FngKestrel

Thanks Pellaz, that's helpful. BG&E sounds like it has everything I like. I'll have to pick that up.

My friend loved The Longest Journey, especially in an era where adventure games are going to the wayside. He's also been looking at Syberia and some more of those types of games, which seemed to be price pointed at bargain bin levels. Any other adventure game suggestions?

Pellaz

I'm going to preface this statement by saying that some people have found Syberia to be enjoyable, and it *has* garnered decent reviews.

With that said, it's crap. I say this without having finished the game, which I might always become desperate enough to do some day. While the story seemed decent, it wasn't anymore engaging than adventure games I've played on a Palm. The graphics are indeed wonderful and whimsical, and I could easily have a table book of the designs in the game. All the pretty in the world can't save an adventure game that has this ones flaws though. The voice acting is ear-bleeding awful, which is punctuated sadly by the fact that it appeared the game was about 10% text and 90% voice over (I played about 5-6 hours, iirc). The pacing is dreadful, the characters fail to provoke any emotion from the player other than irritation, and it carries huge penalties in terms of time for, say, clicking on a lock without fetching the key out of your inventory first, which starts a dialogue from the character about how she can't open it without a key, which takes 30 seconds or so, and that time debt adds up fast. It's the pinnacle of a game designed by people who have read everything a game should be and never played one.

Sorry that was so massive, but I wanted to try and be as fair as I could.

The age of point and click is in it's death throws, and that's sad. Even TLG2 will be in the style of console adventurers. For me, there hasn't been a passable one since TLG, and there was a long drought before that.

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WTF, pokemon snap? I need to see what that looks like, combined with everything else.

And don't be (too) sad about adventure games dying; just play some Monkey Island and you'll feel better. Kinda.

cockmonger

Oddworld: Abe's Exodus...sometimes challenging...but goofy and fun..especially if you're going for the "kill all mudokens" prize ...I bought it a couple years ago for 5.99 it's probly only a buck or two now for the psone.

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