Post by: nicklegends on June 24, 2006, 08:33:20 AM
I'd have to say the Chamber of the Sacred Markers. It had a deceivingly simple objective, and it was always great to watch a temple guard scare stiff the player right after he or she completed the objective in the room.
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Post by: PhantomBPR on June 24, 2006, 04:15:29 PM
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You've made it sound even cooler.
LOL. One must always look at things differently.
Post by: Olmec on June 25, 2006, 04:49:24 AM
The Room of the Ancient Warriors is my favorite new room. Priceless when a temple guard caught you.
Post by: The Mandarin Hand on June 25, 2006, 08:19:57 AM
The Chamber of the Sacred Markers was infinitely better than the Heart Room or Medusa's Lair could ever hope to be.
Post by: Olmec on June 25, 2006, 10:23:13 AM
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I never really cared too much for the Room of the Ancient Warriors, because the amount of time spent while the Temple Guard caught you varied greatly depending on which Guard (spotter) was there. Some would just turn to the side for a second or so, while some would spin the contestant all the way around and hold them there for five seconds.
The Chamber of the Sacred Markers was infinitely better than the Heart Room or Medusa's Lair could ever hope to be.
I never cared much about Chamber of the Sacred Markers, though the Temple Guard palcement was ingenious. Medusa's Lair always has a special place in my heart.
Post by: PhantomBPR on June 25, 2006, 10:25:43 AM
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I never cared much about Chamber of the Sacred Markers, though the Temple Guard palcement was ingenious. Medusa's Lair always has a special place in my heart.
The heart room has a special place in my heart.
Post by: dshban on June 25, 2006, 12:05:19 PM
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I never cared much about Chamber of the Sacred Markers, though the Temple Guard palcement was ingenious. Medusa's Lair always has a special place in my heart.
I loved how the temple guards were placed in that room. You could kind of tell sometimes - for example, I was watching a run last night (I don't remember the name), and as the kid pushed the markers in, the paper covering the ladder moved and I thought "Ooh, temple guard." Puts the markers in - up it goes - TEMPLE GUARD!
Post by: Mstrgmr on June 25, 2006, 04:32:47 PM
Post by: Olmec on June 25, 2006, 05:28:43 PM
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QuoteI never cared much about Chamber of the Sacred Markers, though the Temple Guard palcement was ingenious. Medusa's Lair always has a special place in my heart.
I loved how the temple guards were placed in that room. You could kind of tell sometimes - for example, I was watching a run last night (I don't remember the name), and as the kid pushed the markers in, the paper covering the ladder moved and I thought "Ooh, temple guard." Puts the markers in - up it goes - TEMPLE GUARD!
I think you're talking about the Dried ear of Corn of Sojourner Truth. I <3 that one & I noticed the same thing. See why the log is handy?
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Post by: tss1011 on July 03, 2006, 09:41:15 AM
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I never really cared too much for the Room of the Ancient Warriors, because the amount of time spent while the Temple Guard caught you varied greatly depending on which Guard (spotter) was there. Some would just turn to the side for a second or so, while some would spin the contestant all the way around and hold them there for five seconds.
Agreed, the Room of the Ancient Warriors was a cool concept but the temple guards took too long, as if they just HAD to get some face time in. It was especially frustrating in "The Discarded Seal of Ivan the Terrible", when the second player was just a room away but then got held up forever by a temple guard.
Post by: The Purple Parrot on July 03, 2006, 09:45:42 AM
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Agreed, the Room of the Ancient Warriors was a cool concept but the temple guards took too long, as if they just HAD to get some face time in. It was especially frustrating in "The Discarded Seal of Ivan the Terrible", when the second player was just a room away but then got held up forever by a temple guard.
OMG, i have to agree with you there. That team was one of the fastest the temple had ever seen and they still didn't make it to the artifact. The temple design was just brutal. And, i agree, it looked like Elisa could've pulled off a last second grabbing of the seal, but the temple gaurd in the Room of the Ancient Warriors just stuck a fork in her.
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Post by: ElJarhead on September 29, 2006, 02:01:47 AM
But the most improved award definitely goes to the Chamber of the Sacred Markers. The center rooms always looked thrown together in the second season (Medusa's Lair had the same Heart Room paint job, but with the head of Medusa at the front - oooooh, MEDUSA'S LAIR), and they put some serious time into the Chamber. Plus, as others have mentioned, there's the sweet center shaft where temple guards can hide and terrify innocent youth after opening the door. Actually, now that I think about it, this is also a hardcore room.
The Room of the Ancient Warriors kind of made me upset. The door between that room and the Jester's Court had to be pulled because of space constraints (I would think), and that reduced the possible temple layouts and choices the contestants could make. The idea was good, but in practice, I don't think it worked as well as it should have. I like temple guards grabbing people in the suits of armor, though. Wow, now that I really think about it, all the new rooms were much more hardcore than the ones they replaced.
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Post by: ElJarhead on October 03, 2006, 01:36:42 AM
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The room of the ancient warriors. I would have been scared to death to be grabbed by a temple guard there.
No kidding. The Bent Shaving Pan of Jedediah Smith episode is a good one to watch if you like people being terrorized by temple guards. Sheeeeesh.
Post by: The Purple Parrot on October 03, 2006, 04:10:03 AM
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Or the Discarded Seal of Ivan the Terrible. I'll never forget the first time i rewatched that one. I was like "She's gonna get it!" and then the worst thing that could happen happened. A temple gaurd grabs her. Oh, it's a good one too. It's pretty much the reason that that team doesn't reach the artifact. That and it was an imposible layout, but what ya gonna do?
I still remember talking with one of my other Legends-obsessed friends back in the day about how that layout would be supremely difficult, and then sure enough, a season later they did it, and the team didn't make it. Temple guards or not, that was a tough one.
There were a lot of tough layouts in season 3, actually, like the Marble Armrest of Xerxes where the team had to go all the way around the horn to get to the Chamber of the Sacred Markers. Ridiculous. I guess not giving away prizes is one way to cut costs.
Post by: The Bamboo Forest on January 07, 2007, 02:16:43 AM
Post by: nicklegends on January 07, 2007, 07:57:56 AM
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There were a lot of tough layouts in season 3, actually, like the Marble Armrest of Xerxes where the team had to go all the way around the horn to get to the Chamber of the Sacred Markers. Ridiculous. I guess not giving away prizes is one way to cut costs.
I think they wanted to stay true to the 25% win ratio, so they had to make some layouts easier than normal or harder than normal to compensate (Ivory Hunting Horn and Jeweled Scabbard of Sforza, vs. Discarded Seal and Dried Apple Half). One of the reasons these layouts appeared supremely difficult is because the rooms took so much more time to complete in Season 3 when compared to the previous seasons. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Headless Kings.) That's one of the major reasons why I couldn't choose the tomb as my favorite.
We seem to be drifting a bit off topic, though. I'd appreciate it if we could get back on track.
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