, where you think of trying to move or act on an object and it doesn't work. You should always have several goes at it, as there's a fair chance you're onto the right thing but you haven't got the character correctly positioned. Like I say, a real pain in the neck at times. Fortunatlely it doesn't come up all that often.

[elizaew]

Thanks Minos - I'll give it a try. Meanwhile, can you tell me whether Carny pushes the wardrobe from the right or left side? Or whether he pushes from the front?

[Minos]

You have to postion him to the right of it (as you look at the screen); place him facing the side and against it, then just keep pressing the action key and the forward button until it works! I'm not sure if it's my imagination (it's a long time since I played it), but seem to remember it helps if you hit the action key momentarily before the forward key... but that may just have been coincidence.

You'll get the hang of it in the end – good luck!

[elizaew]

Yikes!!!!! I finally got the wardrobe moved quite by accident and now am having the exact same problem wtih the stupid statue on the stupid catwalk in the stupid greenhouse!!!!! I have been trying to push it since last night. I keep moving him one step then spacebar and then sursor, one step - spacebar 0 cursor. I am losing my mind!

Is it the same as with the wardrobe? Should he be at the right side of the statue? Or is there a different technique with this one?

[Minos]

I don't blame you – this one is the second Big Test; you think you've got the knack then this one comes along. But it is in fact the same technique as before; you just have to be even more obsessionally careful about positioning the character.

He has to be to the right of the statue, facing it, and pushing it along the railing. Again, you just have to keep shuffling him around and trying again and again. You've been doing it for ages and are about to give up and try something else (I think I may have done myself) when all of a sudden it moves! A miracle!
Unfortunately he has to move it again – once more along the rail I seem to remember – then outwards (so it is pushed off the catwalk).

Just keep trying! You can do it! Don't let a mere computer game get the better of you... ;)

[elizaew]

Thanks Minos - you give me hope. You know, this is the kind of thing that makes computer games NOT FUN. Trying to push a statue isn't an interesting activity so having to do it over and over again is just annoying - not challenging like a puzzle that takes forever to figure out. Also, getting a cheat doesn't help either. When will they learn????

[Warspite]

I just started playing AITD with a joystick instead of a keyboard, and it makes it even more surreal and uncontrollable. There is not a mad mutant dog/creature alive that can catch me now - they can't work out where Mr Carnby is trying to run to:bulb:

Hi Minos!:D

[Minos]

Erk! Tracked down! :eek:

But yes – I had the same problem with playing Silent Hill on the PS2. I never did get the hang of it. Whenever I had to dodge the creatures of evil the odds were I'd end up doing a 180° turn and running straight back into them. I don't know what they thought of it, but it certainly pissed me off.

What really got me was that the main reason I bought a PS2 was because Silent Hill never appeared on the PC. So I then bought the PS2 version of Silent Hill 2 – only for that to be released on the PC not long after. Then I did the same with Silent Hill 3... now also out on the PC.

I have now given my PS2 to my two nieces. :confused: