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I'm in the mood for some good point-and click adventures. I already have all the Space Quest games, the Monkey Island games, the Sam and Max games, The Dig, Chains of Satinav, Memoria, The Book of Unwritten Tales series, Broken Sword 1-3, the first two Deponia games (probably not buying the third), Firewatch, Gone Home, Heaven's Vault, INFRA, J.U.L.I.A. Among the Stars, Mage's Initiation: Reign of the Elements, Maize, Obduction, Primordia, Resonance, Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure, and probably a few others. EDIT: I also have The Sexy Brutale, Full Throttle and Disco Elysium. Other than those, are there any good point-and-click adventure games on sale which may have slipped under the radar? Omi no Kami posted:I've heard good things about the Disgaea games for ages, but the one time I tried the ps2 version of the first game I found it way too slow and tedious to play through- are any of the remastered games worth a look, or am I going to have similiar issues with the original and remaster/sequels? I've played the PC ports of the first two games, and I think the games are probably just as grindy as the originals. You have a bunch of units to field, and each unit earns experience separately, and each skill they have earns experience separately. There's a system to teach certain skills to other units, and even the base one takes several uses before the new character learns it permanently. The first game's main campaign isn't too bad, but in the bonus/extra campaign, enemy levels start to increase far faster than your units, which means a lot more repeating of maps to grind XP. I got somewhat burned out with that partway through the extra campaign. I don't have experience with 3, 4, or 5, though. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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It seems like you don't have the Blackwell series yet. Those are pretty much a nobrainer recommendation for modern retro adventure games.
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Dec 30, 2020 20:52
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Get the Blackwell bundle
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Dec 30, 2020 20:53
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You might try out The Sexy Brutale as well. Strangely, it is essentially a point & click adventure that’s repackaged in the wrapper of a different style of game. People seem to like it okay and it’s usually very inexpensive.
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Dec 30, 2020 21:06
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm in the mood for some good point-and click adventures. I don't see any games from Amanita Design in your list, so you might enjoy them. They're not especially difficult puzzle-wise but they have a whole tonne of charm to them. Machinarium, Botanicula, Chuchel or the Samorost games are all pretty great in my opinion.
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Dec 30, 2020 21:10
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I see lots of LucasArts games in that list, but not Full Throttle or Grim Fandango I am also ruling that Disco Elysium is a point-and-click
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Dec 30, 2020 21:12
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Both seasons of The Last Door are excellent cosmic horror point-and-clicks. I'm playing Paradise Killer right now and it's super good.
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Dec 30, 2020 21:14
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Reminder that I still have a free copy of Grim Fandango Remastered to give away. Stabbey, if you want it, it's yours.
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That's a lot of recommendations. Thanks to everyone who replied, either before or after.Cardiovorax posted:It seems like you don't have the Blackwell series yet. Those are pretty much a nobrainer recommendation for modern retro adventure games. I don't have those, so thanks to you and rt4 for the recommendation NObodyNOWHERE posted:You might try out The Sexy Brutale as well. Strangely, it is essentially a point & click adventure that’s repackaged in the wrapper of a different style of game. People seem to like it okay and it’s usually very inexpensive. I have it, I finished it, I 100%ed it even, and while I wanted to like it, I found it disappointing. It didn't offer enough red herrings or possible-but-wrong solutions to be engaging. Everything at first was too obvious, and it took too long for the game to start making the puzzles challenging. You even had to solve the murders one at a time, instead of finding a way to solve them all at once. boof posted:I don't see any games from Amanita Design in your list, so you might enjoy them. They're not especially difficult puzzle-wise but they have a whole tonne of charm to them. Machinarium, Botanicula, Chuchel or the Samorost games are all pretty great in my opinion. I hadn't heard of those. I'll consider them as well. Too Shy Guy posted:Both seasons of The Last Door are excellent cosmic horror point-and-clicks. I'm not sure about The Last Door, I'm not too big into horror (Gibbous, despite being a Cthulu adventure, appears to be a comedy), and the aesthetic doesn't do much for me either. Paradise Killer, that's the strangeish game with a Cardiovorax posted:Reminder that I still have a free copy of Grim Fandango Remastered to give away. Stabbey, if you want it, it's yours. Sure, PM sent. Stabbey_the_Clown fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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Dec 30, 2020 21:31
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The Nelly Cootalot series are among the best of the point and click games out there. If you haven't played them, you're missing out. The Space Pilgrim series was built in RPGMaker but really they're point and click as well. I've only played the first half but they're very good too. The Charnel House Trilogy was meant as a teaser for a game that never materialized. If you can deal with that, give it a try. The Last Door is excellent as well. Some other reccomendations: The Darkside Detective, Fran Bow, Four Last Things, The Journey Down, Sally Face, Tengami.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm not sure about The Last Door, I'm not too big into horror (Gibbous, despite being a Cthulu adventure, appears to be a comedy), and the aesthetic doesn't do much for me either. Lady Love Dies is not nearly as silly of a character as the name and design might make you think. Three million days of imprisonment leave you with a lot of time to think. Last Door is horror in the same sense that Shadow Of The Comet is. You might like it.
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Also can't recommend Whispers of a Machine and the classic Machinarium that someone else mentioned enough.
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Dec 30, 2020 21:42
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Another vote for Blackwell series. Also Day of the Tentacle and Gabriel Knight (mainly the first, but the other two are interesting as well) if you want some true classics.
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Too Shy Guy posted:Both seasons of The Last Door are excellent cosmic horror point-and-clicks. Happy to see you here again!
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Sexy brutale is great but it does fall into an awkward in-between space where it wants to be a pretty low-friction ride through a story while the existence of puzzles makes you expect a challenge, so when there isn’t any challenge it comes across as an excessively easy puzzle game rather than the pseudo-walking sim it really is. I was expecting the extreme simplicity of each scenario to culminate in a final challenge where you have to save every guest in the same day, but that never happens.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm in the mood for some good point-and click adventures. Back in the 90s I loved Simon the Sorcerer (I never played the sequel) and it's on Steam.
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Unavowed is an amazing old school point & click adventure that mixes in some RPG style choices. Technobabylon is also great.
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It veers from classic point-and-click style in some parts but I will give a strong recommendation for The Hex. A bunch of washed-up old video game characters wind up in a spooky hotel together with a mystery to solve -- you switch perspective between them, jumping between genre-hopping flashbacks of their glory days and exploring the hotel in the present. While there's some humor, the tone is a lot more serious than you'd expect -- the subject matter is referential to video games in general but it's never really played for cheap nudge-nudge "remember this?" stuff and there's a very cool mystery at the heart of it all.
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That's a lot more recommendations than I was expecting, thank you everyone.Cardiovorax posted:Oh, only the loosest sense. They both have an anime art style and 3D open-world exploration. Danganronpa really doubles down on the anime thing, though, while Paradise Killer is way more weird. You player character is basically Rita Repulsa - "After 3 million days, I am finally free! Time... to solve a murder mystery, yay." Thanks for the Grim Fandango Remastered key. "Way more weird" is definitely notable when the comparison is to "Dagan Ronpa". An open world mystery sounds interesting. Just one mystery, pre-written, or multiple mysteries? I've never played Shadow of the Comet. I had to google it to find out what it was, in fact. Dreylad posted:Also can't recommend Whispers of a Machine and the classic Machinarium that someone else mentioned. I'll assume you meant "can't recommend enough" or "can recommend"  , so I picked up Whispers of a Machine and Kathy Rain.EDIT: I also have Simon the Sorcerer 1 from GoG. I should go back to playing it, as I'm not finished.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Thanks for the Grim Fandango Remastered key. "Way more weird" is definitely notable when the comparison is to "Dagan Ronpa". An open world mystery sounds interesting. Just one mystery, pre-written, or multiple mysteries? When you compare it to Danganronpa in a thematic sense, though... realizing just what a monster your character is, and has always been, really hits a lot harder than any overly dramatic anime bullshit that Dangan Ronpa has to offer. It is the first game I have played in a long time that genuinely disturbed me. There is very, very little that is explicit in what you learn about the islands and yourselves. There is no violence and no gore, but the implications of what you've done, of what you've been party to, are legitimately horrid. Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I've never played Shadow of the Comet. I had to google it to find out what it was, in fact.
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There are so many good modern point and click adventure games it's insane. Titles I haven't seen mentioned yet, in no particular order: Primordia Thumbleweed Park Truberbrook The Shivah The Journey Down The Dream Machine
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...of SCIENCE! posted:MGSV replacing the codec calls with cassette tapes you could listen to while you were playing the game was legitimately one of the best things AAA gaming has done with storytelling in games this decade and it sucks that nobody else seems to have taken that lesson to heart. It was cool initially but I became annoyed trying to listen and pay attention to 20 minutes of dialogue while playing the actual game.
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Feel bad for all the honest tournament-qualifying teams out there.
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Dreylad posted:Also can't recommend Whispers of a Machine and the classic Machinarium that someone else mentioned. Can't? Why? Those are really good. Light Gun Man posted:Got one These are highjackers. RIP to your friend's account(s)
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I wonder what they are doing with all these accounts. Subscribing to some workshop thing in a free game? Leaving positive reviews for something? Upvoting something? Taking people's Steam trade urls for an attack later on? Something to do with API keys? Or maybe this is how companies sell view and wishlisting services now. It has to be something important but that's not obvious to most people. Edit: Oooh maybe they are fishing for people that reuse passwords too. Det_no fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Dec 30, 2020 |
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Yeah I got hit by that. 80% of my friends list shows me as blocked. Changed my password and tbh Steam needs to support more 2FA options than Steam Guard.
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GreenNight posted:Yeah I got hit by that. 80% of my friends list shows me as blocked. Changed my password and tbh Steam needs to support more 2FA options than Steam Guard. how would that help? the entire problem is people giving their 2FA code to scammers who immediately log in with it.
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Dec 30, 2020 23:28
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If you use a bypass code sure, but if you use 2fa push, not so much unless you're just gonna hit OK every time the spammer logs in with your account.
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Don't they just need to log in only once to do unlimited harm? The problem isn't Steam's 2FA being weak or insufficient, it's pebkac and phishing.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Can't? Why? Those are really good. Forum posting was slow as hell and I forgot to edit in "enough" at the end of my post whoops!
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In the alternate timeline everyone uses YubiKeys for 2FA.
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Omi no Kami posted:I've heard good things about the Disgaea games for ages, but the one time I tried the ps2 version of the first game I found it way too slow and tedious to play through- are any of the remastered games worth a look, or am I going to have similiar issues with the original and remaster/sequels? Each of the Xenosaga games annoyed me to no end in their own way and Shion is one of the worst protag characters I ever saw and hated her in X3.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm in the mood for some good point-and click adventures. If you're willing to deal with some melancholy, My Brother Rabbit and Rakuen should be must-buys. Both are beautiful. My Brother Rabbit is shorter and the puzzles are much less complex.
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What's the preferred control method for Overload? I have a KB+M, gamepad, and HOTAS.
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Overload is still an FPS at heart even if there's no gravity, up, or down, so I like KB+M best a HOTAS seems like it'd be really cumbersome Hwurmp fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Dec 31, 2020 |
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Depending on your throttle's button/switch situation I would go M+KB or KB+Stick. It's 6DOF and no gravity so you're gonna want to be able to move quickly in all directions a throttle is more of an annoyance than anything.
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Lair of the Clocwork God is a hybrid adventure and platformer game, and it somehow works! Made by the guys who made the adventure games Ben There, Dan That and Time, Gentlemen, Please!
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FastestGunAlive posted:I feel the same. Really craving that battlefield feel but 1 and V don’t do it for me and I’ve played too much 4 already. Been playing a lot of titanfall 2 recently though, which I love but getting tired of the same maps. It’s not the battlefield formula but it’s a hell of a lot more exciting to me than cod or BRs How is it these days population-wise? I hope there's a more balanced amount of newish players and vets. Section Z posted:Hey kids, it's time to shill for Earth Defense Force 5 again! It was fun for a while yeah, but I've had my fill of EDF honestly... once the Greys started showing up the game's fun level just started lowering hard for me. It's absolutely at its best when it's fighting against the Giant Insects but the grind is nuts, there's only so much replaying and hoovering up crates one can do before they're driven to madness.  It's been a while though, maybe I'll give it another shot using cheat engine to mass collect everything.
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