Anyone play adventure games?

[adios 717]

I grew up playing classic adventure games of the early 90s, and increasingly it's all I play.  Standouts from back in the day are anything by LucasArts, the Gabriel Knight series and the Tex Murphy series.  And the Broken Sword series and Grim Fandango a bit later.

 

I went through a period a bit obsessed with collecting the best of them, as you can see:

https://isthereanydeal.com/u/gx6b7/collection/

 

I was more addicted to collecting them than playing them for a long time but have recently been making time to regularly play them.

 

Best of the modern lot are probably the Blackwell series.

[adios 717]

Just finished "Going Home".  It's a very different and unique game and only point and click adventure in the loosest sense.  There's really only a couple of incredibly easy puzzles in the whole game.

 

I don't know who to recommend it to, but if you're looking for something to kill a few hours, are into narrative heavy games, and get emotionally involved it's a great trip.

[Ayatollah Hermione 14042]

Sounds like Thimbleweed Park will be right up your street atm.

[adios 717]

Aye, really looking forward to playing that one.  Massive Ron Gilbert fanboy, obviously.

 

Have you played it yet?

[Rayvin 5290]

You remember when you said you got rid of your PS4 cos you didn't have them for it where does this fit into all that?

[adios 717]

I can easily spare an hour a day or more for playing games, it just tends to be at unsociable hours.  

 

If you cunts would stay up for a session from 2-6am I'd be grand.

[Rayvin 5290]

When do you sleep then?

[Ayatollah Hermione 14042]

Aye, really looking forward to playing that one.  Massive Ron Gilbert fanboy, obviously.

 

Have you played it yet?

 

Not yet, still working through Horizon in what spare time I actually have. I'm going to pencil it in next though on the back of the reviews

[adios 717]

When do you sleep then?

All over the shop tbh.  If I'm being good and sticking to a 24hr cycle, then maybe 4am-12pm on average, but often awake 30+ hours and asleep 10+.

[adios 717]

these types of games were among my favs as a kid, monkey islands, day of the tentacle , broken sword, kings quest etc

on xbox there they had day of the tentacle and monkey island 2 up for free as well

 

always loved adventure/rpg/point and click games

Police Quest was amazing too, but I don't like anything where I can die/have to think on my feet these days.

 

DOTT Remastered one of the many I'm working my way through atm.

 

There's been a great resurgence of decent point and click in the last few years, but I don't like the direction Telltale games have gone recently.

[adios 717]

Just finished Yesterday Origins.  Mixed feelings.

 

Defo worth a play if you're into this sort of thing.  Weird mix of dark and comic, considering the cartoony graphics.  Decent story which answered a lot of questions from the previous game (Yesterday - play this first if you want to play them).

 

That's the strongest part of the game, with the puzzles being pretty mundane/easy but not awful.

 

The bug testing obviously went to shit for the last hour or so of the game.  Had to restart the program a couple times.

 

Oh, and the Scottish (Irish?/Jamaican?) accents were horrific.