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What are the best point and click games, especially for someone new to the genre? I've only played pic related

>> No.564925

Monkey Island Series
Sam & Max

>> No.564953

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Maniac Mansion
Leisure Suit Larry
Clock Tower
Full Throttle
Phantasmagoria
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

that's about it

>> No.564960

The Longest Journey

>> No.564963

Curse of Monkey Island, if you really want to cut your teeth. Then go back and play the first two, Secret first, then LeChuck's Revenge. Move on to Fate of Atlantis after that, Sam and Max, then play Grim Fandango, and finally finish off with some of the older games (Zak McKraken, Maniac Mansion, and Loom). I would not advise you to play Escape from Monkey Island, because it will only depress the fuck out of you because of how fucking terrible it is compared the the rest of the series.

Also take a look at some of the Sierra games. Start with King's Quest V and VI, and if you like them, move backwards to finish out the series. Also, I'd highly recommend trying out the first Gabriel Knight game, Sins of the Fathers. The second game in the series, The Beast Within is okay, but I wouldn't play it until you finish out some of the better known titles. GK3 is worth playing simply because it was fucking amazing from a technology standpoint at the time of its release.

>> No.565041

>>564887
come back after you've played the rest of the lucasarts adventure games

>> No.565084

Simon the Sorcerer
The Dig

>> No.565096

The first broken sword is ok.

>> No.565131

my only suggestion is don't shy away from sierra games due to their deaths and unwinnable scenarios
the space quest and king's quest games are among my favorite adventure games even to this day

>> No.565210

Deja vu 1&2 and shadowgate.

>> No.565246

Discworld 2
Escape from monkey island
bud tucker double trouble

>> No.565252

Beneath a Steel Sky

>> No.565256

Grim Fandango. Technically not point-and-click, but essentially the same shit.

>> No.565259

The Neverhood
Grim Fandango
The Longest Journey

>> No.565263
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565263

Any of the LucasArts games are god tier. My personal favourite is Full Throttle but The Dig and Curse of Monkey Island are very close.

>> No.565268
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565268

>>565263
I was thinking of getting the Polecat symbol in addition to my other tattoo. Pic related.

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565285

>>565268
I've been really considering a polecats tattoo myself actually. Or one of these bad boys

>> No.565347

These motherfuckers, right here. My first computer game when I was like 8 years old.

>"This don't look like the Lincoln Tunnel, Sam."
>"Looks to me like a marginally volatile hostage situation, Max."
>"Ooo! Does this mean we get to kick some puffy, white, mad scientist butt?!"
>"Can't think of a reason not to."

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565361

>>565347

Fuck me. Forgot the picture.

>> No.565365
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565365

Harvester is worth a run at least once. Even if you think it is god awful the insane style and dialog will keep you coming back for more.

>> No.565371

>>564887
already played the best one

>> No.565598
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565598

i'd start with the monkey island series, then the rest of the lucas arts games (first maniac mansion & zak mccracken indiana jones etc..), then the sierra games. there are certainly exceptions, but sierra & lucasarts made most of the good point & click games.

pic is one of my favorite jokes in the monkey island series, which you'll only get if you cut your teeth on sierra adventure games

>> No.565636

Journeyman Project is good.

MYST is pretty neat too.

>> No.565656

There are tons and tons i'd like to recommend but it's sleepytime.
Lucasarts and Sierra are names everyone knows and it's with good reason.
Outside of those there are great studios like Legend Entertainment, AdventureSoft, etc and lots of one-hit and one-series wonders from various companies.

Among those who've released adventure games in recent times Daedalic Entertainment really stands out in quality; Deponia 1&2, Dark Eye: Chains of Satinav, The Whispered World and A New Beginning are all worth checking out.

>> No.565670
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565670

If you'd like something a bit darker, give Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers a shot. Amazingly atmospheric point n' click. Great voice over work / soundtrack, excellent story.

I also highly recommend Blade Runner and Broken Sword

>> No.565689

>>565285
>That fucking bunny sequence
I love it

>> No.565696
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565696

Broken Sword 1-3.
The Longest Journey.
Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2.
Quest for Glory 1-5.
Tex Murphy 3-5.
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Rose Tattoo.
Zork series.
Sanitarium.
Gabriel Knight 1-3.
The Feeble Files.
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist.
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Leisuire Suit Larry 6-7.
King's Quest 6.
Space Quest series.
Most Lucasarts games. (Maniac Mansion, Zak Mckracken and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade can be skipped)

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565701

It's been said but +1 for Full Throttle.

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565716

>>565701
>TFW for the longest time you didn't realize Mark Hamill did voice acting for this game

>> No.565726

>>565701
Full Throttle is really a love it or hate it game.
With a few nasty pixel hunts like the secret entrance thrown in and counter-intuitive/red herring puzzles on top.
It's not really something i'd recommend as a first game.

>> No.565757

>>565636
second Journeyman game too, not sure why more people don't mention it, it's better and longer, the first game was pretty much just a teaser for it anyhow

>> No.565801

>>565696
>Broken Sword 1-3.
Oh I forgot.
Original NOT Director's Cut.
They completely ruined the art style and messed with the pacing for the worse.

>> No.565835 [DELETED] 

>Phantasmagoria
Terribad FMV. I do not see why there is the least bit of nostalgia for this title.
>I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Good luck getting through this misery touristfest without a walkthrough.
>Harvester
Just horribly bad all around dressed in "muh b-horror". I even remember how widely panned it was on release.

>> No.565862

>>565696
Is that the true ingame palette? Looks horribad.

>> No.565873

>>565862
It looks a bit saturated from that screen, BS1 looks pretty nice in play for the most part.

>> No.565901

>>565873
I'm talking about the dithering tecnique they used, with colors plasted all over the place. CMI did it better. But now you got me curious so I guess I'll finally play it.

>> No.565941

Be warned about the Sierra PnC games because they can be the most challenging especially when you can accidentally ruin the game for yourself. The Lucasarts ones tended to just be more fun while the Sierra ones tended to be more difficult.

The Quest for Glory series is pretty easy though since it's more combat oriented than the other games and more obvious when something is going to kill you for making the wrong move.

>> No.565987

>>565901
Remember Original. Director's Cut looks horrific and really shits up the early pacing with extremely easy "expanded" scenes.
GOG gives you both if you're going the legal way.

>> No.566057

>>565987
>implying that GoG games are always obtained legally
>laughingyoshis.jpg

>> No.566072

>>566057
I'm not sure if it was included in the Installer or under their Extras.

>> No.566074

>>565801
I can back this up. Director's Cut made the game look like a shitty shovelware game made from flash.

>> No.566119

>>565696
I've actually only played the first gabriel knight game, and even though I loved it I stayed away from 2 because it's listed as an "interactive movie" and 3 because I see it called bad almost everywhere I go... should I not have done this?

>> No.566129

If you're in more of an ambient reflective mood, go for Myst.
If you're into puzzles then go for The 7th Guest

>> No.566143

>>565696
>Zork series.
The text adventures are better frankly. And they provide the context. I'd recommend doing them in order, but I realize that doesn't really help OP.

>> No.566158

>>565246
Discworld Noir, man. That shit gives me feels I never knew I had.

>> No.566167

>>566129
Not op, but I could never get into the Myst series personally, the puzzles were just too frustratingly abstract, and everything felt like it was too convoluted on purpose, I never got why the series was so popular, but that's just me

>> No.566171

>>566167
I hope you feel comradeship, because I am radiating it at you as hard as I can

>> No.566172

>>566167
Graphics and atmosphere mostly.

>> No.566173

Grim Fandango has in my opinion the best characters out of all Lucasarts games, and the soundtrack and art direction are absolutely amazing as well. Play this game unless you hate yourself.

Curse of Money Island is much more wacky and difficult than GF, but probably a good place to get into the series. The old grogs raged over it having Disney-like graphics and just handwaving away a huge unresolved plot point from the second game. It's beautiful and a lot of fun, so fuck the neckbeards. Play Secret and LeChuck's Revenge after CoMI, then replay it on mega monkey difficulty for additional puzzles and references to the first games.

>> No.566180

>>566158
Discworld 1 + 2 are pretty good too though, but they are less dark and more cartoony

>> No.566181

>>566173
That fucking banjo scene.

>> No.566183

>>566167
I offered it as a laid back contemplative p&c. Frankly a lot of the ones in this thread are kind of fast-paced. Myst is good to relax and zone out with. The puzzles can be a little hard though. I guess it depends what you're hoping to get out of the game as to which is the best to cut your teeth on.

>> No.566202

>>566180
Yeah playing them in order is good. That's how I did it originally. I just really liked Noir. It was a good last game in the series for me. Did you realize that they'd released The Color of Magic for C64 and Speccy back in the day? I haven't played it yet, but I'm very curious.

>> No.566213

>>566183
I don't know... I'm a fan of the gabriel knight games and those sure weren't fast paced... but then again they were pretty much horror/suspense games... so that is pretty different I guess

>> No.566230

>>566213
Yeah horror/suspense isn't really the kind of laid back, contemplative, atmospheric mood I was talking about. It's hard to describe I guess.

>> No.566242

>>566181
Replayed the game on an Android tablet recently and kept hitting the wrong strings over and over due to touch input being shit, but it's a great scene. I still remember the shock when I finally figured out the solution on my first playthrough...

>> No.566246

>>566202
I saw it when I went to wiki to make sure I was thinking of the right game with Noir, lol, does look kinda interesting, but it's a text adventure game, which isn't for everyone
Also there is a discworld MUD that I guess is still active... but my experience with MUDs have never been that great so I don't know if I will check that out or not

>> No.566267

>>566246
>but it's a text adventure game, which isn't for everyone
It is for me, luckily. I love text adventures.
>discworld MUD
Good god that sounds dire to me. I'm not a multiplayer person at all. And I hate MMORPGs. MUDs are just as bad. Interesting concept, but I don't think I could ever play. Amazing it's still active.

>> No.566279

>>566246
I've got a friend who used to play that MUD and went to some offline meetups. After listening to his stories I wouldn't go anywhere near that.

>> No.566298

>>566267
Discworld MUD is the only MUD i've personally ever found good.

>> No.566319

>>566298
I will say it's the most interesting one I've heard of so far, but still I'm not interested...
And I can believe this>>566279

>> No.566394

>>566319
Probably. I mostly hung with a small crew of people and found it mechanically good with a good setting behind it. (and haven't played it in a few years)
The majority of players could quite possibly be ugh in real life and I wouldn't know.

>> No.566430

>>566279
could you tell us some of these "stories"
I tend to be skeptical when I read stuff like this on 4chan since there tends to, ironically, be a huge hate for ultra-nerdy groups for no reason what so ever on this site, like I have seen a lot of hate for the SCA just because of the way members look in pictures and it's one of the nicest groups I have ever been involved with

>> No.566508

>>566394
>The majority of players could quite possibly be ugh in real life
the thing is, I have always thought it is silly for people that go here of all places to judge others this way, I know for a fact that quite a lot of 4chan users are "ugh irl", the way 4chan users look down on other groups is pathetic really, mostly because they have absolutely no right to.

>>566473
what? are you stoned? was a troll attempt of some sort?

>> No.566801

>>566430
>SCA bros

Man, I know what you mean. I started chilling with those guys expecting weird, weird neckbeards and weeaboos. I got beaten near to death by some of the buffest guys I've ever met on the field, then afterwards I got blind drunk with some Vikings in a tent and woke up eighteen hours later on a table.

VIKINGS 4 LYFE

>> No.567569

Well, point-and-clicks are my favorite genre, and in the long run you should try exploring and finding out what you like best on your own, but I believe that there are a couple subsets of the genre:
>Fantasy
>Horror
>Comedy
Most of the games made are one of those three, so whichever you are the most interested in, I would try.

Also, Full Throttle is the first adventure game I recommend to friends; the story isn't too much of any one thing, and it's pretty easy.

>> No.567606

>>566119
Even though I'm a sucker for FMV games, The Beast Within is inarguably a great game, and I've never really heard anybody bash it even though it is an FMV. I haven't played 3 yet, but 2 is great.

>> No.567616

Kings quest 6 is probably my favorite point and click of all time. so many great memories.

Quest for glory 1 through 4 are outstanding too

>> No.567853

>>565285
That's exactly what I meant. That polecat tattoo. Thanks for getting that picture, saving for tattoo purposes.

>> No.567912

Sanitarium

>> No.568563

Out of curiosity, what are the best ones in the horror sub-genre?

Just coming off of Silent Hill, System Shock 2, and IHNMAIMS.

>> No.568765

>>568563
I like Darkseed, and there's a new one coming out called Wretcher that looks p. good.

>> No.571939

Lucasarts games are the best but among Sierra games I'd also recommend Space Quest 5, Gabriel Knight and Leisure Suit Larry 7.