What are your favourite point-and-click adventure games?

[The Madman]

My all time favourite is The Longest Journey, no doubt about it. Kinda a shitty game even by point & click standards, terribly puzzles and lots of pixel-hunting lameness. But as a story it's my favourite in the gaming genre, April Ryan is just a fantastic protagonist and the voice work and dialogue are all spot on.

Also a big fan of the old Broken Sword games. Not nearly as well written as TLJ but it's still got an entertaining plot and likeable characters, not to mention the puzzles are much better as well making it a solid all-round experience.

And of course Sam & Max Hit The Road, classic point & click amazingness. To their credit the new ones are extremely good as well, I like em and own the entire series. But they still haven't quite reached that level of utter cartoonish insanity that the original managed to achieve. Close, but not quite!

 

[Bostur]

The Monkey Island games too (not the newer ones). Is the "special edition bundle" on Steam worth getting? It contains The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck?s Revenge... which appear to be remakes.

I haven't played it but I found this review for one of them:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/id,768/p,1

It seems that you can switch between the original and upgraded version, and the gameplay itself should be identical. Seems to me to be somewhat expensive for a game that old, but the upgraded version has shiny graphics and even voice acting.

I had a look at the screenshots, some are definately the original version. The new graphics looks to be in a similar style as Monkey Island 3 and Day of the Tentacle. I can recognize most of the areas so they probably capture the style of the original quite well.

 

[d.revan07]

L.A. Noire, haha

 

[Kitteh]

Myst IV was pretty good. Riven is my favourite in the Myst series although some of the puzzles are painfully obscure if you aren't in the right frame of mind.

Myst remains the best game of its genre by far for me. Never played past Exile, but meh...Riven was great minus all the CD changes.

 

[gruggins]

i would have to say machinarium. it was in the humble indie bundle at some point.
oh and any of the games by cyberdreams (the guys who made i have no mouth and i must scream and dark seed)

 

[Tselis]

Diablo 2, I played a necro all the way through from the easiest setting to the hardest, including the added on part where you travel to the barbarians homeland/mountain and fight the last of the brothers. I loved the cut scene where they sent that poor bastard out to talk to him, and the gates closed behind him. It was just funny in a dark way. I loved the iron and blood golems. Odd as it may sound though, my favorite levels were the monastery ones early on in the beginning. I loved the depth of detail. You could really tell what had gone on there. It was all nicely varied. And the desert level, though a little repetitive were still nice. I didn't like the whole you're two feet above where you want to go, but you can't go down that tiny hill, you have to walk half a mile out of the way to get to where you are going. While the modern games give you move freedom of movement I think Diablo 2 still beats alot of them in the richness of detail. The environments were just so well done. The swamp levels were my least favorite, I always thought my necro needed a good bath when he came back to town. And the Fortress in Hell was just awesome. Fighting the fallen angel (can't remember his name) was a trip, I liked the way he kinda exploded as he died. Anyway, I really liked it.

 

[Wuggy]

The Monkey Island games, obviously. But I have to point out that the new Back To The Future adventure games are also really good.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Hey OP, if you like point-and-click games check out ScummVM (here). It contains free-to-download games like Beneath A Steel Sky (my favourite), Flight Of The Amazon Queen and Broken Sword. And I apologise in advance if I've just destroyed your productivity for the week.

Broken Sword isn't free to download. Check the page again (this time more carefully).

Oops. Sorry, it's been a few years since I was last at that site. I was only there for BaSS and LotT.

[sub]Well, now I just feel like a retard.[/sub]

 

[Felstaff]

I think Point & Clicks are enjoying somewhat of a renaissance, given that they make the perfect medium for Android/iOS games. I love playing Myst on my S-M-R-Tphone. It was almost as if it were designed for a touchscreen interface, many years before the technology became awailable.

The Director's Cut of the Broken Swords, too, also plays well on the teeny-tiny-screen. (I have BS1C on Wii, too, but I much prefer the telephonically-compatible version). I second Machinarium as one of the sweetest adventurepuzzlegames ever.

I think I'm the only human being alive who prefers The Guy Who Did Indy's Voice in Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis to Harrison Ford's *actual* voice? Not only is it a passable impression of Ford, I think it's exceptionally well-acted, which was rare for voiceovering at the time (I guess, being in its infancy in the Videogame World, developers weren't so hot to devote too much of their budget to it? Now it's *all* about the voice! (We got Ron Perlman! We got the President from 24! Isn't that gangster voiced by Steve Buscemi?!))

 

[JesterRaiin]

Hmmmmm...
Sam and Max hit the Road.
Beneath the Steel Sky.
Secret of the Monkey Island 1.
Day of the Tentacle.

P.S.
"The Longest Journey 1" aka "Dreamfall" prequel isn't really that great. Everything was ok, until that artificial eye and monkey-solution stuff. :|

 

[Rack]

Time Gentlemen Please! has Robot Nazi Dinosaurs. It needs more love from adventure gamers. Because it has Robot Nazi Dinosaurs. Also it's brilliant and has loads of funny responses for when you're just messing around.

 

[Illessa]

Is Grim Fandango available anywhere these days? I've always wanted to try it.

The Monkey Island games too (not the newer ones). Is the "special edition bundle" on Steam worth getting? It contains The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck?s Revenge... which appear to be remakes.

Nah Grim Fandango is long gone (more's the pity), there appear to be a few $20-$30 area second hand copies knocking around Amazon Marketplace FWIW.

The Special Edition bundle is well worth it - they're not full remakes, they just heftily upgrade the original graphics and sound and add voice acting (and some fun commentary on the second one). You can also switch it into classic mode on the fly if you want the original experience in all it's pixely glory . The third game is also a lot of fun if you can get hold of it. Four is meh and the Telltale episodic ones were OK, but more like love letters to the original series than particularly great in their own right (unlike Telltale's Sam & Max games which I adore).

Seconded on the glorious Ben There, Dan That/Time Gentlemen Please, Beneath A Steel Sky, Machinarium, all Lucas Arts and Telltale output (Puzzle Agent deserves special mention - more Professor Layton-esque than old-school point and click, but the hand-drawn aesthetic and Fargo-crossed-with-Twin-Peaks setting is very cool), Broken Sword. Blade Runner (Deus Ex: HR team take note, *this* is how you do alternate endings), Longest Journey. I'll also add the quirky and gorgeous Legend of Kyrandia trilogy (pretty much impossible to get hold of a legit copy mind, but it was on some Abandonware sites last I looked), and Gobliiins is a daft bit of fun available on GOG.

Also the Frogware Sherlock Holmes and Dracula games are technically kind of rubbish, but very much a guilty pleasure of mine .

 

[The Night Shade]

Monkey island 3, Grim Fandango and the Days trilogy

 

[kyogen]

You're a GoG customer? Have a look at Syberia 1 & 2. The art is beautiful, the stories combine whimsy and melancholy, the puzzles are interesting but not terribly complicated, and they make a nice package. The voice acting is a mixed bag. Be flexible. You might also like Still Life if you like crime scene/cop drama stuff, but be prepared to Google a puzzle solution or two.

 

[Erana]

Hrm...
*reads username*

I'm not sure...

IT MUST BE POLIEC QUEST.

 

[Lukeje]

Hey OP, if you like point-and-click games check out ScummVM (here). It contains free-to-download games like Beneath A Steel Sky (my favourite), Flight Of The Amazon Queen and Broken Sword. And I apologise in advance if I've just destroyed your productivity for the week.

Broken Sword isn't free to download. Check the page again (this time more carefully).

Oops. Sorry, it's been a few years since I was last at that site. I was only there for BaSS and LotT.

[sub]Well, now I just feel like a retard.[/sub]

Though apparently it will soon be a free download from gog.com...

 

[Dansen]

Pajama Sam nuff said.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

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