Older PC exclusive games with a good story.

[Ack]

Hmmm...how about The Neverhood? Or if you're interested in horror point and clicks or "graphic adventure games", why not look up Phantasmagoria, The 7th Guest, Dark Seed, Sanitarium, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Scratches, Shivers, Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice, The Black Mirror, or Post Mortem, to name a few. And if you're willing to play something on PC that had a console port, there's titles like D and Uninvited.

Oh, and go play Nox.

Also, anybody played Ceville?

[ZeroAX]

is only the gog one enhanced for vista/7? Could i get a boxed one and patch it?

there was a patch for the game, but their site expired 2 months ago, and they seam to have shut down, so google for it and search around. I still think the gog version is worth it, unless you must have the game in physical format which is an issue with most of us here.

[Droid party]

As for PC exclusives, I wouldn't be me if I didn't mention the massive back catalog of great Point and Click adventure games. (Monkey Island Series, Indy and Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, The Dig, the list goes on and on).

May I also add Grim Fandango. I've always wanted to play it but can't find it in a form that will work on modern pc's. It does look cool though.

[pakopako]

May I also add Grim Fandango. I've always wanted to play it but can't find it in a form that will work on modern pc's. It does look cool though.

DOSbox? SCUMMvm? (Also, Neverhood is a pain to find cheap. Stick with LucasArts titles.)

I am also appalled at the lack of Star Control II here. It is now freeware under the name Ur-Quan Masters thanks to a LOT of dedicated fans.

Also, Sierra/Dynamix's Betrayal at Krondor was very excellent and is readily available at GOG. It's story breaks down somewhere near the end, but up until then, it's like reading a Fiest novel (which it is based on).

Since Arcanum was mentioned, what about Fallout 1 & 2 -- the story and characters were more prominent in the first, and the dialog more impressive in the second.

To a lesser degree, Shogo had a hilarious story. Not a great one, but the fact your main character thought his girlfriend was dead and began dating her sister... you can expect hilarity to ensue.

[Bradtemple87]

Deus Ex is still a revolutionary game

[arion]

Also lets not forget the pc can also do platformers like the awesome Jazz Jackrabbit 2

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/294/J ... bit+2.html

And it's exclusive to pc.

[emwearz]

pakopako you quoted me as saying something I didnt say

But at any rate you said "DOSbox? SCUMMvm? " The game does'nt use the SCUMM engine and it was made for Windows not DOS.

[Bradtemple87]

Also lets not forget the pc can also do platformers like the awesome Jazz Jackrabbit 2

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/294/J ... bit+2.html

And it's exclusive to pc.

HA thats a throwback, wow that was a blast when it was released

[pakopako]

pakopako you quoted me as saying something I didnt say

But at any rate you said "DOSbox? SCUMMvm? " The game does'nt use the SCUMM engine and it was made for Windows not DOS.

Waugh; I must have deleted the wrong name tag from quoting emwearz' post!

I remember now. Grim Fandango was released around the same time as Curse of Monkey Island (also a Win95 game)... And Grim Fandango is a LucasArts point-n-click that doesn't use SCUMM?... Sonuvagun, it didn't!

I take it people have tried loading in Windows XP and Win7?

[Droid party]

I tried to run Grim Fandango on vista using xp compatibility mode and had no joy. I'm really hoping for it to come to steam or gog but so far nothing.