Point n Click Adventure GAF 2014 No longer in our dreams, memories or just Germany.

This is the first time I've ever played an art snob in a videogame. Good times.

Bebpo said:
Yeah, got my key but I opted for the steam key so gotta wait until tomorrow to check it out. Excited!! :)
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The early release is a DRM-free copy from Phoenix Online's store which is given to all backers regardless of the Steam or GOG thing. I'm sure the saves will carry over from one version to another so you shouldn't have a problem if you play now.

Incidentally, the GOG pre-order includes a lossless soundtrack while Steam is limited to MP3. I tend to prefer Steam for new releases but that pushed me over the edge.
 
RPS' John Walker HATED Moebius: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/15/moebius-review/

Now that I've read the intro comic and played more than 30 minutes, I think he makes some good points. Especially the bits about the ridiculous perception system and the characters. The main character is a supreme jackass to basically everyone. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, though, he isn't nearly impressive enough to justify it.

I haven't seen all that many puzzles yet so I can't judge there. I still like the music though.
 
epmode said:
RPS' John Walker HATED Moebius: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/04/15/moebius-review/

Now that I've read the intro comic and played more than 30 minutes, I think he makes some good points. Especially the bits about the ridiculous perception system and the characters. The main character is a supreme jackass to basically everyone. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, though, he isn't nearly impressive enough to justify it.

I haven't seen all that many puzzles yet so I can't judge there. I still like the music though.
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Crap, sounds like the beta. :(
 
Moebius :(

After Gray Matter, I had high hopes for Jane Jensen's next game.

Oh well, anything decent on the immediate horizon? Only adventure game I've been playing lately is The Wolf Among Us, which is good, but doesn't really scratch the itch like a 'proper' adventure game.
 
Zaph said:
Moebius :(

After Gray Matter, I had high hopes for Jane Jensen's next game.

Oh well, anything decent on the immediate horizon? Only adventure game I've been playing lately is The Wolf Among Us, which is good, but doesn't really scratch the itch like a 'proper' adventure game.
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Blackwell Epiphany is this month
Tex Murphy : Tesla Effect is this month.

Both games are sequels to great series, though in tex's case it's been 16(!) years since the last one.
 
epmode said:
I'm sure the saves will carry over from one version to another so you shouldn't have a problem if you play now.
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As it turns out... not so much. Anyone figured out how to transfer a save game from the DRM-free version to the Steam version? I found the save game locations for each, but apparently just copying the files from one to the other isn't working. It's really dumb too, because when I start the game from Steam, I get achievements for my progress in the other version... but I can't load my game. o_O
 
Wow, uh...that Moebius review....yeaaaah.

Gray Matter was fantastic and the Gabriel Knight games (even 3!) are all classic. So it's really surprising to hear that Jane Jenson made a stinker. Then again adventure games tend to be a bit subjective because some people like the characters/plots, others don't. So I'll see for myself.

*edit* actually now that I think about it, Gray Matter got a lot of 5/10s and 6/10s when it came out and I ended up loving it. So I'll take this review with a grain of salt for now.
 
I started playing Deponia next. Not too impressed so far... although the puzzles have been pretty good, the characters and dialogue are nowhere near Broken Sword 5, for example. And the game crashed after 30 minutes, forcing me to redo a couple of puzzles. Annoying. Well, I guess I'll continue playing anyway, at least the UI and puzzles are good.

Another game I got from Steam sale was A New Beginning - Director's Cut. It was cheap too...
 
So it's actually text adventure but maybe someone here has played it. I just didn't want to create thread just to ask if someone has played Cypher and what he thinks of it.
 
Played little more than an hour of Moebius and so far it has been interesting. This being a Phoenix Online game, I had set my expectations low in regards to the technical side of things, so far the crappy animations aren't too grating to me. But it does get tiresome having to make concessions to so many games in a genre I love - "don't mind the translation" for this game; "don't mind the animations" for that game, etc. Oh well. Let's see how things unfold...I hope I enjoy it more than John Walker.

Xater said:
So it's actually text adventure but maybe someone here has played it. I just didn't want to create thread just to ask if someone has played Cypher and what he thinks of it.
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I've read about it, seemed interesting, but never tried it though. Have you?
 
epmode said:
Sorry :(

Savegame problems like that are incredibly rare in my experience.
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Ah-ha, found the solution.

It should work, but you'll have to trick Steam. Run Moebius through Steam and create a save file that is the same name as the one you created from your non-Steam copy. Then while the game is still open, copy over your non-Steam save file and overwrite the file you made in Steam. Then quit the Steam copy of Moebius, and Steam will sync, and this should make it loadable in Steam.

Non-Steam saves are located at C:\Users\[username]\AppData\LocalLow\Phoenix Online Studios\Moebius

Steam saves are located at Steam\userdata\(your user id)\264520\remote\moebius.
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Finished up Moebius Review
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Now on to finish up Erica Reed and then to Broken Sword. Its a good damn time to be a point and clicker.
 
Just picked up Broken Sword 5 & Book of Unwritten Tales (finally on sale!)

Tried them both really quick and they look so good on my Retina screen. Voice acting in BoUT seems really good, better than I was expecting.
 
After the good results they got with last year adventure Donald Dowell (nominated in almost every category at the last AGS Awards), Ape Marina is already working on their next game, tentatively (?) named "Tales". From the description on the AGS site:
An out of work layabout, Alfred Walsh, thinks he has found a cushy job as the custodian of a private library. He has no idea how wrong he could have been. When otherworldly forces intrude he is forced to abandon his career path: the casual dusting off of books between well-earned naps, and is thrust into a battle to save the very heart and soul of what makes humanity what it is.

This is just a tech demo which lasts about 30 minutes, but it's shaping up nicely and it already shows some potential.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1793/

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By the way how are the Ben Jordan AGS games? They looked pretty cool and just stumbled upon them.

I'm a big fan of the Blackwell games if that helps.
 
TripleSun said:
Man things like Freddy the Fish and Pajama Sam were what got me into PnC games so I might have to put out some money for these deals. Brings back good memories.
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This got me thinking that my first adventure game was Monkey Island back in 1991 I think. What a perfect introduction to the genre that was.

What was the first adventure game that you guys played?
 
spindoctor said:
This got me thinking that my first adventure game was Monkey Island back in 1991 I think. What a perfect introduction to the genre that was.

What was the first adventure game that you guys played?
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If we forget text adventures, then it must have been the first LeisureSuit Larry. I started playing on Commodore 64, and it didn't really have adventure games, so this came much later. Still, I was pretty young at the time, and Larry was an exciting game for a kid... even if I missed a lot of the jokes.
 
spindoctor said:
What was the first adventure game that you guys played?
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Probably Police Quest 1, Leisure Suit Larry 1 or Space Quest 1. It was on my friend's computer and his father played all of that stuff. I remember trying to get by LSL's copy protection pretty well!

The first adventure game I ever owned was Zak McCracken on C64 and my first PC game was Space Quest 4.
 
epmode said:
Probably Police Quest 1, Leisure Suit Larry 1 or Space Quest 1. It was on my friend's computer and his father played all of that stuff. I remember trying to get by LSL's copy protection pretty well!

The first adventure game I ever owned was Zak McCracken on C64 and my first PC game was Space Quest 4.
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Speaking of copy protection, nothing beats this

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I remember watching my dad play adventure games like Space Quest III and whatnot when I was a wee lad, but since I didn't understand english yet it took awhile for me to be able to play through them.

Hard to say which one was the first, but Day of the Tentacle was a revelation. I remember becoming good at playing adventure games as I was playing DOTT; it just clicked one day and I didn't stop playing until my dad came to get me in the middle of the night to send me to bed. And I wasn't even that young, it was more of an intervention at that point heh.

Dog Problems said:
A bunch of Humongous Entertainment point-and-click adventures were added to Steam today.

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/42723/

I was going to pre-order Watch Dogs and the new Wolfenstein but now I'm considering buying that complete bundle, lol.
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Price of individual games: $18.94 USD
Bundle cost: $99.99 USD

lol this has to be a mistake.
 
xtrasauce said:
Price of individual games: $18.94 USD
Bundle cost: $99.99 USD

lol this has to be a mistake.
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The bundle's incomplete at the moment, as more games are added to steam the bundle will be bulked up. That and the launch discount on individual titles makes things not add up currently.
 
spindoctor said:
This got me thinking that my first adventure game was Monkey Island back in 1991 I think. What a perfect introduction to the genre that was.

What was the first adventure game that you guys played?
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Sam & Max Hit the Road shortly after it was released, and it's still my favorite! I didn't have a computer at the time so I convinced a friend who did have one to go in half on that game so we could play it. It looked so much like the cartoons I was watching at the time and I felt like I had to play it. Afterwards, I fell in love with the genre and that same friend and I continued to each pay half for various other adventure games. We mostly stuck with LucasArts but occasionally branched off to something different.

xtrasauce said:
Price of individual games: $18.94 USD
Bundle cost: $99.99 USD

lol this has to be a mistake.
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mclem said:
The bundle's incomplete at the moment, as more games are added to steam the bundle will be bulked up. That and the launch discount on individual titles makes things not add up currently.
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If you buy the complete bundle you actually get 28 games right now.
 
Does anyone else know where to get 5 Days a Stranger special edition because the main site links to another site for the download and that site no longer exists. I still have the main game, but I was hoping to get the extra goodies if possible.
 
nny said:
gog just released "The Samaritan Paradox"; first time I've heard of it: http://www.gog.com/game/the_samaritan_paradox With all these big-name adventure games coming out in the past few days, not the best time to release, I suppose.
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lmao this seems, kind of awesome bad. with the writing and the voiceover. will definitely play

spindoctor said:
What was the first adventure game that you guys played?
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fate of atlantis, at least the first I remember playing myself. it's that or sam & max. I had encountered a few before that, but not really played. a friend of mine was super determined to play leisure suit larry, to see naked girls. we were like 7 or 8 at the time, haha. he got nowhere of course. also remember someone showing me monkey island 2 just after it came out. but it took a long time before I played any monkey island games, not until curse came out. I mostly started playing a lot of adventure games after grim fandango came out, I went back and played full throttle and day of the tentacle then. and of course a bunch of other stuff. I remember trying the nes version of maniac mansion just after that came out, not sure when it came out here 1991 or something. I didn't understand anything. also was super hyped for the dig to come out, maybe I played the demo. can't remember. those were some random recalls.

or wait, I did play shadowgate and deja vu on the nes. maybe one of those is the first. too many games.
 
My first adventure was most likely one of the early Quest games - either King's Quest 1 or Police Quest 1 (both EGA versions), but I'm not entirely sure.

edit - yea, Shadowgate on NES would be another candidate.
 
Dracula 1-3 is on Steam.

The Samaritan Paradox is also now available on Steam.

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I am assuming that first screen is some filter.
 
Hm, some sort of inside joke w/ Kickstarters I missed in BS5.

I'm only about 10% in, and I saw a dead rat with a tag "Stretch Goal.". George just shrugs at it.
 
Tex Murphy Tesla Effect release date moved to May 7th. (2 weeks more).

via the BFG Facebook page.

Let’s face it, you’ve waited 16 years, what’s 16 more days?

Some of you may have already cottoned on to the fact that in some places the release date for Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy adventure has been moved to May 7th. We can confirm this information is correct.

The reason for this is simple: we want to make sure that when it comes time to releasing Tesla Effect we are going to present you with the most polished, perfected and purely awesome adventure gaming experience! The team here at Big Finish Games is burning the midnight oil, working extra hard to help make this game a shining example of adventure gaming at its finest, and we feel it would be an injustice for our backers and fans to release a product before we feel it is ultimately ready.

Within the next few days we will be releasing a new update video with details of the above, as well as a few surprises. Once again, we apologize for the delay but we promise that with this little bit of extra time we will be able to deliver the best Tex Murphy adventure yet!
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having quite a bit of fun with moebius. it's really stupid, and absurd. but very entertaining. and apart from the animations, and some weird lag or timing problems, on scenes where you have to move the nosferatu looking guy around, it's pretty quick and nice to control. easy too, but that's no big minus. enjoying it quite a lot.

feels and looks very cheap overall. the items parts are almost like hidden object games. they feel that throwaway or arbitrary. or maybe it's that the item hunt is so linear. but still, enjoying it.
 
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