Point and Click Adventure

[Levian]

Ah, the greatest genre of the 90's! Sadly I don't see to many of them these days. What's your favorite though? and are you still playing them?

My favorite is Grim Fandango. Lots of great humour and enough of a challenge. Unlike certain games, you don't have to combine two obscure items and use it to do something that makes absolutely no sense! Eh, I love Leisure Suit Larry regardless!

I've seen news about Monkey Island 2 getting released for PSN, I can't wait to try that. I've never gotten really into a Monkey Island game before. I've tried one of the games, but I don't think I got far. The reason probably being me refusing to use a walkthrough and the game being insanely hard if you don't use one!

I'm also currently playing Black Mirror. So far it's quite slow, but I think stuff is about to pick up.

[Chris]

My all-time favorite games are still: "Dracula Resurrection" and "Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary". I have so many great memories playing these games, and I never, ever, get tired of plowing through them.

"Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness", "Amerzone" and the "Myst" series are worth mentioning, too.

[MoonsEcho]

I absolutely love the Monkey Island games, and replay them quite often. I also have a nostalgic attachment to LOOM, although I don't like it as much as the MI series.

[Levian]

Haha, Loom. I think any attachment I have to that game is nostalgic as well. I imagine that game must be almost unplayable for most people today.

[xXsarahXx]

Aww i love the monkey island games.
Am currently playing Sam and Max: The Devils Toybox series and they are brilliant so far. Some great humour in there. Max has become one of my favorite games characters!

[Crop]

I did have one for the NES when I was a kid, I can't remember the name of it though. I remember that when you punched the wall, it used to say "Ouch, that smarts!" It was a fun game.

Other than that, the only other point and click games I like are the FASCO games (Crimson room etc). Shame he stopped making them.

[Flying Arrow]

I've been thinking about this genre lately as I've been playing a copy of Heavy Rain lent to me by a friend. It's a curious take on the Point-Click genre, although the player is a lot more passive rather than active in the proceedings. It's also a bit rhythm-y with the heavy use of quick-time events and sets up some really exciting and tense scenarios. Unique, but it doesn't provide the same amount of satisfaction is a really good adventure.

Anyway, this is kind of off-topic, but I was thinking about HR in relation to the Point n Click genre last night and figured I'd mention it here. With Heavy Rain being successful (is it?) maybe there will start to be an influx of adventure-styled gaming soon.

[Aerith's Knight]

The Phantasmagoria series, just to Riff on with friends

Syberia 1+2, probably the last point and click adventure game to come out. Great music, good story. Only problem is that it can be a little slow if you have to move 7 screens to get somewhere

And my all time favorite: Indiana Jones - Fate of Atlantis

[MoonsEcho]

Haha, Loom. I think any attachment I have to that game is nostalgic as well. I imagine that game must be almost unplayable for most people today.

I would think so. It would be nice to get an updated version of it.

I recently played a demo of a hidden object game called Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates that paid a lot of homage to Monkey Island. It was a good game on its own, but all that MI nostalgia is what sucked me into it to begin with.

[Nominus Experse]

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[Storm]

I had an obsession with many point and click Sierra games back in the early 90's. King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest, and the Quest for Glory series were all fantastic. I think the games that stand out the most to me are King's Quest V, King's Quest VI, Space Quest IV, Space Quest V, and Quest for Glory IV. Even Inca 2 was hilarious to play.

[Jiro]

Haven't played many of these in my time, but they've been good. Zack and Wiki was a nice new attempt at rebooting the genre on Wii.

[beema]

man I miss that golden age of point n click.
I remember going over to my friends house and his dad would always be bringing home new shareware demos of various adventure games to try out.
Sadly I don't remember the names of half of them.
I never got in to Monkey Island... thinking about trying out the remakes.

Machinarium was a recent high profile addition to this genre, but aside from the beautiful art style, I felt it was kind of lame.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Pajama.

smurfing.

Sam.

edit: also Shadowgate. I had the GBC port, Shadowgate Classic, and oh sweet sweet lovin' that game was the tits

[Breine]

Oh gawd yes! "Point and click" adventure games used to be tha shizz back in the days!

I especially remember playing King's Quest VII a whole lot as a kid. Also Myst, and a bunch of other games I've sadly forgotten the names of.