I friggin love the Monkey Island series. The only two I don't own are the fourth one and the Telltale one. I just recently beat Full Throttle. Mark Hammil was great as Rip Burger. Also Steve Blum was in it, though I have NO idea who he was.
Point and click games.
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figmentPez
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You need to fix that.
Did you help fund the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter?
I'm an adventure game fan from way back. My favorite is not technically a point and click, since Grim Fandango controlled with keyboard or gamepad, but it's still an excellent game.
Man I've been wantin Grim Fandango like FOREVER. Think it'd be easy to download? I remember seeing the main character in Monkey Island 3, classic.
Most of my gaming growing up was point-and-click adventure games, both LucasArts and especially Sierra. King's Quest, Police Quest, Quest for Glory, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest. My favourite one of all time, and is probably my second favourite video game of all time, was Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father. But of course, I also loved LucasArts games. Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, the Monkey Island games, etc.
I've wanted to re-play Grim Fandango for the longest time. From what I understand, though, pirated versions don't work so well. And of course, it's near impossible to find otherwise these days.
I've wanted to re-play Grim Fandango for the longest time. From what I understand, though, pirated versions don't work so well. And of course, it's near impossible to find otherwise these days.
Tell me about it. It's like 50 bones on amazon(no pun intended).
Profiling what kind of people designed the puzzle? It ain't CSI dude! Which...ironically has it's own point and click game.
Haha... you've never tried to get a fish into your ear, have you?
Granted, that was text based, not point and click.
I figured out how to use a chicken with a pull string didn't I?
The puzzles were RARELY solved logically. No one could logically assume that in order to trick a guy you need to draw a mustache on a stolen ID and then, in order to match the mustache you needed to trick a cat into going through a hole with some tape above it so you could create a fake mustache with the cat hair to match the mustache on the ID that you drew on it. If that was logic to you, then you are a crazy person. For the rest of us, we had to assume that Roberta Williams was a fucking crazy person before we tried to solve the puzzle. This wasn't always the case, but for a lot of point and click adventures, it sure as hell was.
Was that a Gabriel Knight game? I think I remember that goddamn puzzle.
It sounds more SpaceQuest-ey.
I always thought that the Monkey Island games used somewhat normal logic, or at the very least cartoon logic (I'm looking at YOU rubber caber!).
OH, and for the record, I own a fully legal copy of Grim Fandango , though, I haven't tried installing Grim Fandango in a while, I wonder how well it plays with Win 7.
I always thought that the Monkey Island games used somewhat normal logic, or at the very least cartoon logic (I'm looking at YOU rubber caber!).
OH, and for the record, I own a fully legal copy of Grim Fandango , though, I haven't tried installing Grim Fandango in a while, I wonder how well it plays with Win 7.
Well, no one could ever accuse Ron Gilbert of being bad at designing puzzles. The dude is a fucking genius.
But the insane, dream logic a lot of adventure games used was part of what shuffled the genre off to it's late 90's grave.
Yeah me too, which is why I was in for the Kickstarter. Unfortunately, their games were often enough the exception to the rule of adventure games. For every Grim Fandango (the pinnacle of adventure titles) there were a dozen Gabriel Knight 3s.
).I think just evolutionarily, they fell off. They were a natural progression of the text adventure, but lost it's way as they became more bloated. I hate to say it, but the Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, and King's Quest games went a ling way to putting a knife in the heart of the genre. They all tended to have those non-sensical puzzles, and they were hugely best sellers at the time. Of course, back then, selling 10 thousand copies was a rousing success.
figmentPez
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It doesn't run very well at all, but there is a VM called Residual that now works well enough to play the game.
GasBandit
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I only played the first one, it seemed ok. Kind of a point'n'click with Final Fantasy style combat. How was the rest of it?
Sounds like my prom night.
fade
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Advent Rising. So much potential. Such crappy gameplay. Such a good story. Where is the rest of the story??
Know what I need to get? The ballads of Reemus. It started out as a flash-series on Newgrounds. Anyone here of it?
Does that work with Monkey Island 4 as well? Newers windows doesn't like that game either.
figmentPez
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From what I've read EMI support is still in development, I have no idea how broken it still is.
Not sure, it didn't wasn't made with the SCUMM engine so probly not.
figmentPez
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Grim Fandango wasn't made on the SCUMM engine, either. Which is why ResidualVM was made to run it (and eventually EMI).
Thank god for ScummVM, BTW. I'd have a whole bunch of useless disks if it weren't for that program.
It's so good, in fact, that it's what Steam uses for running those old adventure games. I looked into the file folder for my copy of the Broken Sword series and it's literally just the ScummVM engine and ISOs of the game files.
It's so good, in fact, that it's what Steam uses for running those old adventure games. I looked into the file folder for my copy of the Broken Sword series and it's literally just the ScummVM engine and ISOs of the game files.
It's how I was able to play Monkey Island 2! Wish I knew there was a way to make the game FULL-screen. Played it like a youtube video the hole time.
How's Broken Sword?
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