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So, whats your favourite adventure game...?
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04/27/, 01:35
My all-time favourite adventure game is indiana jones and the fate of atlantis, because of the amazing story, the intense athmosphere and the awesome soundtrack.
04/29/, 21:48
Never played it... ^^ In this trailer it looks like "myst". What's the game about?
04/30/, 05:34
While Zak is up there, I'll have to be honest (though I'll be cheating) and pick 2 games and one collection.
1&2 (Tied): Space Quest III and IV. While I've played both of these to death, I like the story of IV better than III, while finding III more fun to play (less insta-death trap moments). I think what also helps III is that, while I had both for my Amiga 500 (and still do), at the time I didn't have two disk drives, so in order to play IV I had to swap the "Dual Floppy" Disk back and forth with the regular disk every time a screen changed. Amazingly, I beat the game willing to do that nonsense; I think I was a lot more patient in those days. In any case, just the music combined with the fun atmosphere and just a touch of pants-wetting scary moments (damn cyborg from IV still creeps me out) struck a chord with me.
3: The Treasure of Infocom, Vol. 1. Sadly missing "A Mind Forever Voyaging" and "Wishbringer," neither of which I've played but heard good things about, this set pretty much has every other text adventure that made Infocom who they were. I'm a sucker for the Zork series in particular, but the two from the collection I think I like the best were "The Lurking Horror" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Lurking Horror used sound along with the text, and even just that was enough to give me nightmares as a kid, thanks to an overactive imagination, while Hitchhiker was the opposite, just zany nonsense combined with great tests of logic (particular the whole "tea/no tea" debacle). The only shame at the time was I didn't know "dressing gown" was British for "bathrobe," and I kept imagining Arthur Dent walking around in a dress the entire game. I just shrugged and figured it was just sillier that way.
1&2 (Tied): Space Quest III and IV. While I've played both of these to death, I like the story of IV better than III, while finding III more fun to play (less insta-death trap moments). I think what also helps III is that, while I had both for my Amiga 500 (and still do), at the time I didn't have two disk drives, so in order to play IV I had to swap the "Dual Floppy" Disk back and forth with the regular disk every time a screen changed. Amazingly, I beat the game willing to do that nonsense; I think I was a lot more patient in those days. In any case, just the music combined with the fun atmosphere and just a touch of pants-wetting scary moments (damn cyborg from IV still creeps me out) struck a chord with me.
3: The Treasure of Infocom, Vol. 1. Sadly missing "A Mind Forever Voyaging" and "Wishbringer," neither of which I've played but heard good things about, this set pretty much has every other text adventure that made Infocom who they were. I'm a sucker for the Zork series in particular, but the two from the collection I think I like the best were "The Lurking Horror" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Lurking Horror used sound along with the text, and even just that was enough to give me nightmares as a kid, thanks to an overactive imagination, while Hitchhiker was the opposite, just zany nonsense combined with great tests of logic (particular the whole "tea/no tea" debacle). The only shame at the time was I didn't know "dressing gown" was British for "bathrobe," and I kept imagining Arthur Dent walking around in a dress the entire game. I just shrugged and figured it was just sillier that way.
04/30/, 12:51
Syberia is a 2.5D game, Kate Walker goes to a small town to buy a "toy" factory only to discover the owner has died and there's a missing hier which she needs to find.
The whole town is driven by clockwork machines (automatons)
Its really well done, great puzzles that make you think, nice backdrops, animation and well thought of machines
The only real grumble I had was the dialog gets abit repetative, "Kate Walker" is named in every dialog exchange , also she does quite a lot of just walking around, I'd done a 1/4 of the game before I realised she could run lol
The sequel is just as good, some things where improved, like inventory and the dialog system, in the first game the convo tree didn't remove old topics which was abit annoying
Its well worth a look and I think its fairly cheap to buy now, its quite old, I had to get an update to run it on Vista, the sound played to fast and funkyness with the 3D character (her face was missing!) Syberia 2 worked fine
Anyway its a massive game and I really enjoyed it, by the end of the first game its just getting started and leaves you needing to play the second
You can still play Hitchikers on the BBC radio4 website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
I can't remember how far I got with the original
The whole town is driven by clockwork machines (automatons)
Its really well done, great puzzles that make you think, nice backdrops, animation and well thought of machines
The only real grumble I had was the dialog gets abit repetative, "Kate Walker" is named in every dialog exchange , also she does quite a lot of just walking around, I'd done a 1/4 of the game before I realised she could run lol
The sequel is just as good, some things where improved, like inventory and the dialog system, in the first game the convo tree didn't remove old topics which was abit annoying
Its well worth a look and I think its fairly cheap to buy now, its quite old, I had to get an update to run it on Vista, the sound played to fast and funkyness with the 3D character (her face was missing!) Syberia 2 worked fine
Anyway its a massive game and I really enjoyed it, by the end of the first game its just getting started and leaves you needing to play the second
You can still play Hitchikers on the BBC radio4 website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml
I can't remember how far I got with the original
05/01/, 08:54
There's actually a great site, GOG.com, that has a bunch of old games, including a pretty venerable list of old adventure titles. Some are only loosely adventures (Waxworks, based off of the old movie, which I've never seen, but the game is apparently worlds better), but I do believe they just released Syberia to that site. Titles are usually around US$4.99-$9.99, and have been reworked with emulation software or tweaks in order to get them to work on newer systems. Not sure if they have titles available in languages other than English, unfortunately.
On the plus side, the classic "Beneath a Steel Sky" is available for free, since the production company released it as freeware a few years ago. Definitely worth paying for, but getting it free is even better (and since the version on the site is powered by the "SCUMM" emulator, you can tweak the game to get Roland music emulation, Soundblaster sound, and smoothed graphics).
On the plus side, the classic "Beneath a Steel Sky" is available for free, since the production company released it as freeware a few years ago. Definitely worth paying for, but getting it free is even better (and since the version on the site is powered by the "SCUMM" emulator, you can tweak the game to get Roland music emulation, Soundblaster sound, and smoothed graphics).
05/03/, 14:40
Beneath a Steel Sky comes as one of the game install options with many of the Linux builds, along with a couple of other Scumm based games, sound etc works fine 