point and click adventures

[Anonymous No.3409637]

Picked this up along with dreamfall in the last steam sale and I'm really glad I did. Just beat it and can't wait to start the sequel. Any other suggestions for adventure games in the same vein? The Tex Murphy games any good?

[Anonymous No.3409650]

The sequels, while not P&C, do share that sense of exploration and discovery, while continuing the overarching storyline. Other games like this I personally have played mostly fall into the Broken Sword series.

[Anonymous No.3409743]

>>3409637

Try Atlantis/Atlantis II.

[Anonymous No.3410186]

The Journeyman Project!

>doin the pre-rendered background thing before Myst
>dat opening theme
>savin da world thru time-travel
>enjoying jazz fusion with the sound of dogs barking everytime you time-travel
>the one maze in the game comes with automap

You can also get the remake, Pegasus Prime, but be warned it adds in some real BS. Instead of being treated to a nice video when traveling on the minecarts, or in the submarine, or on the escape shuttle, you have to navigate and a single wrong turn is instant death. There's also a few added puzzles which only add in some more run-around as well. Despite the improved look, I still recommend playing the original.

[Anonymous No.3411625]

>>3409650
I really tried but just couldn't get into broken sword games. They were really boring to me. The Tex Murphy games any good?

[Anonymous No.3412108]

>>3411625
Which one did you try? I hope you started off with the first game.

[Anonymous No.3412130]

>>3412108
Not >>3411625, but I agree they're not for everybody. I enjoyed them because of the awesome production values and the focus on detailed sense of setting and whatnot, but they're quite low-key and minimalistic in comparison with the LucasArts or Sierra classics (which I do prefer)

[Anonymous No.3412141]

>>3412130
George's comments are great.

[Anonymous No.3413093]

I don't think I've played any since King's Quest.

[Anonymous No.3413843]

>>3412108
I started with the first one. I thought they were dry and uninteresting, but I gave then a shot anyways.

[Anonymous No.3414491]

>>3409637
It's too bad that the series was turned into liberal propaganda.

[Anonymous No.3414607]

>>3414491
Thanks. You just saved me money!

and I actually LIKED the first game

[Anonymous No.3414772]

>>3414607
But Dreamfall Chapters is better and more Important in the thematical breadth it concerns itself with!
Have you considered you may simply be too much of a shitlord?

[Anonymous No.3414780]

>>3409637
Are there non-IBM PC point-and-clicks?
I think a plenty of SCUMM games there should be.

[Anonymous No.3414819]

>>3409637

Based on a comment in a different thread, I tried to get the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes.

The Serrated Scalpel was ok, enjoyable but not great, and then I moved on to Case of the Rose Tattoo, which is supposed to be much better.

I've tried downloads from 4 separate abandonware sites, and they ALL seem to have the same problem. I can download the iso of the CD just fine, and then when I try to install it (through dosbox, and yes, I am mounting the virtual drive as a cdrom drive) I get that it's missing files and the game won't start.

Anyone know of a way to actually get the game going?

[Anonymous No.3414836]

>>3414491
Shame Breivik had already done his deed before this company was founded.

[Anonymous No.3415587]

>>3409637
I really enjoy the Blackwell saga, is a very interesting adventure and a good story.

http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/games/blackwell-legacy/

Also WadjetEye is a game company that develops only point and clic adventures

[Anonymous No.3416182]

>>3409637
I bought a lot of point and clicks in the steam sale

I suggest:
Day of the tentacle
The Dig
Gabriel Knight - Sins of the fathers
Grim Fandango
I have no mouth, and i must scream
The last door
Loom
Monkey island 1/2
Rusty lake hotel
Sanitarium
And all the tex murphys

Apart from that you should definitely go for the Broken Sword series, 1/2 being two of my fave games ever the only poor installment was the 4th game.

[Anonymous No.3416462]

>>3415587
OP here. They are awesome. Played and beat them all already.

[Anonymous No.3419290]

>>3416182
>Sanitarium
First four levels are good, once your past the house level it's all downhill from there.

[Anonymous No.3419296]

>>3414491
To be honest I saw some liberal propaganda undertones in the first game too (lesbian "family" springs to mind), they just were much subtle as the times were different back then. Now they go full retard with it because why the fuck not, the frog has been cooked for long enough.

[Anonymous No.3420258]

>>3419290
I bought a lot of these as i used to play them when i was younger so mostly for nostalgia but overall i think sanitarium is a solid 7/10

[Anonymous No.3420260]

>>3414491
The series has always been that way. If you didn't notice it since the first game, you're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.3420276]

So some of you disregard games because parts of them don't agree with your politics? Really?

[Anonymous No.3420769]

>>3420276
Unless you're a reviewer, why would you force yourself through a game which apparently attempts to convey some cultural/political programming you're in disagreement with? For instance, some people lost interest in the Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy elsewhere) game because of the nog man/white gurl relationship depicted there, and it's their choice.

[Anonymous No.3420841]

>>3416182
>I have no mouth, and i must scream
If you can get over Harlan Ellison's voice and writing, ok.

[Anonymous No.3420882]

>>3420841
>not liking hellison
He's basically the average 4chan post in writer form.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA0zSkCXPEc

[Anonymous No.3421325]

>>3420769
Because it's fun to play and you're not so ancient and simple minded that shit like that even matters? That's just me though.

[Anonymous No.3421340]

>>3414491
It's cool, he's black.

[Anonymous No.3421450]

>>3420276
Oh go play KZ-Manager.

[Anonymous No.3421668]

>>3421340
>doesn't agree with me
>hurrhurr must be a nigger

[Anonymous No.3424562]

>>3414491
The politics weren't what irritated me about Dreamfall Chapters. I actually think that, on its own merits as a standalone game, it's pretty decent.

But they FUCKED OVER April so goddamn hard. In TLJ she's clearly destined for something, and related to the White of the Draic Kin in some ill-defined manner, but then Ragnar fucking Tornquist decided that his new Zoe character was more important than April so had her have a shitty life as a rebel leader then get stabbed and die in a swamp at the end of Dreamfall.

Then what do they do in Chapters? Have her ghost show up and be HAPPY she died! What the actual fuck?

Fuck you Ragnar.

Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.3424590]

>>3424562
Also fuck everything about the collapse. Way to destroy a great setting there guys.

[Anonymous No.3425643]

>>3414491
>supposedly progressive and egalitarian cyberpunk future
>women wear hijabs

[Anonymous No.3425646]

Played Loom recently for the first time. I've been a fan of LucasArts adventure games since I was a kid, but I never got my hands on this until the last steam sale. It's... alright I guess. The voice acting is kinda awful, the plot is absurd and confusing, but at least the puzzles were sort of interesting.

I prefer "regular" adventure games over Loom though, the melody memorization is kinda dull and gets very frustrating after a while.

[Anonymous No.3425656]

>>3411625
Tex Murphy games are pretty good, but the first game is complex and frustrating. To me it felt like a chore to play through. After the first game the series really gets it going with FMV and voice acting and whatnot.

I'd say you should just watch a playthrough of the first Tex Murphy game on youtube, and play the rest by yourself. Trust me, the first game is a not very fun game.

[Anonymous No.3425657]

>>3424562
But anon, that is politics. White people should die to make room for minorities and be happy about it.

[Anonymous No.3425658]

>>3420276
Cause I don't want to pay money to idiots

[Anonymous No.3426829]

>>3414491
i remember the original longest journey , that was a bad game IMO

but this looks great , im goint to buy it now

[Anonymous No.3426867]

>>3425646
Loom was pretty ambitious in a way. It featured an audio cassette with an about 30 minute audio drama which served as a prologue to the game's story. Also two more parts were planned, but were scrapped in the end.

[Anonymous No.3426871]

>>3425657
>White people should die to make room for minorities and be happy about it.
[says who?][citation needed]

[Anonymous No.3426876]

>>3426871
just take it on another board I come here to relax

[Anonymous No.3426885]

>>3420769
I wish I had stopped playing Indigo Prophecy when I saw the nigger had a white girlfriend it would have saved me from playing all the way through a completely unfinished game

[Anonymous No.3428193]

Fran Bow and Anna's Quest are two of the best adventure games I've played in the last few years.

[Anonymous No.3428263]

>>3424562
not only that, but dreamfall totally destroyed her personality, it's like bizarro character development

>wallflower lives an epic adventure spanning whole worlds and saves the day
>turns into a bitter cunt, abandon all friends for muh revolution

fuck dreamfall

[Anonymous No.3429087]

why does TLJ get these huge ratings? never played it, just curious.

[Anonymous No.3429308]

>>3420260
This.

Although I've had /v/ argue me many times that Longest Journey 1 isn't liberal because it has a rape joke.

[Anonymous No.3429309]

>>3429087
REALLY good writing. The first LJ is one of the best stories in video games.

[Anonymous No.3429312]

>>3420882
>He's basically the average 4chan post in writer form.

That's a perfectly good reason not to like him.

[Anonymous No.3430684]

>>3409637
Master of Dimensions is good but it's hard getting it to run on Dosbox. I couldn't do it.
play the 2014 Shadowgate Remake as well. it's on GoG and based on Shadowgate Classic.

[Anonymous No.3430686]

>>3414491
>/pol/: The game

where to fucking buy?
I'll take 20.

[Anonymous No.3430703]

>>3429308
Americans are just having a hard time understanding what a "liberal" is.

[Anonymous No.3431084]

>>3428263
Wow you should not be allowed to analyze characters, you're too autistic for it.

Maybe you should just go home to your anime and visual novels

[Anonymous No.3431121]

>>3430684
>it's hard getting it to run on Dosbox
No wonder, since it isn't a DOS game.

[Anonymous No.3431136]

It's a shame that a lot of the good adventure games came out on windows lately and are thus a bitch to get to run on modern computers.

[Anonymous No.3431196]

>>3431136
>lately
I don't think it means what you think it means.

Anyway, you're right that Win98/early XP era games are the most problematic to use nowadays. While they won't run directly on modern Windows, there isn't a virtualization/emulation shim for them like DOSbox for pure DOS games either.

[Anonymous No.3431197]

>>3430686
More like sjw: the game, I guess.

[Anonymous No.3431528]

I played through all the Longest Journey stuff. The later stuff is a step down from the first but it's still way better than say Telltale's works. You would be doing yourself a favour by checking them out.

[Anonymous No.3432647]

>>3409637
yu-no

[Anonymous No.3432797]

>>3432647
Longest epilogue ever.

[Anonymous No.3433069]

I wanna play stuff I missed back in the day, how do these hold up? I remember having a blast with Kyrandia 2 and later learning that it was the best of the series and I shouldn't have bothered with the others.

Specifically, asking about:
>Simon the Sorcerer series
>Woodruff and the Schnibble
>Touche
bonus points for telling me how to set up subs+voice in the first two, I like voices but have hearing problems and can't always make them out

[Anonymous No.3433116]

>>3409637
Bladerunner is pretty rad. Really weird and pretty complex in some ways. Multiple endings and stuff too.

[Anonymous No.3434196]

Here's my top five favorites:

Beneath a Steel Sky
Discworld 2
Gabriel Knight
Virtual Stupidity
The Neverhood

Honorable Mention: I Have No Mouth

[Anonymous No.3434230]

I played Tex Murphy Overseer last year and highly recommend it.

A fantastic story and well told through flashbacks.


I also recommend: The Last Express.

[Anonymous No.3434246]

>>3433069
Simon talkie works just fine in scummvm but the recent Android ports are actually really well done.

[Anonymous No.3434738]

>>3434246
It works but with voices only and I'd like both voices and text.

[Anonymous No.3434757]

>>3434738
Nvm, apparently the first game doesn't have both, what the fuck. Gotta hunt down the floppy version I guess.

[Anonymous No.3434763]

Favorite one right here, can't stop playing it since my dad got it with a magazine(from before I was born). I should try the prequel tho.

[Anonymous No.3436512]

>>3431528
okay. I'll get started then

[Anonymous No.3437628]

>game has voice acting
>can only switch between text and voice from the options, can't have both at the same time

[Anonymous No.3437689]

>>3437628
Those were healthier times, they didn't have hearing-impaired people back then ;)

[Anonymous No.3438516]

So here's a question. How does a person get good at point n click adventure games. Whenever I get stuck I either need to click around like a monkey or use a walkthrough. What's the secret to avoid this? Take notes?

[Anonymous No.3438542]

>>3438516
patience and creativity. You never "need to click around like a monkey", that's just you giving up thinking. Go through your inventory, go through the available locations, analyze, think, maybe experiment. If you say you don't have the time for this shit, don't play p&c.
That said, avoid Sierra, seek Lucasarts, and pay close attention to reviews for others. Sierra is known for dead ends and bullshit, Lucasarts is known for the opposite. The puzzles are crazy, but never impossible. Others may or may not make you hunt for pixels and do insane shit.

[Anonymous No.3438552]

>>3438516
Play enough of them and you start to notice patterns. If it's a game with a lot of passphrases or codes, you start to pay attention to key words and seemingly random numbers, for example.

In inventory-based games where you seemingly have a lot of objectives, sometimes you have to think about things backwards to know where to go next. You think about the ultimate goal, then the thing that you'll need just prior to that, then just prior to that until you get to something you either already have or have a good idea where to get it.

Always check parts of the screen very closely, because a lot of games have area transitions that are hard to spot (e.g. there's a door frame that's barely visible or something), because I find when I'm stuck, half the time it's because there's an unexplored screen with an item I urgently need.

[Anonymous No.3438569]

>>3438516
I want to add, half the reason you monkey-click, and then consult a guide is because you know you have a guide at your disposal, and can't be bothered to find the solution. Not like you need to, the guide's just a click away. So I suggest, pretend the guide is not an option. It doesn't exist. There never was one, there never will be one. Focus on the game instead, on the clues it gives you and gave you. Pay close attention. The good games are never unfair. Obscure, but never unfair. It's very satisfying to solve a puzzle that kept you stuck for days, or at least that was the case back in the days. You don't play these games in one sitting, at least not the first time you play them.

Some of my favorite gaming memories are Lucasarts p&c games played with friends. One person would take over the controls, and everyone would contribute thoughts and solutions. It would take several such evenings, often weeks, but it was worth it, when you finally figured something out and could progress. And not just for the person on the controls. Everybody else was mentally involved, and got the same satisfaction.

[Anonymous No.3438587]

>>3438542
>>3438552
>>3438569
Thanks guys. Good advice. I honestly haven't played many P&C games, so I just wasn't sure how to approach them. Thanks again.

[Anonymous No.3439852]

>>3438516
Depends from the game. You need to immerse yourself with the game logic and think by the logic of the game provided ie. if it's set in wacky semi-cartoon world like in Monkey Island, you need to apply that same logic in the puzzles.

Some games are unfair with their retarded logic and pixel hunting, but once you have discovered that the game is indeed full of retarded logic; you simply need to think with retarded logic.

Picture related
>need to create a diversion
>find old mounted machine gun on crashed WWII fighter airplane
>too rusty to move
>lube it with sunblock
>need ammo
>fill it with lipsticks
>you now have functional machine gun

[Anonymous No.3439856]

>>3439852
at least the girl is moderately pretty