/vr/ - Retro Games

The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery

for me, its riven. theres nothing else like it

spyfox: dry cereal

>>8405975
>>8405992
>>8406054
all comfy games, thanks

I really enjoyed Broken Sword, and obviously Grim Fandango was nothing short of delightful.

>>8405931
Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, the list goes on

For me, it's Dracula series. Particularly the first 3.

thanks guys, i needed some reccs for this weekend

>>8406594
no problem, enjoy your weekend my fren

>>8405931
i fucking hate roy mccoy so much, he's such a dork and i really wish we could've played as anyone else
he's the one reason why i never finished this game

>>8405931
I don't care if it's the cliche answer, but Grim Fandango is probably my favorite, at least for traditional point n clicks.. It's what I think of when someone says "Point n Click". Considering how much I love Blade Runner I really should get around to playing the game one of these days.

>>8405992
Riven is so fucking good, one of the best puzzle games ever made. The way it forces you to study and understand a totally alien culture is still unparalleled. It seems a little strange to call it a point n click, but I guess it technically is.

Lost Eden cause muh nostalgia and overall style

>>8407447
kek, i dont remember him being that bad

>>8405931
There needs to be an absolutely massive open world for a BladeRunner MMO!

>>8409587
absolutely not
you'll just get a (somehow) worse Cyberpunk 2077

Anyone played this depressing thing?

>>8409865
I did without guide once, got the worse ending

>>8405931
Indiana Jones and the Fat of Atlantis, its so comfy.

I both loved and hated The Dig. It had beautiful visuals and atmosphere. Bunch of the puzzles were interesting but a few of them had problems. Story-wise, it felt strong at the start with good characterization and slowly unraveled into contrivance by the mid and endpoint.

Anons, is it sacrilegious to use a walkthrough when playing an old school adventure game?

>>8409865
isn't the worse ending also the way the story ends? The short story I mean, not the game

>>8410616
Use hint guides instead of walkthroughs. You can find a hint guide for almost every adventure game on this website.
https://www.uhs-hints.com/hints/

>>8405931
Snatcher
Dead of the Brain

>>8410616
The excting about playing jap adventures is they have no walkthrough.

>>8405931
All the Lucas Arts ones, especially Sam and Max and Full Throttle.

>>8409865
Yeah. Made me feel like shit after lol

I love Eastern Mind. Still my favorite point and clicker ever

>>8405931
Once again Japs can't stop winning

Honorable mention:
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, great blend of comedy, adventure, variety, and soul

>>8409865
Honestly it's terrible. Super obtuse, lazy gameplay, making you click everything then click everything again with each state change.

The good ending could have been cool if they had put a little more effort into presenting it. Was really rushed.

>>8410616
Ask yourself, how many people actually beat these games when they were new? I'm pretty sure 99.999% of customers enjoyed the art and dialogue, but were eventually stumped to the point of not playing anymore.

>>8411884
More people than you think. These games were sold new for $60 and most people back then only bought 2-3 games a year. PC gamers didn't have thousands of cheap and free games at their disposal like they do today. That's also why I find it ironic when zoomers complain about adventure game deaths and pixel hunting, because back then those things were considered features. Lucasarts's games were blasted hard by journalists for their casual difficulty and lack of deaths, and there seems to be a perception as well that they were on equal terms with Sierra, when in reality Sierra games typically sold at least 10x more.

>>8408923
technically it wasn't a point and click though, because the original had tank controls

>>8412119
this. i re-played MI2 recently and have no idea how I finished the game on hard difficulty as a child without a guide. it must have taken me weeks

>>8405931
I played Blade Runner for the first time earlier this year and loved it. The cherry on top is that they managed to get several actors from the movie to voice their characters in the game.

>>8407447
>he's such a dork and i really wish we could've played as anyone else
I thought this was an intentional trait of Blade Runners. They all seem to be misfits who manage to get by largely on luck (unless you're Holden). Deckard definitely wasn't portrayed as some kind of ace. He was pretty incompetent and nearly died at the hands of a replicant multiple times. In the game, they put him at the very bottom of the shooting range scoreboard.

>>8410637
yup its the same ending with the book if you go with the bad ending, honestly if you want the good ending youll need a guide since i remember it being moon logic level