Bonus: Dated graphics + character > focus grouped designed by committee games

  • SocialistWombat [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    AAA games suck, but Point and Click adventure games are hot garbage meant to sell strategy guides. Fight me.

    I have never played a genre of games that I so wanted to love that so violently hated the player.

  • Dewot523 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Nah. Not at all. For every Monkey Island there were like five King's Quest, or worse, King's Quest knockoffs. There is nothing more pointless and worthless to play than a bad adventure game.

    Also AAA is a meaningless term.

  • nicholaimalthus [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The Dig was one of my all time favorites. MIssion Critical is a less known but nicely done one (even if the ideology can be 90s techbro trash sometimes). Primordia has been a more modern take on ye olde point and click titles that I've come to enjoy of late. Keep an eye out on Wadjet Eye games for ones you might like.

  • machiavellianRecluse [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Playing Le Chuck's revenge on my first PC is probably one of the fondest memories from my childhood - I couldn't figure out the last voodoo doll puzzle (had to wait until the special edition came out to finally beat it :p ).

    Edit: Now that I think about it I might have played it on Easy mode when I was a kid because I can't believe my child version could have figured out the Mega Monkey mode without a walkthrough.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Temperature take: Adventure games have always sucked.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I loved Monkey Island and Broken Sword. Haven't really played anything else in this genre. Recommendations?

    I would argue that Disco Elysium is part of this genre.