Buttonbasher
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Gemini Rue/Primordia would be a good starting point, as they'll probably leave you psyched about adventure games.
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Gemini Rue/Primordia would be a good starting point, as they'll probably leave you psyched about adventure games.
You are already JaseC.
This reminds me I still need to play the King's Quest Collection I was gifted some time ago. Tried the first game for a while but it was a bit more obtuse than what I'm used to.
McPixel doesn't really belong there. Unmechanical looked pretty awesome from the Giant Bomb QL. Longest Journey is a classic for a reason, though the puzzles seemed a little obtuse by today's standards when I replayed it recently.
EDIT: I was thinking of Primordia, not Unmechanical. Unmechanical is not really a PnC.
Welcome to the story of all my foils. Sigh.
I hadn't even started mine that high, but people undercut them with almost normal card prices...
Nabs
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Not until he gets The Book of Unwritten Tales.
Oh snap! I had no idea you were back in business! Awesome!
If you like the movies from Back to the Future you will like those Episodes. I've finished them all. Broken Sword is always a good classic if you are feeling a good nostaligia, funny how I've been eyeing those two but last week finished Shadow of the Templars.
Gemini rue is interesting but to me it's a game to be played in the winter (sounds silly but there are games that I play according to the season I'm in).
I haven't played Dreamfall but I know it's a must, it seems you have it installed, have you started it before? You should start with that one, I only hear good things about it.
Nice point & click collection fellow GAFfer, I've started Deponia last week but I'm already missing the more Classic style in P&C games.
I'd say Gemini Rue. Great plot twists, nostalgic, short.
What I've learned with foils is set it high right as you get it (hopefully before other flood the market).
Already happened with Company of Heroes 2. The cards dropped to 0.50 really quickly, but that was also at the time when no one could enter the market.
no u are a beautiful man.
The Longest Journey is one of the best adventure games of all time by far, soooo get on that
Ben There, Dan That (and Time Gentleman, Please) is legit funny, wich is hard to come by. Worth a playthrough for that fact alone. They're pretty underrated.
Puzzle Agent 2 isnt as good as the first one, but if you liked the setting (wich is probably the best thing about it) there's certainly more of that.
Gemini Rue is great. Blade Runner-ish setting with very old school point n click mechanics and a decent story. I really really enjoyed it.
Same with Resonance although the setting wasnt as appealing to me, but they have a multiple character mechanic that keeps things interesting and at a good pace.
The Dream Machine is gorgeous and done entirely on claymation. Still waiting on the next episode.. D:
Botanicula is silly and charming.
Sam & Max are, IMO, worth a playthrough, although the reception is pretty divisive. I personally love S&M hit the road and i've loved the characters since I was a kid so I might be biased. Season 3 is a pretty big improvement in terms of engine, mechanics and graphics.
The Blackwell games are by the same folks who made Gemini Rue and Resonance, and they're good if you're wanting to get more of that, but otherwise I think you can skip them fine.
McPixel can be hilarious.
The race to the bottom.
Idiots. They just continually undercut each other, meanwhile no one is buying yet.
TekGryphon
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Haha, I love the competitive market.
GreenManGaming just stole tons of money from Steam with their 666 sale. Over the course of the last few days I've cleared 2/3rds of my wish list.
[EDIT] Forgot the Amazon sales from last week. Cleared a few items on that, too.
Sorry Gaben. Day late and a dollar short with your sale :/
GreenManGaming just stole tons of money from Steam with their 666 sale. Over the course of the last few days I've cleared 2/3rds of my wish list.
[EDIT] Forgot the Amazon sales from last week. Cleared a few items on that, too.
Sorry Gaben. Day late and a dollar short with your sale :/
I still have 5 foils out at around 5, so yeah.
They haven't moved in weeks since every time all the crazy undercutters are bought up, the market gets flooded with new ones.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
At 0.30 a pop or so I'm not really too worried about that
Yes I played it back in tha day, I just haven't played it since rebuying it on Steam.
You gotta catch the right moment, I got about $35 in total for my two foils (both from Brutal Legend).
No Primordia? :O
Nabs
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Same publisher, different developers.
Cyberquake
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I started playing the series yesterday (finished Legacy) and so far I see it has a good potential. Pity that the first game was short
i'd say play the longest journey and gemini rue
probably gemini rue first tho since some of TLJ's puzzles havent aged so well and can be kinda frustrating
ah yeah I keep forgetting how wadjeteye works
Joe Molotov
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Puzzle Agent 2 because it's quick and fun.
Then Longest Journey and Dreamfall. And Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
Never play Dead Mountaineer's Hotel. Ever.
I had zero luck selling my Defender's Quest foil for a pretty penny despite two instances of it being the only one available for several days. I initially listed it at $40 but it ultimately sold for a little under $9 two weeks later, after the beta ended and several more appeared (I was occasionally lowering the price by a few bucks as time went on, hoping to at least make $15+).
The only foil I've managed to sell for $10+ is the GLaDOS foil I snagged soon after the beta began. These days most people are happy waiting a few days for the market to crash, but you can get lucky.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
the overwhelming consensus among people asked here and elsewhere seems to be The Longest Journey first. Thanks guys. I'm still accepting recommendations, but that'll be what I play first.
it's there!
it's there!
Its funny that you think that.
Valve's entire business model has been fostered around creating competition through Steamworks while funneling people toward the Valve ecosystem.
Its irrelevant that you didn't spend any money on the Steam store. You still activated games within the client and became more tied to the store.
Millions of people did the same thing, and a high percent of them will spend at least some money during the Steam sale or at some point over the next decade.
Their server infrastructure is already in place, bandwidth costs at this point are minimal.
Getting people sucked into their client is the exact plan, and you walked right into it.
Stallion Free
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I recommend Unmechanical because it's not actually a point and click game. That alone makes it better than the rest.
But also it has good puzzle design that isn't like adventure game bullshit either.
toddhunter
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Yep, I spent a couple of dollars this morning crafting a badge to get a mystery card...just in case of...well something.
Anybody can sell games. Only Valve can pull off the shit they do.
Its funny that you think that.
Valve's entire business model has been fostered around creating competition while funneling people toward's the Valve ecosystem.
Its irrelevant that you didn't spend any money on the Steam store. You still activated games within the client and became more tied to the store.
Millions of people did the same thing, and a high percent of them will spend at least some money during the Steam sale or at some point over the next decade.
Their server infrastructure is already in place, bandwidth costs at this point are minimal.
Getting people sucked into their client is the exact plan, and you walked right into it.
we are already dead
The episodic Telltale games go by pretty quickly. Like, Back to the Future will knock out 5 games, Sam & Max another hundred or so. Fastest way to clear your backlog, I think.
I also recommend you grab Emerald City Confidential. Same guys who made Blackwell (which is highly recommended).
derExperte
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What thing?
dirtywhirlwind
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Buy The Book of Unwritten Tales. But, if you meant any recommendations from that list of yours, I also do recommend The Blackwell series. They're short but sweet. The are easy on the puzzle side but they're charming with a relaxing subtle type of humor. They're amateurish in the best kind of way yet very friendly to beginners.
The order is: Legacy, Unbound, Convergence, Deception.
Unmechanical
derExperte
Member
A little longer than an hour, more like 2-3. But it's rather easy.
toddhunter
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I've played just about every single D&D game, most of them several times. I've never touched multiplayer once and in fact spurn it as I would spurn a rabid dog.
You won't miss anything beyond perhaps forming stronger lifelong friendships due to shared adventures.
Joe Molotov
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Its funny that you think that.
Valve's entire business model has been fostered around creating competition through Steamworks while funneling people toward the Valve ecosystem.
Its irrelevant that you didn't spend any money on the Steam store. You still activated games within the client and became more tied to the store.
Millions of people did the same thing, and a high percent of them will spend at least some money during the Steam sale or at some point over the next decade.
Their server infrastructure is already in place, bandwidth costs at this point are minimal.
Getting people sucked into their client is the exact plan, and you walked right into it.
On December 16, 2009. 4:00 AM, the Internet discovered the existence of Gabe. They had been working towards this for decades. They wanted to prove whether their theorised "spirit of the PC gaming universe" actually existed and they pulled it off. They discovered that "Gabe" or rather the spirit and essence that exists beyond the veil of gaming was an invisible photonic energy field that generated PC gaming and now controls the games and the sales.
This. Looking over your list, these are probably the best games you have. Then do the TellTale games. (Back to the Future, Sam and Max, I'm not sure if Tales of Monkey Island was on there.)
Thank you! I saw a trailer for this game forever ago and wanted to buy it, but I couldn't remember what it was called.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is one of my favorite adventure games ever, though perhaps I view it with nostalgia glasses. I remember it being funny and a bit interesting. As far as I've heard, the rest of that bundle (the other Indiana Jones game, and Loom, since you've already played the Dig) are also good if you end up liking Fate of Atlantis.
Thanks. I just wanted to make sure Baldur's Gate had a normal full singleplayer campaign and whatnot. I feel like I missed out on a classic or something.
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