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PleasingFungus: Oct 10, 2012; idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

Werthog 95 posted:

can we all just agree that the longest journey was pretty much the best

no it was loving terrible

I mean it had some good ideas and I've got lingering nostalgia for it but my god, some of those puzzles...

even the creator is ashamed of its design, iirc.

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PleasingFungus: Oct 10, 2012; idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

ps riven forever.

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:07

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

Werthog 95 posted:

can we all just agree that the neverhood was pretty much the best

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:08

Cocoa Crispies: Jul 20, 2001; Vehicular Manslaughter!; Pillbug

Werthog 95 posted:

can we all just agree that the longest journey was pretty much the best

neverhood was way too good

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:09

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

well if u like riven apparently some dudes are making a 3d version a la realmyst http://www.starryexpanse.com/

it's like two guys so maybe just check back in a decade

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:09

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

Cocoa Crispies posted:

neverhood was way too good

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:10

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

oh great another good old adventure game i missed out on

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:13

Proteus4994: Jan 2, 2001; Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

can we all just agree that every sierra adventure game was complete garbage?

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:14

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

Proteus4994 posted:

can we all just agree that every sierra adventure game was complete garbage?

i heard that space quest iv and king's quest vi were actually good, also they published rise of the dragon which is the best blade runner knockoff in any medium

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:20

Proteus4994: Jan 2, 2001; Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

Sham bam bamina! posted:

i heard that space quest iv and king's quest vi were actually good, also they published rise of the dragon which is the best blade runner knockoff in any medium

the space quest games were pretty funny (same with lsl) but the actual GAME part was really terrible. the whole meme about "pick up an item on the first screen and hold onto it until the last screen or else you lose" is literally describing sierra adventure games

i skipped most of the kings quest games so i dunno about them but i always heard those were the worst offenders

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:22

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

Proteus4994 posted:

the space quest games were pretty funny (same with lsl) but the actual GAME part was really terrible. the whole meme about "pick up an item on the first screen and hold onto it until the last screen or else you lose" is literally describing sierra adventure games

i skipped most of the kings quest games so i dunno about them but i always heard those were the worst offenders

i know that but i got the impression that they were exceptions to that. maybe not the space quest but king's quest vi is specifically supposed to have laid off that approach after :cedric:

took it to its extreme. not that i played either though so don't cite me on it.

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:24

~Coxy: Dec 9, 2003; R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

I remember gabriel knight 1 being good but the sequels sucked

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:26

Proteus4994: Jan 2, 2001; Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

oh also i'm excluding sierra's hilariously awesomely cheesy FMV adventure games like Phantasmagoria

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:38

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

Werthog 95 posted:

oh great another good old adventure game i missed out on

what's weird about the neverhood is that basically nobody really played it or knew about it when it came out unless they were lucky enough to get it with their computers ( :v:

) and after a decade or so it somehow became the great lost classic adventure game. like one day it's just that weird clay game that nobody else knows about and then it's on top ten lists everywhere and then the spiritual sequel's kickstarter pulls a million dollars :psyduck:

# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:40

Sham bam bamina!: Nov 6, 2012; ƨtupid cat

~Coxy posted:

I remember gabriel knight 1 being good but the sequels sucked

i'd forgotten that it was a sierra game, definitely a classic

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Al!: Apr 2, 2010

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# ? Oct 9, 2013 01:52

Agile Vector: May 21, 2007; scrum bored

Sham bam bamina! posted:

i know that but i got the impression that they were exceptions to that. maybe not the space quest but king's quest vi is specifically supposed to have laid off that approach after took it to its extreme. not that i played either though so don't cite me on it.

I still remember being stuck at Styx and being unable to return and get the item I needed and should have had from way way back with no real indication I needed it. I probably missed something obvious since I was a kid, but it was pretty frustrating. Otherwise it was pretty good about making most things either clear enough if you looked around, or better to return for.

# ? Oct 9, 2013 05:20

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

The Dig was the best adventure game because its the only one I played as a baby

# ? Oct 9, 2013 05:38

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

My brother and I would sit behind my dad and watch him play myst and riven for hours and it was great dadsrule dads #dads :allears:

# ? Oct 9, 2013 05:39

penus de milo: Mar 9, 2002; CHAR CHAR

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

My brother and I would sit behind my dad and watch him play myst and riven for hours and it was great dadsrule dads #dads

i played ico with 2 of my friends and we took turns holding the controller while chiming in with puzzle suggestions it was awesome

# ? Oct 9, 2013 10:50

JawnV6: Jul 4, 2004; So hot ...

7th guest

# ? Oct 9, 2013 15:20

Adult Sword Owner: Jun 19, 2011; u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

Dr. Honked posted:

fancier parsers

mods

# ? Oct 9, 2013 15:24

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

My brother and I would sit behind my dad and watch him play myst and riven for hours and it was great dadsrule dads #dads

i wanna be a computerdad

# ? Oct 9, 2013 16:27

Jimbo Jaggins: Jul 19, 2013

Sierra games are all trash. Riven is the only good Myst.

That is all.

# ? Oct 9, 2013 16:35

DONT THREAD ON ME: Oct 1, 2002; by Nyc_Tattoo; Floss Finder

i was never able to get past the first area in riven

# ? Oct 9, 2013 16:39

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

you have to spin the thing

# ? Oct 9, 2013 16:59

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

penus de milo posted:

i wouldn't mind going to that just for the subject matter :/

the subject matter was poo poo, too

the slide deck was discussing 2010's hottest design trends in 2013. wow i've never seen microsoft metro before!!!!!

# ? Oct 9, 2013 17:07

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Install Windows posted:

i get that myst was popular originally because ~beautiful pre rendered 640x480 graphics~ in 1992 or whatever but whats the appeal in it past that.

it was a middling at best graphic adventure and the sequels didn't really improve on it either

640x480 with full motion video overlaid on it was nothing to laugh at in 1994, nobody else was even coming close

also the premise was pretty unusual for an adventure game. no exposition to speak of, really strange locations, no people or animals or really anything that could surprise/kill you

it hasn't aged well tho

# ? Oct 9, 2013 17:09

PleasingFungus: Oct 10, 2012; idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

The Dig was the best adventure game because its the only one I played as a baby

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

My brother and I would sit behind my dad and watch him play myst and riven for hours and it was great dadsrule dads #dads

same

JawnV6 posted:

7th guest

I hear this is actually real bad but I liked it when I was a childe

nostalgiadventures

# ? Oct 9, 2013 18:10

Proteus4994: Jan 2, 2001; Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

PleasingFungus posted:

I hear this is actually real bad but I liked it when I was a childe

nostalgiadventures

the puzzles in 7th guest are really loving bad but the atmosphere and setting is p awesome

was 7th guest the one that had the chess puzzle where it's almost impossible to beat on a modern pc because it searches so far down the game tree that you'd have to be bobby fischer to beat it? i think it was but it might have been one of the other puzzle games

# ? Oct 9, 2013 18:30

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

Proteus4994 posted:

the puzzles in 7th guest are really loving bad but the atmosphere and setting is p awesome

was 7th guest the one that had the chess puzzle where it's almost impossible to beat on a modern pc because it searches so far down the game tree that you'd have to be bobby fischer to beat it? i think it was but it might have been one of the other puzzle games

7th guest had one of those, but so did a lot of other adventure games at the time.

a lot of them were subsequently rereleased with ai limiters so that the puzzles would stay the proper difficulty.

# ? Oct 9, 2013 18:49

GameCube: Nov 21, 2006

holy poo poo

# ? Oct 9, 2013 18:52

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

Proteus4994 posted:

the puzzles in 7th guest are really loving bad but the atmosphere and setting is p awesome

was 7th guest the one that had the chess puzzle where it's almost impossible to beat on a modern pc because it searches so far down the game tree that you'd have to be bobby fischer to beat it? i think it was but it might have been one of the other puzzle games

7th guest was a fmv demo pretending to be a game

11th hour was not really any better

# ? Oct 9, 2013 18:56

Meat Beat Agent: Aug 5, 2007; felonious assault with a sproinging boner

the 11th hour's cover art freaked me out when i was like 6

# ? Oct 9, 2013 18:57

Proteus4994: Jan 2, 2001; Do not engage. Just tell me to go back to Kiwi Farms where I waste days upon days crying about how I wasted years upon years on SA. Did you know I was personally responsible for SA's rise in popularity in the 00's? It's true! Just come to the Farms and find out how! It's the trash kingdom I deserve.

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

7th guest was a fmv demo pretending to be a game

11th hour was not really any better

p much every fmv adventure game was a demo pretending to be a game

# ? Oct 9, 2013 19:02

Nintendo Kid: Aug 4, 2011; by Smythe

things might have gone differently if good quality video compression was available at the time and runnable on the various systems. because what we got out of it was typically under an hour of unique video if it was high quality or a few hours at low quality on each CD.

and since 90% of the game were relying on the video to hold your interest it was a killer

# ? Oct 9, 2013 19:12

Viggen: Sep 10, 2010; by XyloJW

how about the great innovations in 'alone in the dark'? CPU loop based timed keyboard input for different function(s)/speed(s)? That's a keeper!

# ? Oct 9, 2013 19:37

syscall girl: Nov 7, 2009; by FactsAreUseless; Fun Shoe

Proteus4994 posted:

the puzzles in 7th guest are really loving bad but the atmosphere and setting is p awesome

was 7th guest the one that had the chess puzzle where it's almost impossible to beat on a modern pc because it searches so far down the game tree that you'd have to be bobby fischer to beat it? i think it was but it might have been one of the other puzzle games

the chess puzzle was just the old put 8 or so queens on the board so none can attack the others or something

the hexxagon puzzle was the unbeatable one but you had the option to beat the game without finishing them all, which annoyed my 13 y/o completionist self to no end

# ? Oct 9, 2013 19:37

Adult Sword Owner: Jun 19, 2011; u deserve diploma for sublime comedy expertise

Proteus4994 posted:

p much every fmv adventure game was a demo pretending to be a game

excuse me i will beat you into the ground if you DARE insult my beloved sewer shark again

# ? Oct 9, 2013 19:38

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Sniep: Mar 28, 2004; All I needed was that fatty blunt...

King of Breakfast

kings quest owned

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