Remember Classic PC Games - Not Ready Reading Drive A; Abort, Retry, Fail?

Xaquin

joshofalltrades wrote:

Rolo wrote:

TrippyJing wrote:

Rolo wrote:

The Lucasarts games were so much better than the Sierra games

Dying in an adventure game was bullshit.

I hated Sierra games.

Why am I suddenly lost in a desert?!

In the desert near the temple, bandits come out of nowhere to kill you quickly (unless you hide behind a nearby rock).
Also in the desert, Graham cannot go for more than five screens or about 20 seconds without water.
In the bandit camp, if you walk in front of the larger tent, you will be killed quickly.
In the cliffs, there is a gap you must cross using protruding steps. One of them will send you falling to your death. However, this step is not distinguishable from the others.

really the entire desert was trial-and-error mapping as your character died over and over again while you frantically clicked the mouse button

it was still better than the maze at the end of the game, which you can't even map since your perspective shifts with each screen

roberta williams you are shit at designing games

Also the voice acting was laughably bad in that game

LOOK OUT GRAHAM

A POOOOOISONOUS SNAKE

ahahahhahaha

thank you for that

Beasteh

Beasteh

Zonugal

Can we talk about a great game for a second?





Probably my second or third favorite game of all time and more than likely the hardest game I have ever played. A game with thirteen possible endings but people probably only saw three of them because of how difficult the game was.

The Judge

Moriveth

JustinSane07 wrote:

Blackhawk1313 wrote:

No image there Justin, I think this is what you were after though.

Indeed.

I tried playing the Exile games recently. They no run so good on Win 7, being that they were made for Win95.

You should try the Avernum games. They're remakes of the originals and are all really good.

They're also remaking the series again. I don't know why.

Edcrab

A reminder that Spiderweb Software are still making indie games with giant demos so

Try them out!

Moriveth

It still blows my mind that those games are essentially made by one dude. He doesn't do the graphics but I'm pretty sure he does everything else.

Macro9

What's this, eh?

http://mwomercs.com/

Naphtali

Artreus

Oh man, I am remembering these Sierra adventure games from way back in the day.

Something like Around the world in 80 days. I dug up the actual title a while back but I can't for the life of me remember it now. It was great though, fun characters and educational.

Artreus

Not being able to remember entire games is awful. I was going to try to bring up another set of adventure games that I loved, but I got sidetracked by trying to remember the around the world game and now I have forgotten EVERYTHING

Indie Winter

lostwords

Indiana Jones an the fate of Atlantis will always be my favorite old school game. Remember when all the old game had awesome anti-piracy systems like a word wheel or "go to page 5 of the manual, line 5, word 12" like even getting it started was an adventure and heaven forbid you lose the manual? I'd rather have that stuff than silly securom junk of more modern games

TrippyJing

I miss the Carmen Sandiego games.

Blackhawk1313

Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego was so awesome, and educational!

Darric

Yes, my thread has arrived! Favourite games incoming:

Darric

Uriel

Anyone remember this?

Moriveth

Star Control 2 was so good*


*This post brought to you by Frungy, the sport of kings

Darric

The best multiplayer games:

Moriveth

Oh man, Jones In The Fast Lane

I won every game I played of that (because I played on the easiest difficulty)

Darric

Moriveth wrote:

Star Control 2 was so good*


*This post brought to you by Frungy, the sport of kings

*Happy* campers are best. It is good to *smell* you again.

Uriel

Fuck yeah rampart.

I never played any of them but the first SNES one.

TrippyJing

Oh man, I just remembered.

Fury3.

Moriveth

Darric wrote:

Moriveth wrote:

Star Control 2 was so good*


*This post brought to you by Frungy, the sport of kings

*Happy* campers are best. It is good to *smell* you again.

Wait! A spirit voice rings within my soul! It tells me that I must give you something. What, spirit? What must we give this young creature? Mineral resources?... no. Important secrets?... no. Starships?... no. Then what IS it spirit, spit it out! What?!... that thing? Are you sure? Okay. Here you go, alien. Take this Clear Spindle. It is an ancient and powerful device built by the Precursors hundreds of thousands of years ago. What does it do, you ask? I haven't the slightest idea. Now, alien, it is important that we continue our conversation as though this exchange never happened.

Tossrock

oh man

I'm remembering this game in flashes

it revolved around trying to find some kind of rare beetle

at one point baking a cake was important, and you had to use an emulsifier?

and there was a scene where a moth is circling a candle

it was a point and click style adventurish game I think

does this sound familiar to anyone?

Artreus

The journeyman project was so good

Peccavi

Played this a bunch when I was little, don't really remember much though.

Edit: Duh, pic

Darric

This game was also great:

Zonugal

I remember this being of my favorite games back in the day:

SanderJK

I've never before saw someone talk about Kyrandia 3.
It was pretty hard, as I recall. Having a smart-ass evilish jester as a protagonist was funny though.

Zonugal

SanderJK wrote:

I've never before saw someone talk about Kyrandia 3.
It was pretty hard, as I recall. Having a smart-ass evilish jester as a protagonist was funny though.

Oh yeah, super difficult but engaging & entertaining as well.

Exactly what I want from a point & click adventure game.

Rolo

TrippyJing wrote:

Oh man, I just remembered.

Fury3.

uuuugh I wanted to like these games (fury/terminal velocity), but then realized that they kind of sucked

magic carpet was the superior fly-around-in-a-floaty-thing-and-shoot-shit game

Rolo

oh man

I loved Sacrifice

I would love a new Sacrifice game

Flay

Stronghold! I don't play many RTS games but I friggin' loved Stronghold. The soundtrack was easily one of the most memorable parts:




I think Stronghold 3 just came out too, definitely going to get it when I can.

Darric

Rolo wrote:

oh man

I loved Sacrifice

I would love a new Sacrifice game

I loved Sacrifice, but that game's difficulty curve was more like a difficulty wall.

Flay

Zonugal wrote:

Can we talk about a great game for a second?





Probably my second or third favorite game of all time and more than likely the hardest game I have ever played. A game with thirteen possible endings but people probably only saw three of them because of how difficult the game was.

There's a copy of this sitting under my bed completely untouched, thanks for reminding me.

Rolo

Darric wrote:

Rolo wrote:

oh man

I loved Sacrifice

I would love a new Sacrifice game

I loved Sacrifice, but that game's difficulty curve was more like a difficulty wall.

It was very dependent on which side you picked during which mission.

I remember it was critical to get the little bugs that shot healing rays from the Life goddess and the manowar guys that the Pyro god had.

wonderpug

Pieces of my childhood:





Never knew what the hell I was doing in StarFlight but that didn't stop my from repeatedly restarting and re-losing.