Originally posted by SoulPhoenix
Hey btw DotT in my opinion was much better than maniac mansion, it had a lot of humor in it.
Well DotT is actually Maniac Mansion 2, the humor was kept more or less the same, only that with the help of the good voice acting, the SVGA display and the smooth animation the jokes were brought to a whole new level. I actually played Maniac Mansion for the first time during DotT (If you played it you will surely remember, it is included as a mini-game, inside DotT, a very neat detail
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I enjoyed Sam & Max more though. I awaited for a sequel for years and years until I gave up, seeing that the popularity of adventure games slowly started to decrease. Right about now, the amount of decent adventure games released in one year can be coutned with the fingers of one hand. A shame, really. Those are really fun games to play. I guess their lack of replayability ended up killing them though. But a few games managed to get around that. For example, Blade Runner had multiple endings (I heard, more than a dozen? I might be wrong, I never played it) and every time you started a new game the \'good guys\' and the \'bad guys\' were different. There were many characters and they were scripted so as to change their behaviour every time the game was reset.
Anyway, I am sure with lots hard work and effort Lucas Arts would be able to design a fun, replayable adventure game. Until then, adventure games fans are doomed to go through old classics in order to get some satisfaction. And you know how hard it is to get hold of one of those jewels from the past. Whatever happened to Sierra and Lucas Arts\' battle to be the greatest company at the making of adventures? Will we ever get the chance to play such games again? Will they attempt to revive the genre without the use of deplorable sequels? (Monkey Island 4, anybody? What a disappointment, I must say)
A few list of favourites for the ones looking for Adventures:
- Monkey Island I, II & III (They should really stop carrying puzzles from one game to the other, however)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Simply amazing)
- Discworld (Funny as hell, I am yet to finish this one...Left it somewhere on Act IV)
- Maniac Mansion I & II (II more known as...yes you guessed! Day of the Tentacle!)
- Sam & Max: Hit the Road (Hilarious)
- The Dig (Didn\'t play it, they say it wasn\'t that good. Many complained about it not being humorous...but people...it wasn\'t meant to be! It was supposed to be an interactive sci-fi cartoon. Spielberg wanted to make the movie at first, I heard, but the budget was too high for him...wow...imagine that!)
- Full Throttle (Didn\'t play it either. Good critics, it was generally accepted that it ended TOO SOON)
- Touch? (If you like old France, and \"The Three Musketeers\" by Alexander Dumas, this is for you!)
- Flight of the Amazon Queen (One of the latest adventure games, I reckon)
- Police Quest series (Sierra!)
- King\'s Quest series (Sierra again!)
- Leisure Suit Larry (I never played any of these, but I wanted to...I swear!)
- Prisoners of Ice (I loved this one...some \"action sequences\"...nice graphics, interesting cutscenes...it was dubbed to Spanish and yet I enjoyed it!)
- Grim Fandango (First full 3D adventure game? The interface is quite frustrating at first, you can work around that. Being \'Death\' for a while is fun
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- Hollywood Monsters (Spanish game. Very nice...however certain puzzles seem to be unsolvable at first...or without a walkthrough...there should be an English version around)
- There are many first person adventure/puzzle games, like Zork, or Congo. Never really got attracted by them, so I can\'t honestly say if they are worth it
Well...I\'ll finish with today\'s rambling by saying:
Give us more adventure games!
Oh and some new single player RPGs would be nifty as well. There has been an impressive amount of online games, but I feel Single-Player RPGs like Baldur\'s Gate or Icewind Dale have been a wee bit neglected since the boom of MMORPGs. Just my thought ^_^
Okay, see you all around. I\'ll go back to my little dark cave I like to call \'my home\' now.
