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Realms of Arkania - features: turnbased combat, party based rpg style adventuring in a HUGE game world, excellent character generation, lots of depth, collect herbs for your herbalist to heal the party, hunters get food while you go adventuring etc etc.
Look for the triology pack - that will give you a never ending amount of hrs you could sink into this game.
info here http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,3437/
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child of Thor
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Originally posted by lord of the mark
Ill keep an eye out for it, though i was particularly looking for an adventure game, not an RPG. |
well its like baldurs gate, but with more primitive graphics and a larger game world and will run on your system.
hmmm i suppose you have tried all the Monkey Island games?
If so then Legends of Kyrandia was a nice traditional adventure game, and a classic to boot with very high production standards - it became a trilogy too.
info here:http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,394/
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lord of the mark
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FUKCOV - Former United Kingdom Colony of Virginia
Dec 2000
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Originally posted by child of Thor
well its like baldurs gate, but with more primitive graphics and a larger game world and will run on your system.
hmmm i suppose you have tried all the Monkey Island games?
If so then Legends of Kyrandia was a nice traditional adventure game, and a classic to boot with very high production standards - it became a trilogy too.
info here:http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,2/gameId,394/ |
Nope, havent tried Monkey Island. Only adventure games ive got are Myst, Collosal Cave, and the first text based Zork. While the text adventures are cool in their own way, and have nostalgia associated with them (about the last contact I had with the gaming world before I bought SimCity in 1998 was a grad school pal who wrote hint books professionally for Infocom text adventures, back in circa 1983) thats not what im
looking for now.
Ok, so Longest Journey, Gabriel Knight, and Monkey Island are recommended.
I see Crystal Key alot in the bargain bins - is that more Myst like?
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Adrian Hon
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Living in Perplex City
Nov 2001
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Syberia is a pretty good adventure game and I think Syberia 2 is out now. Great graphics, good story and good puzzles - less of the usual nonsensical puzzles that involve picking things up and combining them in outlandish ways.
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nostromo
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Montréal, Québec
Mar 2002
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I enjoyed Ripley's Believe It of Not: The Riddle of Master Lu. Some puzzles are quite hard, though. So if you can find it, try it out.
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Set in the mid-1930's, this game is based on the real life adventures of Robert L. Ripley, who in my opinion, is as close to a real life Indiana Jones around. Ripley gave the world the renowned Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoons that have been popular in daily newspapers for over 60 years. These cartoons featured little known or odd facts that appeared to be too odd or unusual to be true. But they were, BELIEVE IT OR NOT. The collecting of these items earned Ripley the title the "modern day Marco Polo" and he took great pride in never having one of his facts disproved. Throughout the game, the player has a chance to see some original cartoons, as well as items that Mr. Ripley collected throughout his life.
This game is not an attempt to recreate history, but to have fun with it. Ripley is set up as a struggling museum owner (Ripley's Odditorium), and is looking for more exhibits to draw crowds so he can pay the bills. With his assistants Mei Chen and Leng Li, he tries to unravel the Riddle of Master Lu. I won't go into great detail here for risk of giving the game away, but it involves a lot of travel to exotic locations and several puzzles to unravel. Oh, yes, there is the usual cast of villains, henchmen, thugs and troublemakers along the way that make this an enjoyable game to play. |
Here's a review of the game:
http://www.mrbillsadventureland.com...idmasterluR.htm
Last edited by nostromo on 20-02-2005 at 01:19
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Kloreep
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of the pillow
Jun 2002
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Try King's Quest II+ VGA at http://www.agdinteractive.com/. It's free, and it's very very good.  I think it's just the sort of thing you're looking for; while the rewrite of the game and the actual remake of it were made recently, it's in the vein of the older Sierra games.
I suppose you could try King's Quest I VGA too while you're there, but I found it boring, frankly. Little in the way of story or characters. I'm glad they completely redid the second one when VGAizing it, as it sounds like the original KQ2 was similiarly boring.
Another good adventure, this one made in a more modern 3D style, is Grim Fandango. I'm not sure if that one will run on your system, but I think it might; it's not anything high-end, especially by today's standards. Amazon was selling it for $10 last I looked.
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Try Flight of the Amazon Queen and Beneath a Steel Sky. You can find both on the downloads page at http://www.scummvm.org/  . |
Beneath a Steel Sky is a good, classic adventure game. Haven't tried Flight of the Amazon Queen yet.
And you need the virtual machine because there is no executable in the free version.  I was quite happy to see that, myself. Old DOS games can be a pain to get working 100%.
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