Adventure Games

[Bosa123]

I may be old compared to most people on this site, but the games that really defined a new dimension of storytelling and roleplaying were classic adventure games for DOS. Games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Full Throttle, Monkey Island, and others developed by Sierra-Online and Lucasarts are the backbone of progressive story lines which are found in video games today. Arena was released during the time that adventure games were the leading product on the gaming market, and a lot of adventure elements were implemented into the game in order to compete. Is anyone here old enough to remember these diamonds or am I the only one?

 

Also, can anyone here remember roleplaying games before Morrowind? I'm just curious to see how many pc game scholars there are floating around in the forums. Just a side note: a game like 'L.A. Noire' would be considered a modern adventure game I suppose.

Edited July 22, 2012 by Bosa123

[mizdarby]

Monkey Island and Kings' Quest were both engaging games. I really enjoyed the whole 'click and pointer' game genre.

My two all-time favourites, were Beneath a steel sky (on the amiga), and the GoG re-release of Sanitarium, which had a really gothic feel, and a nice complex storyline.

[Rastafariel]

Yes, I am that old ;-).

 

Recently I was lamenting that none of the "modern era" games have logic puzzles or other puzzles like Zork or even Zork Zero. I learned logic from those games by myself - a class I later took in college (which was a breeze because of Zork!)

[Brandy1123]

I am older but not "old". I always played "retro" games. Even back in the early 90's. We had a commodore 64 that I used back then that was left in a box in a house we moved to. It had some games and a working floppy drive as 9 and not 8 as I recall. Load "game",9 <--- hehehe - THen later we had gotten an IBM 4.77mhz (8mhz turbo- with a shiny green light that went on when you pushed the Big red turbo button) BEAST of a system. it had a 10 Meg hard drive (about the size of a shoe box) and I think 128k of discrete chip memory with a 5.25 floppy drive (single density of course)

 

I played Adventure (text version) as my first game ever. I was hooked even at an early age.

My first real role play/adventure graphic game was probably Telengard. I did have and play Sword of Aragon, Pool of Radiance and Wizards Crown.