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Does anyone else miss this genre? Can anyone recommend some decent modern ones if they exist. The last great point and click I played was The Longest Journey and I haven't tried the sequel yet.

One series I enjoyed was the first two Gabriel Knight games, but the much delayed third game was more or less outdated by the time it came out.

Another good series was the Broken Sword games, but I really disliked Sleeping Dragon. In my opinion the game had been reduced to box shifting, reaction based puzzles and other elements, some of which were very awkward with the strange camera angles.

Are the 'newer' 3D Broken Sword games any good? I've heard mixed things about them.

And before Spanky gets here, separate Lucasarts/Sierra 'adventure' games from Myst-style 'postcard' games. We're talking about stories, not a game you can play by looking at five random images and making up a story to connect them.

Oh I'm not keen on the Myst style games, though I didn't mind the Syberia ones.

I'm more into the traditional type of adventures. Broken Sword:Sleeping Dragon was, at least in my opinion, not nearly as good as the other two. It turned it into box shifting, hiding in shadows, and having to press the right key at a certain time. It was closer to Fahrenheit (though not as good) in style as it was to something like Broken Sword 1.

I enjoyed Fahrenheit, but the trial-and-error nature of some of the puzzles was pretty lame. The '50s parts were just horrible, but the opening with the flexible crimescene was excellent.

Have you tried the fourth Monkey Island game, Escape from Monkey Island?

I've played all the Monkey Island games and thought it wasn't too bad. Regarding Fahrenheit I'm at the airbase now, and have given up in frustration.

Okay, adventures that I've tried (that I can remember)

Gabriel Knight 1,2 and 3
Broken Sword 1,2 and 3
Monkey Island 1,2,3 and 4
Day of the Tentacle
Maniac Mansion
Police Quest 1 and 4
Leisure Suit Larry 1,2,3,6,7
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Serrated Scalpel. An EA game made round about the time of Day of the Tentacle.
Sherlock Holmes and the Rose Tattoo. Sequel to the above. Both Holmes games were good for their time.
A Moment of Silence
The Longest Journey (EXCELLENT game)
Beneath a Steel Sky
Full Throttle
The Dig
Blade Runner
Syberia 1 and 2

There's probably more, but that's what I remember off hand

The only game of the genre I really got into was the first Myst game. What I liked about that game is that it was possible to beat the game in five minutes if you knew all the puzzles beforehand, because everything was just to give you the solution to a puzzle that was on the island from the beginning.

We're really, really not talking about Myst-style games. Let's face it: Myst and all it's disgusting ilk suck sheep cock for money. Next we'll have all the Seventh Guest fans in here...

I know the first episode of the new Sam & Max game is due out fairly soon, and the recently announced Penny Arcade game is going to be a graphical adventure as well...

Two of my favorite Point and Click games are Grim Fandango, and The 7th Guest.

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Stark wrote:And before Spanky gets here, separate Lucasarts/Sierra 'adventure' games from Myst-style 'postcard' games. We're talking about stories, not a game you can play by looking at five random images and making up a story to connect them.

Well duh, the Myst series are puzzle games.

Don't know how point-n-click they are, but the old King's Quest and Space Quest games were great.

Edi

Oh, I forgot Sam and Max and Grim Fandango as well as Loom.

The Syberia games seem to be a sort of halfway between the traditional point and click and the Myst style games. There's a lot of puzzles in them, moreso in Syberia 2.

Jade Falcon wrote:Oh, I forgot Sam and Max and Grim Fandango as well as Loom.

The Syberia games seem to be a sort of halfway between the traditional point and click and the Myst style games. There's a lot of puzzles in them, moreso in Syberia 2.

There's a plentitude of free games created with Adventure Game Studio; most of these are of the point n' click variety, that being the default configuration of AGS. Of the games there, I would recommend Five Days a Stranger. Its sequel, Seven Days a Skeptic, is technically more well-crafted but doesn't quite have the same atmosphere to it.

Edi wrote:Don't know how point-n-click they are, but the old King's Quest and Space Quest games were great.

Edi

I remember those. It was espeically fun in SQ1 to make Roger Wilco look utterly drunk by holding down your arrow key.

I love the Quest for Glory games, and I still boot them up to play every now and again. I never did get QFG V, sadly.