Point and click adventure games from the late 90's / early 2000's had the most soul out of any video games.
Call me the meme words if you want, but I think we really did lose the intellectuals since then. Games as cerebral as Myst used to be award winning best sellers and were the backbone of the home computer gaming market. It feels like the industry matured backwards.
>>729423707I remember this game being woke as hell
>>729424035I would take myst's success with a grain of salt in that vein, it was a "3d" game released in 1993. the new fangled 3d immersion was the selling point.
>>729424126It was fairly uncommon back then how progressive the game was.
>>729423707I really like the puzzle gameplay but the whimsical 90s YA stories aren't something I'm in the mood for most of the time..
>>729424035No one would complete Myst without hints back then. Game magazines usually contained complete walkthroughs for popular adventure and RPG games.
>>729424402Most were detective noir mysteries though.
>>729424035it's not as much as we lost the intellectuals in the audience as developers had more quaint notions of player engagement at that time and consumers had to make do with what was on offer, if you wanted your cinematic movie game you had to bash your head against moon logic puzzles and keep a save catalog system to avoid softlocks.
>>729424482the ones good enough to be worth playing and aren't ancient 80s ibm? not really.
>>729424267Not just Myst, adventure and puzzle games in general were much more highly praised back then and their difficulty never seemed to be a negative for reviewers. One that stands out to me is the review featured as the blurb on the box cover for The Adventures of Woodruff and The Schnibble, "So addicting you might lose your job". Something which I think would be pretty bizarre to hear said about an adventure game today. Lemmings also had a notorious reputation for being incredibly addicting. My point is that it feels like how we interact with these types of games has changed considerably. I think in part because now you can very easily look up the puzzle solutions, which makes the temptation to cheat anytime you get stuck that much more tempting.
>>729424425that's because nobody knew how to really play it, everyone was just amazed by the fmvs and sound, especially the sound because the age of blip bloop "music" (as anyone who had loom on a low end machine could tell you) had finally come to an end.
This game filtered me as a kid. I couldn't find how to progress.
chat remind me to play syberia 2 and then keepsake
point and clicks were the movie games of the pastsyberia is a literal walking simulator
>>729423707Stop lying. The Longest Journey was basically the exception. Most of them were shit. Lucasarts died, Sierra died. Broken Sword 3 and 4 sucked.
I enjoyed the longest journey / syberia, but it was clear the genre was past its prime by thenearly to mid 90's was the peak for these kind of games
I dont know if people remember grey matter, it came at a time when these types of games were losing its popularity, but i remember that shit hooked me with its characters and story, it ends in such an interesting way but it was a cliffhanger, the story had so much potential. to this day i wish we had a sequel to it. The dark eye series imo was really good too, very good but bitter sweet story and it teases a world that seems to be well written and has depth, too bad we couldn't see more of it.
>>729425573I played Grey Matter, yea. It was nice to play a good adventure game in 2010, it did have a big name for the genre behind it with Jensen.
As a kid in the mid-90s playing games on the local library PCs, I used to think the point and click format sucked ass. I still do, but I used to, too.
>>729425502the vga golden age being cut short by hideous fmv was a tragedy of tragedies.
>>729425573The Dark Eye games are based on a German TTRPG which has never been released in English as far as I know; so there actually is more out there if you're willing to put the work in.
>tfw the creator/writer went insane and made Dustborn
>>729424267My parents gathered around our family computer for days solving myst and then riven. Got them into stuff like you don't know jack. Only time they ever gamed was in the mid 90s be of games like myst
>>729425573I gotta play these two, thanks
>>729426005I mean, he also made the dreamfall chapters, the signs were there
>>729425951yeah i know, when i found out i understood why the world and lore seemed so deep, it sucks there arent translations, cus theres a bunch of events and characters the games dont explore that for sure is explained in the lore of the TTRPG but i dont know friggin german lol
>>729426119He was always woke, he merely reached his final form.
>>729426119bro i fuckin swear, dreamfall chapters was like one of the earlier things that got hijacked by these fucking social justice warrior types that hate video games, I didnt know it at the time all i knew was so much was wrong about what they did to the story, destroyed set ups 2 games in the making, turned characters gay, inserted a blue haired self-insert, of course know we know but back then i was like "wtf is happening here, why the fuck did they choose to do this shit?" like even back then i knew, i felt there was somthing wrong
RAMA, Lighthouse: The Dark Being, Gabriel Knight, Myst, Longest Journey, Syberia, Return to Krondor, Silver, Indiana Jones, King's Quest, (...) may all be considered archaeotech, but they are all infinitely better than the generic imteractive advertisments sold today
>>729425573It wasn't as good as any Gabriel Knights. Apparently Jane Jensen just wrote the story and design and wasn't even present when the game was developed. You can't make a good game like that.Then she made Moebius which was terrible and returned back to writing yaoi novels. What a sad story.
>>729426119>>729426372Kian being turned gay was like 9/11 for Dreamfall fans
>>729427752This motherfucker...
>>729424035Industry just got BIGGER aka drew in people beyond those who were initially interested in. Also, it was a weird period where Myst basically got people to buy CD drives and helped the industry grow even faster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dmeJ1IQWVIBoth dreamfall games games had such a dreamlike magic atmosphere.
>>729427556look preachiness and irl political commentary has always been a thing in media, but i swear dreamfall chapters was the one that pioneered the current insufferable version of it we see and experience today, that we people have now dubbed as "woke". Cus like this shit was in 2014 a couple of years before all this craziness BUT somehow everything seems to have followed the formula dreamfall chapters took, same exact pattern.
>>729426119>love The Longest Journey>wait five years for Dreamfall>wait almost ten years for Chapters>ends in a shitshow
>>729424035gaming simply shifted to new things. it's no coincidence good P&Cs had sharp writing and outlandish puzzles, both elements largely lost today.
April is T H I C C.
>>729427867One thing I also found odd is that Zoe's love interest (Reza) suddenly looks a lot like Ragnar himself and yet the game pushes you as Zoe to cheat on him with your therapistAnd the game ends with Zoe being pregnant with it not being clear who the father is
>>729424954She bogged?
>>729423707All that means is that's when you started playing video games.
>>729428050Why did they do it?
>dustborn is so woke i wish we could go back>go back>play this>"i'm in my underwear? that's so inappropriate"
>>729424845Speaking as someone that played Lemmings for the first time last month, that reputation still holds trueOH NOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6sdyftZOIo
