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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
And for those who don't know, it should still be available free from Good Old Games.
http://www.gog.com/en/search/sort/price/000
Pfff, windows only?
BaSS was officially re-licensed as freeware by the developers and can be downloaded from ScummVM's website along with versions of ScummVM for a bunch of different platforms.
Oh yeah, and some of the items make a noise when you select them. MI4 did it a lot better, you could see the neighbouring items.
Yeah, MI4 just used the early Tomb Raider style circles.
And I will forgive MI4 for its horrible controls just for giving me the ability to walk around with a duck under my arm making it quack at people.
For that matter, I'm thinking some of the text adventures (Larry Laffer, Space Quest) should be due for remakes as well. Instead of graphical controls, I would love to see them do it with voice recognition. You know "Take rose" "knock door" etc.
Now all we need is a resurgence of combat flight sims, and I'll fall in love with my PC all over again. Could you imagine some of the old TIE Fighter or Wing Commander missions with every ship being player controlled through online multiplayer? And we finally have jobs so that we can afford fancy-pants controllers.
edit:: You know what adventure game needs to be brought back? Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity. It was actually a pretty good adventure game.
I'm sorry, but that ship has sailed
I know the feeling. I think that there might be a good adventure game under it all, but I get put off by the overt childish OMG SEX themes and what my partner would think if she saw me playing it.
Of course I usually then remember it's a Sierra game and hence will probably be filled with instant deaths and ways to bone yourself early on that don't become aparrent until near the end and walk away briskly.
I will however be looking up this Beavis and Butthead game when I get home for the idea of that being a decent point and clicker is most intriguing.
Yeah, the actual LSL adventure games were about sex, but they were more about humor, and they were more clever than immature. The new ones look like dick and fart jokes. LSL 6 and 7 didn't have the instant deaths though! They were easily the high point of the series.
That seems extremely improbable. Why would Resident Evil (or on the same platform, Alone in the Dark) be an inspiration at all? As an adventure game it has horrible writing and puzzles, and Grim Fandango had neither horror nor action. It seems more likely that Grim Fandango being one of the first 3D adventure games, a lot of game elements had to be remade from scratch and the controls were just something that went in a different direction the second time around. And it's not completely without upsides: it keeps the cursor off the screen, and for what it's worth I did feel more attached to Manny since I was controlling him more directly instead of clicking to tell him to walk here or there.
Now that it does have those controls, though, I don't know why it wasn't one of the first games to come over to consoles, as it probably works fine with a gamepad.
Because pointing and clicking is imprecise with a gamepad compared to a mouse, especially in adventure games with pixel hunting to flick a light switch or pick up a key, whereas with a gamepad you're getting basically the same experience as on the PC.
MI4 PS2 didn't have Tank controls. Press a direction and off you go!
Took me a while to get used to the new setup of moving relative to your own camera.
Edit: WOAH! Huge image has been put in spoiler tags. I assure you it's not a spoiler.
Specifically I was talking about the controls, not the game as a whole.
But why would they be basing it on Resident Evil of all games? The first game didn't come out on PC until a year before GF so it probably wouldn't have been a factor, and they were basically the same controls as Alone in the Dark, which came out 5 years earlier. AitD is closer to GF insofar as you don't have any vertical aiming.
It just seemed like such a strange thing to say GF's controls were based on, like if someone played a point-and-click adventure today and said, "Oh, hey -- Codename: ICEMAN controls."
Have you played TC's Endwar? I think it's there for simple enough commands.
Besides, it would make for hilarious YouTube videos of some dude in Austria (or whatever) trying to play his American import version of Leisure Suit Larry.
Ron Gilbert going through Monkey Island 1 and pointing out lots of little nuances
Yep, but it was several pages back.
Filled with root beer, one would assume.
I'm very excited now. This will be on Steam right?
Played three and four, a lot of the puzzles in older adventure games were real turn offs for me. Heard good things about MI 1 and 2, so I'll probably be picking up the special edition along with the new Tales game.
I need it.
What can I expect in the way of DRM? I want to buy this but I'm pretty sure I'm gonna change PCs right in the middle of it. Will it let me install my copy of the game on multiple computers?
I've also had no problems installing the Sam & Max seasons one and two DVD-ROM versions on multiple boxes (my home PC and my laptop), although they need the disc to run.
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