Being only 17 I didn't get to experience the heyday of P.N.C.s and hence my experience is limited to the putt putt games I played when I was five. However, this genre seems to have some popularity on the escapist so whats your favorite in the genre?
Favorite point N' click
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My favorite's gotta be Clock Tower. The first two games freaked me out so much when I was younger.
Too many to name:
Space Quest series
Sam and Max Hit The Road
Day Of The Tentacle
Full Throttle
It Came From The Desert
Space Quest series
Sam and Max Hit The Road
Day Of The Tentacle
Full Throttle
It Came From The Desert
The Dig, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 2 & 3.
All LucasArts games if I'm not mistaken.
The Sierra games come close, but I think they had their heyday in the era before common mouse control, so games like Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Lary, King's Quest - if you were to ask me they reached their zenith when we were still typing in our commands and clumsily directing our characters with the arrow keys.
All LucasArts games if I'm not mistaken.
The Sierra games come close, but I think they had their heyday in the era before common mouse control, so games like Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Lary, King's Quest - if you were to ask me they reached their zenith when we were still typing in our commands and clumsily directing our characters with the arrow keys.
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Yeah those were great. I had a hard time with some of the puzzles, but the jokes were very funny. LeChuck the undead pirate is one of the greatest video game villians.ace_of_something said:
For favourite it's gotta be Monkey Island 2 (one is also awesome). Really you can't go wrong with any of the old LucasArts games (except maybe Full Throttle but whatever). It actually kind of stuns me today that a studio could have such an amazing run of slick, beautiful games the only equivalent these days quality wise I guess would be Valve.
There was more to the genre then just LucasArts but they were the kings.
If you want to play a non-LucasArts title try Space Quest IV I freaking love it.
There was more to the genre then just LucasArts but they were the kings.
If you want to play a non-LucasArts title try Space Quest IV I freaking love it.
I played two point-and-clicks all the way through. The Dig, as briefly imaged in Gamedamage's first TV show, and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.
The Dig: Wander around an alien planet with absolutely no clue what's going on, missing essential stuff and having to travel all the way around it fifty billion times and then give up and consult a walkthrough.
IHNMAIMS: Based on the book by Harlen Ellison. Wander around bleak, computer-built environments as you fully appreciate the maniacal mind of the omnipotent AI that's slowly torturing the sanity from five individuals. A rape victim who is afraid of the colour yellow is stuck inside an egyptian knock-off pyramid and forced to confront a replica of the rapist in one point of her adventure. A suicidal loner who blames himself for the death of his wife is constantly haunted by the guilt, and ways to kill himself, which never work. A former brutal drill sergeant is turned into a stupid, ape-like creature who's forced to endure the worst of physical tortures, starving from months of not eating anything, is sent to a village where he cannot eat the fruit, and is forced to try and eat anything he can find most of which hurts him.
I could go on, but I doubt anybody's actually played it.
The Dig: Wander around an alien planet with absolutely no clue what's going on, missing essential stuff and having to travel all the way around it fifty billion times and then give up and consult a walkthrough.
IHNMAIMS: Based on the book by Harlen Ellison. Wander around bleak, computer-built environments as you fully appreciate the maniacal mind of the omnipotent AI that's slowly torturing the sanity from five individuals. A rape victim who is afraid of the colour yellow is stuck inside an egyptian knock-off pyramid and forced to confront a replica of the rapist in one point of her adventure. A suicidal loner who blames himself for the death of his wife is constantly haunted by the guilt, and ways to kill himself, which never work. A former brutal drill sergeant is turned into a stupid, ape-like creature who's forced to endure the worst of physical tortures, starving from months of not eating anything, is sent to a village where he cannot eat the fruit, and is forced to try and eat anything he can find most of which hurts him.
I could go on, but I doubt anybody's actually played it.