Point & Click Adventure games

[phinix]

Where's the love for goblins
Maybe I'm getting old

Yeah, some good old game

 

[opethdisciple]

The Dig
Full Throttle
Day of the Tentacle

 

[.one.]

Not point&click

I did say above keep your knickers on.

 

[ANDREW GREEN]

Have very fond memories as a child playing broken sword. Seeing my grandad and telling him I know how to do the bit we were stuck on for ages when I went around theirs again was a great feeling.

I played the same game with my Mum and Sister, the story, cinematics and difficulty level made it more appealing to people who would normally be put off this type of game.

 

[ANDREW GREEN]

Me too. My dad was biker before I was born and it was very much his (and now my) sense of humour. Great memories. We went to one of his mates houses who had 4/5 machines on a BNC network in his front room. Most people didn't have a computer at all at home back then. We played it there on a trackball mouse and bought our own copy on the way home. I still have the CD.

I played the remaster not long ago. My dad passed away 9 years ago and it's always been one of those great memories. I distinctly remember his reaction to the opening sequence. I didn't realise some of the vehicles were designed in 3D and rendered/drawn back to 2D but there's a screensaver state in the game that shows the vehicles on a turntable.

I think modern games have lost this kind of charm. They had smaller dev teams with a more coherent aim which seemed to achieve more when it came to fun playable games. Especially when they were limited with what they could do technically.

I think I read they were working on a Full Throttle 2 but the voice actor died IIRC. And around that time the bottom had fallen out of adventure games market as it was overtaken by FPS and RPGs.