Good adventure/puzzle games

[mkreku]

You gotta be kidding me right.

MI-4 the best?

Who said anything about the best? Escape from Monkey Island is the only part of the series that's easily accessible (to find and play on modern computers). Also, most people who keep recommending Secret of Monkey Island are too young to even have played it but are riding on the bandwagon because it makes them look old school. Monkey Island 1 was funny and probably good for its time, but it has aged horribly. Both Monkey Island 1&2 suffer from really stupid puzzles and such, that would be called nuisances in modern games. Just because the games are called classics doesn't make them great games anymore.

 

I agree that Curse of Monkey Island is fantastic though, but I haven't seen it anywhere in probably ten years. Probably very hard to find, not sure if it runs under Windows XP.

[Hassat Hunter]

Got to disagree with you.

 

Played in the order

2, 3, 4 and then 1 and I still think 3 is the best and 4 sucks COMPLETELY 100%...

 

4 is not a game for the avarage adventure gamer atleast. You bash 1 and 2 for illogical puzzles but you fail to mention 3 and 4 do also have their share amount of illogical puzzles. Monkey Island 4 adds silly stupid action sequences (not fun like Fahrenheit...was that advised already?) and annoying controls.

 

Don't tell me you found the parfum/house of the thief name machine/giving the beach guy (what was his name again) his name back etc. were at ANY way logical...

 

Therefore MI4 lacks the Humor that the first 3 do posses.

 

Please call some puzzles from MI and MI2 (Adventure's Mode, the easy mode I could even finish even if I was 10 when I played it...) that are "nuicanses in modern games"

 

And just to mention it; I tried it for you and MI3 works perfectly under XP. Some graphical distortion if you exit the F1 menu or skip a cutscene, but nothing ingame that seems to malfunction...

[mkreku]

Please call some puzzles from MI and MI2 (Adventure's Mode, the easy mode I could even finish even if I was 10 when I played it...) that are "nuicanses in modern games"

You do realize that this thread is about recommending adventure games for someone who asked for it, and not about arguing if a game is good or not? I'm not really interested in your opinions about the game, and I will not "unrecommend" it just because your taste differs from mine.

 

About the puzzles that are considered obsolete in modern games: mazes and pixel hunting. I don't remember specifics (long time since I played them both) so look up a walkthrough on the net and you'll find out what I mean.

[Hassat Hunter]

You do realize that this thread is about recommending adventure games for someone who asked for it, and not about arguing if a game is good or not? I'm not really interested in your opinions about the game, and I will not "unrecommend" it just because your taste differs from mine.

 

Not that that really matters... considering:

I was wondering if you could suggest any good games to buy or download. She has finished all the Monkey Island games, and all the Zork games.

 

About the puzzles that are considered obsolete in modern games: mazes and pixel hunting. I don't remember specifics (long time since I played them both) so look up a walkthrough on the net and you'll find out what I mean.

 

Plenty of modern adventures that use pixel hunting. Runaway to call one; and that one is getting a sequel in the near future. Syberia 1 and 2 can (altough less) called pixel hunting games... less items on a screen != better game... many adventures have showed that already... Syberia 1 for example is VERY easy due to the lack of interactible items that are irrelevant to advanchment...

And the Maze stuff... I think I know what you mean. But that one made sense and the sollution was given in one of the most funniest (Pirate I was meant to be (MI3) aside) songs in a video-game...

[Walsingham]

You do realize that this thread is about recommending adventure games for someone who asked for it, and not about arguing if a game is good or not? I'm not really interested in your opinions about the game, and I will not "unrecommend" it just because your taste differs from mine.

 

Not that that really matters... considering:

I was wondering if you could suggest any good games to buy or download. She has finished all the Monkey Island games, and all the Zork games.

 

 

LOL

[mkreku]

Oops.

 

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