Adventure Games

You're absoloutley right, though by Adventure you mean point & click adventures right? Or as i used to call them when i was 6 "pick things up and use them on other things games" The last decent adventure game i can think of is monkey island 4 and that's what..like 2 or 3 years old! Another 3d adventure which tried to respark the Discworld series was Discworld Noir, which was ok-ish but was really a flop. Now my personal fave's MI3 but i don't expect another game ever to be on it's level of quality. The problem with adventure point&click games there's no replay value at all. I find that renting them is far better than buying. But, wwhen i was first learning to use a computer when i was 4-6 games like MI1 and THE DIG where great. wonderfully simple and fun. I have already noticed how most adventure games released latley are on the learning format and pretty soon possibly all... a shame but i don't really mind. Roll on the nextline of AD&D i say.

Now as a game that could revive it.... nah i see nothing yu could do with an adventure game that's new and inovative anymore... maybe a comedy MI style D&D game

[ August 21, 2002, 12:40: Message edited by: Z-Layrex ]

 

Ahh, now that NWN and War3 is out, they're gonna push the Adventure Genre even further into the Abyss...let us have a moment of silence...

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Monkey Island 4 was pretty nice, rather funny, and...hmm...what other Adventure games are there? Do you mean things like Tomb Raider?

 

Tal i own Discworld Noir and i can't remember it ever crashing on me...

[I can't find the exact message boards where I've seen hundreds of people complain about this same problem back then, but if you search around for "Noir crashing" you'll find the problem described in dozens of places. Guess you were just lucky.

Here, I found this:

4.2 Reported bugs / problems.

"Ah... now we hit a sticking point. While Noir is an involving and entertaining game, it's pretty damn buggy - the game itself won't install on Windows 95 release 1 in its original form. There is a patch for this problem available here - but said patch wasn't written by GT or Perfect. Nope, it was knocked up by yours truly - in fact, I rung GT's tech support line in the UK and asked about the problem, they directed me to this file on these very pages. Which may well have helped boost traffic to this site a little bit but it seems absurd that GT have never done anything about this themselves. Or, indeed, any of the other problems that have been reported such as use of the Notebook crashing peoples PCs, the game breaking down randomly and a myriad other problems. The advice they give is to press ctrl-alt-del and kill everything apart from systray and explorer which does work sometimes reportedly. Although it's hardly a satisfactory solution, and with Perfect having gone under and GT being taken over by Infograms it looks like a patch will never be forthcoming." Found at http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/games/discworld/faq.html ] -Tal

[ August 21, 2002, 14:05: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

Well, Lucas Arts is coming out with a sequal to Full Throttle, does that count? It does look really good (so far...and there's really not all that much so far, but still).

I loved Sam n Max. I thought that was by far the greatest adventure game. Really good stuff.

 

I really liked Full Throttle myself though I never managed to finish it. You say the sequel is coming? I think that's like the only non-CRPG game I'll buy in years. I don't remember playing any other adventure games... ...I remember borrowing Sam & Max from a friend but I just didn't find the time to play it.

 

I recall enjoying the 7th guest for 2 hours (the amount of time it took me to complete it). The first gorified computer game I'd seen. I enjoyed that one.

Honorable mention goes to Bad Mojo, which has you transformed into a cockroach, and trying to figure out both how to survive various cockroach dangers (spiders, rats, etc) and also trying to learn why you became a cockroach and how to change back into a human.

Very creative strange game. Never did finish it though.

I played Phantasmagoria II also, lol, that game sucked, it tried to get by on soft core porn and tons of gore... uncreative swill.

Ah well, I will miss the adventure genre, I think it will gradually be revived (or mutated) into something a little more like PS:T once story lines are saught after in games (unlike now).

 

I played the demo to Full throttle, and was totally sold. The 'one liner' before he jumps the ramp had me rolling on the floor.

I was fairly disappointed when I bought the game, but it grew on me just a little. Of course, Monkey Island 3 was awesome; dunno what they were thinking on MI4.

Day of the Tentacle was hilarious; I'd have to say, at some point or another, any humerous game must be evaluated against DoTT.

Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis was another awesome game. Why the Heck! Speilburg/Lucas didn't make *THAT* one into a movie is beyond me. Harrison Ford, and all the special effects, would have just been spellbinding. Granted, the final scene would have had to be re-written, but that's a cosmetic difference.

I'm not really sure it's 'adventure', but Star Control 2 comes really close. There's some action in it, but finding your way through all those stars and races is fairly adventurous.

Other than that, Myst had some *very* pretty pictures and sounds/music. Riven also as some good atmosphere, but minus the storyline (which isn't to say Myst's storyline is outstanding; just that Riven's sucked so badly the storyline factor went below zero into the negatives).

Saying that tomb raiders aren't adventure is another tough call. To this day, I love Tomb Raider 2. The others I still need to play through, although they look promising. I think if you absolutely do not like action games, then you should just cheat like crazy so it becomes less action and more strategy.

As in, should I just use the M-16 and 'run-and-gun' from the hip, or should I stop for a minute and jump up on the block and drop him with the uzi's so I can take a look at that really pretty cathedral entrance? Or should I just nuke the entire site with the grenade launcher?

What to do, what to do...

 

When a band of vicious pirates
are sailing out to sea
when you hear our gentle singing
you'll be sure to turn and flee!

Oh, this is just redicilous...
Come on men, we've got to recover that map!

The pirate will be done for when he falls into our trap!
We're a club of toonful rovers
We can sing in every clef
We can even hit the high notes
It's just too bad we're toon deaf

A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the sea!

Let's go defeat that evil pirate!

We know he's sure to loose because we know just where to fire at!

We're thieving balladeers
A gang of cutthroat mugs
To fight us off ye don't need guns
Just jolly good ear plugs!

A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the sea!

All right crew, let's get to work!

Our vocation is a thing we love, a thing we'd never sherk!

We'll fight your in the harbor
We'll battle you on land
But when you meet singing pirates
They'll be more than you can stand!

(-Oh, that was a good one!
-No it wasn't...)

No time for song, we got to move!

The battle will be long, but our courage we will prove!

We're a pack of scurvey sea dogs
Have we pitty? Not a dram!
We all eat roasted garlics
Then sing from the diaphragm!

A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the sea!

Less sining, more sailing!

When we defeat our wicked foe, his ship he will be bailing!

If he try to fight us
He will get a nasty whackin'
If you disrespect our singing
We will feed you to a kraken!

A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the sea!

I'm getting so sick of you guys and your rhyming...

We're ready to set sail, though the cannons need a priming!

We're troublesome corsairs
And we've come to steal your treasures
We would shoot you on the downbeat
But we have to rest five measures

A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sails and roam the sea!

Stop, stop, stop!

The brass is what we'll polish and the deck is what we'll mop!

You say your nasty pirates
Scheming, thieving, bad bushwackers?
From what I've seen I'll tell you
You're not pirates, you're the slackers!

I pirate I was meant to be, trim the sail and roam the sea!

We'll surely avoid scurvey if we all eat and orange...

 

Um...uh... door-hinge....no...oh guess the song's over then!
"phew"

The sailing bit's the best bit in the whole game of MI3

[ August 21, 2002, 16:40: Message edited by: Z-Layrex ]

 

Sierra still has some adventure games kicking and/or in the works. The Gabriel Knight series had a new installment a year or two ago, and they are planning another Kings Quest game.

I read a review of another game that was supposed to be a very good adventure game, but I can't remember what it's called.

Anyone remember an old DOS-based graphics game called Starflight? It was released by Binary Systems in 1981 and the sequel was released in 1989. That game still holds a space on my harddrive, as it's still by far one of the best games I've ever played. I'm not sure if you'd consider it adventure or not, but I don't know what else to call it.

[ August 21, 2002, 17:17: Message edited by: Rastor ]

 

hey Tal shouldnt this topic be in the playground?
i loved the monkey island games

[Tough call... Since it doesn't go into detail about any games, and was mostly meant as a thread for memories it fits into both forums equally. I just happened to post it here.] -Tal

[ August 21, 2002, 20:34: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

These type of gaming reminds me of the good ol' days of PC gaming. Like sittin' on that chair of yours waiting to solve the intrincate puzzle to save someone's a** or your own while enjoyin' your favorite snack and sinkin' a coke down da throat.

Why are the good ol' days gone?

Thak God TAL could bring us Sorcerers .

P.S.: A real sorry TAL for the mispelling here, but I'm sure you'll agree that it certainly ads flavor . PLEASE, I don't wanna be the grammatical moron of the year, I just miss the Good ol' days, PLEAAASE! I BEG YOU!

 

I have been playing adventure games for a veeery long time, since they were all text based with no graphics. I played through the Kings Quest series, Space Quest, Police Quest and Leisuresuit Larry (Larry Laffer), all from Sierra.

I just loved the Gabriel Knight games, because the story lines were so great, with so much thorough research to place the storylines firmly in historical continuity. For instance in The Beast Within, with the werewolves, and all the historical facts about Wagner, the castle Neuschwanstein (sp?) and the king, recreating the whole inside of the castle in the game, and composing a whole new Wagner opera - wow, that was impressive.
Thinking about it, I almost get abstinences for Gabriel Knight games.

I liked The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, Phantasmagoria, the X-Files game, the Indiana Jones games, and also the Ultima games, the Discworld games and the Myst series.

The Longest Journey was a fantastic game and it was even made in Norway! And they spoke Norwegian! For the first and only time in my life I actually got to play a great adventure game where all characters spoke my own language. That was really great! I hope they wil make another one sometime.

Practically every adventure game I could get my hands on, I bought and played. Zork, Arthurs Knights, Black Dahlia, Monkey Island, Shivers and many others I can't even remember - I collected them all, and every sequel...

I just looove adventure games, and can't quite understand why it should be a dying genre. True, Internet Multiplayer isn't really an option, but that's because of the nature of the game. When you need help to hack and slash, multiplayer is good. When all you need is your brain to solve puzzles, and there's no real action, you don't need multiple players.

Why should everything need to be for multiple players and connected to internet to be a financial success? What about strategy games like Civilization, or Dungeon Keeper or Heroes of Might and Magic? Or Sims? They don't need Internet, why should adventure games? The clue is storyline and graphics, and of course interface and user controls, and minimum bugs. When those things are excellent, the game should sell automaticly.

Show me a new adventure game with a complex storyline, good music and great graphics, and I'd buy it in a wink. Why shouldn't the rest of the world?

 

It was King's Quest VI that came free along with my computer years ago that got me hooked on gaming. I owe a lot to Sierra ande Lucas Arts. They still make great games, especially most of the Star Wars games by Lucas Arts , but "adventure" games are sparse now.

As for Longest Journey, I've considered buying that.

Well they may be "dead" or "dying" now, but they'll be back. As technology and game designing gets better and games have the opportunity to be longer, I think adventure games will do well. Because then there is room to make tons of multiple paths, scenarios, endings -- even more than what you may see today. Replayability won't be a problem anymore. They will be allowed to go beyond merely "get this inventory item and use it here..."

That's what I await.

 

I just have to say one thing about adventure games...for me their next to imposable to complete. But that's just me.

The only adventure game I like(and own) is Indiana Jones. He's my hero. Cornish yes, but you cant help but feel that Lucas Arts did a very nice job on that game.

That's all I have to say.