/vr/ - Retro Games

>>617975

LucasArts adventure games are usually pretty straightforward. Loom, Monkey Island 1 & 2, The Fate of Atlantis, Full Throttle, The Dig...

This was your first adventure game ever? Well, as a rule of thumb I'll tell you to stay away from Sierra stuff. Gabriel Knight 1 might be one of the easiest Sierra games because absurd puzzles aside, you almost cant die, except on some specific more "action" oriented scenes, but those are few. You should start with Lucas Arts stuff (Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc).

>>618024
MI games have plenty of non-straightforward puzzles, don't they? (Like the metronome one in MI2)
You can't go wrong with LucasArts games anyway, OP.

>>618042

The second does, a little bit. The first one is like Adventure Gaming 101.

>>618042

Kinda, but LA games have usually a good learning curve, so they wont throw you impossible puzzles with huge areas to explore. The games have a logic progression.

>>618024

>>618024

Yeah, but Monkey Island 1 was developed as an entry level adventure game. Like you could not even die in it.

Other than drowning after staying under water for half an hour, that is.

>>618084

Gabriel Knight 2 is way easier.

You should get used to not using a walkthrough though. Just be systematic about trying things out and experimenting. Starting the game over sometimes helps you get new ideas too.

>inb4 Gabriel Knight 3 bullshit.

>>618104

Man, I really miss those kind of graphics in games. Look at this modern garbage!

>>618035

Nah this wasn't my first adventure game ever. I played Grim Fandango a few years back but I only got half way through it. I also played Monkey island 3 & 4 as a kid though both of those I barely got far with.

>>618112
>Just be systematic about trying things out and experimenting

Oh right, just like I'm expected to waste hours messing around with Gabe's grandads clock? Or how I'm supposed to know what to put on the voodoo queen's tomb?

>mfw the ending to the tomb message you're supposed to write is literally gibberish

Unless it's something significant that I missed? (I doubt)

>>618130
I tried to play the Telltale MIs last week
>mfw

>>618024
I think that's why I never cared for the LucasArts games, despite all the love they get I always found them kinda boring and too easy

>>618121

You mean like this? http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

>>618035
>Well, as a rule of thumb I'll tell you to stay away from Sierra stuff
>can't tell if trolling

>>618145
>Oh right, just like I'm expected to waste hours messing around with Gabe's grandads clock?
There's a clue in a journal you find. The last part of the message was mentioned in the university lecture. You'd get all this if you weren't impatient and didn't rely on the walkthrough.

>>618145
>Or how I'm supposed to know what to put on the voodoo queen's tomb?
doesn't the game pretty much out and out tell you at one point?

>>618156
>There's a clue in a journal you find.
It's also in one of his grandads poems in a book in the shop.

>>618163

Yes, but that's in german IIRC.

>>617975
You can't go wrong with Broken Sword.

>>618156

I suck at these games though but alas I find them hella fun. I spent about 3 days (real time) on the first day. This is definitely too hard for me. Trust me when I say I'd never think to look back over the lecture on the tape recorder. Also, I don't look at the walkthrough unless I've exhausted eery idea I have to try and progress.

>>618169

If you need clues you can always rely on UHS.

>>618168
Yeah, Broken sword is basically GK lite and the first one is a solid game. Beneath a Steel Sky is maybe a touch more difficult but still easy.

>>618189
UHS?

>>618232
Universal Hint System

>>618250
Ah thanks for this.

I'm like the opposite of this thread. Lucasarts games make my brain hurt, while I'm able to coast through most Sierra games painlessly (dead ends/pixel hunts notwithstanding), especially GK1. It's weird how that works. I guess it's because graphic adventure game puzzles are so abstract that it takes a little imagination to complete them, and everyone's imagination is different.

We were smart back then

>>618168
>You can't go wrong with Broken Sword.
Well unless he gets Director's Cut instead of the Original.

>>618505
The one on the Wii? What's so bad about it?

>>618531
Butchered the Intro, Pacing and Graphics.
They got some shit artist to draw over the original art and added a bunch of extremely easy puzzle scenes that pad out the game in a really bad way and destroy one of the more memorable opening scenes of a game I can remember. Most BS fans agree that the Director's Cuts are inferior.
It's for PC as well though so beware what you get. GOG gives you both versions though.

Pic related is the pig disgusting revamped portraits.