point & click

Out of the new games that are coming out, I'm quite looking forward to this one:

http://www.vampyrestory-game.com/

Monkeybrains said:
Toonstruck
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Toonstruck is always overlooked by most people in these sort of threads.

If you love point 'n' clicks then it's criminal not to get a copy of it off ebay and fire it up in dosbox.

neoboy said:
Oh yeah forgot about Broken Sword series (latest one was meh mind).
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I haven't completed it yet but I thought this one was more of a return to the originals than 3 was.

They're all good though tbh, just that the new ones are the weaker of the series.
 
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Broken sword ones are good

Farenheit as suggested is a kind of hybrid point and click but interesting all the same.

Grim fandango and Discworld series are the best point and click games i've played though, i love the humour used.
 
HarryPainful said:
I still think Future Wars was the best game of this type.
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You're kidding! The second screen in you had to click on a single pixel wide dot on a map to continue. It drove me nuts at the time trying to figure out what to do, and even when I'd looked it up it took me ages to find the dot. It was the kind of thing that gave point 'n click adventures a bad name.
 
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade :)

Played it years ago when I was a kid and still play it now.. Punching Hitler in Berlin still makes me laugh :p
 
z0mbi3 said:
I didn't think the new Penny Arcade game was a point and click?
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It's kind of a hybrid game really. It's point and click adventure with turn-based rpg combat (with random extra things thrown in to make it a bit more 'actiony').

I had very low expectations of it but after trying out the demo it's good fun.
 
Original CDs or not ScummVM is the best way to play them.

It's designed from the ground up to support modern OSs. Without ScummVM (or DOSBox to an extent) the best you can do with the real classics is fire up a propper DOS session and weep at the lack of hardware support.

If you're running 2k, XP or Vista then you're probably not in a position to run a real DOS Prompt anyway, so if you have to make a choice of "poison" then you're far better off with ScummVM. It's guaranteed to work just as well, if not better, as it would have been originally.

I know what I'd rather do!
 
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z0mbi3 said:
Original CDs or not ScummVM is the best way to play them.

It's designed from the ground up to support modern OSs. Without ScummVM (or DOSBox to an extent) the best you can do with the real classics is fire up a propper DOS session and weep at the lack of hardware support.

If you're running 2k, XP or Vista then you're probably not in a position to run a real DOS Prompt anyway, so if you have to make a choice of "poison" then you're far better off with ScummVM.

I know what I'd rather do!
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You Just don't appreciate the old skool!:p
 
This sounds like the classic argument /re emulators - do you use all the nice new graphics filters and save state options or do you just run scanlines and at original res? I personally prefer to modernise my retro experience :p
 
That isn't really the point - or what I was saying. More that you will always get disagreements between 'purists' and those that like to take advantage of improvements in tech/software.
 
You still need the CD's if you want to get full speech in some of the games even when running under SCUMMVM so it really is the best way. It's not like DOSBox which is emulating the DOS environment, SCUMMVM is more like an alternative game engine that can execute the scripts that the game were written in and it runs nativly on modern operating systems as well as many other hardware platforms such as the PSP, DS and Xbox.
 
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