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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FREE GAME: Return of the Phantom
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 19:45:32 -0800
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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.
> 
> 
> "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 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.

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-Justisaur

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