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Bill Decker posted:The Simon the Sorcerer Origins developers have managed to get Chris Barrie back to voice Simon again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88mR2bEUUyk I was on the fence about a prequel happening but this has swung it for me.
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I played a couple hours of Harold Halibut this evening. The visuals are truly incredible. I'm really enjoying it so far. It plays exactly liked I'd assumed from the trailer -- low interactivity, few puzzles, and primarily narrative. While, I prefer more puzzley, interactive games, I'm certainly not going to fault the game for it here.
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Played and finished The Excavation of Hob's Barrow recently and really enjoyed it. For a game that leans pretty heavy into crafting a narrative and an atmosphere, I think the puzzle difficulty felt just about right. The only thing that stumped me for a while was the horse because I overlooked that the sugar cubes on the table in the The Plough & Furrow were interactable. I could see the apple puzzle being a bit of a sticking point I suppose, but in my playthrough I'd kind of lucked into all the necessary pieces just because as a veteran adventure game player I pick up everything not nailed down and combine stuff pretty frequently. I loved the deliberate grotesqueness of some of the art, particularly Herbert the cat, and the little moments of uncomfortable weirdness like the vicar throwing up and demanding to be bled, or Arthur staring into the forest completely unresponsive, and just the general burgeoning sense that something is wrong. I saw a few people on the Steam discussion forums (yes, yes, I know...) really disliked the ending, which seems weird to me because the game wears its inspirations on its sleeve pretty drat hard and the ending being what it is feels very much in line with both the rest of the game and the horror genre it's drawing from. All in all, a very good time and an easy recommend.
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I don't know what the specific complaint about the ending is on the Steam discussion forums, but mine is that she continued on even though she knew she was being set up. Like even a line saying that she needed to do it for her dad would have been something, but willfully ignoring the poo poo she's been told without comment just seemed a bit sloppy. I liked where it went, but question how it got there.
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GrandpaPants posted:I don't know what the specific complaint about the ending is on the Steam discussion forums, but mine is that she continued on even though she knew she was being set up. Like even a line saying that she needed to do it for her dad would have been something, but willfully ignoring the poo poo she's been told without comment just seemed a bit sloppy. If you're talking about the conversation with Arthur in the alley, we see the flashback that she's being explicitly set up, but I don't think that Arthur actually manages to tell her that because they get interrupted by Panswyck who threatens him off and she doesn't acknowledge/respond to the contents of that flashback at all. That said by the time of the day of the excavation, my read was that that Thomasina is pretty much already under Abraxas' influence at that point. Saxnot mentions that Abraxas has an inexorable corrupting influence, and Thomasina has been experiencing repeated psychic dreams about the barrow since arriving in Bewley. I think by the time she actually enters it, the outcome is already a foregone conclusion.
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Hey there! As I've recently played through the rerelease of Blade Runner on Steam, I've regained the itch for a classic investigation/adventure games. I've been out of the loop for a long time, however the main thing I remember from the classic P&Cs is that so many of them involved focusing on pixel-hunting for tiny items and backtracking endlessly, due to finding key #42 which unlocks a door near the start, giving you safe combination #12 towards the end, which has a false back revealing a secret compartment that also has a false back (requiring a walkthrough to notice) which contains the handle to a broken lever in some other section of the game, etc. etc. SO! What I'm wondering is, are there any suggestions for either modern adventure games, or classics that hold up/are playable? (Preferably on Steam, to make things easy) Ideally something that involves talking/investigating something, but I'm open to other recommendations too. I've played LA Noire already of course, which although it doesn't fall into this category exactly, it does scratch a similar itch to Blade Runner - seeing as it's about finding/examining evidence, talking to people, etc. Apologies if this is already covered BTW - I didn't see Blade Runner in one of the OP's categories, so I figured it couldn't hurt to ask
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The first Gabriel Knight was really good, with interesting characters and a plot that pulls you into the game.
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You could also check out: Beyond a Steel Sky The Blackwell series Call of the Sea The Darkside Detective The longest journey / dreamfall series The Monkey Island series Gemini Rue The Journey Down series Kathy Rain Lacuna Sam & Max series Shardlight Technobabylon Unavowed e: oh i didnt realise the OP was so comprehensive, my bad. a lot of (maybe all?) of those games will already be listed there, so i guess just consider them as +1's from me, who hates pixel hunting and inconceivable adventure game logic. if i get stuck for too long or start getting bored i just whip out a walkthrough til i reach a point i feel like i have new ideas for how to proceed boofhead fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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Major Isoor posted:Hey there! As I've recently played through the rerelease of Blade Runner on Steam, I've regained the itch for a classic investigation/adventure games. I've been out of the loop for a long time, however the main thing I remember from the classic P&Cs is that so many of them involved focusing on pixel-hunting for tiny items and backtracking endlessly, due to finding key #42 which unlocks a door near the start, giving you safe combination #12 towards the end, which has a false back revealing a secret compartment that also has a false back (requiring a walkthrough to notice) which contains the handle to a broken lever in some other section of the game, etc. etc. PENTIMENT! PENTIMENT! PENTIMENT! A Space For The Unbound Whispers in The West Detective Grimoire and Tangle Tower Make It Good Blacksad The Painscreek Killings and Scene Investigators Knee Deep Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Between Horizons Paradise Killer Lucifer Within Us Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
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I need to get back into Pentiment, it seems quite vast though and I don't know if my middle aged attention span can handle it. Are the Frog Detective games worth a punt?
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I've taken a look at a bunch of your suggestions all, and they look great so far - thanks for that! (Also, no worries boofhead - I had no idea where to start looking in there anyway, so thanks!  )
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keep punching joe posted:Are the Frog Detective games worth a punt? The first one was very quick and childishly easy, but so hilarious I bought the other two as well, though I haven't played them yet.
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Major Isoor posted:I've taken a look at a bunch of your suggestions all, and they look great so far - thanks for that! (Also, no worries boofhead - I had no idea where to start looking in there anyway, so thanks! There's also the Mystery games thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4030786
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fez_machine posted:There's also the Mystery games thread: oooh, good call! Thanks - I can't say I've seen that thread until now
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fez_machine posted:PENTIMENT! PENTIMENT (many good suggestions here but yeah, play Pentiment, Major!]
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^^ Pentiment kicks rear end. Mode 7 posted:Played and finished The Excavation of Hob's Barrow recently and really enjoyed it. One of my favorite recent Wadjets, and I think maybe the best voice cast they've had on any of their games (which is generally pretty good). I loved the graphics, the eerie atmosphere, and the puzzles were generally just right (I was less into the end game puzzles, but they were fine enough).
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Two other 'investigative' adventure games I really enjoyed are "Whispers of a Machine" and "Unforeseen Incidents".
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Kashwashwa posted:Two other 'investigative' adventure games I really enjoyed are "Whispers of a Machine" and "Unforeseen Incidents". Whispers of a Machine is okay, but as an investigative game it accidentally gives away what its ending's structure will be by the first big plot beat. It's not a BAD game, but I wouldn't quite recommend it if they're looking to sink their teeth into an evolving mystery to tackle.
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Clouseau posted:One of my favorite recent Wadjets, and I think maybe the best voice cast they've had on any of their games (which is generally pretty good). I loved the graphics, the eerie atmosphere, and the puzzles were generally just right (I was less into the end game puzzles, but they were fine enough). My only quibble about Hob's Barrow is that the song partway through sounds like modern acoustic indie rock and not much like the sort of British folk music which would have suited the atmosphere way better and would have been way less anachronistic.
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Any soundfont opinions here? I'm about to re-play Monkey Island 2 for the 10,000th time and just want it to sound as good as possible
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Nobody Interesting posted:Any soundfont opinions here? I'm about to re-play Monkey Island 2 for the 10,000th time and just want it to sound as good as possible You're better off playing the remastered version if you want better music. The original MI2 only supported FM or MT32. You can force general midi with Scummvm or Dosbox and use a soundfont but it might sound wonky.
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