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I stumbled onto some Grim Fandango clips on Youtube the other day and was reminded of how great that stroy was. So I'm now in the mood for an advneture game or two; I might give The Longest Journey and/or Dreamfall a go if I can get them cheap.

Does anyone else have any good reccomendations, or suggestions of where I can get a copy of Grim Fandango or the like, and if I can, how I can get them running on any system. Seems all the modern systems will probably spit them out whole. For reference I played through all the Discworld games, Grim Fandango, don't think I every really touched Monkey Island or Sam and Max, but would be up for some more light-hearted gameplay. Any suggestions and comments are welcome.

Sheesh, I just remembered playing through The Daedalus Encounter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daedalus_Encounter) years and years ago.

To play older LucasArts games, it helps to have ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/).  I had some crash problems getting The Curse of Monkey Island to not crash in XP, but it runs flawlessly in ScummVM.

I like The Longest Journey a lot, I just tend to stall out on it every time. Once you get to *spoiler deleted* it just seems to lose speed for me.

I can't recommend Curse of Monkey Island enough.  It's outstanding. Escape from Monkey Island is good as well, it's just not nearly as funny or charming.

edit: Shadowgate for the NES (and other platforms) was something I liked at the time.  Of course, I was likely around 10 years old or younger when I played it for the first time. Game really liked killing you.

Cheers for the heads up on that Scumm thing. Any idea where I can get a copy of the games though? I seem to have lost all my old CDs.

Ebay or Amazon, I suppose.  Heh, Escape from Monkey Island is also on the PS2  :awesome_for_real:

I never played much of Grim Fandango.  It came with my copy of Escape from Monkey Island.  Alas, I cannot find the disk.

I imagine much older fare may be on abandonware sites.  LucasArts would probably send ninjas after you if you managed to download anything.

Grim Fandango was the last adventure game I really enjoyed. I tried Sam and Max and it was just, eh, ok. I like Sam and Max, I just think I'm past mousing over shit to see what's interactive, then trying to figure out which counterintuitive inventory-management stuff I'm supposed to do in order to advance the story. I guess I'd rather just read a Sam and Max comic to get Sam and Max content than deal with the norms of an adventure game. I think this is a genre that's died a justified death due to both technological and cultural innovations in games.

I did not really dig it but its not a horrible game. Another game called Whispered World is releasing sometime soon (i think?) looks interesting. Shadowgate was an awesome game.

The dude who did a lot of the background art on Curse of Monkey Island (my absolute favorite one as well) started his own company and just released a new adventure game last year. You play a vampire princess or something. I downloaded it and then my hard drive died so I've never gotten around to buying it again, but it seemed fun in an old-school kind of way. http://www.vampyrestory-game.com/

Also see if you can dig up Day of the Tentacle or The Dig. I always thought those had great writing. They should both work with ScummVM.

The episodic Sam & Max stuff from Telltale is pretty good, really.

Yeah, I don't mean to knock its quality. Put it up against any great adventure game of the past and it looks just great. I'm just thinking that the genre itself is fundamentally flawed and that those of us who played it a lot got used to it because at a certain moment in the history of digital games, it made technological and cultural sense.

The new Sam and Max stuff is okay.

If you wanna dig up some old shit or abandonware I'd recommend the following:

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the serrated scalpel
Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Father
Quest for Glory (any of them really)

I keep meaning to do a QfG Radicalthon thing, but never getting around to it...

I liked Space Quest, too.  They released a Space Quest Collected series in 2006, you might be able to find a copy of that.

Just reminded me... My dad, in his mid-sixties, asked me a while ago if I could find him that song my brother and I always played on the AdLib (four bits, baby). I had no idea what he meant at first, but he talked about a forest and goblins and I realized he meant Quest for Glory I, the tune playing in the glade in the forest. Erana's Peace. (http://66.49.226.244/digital/hqcd/HQTrack07.ogg)

Just a testament to how great those games were, and how awesome parents are. :wink:

Gabriel Knight...now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time...a long time.

Completely forgot about the Sherlock Holmes games. I enjoyed the Dracula and Lovecraft themed ones.

I thought Dreamfall was better then the Longest Journey.  The character was more interesting to me at least.

I agree with this. Of course, it'd be nice if Ragnar could be in two places at once and work on TSW while actually finishing the Dreamfall Chapters.

I didn't want to pollute two threads with the same info, but this seemed relevant enough to bump here:

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=17337.msg0#new

The Quest for Glory and King's Quest and Space Quest bullshit is on GameTap, FYI.  Although it won't work if you have a 64-bit OS.

Thanks for all the suggestions, going to go and try getting some of these working on some system.