Do you play Adventure Games with others? Can Adventure Games be multi-player?

[blueskirt]

I did that a lot with my dad and my cousin back when I was young. It's been proven movies are better when you watch them with a lot of friends, I can garantee the same apply to adventure games. Plus my cousin and I ended up quoting our favorite moments and laugh out loud at all time.

Nowadays however I feel uncomfortable when the idea is proposed to me. Adventure games aren't like other games, when you know the solution to a puzzle, the challenge is gone, and whenever I replay a classic adventure game, I regret because having played so many of them with someone else, I know I wasn't the one who solved many puzzles in a lot of these games and the challenge is now ruined forever. Nowadays I prefer to play adventure games without any outside help, may it be walkthrough or friends, because I'd rather finish them all by myself and feel I achieved something than spoil myself another great adventure game.

On the subject of multiplayer adventure games, personally I'd prefer to see a game where each players are given the control of a different character, but I recognize a game where players take turns at trying a different commands, like Snarky once proposed, could also be fun. Last year a friend of mine wrote or stumbled on a script that could play IF games on IRC and we found ourselves trying all kind of silly commands in Lost Pig.

[Stupot]

Speaking of this topic, anyone who wants to see what Myst Online was like can now do so: http://mystonline.com/en/play/

We need more adventure MMOGs.

I'm just downloading it now :-)

[Anian]

I'm just downloading it now :-)

Ditto. See ya all in cyberspace.   (although probably tomorrow, cause it'll be well over 1am here and I need to get up early).

[Mr Flibble]

I also have every intention of getting into Myst Online, maybe we can organise a little AGS cadre.

[Stupot]

Count me in... I've just started it up but it runs well slowly on my laptop.  I'm wondering if it's related to the problems ive been having watching youtube vids, or if my computer is just rubbish for even the spec-friendliest of games.  PM me any suggestions please people.

[Anian]

Bit off topic:
Playing around in Mystonline, while some puzzles just require the knowledge of Myst puzzle logic and some are less complicated than appear to be (seriously, I made a whole grid with numbers, but it turned out the soltuion was semi-random and connected to some lore trivial name). Still the worlds are fun and interesting and people are very friendly and often helpful.
Should've played more Myst games...but I'm still "exploring" and enjoying the imagination of the authors. Still not sure how the whole multiplaying puzzle solving works, not there yet.

[ShadeJackrabbit]

There's a few puzzles in there where one person has to do one thing (say, hold a lever) and then the other has to go do another (stand on a spot) and then the first has to go do something else (pull a different lever). There's also a couple of puzzles that are way easier to do with more people, but can be done alone.

But yeah, I played a bit one night and will be heading back after I get my work in order. It's very cool stuff.