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Point n Click Adventure GAF 2013 The pixel hunt continues.
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Messofanego
Banned
What, other classic adventure game franchises?
Neverhood is getting a spiritual successor in Armikrog
new Myst type game from the same creators, Obduction
Dreamfall Chapters (and then maybe another Longest Journey after that)
new Tex Murphy game
new games from the people behind Gabriel Knights
TripleSun
Member
Don't forget about the new Syberia game.
Messofanego
Banned
TripleSun
Member
Haha, I had almost forgot about this being announced for production since they announced it so early. Should probably get around to playing my copies of 1 and 2 lol.
FUCKEN WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Last Express Gold Edition
Launch price of $5.24 USD, normally $6.99
and i was whinging about this the other day.
The Last Express Gold Edition
Launch price of $5.24 USD, normally $6.99
and i was whinging about this the other day.
FUCKEN WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Last Express Gold Edition
Launch price of $5.24 USD, normally $6.99
and i was whinging about this the other day.
Nice; I wonder if the gog version will be updated.
Remastered version of The Shivah is out on Steam. They did a really nice job updating it. Visuals look good, music and voice acting sounds great.
Oh shit, definitely buying this. I never managed to beat the original game back in the day.FUCKEN WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Last Express Gold Edition
Launch price of $5.24 USD, normally $6.99
FUCKEN WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Last Express Gold Edition
Launch price of $5.24 USD, normally $6.99
and i was whinging about this the other day.
This game doesn't have subtitles right? I really hope they can add subtitles to this game.Kinda a deal breaker for me.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Bought & completed the Shivah last night. Only took an hour, but then it was only $5.
Very interesting game. Inventory is barely used at all, 95% of the games puzzles rely on dialogue & information. Had fun with it.
Would love Gilbert to do a longer game in this vein someday
Very interesting game. Inventory is barely used at all, 95% of the games puzzles rely on dialogue & information. Had fun with it.
Would love Gilbert to do a longer game in this vein someday
Midnight Mysteries: Edgar Allen Poe Conspiracy
Midnight Mysteries 2: Salem Witch Trials
Midnight Mysteries 3: Devil on the Mississippi
Midnight Mysteries 4: Haunted Houdini
7 Wonders II
Luxor: 5th Passage
Reaxxion
Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch
Build your own bundle. All Steam and DRM free keys. More stuff unlocked, i have bolded the point and click stuff.
http://groupees.com/mumbo???jumbo
also afew PnC Adventure games on Amazons upcoming Black Friday sale.
https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid...bgGZV84&em=2&Item=Table1&wdHideGridlines=True
Not sure who wants to sort them as the list is massive.
Midnight Mysteries 2: Salem Witch Trials
Midnight Mysteries 3: Devil on the Mississippi
Midnight Mysteries 4: Haunted Houdini
7 Wonders II
Luxor: 5th Passage
Reaxxion
Samantha Swift and the Golden Touch
Build your own bundle. All Steam and DRM free keys. More stuff unlocked, i have bolded the point and click stuff.
http://groupees.com/mumbo???jumbo
also afew PnC Adventure games on Amazons upcoming Black Friday sale.
https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid...bgGZV84&em=2&Item=Table1&wdHideGridlines=True
Not sure who wants to sort them as the list is massive.
TripleSun
Member
Also finished Shivah for the first time tonight and it took me around 2 hours or more to finish as one part in the game held me up, but yeah most of the game is dialogue based with barely any inventory puzzles. Really enjoyed it though. I've had good times with short PnC games lately.
Yay, just ordered a new laptop which should allow me to play adventure games again. It's been a while. Last one i played was Book of Unwritten Tales. I can't wait to have a browse through Steam to check up on the latest adventures. I think i'll start with Memoria since it looks interesting. Also very interested in the new Broken Sword.
Any other recommendations from the last couple of years that i need to check out?
Any other recommendations from the last couple of years that i need to check out?
Maxwood
Oh rock of ages, do not crumble, love is breathing still. Oh lady moon shine down, a little people magic if you will.
Just finished The Shivah, too. Took me a little over three hours.
This is the first time i've played a Wadjet Eye game, and one of the things that stood out the most was the writing. It's really well done. Great atmosphere as well.
There aren't a lot of them, but I really liked the puzzles.
Never heard the Duracell joke before, gotta remember that one.
Great game.
Too bad the steamachievements are broken, though. Or is that just me? Unlocked six or seven of them in-game, only four popped up on steam.
This is the first time i've played a Wadjet Eye game, and one of the things that stood out the most was the writing. It's really well done. Great atmosphere as well.
There aren't a lot of them, but I really liked the puzzles.
Never heard the Duracell joke before, gotta remember that one.
Great game.
Too bad the steamachievements are broken, though. Or is that just me? Unlocked six or seven of them in-game, only four popped up on steam.
Ohh man, I would definitely recommend most of their other games. Especially Gemini Rue, Primordia and the Blackwell Games.
Dave Gilbert (head of Wadjet Eye, who made The Shivah) only helped with publishing and production on Gemini Rue and Primordia, but they're both amazing.
The Blackwell series on the other hand is done solely by Gilbert and is also great.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Ben There, Dan That & Time Gentleman Please
Primordia
The Shivah : Kosher edition
Also, "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" is finally available again
Not much recently of high quality. Daedalic have released plenty of beautiful looking games with terrible dialogue, though if you speak german they may be worth a try, dunno how much is lost in translation there. The next year is going to be potentially amazing though, given the amount of industry veterans who have big games coming out:
Broken Sword 5
Broken Age
Tex Murphy : Tesla Effect
Blackwell Epihany
Shadowgate
Moebius
There's also Jack Houston and the Necronauts, Spaceventure & Quest for Infamy which may be good.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
FUCKEN WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Last Express Gold Edition
Launch price of $5.24 USD, normally $6.99
and i was whinging about this the other day.
HELL YEAH!
To think i almost bought the disc version a year ago for an ungodly price
Huh-bwuh? How have I not heard of this? Awesome.
One of my favorites. Just don't be put off by the occasional ENORMOUS TEXT DUMPS.
CecilRousso
Member
FUCKEN WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Last Express Gold Edition
Launch price of $5.24 USD, normally $6.99
and i was whinging about this the other day.
I want to like that game, but I bought it at GOG recently and thought it was pretty boring actually.To much time spent just going back and forth listening to people, and it was unclear where and when you actually could interact with something.
Plenty of other people seem to like it though.
I can understand that. I haven't finished it myself, but in my opinion it mainly stands up on its unique concept and art. The gameplay itself definitely suffers from either wandering around with no idea what to do or wandering around waiting for a specific time. There's a lot of empty space.
From the Amazon Black Friday sale. Most of this is what i like to call dumbster tier Adventure games but there is some decent to good ones i have bolded.
http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/wiki/amazon/sale#wiki_starting_11.2F22.2F13
Anything i have missed from that list is most likely more dumbster tier stuff. I was doing the list from names i recognize or stuff that sounded like a point and click adventure game.
http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/wiki/amazon/sale#wiki_starting_11.2F22.2F13
Anything i have missed from that list is most likely more dumbster tier stuff. I was doing the list from names i recognize or stuff that sounded like a point and click adventure game.
So I was thinking about playing Deponia after hearing good things on GAF, but after reading this RPS article I'm rethinking my stance... one of the few black characters in the game being forced to act like a monkey? "Funny" chinese accents? Misogyny abound? Are the creators stupid or are they trying to do the "this is offensive and therefore funny" thing and failing horribly?
The series didn't start off that offensive - apart from how offensively unfunny it is. The characters are unlikeable and the voice work poor.
I think the developers then attempted to remedy this by getting progressively more offensive in hopes if making it funnier and more mass appealing? I stopped playing the second one after the lead female character had her personality split three ways - a bitch, a bimbo and something else I can't remember - and you had to persuade each one using a different method.
Going by the third game's impressions, looks like I bailed not a moment too soon.
I think the developers then attempted to remedy this by getting progressively more offensive in hopes if making it funnier and more mass appealing? I stopped playing the second one after the lead female character had her personality split three ways - a bitch, a bimbo and something else I can't remember - and you had to persuade each one using a different method.
Going by the third game's impressions, looks like I bailed not a moment too soon.
Deponia is pretty shit, the only reason to get into it is to see the great artstyle. Right from the get go i hated the game when Rufus was bitching about Toni. The puzzles are completely illogical, the main cast is unlikeable, the music is garbage and the game suffers from serious pacing issues. I previously said i would give it a 5 out of 10, I'm tempted to go even lower.
Extra Sauce
Member
Deponia suffers from the same fundamental flaw plaguing most of today's adventure games; poor writing.
Tim Schafer, save us.
Tim Schafer, save us.
Thanks for the tips. Going to check them out. I tend to agree on the Daedalic adventures (or most adventure games coming from Germany in general) but i think i'll give Memoria a go. Primordia has always looked interesting so looking forward to checking it out too.
Very much looking forward to Broken Age and Broken Sword 5. I'll have to catch up on the others i don't know.
Also, for anyone interested, The Inner world is releasing on iOS (iPad and iPhone) on 27/11. Seems to be a decent adventure.
Best recent adventure game writing: The Blackwell series and the Ben and Dan games.
Otherwise, I agree.
Nah. I wanted the interminably long conversations to end shortly after starting this one.
The voice acting is pretty good for a German localization though.
indigo-cyclops
Member
Daedalic is notorious for this sort of issue. Memoria even suffered.
Song of the Turtle
Member
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Last I heard it was bogged down in legal issues
TripleSun
Member
You are not the only one feeling this way. I loved every second of these games
About the end of the series:
Wasn't the ending just spectacular that you didn't see it coming that Rufus would sacrifice himself for Goal? Man, I'm going to miss Rufus, but what a man he was at the end. Wanted to get Goal to Elysium even if he couldn't go himself. ;__;
Moebius trailer. Lots of Cognition jank and bad VO - really hoping Jensen's writing will make it worthwhile.
Characters' models (their bodies) are bad. Main character's limbs are too thin and shoulders too wide, resulting in weird animations when he is moving his arms. VO didn't really bother me, I thought it was acceptable. However, why can't we have a good p&c adventure game with budget and production values like Beyond or Heavy Rain?
It sucks that years ago PC adventure games were one of the genres that wowed people when it comes to graphics, and yet nowadays we either have beautiful 2D games or awkward looking 3D games.I just hope that the script and puzzles are good.
Dog Problems
Banned
The last time I read anything about that is that the people involved with it were waiting for some legal stuff to get taken care of, which was this past Summer, I think. I remember them saying that they wanted to re-release the first game before they do a sequel to get people interested again.
I played through the first game again earlier this year and it's still one of my all-time favorite adventure games. Hopefully everything gets sorted out for a re-release and sequel.
Yup, a common problem with P&C's (that will only get worse unless budget's grow) is that they aren't motion captured. We're increasingly becoming accustomed to seeing mo-cap in almost every action/adventure game (not just AAA ones) and even some with full performance capture, as a result we're becoming more sensitive to below-par animation.Characters' models (their bodies) are bad. Main character's limbs are too thin and shoulders too wide, resulting in weird animations when he is moving his arms. VO didn't really bother me, I thought it was acceptable. However, why can't we have a good p&c adventure game with budget and production values like Beyond or Heavy Rain?
I just hope that the script and puzzles are good.
If adventure games can't afford good animators, I really wish they'd go for strong art styles like the ones from German studios Animation Arts and Daedalic.
RAIDEN1
Member
So in all fairness you could say 2014 could be the year when Toonstruck makes a comeback? I've been playing the game for the 1st time, the past month or two coming to the concluding part..must say some parts of it were REALLY fustrating, but after much persistence I got through them!
So far I've completed the curse of monkey island (again my 1st playthrough on that) about to complete Toonstruck, then I'll make my way over to Bladerunner (1st playthrough as well.) after that I plan to revisit Beneath a Steel Sky and Broken Sword 2. Whilst also keeping a lookout for the feedback of Broken Sword 5!
So far I've completed the curse of monkey island (again my 1st playthrough on that) about to complete Toonstruck, then I'll make my way over to Bladerunner (1st playthrough as well.) after that I plan to revisit Beneath a Steel Sky and Broken Sword 2. Whilst also keeping a lookout for the feedback of Broken Sword 5!
You are not the only one feeling this way. I loved every second of these games
So you guys have no problems with the examples in the article?