the worst ever adventure game?

Bitmap Dude · Tue 10/02/2004 01:01:14

Quest for Glory 5 was possibly the biggest let-down for me. Whereas QFG 1 - 4 were soaked with beautiful pixel graphics, and really well defined characters etc. The 3D action orientation of QFG5 was disappointing

rtf · Tue 10/02/2004 04:38:19

Anyone ever played, "Treasure of Drunk Island"?

*shiver*

Las Naranjas · Tue 10/02/2004 06:25:22

I think Netmonkey may have played it.

Meowster · Tue 10/02/2004 06:33:09

Was the treasure somehow connected with alcohol?

AGA · Tue 10/02/2004 10:36:39

I hated Loom too. Also The Dig. Those two games let LEC's adventure repertoire down so much. I would rather play Escape from Monkey Island than either of those games.

Miez · Tue 10/02/2004 10:49:42

Quote from: redruM on Mon 09/02/2004 20:50:44THE WORST - Zombieville

I wholeheartedly agree - Zombieville is a f*cking travesty of a game. But not really an adventure game ... worst adventure game I've played is "Tlon". Oh and "Return to Rama" is pretty bad as well...

Andail · Tue 10/02/2004 13:10:50

Urban Runner was illogical, stiff, unimaginative and just a waste of time and money.

And I would also like to express my sympathies with the pro-SQ4 side in here!

DGMacphee · Tue 10/02/2004 13:28:37

Phantasmagoria sucks donkey balls.

m0ds · Tue 10/02/2004 16:16:10

Some other pretty naff adventures I've played include; Dark Earth, Loom, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure ... and there was a weird one that looked like it was made in Visual Basic, something about a dream where you play this kid... Dare to Dream I think.

Ben · Tue 10/02/2004 16:23:29

Heh.. I remember Dare to Dream. The manual said something like "Remember, this is a dream, so it's okay if the puzles are completely illogical!"

But what's wrong with Loom? That staff thing really isn't all that complicated.. Maybe some people are just slow.

jannar85 · Tue 10/02/2004 16:42:51

Quote from: Minimi on Mon 09/02/2004 21:48:04
I'm sorry Jannar, but Jack Orlando is teh best adventure ever made!!!11!!! (i.m.h.o.)

Jack Orlando... best music I ever heard in a game, great handdrawn graphics, realistic athmosphere, soeech-synchronisized animations, great story/drama, and alot of fun jokes in it.

Your opinion just sucks!!! Sorry, but it does! Jack Orlando is sooooo good, man, I just can't stop talking about it.

Too many useless inventory items... bugs... we can get lost..
Most of the conversations are useless. Dead endings.

Just to mention a few things...

Captain Mostly · Tue 10/02/2004 17:23:51

Loom was just so blindingly linea and simple. Since the only thing you could do was cast spells by playing tunes, and the spells were all really specific ("turn hay into GOLD!") it was always really obvious what you were meant to be doing at any one time. Thus the only challange became to simply remember the tunes.

I enjoyed it quite a lot, but I can see why people didn't. I think that the story was also really quite contrived, but this was probably so that there were pleanty of reasons to use the really over-specific magical spells.

"Legend of Enchantia" was really bad (although I may have mis-remembered the name a little).

jetxl · Tue 10/02/2004 18:05:09

I cant believe that someone would play sierra games in the first place. the puzzles and stories in sierra games are created in a way that only one solution is right, you don't have any control over what you want to do as player because every other option is stuck or death. Yay gameplay, give people freedom, not.
Look at the list of best games ever and all lucas arts games are in there, but where are all the sierra games? sierra made a shitload of games, so why isn't manhunter, woodruff, torins passage, phantasmagoria or ecoquest in the top-adventure-game-list-of-past-present-and-future?
Tell me! I NEED TO KNOW! mail me. jetxl@lycos.com. call me. 00-31-0597-414528.
People give sierra far to much bliss just because they made a lot of die-hard adventuregames that a normal mortal can't finish.
I believe it was Helm (correct me if I'm wrong) who said at mittens that it was impossible to finish pq if you weren't a real american cop. So alot of you must of cheated.

ps. I bought sq4 and now it's my fault that I can't play it?

Ishmael · Tue 10/02/2004 19:01:01

Quote from: m0ds on Mon 09/02/2004 19:06:17
4. Death Gate
Okay, okay - this game was deffinatley cutesy and actually quite captivating and stuff, but, nuhh. It just got a bit boring after a while. Still, I'll never throw it away

I liked Death Gate... actually I'm currently stuck in it as I don't remember how to get past this one point... if I still have it installed...

And, for sierra games, atleast Shivers is good (I think it's sierra's...), thus I haven't finished it yet... and I don't have it anymore...

I can't name any bad games, atleast not now...

Rincewind · Tue 10/02/2004 20:14:23

Can't agree about Loom and The Dig - Loved those games, but the absolutley worst adventure game I've played is "Waynes World".
A horrible, horrible rip-off of the movie, with slooooow dialogues, and weak jokes. One of the most foul attempts at making money from a popular movie I've ever seen... Let's just say that I didn't have the patience to finish it, and that was after about 15 minutes of gameplay...

And no, it's not worth downloading it, even for the pretty graphics and the opportunity to hear the WW-theme...

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Tue 10/02/2004 20:51:23

Heeeey, Jet X.L, slow down for a bit - lots of Sierra games were AMAZING - For their TIME! We ALL must remember that. Phnatasmagoria may be of limited gameplay, but it was the first FMV game ever. And we MUST admit it gives some players, like me, just what they want - a good story, very nicely told, and a gripping one at that. Which is why I became hooked on GK. Hell, which is why I became hooked on adventure games! ESPECIALLY Loom and The Dig.

There's all sorts of adventure, and when we say "so-so is bad" or "so-so is good", we have to remember - are they old? Are they new? What is its audience, the puzzle addicts, the story-freaks, the non-linearity crazies?

MillsJROSS · Tue 10/02/2004 21:07:29

QuoteLook at the list of best games ever and all lucas arts games are in there, but where are all the sierra games?

Um...Space Quest, Kings Quest, Goblins, Leisure Suit Larry, I've never played Gabriel Knight but I hear it's good. Sierra made several great adventure games. And you can find great games of theres in other genres. The Incredible Machine, Half-Life, Homeworld, Hoyle games, many more.

Sierra as a game company is very strong. They, are, no longer geared towards making adventure games, and when they were, they were the first. So they made a few mistakes along the way of making a few games.

And just to say, Space Quest 4 I would consider one of MY top ten adventure games, in fact SQ as a series would go before MI as a series in MY list. And while it's not your fault that it doesn't run on your machine, it's not really theirs either, considering what computers were capable of when the game was released. And from your computer speed, the applications to slow down your system would have worked wonderfully well for you. You should try one sometime and notice the vast improvement over the timing issues.

-MillsJROSS

remixor · Wed 11/02/2004 10:29:19

I shed a tear every time somebody bashes Loom.

Layabout · Wed 11/02/2004 11:09:24

I finished Police Quest 1vag and 3 and i am not an american cop, and i did not once use a hint book.

Rockawesome.

IMO GK1 is the best adventure game ever created. It had everything one could want.

AGA · Wed 11/02/2004 11:23:04

Quote from: remixor on Wed 11/02/2004 10:29:19
I shed a tear every time somebody bashes Loom.

Crappy, shitty, godawful, world's worst adventure game Loom, you mean?