So many of those titles are just boxes I remember looking at each weekend at the Babbage’s at the mall. Although I was a big King’s/Space/Hero’s Quest fan. Quest for Glory 1 and 2 are great.
I quite liked Gabriel Knight. Contraversially I found Blood of the Sacred blood of the damned to be very entertaining. I’m sure a revisit would expose the cheesiness of the whole thing.
Also, Leisure suit larry. Nostalgia talking perhaps, but still great.
I would love to see Telltale revive the SPACE QUEST series. So many fun hours spent on old school Sierra games. Ah memories.
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So would I but only the first one, the first one was fantastic. The first sequel left me so utterly cold I never even bothered to check out the third one.
…but Sins of the Fathers, was really engaging and even a little bit spooky at times - pretty gorgeous to look at for its day too.
Loved it.
It’s getting awfully close to that part of the year where I replay Grim Fandango and berate those friends of mine that have yet to do so, while wondering why I befriend such soulless subhumans. I’ll probably postpone that lovely routine and use this as an excuse to berate those that haven’t played this.
I’m a lovely person to be around.
*runs and hides before Francis asks who in this thread hasn’t played Grim Fandango*
A SE of Grim Fandango with high-res models and slightly tweaked backgrounds and better controls (mouse) would be a good thing too.
Man they are tweaking the shit out of most of the classic movies, why not start a Special Edition movement with classic games?
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers was indeed truelly great. The atmosphere when you investigated voodoo murders and the love story started was perfect.
Couldn’t get into the sequel because of the ridiculous German setting. Loved Knight’s personal bio though (Ritter).
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In this case I’m curious, how can you mention 2 Monkey Islands and Full Throttle as fav games of all time and somehow you never played GF?
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| Originally Posted by Francis Wolcott View Post In this case I’m curious, how can you mention 2 Monkey Islands and Full Throttle as fav games of all time and somehow you never played GF? |
Ummmm… bad planning?
Honestly I dunno, but I’m more than willing to try and track it down if it can be mentioned in the same breath as my favorites.
Track it down, then. Back when it came out, it used to be sold as “from the creator of Full Throttle”, if that hooks you.
I’d recommend not looking at the trailer, if you don’t know much about it, as I saw it not long ago and was surprised at how it spoils certain things from the story that are way much better if you don’t know they’ll happen.
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| Originally Posted by ryoken View Post http://grumpygamer.com/8280380 Ron Gilbert does commentary on the making of the original game..glorious. |
This quote from the article:
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| This next year is going to be very interesting. Ron Gilbert, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer all have games coming out. Someone check the scriptures. Might be a good time to start hording canned goods. |
brings tears of happiness to my cynical, battle hardened, old PC gamer eyes. If you could add a Larry Holland designed Tie Fighter sequel, I’d be in heaven.
A few brutally unfair puzzles aside, Grim Fandango is probably the best adventure game ever made, and easily has some of the best writing, visual design and music of a game in any genre. In terms of puzzles Day of the Tentacle might be my favourite - not that hard but playing around with all the twisted time travel logic is great.
I simply can´t tell what I would consider the greatest Adventure game. Between MI2, MM2, GF and Indy4 Lucas Arts has published so many gems that are all worthy of a place in the pantheon.
And this thread is worthy for me just for putting DeathSpank on my radar. A new Gilbert game is reason enough to get back into games after over a decade.
I’m of the Grim Fandango is the best Adventure game, period, cult. I’ve yet to find in movies or books a “city I’d like to live in” that surpasses Rubacava as far my tastes are concerned and I’m pretty sure a lot of people here that enjoyed noirs and the like would deeply enjoyed it.
But if Grim Fandango is the Citizen Kane, the Monkey Islands would be the Stagecoach and still as satisfying.
Classic favorite Lucasarts games aside (all the monkey islands, and yes, defiinitely Grim Fandango), I quite enjoyed Discworld Noir way back when I was playing it. That was a great game, but only released in Europe. I wonder why.
No love for ‘The Dig’?
I dug (no pun intended) the shit out of it on my first playthough… but it’s definitely no ‘Monkey’ or ‘Fandango’ or ‘Throttle’…
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To you and me both, fella…to you and me both.
Discworld 2 had a fond place in my heart early on, but it’s certainly no Monkey Island.
Grim Fandango has tons of really awesome stuff, but by the end I felt like I was just doing random shit to solve a random puzzle simply to advance the plot. Don’t take it personally, Tim Schafer. Maybe it’s not you, it’s me.
The ones I replayed the most, which I would replay right now, are Fate of Atlantis and Quest for Glory II.
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I like how it felt like “hard” sci-fi. At least compared to the dreck sci-fi movies of today. I dream of INTERSTELLAR being somewhat similar in atmosphere.
Btw, is there a way to get the treatment for INTERSTELLAR? As far as I know it’s basically the foreword of a book on Black holes done by a renowned astrophysicist.
I’m actually replaying through Full Throttle right now for the first time in about 15 years and while it’s short and not madly difficult it is insanely entertaining and a shitload of fun. Like rewatching an old favorite movie.
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