I've read some good things about pic related, is it worth playing?Also general adventure games thread.
>Kings Quest>Space Quest>Police Quest>Hero's Quest...>Leisure Suit LarryCouldn't they come up with a better name to fit the theme?
>>12559327LSL is just not part of the Quest series. Simple as.
>>12559310Yeah it's pretty good. The puzzles aren't that great and sometimes it's a bit unclear what you're supposed to do to trigger a new event. And the dialogue system can feel a bit arbitrary. But it's still fun to play and experience, it has a lot of atmosphere and it does a good job of making you feel like you're in the Blade Runner world.
>>12559338Yes it is
>>12559327Pussy Quest ?
>>12559434Is the entire game inspired by Beneath a Steel Sky ?
Anyone tried KGB ? I've haven't played a better detective point n' click.
>>12559453It's set in depressing Soviet Russia.
>adventure game genre died off exactly before real time 3d mouselook games became a feasible standard>spent last days trying to make hobbled stilted ass slideshow 3d work in 1995.
>>12559458You investigate the murder of a former KGB agent.
>>12559463Soon you uncover a bigger plot.
>>12559474The game is notoriously extremely difficult. Sometimes your mistakes come to bite your ass only hours of gameplay later.
>>12559480But the plot is extremely well written and also difficult to grasp entirely. The game is very good at making you feel like you're a cog in a bigger scheme.
>>12559493You can't progress in the game if you don't understand the plot, and if you don't pay attention to the event that happen offscreen as they're told to you by the other characters.
>>12559310>I've read some good things about pic related, is it worth playing?It's absurdly kino. Just remember that the game randomizes which NPCs are humans/replicants on every playthrough so it's always a different experience.
>>12560024Also don't buy or play the Enhanced version on steam, just get the original from archive org and use Scumm
>>12560026why
>>12560056Nightdive screwed it up.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MGnC_cFpYM
>>12560056It's so fucking ass
>>12559446It's Blade Runner, it's inspired by the movie and reuses a lot of locations and characters from the movie. Gameplay is quite different from BASS too.>>12559434It's funny how the game uses voice over, back then it felt like a nod to the movie. But then the Director's Cut of the movie removed the voice over.
>>12560026I feel the same way about Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father. Although the original can look a bit crunchy it has Tim Curry and Leah Remini as voice artists. Unfortunately the original recordings were lost when they created an enhanced version so it just doesn't have the same feel.
I liked pic related quite a lot.It has a kinda cliche modern "emotional hook plus sci-fi elements" adventure game story, but had decent puzzles, good characters and fantastic voice acting. Unless you really hate the australian accent.
>>12560123You made me want to replay it. Such a comfy game.Are the sequels any good ?
>>12559310I have beaten this game but it was so long ago I don't remember much. My memory was that it does a great job of mimicking the film while giving an original story.The most recent adventure game I played was Police Quest 1, I was going to play 2 but recently I've been reading a lot about the American Civil War so I have been playing games with that setting instead.No "Confederate Quest" available afaik.
>>12559453The music is great.
I finished Blackstone Chronicles recently, can recommend. All the puzzles were very logical and well designed. I even liked the timed puzzles. Some of the wordplay puzzles felt a bit out of place maybe but I still enjoyed them desu.And it's a creepy game in a good way. No jump scares, it's just unsettling. Especially the parts dealing with the historical psychiatric treatments. The ending was rather weak though, but I've come to expect that with Legend's games, all the focus is on the gameplay.
>>12559453I played it as a kid and I remember liking it but I also remember I needed a walkthrough because there's a lot of time-sensitive puzzles?
I recommend Noctropolis to anybody who likes more serious takes on point and clicks. I like a good comedic one but I also really like deep and dark serious ones. This game is clearly inspired by the 90's comic craze where the medium felt like it was on the up and up, so it was a good impulse to make a superhero themed one.
>>12560253Yes.GK2 is the best FMV game of all time.GK3 is unfairly blamed for "killing adventure games" IIRC in a Old Man Murray article. The cat mustache puzzle is among the easiest and least obtuse puzzles in the entire franchise and gave me zero trouble as a kid.
>>12559310I genuinely only like The Longest Journey. It's the only PnC everyone should play. Sam and Max are probably not bad either. But that's the bottom line. Everything else is pretty mediocre.
>>12560298I shant be playing itt. point and click expert
>>12560305Why not?
>>12560253>Are the sequels any good ?I like Sins of the Fathers the most (my ranking goes 1>3>2) but they're all really good and worth playing.
>>12560309It insists upon itselfhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/6310/The_Longest_Journey/I'm joking but it unironically does>The Longest Journey is an amazing graphical adventureGrim Fandango is amazing, but I still wouldn't put it in the description.
>>12560253Despite being an FMV game, 2 is nowhere near as bad as some of the others of the type (*coughNightTrapcough*). I liked how the real history of Germany played into the story. The only slight downside is the chase sequence at the end. You spend all of the game leisurely clicking on clues and destinations and suddenly you have to outrun a wolf in a basement.Even so, it's better than 3, which had a good story but the early 3D graphics stripped away a lot of the charm of its previous entries in my opinion..
>>12560317The game director for Longest Journey is the same guy who made Dustborn recently btw.
>>12560298I love this game, it can be a bit tricky in places but the story and the settings more than make up for it. The direct sequel wasn't bad either. The third entry, as in most series, wasn't up to the same standard. I wanted Dreamfall Chapters to do well financially because the Devs said that they'd produce "The Longest Journey Home" next, which would tie up everything from all the games in the same point-and-click retro style as the first. Guess we'll never see that now.
>>12559327Larry's Quest could have worked.
>>12560076Can't you toggle between original and remastered assets though?
>>12560424That sucks. LSL wins again!
>>12560276>there's a lot of time-sensitive puzzles?Yes, a few times you need to wait behind a specific door at a certain time of the day and click on it to listen to a conversation happening behind it. If you don't do it you'll miss important clues that are necessary to progress.
>>12559310The tzar of horror point-n-click games coming through
>>12559327Incel quest?
One of the first things I did in this game was gain immortality which is apparently the only way to actually lose.
>>12560123Curry made me cringe in that game to the point I turned the voices off, maybe I should try the "remaster"
>>12560123>>12561461The remake is actually good and was made by Jane Jensen herself. But yeah the new voices sound off if you played the original first. To be honest I had the same problem with the new actors in GK2 too.
I liked it alot when I was a kid. But I hadn't seen the movie.
>>12559310Juggernaut is prime PS1 weirdness. Point-n-click adventure where you go into your girlfriend's mind to exorcise a demon from it.
>>12560138This game was a wonderful surprise for me. Knew nothing about it and bought it on a whim, enjoyed all of it. Cool story too.
>>12560024>It's absurdly kinoblade runner is absurdly gayi despise all of you eighties faggot saxsuckers
>>12562016in that Blade Runner game you can execute the gay British pedo petshop owner point blank with your gun after accusing him of abusing children
>>12562030can i call him based instead
>>12560298TLJ is the only game in that "franchise" that can be called good and it's overrated. It doesn't hold a candle to the actual greats in this genre. Plus the Norwegian director is a terrible lefty hack cuck and would go on to make shit like Dustborn.
>>12562030It's more than hinted at that he raped his underage android girl employee.
>>12559453Absolutely loved it as a kid. Only now do I remember theres a fucking description of watching a snuff porn tape in it where some guys put cigarettes out on some chick's tits as she's tied up then slit her throat. Like Hopkins FBI its one of those old point and clicks which is more hardcore than anything released now. Also Donald Sutherland as the ghost of your dad giving you hints was cool.
>>12560281>fellow GK3 enjoyer Based. Also its pretty much the only adventure game which made the change to 3d environments and then used said 3d environments in an intuitive way. Needing to look around the area, changing the pitch/height/angle of your view in order to spot points of interest. Other games of the time like Escape from Monkey Island just did 3D because it was the new standard but they basically made a 2D game in 3D or box push shit like Broken Sword
>>12560281>best FMV game of all timeConsidering what was around at the time, I think you're right, it was intelligent and had an interesting story. I did enjoy other FMV's like the Tex Murphy adventures but there was a lot of weirdness in the market. Roberta Williams herself tried to push the envelope with Phantasmagoria and at the time I was a little shocked at what it portrayed.
>>12562141Agreed. Adding action sequences and especially stealth (!) to Broken Sword was a disaster. I still liked BS3 but it definitely was held back by trying to move away from the old traditional gameplay.GK3 was fantastic however.
>>12560076it's hard to even tell what the issue is when the clip is just some literal meme sound effects
What like chrome off a car?No.. I think it's horse chrome.lol
The most recently I've been playing Broken Sword 3. The dialogue writing is still top quality and a lot of fun, but the puzzle difficulty got bumped down quite some and I'm not quite happy how the game ever more relays on moving boxes puzzles.
>>12562715Whole game is full of dialogue like that, I love it
>>12562141>>12562242I really like the part in GK3 where you have to sneak into the other hotel rooms. GK3 did stealth well, unlike BS3 where it was just a lot of sneaking past people when they look the other way, it felt more like a mini-game than something integrated with the rest of the game. I still like BS3 too though.>>12562974>The dialogue writing is still top quality and a lot of funAgreed, the dialogues and characters are great.
Just came here to tell that i hate this game and i think its the worst game ever made.
>>12562016Poor you for deciding to enter and engage in a thread on a subject you know you don't like, do you want a cookie?
>>12563413You can't just barge in and declare that without explaining why.
>>12563574UI is horrendous (ok its NES game or Macventure but still).The game is ridicilously nitpicky in order of things.MASSIVE INVENTORY BLOAT.The game does not actually want you to play it. (Torches)Instant kill death traps everywhere.SOFTLOCK CITY. (At least two ways i know you can softlock you of the game and you will never understand why you cant continue because the puzzles make no sense).The puzzles make no sense.The opening screen music is great tho.
One thing Syberia has taught me is that the adventure game world feels much more barren without clickable objects that serve no point in any puzzle and exist just for protagonist to comment on them.
It should be crime to put reflex based section at the end of a point'n'click game that didn't have any timed section up until that point. Also what the fuck was that ending? Maybe I should pick up Still Life 2, but from what I've heard it's not quite connected to the case in the first game. Maybe should play Post Mortem first.
>>12562136Yeah also the butcher living in one of the apartments told how his daughter was abducted by the mafia and raped daily, and that pictures of it were sent to them regularly, and that his wife died of cardiac arrest as a result. That shit wasn't Sam & Max lol.
One of my fav parts in Blade Runner is the police interview transcript you can get when you go to the HQ which is in two parts and is Crystal Steele interviewing Spencer Grigorian who is a replicant sympathiser activist hippie, and at the end of part 1 Crystal is like "hold on, switching off tape" and then when they come back for part 2 Grigorian is shaking and terrified and more honest with his answers and has obviously just gotten his ass beat in the intervening few minutes
I need to go back finish Grim Fandango. Wonderful game in term of presentation, but the inventory system is cancer.
>>12560272First time I hear about the game, so thanks for recommendation. I see it's also based on a series of books. I wonder if they're worth checking out as well.
Temujin - The Nomad SoulWhat do you think?
>>12564696Do you mean David Cage's game with Bon Jovi or pic related? Although I can't say much about both of them. Actually I'm a bit surprised people don't talk about The Nomad Soul as much as about other David Cage's games.
What are some unintentional(?) hilarious adventure games? Need more of that.
>>12559310what's the deal with this game's voxel rendering engine? The developers seem to have glazed their renderer and said all kinds of bullshit about the characters being super detailed then just admit they are polygons.
>>12559327Sex Pest.
>>12565121James McNeill calls them "slice models"https://web.archive.org/web/20190113131425/http://deadendthrills.com/future-imperfect-the-lost-art-of-westwoods-blade-runner/From what little I've understood they couldn't use pure voxel models since they would have taken too much memory, so instead they used 2D polygons for each horizontal "slice" but each model would have hundreds of stacked slices making up the full 3D models. Someone correct me if I'm wrong though.
>>12560253Absolutely yes, I kinda like 2 more than the first (best FMV game ever), and 3 is not perfect but highly underrated
>>12564638>I see it's also based on a series of books. I wonder if they're worth checking out as well.Don't know desu, I haven't read them myself and it wasn't a problem for getting into the game, it worked as a standalone experience. But maybe it would have been different having read the books first, I think the game takes place after the books.
Curse of Monkey Island. My favorite MI and one of the prettiest games ever made. Gilbertcels will disagree though
>>12565273How did they create the effect of Stan's suit?
>>12565302I don't know what the technical term would be but it would essentially just be putting a giant image of that texture as his suit and then creating some sort of mask effect for when he moves his arms, no?
>>12563839I like Post Mortem more than Still Life 1. Post Mortem definitely not as strong in the puzzles but I prefer the story and atmosphere.
>>12564728Whoops. I don't know how my brain fucked up the subtitle like that.The Capricorn Collection.It's neat. I never finished it though because it crashed during my playthrough. I played the demo as a kid a lot.
