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JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2024 03:45, Justisaur wrote:
> > On 11/2/2024 7:38 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> >> On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 09:21:59 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 01:39:57 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What was your favorite adventure games? I did like the humor in the
> >>>> beginning of Space Quest IV on my friends' fancy full tower 386 PC! I
> >>>> was jealous!
> >>>
> >>> Hero's Quest, later renamed to Quest For Glory is my favorite
> >>> adventure game of all time. It is also my favorite series. King's
> >>> Quest IV, V and VI are also some of my favorites. Maniac Mansion is
> >>> the game that got me into the genre so obviously I have a lot of love
> >>> for that one.
> >>
> >> Ah, favorite adventure games. I can't say I have a favorite but there
> >> are definitely some I hold above the rest.
> >>
> >> "Kings Quest VI" was impressive largely for its production values.
> >> It's story and puzzles were pure Sierra tripe, but man that game
> >> looked and sounded great; it was head-n-shoulders above anything else
> >> at the time (especially the CD-ROM 'talkie' version). You really could
> >> believe that one day video-games might surpass Hollywood! Also, it was
> >> one of the first games to offer 'multiple endings', which felt
> >> amazingly forward-thinking.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Loom" wasn't that great a _game_, but boy did it have atmosphere!
> >> Even moreso the CD-ROM version, which replaced the tinkly MIDI with
> >> real CD-Audio. But even the EGA version (which introduced dithering to
> >> large swathes of the gaming population) was gorgeous; it was amazing
> >> what you could do with just 16 colors.

I remember my next door neighbor though it said Doom. Heh! I don't 
remember if I played Loom. I would probably not like it if I did!


> >> "Mission Critical" is one of my favorite games, ever. While the
> >> live-action video (mainly used in the intro and closing cinematics)
> >> weren't that all impressive (sorry, Michael Dorn!) the rest of the
> >> game was fantastic, with an excellent story, fantastic MIDI
> >> soundtrack, a fun strategy mini-game and a realistic sci-fi setting.
> >> Even thirty years later, every time I play it I'm surprised at how
> >> well it holds up. Well, with the exception of those live-action bits.
> >>
> >> "Zork" (in all its many forms) may not be one of my /favorites/ but it
> >> definitely ranks up there was one of my more memorable adventure
> >> experiences. I can still remember the vivid impression it had on me as
> >> I crept through its dungeons one spring morning so long, long ago.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Full Throttle" doesn't get a lot of love but I think it's one of
> >> LucasArt's best adventure games. It's got humor, drama, and action;
> >> it's got an terrific voice-acting, great visuals, and an awesome
> >> soundtrack. The puzzles were a bit hit-or-miss but that was always an
> >> issue with LucasArts adventures. The action sequences and the game's
> >> shortness were turn-offs to many too. But the overall package was a
> >> fantastic experience; LucasArts at their very best.
> >>
> >> And there are so many more! Adventure games used to be the
> >> bread-n-butter of the PC platform. The genre really allowed the PC to
> >> show-off its impressive RAM, storage and CPU capabilities even as it
> >> hid the fact that it couldn't move sprites very fast. There were a lot
> >> of stinkers in the genre too, but so very many classics.
> >>
> >> After Myst (or, more importantly, the flood of Myst-clones that aped
> >> the style but lacked the atmosphere) the adventure game crashed for a
> >> while, but even then there were still a trickle of games coming out.
> >> Some of those were quite good too, but none had the impression on me
> >> that those early DOS-era titles had.

I still can't get into those graphical adventure games. Give me graphics 
and actions like Atari 2600's Adventure game. ;)


> > I hated all those games, I did play some Zork, but still hated, and 
> > I never bought it.  HGttG was my most hated, also didn't buy.  Both 
> > were played with friends on their computers.  I remember playing on 
> > of the KQ games ad SQ games that way too. I hated Colossal Cave 
> > Adventure too, but I'd probably have to put it in my least hated.
> > 
> > Unless you count The Curse of Monkey Island which I actually liked.

> I have fond memories of the simple text adventures on the Specky 48k 
> (with even more simple names such as Adventure A with the follow up 
> being Adventure B) in the early days as that was one of the staples 
> along with arcade games. It didn't take long for devs. to be more 
> ambitious and you got titles like Sherlock, Valhalla and even hybrids 
> such as The Forth Protocol.

> The nostalgia is bringing a tear to me eye!

I could never get into those text adventure games because I hated 
reading. ;)
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