[06/09/05] ] Point N Click: How I Love Thee

[Concept]

I'm sure there'll be some DOS/pre-XP emulator you can run the game on top of somewhere. I'll have to pick it up sometime (or track down the Amiga version).

Perhaps we could do a collaborative adventure point 'n' click feature for the site and review a number of games of the genre over the space of a few weeks?

[babs]

Lots of people use dosbox, but I like one called VDMSound. It gives a context menu entry, so you can right click on a .exe/.com/.bat and launch it and it does all the sound settings automatically.

[Magnakai]

Are you looking for this: http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=342 ?
Classic site.

This is the best thread ever, btw.

But what about the complete lack of love for Sierra? Huh? King's Quest 5 was the first game I ever bought. I still have the 5 1/4" disks around here somewhere.

Space Quest 3! Astro Chicken, baby!

Quest For Glory 1, 2 and 4! All rather tough, but all rather fantastic.

It's dead surreal to hear so many people remember Dreamweb. I remember reading about it in PC Review (waaaay back in the day) and thinking it was rather odd.

Oh, for the few who don't know of it, ScummVM may be handy: www.scummvm.com

These guys are remaking some Sierra adventures: http://www.agdinteractive.com/

Here's a couple of fantastic freeware point & click games made with the AGS:

http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/5days/

and it's sequel

http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/7days/

[PeteJ]

One great game not yet listed is Bladerunner itself by Westwood. Though short, it was superbly designed and really captured the atmosphere of the movie. The graphics were spectacular too, particularly the FMV which for the time was way ahead of anything else. Mmm Crystal.

If I remember correctly the bad guys were randomly selected with every new game, so you really didn't know who you could trust and who you could kill. The only way to find out the truth was to find evidence and through interigation. By all means it didn't work perfectly, but it certainly added something new and is one of the few games were you play as a detective in which you actually feel like you are investigating.

Though not point 'n click, Fahrenheit is one of my most wanted games of the year. The demo was superb.

[babs]

The pictures you analyzed in Bladerunner were always the same, as was the evidence. THe ending however changed according to how you played the game, I seem to remember there being a 'good' ending (there were a few different ones) if you didn't kill any humans during the game. This was quite hard on the first play through, for example when you chase a guy down and go round a corner and see someone next to a bin. I (and most people I expect) shot him and it turns out to be a tramp.

The one thing that *really* annoyed me on my last play through the game was getting really far, then running into a bit where I couldn't avoid being shot. Unfortunately I'd saved just before meaning that my game was effectively ruined.

But yes, a brilliant game, it's just a shame the 'digitized' sprites for the main characters look so rough now, a Hi-Res makeover would freshen it up no end. For me one of, if not The, best movie tie-in yet.

[goldenhawk]

did know one ever play koala lumpah journey to the edge ?

now that was an impossible point and click.

[goldenhawk]

my first point and click was curse of monkey island, it took me like 5 weeks to finish.
my all time favourite has to be grim fandango followed by monkey island 2, with the star wars esc. ending! third will go to curse of monkey island.

[PH]

Another game no one has mentioned yet is the original Gabriel Knight. Really liked that one although i seem to remember it had a couple of annoying bugs near the end.

The sequel was one of those awful FMV games, no i of course mean interactive movie, that Sierra amongst other game companies decided was the way to go for a while.

[davesol]

Oh, for the few who don't know of it, ScummVM may be handy: www.scummvm.com

It's http://www.scummvm.org

[a_c_saunders]

Ahhh the adventure genre was my first taste of gaming in general at the age of 4 playing Kings Quest 1 and Zork Zero on an old tandy with those huge 5 inch disks.

Space quest 3 was always a fave of mine, with the astro chicken game and the terminator references and then that cool mach fight at the end

Also another cool Sierra game was Laura Bow: Colonels bequest. It was set in the south of America in the 1920s and was a mix between adventure and Who dunnit where throughout the course of the game people would be gradually bumped off by one of the guests in the mansion you were staying in.

I think the genre is also experiencing a little bit of a revival with talks of Sierra, or should I say Vivendi seeing as they've gobbled up Sierra, releasing XP compatible compilations of the entire Kings Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest series.

The fan made scene is also very healthy atm as the above mentioned AGDI Interactive creating remakes of Kings Quest games and Quest for Glory, Phoenix Freeware Online making an extremely ambitious closing chapter to the kings quest series in the shape of Kings Quest 9 and another group of fans (including Josh Mandel, a former designer and voice actor at Sierra) creating a follow up to the space quest series.

[Spatial]

Another game no one has mentioned yet is the original Gabriel Knight. Really liked that one although i seem to remember it had a couple of annoying bugs near the end.

The sequel was one of those awful FMV games, no i of course mean interactive movie, that Sierra amongst other game companies decided was the way to go for a while.

Ditto.

The original Gabriel Knight is excellent and gripping stuff. Everything from the plot to the puzzles and settings are brilliantly done. Its a shame the sequels didn't live up to their full potential.

I didn't mind the second one (the cheesy acting was both cringe inducing and laugh out loud material mind)

Scary Village Elder : "Not volf. Warevolf...."

Grace's parts were mostly as dull as ditch water though.

[Ish]

The only point'n'click adventure games I've played have been the Lucas ones which I loved (all of them - fantastic) and one of the Kings Quest games which I found too nauseatingly twee for me to try any of the others.

Has anyone tried ScummVM on the DS? What's it like?

[importaku]

Anyone tried the horror point & click adventure by sierra called shivers. I really love that one its eerie exploring the abandoned museum finding out what happened to everyone.

God i so miss this genre of games for pc, nowdays its millions of war simulation games.

[PeteJ]

Telltale Games disclosed tonight what many adventure fans have been waiting to hear for over a year: Sam & Max is making a comeback.

Telltale stresses that the game will not be Sam & Max: Freelance Police, the LucasArts title whose highly-publicized 2004 cancellation was widely mourned by fans. New content will be developed, and the game will be implemented in an episodic format similar to that of Telltale's Bone games. Purcell, who works at Pixar, says he will be as involved with the Sam & Max project as he can be.

http://www.adventuregamers.com/newsitem.php?id=1061

If they mess with my head one more time....

[Mr_Sands]

Rejoice!