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Son Goku Inactive Member |
If anybody is a fan (or not) of this genre of PC games, what do you think were their strengths and weaknesses and why?
What were you favourites and again why? For anybody who isn't familiar with the genre it consists of games such as The Broken Sword, Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, Syberia and Monkey Island to name a few. My favourite genre, even though I've been swept up by First-Person Shooters in the last few years.
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riVeRraT Member (Idle past 447 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: |
I was into D&D when I was young, but I prefer FPS now. Especially online competetion.
Everquest was rather sucessful.
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U can call me Cookie Member (Idle past 4984 days) Posts: 228 From: jo'burg, RSA Joined: |
favourite adventure game is Little Big Adventure 2.
the tears almost flowed at the end! Also, the Last Express. That has got to be one of the best of the genre, in the early days. now i'm more of an RPG fan. So intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close. - Pablo Neruda
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Funkaloyd Inactive Member |
Broken Sword 1 = Best game ever.
Grim Fandango I got about 1/4 of the way through, then stopped playing for some reason. Can't remember why, but I'll pick it up again eventually. Did the same thing with The Longest Journey; it was collecting dust for a year, until I started playing it again a few days ago. As far as strengths and weaknesses go, I think adventure games are similar to many of the better novels and movies out there. Apocalypse Now, 1984, and Broken Sword are all extremely rewarding works of art, but they don't offer the cheap thrills that games in other genres, and comedies and action ("action" action) movies have. So I find myself watching Family Guy more often than reading or watching truly outstanding films, and, in the same vein, I play first-person shooters more than adventure games. Another specific weakness is that adventure games aren't very social. Action, sports, strategy, role-playing and war games more often include multiplayer options, or at least make it easy to take turns with mates, whereas most adventure games pretty much demand that the player sits alone for extended periods of time with but his or her thoughts and a bunch of NPCs for company. That's fine for those of us who are rather introverted (e.g. me), but some people see it as "unhealthy".
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Son Goku Inactive Member |
Broken Sword 1 = Best game ever.
Agreed. I loved the second's Mayan theme, although it wasn't the masterpiece Broken Sword 1 was.The humour was a bit too "zany" at times and the music didn't impress me as much. I also missed the first's hub structure, that it all centred around Paris. The third was fairly good. I didn't like the way it pretty much became fantasy, instead of the Conspiracy-esque atmosphere, with a hint of the supernatural, like the other two.Although I did like that it developed Nico a bit. Have to say I'm looking forward to the fourth one myself, coming out Spring this year in case you haven't heard.
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docpotato Member (Idle past 5078 days) Posts: 334 From: Portland, OR Joined: |
It's all about Sam 'n Max to me. Though I do have a soft spot for the old text based Infocom games.
This message has been edited by docpotato, 01-14-2006 06:45 PM "In Heaven, everything is fine." The Lady in the Radiator Eraserhead One Movie a Day/Week/Whenever
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Yaro Member (Idle past 6527 days) Posts: 1797 Joined: |
That was an awsome Lucas Arts adventure game. It had an excelent plot, logical puzzles, multiple characters and great voice acting. While I thought Sam & Max were good, I found the puzzles to Trial&Error i.e. illogical.
Before the dig I would vote Kings Quest 6 then Beyond Zork, Tinity, and the Enchanter series.
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Percy Member Posts: 22508 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.4 |
The first adventure game I ever played was...Adventure. It was line oriented, no graphics. You would start it up and after asking if you wanted instructions it would say, "You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building. Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building and down a gully." Then you would type N, E, S or W to indicate the direction you wanted to go next.
It was written at MIT around 1975 by Will Crowther. It was line oriented and written in Fortran. I had a copy of the source at one point that someone in my group at DEC was using to port to RSX-11. Once mastered, a couple friends had races to see who could complete the adventure in the fewest steps. It was always easy to tell who won. You would just stretch out the teletype paper side-by-side and see which was shortest. It's famous, there's lots of information about it on the Internet. I've only played four graphical computer games, and they're all adventure style games:
May you never wind up in a mazy of twisty little passages, all alike! --Percy
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nator Member (Idle past 2200 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Does the Myst series count?
It is so beautiful and so absorbing and so unlike anything else. I really consider it the "grown up" puzzle/adventure game. Other than an intense-but-brief infatuation with Castle Wolfenstein and Doom 1 & 2, I've never been much for first person shooters. Mostly I play D&D-themed RPG these days.
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cavediver Member (Idle past 3674 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
The first adventure game I ever played was...Adventure Same here, though on a cassette-based RML 380Z. Inspired me to write several of my own in between sessions of D&D
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Son Goku Inactive Member |
Oh, yes Myst counts. It's one of the classics of the genre.
Percy writes:
Another game with a sequel coming out soon. The Longest JourneyThe original has probably my second favourite computer game character ever, April Ryan. Not to mention the world the story was set in, a fantastic blend of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, while still managing to make it seem like world real people lived in. One of the most realistic futures I've ever seen, where humanity has built up and out with god-like technology, but we're still largely just people. The music was also so good that I actually went out and bought the soundtrack, the only game I've ever done that for.
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Ah yes, and Zork. How exciting they were.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Yaro Member (Idle past 6527 days) Posts: 1797 Joined: |
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jar Member (Idle past 425 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Come on now. With the advent of Zork we gained full color and animation. You had green type on black screen or magically, black type on green screen. Not long afterwards you could even have white type on black screen and even black type on white screen.
And it all came about thanks to CURSES. AbE: For a Blast from the Past go here. And go here for Zork. This message has been edited by jar, 01-15-2006 10:11 AM Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1498 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
World of Warcraft, people. Seriously. There's a reason it draws people in of all ages; the interface and gameplay are both simple and compelling, the game is balanced for both group and solo play, your enemies can be both computer-controlled NPC's and other players, the gameworld is vast, sprawling, pictureseque, and seamless (almost no zone loading screens), and its stylized graphics give an incredible sense of immersion without requiring top-of-the-line PC hardware. (It helps to have a lot of memory, though.)
There's few gaming experiences I've had that are as truly rewarding as sitting astride your sabertooth tiger mount, charging down a snow-covered hillside in Alterac Valley into the thick of battle with dozens of your teammates at your side. Awesome. Look me up on the Ursin server, if you decide to play a character from the Horde. I'm "Fallowblade".
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