dog days are over posted:

This is where I got my copy if MI3 many years ago as an excited teen. Looking on eBay though it's selling for some pretty silly prices, I've no idea why.

Gianthogweed posted:

I love Myst. I posted about it before, but I just want to reiterate. The best way to play it is to completely geek out over it. They give you a blank journal (if you bought the original packaging), use it. Write in it as if you really are a person who just discovered a book that sucked you into a weird island. Write about what you see as you explore, draw the diagrams, write what you are thinking. It may seem like a lot more work, but it is a lot more rewarding. You don't have to play it this way to beat it, but I think it's more fun. I was a total nerd though when I played it, and my gf laughed at me when she read the journal I wrote for it (I tried to write in Atrus's style when I was 13), but it made her want to play the game and try the same thing.

Gianthogweed posted:

Uncle Wemus posted:

Torin's Passage

Drox posted:

Nightshade was pretty silly, and had a really cool way of doing extra lives. If you ran out of HP, you would be captured by the villain (you were a superhero, naturally) and placed in some kind of a deathtrap. Each successive deathtrap is harder to escape. The final one is impossible.

Furret Basket posted:

DoTT actually came with it's hint book. It was pretty comprehensive and pretty good too.

Rollersnake posted:

I agree. Sierra deaths were ridiculously entertaining, but being able to unknowingly put the game into an unwinnable state is one of the worst design decisions you can make.

The Broken Sword games get the balance just right. There are various ways you can die, but it's impossible except for one oversight in Broken Sword 2 you likely won't encounter to screw yourself out of victory.

ChuckDHead posted:

At this point, all point-and-click licenses ever should be bought by Telltale and Revolution.

Rollersnake posted:

Broken Sword 3 and 4 exist, but weren't as well-received. I think 3's worth playing despite its flaws (QTEs, stealth sections, block-pushing puzzles), and I haven't gotten around to trying 4 yet. Also they're apparently working on Broken Sword 5, and want to go back to making 2D games!

Lungs posted:

Something kinda funny happened actually, while watching my girfriend play Machinarium. She pointed out to me that I pronounce the word inventory as 'in-VENT-ory'. Since this isn't a word I use in day to day living, I'd kind of forgotten about it, but I am pretty sure I lapse into pronouncing it that way because that's what I used to say when I started playing adventure games as a kid, and no-one ever corrected me. Nerd life.

Achmed Jones posted:

I'm finally getting around to playing Back to the Future, and holy crap are the facial animations awful. Oy.

Dixie Flatline posted:

Yeah, it's great. Puzzles are way less obtuse than 1&2s and it doesn't try as hard to be funny.

feedmyleg posted:

If I've barely played any Sierra games (lucasarts4lyfe) and wanted to check out the Discworld games, is it going to be an incredibly frustrating experience? I like adventure games because of the slow pace and the lack of needing to replay things because of dying, and get frustrated otherwise.

Dixie Flatline posted:

You need to go into the patrician's palace a long time before you get the crank from the well. The part with the crank handle is in act 3 and you need to go in at least once in act 1 and again in act 2. So don't go in in act 3 without the crank handle. Also act 3 gives you some more items to get you in the palace.

Here's everything you need to do in the palace:

ACT I

Get the mirror

You get in by:

just talking to the guards

ACT II

Use the garbage on the fool, follow him to his bathroom, use bubble bath on his bath then take his hat. Also talk to everyone in the line to be able to visit the shades

You get in by:

Using the inkblot on one of the guards

ACT III

Don't go in without the well handle, worm on a string. Don't leave without the sword, bone and rat.

You get in by:

using the leeches on the guards

You can go in more than 3 times, I think there's at least 2 ways to get in per act.

Little Blue Couch posted:

So, the first three Broken Sword games are on sale on Steam right now for $2.50. I bought them, because I apparently have a mental condition that forbids me from passing up discount bundles. The problem is that the first game in the series is the Director's Cut, though, and from what I've read, the Director's Cut is bad. Apparently the new chapters are lame, a bunch of hotspots have been removed, and there's some cartoonish censoring and missing cutscenes. Should I hunt down the original version instead?

edit: actually the reviews are kind of mixed. but the "reception" section on wikipedia says fans were disappointed so my question stands

maxnmona posted:

I'm playing Broken Sword right now (original version, everything I read about the director's cut made it sound like a bad one to start with) and I can't believe I missed an adventure game this good during my prime adventure game playing years.

Only two major flaws so far are:

1. Your inventory gets pretty big, and you never know when asking about an item will have an effect, so sometimes you find yourself in loooong conversations, just asking about every possible item and getting mostly boring answers.

maxnmona posted:

c. I heard it added sliding tile puzzles. And the idea of adding something as annoying as sliding tile puzzles to what had previously been an entirely inventory based adventure game should be illegal.

Irving posted:

Did anyone ever play Inherit the Earth? I'd imagine it's got some stigma for having anthropomorphized animals in it, but it's a really interesting story and the game was pretty fun from what I remember. Looks like it's been updated to run on modern systems as well:

http://www.wyrmkeep.com/ite/

Irving posted:

[edit] Also, no bullshit deaths or getting stuck without items you need like in Sierra games. I appreciated that.

Furret Basket posted:

There's only a couple of puzzles in DoTT that don't involve some sort of actual logic and thought. Namely getting the car keys, which you'll always do by accident

Dominoes posted:

Does anyone have a super subtle hint about getting into The tomb in The Dig? I've been wasting hours on this, but am not ready to get a walk through. I've placed the blue crystal in the hole, uncovered the lens and placed the rod on the button Something like "check for items you forgot to pick up", "you missed an entrance to a new area", "backtrack" or"try using an object in your inventory" would be great.

Dominoes posted:

Turns out the next dead end for now, but I got unstuck after a lot of frustration: You can hold the buttons. What a weird design decision; breaking an established interface pattern in order to solve a puzzle.

Actually, I don't think it was supposed to be a puzzle; the character kept referring to the strange devices as light bridges, despite never having discovered their purpose. I think it was more of a design issue than a puzzle.

FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:

So it turns out Revolution have been writing Broken Sword 5 and want to Kickstarter it. Not sure how I feel about it, in retrospect I thought 3 & 4 were pretty poor efforts and had none of the charm of the first two.

http://revolution.co.uk/

edit: on reading further, turns out it's going to be 2d again

FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:

I kind of liked 3, but box puzzles and stealth sections, no thanks. I'm sort of intrigued now for 5 learning that it's going to be 2D again. The background artwork and locations for 1 & 2 were all gorgeous and looking at some of the screens for 5 they seem to be returning to the same style. I wonder whos going to voice Nico this time?

These Loving Eyes posted:

If I liked the original, are the two seasons and The Devils Playhouse worth it? I know the whole package is currently only 15 euros, but I kind of missed the whole hype when they first came out, and so I have no idea how the games were received. Are the puzzles fun? How's the writing compared to Lucasarts classics?

Dominoes posted:

You may be surprised how much you remember - No matter how long I go between playing adventure games, I know how the puzzles flow and how to solve most of them the second time through.

Crappy Jack posted:

Day of the Tentacle is like the one video game my wife has played to completion and she's incredibly proud of the fact. Plus you can make it a couples thing since in her inevitable moment of frustration, you can give suggestions that get her along the right path. My entitled gamer "You gotta spend a week trying to figure out the solution to one puzzle, back then we didn't even HAVE the internet" feelings immediately went away the first time I was like "see how Edna grabs that statue arm? If only there were some way to make it so that arm was in a different place" and her eyes get all big and she gasps and runs off to play some more video games.

Rollersnake posted:

Just beat Curse of Monkey Island, and am thinking about moving on to Tales, unless there's a really, really good reason I should play Escape first. There's not, right?