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Point And Click Adventures Were The Shit

I just spent three days looking for a work-around for an issue I had in Quest For Glory V. Why did I do that? The same reason I spent $20 on The Leisure Suit Larry collection and played through the first Sam And Max episode on the Wii. I love those point and click "action/adventure" games. Heck, I even love text games, like Zork or Gallahad.

Anyways, I have to point out that Quest For Glory V is by far the best P&C game out there, or at least the best I've played. Simple puzzle solving, great graphics, great story-line and bursting with humor - the first main character is named "Kokeeno Pokameeso," which literally translates to "Red Shirt.". The plot for each Quest game seems to differ, but characters return - Elsa, Torro, Katrina, Erana, Rakeesh all appear in V. Rakeesh is a Liontaur paladin. He's awesome.

The story in QFGV is that the king of Silmaria has been murdered, and in order to choose a successor, each potential ruler has to enter something called "The Rites Of Rulership." These tasks involve defeating the Hydra, speaking with an Oracle, traveling to Atlantis - each handled beautifully. The intro cinematic tells us that a dragon once roamed the land, and something something similar to the opening cinematic from Oblivion.

There's four playable classes - Fighter, Thief, Wizard and Paladin. Each are balanced with skill sets, weaknesses and strengths - something you can say about this game is it's very easy to get into. Anyway, each class has a different experience while following the same storyline. For instance, while skills are dependent on Honor as a Paladin (You gain skills the more honor you get, and lose them the more you lose) as a Thief, you can rob the bank. Repeatedly. Wizards have unique spells, the fighter... fights stuff. It all depends on what your play style is.

Anyhow, the whole last bit is fantastic, from the last right to the end, while the game itself is colorful and varied and interesting enough to help waste a weekend. The game play matches later games of the same type, but it looks pretty, sounds pretty and is an all around great find.

Quest for Glory 5, really? Well to each his own, but I found that QFG5 was a tad overdone. Then again, its been years since I played it last.

Personally, I think Quest for Glory 2 is the highlight of the series. The recent fan remake of the game makes up for any of the original's graphic shortcomings. (Well, its at least better than the original. And available for free even...)

The Longest Journey still stands up fairly well, and pretty much is the high point of the old point & click gaming scene.

Plus, you can't go wrong with a good old Lucasarts title. Like Full Throttle, or Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis.

SWB
Dosbox & ScummVM are best friends to people (like myself) who actually have some of the original stuff.

This place is a pretty good resource on Adventure games as well.

What, 2 posts and no mention of Broken Sword already? They were only some of the best point and click games ever made guys.

I still have number 2 around here somewhere, I should reinstall that sometime.

Broken Sword 1 was fantastic. BS2, well I remember it being a tad disjointed in comparison, but I can't recall exactly why.

Discworld Noir was pretty good too, in its own fashion. At least it was better thant the prior Discworld games, which really were just an excuse to have Eric Idle prattle on about Discworld themes.

SWB

I need to find Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis some time. I recently did a 'play all the point and click adventures from my youth', and that's the only one I haven't done.

For reference, the other games in question were Sam and Max, Monkey Island 1 and 2 and Day of the Tentacle.

You people! Honestly, no mention of Legend games?

[links removed upon request]

Something for everyone! Well, along with Spellcasting 101 and its sequels, but I'm not posting those. ;)

Grim Fandango shits out games like those mentioned here. Not even top quality, good consistency shit either, like diarrhea tastic shit.

Day of the Tentacle looked pretty great and I think it's a Schaefer game. I'll probably play that after I finish QFG4.

And QFG5 was great, what are you talking about?

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Originally Posted by bluestarultor (Post 1018548)

You people! Honestly, no mention of Legend games?
Something for everyone! Well, along with Spellcasting 101 and its sequels, but I'm not posting those. ;)

Blue, you might want to pull those links, as I think they go against a forum rule. (As abandonware is a fictional term & I think posting linkage is along the lines of discussing ROMs.)

Feel free to discuss adventure games you like however.

Grim was great story wise & puzzles were good for this game. However, I despise the game for bringing us a keyboard only adventure game engine. While Lucasarts only produced 3 games using that system, there are any number of games that attempted to use this system.

It worked for Grim, but it didn't really work for any other game. (Well except for the recent Tales of Monkey Island games, but that's more of a mixed system.)

Kevin

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Originally Posted by Seil (Post 1018558)

Day of the Tentacle is pretty great

There you go. It also has a second awesome game inside of it.