YMMV / Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

• Awesome Music: This game is full of amazing classical-sounding tracks, but the ones that stand above the rest are the opening theme, Cafe Parisien, C Deck, and the first sinking theme.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A diamond necklace serves as one of the key MacGuffins in the game. One year later, James Cameron's Titanic would also have a diamond necklace as a plot point.
• Memetic Mutation: When Frank is instructed to find the painting, he offers to send a telegram for John B. Thayer instructing his train to be there when the ship arrives. However, the game does not need the exact telegram to be sent (or even sent at all, you can just lie and say you did it). A number of fans joke that they actually send "cancel train," some dark humor as Thayer perished in the sinking.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Rather jarringly, if you try and take the Rubaiyat out of the boiler room directly, Vlad catches you, takes it off your hands, and promptly shoots you in the face.
  • After you knock out Zeitel at the top of the funnel, you climb back down and get knocked cold by Vlad (notice a theme?) wielding a very large wrench. You eventually come to, and the ship has already been sinking for over an hour (it's 1:05 AM) — and you can hear things or people splashing into the water around the ship as you scramble to complete your mission before the last lifeboat leaves.
  • And if you fail to do that in time, you get several minutes aboard the ship simply to run around and contemplate your inevitable fate.
  • The cut-scene of Haderlitz getting electrocuted in the Turkish Bath if you take his ring to Trask to get a reading.
  • All of the Alternate History bad endings are ... less than ideal, but the worst of them is probably Nazi Germany managing to create nuclear weapons and then using one of them on Britain during an alternate World War II — which, in this timeline, is the only World War, as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia was averted due to a lack of funds for the Black Hand organization. The Player Character is killed by the very bomb that the Nazis drop on London, no less.
• Tough Act to Follow: Even before issues behind the scenes would force a complete reevaluation, becoming more of an open tour, Titanic: Honor & Glory faced doubts from fans that it would not merely try to copy the plot of TAOOT. Cyberflix itself would likewise find this with their later games, as they simply did not live up to TAOOT. Proposals to branch into potential sequel works sadly fell through as well.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The ship is not actually a 3D model, but pre-rendered images of the model largely due to system limitations preventing a faithful recreation of the Titanic from being rendered in real time on an average home computer of the day. Every time you move, the game loads the next picture in sequence to make it appear 3D. It's completely seamless. The sheer number of images needed for the Titanic is largely the reason why the game took up two discs.

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