And I had an extremely good time with it. After playing some comedy adventure games where the main character is an evil dumbass, it was nice to play a general good guy heroman.

My question is: Does the game still rate? I remember for years seeing the game in magazines and I could only dream about what it was about. I'd see it in top 50, 20 and even top 10 adventure game lists.

I beat it without a guide which surprised me, because there's at least ONE puzzle in these fucking games that gets me. Does that mean the game is easy or easier than the average adventure game which is what makes people like it? Or do adventure game fans not like the more difficult and insane adventure games? For me, the game wasn't talky enough, as I love talky adventure games, but I could also see if somebody hates characters talking too much, that they'd prefer Full Throttle to other games.

For me, the game is just an interesting piece of history as it's the stepping stone to Grim Fandango, which I consider to be Tim Schafer's masterpiece. If you were there for it's original release, maybe it IS the best adventure game at the time. Hearing the earlier stuff by Peter Mcconnell and being able to pick up on a few cues he'd reuse for Grim Fandango was super cool, and Tim Schafer's writing/comedy chops which he'd refine for GF. For example, Grim Fandango is pretty great at closing character loops/arcs for even really minor characters. Whereas in Full Throttle, the reporter chick is just forgotten about and doesn't show up/do anything near the end, which a much better written game would have done, but the game feels hamstrung by Lucasarts giving it a low budget. Despite the really quality 2D animations in the cutscenes, there aren't a lot of characters in the game in general, and I love colorful characters in games that fill out game worlds.

>>714857116 (OP)
>cheevo contrarian at it again

>>714857697
Huh

>>714857116 (OP)
It's a good game but not as good as DOTT, the Two Monkey Islands or Sam and Max. I'd put it on the same level of Fate of Atlantis.
>Does that mean the game is easy or easier than the average adventure game which is what makes people like it?
Yeah it was, besides that stupid wall kicking puzzle, the game is very easy to figure out, which probably did add to it's popularity at the time.

As you said, I think this game kinda gets overshadowed by how good Grim Fandango is but it's still worth checking out if you're a fan of the genre.

>>714859561
After beating Full Throttle Remastered without a guide, Day of the Tentacle was kind of a kick in the teeth and I almost beat it without a guide. The part that tripped me up was the nametag and the mummy. I had two schools of thought: Either I had to use the humans in the prison or Laverne herself, and because of these two red herrings, I gotta say it's a poorly designed puzzle because I thought the mummy was a joke character that had no actual involvement in the game. (And maybe it's not even a poorly designed puzzle when you think about adventure games as a whole. It could've been worse.)

The ad flyer in the suggestion box is maybe my favorite puzzle in any adventure game ever and maybe one of the best jokes, especially when you don't know about the time travel

>>714859816
>mummy
Bernard's entire scenario revolves heavily around the mummy too, but I can see why someone might think he was purely a joke character.
It's weird for me to read this comparison because I always found DOTT really easy and Full Throttle was slightly more annoying to figure out (wall kicking, minefield, the section where you're having bike duels + find the hidden base).

>>714860170
Full Throttle, you're working with a limited amount of options. The minefield for example literally doesn't make sense unless you think outside the box.

DOTT has a lot of things to work with and the few odd infuriating things (the key in the door, which is a thing people used to do because I swear I've seen it happen in old movies, but I nearly exhausted all my options before I went "oh, the door...")

>>714860438
If you play the remaster with the commentary on, they talk about washing the cart in the past to make it rain and how people didn't get the joke about how it seems to always start raining on the day you decide to clean your car, so yeah some of the solutions would seem odd if you never encounter the gag surrounding it before.

Every time I get stuck in these I just ask chatgpt to give me a very vague hint