Myst / Adventure games

[Dangle]

It seems like there are no more real adventure games anymore. It doesn't seem like anybody is making them - even Cyan, the makers of Myst. Cyan is still a company, but instead of making real games, they are making sandbox crap like this.

Is anybody else a fan of Adventure games, and if so, are there any good ones coming up that I may have overlooked?

 

[Black Panther]

Ohhh Myst... how I loved that game! Did you buy the later sequels and Riven by Cyan?

You're right it seems there aren't adventure games in the market...

I also liked to play the Zork Grand Inquisitor series,
"Shun magic, and shun the appearance of magic. Shun everything, and then shun shunning.''
'And never forget who is the boss of you--Me! I am the boss of you!'

And the Monkey Island series... but geez that's like 8 years ago or what? And Black Dhalia was one of my favourites.

 

[WhiteLotus]

well Oblivion is sort of an adventure game - the amount you can do of the main quest is gobsmacking

 

[Kreij]

Have you ever played Schism: Mysterious Journey ?

Only two types of people like Schism. Those who have a walkthrough handy, or people is advanced degrees in engineering.

If you do check it out, make sure you get the DVD version, not the CD version.

 

[Basard]

Well, there's only one way to become a billionaire. Make games like WoW, and charge horribly high monthly fees to play, at the same time eliminating piracy. The games don't even have to be good, once you pay for that first month they gotcha.

I'm playing Fallout 1&2 now, and of course, I still have Diablo II installed. Games these days just look pretty, not very many are even worth buying. My friend has spent over 1500 bucks on video games in the past year, for his computer, he only plays TWO of them regularly.

As for good adventure games, Fallout 3 is coming out, who knows how much they are going to butcher it though. It's turn based, well the first two were anyways. Not like Final Fantasy turn based, sort of a mix of realtime, and turnbased.

Cosmic Osmo's Hex Isle... wow, I cant think of a single person that would enjoy playing that (soley based on the screenshots.) I can't even think of a decent game to recommend though--sad isn't it.

Monkey Island, that was a good one though, I remember playing that back in 1993 on a 486 computer, hahaha.

 

[AsRock]

Check http://www.justadventure.com/

My mother is allways buying adventure games lol.

 

[Black Panther]

well Oblivion is sort of an adventure game - the amount you can do of the main quest is gobsmacking

I agree (it's a favourite game of mine too). Actually it's classified as RPG but - you can choose either to roleplay or not to roleplay, no? If you don't roleplay it becomes an adventure game.

 

[WhiteLotus]

I agree (it's a favourite game of mine too). Actually it's classified as RPG but - you can choose either to roleplay or not to roleplay, no? If you don't roleplay it becomes an adventure game.

i like to non RP - its fun to do all the little quests. at the moment im trying to find some nirnroot. just walking around killing the occasional goblin and discovering caves and ruins is fun.

 

[Frick]

It seems like there are no more real adventure games anymore. It doesn't seem like anybody is making them - even Cyan, the makers of Myst. Cyan is still a company, but instead of making real games, they are making sandbox crap like this.

Is anybody else a fan of Adventure games, and if so, are there any good ones coming up that I may have overlooked?

I take it you've played all the goldies from a long time ago?

But if you're wiling to expand a bit I say Knights of the Old Republic. It feels more like an adventure with some D&D in it. But those games are AWESOME. Deus Ex is always a winner.

Also, in Escape from Monkey Island (number 4) the Voodoo Lady says she might have a "five game contract with Lucasarts".

 

[DaMulta]

ZORK


I wonder how many people here beat that game.....

 

[Graogrim]

If you want a TRULY good adventure game, try The Longest Journey. I'm not sure if you'll be able to find it in a bricks and mortar gaming store, but it's easy to find online. You can also cheaply download it via Steam. There's a sequel to it called Dreamfall, which is also very enjoyable though it's more like following along a story. Dreamfall has something of a cliffhanger ending so there are a lot of people looking forward to another installment.

 

[OrbitzXT]

That link made me hungry..

 

[imperialreign]

ZORK


I wonder how many people here beat that game.....

which one?

Last I played and beat was Zork: Nemesis; awesome game, too.

I don't ever remember beating Zork I; but I do remember beating Zork II, III and Return to Zork.


An older adventure game I was really fond of as a child, and played on the Commodore64 was The Hobbit. Never beat it, though . . .

I also enjoyed the early "Hero Quest" games from Sierra (before they were titled Quest for Glory).

 

[Disparia]

They're out there, not as prevalent as they once were though...

Here a couple screens from the last one I played, NiBiRu:



Not particular hard, or long, but I did enjoy some of the scenery.

 

[Dangle]

If you want a TRULY good adventure game, try The Longest Journey. I'm not sure if you'll be able to find it in a bricks and mortar gaming store, but it's easy to find online. You can also cheaply download it via Steam. There's a sequel to it called Dreamfall, which is also very enjoyable though it's more like following along a story. Dreamfall has something of a cliffhanger ending so there are a lot of people looking forward to another installment.

Thanks. I'm downloading it now. I have heard good things about it.



Anyway, some of you guys are comparing games like Fallout and Oblivion to adventure games. Those are RPGs; not adventure games. Their puzzles are weak compared to Myst's puzzles.

 

[Dangle]

Anyone played that myst online game?

 

[imperialreign]

I think the "3D" adventure/puzzle game that really had a lasting impression on me was The 7th Guest and it's sequel: The 11th Hour

T7G predated Myst, IIRC. It ran awesome on a setup with a 32x CD-ROM when it was first released (military hand-me-downs my father used to bring home from work )

 

[Disparia]

I think the "3D" adventure/puzzle game that really had a lasting impression on me was The 7th Guest and it's sequel: The 11th Hour

T7G predated Myst, IIRC. It ran awesome on a setup with a 32x CD-ROM when it was first released (military hand-me-downs my father used to bring home from work )

Yup. The 7th Guest was 1992 vs 1993 for Myst.

Even better - I used a program that would cache whatever disc was in your drive to the hard drive. Near instant levels loads in Diablo

 

[Graogrim]

The 7th Guest was the game that made my father buy his first CD-Rom drive.

I still have that drive sitting on a shelf collecting dust. It's a Mitsumi 1x with a proprietary interface.

 

[imperialreign]

Yup. The 7th Guest was 1992 vs 1993 for Myst.

Even better - I used a program that would cache whatever disc was in your drive to the hard drive. Near instant levels loads in Diablo

I used to just copy the entiere contents of the CD to the HDD, and then find the setup config file and change the directory listings . . . it's amazing that games nowadays still use that method, still, during setup.

We used to get some insane hardware thanks to my father. I've lost track as to how many motherboards I've used, or CPUs or whatever - I remember even having a 64x CD-ROM by the time 16x was the only thing you could find in stores. Never had an issue with the shrapnel CD phenomena, though . . .

My father finally put his foot down, though, went I torched an ABIT mobo and a Pentium II - somehow, I managed to destroy the CPU socket, as the proc itself was going thermo-nuclear thanks to a wicked OC. I had to buy all my own hardware from that point out (TBH, I think he was a little more peeved because he was supposed to be taking that pair back to work )

 

[Graogrim]

I used to just copy the entiere contents of the CD to the HDD, and then find the setup config file and change the directory listings . . . it's amazing that games nowadays still use that method, still, during setup.

That confounds me. I download something or other that's zipped. Extract the zip and it's a monolithic installer. Run the installer and it extracts a setup executable and cab files and runs that extracted setup, which in turn extracts the contents of the cab files to a temporary location before finally copying to the final destination. No wonder a 500 megabyte download wants over 2 gigabytes of hard disk space to install--we've perfected the art of wastefulness.

Ten and fifteen years ago there were installers that would ask where to place files, extract them directly there, and then done. What the heck happened to that? Did someone decide the direct approach was just too efficient or something?

 

[Disparia]

I used to just copy the entiere contents of the CD to the HDD, and then find the setup config file and change the directory listings . . . it's amazing that games nowadays still use that method, still, during setup.

We used to get some insane hardware thanks to my father. I've lost track as to how many motherboards I've used, or CPUs or whatever - I remember even having a 64x CD-ROM by the time 16x was the only thing you could find in stores. Never had an issue with the shrapnel CD phenomena, though . . .

Heh, I probably was on my 1.6GB drive back then... only enough for one full CD cached at a time so it was useful for games like Phantasmagoria (1995) which came on 7 discs

Unless it was a prototype 64x drive, sounds like a TrueX multi-laser drive which went all the way to 72x or maybe even higher.

 

[imperialreign]

Heh, I probably was on my 1.6GB drive back then... only enough for one full CD cached at a time so it was useful for games like Phantasmagoria (1995) which came on 7 discs

Unless it was a prototype 64x drive, sounds like a TrueX multi-laser drive which went all the way to 72x or maybe even higher.

I really don't remember what brand or tech it was . . . I want to say it was a Samsung or Creative (still have a Creative 54x, somewhere . . .). My father worked on the computers in the F-14 Tomcats when he was in the military, and they were constantly updating their desktop diagnostic computers with "uber-1337" stuff - components that weren't even open to the market yet. I had an early Pentium Pro long before they even hit the shelves, too - it was always fun to play with the new hardware whenever he brought it home