Adventure Games

[Matchbox]

I just bought The Path off of Steam. It's a new, open-ended adventure game from a Dutch (I think) developer. I also learned about the Penumbra series, a survival horror/adventure hybrid that I will probably be buying after I finish The Path.

It seems there's a bit of a resurgence in the adventure department, since both are fairly new releases, and I couldn't be happier. I love the adventure genre, from point-and-click games (although those have sort of gotten boring to me lately) to 3rd-person action hybrids like Dreamfall.

Anyone else love the wonderful but woefully underappreciated adventure genre?

I did some research on "The Path" and other games from Tale of Tales. It looks interesting, to say the least. I downloaded the Graveyard just to see what it was like and it's strange, indeed. How does the full version differ exactly?

Also, since your into adventure games, have you played any of the new Sherlock Holmes games for PC? Specifically, "Sherlock Holmes V.S. Jack The Ripper". It's got 1st/3rd person control combined with a point and click adventure game. I think it's well done.

-Matchbox

 

[Matt Murdock]

Sam and Max is the best. I have the first season for Wii, and am hoping for the second to make the platform jump by the holiday season. I'm not convinced it'll happen, but, hey we can hope. I'm a big proponent of the point-and-click style of gameplay that LucasArts made famous. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is one that I still haven't beaten. Sam and Max: Freelance Police! had some of the best voicework I've seen in a game, and Day of the Tentacle is one of the best games I've played. Escape from Monkey Island on PS2 is one of the few games I keep in my Ps2 library.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I did some research on "The Path" and other games from Tale of Tales. It looks interesting, to say the least. I downloaded the Graveyard just to see what it was like and it's strange, indeed. How does the full version differ exactly?

Also, since your into adventure games, have you played any of the new Sherlock Holmes games for PC? Specifically, "Sherlock Holmes V.S. Jack The Ripper". It's got 1st/3rd person control combined with a point and click adventure game. I think it's well done.

-Matchbox

I haven't played the Sherlock Holmes games. I played a demo for the new Dracula game, which I think is made by the same company, and it was fun. There's a bit where you have to collect articles and plot Dracula's route on a map to find a pattern and figure out where he'll strike next. It felt very CSI, if CSI took place in England in the 1800s.

The full version of The Graveyard is the same as the demo, except you can die. I haven't played the full thing myself. It's more of an experiment in interactive storytelling than anything you could call a "game," if I recall Tale of Tales' explanation of it correctly. The Path is more of an interactive storybook that rewards exploration and consideration more than action, too. ToT makes very unorthodox games, to say the least; some are great, some are boring, but I respect that they're stretching the bounds of the medium.

I just got through Shadow of Destiny, an old PS2/PC adventure game about a guy who time travels to avoid his own death. I'm working on getting all the endings now.