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The golden-age of PC gaming summed up in one picture
- Thread starter Panajev2001a
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Scalemail Ted
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I don't see any Blizzard games.
I never could stand point & click games where you could die for totally stupid reasons. I remember KQ5, right at the first village. You touch some wheel stuff and you get a "it had a poisoned needle, you are dead" or something like that. Turned me off immediatlyLakeEarth said:
Or Space Quest 4 (?) in the beginning you were in some sort of open space with a flying robot and a zombie, if any of the 2 saw you, boom you are dead.
Not my cup of tea at all, but I understand that some people could like it.
Panajev2001a
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Hooker said:
You are blind.
You cannot see Guybrush ?!?
Blimblim said:I never could stand point & click games where you could die for totally stupid reasons. I remember KQ5, right at the first village. You touch some wheel stuff and you get a "it had a poisoned needle, you are dead" or something like that. Turned me off immediatly
Or Space Quest 4 (?) in the beginning you were in some sort of open space with a flying robot and a zombie, if any of the 2 saw you, boom you are dead.
Not my cup of tea at all, but I understand that some people could like it.
You should've played KQ6. I dunno about the previous Kings Quests, but in that one cocky Death would say some smart remark everytime you died. Get swept by an undertow? "Nothing like getting swept off your feet!". There were many others that made me laugh.
Panajev2001a
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border said:
Well, I did forget Sierra's Laisure suit Larry and Betrayal at Krondor, but yeah... pretty much
.Panajev2001a
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border said:
Not really
.IAmtheFMan
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Aaahhhh... Bobbin Threadbare. How I've missed you...
Panajev2001a
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I stil think that Lucasarts graphical adventures were at the time the best game playable anywhere on PC.
This thread is misnamed. Golden Age of PC Game Adventures sure, but not PC gaming in general. Strategy has ruled the roost on PCs for a long time and the best entries in turn-based strategy, nay, some of the best games of all-time are still VGA-era stratey games like Civilization II, X-Com, Master of Orion and Master of Magic. Flight sims, first-person action... those Lucasarts games were good but you're confusing their unique blend of comedy and excruciatingly obtuse puzzle solving with a Golden Age.
Late Stage Marxist
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Pretty accurate, but I consider Al Lowe's LSL and Freddy Pharkas adventures to be in direct competition with LucasArts'. Wolfenstein 3d and Doom were more influential as a whole, though I don't know if that classifies them as "Golden Age".
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Sorry, panajev, you're wrong.
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I am the biggest Bullfrog whore out there, but I concur.
There was a time when I was looking forward to anything from Lucasfilm Games/Lucas Arts, whatever they did it was going to be awesome. Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis is still the best 2D adventure ever made.
Who can't remember this?
There was a time when I was looking forward to anything from Lucasfilm Games/Lucas Arts, whatever they did it was going to be awesome. Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis is still the best 2D adventure ever made.
Who can't remember this?
BobbyRobby
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I remember getting a big compilation with DotT, FoA, S&M, and a bunch of other Lucas Arts stuff for Christmas one year.
I wish I could buy it again.
I wish I could buy it again.
Panajev2001a
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callous said:
You are right, I played Monkey Island II and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis on Amiga first, but not many here do remember the Amiga or have ever owned one.
Error Macro
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Where's Roger Wilco? This thread is invalid.
mightynine
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I don't see the guy from Full Throttle in that pic.
Sadly, I never played the older point-and-click adventures. I used to play Apogee/Epic Megagames games all the time. The games I played the most and loved as a young kid were:
Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit, Hocus Pocus, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and the most addictive (the one I spent the most time on) - Rogue (early form of Nethack). Also, Epic Pinball, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, and Jill of the Jungle.
Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit, Hocus Pocus, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and the most addictive (the one I spent the most time on) - Rogue (early form of Nethack). Also, Epic Pinball, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, and Jill of the Jungle.
ArcadeStickMonk
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More like the golden age of Boot Disks