What's your favorite point-and-click adventure game? Mine's pic related.

>>11851883 (OP)
Lost Eden

The first Pajama Sam.

>>11851883 (OP)
nothing beats the classic

>>11851941
this and Longest Journey are my favorites that I've played. I will say the LucasArts adventure games always have several ridiculously obscure puzzle solutions. I don't usually have much trouble with other adventure games but those always make me feel like an idiot.

My favourite point and click and the finest Robin Hood game ever made

>>11851883 (OP)
Charming and funny.

>>11851883 (OP)
It's that! Love Inherit the Earth, and I'm not even a furry. The game has some gorgeous artwork and a great sense of atmosphere. I think the plot is really cool, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0u8b4LMIGY

>>11852064
>Robin the Legend of Hood

full throttle was the absolute best.

>>11851883 (OP)
I think I'm gonna give this game a go.
Hope I won't have to upset Rif, as per the included manual.

Space Quest IV

>>11852059
I thought the sequel, Dreamfall, was a massive downgrade, but it looks like it got mostly positive reviews at the time.

>>11852347
Man, that review didn't even get to the truly shit parts like the dog castle.
Seriously, I have no idea what they were thinking with all those needlessly large maps (where you even have to pixelbitch for items), boring mazes and gazillion empty houses that you can enter for no reason.
Best part was probably the final stretch with the human derelicts but it's painfully obvious that it was kinda rushed.

>>11851883 (OP)
Surprised no one else chose this one yet, since I thought it was the best for its relaxed pace and minigames. Inherit the Earth has such interesting lore and premise that I wonder why there weren't more in a series.

Currently playing this shit. It's so cute, Earthbound-obsessed indie devs better take notes.

>>11852425
Not that anon but I have to say I was dumbfounded when at the start of Dreamfall I went to the menu to check key-bindings and I found controls for stealth and combat. I'm the kind of guy who find action-oriented gameplay in point'n'click games blasphemous, but it's also telling about the direction devs took with the game.

>>11851883 (OP)
I always thought they'd make a sequel.
Wish they had, always felt that there was so much kino lore or backstory to be told in a sequel.
Plus the colour palette and gothic/grim setting was cool. I wish parts of the game were more fleshed out.

>>11852524
I just got through the dog castle last night, and while I wouldn't call it shit I agree it wasn't particularly good. Also I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thought the ferret village was way too big. Felt like I wandered around for 10 minutes just checking everything, only to find that the three relevant doors in the whole town are basically on the same screen.
That said, I'm enjoying it so far. The biggest hurdle was learning that the GOG port is uncharacteristically sluggish and playing through ScummVM is the only way to go.

For me it's a dead heat between Discworld II and Day of the Tentacle. I think it's mainly due to when I played them - but they're both fantastic games.

>>11851941
I love it - but it's not point and click man, not until they remade it (and it's better for it in my view).

>>11852225
I have a real soft spot for Full Throttle - I think that style of menu (holding down the cursor, also as used in COMI) is one of the better ones.

Bit of an obscure one, but it stuck with me because it was one of the first ones I had of that genre and played it to death.

It's a bitch to get Soundblaster working though, especially with MiDi. But the game had no voiceacting even if you did, it was just used for occasional sound effects. (Apparently something about the version of the audio driver they included was extremely picky. I wish this was supposed in ScummVM)

It's sequel was a lot easier to get that stuff working and had voiceacting on the CD version.

>>11852091
>of the Conquest Longbow

I guess that's where the Hood is?

>>11852059
Was the underwater chapter hit with massive content cut or what? The whole mermaids' city is just a throne room with only a queen (who isn't quite a queen), a throne I'm pretty sure she can't even sit on and a legendary spear resting over wall like a spare broom.

Man, I like point'n'click games but I have a really bad tendencies to drop them in the middle of playthought. Should really work on my backlog.

Phantasmagoria 2.

Quest for Glory 4 - atmosphere for days, but it needs to be the CD version for the John Rhys-Davies narration, which he hated (he had to narrate EVERY piece of text)

>>11853610
Finished.
It was fine. The story was interesting enough, the characters were memorable, and the voice acting was surprisingly well done. The puzzles never felt like the logical leaps that people tend to expect in the genre. I could see myself getting into it as a kid.
The ending was obviously cut short, with the final area dropping the Wolf/Boar alliance plotline basically immediately. Despite being built up as a perhaps THE most significant threat the whole game, we're warned one final time while sailing to the north island and then nobody ever talks about it again. I'm willing to believe that the Orb being lost was the original plan, since the learned lesson fits well enough with everything else in the story, but the ending was very abrupt which makes me think they ran out of funds and had to rush to that conclusion. Plus half of the Human Ruins goes unused, so I'm sure the Lab was meant to play some role.

But hey, wolf tits. So I can't be too upset.

Discworld!

>>11851927
Checked

>>11851883 (OP)
At present it's Loom and Death Gate. I'm a sucker for magic puzzles.

>>11855153
You didn't lurk long enough before posting.

>>11852059
I tried to get into this game multiple times and I always lose interest around when your cool wine aunt landlord gives a 45 minute exposition dump on her old hag lesbian lovelife

None

>>11851919
Absolutely based

Knew about that game for a while but didn't remember it until now. Maybe I should finally play it.
Have the clearly worse Japanese cover.

>>11853289
That's a brutal cover art.

>>11860872
>make it cutesy for the japanese
Kek

>>11852059
Still my favorite adventure game of all time and I played all the classics and then some.

>>11855161
You should play Hand of Fate, it has a potion brewing system and is one of the most charming adventure games out there, the Legend of Kyrandia games are often overlooked.

>>11854171
>The puzzles never felt like the logical leaps that people tend to expect in the genre.
People tend to say that a lot when they play a P&C for the first time, which isn't King's Quest.

>>11861159
To be fair it's equally as stupid as when they made cutesy stuff look more menacing in the US

>>11857645
same until I started taking e
still not finished the game though im burned out on it way later in

>>11851883 (OP)
Machinarium

The Journeyman Project: Turbo. Did pre-rendered backgrounds and first person perspective before Myst made it cool. The puzzles aren't moon logic either, they just involve being able to follow simple logic and reasoning and smart use of the items you find. If anything, the only really hard part of the game is trying to work the controls of the missile launch computer, or grabbing all the chips you want from a robot before it vaporizes. I think there's one puzzle where the 'pacifist' solution is actually a bit more violent than the regular solution, so getting a perfect pacifist run might trip you up, but it's otherwise relatively easy for a graphical adventure game. Decent plot and music along with some early FMV's that weren't terrible.
I have no idea why the sequel became better known, I thought it was a massive downgrade chock full of "how the fuck was I supposed to figure THAT out?" moments.

>>11861528
I remember that being one of the many CDs that came with my old computer years ago, never got far past what was practically a tutorial. I was probably too young for that kind of game, I remember going to prehistoric times to retrieve a database disk and using it to find what events in the past had been altered, then having three areas to go to, but each area as soon as you entered you was apparently handicapped somehow (I recall in one of them a robot shoots you with a tranquillizer) and I got discouraged that I was screwing up or would not be able to beat it, never eventually went back even though I wanted to.

Though one interesting thing I did find out as I was just rummaging around the files on the disk is that the game is made up of FMVs, no really, the entirety of the game. All the backgrounds were not still images, but frames in a quicktime .mov file. There were quicktime files where each second is a different wall or angle from every possible angle in a specific area, files of you opening/closing that drawer you installed chips in of every possible amount of chips that could be in it, etc. Every still scene or background shown in the game was it just pausing a quicktime video at a specific frame. Kind of insane they made a game that was entirely made up of video files like that. (I wonder if the original non-turbo version was also like that, supposedly Turbo loads much faster than the original).

Never played the sequel, but one of my disks (or possibly that same one) had a "demo" for it, though it was really more of a trailer, not a demo, you couldn't do anything in it. It also oddly very picky about running properly.

what was Sierra's fucking problem?

>>11862497
>Kind of insane they made a game that was entirely made up of video files like that. (I wonder if the original non-turbo version was also like that, supposedly Turbo loads much faster than the original).
Instead of Quicktime, the original relied on Macromedia Director, which was called MacroMind Director at the time. The format used was .MMM files, which I don't think can be played by any modern video player.

>>11862843
Nothing. They made games for a different generation of people who would play these games on and off in between work or various other games/hobbies and not freak out and have a 'tism fit if they got a game over. Sierra and Infocom were considered kings of the genre in their time.

>>11862843
They were always chasing the next trend, King's Quest VI (I'd allow KQIII as well) is the only good adventure they ever made and that's mostly because of Jane Jensen.

>>11862865
Were there any players even back then that could play it? I had never heard of that format, and I remember .rm and .viv

>>11863281
you're really gonna diss my boi king's quest v like that

>>11863389
King's Quest V commits one adventure game sin after another another. In my honest opinion it's the worst King's Quest game after VIII.

curse of monkey island. one of the most beautiful games ever made.

>>11852085
Speaking of artwork, here's a full-res version of that pic.
I had a lol finding this on e621 and only seeing 8 results

>>11863872
>>11851883 (OP)
And I might as well post the clean version of the cover art too.

>>11863994
Fucking hell, I never noticed the clouds.

>>11851883 (OP)
Wasn't this game bought back by one of the original developers with the intention of making a sequel after re-releasing it? I think there was even some kind of web comic.

>>11864279
Yeah, the publishers of the game made an official continuation webcomic that was started in 2005 and has been updating since
https://inherittheearth.net/archives.php
It also looks like they were trying to make a sequel game but updates stoped in 2019

just a furry footnote now.
was this the first "furry" game?

>>11865969
Probably impossible to agree upon, I can see that people would be arguing that which old game would genuinely count as "furry" or just simply having animal characters that's more in line with just things like Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse.

>>11866851
well, i definitely don't mean a Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse or Woody Woodpecker game. i don't mean a mascot or a toon. i mean what, even at the time, would be a definite nod to the subculture we now know as "furry."
the only other game that comes to mind is interactive fiction.