Hey

There was once a time when the Adventure games were on top and most of them were from Lucasarts.
As the years go on and I get older I see less and less of these great games going out there.

The best thing about these games were the storylines. Many hours of my childhood were spent on Indiana Jones (just to mention one form Lucas), Broken Sword, Discworld, etc

The last great one I played was the last Broken Sword game, I waited ages and ages for that to come out and when it did I loved every minute of it.

I know there are many people out there with memorys and current interests in this dwindling genre, I just don't know any of them so if you've got anything to say about them please post here.

Thanks

Just finished Maniac Mansion, and started playing through Day Of The Tentacle actually.
I've been a big fan of the Monkey Island games since I was about 8, but due to money constraints at the time I never had a chance to play a lot of the other great adventure games around.

Still playing all 3 the discworld games.... But then again I'm a huge Discworld fan. The only point and click adventure I really want to play again is Toonstruck ( the full cd version that is). but nobody seems to be selling it anymore..

Yeah the Monkey Island games were one of my fav's.
Haven't got round to playing the forth one though. My love for them started around the same age.
"Look behind you, A three-headed monkey" :whistle:

Manic Mansions was good but I liked Day of the Tenticle better.

You should try Fate of Atlantis if you haven't already, love it.

I think I remember playing Toonstruck, it came in a strange big red box. Didn't fancy it though - played the start and then took it back and got "The Dig" instead. Ever try that?

I love discworld too, think the second one is the best.

No offense but try using the EDIT button insted of multiple posts, this keeps the forum a bit cleaner..

And indeed the 2nd discworld game is the best

Nah the first one had better humor and less Monty Python-ripoff scenes, but DW2 was fun anyway :)

In adittion of what has been said above I would recommend:
- The Legend of Kyrandia (all 3 of them are a good way to kill time, and pretty graphics as well)
- Goblins, Gobliins and Gobliiins (these are really hard at some points (but then again you can always use a walkthrough), but the humor is great :) )

The Goblin games were great, Ingenius puzzles that were a bit hard at times, and yeah the walkthrough was used a lot. Storylines were pants though.

Played the first 2 Legend of Kyrandia games not so long ago but lost interest in them pretty quickly. Just got bored of them plus I'll just bought Half-Life 2 :rifle:

On a seperate note I have to mention Indiana Jones and the Last Crucade.
I played it when I was a Kid and couldn't get anywhere in it then I tried again a couple of years back and I was amazed with it. There were different options and ways to do things like if you picked up some book in the library then you could give it to the radio guy in the castle and make life a whole lot easier. Little details like that make a good adventure game, too many of them can be linear and one way to do one thing .

broken sword, and the first two discworld games were what i grew up on.

lost on mystery island as well i played to completetion i think

and good old Kings Quest games :D

Quite a nice game, but unfortunately it's rather short. Still worth it, though.

Might I suggest BLUE FORCE? It's short but great :ok:

My favorite 3:rd person

• The Dig
• Day of the Tentacle
• Grim Fandango
• Sanitarium
• Discworld
• Monkey Island 2
• Monkey Island
• Broken Sword

My favorite 1:st person

• Revelation
• Riven
• Exile
• Myst
• Aura
• Voyage
• Schizm

Don't forget Beneath a Steel Sky. That's an excellent point and click adventure as well.

Then there are Simon the Sorcerer parts I & II (3rd part is crappy).

Not to forget some great gmaes - like my favorite p'n'c - Mr. Ripley's: Believe it or not! The Riddle of Master Lu...

actually this has been discused before (just remembered this thread).

It's better to start a new thread than ressurect one.
My all-time favorite point and click is either Sanitarium or Grim Fandango.

But you do get an idea about what other people (even those who won't replay anymore) said about hte same subject...

Anyway - anybody played The City of Lost Children? It had to be one of the first 3D adventures. I hated it back then, but now in retrospect (or simply because I see what kind of games they're putting out) I kindda like it.

Yeah, because everyone loves having many threads on the same topic with the same people replying in them all....

Wasn't there just 1 Monty Python joke in the second Discworld game? It's been a while since i played it. There was a lovely sequence involving bees (and a similar puzzle towards the end too) that I remember was fun. And croquet.

I remember that game. I bought it in the box when it first came out and was so disappointed. It seemed so dark and downbeat. But like you, Sebatianos, I'd probably appreciate it more now when the dark and downbeat seem the only choice. Back then, though, there were so many fantastic game series to compete with: Zork, Kyrandia, LucasArts adventures, Kings Quest, Kingdom, Broken Sword, Simon The Sorceror...etc . The good ol' days :D

Ah Simon the Sorcerer was a cool game, I never did understand the logic behind turning the dog into a pair of slippers to get past the sleeping guard - just too random!

2 games I found on Abandonia:
5 DAYS A STRANGER
7 DAYS A SKEPTIC
They're great lil' games.

Never played City of Lost Children, is worth finding?

Grim Fandango wasn't point and click, its the type of game that they made the "next generation" of the Adventure games, I still don't know which was better mouse or keyboard. I suppose its not really about the controls though! Anyway Grim was a fresh breeze for me in Adventure games, I'd nearly lost hope that a new great Adventure game could be made (and was sceptical about lucasarts at the time as they'd been arsin about too much, sort of like now :wall: ) but Grim is brill!.

In Discworld 2, the opening scene was good with the Lethal Weapon ripoff and the game just kept on giving laughs. :w00t:

How come this was moved? :omg:

Suppose it has gone to a better place :D

AAAAAARGH! Stop multi-posting!

It was moved because it's about Favourite Oldies...

BeefontheBone I can tell that your a nice guy :angel:

I am a nice guy - it's just that this is the (duplicate) thread where someone already pointed out that there's an edit button.

One of the games that stared it all for me (and for many others) is Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders also by Lucas Arts.

Never played it, would love to give it a go though.

Hmmmm, which game started it for me?

Either:
The Secret of Monkey Island or
one of the Indy games, I really started playing them around the same time. God dam my brain, too much Guinness and not enough memory!!! :cheers:

I remember it, and liked it already then.. but that was possibly because I had seen the movie (which is excellent) and the game captured the feeling quite ok. Also, I didn't mind the slightly annoying controls.

point and click is probably my favourite genre. I like the usual suspects (BS, Loom, BASS, StS, MM etc.)

Monkey Island 1 is the funniest game ever made. Full stop.

Flight Of The Amazon Queen I find is an oft overlooked p&c, if you haven't played it, . . uh.. do.

BS? StS??:huh:

Broken Sword, Simon the Sorceror?

I really kinda did like Beneath A Steel Sky and Monkey's Island alot.

I' ve been a fan of the Discworld, Monkey Island, and Myst games for a while. But unfortunately, so far, i've only been able to find and play the last 2 Monkey Island games.

Heh, that's funny. I've only been able to find and play the first two Monkey Island games.:D

I've always thought Lucasfilm's games were the bests (specially Monkey Island 1 and 2 and also Loom, though the last is a bit particular game, nor the usual point and click adventure). Maybe you should try Runaway if you can find it (I guess it is still being sold, but at low prices), as it is very interesting and has the feeling of the old adventures.

Why does everyone forget about 'Heart of China' from Dynamix? Its like one of the best adventure games around. I remember playing that game religiously and was'nt able to complete it coz my computer bugged out! I found a downloadable version of it recently and am totally commited to finishing it! :evil:

Day of the Tentacle
Monkey Island 1,2,3 (haven't played 4, and apparently its much worse than the rest)
Gateway :D

I thought Monkey 4 was ok, I just hate the controls.

Almost forgotten, Full Throttle and Sam & Max, great adventures, cool puzzle's and lot's of good humor

The puzzles of Sam and Max are not cool. They're just weird and almost impossible unless one resorts to the brute force approach.

beneath a steel sky drove me mad for years, never could work out what to do to get off the factory level, then realised there was a big red cord to cut.. woops

Adventure games where what shaped my profession as a programmer. I loved adventure games so much that I wanted to write my own, and I did, although nothing retail quality. There were no game design class in college or How-To books back then.

Anyway, I played the old games you probably have never heard of - Asylum, Pyramid, Bedlam, Dallas Quest, etc. - on the TRS-80 and the Color Computer. Of course, I also played them up the line from Scott Adam's to Infocom to Sierra On-Line and Lucas Arts.

I understand it isn't retail quality, but the price is right... I wrote The Monday Adventure, back on an IBM mainframe then ported it many years later to Windows. It is a hybrid of text and point and click. Scott Adams himself said "I love it." It has been dl over 20,000 times, was on Download.com and ZNet for a while.

Yes, I'm asking you to try it out, just for the fun of it. Http://www.MikelRice.com

Also, I have completed a completely text only game - another port from my mainframe days - that I need a beta test or two on. My last beta testers just did not have the love and passion for adventure games so they did "understand" the point.

If anyone would be willing to play test it, please let me know. I really would like to release it this year. Thanks in advance.

:kosta:

Let's see some of the ones I have enjoyed

MI 1
MI 2
MI 4
Day of the Tentacle
Sam and Max
Full Throttle
The Dig
Grim Fandango
Flight of the Amazon Queen

All classics I have enjoyed. :D Only one I still need to play Curse of Monkey Island, must get...

I wish I could count all the classic adventure games I played in my life. :angel:

Anyway, give a try to Les Manley adventures, which are on abandonia.com

Les Manley - Lost in L.A
Les Manley - Search for the King

I love these games.
1. I still have my day of the tentacle CD in fact i've got it here now. day of the tentacle and maniac mansion. i love the bit at the end of day of the tentacle with the "the fly" rip off that was great! :w00t:
2. i dont like the myst games though they are a bit boring :not_ok: but my siblings love it :D

3. i've only ever played a small bit of one of the monkey island games. the bit with the duel with a pirate.

Nippon Safes
Sixth Sense Investigations
Big Red Adventure

Anybody played these?

Big Red Adventure is one of the best adventure games out there; great plot, wicked characters, hilarious humour, and it takes loooong to complete it. A bit nasty to get running, though.

Yeah, I had it on the amiga, it has a quality plot, very intricate

http://www.retro-experience.co.uk/at...eonmaster3.jpg

hehe DUNGEON MASTER is the best point and click for me

there is a site now that allows you to draw your own levels for this

I created a new 10 level set up for DM but after all that work, I got some pretty disappointing feedback ..... :not_ok: hehe never mind I still love the original!!

*L*O*L*

Isn't Dungeon Master an RPG more than a Point and Click adventure?

yeah sorry about that Tito :cry: I did hesitate when I quoted DM but I love it so much!!! :w00t:

Mmmm... I love point and click adventures.

I'm finally taking the time to finish The Dig now (I started playing the same year it came out, but it wasn't my personal copy of the game, so it's taken me until now to obtain a copy and complete it). I'm right at the end, but I'm stuck. Grr. Still, one of the finest games I've played. Amazing atmosphere, great voice acting, and amazingly, it keeps you hooked in a dead world where you only have two other people (or often one) to talk to.

I was raised on point and click: King's Quest, Legend of Kyrandia 2, The Neverhood, Monkey Island, all sorts of fun stuff. I missed out on a few Lucasarts games, though, and I'm trying to get them now: Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, and Grim Fandango. I've got a copy of Grim Fandango, and I've just started it.

Mmmm, it's been a long time since I've visited this site.

A great game! There are just few ones who remember it :w00t:

But isn't by Lucasart, so i'm going :ot:

A great game! There are just few ones who remember it :w00t:

But isn't by Lucasart, so i'm going :ot: [/b][/quote]
I don't remember this being a Lucasarts thread. ^_~

But yes, I do so love The Neverhood. One of the many things that originally got me into claymation. Great visuals in that game.

Uh... :blink: You were right!

I had confused the topics: this is not just about Lucasart... :tomato:

Yeah, but what other claymation games do you know, if I may ask?

I enjoyed The Neverhood, but it's puzzles were horrid, almost none of them made any sense.

Yeah, but what other claymation games do you know, if I may ask? [/b][/quote]
Well, no other claymation games, but I like all kinds of claymation stuff.

Well, no other claymation games, but I like all kinds of claymation stuff.[/b][/quote]
Well, there are few more claymation games, but unfortunately, none of them are in English, but they are playable. Here are the details:

- Agent Helina (Czech) also known as, Clay Agent (Russian)
- Clay Dreams (Russian)
- Last Year's Snow Was Falling (Russian)

The genre is slowly coming back to life. With LucasArts firing all the people that work on adventures games. But they've made new companies.

Double Fine
Psychonauts is they're latest adventure game. It even has a referation to Monkey Island 1.

Telltale
The creators of the Bone games. Also making the Sam & Max series.

Autumn Moon
Consists of a lot of the CMI team. Currently making A Vampyre Story. Pretty much the same interface as CMI too.

Ron Gilbert
Ok, not a company. But he's thinking of making an RPG. BTW, this guy created SCUMM, Maniac Mansion and the almighty Monkey Island.

I've yet to play The Dig. I really need to get a hold of that. Then I've played all the LEC adventure games. And when I finish, I'll have completed all the LucasArtsAdventure Games.