Best Adventure Games for Beginners?

[Exhuminator]

I'll still never forget finding the red label version of Full Throttle and The Dig while I was in Bristol, England. Set me back a whole £1. That was $1.50 at the time.

Cool. I've got the Win95 versions on disc at least.

[fastbilly1]

Ive got Full Throttle for the Mac and the Dig in book form.

[Sarge]

You talking about the Alan Dean Foster novel? I've got that too.

[fastbilly1]

Yes sir. Sadly The Dig feature film never got made.

[visual_death]

GK does work. They also have it available on gog:

https://www.gog.com/game/gabriel_knight ... he_fathers

If you're willing to throw a few bucks towards it (it's totally worth it). This is the original one too, they released a 20th anniversary edition one with beefed up visuals and stuff and some additions in game play, but I still love the original better.

If the GOG one is the one with recorded character dialogue, GET IT! The voice work is incredible. The legendary Tim Curry does the voice of GK and his N'awlins accent is AWESOME (as in pretty good, not awesomely bad). Leah Remini, Michael Dorn, and Mark Hamill provide voices as well.

Given that the original non-CD version shipped on 11 floppies, I'm guessing the almost 400 MB gog version is the CD version with the awesome voice acting.

I played GK back when I was a kid on CD-Rom and voice work was all there and good! I think the biggest thing between the 20th Anni version is that.. the artwork is updated and so even the character designs are a little different. I really liked how all the characters looked originally, so I didn't really care for the improved character designs....

I actually loved Leah Remini as Grace! Perfect for the part. And yessss, Tim Curry was GREAT! Really made me love Gabriel.

[visual_death]

I finished Secret of Monkey Island last night, and after Day of the Tentacle, I was disappointed. I am glad I didn't start with it, because it would have really been a turn off. Most of the issues seemed to stem from the game being so short. The gags were thin and hardly ever exploited to their full effect, the characters were bland and again it seemed no time was spent on their developed besides an accent (though they were well done in the SE I played),

The environment was beautiful, but some objects you had to use (looking at you, loose plank in the SCUMM bar!), weren't even flagged when you moused over them. That just seems lazy and a plug for a helpline (the SE had a hint function, which I had to use there). To top it off, I had to revert to the old-school audio-visuals to complete the time-sensitive puzzles because the new system was so clunky. I wish I could have kept the new audio with the classic SCUMM system, it would have even been worth giving up the new visuals.

Despite all that, I am still riffing on the genre, I started Sam & Max Hit the Road, and it has been great so far. The gags are coming hot and heavy, and characters are clearly defined. You can really see the evolution in these games from SoMI to this, or maybe I'm just having Saturday morning flashbacks from the great cartoonish look and feel.

I also scored Beyond Time and Space Wii for $8 the other day. I tried it out but just due to the VO work and the look, I'm liking Hit The Road more so far, but admittedly I just tested the Wii game for a few to see if it worked.

I hope the new King's Quest is good, I'll likely get it at some point. Until then I plan on trying the sixth one and Quest for Glory 4 soon, but I worry they will be especially obtuse compared to the LucasArts games.

I'm kinda sad to hear you didn't enjoy Monkey Island! However, try the other MI games cuz as stated from other members, the other ones are pretty good too. I also had a problem with the plank on the dock when I first played it. :p

[MrPopo]

Don't let Secret of Monkey Island put you off trying later games in the series. I think 2 is a small improvement, but Curse of Monkey Island, the 3rd game in the series, is brilliant.

We'll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange.

[Exhuminator]

I think the biggest thing between the 20th Anni version is that.. the artwork is updated and so even the character designs are a little different.

The biggest problem with the 20th Anniversary remake is the developers ditched the original voice acting, and rerecorded all the dialogue with new actors. That means the 20th Anni version does not have Tim Curry or Mark Hamill. Aside from that, the 20th Anni version is a glitchy mess. I do not recommend it. I recommend the original via GOG.

[Pulsar_t]

I thought I'd not enjoy the new Snake, but damn he did fine. I guess it's down to personal taste. Has anyone mentioned Bladerunner?