Thread 12114067

Does /vr/ like point and click adventure games?

>>12114067 (OP)
too slow with cumbersome ui interfaces
text adventure > graphic adventure

I love them, but /vr/ seems to found them too hard

>>12114067 (OP)
/vr/ is not one person.

>>12114067 (OP)
Of course
>reforged
Not this though.
Although I don't keep up with the genre anymore, I'm aware it's still very much alive and kicking.

>>12114110
No, it's a lovely amalgamation of schizophrenic retards

>>12114276
bit rude

>>12114095
>too slow
Lucas Arts' were particularly bad in that regard. I recently played Day of the Tentacle for the first time and the puzzles were pretty good but the slow walking and repeated backtracking to the toilet got old fast.

>>12114354
You don't need to go to the toilet, just "give" someone the object

>>12114239
>it's still very much alive and kicking
Yes sir

>>12114360
Seriously? Fucking hell now I feel stupid.

King's Quest

>>12114067 (OP)
They're were always super comfy, relaxing and probably the first games to incorporate full voice acting which was a big deal at the time. I loved them. Had to look up guides a lot though.

>>12114067 (OP)
I love them, especially Sierra titles, but most of 4chan seems to think they're too difficult and blame the game

James you whore Mary isn't even dead yet

>>12114276
Why cat not in oven?

>>12114360
I know this is a feature in the recent releases, but I don't remember this being possible in the original DOS game. Maybe it was and I just didn't know it.
To my kid self these were the closest thing to an open world game I had ever played, where you could explore the "world" back and forth as much as you wanted with relative freedom, so I didn't mind things like that.
I would probably be annoyed by it now though.

>>12114067 (OP)
I like them, there are occasionally threads about them from time to time. My faves are a fairly dead heat between DOTT, COMI, Toonstruck and Discworld 2.

>>12114379
>>12114354
It's in the manual, which if you've played a downloaded version you probably won't have read. One of the problems with playing old games without all the box goodies.

Also - in most Lucasarts games, double clicking or right clicking on a doorway usually takes you straight through - though I can't recall if that's the case for DOTT.

>>12114067 (OP)
I liked this one.

I like some of them.

>>12114495
>It's in the manual
Yeah I usually make sure to read it, like with KQ6 it was essential because of the clues. But for some reason I just skimmed the DOTT manual so that's what I get I guess.

>clicking on a doorway usually takes you straight through - though I can't recall if that's the case for DOTT.
I just tried it and it didn't work for DOTT. Not for Fate Of Atlantis either. You can skip dialogues though.

Speaking of backtracking in adventure games.

>2001
>You have a thing to check out and want to cross several screens via some double-left-button-clicking?
>Ha-ha! Fuck you!

Wonder if they fixed it in the remasters.

>>12114562
I never finished this game, but I remember reading game magazines in my country spread the rumor that this was going to be Monkey Island 3 (COMI hadn't been announced yet), based purely on how the protagonist looked. They thought he was Guybrush. Fun times.

Sierra's games are fucking awful, lesire suit larfy is for fags anyway
Honk if you love pussy!

>>12114067 (OP)
>point and click
Call me a casual faggot but I VASTLY prefer the GBA version and BS3 because they have direct controls. Makes the games a lot more enjoyable. I also like just reading without the voice acting, but I know that's just me.
Like all genres, adventure games can range from great to awful. Broken Sword was one of the greats to me. I never really cared for le epic random humor stuff like Monkey Island, though it plays well for what it is.

as a kid I used to think I was stupid for struggling to solve puzzles in these games. Then I learned developers made them cryptic on purpose so that people pay extra money on helplines and walkthroughs. I despised them ever since.

>>12114067 (OP)
This looks surprisingly soulful

>>12114487
Because cat not jew

>>12114493
It's possible, I have been playing the original every christmas since '14

>>12114712
>Then I learned developers made them cryptic on purpose so that people pay extra money on helplines and walkthroughs.
This is a lie, literally every person that worked in adventure games at the time has said that it's false. It's just a cope.

what am i in for, /vr/?

>>12114834
I have never played it, but people say it's funny

ULTRAVIOLENCE

>>12114067 (OP)
I just started this yesterday, it seems interesting 20 minutes in.

>>12114067 (OP)
Yeah I dig em but I don't think I ever actually beat one besides Monkey Island

I like them but not being interested in the game's story is a dead end for me a lot of the time. It really needs to click for me to be willing to make the reading time investment.

I hereby recommend this golden age adventure game by my beloved countrymen

>>12114067 (OP)
I like yu-no

>>12114067 (OP)
Gaming at its comfiest

>>12116538
Despite their obvious limitations, I have a soft spot for the the FMV variety.

>>12114861
what game?

>>12114067 (OP)
Oddly enough, they were the only genre of games to make me actually feel immersed in the game world. I honestly think the sometimes obtuse puzzles helped in that regard, gave me so much more time to take in the atmosphere.
They're a bit hard to get full enjoyment out of in the smartphone era where everything's trying to grab your attention in exchange for a measly amount of dopamine.

Gonna dig into this game called AleX-WORLD soon. Played 30 minutes or so of it and was really intrigued. Doesn't seem like "le hidden gem" in need of translation or anything, but I'm a sucker for trippy visuals and 90s visions of bleak futures. Also will be good non-VN/anime language practice.

>>12114678
Love for Sail is good thoughbeitstd've

>>12116620
U.F.O.s

>>12114834
>Blazing Dragons
>Duckman
>Beavis and Butt-head Do U
The devs kept climbing the cartoon adaptation point-and-click ladder towards more and more recognizable IPs.

The lucasarts adventure pack is really cheap right now gamebillet btw

https://www.gamebillet.com/lucasarts-adventure-pack

>>12116629
Don't feed the troll

>>12116670
No one pays for adventure games

>>12116696
I could see that. I just posted in case anyone's interested in collecting on steam

For me, it's the Runaway trilogy

>>12114067 (OP)
Absolutely

>>12114095
Faggot

>>12116591
I have Pandora Directive sitting in my backlog, I need to play it.

I like newer ones more than retro ones. Hob's Barrow was very good.

>>12116782
I only played the first two and I heard the third one goes in some weird/edgy direction?

>>12114067 (OP)
>possibly the only game that be considered a point and click, puzzle game, and stealth gamd all in one

>>12117039
fug

>>12116789
Just "cheat"

>>12116782
I'd say if anything it's more grounded than 2 which had aliens and an entire chapter where you're a historical pirate which ends with your beheading. There's a bit more direct murder, but I'd say it's no worse than the hitmen from 1 killing that one museum janitor at the end of the second chapter and showing some blood.

>>12117131
Meant for >>12117031

>>12114095
which ones?

>>12116620
not really, just an interactive movie.

>>12114067 (OP)
I like them in theory but I get bored usually

>>12116696
You WILL buy Hodj 'n' Podj when it gets re-released soon on ZOOM Platform.

>>12114095
there's nothing more cumbersome than reading and typing text for every single thing you want to do

>>12118334
what?

I love point'n'clicks. What I really like about the genre is you never know what you're gonna get. Gameplay loops across most genres stay the same but in point'n'clicks, the puzzles depend completely on the setting which can make for completely unique scenarios not seen in other games. I like the more weird and obscure ones. There's some amazing flash ones.
Some of my favorites are Eastern Mind, Mata Nui Online Game, Tony Tough, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

>>12118635
what? I remember reviewers were disappointed there was so little game in this game and having watched the playthrough on youtube I absoutely understand why. For the love of god, the video is 40 minutes long and 20 minutes of that is padded with two shitty minigames.

>>12118720
We are talking about point-and-clicks in this thread, and the term "interactive movie" has a distinct meaning in this context to call stuff like Tender Loving Care and other FMV experiments. Short games deserve respect.

>>12114067 (OP)
This one is fun, but has a lot of pointless conversations to plow through. Also the MC is insufferable.

>>12116075
This right here is the GOAT. The ending left me a little disappointed the first time around. I thought I had gotten a "bad ending" and backtracked for about 2 hours to make sure I didn't miss anything. Kinda felt like they ran out of budget or ideas.

>>12114861
so, did he fuck the platypus in the end or what

I didn't hate Broken Sword 3. Nico a qt.

>>12114636
I've always heard about these games, I need to try them out one of these days. They look comfy.

Scooby-Doo Mystery on the Genesis was a really good attempt at doing a console adaptation of the genre.

if ye're looking for an easy one I recommend Deathgate
It's easy, not too long and pretty good

>>12118914
As a bit of advice; one and two are essentially two halves of the same game. So if you play the first bear in mind you'll want the second on hand to directly continue the narrative.

The artwork of point and click games is so evocative in a lot of games. The environments of ones like Discworld and Syberia create an atmosphere that the text and story alone cannot convey.

>>12118643
playing a point and click really puts into perspective how much of your brain is neglected by the typical action game with shallow at best adventure elements. not that those games are bad there's just an entire plane of engagement that barely gets touched, using your brain and thinking is actually fun.

I always liked the art style of detailed 2D graphics and the chill tempo of figuring out what to do next, step by step. And these games were very much about story. They were definitely one of my favourite types back when I was a kid. I could name a couple handfuls of titles thinking about which makes me want to replay.

They're a bit of a bygone era now. Everything is all multi-genre, action-adventure with RPG and crafting elements stuff. Point & click games were pure story + puzzles.

>>12114067 (OP)
>Does /vr/ like point and click adventure games?
Lost eden, the dig are worth a look and of course myst and monkey island also try discworld if you like terry pratchet(and if you don;t what's wrong with you?)

>>12121380
Natural eveolution from the wonderful era of text adventures innit? In between there were keybote games like the Hobbit from melboune house and level 9 games that added a graphic, then it becomes the graphic only with point and click replacing the text interface.

>>12121380
>Everything is all multi-genre, action-adventure with RPG and crafting elements stuff. Point & click games were pure story + puzzles.
That's not necessarily true... some of the LucasArts and Dynamix adventures had action sequences. Whether these were good additions to the games was controversial, even back then.

>>12121687
Even when doing the wits path in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis you still had to do some of the action/stealth mini games, I guess to make it feel more like an Indy movie.

There were a couple RPG/adventure hybrid games too, like Quest for Glory, Superhero League of Hoboken and B.A.T. etc.

>>12121176
>using your brain and thinking is actually fun.

>>12121949
This I only speedrun mario a game originally marketed at pre pubsecent children and I am respected by my peers for that. I have completed mario brothers over 10000 times taking breaks only to play zelda, which for me is a semi religious experience as I think about links short little smooth bare legs and short tunic. I don't thuink at all when I speedrun I just stare at the wall and press the colntrolled buttons while I make bing sounds. Peak comfy

I always loved adventure movies. Setting out to some exotic place, solving mystering, unearthing secrets and defeating bad guys. Point & click adventures games are just that in video game form. Minus the usual action element.
If I made a list of the favourite games I played there would bea bunch of them on it. They're just super comfy.

i dont like very cryptic stuff. i played sanitarium for this months spook factor

I feel absolutely zero guilt in using a guide for these games. I'm basically there for everything BUT the actual gameplay.

>>12123128
while using a guide is understandable I think people can take for granted how many adventure games they're actually going to be interested in playing are out there. if you've got one that's really caught your eye it might not be such a bad thing to be stuck in it for awhile.

>>12123167
I need to use my brain, then. No thanks.

>>12114834
the voices of terry jones and cheech marin

>>12123167
>I think people can take for granted how many adventure games they're actually going to be interested in playing are out there.
This. Nowadays I enjoy the puzzle solving just as much as the story and atmosphere and regret using a guide on some of the best games the genre had to offer back when I was too stupid to care. Wish there was a feature in ScummVM where you could cheat your way through the puzzles of some games without seeing the puzzle solutions desu, so people don't have to waste the puzzles just to get through the game.

Has anyone played this 2003 indie adventure with a really bold title?

>>12114067 (OP)
yes and i love puzzles and i do not spend enough time on them

>>12116696
wrong

>>12122142
Jack Orlando?
get the hell out of here jack

>>12123378
you problem
my brain auto-deletes all puzzle memory after 10 years at the latest

>>12114067 (OP)
nar ois march paffurs me guddol pikken flik abbentahs loik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyAXJYIDug

>>12123531
10 years is too little for me. I still remember half the puzzles and the ones I forget are mostly the easy ones.

>>12123623
The more stupid the puzzle the more likely you are to remember it so your brain can troll you with it a decade later and enrage you all over again.

I saw Roberta Williams at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday.

>>12124478
Did you suck her feet?

is this genre dead? they seem cheap to make but I don't remember any good indie adventure games

>>12124676
It's obscure but alive. There are indie titles like The Drifter and Quest for Infamy you can check out

>>12118917
I hope somebody makes a pc version

>>12121629
>and if you don;t what's wrong with you?
Overrated as hell

>>12123524
>Paying for 30 years old games

>>12124761
>paying for games

>>12124676
Yes, DS was the last time the genere had some life.

>>12124775
>Playing games that aren't 30 years old

>>12121953
I was more-so making fun of the statement, and how pandering towards the "dumb crowd" it is, but okay.

i like grim fandango

man I enjoy them but I'm so shit at them. their logic is never really something I can guess. and after I get stuck roaming the same few screens for a while I just give up and find a walk through. The stuff I remember liking most are just Space Quest and Sam and Max.

>>12124941
probably my least favorite LucasArts adventure
it's too much cluelessly and thanks to the 3d engine clunkily walking around the same screens until i can figure out what to do
still a very good game

>>12125080
>just give up and find a walk through
Not really unique for adventure games, honestly...

>>12114067 (OP)
I have a really bad association with these old adventure titles. My dad had a family friend we'd go visit every summer and he had a PC down in the basement where I'd play adventure games. It smelled like cat piss and mildew, had rugs hung on the walls and all these shitty paintings that looked like Patrick Nagel girls painted by a retard. He looked like Dr. Katz and the rest of his house was sterile and depressing. I've never been able to shake the association of 90s point and clicks with that guy's unsettling home.

>>12124941
Glottis was a true bro I wanna fuck Meche and the metal detector lady from Year 2

>>12124676
the genre is not mainstream anymore (which is for the better imo) but it's very much alive. idk what other are talking about. there's entire yt channels dedicated to current point n click trailers.
https://www.youtube.com/@Przygodoskop/videos
i could some good ones that just came out, but i'm not sure if anyone is actually interested or you're just jerking off to nostalgia