Monkey Island, Leisure Suit Larry, etc..

[mrCide]

I was a big fan of these games back in older days. Last good graphical adventure game I played was the '3d' Curse of Monkey Island. Even Grim Fandango

Aside from the occasional FPS (it's been awhile.. UT was the last I got into), and whatever MMO it may be, those are the games I enjoyed most. I just miss those adventure games. Have there been any recent ones lately? I'm not looking for great graphics or anything. Hell I'd like to find the originals but I somehow doubt they'll play well under vista or possibly even XP.

So, are they around and I just missed them? Or does no one really make them anymore..

 

[Aikouka]

Psychonauts? Supposedly it's on Steam and the Zero Punctuation guy will tell you what you can do if you haven't played it yet .

 

[mundane]

Psychonauts is an awesome game, although it's more of a Platformer than a traditional Adventure title.

It you look around for the Lucas Oldies collection, I think the packagers made sure they all worked with ScummVM, so you can play them in Win.

 

[AdamK47]

I'll be ordering Day of the Tenticle and Sam and Max Hit The Road to add to my collection. It will be played with DosBox using the advmame3X scaler and the OpenGL renderer. It makes the original 320x200 resolution very tolerable.

 

[pontifex]

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
I can't remember how many times I played that game.

 

[Oyeve]

I dont miss em, I still play em!

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: pontifex
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father
I can't remember how many times I played that game.

That game was just awesome. I loved the graphic style and the ambiance, just excellent.

 

[CP5670]

Originally posted by: AdamK47
I'll be ordering Day of the Tenticle and Sam and Max Hit The Road to add to my collection. It will be played with DosBox using the advmame3X scaler and the OpenGL renderer. It makes the original 320x200 resolution very tolerable.

Use ScummVM instead of those games. It's specifically designed for them and often works faster. The hq2x and hq3x scalers look the best to me.

DOTT is brilliant. Very funny and creative story, and the difficulty of the puzzles is just right. I thought Sam and Max was good but not at the same level as the other Lucasarts games. The first half or so is great but it falls away to some degree later on.

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I dont miss em, I still play em!

:thumbsup:

Just played through Curse of Monkey Island the second time. I'll probably redo Escape next, and perhaps Mission Critical after that.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: CP5670

Originally posted by: AdamK47
I'll be ordering Day of the Tenticle and Sam and Max Hit The Road to add to my collection. It will be played with DosBox using the advmame3X scaler and the OpenGL renderer. It makes the original 320x200 resolution very tolerable.

Use ScummVM instead of those games. It's specifically designed for them and often works faster. The hq2x and hq3x scalers look the best to me.

DOTT is brilliant. Very funny and creative story, and the difficulty of the puzzles is just right. I thought Sam and Max was good but not at the same level as the other Lucasarts games. The first half or so is great but it falls away to some degree later on.

I use DosBox mainly because I have other older games like X-Com, Wolfenstein 3D, Wing Commander 3, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, Warcraft 2, etc. that all play perfectly in DosBox. I also have BioForge which is a great adventure game that seemed to have been overlooked at it's time.

 

[TheVrolok]

Guybrush Threepwood ftw.

 

[sheemone00]

Man I loved those games...

DOTT, Full Throttle, Indiana Jones, Monkey's Island... I've played them all!

 

[imported_pendragon]

Guybush Threepwood ftw.


LOL, GuyBUSH LOL you mean GuyBRUSH.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: pendragon

Guybush Threepwood ftw.


LOL, GuyBUSH LOL you mean GuyBRUSH.

Freudian?

 

[Shadowknight]

I loved the original Sam and Max, but have been underwhelmed by the Sam and Max games released by Telltale. You can download demos to try them out. http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax

 

[Modelworks]

I miss space quest.
The guy reminds me a lot of fry from futurama

 

[secretanchitman]

GK series is the best, as well as kings quest 6, along with all the scumm games (loom, monkey island, etc).

 

[Fingolfin269]

I've always wanted a Monkey Island movie.

 

[Dumac]

I miss the Monkey Island series..

 

[Bateluer]

I'd love to see another Gabriel Knight game, and a new Monkey Island game. But, with the way quality and originality are going these days, even if they did remake the game, they'd both mysteriously wind up as first person shooters.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
I'd love to see another Gabriel Knight game, and a new Monkey Island game. But, with the way quality and originality are going these days, even if they did remake the game, they'd both mysteriously wind up as first person shooters.

I played the 2nd GK game but never played the 3rd. I should have picked it up at some point. The 2nd was pretty cool but I think the 1st was still the better of the 2.
Maybe I can find the 3rd online somewhere.

I don't know if they could do a new game and still have the same feel as the old ones. I agree though, I doubt they would make it an adventure game like the older ones. It would probably be in first or 3rd person.

Also, going 3d isn't always the best idea. For instance, I loved the marioo games on the nes and super nes. I hated the 3d mario game for the N64. the controls were horrible.

 

[yuppiejr]

Wow, I grew up playing all of the old Sierra series (Heroes Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest, Space Quest, Kings Quest, etc...) - many of which came on a stack of 3.5" or 5.25" floppy diskettes before the old sound card controller based CD-ROM drives became popular. Nothing was worse than trying to install the game only to find disk 7 of 8 was damaged. Good times...

 

[Modelworks]

I remember losing disk 5 of 7 and looking everywhere.
Then finding it and trying to get the drive to read it.
cleaning the drive.
Then trying again and again with fingers crossed.

 

[Skacer]

There is a special place in hell for people who didn't play Psychonauts.

 

[KAZANI]

I am amazed that noone mentioned Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine yet.

Adventure Gamers Rejoice

With adventure games abandoned by the majors, and high-profile indie projects few and far between, fans of the genre find the pickings meager. But here's reason for celebration: a big, well-executed game that feels like a cross between Monkey Island and Leisure Suit Larry, with the sort of humor adventure gamers learned to love from Infocom and Lucasarts but is now almost entirely lacking on the gaming landscape.

You play the eponymous Al Emmo, a schlubby 40-something guy who comes to a remote desert town in pursuit of a mail-order bride who ditches him when his lack of ready cash becomes apparent. But not to fear, Al quickly falls for another woman who is tied up with the mystery, naturally, of the Lost Dutchman's mine--a mystery unfortunately better suited to the talents of an Indian Jones that this game's nerdy anti-hero.

One of the best games ever. GREAT humor, on par or even better than that delivered in the Leisure suit Larry and Monkey Island series. Grab the demo and see for yourselves. The first impression you will get of the main character might be a tad awkward but don't be fooled, the game is superb. Remember to examine everything you see on the screen...more than once (...or twice, hehe).

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: KAZANI
I am amazed that noone mentioned Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine yet.

Adventure Gamers Rejoice

With adventure games abandoned by the majors, and high-profile indie projects few and far between, fans of the genre find the pickings meager. But here's reason for celebration: a big, well-executed game that feels like a cross between Monkey Island and Leisure Suit Larry, with the sort of humor adventure gamers learned to love from Infocom and Lucasarts but is now almost entirely lacking on the gaming landscape.

You play the eponymous Al Emmo, a schlubby 40-something guy who comes to a remote desert town in pursuit of a mail-order bride who ditches him when his lack of ready cash becomes apparent. But not to fear, Al quickly falls for another woman who is tied up with the mystery, naturally, of the Lost Dutchman's mine--a mystery unfortunately better suited to the talents of an Indian Jones that this game's nerdy anti-hero.

One of the best games ever. GREAT humor, on par or even better than that delivered in the Leisure suit Larry and Monkey Island series. Grab the demo and see for yourselves. The first impression you will get of the main character might be a tad awkward but don't be fooled, the game is superb. Remember to examine everything you see on the screen...more than once (...or twice, hehe).

i'll keep a lookout for this one.

thanks for the heads up